Super Games – Infection – The SURVIVAL PODCAST Episode 355

Meta, New World, Microsoft & SEGA and more on this week’s episode of Infection – The SURVIVAL PODCAST

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• Facebook

• • Meta: Facebook is now called Meta

• • Tweet: https://twitter.com/Meta/status/1453795115701440524

• Amazon

• • • New World
      • Bugs
        • Amazon deploys fix for New World exploit that let players crash the game using chat
        • [Notice] Temporarily Disabling All Forms of Wealth Transfers

• Players

• • • • • Amazon’s New World Loses Over 500,000 Players in a Month

• Servers

• • • • • New World is not ‘client authoritative,’ says Amazon

• Dev Response: https://pastebin.com/dzuWjeXZ

• CM Response: [Notice] How Server/Client Authority is handled in New World

• Economy

• • • • • ‘New World’ devs deny a “currency crisis” and say the economy is fine
          • Opinion: Currency Crisis in New World

• Twitch

• • • Twitch money-laundering scheme triggers call for investigation from Turkish politician

• Microsoft

• • • Sega
      • Sega and Microsoft partner up to develop cloud-powered ‘Super Games’

• Press Release: https://www.sega.co.jp/en/release/211101_1.html

• Game Pass

• • • • Minecraft is coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC
      • Microsoft teases a big Fable reveal, swiftly un-teases it
        • Whoops: https://twitter.com/XboxPublishing/status/1449902181751140352

• Activision/Blizzard

• • • Blizzard co-head Jen Oneal steps down just 3 months after taking the job
    • Blizzard morale takes a hit following co-leader’s surprise resignation
    • World of Warcraft is forming a player-led Community Council

• Video: Introducing the World of Warcraft Community Council

• Minecraft

• • Minecraft now has one unified launcher on PC
  • Minecraft cheaters try to steal accounts, download ransomware instead
• Fortnite
  • Looks like Fortnite China is shutting down