Gamescom 2018 Recap and What’s up with Twitch? – What’s Good Games (Ep. 67)

This week the ladies take on the massive wave of news coming from Germany at Gamescom 2018, including a new series from Supermassive, a Dark Souls collection, new Life is Strange 2 footage and more! Plus they give their take on the Twitch and Amazon news and how it affects creators, and discuss the decision to skip 2019 for Assassin’s Creed. In hands-on Britt played the rag doll, 3D, action game Guts and Glory, Andrea spent time with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Spyro, plus she got to try Reigns: Game of Thrones. Steimer is plugging away at Octopath Traveler and Ni No Kuni 2, and getting some much needed down time from screens.

Segment One: Gamescom News
:42 Welcome to the show – Britt is breathing fire!
1:59 Let’s talk about our PAX plans!
9:10 Microsoft at Gamescom
17:45 New release date announcements
18:08 Future of Nintendo 3DS?
21:02 Shenmue 3 finally has a release date in August 2019.
23:35 Dark Souls Triology release date
24:32 Bandai Namco’s “The Dark Pictures”’
30:14 A new Life is Strange 2 trailer!
37:39 Resident Evil has a new trailer with Claire Redfield!!!

Segment Two: Other News!
41:53 Welcome back!
42:40 Twitch Prime will no longer include ad-free viewing
54:40 Amazon Prime’s video game pre-order is ending
1:00:43 No new Assassin’s Creed in 2019
1:05:44 Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night delay

Segment Three: What We’ve been playing
1:14:04 Welcome back!
1:14:25 Turbo patron SHOUTOUTS!
1:20:20 Britt played Guts and Glory
1:23:30 Legend of Solgard impressions
1:27:50 Andrea’s Reigns: Game of Thrones impressions
1:32:57 Andrea’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice impressions
1:43:01 Anrea’s Spyro: Reignited impressions
1:45:52 Steimer’s new game plan