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 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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Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Thursday Sep 05, 2019
Dermie is joined by Jeremy Ray - Junglist from Good Game, 5 Inch Floppy and currently managing editor of Fandom - for a special edition of News Game Plus. Jeremy shares his thoughts on:
- Gambling and lootboxes in videogames and has it gone too far?
- What is an esport? Do all competitive games qualify?
- Gambling in esports
- Drugs in esports
Also:
- Nick Kyrgios tells Trump to hold his beer and blames videogames for him losing tennis matches
- Bordomlands 3 DLC
- Ubisoft boss says Steam's business model is unrealistic and doesn't reflect the world today
- Telltale games is back (kind of) and it reminds Dermie of when Commodore went broke
- Fortress Melbourne
This is the biggest News Game Plus podcast yet. Enjoy.
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Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Dermie and Jason look at all the gaming news that wraps up August 2019:
- 6 CS:GO esports competitors arrested for match fixing face 10 years jail
- The PS5 was designed by Cylons
- Nancy, Steve and the Demigorgon from Stranger things are coming to Dead By Daylight
- Warner Bros opens a new studio for mobile games
- Bethesday makes some completely outlandish claims
- Everything is overrated
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Dermie and Jason look at all the gaming news of week three of August 2019:
- Old people should play videogames instead of pokies
- Boredomlands 3 Denuvo DRM on Epic Store
- Resetera and industry bullying
- 4 player Bubble Bobble is coming to Switch
- Dermie rants a lot
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Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Dermie and Jason look at all the gaming news of week two of August 2019:
- A new Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare game is coming
- DayZ refused classification because of joints
- Fortnight champion swatted live on Twitch
- Tumblr sold to WordPress
- Ninja's Twitch page shenanigans
- Epic joins Nintendo, Sony and MS in disclosing loot box odds
- Namco releases Tekken music on Spotify
Check out this for links to the Tekken music:
https://www.newgameplus.tv/blogs/latest/namco-sounds-comes-to-streaming-debuts-with-tekken
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Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Dermie and Jason look at all the gaming news of the first week of August 2019:
- cross save in games
- Ninja switch to Mixer
- Ghostbusters remastered
- The data leak that doxxed journos who went to E3
- Ooblets, Epic Store and idiots everywhere
- Videogames and violence
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Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Dermie and Jason look at all the gaming news to kick off August 2019:
- The login screen of Doom
- Switch sales compared with other consoles
- EVO
- Smash Ultimate
- Fortnite
- Dermie explains why fathers should play more videogames with their sons
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Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Dermie and Jason discuss the big gaming news of week four of July 2019:
- Belle Delphine kicked off Instagram
- Defiant Development closing down
- Throwing cats on Twitch
- Tetris Effect VR on Epic store needs Steam to run
- Nintendo fixing JoyCon drift for free
- GTA in-game casino and other videogame gambling related shenanigans
- Tencent developing a Pokemon game
- A new Xbox dashboard is coming but we just want Blade back
- Kyoto Animation studio fire
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