2021 in Review – Infection – The SURVIVAL PODCAST Episode 364

Top gaming stories of 2021, PC Gaming growth, Nvidia shortages and more on this week’s episode of Infection – The SURVIVAL PODCAST

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• Year in review

• • • Biggest gaming stories of the year in 2021: From Activision Blizzard to NFTs | Windows Central

• Random

• • • Twitch 2021: A year in controversies | PC Gamer
    • ‘The Witcher 3’ had a huge player spike around season two of the show
    • Game of the Year 2021: Valheim | PC Gamer

• Riot

• • • Riot reaches $100m settlement in gender discrimination case | PC Games Insider

• AMD

• • • Easy Upscaling for Most PC Games? AMD Unveils Intriguing Radeon Super Resolution | PCMag

• Nvidia

• • • Nvidia has announced the RTX 3090 Ti, ‘a monster of a GPU’ | PC Gamer

• Steam

• • • PC gaming explodes: Steam hits new 28 million concurrent player record | TweakTown
    • Steam sets another user record, right on schedule

• Microsoft

• • • Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass: Mass Effect Legendary Edition, The Anacrusis (Game Preview), Spelunky 2, and More – Xbox Wire
    • Xbox Game Pass January 2022 games and all day one releases

• Tencent

• • • Alan Wake Studio Remedy Signs Deal With Tencent For Its First Games-As-A-Service Title – GameSpot
    • Remedy Entertainment signs a global development, license and distribution agreement with Tencent for the co-operative multiplayer game codenamed Vanguard – Remedy investors

• Rockstar

• • • Bully 2 got canned in 2009, say ex-devs | PC Gamer

• TikTok

• • • TikTok tests PC game streaming app that could let it take on Twitch – The Verge

• Square Enix

• • • Square Enix president knows people who ‘play to have fun’ dislike NFTs, but he wants them anyway | PC Gamer

• Bungie

• • • Bungie CEO apologizes following in-depth report into sexism and toxicity at the studio | PC Gamer
      • Statement: Diversity & Inclusion Learnings and Updates > News | Bungie.net
    • Report?: The Battle for Bungie’s Soul: Inside the Studio’s Struggle for a Better Work Culture – IGN

• Ubisoft

• • • Ubisoft may delete accounts if inactive for six months, under GDPR
    • Could GDPR policy erase your games? It happened to an Ubisoft customer | PCWorld

• Dead by Daylight

• • • ‘Dead by Daylight’ is coming to the Epic Games Store with a new chapter

• • Video: Dead by Daylight | Portrait of a Murder | Announcement Trailer

• • • Dead by Daylight free on the Epic Games Store next week

• Daybreak

• • Everquest

• • • • EverQuest looks at 64-bit client and possible server merges for 2022

• • Planetside 2

• • • • Planetside 2 is getting its first new continent in seven years
        • Tweet: https://twitter.com/planetside2/status/1035307520489705472
        • Video: PlanetSide 2’s New Continent: Oshur

• Borderlands

• • • Borderlands 2’s original Tiny Tina DLC is now a free standalone game on the Epic Store

• Video: Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure – Launch Trailer