News Game Plus
New Game Plus is a new look take on gaming TV. Incorporating a strong gaming focus, with a healthy dose of related subcultures, NG+ aims to bring you thoughtful reviews, exclusive interviews and event coverage, and the best videos from a range of specialist contributors.
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Episodes
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Dermie and Jason pick apart this week's news in videogames:
- Sonic got redesigned for the Sonic Movie and he looks fantastic
- Death Stranding is coming to Steam and Epic
- Minecraft Earth is in early access in Australia
- Tencent wants to partner with Nintendo
- Naughty Dog is hiring for a multiplayer game
- China has introduced gaming curfews and spending caps
- The Switch has sold 10 million units in Japan so we look at how that compares with other consoles
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Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Dermie and Jason bring you the week's gaming news:
- Fortnite pro banned for using an aimbot
- Kojima wants to make movies
- Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 were announced so that everybody forgets why they were angry at Blizzard
- Fallout 76 customers in Australia will get refunds
- Boulderdash 30th anniversary is coming to Switch and Dermie is excited
- Horizon Zero Dawn 2 is coming
- Epic Games Store will soon be getting some actual store functionality
- Angry Birds isn't what it used to be
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Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
This week's gaming news:
- Ancestor The Humankind Odyssey creator calls out reviewers who didn't play the game
- Kotaku staff reprimanded for calling out their owners
- Telstra wants you to buy lots of 5G to play Xbox Cloud games
- EA is back on Steam
- Sony trademarks PS1 through PS10 brand names
- Sonic has had a redesign for his movie
- Call of Duty tries to claim Russians did what USA did
- Fallout 1st subscribers are getting pre-used servers
- NBA2K20 has unskippable ads
- Star Citizen is free to play until November 3rd and Derek Smart is excited
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Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
All the latest gaming news with Dermie and the Social Jason Warrior:
- You can get a Fallout 76 subscription for the bargain price of only $180 per year!
- Stadia pre-orders will be delivered 2 weeks after Stadia hits retail
- An Oxford University study finds there is not "sufficient evidence" to conclude that gaming disorders are a thing
- Game Pass subscribers play 40% more games
- Outer Worlds has a 38GB day one patch on Xbox One but Jason still wants it
- The Panzer Dragoon remake will be available as a physical version
- EA may be returning to Steam
- CouchWarriors has expanded into South Australia and New South Wales
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Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Dermie and Jason bring you another big week of gaming news:
- Donald Trump is now on Twitch
- The legal case between Randy Pitchford and his lawyer has settled out of court
- Shenmue 3 had gone gold
- Sonic will be in the new Super Monkey Ball game
- Brain Training is coming to Switch
- Cat Quest 2 is coming to consoles
- EA files a patent to encourage micro-transactions
- Pokemon Go Halloween
- Physical boxes for Overwatch Switch only contain a download code
- Plants Versus Zombies Battle For Neighborville
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Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Wednesday Oct 09, 2019
Gaming news doesn't get much bigger than this. Dermie and Jason deep dive into:
- Sony (kind of) announced the Playstation 5
- Blizzard and China - Dermie explains what is really going on
- Why can't Playstations post to Facebook any more?
- Resetera has banned 20% of its users since starting
- Epic is being sued because Fortnite is addictive
- After news that Bully 2 almost got made, Jason explains why the original Bully was Rockstar's best game up until RDR2
- 1 in 5 Aussie game devs make less than minimum wage
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Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Jason is back from Tokyo Game Show to talk about all the big gaming news of the week with Dermie:
- 8 Australian games have been preserved by the National Film and Sound Archive... and Dermie reckons there were better choices
- Why is everybody playing Untitled Goose Game?
- Last Of Us Part 2 will no longer have multiplayer
- Dermie hated Last Of Us Part 1 a lot
- Why would anybody spend $8 per month on Mario Kart on their phone?
- Joycon drift and the Switch Lite
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Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Dermie and New Game Plus Production Manager Jodie Langford talk about this week's gaming news and dinosaurs:
- White phosphorous in Call of Duty
- Steam has to allow games to be resold in France
- Does Epic exclusivity hurt a game when it doesn't sell?
- Why Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass mean app stores are starting again with new rules (while console and PC publishers get worse)
- Ballarat developer Alderon Games is making a dinosaur MMO
- More dinosaurs
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Dermie is joined by New Game Plus host Megan Webber to talk about the news from week 2 of September 2019:
- Tokyo Game Show
- E3 is now an influencer festival for some reason
- Apple Arcade is the latest game subscription service with a game-changing feature that hardly anybody is talking about
- Rockstar adds yet another game launcher to your PC
- Two new game developers are opening in Melbourne
- Madfest 2019
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Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Dermie is joined by Dan Chlebowczyk - from CouchWarriors and Battle Arena Melbourne, and a board member of the Esports Gaming Association of Australia - to talk about the news that kicked off September 2019:
- Civilization now has a battle royale mode
- Is it a cross or an x button... and do we care?
- Weird new Switch peripheral brings back memories of Wii Fit
- SNES games are now on Switch and the first lot are pretty damn good
- Overwatch coming to Switch but is there cross save?
- The NeoGeo joystick makes Dermie and Dan wish for a Sega version (with Virtua Fighter Kids)
- Sony is releasing Battle Royale 2 with a Playstation roster of characters and we ask why can't games like this dethrone Smash?
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