Show Notes
Jeff Grubb is joined by Lex Luddy to jump start your week with news! Today we're catching up on some of the bigger announcements coming out of Blizzcon, Wardogs selling a million copies in 24 hours, Polyarc shutting down, and more!
0:00 - Intro 5:00 - Blizzard announced Diablo and StarCraft games that are years away ‘to show confidence’ 19:50 - WoW Forever is basically Blizzard making its own alternate-history World of Warcraft 23:40 - Wardogs sold 1.25 million copies in 24 hours 28:50 - BREAK 30:13 - Moss series developer Polyarc shuts down 33:30 - SOMEBODY GOT YELLED AT: Level-5 CEO had to respond to AI backlash 42:00 - Sony secretly killed a different project last week 48:20 - Bloomberg: Apple to make gaming controllers for the iPhone 51:40 - OLD GAME NEWS: The other Xbox 360 exclusive JRPG from the creator of Final Fantasy now has a PC port
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