Good afternoon everyone,
Last night's stream of Overwatch was pretty damn epic, as I picked up four plays of the game as D.va. We had a lot of fun as we had what is turning into our usual crew with PandaSweet, BangBangBang and BloodyClown. Characters that I used were the usual suspects of D.va, Reinhardt, Moira along with some use of Lucio, Mei, Bastion and Ashe. There was a bit of weirdness as I got knocked out of voice chat in game forcing a restart to get it working, then Panda had trouble with none of the alerts for enemy ultimate attacks were going off. That particular bug goes back to at least 2017 as I did do a Google search on stream, and saw so many complaints about it.
Twitch Clip Links
For the raid we dropped in on Joliet4 who was doing a music stream featuring some of their original songs like Heartbreaker! You can find Joliet4 over at twitch.tv/joliet4 and listen to some of their songs over on Spoitfy by clicking HERE.
Square-Enix sold three of its major studios and several of its properties to a company in Sweeden called Embracer Group. Perhaps the biggest shocker was the selling of Crystral Dynamics which basically brought new life into Tomb Raider franchise with the Survivor trilogy! Also on the sale block were Eidos-Montreal and Square Montreal, along with the rights to Deus Ex, Just Cause and several more games, It appears that Square-Enix wants to focus on things they can control in Japan. Now Embracer Group is also the company that acquired Gearbox as well as Cryptic Studios last December, so it really appears they want to make themselves the big publisher and developer of major titles and franchises. Really hope they know what they are doing.
But the real question is why did Square-Enix do this? It's not shock to me that their attitude to the sales figures for things like the Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy was disappointed... not to mention the fiasco of Marvel's Avengers. From what I read, it appears Square-Enix looking to focus more on what they can control and oversee more directly in Japan... which makes me think that Deck Nine along with the Life is Strange franchise is probably going to be on the sales block sooner rather than later.
There is also the question on if Square-Enix is going to allow itself to be bought by Sony, and if so, making themselves 'cheaper' to purchase at a high price. That's been heavily rumored for a while now, but it makes the sale of three major studios look even odder... unless Sony gave a clear indication those three studios were going to be shut down and the games associated with them would be left to rot.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #1, Defensive Combo #2, Defensive Combo #1 and Hook Combo #2. Set a new personal best for Double Combo #1 set to No Mercy difficulty by getting a perfect score.
I'm going to make a prediction, Shotzi Blackheart will be released by the WWE within the next 12 months.
Knocked off a few more achievements in Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle following the stream, figuring some of these out really are a bit tough, and the urge not to just look at the solution is just hard to resist. Also trying to go for the Marathon streaks are tougher than I remember, my current best is 19.
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle Achievements
- Cult Classic: Reached rank 15 blood lust.
- Jessi's Jumper: Killed a victim wearing a rainbow hoodie.
- Slayground: Completed every puzzle level of Slayground.
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For tonight's stream we'll be resuming Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, as we're off to Water Dragon Isle and then for the long gauntlet of encounters that lead to the end of the first half of the game.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
