Echoes of Wisdom NEW INFO! Game Informer is Dead + Bungie Lays Off Hundreds

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Topics:

• Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Traversing Hyrule Trailer reveals regions, horse, waypoints, smoothie shops, Bind & Reverse Bond https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/the-legend-of-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom-traversing-hyrule-trailer

• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team joins NSO Expansion Pack on August 9 https://x.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1819176417118081202

• Fiscal Q1 2025 results: Nintendo sales decrease 46.5% year-on-year to 246.6 billion yen, operating profit decreased 70.6% to 54.5 billion yen https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240802_2e.pdf

• Paper Mario TTYD sold 1.76 million units, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD sold 1.19 million units

• Monolith Soft 1st Production team hiring for new RPG directed by Tetsuya Takahashi https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/monolith-soft-1st-production-team-hiring-for-new-rpg-directed-by-tetsuya-takahashi

• Dead by Daylight – Castlevania Chapter launches August 27 https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/dead-by-daylight-castlevania-chapter-launches-august-27

• Game Informer is dead after 33 years https://x.com/gameinformer/status/1819399257071214854

• You have to ask for a subscription refund https://x.com/MatPiscatella/status/1819417243429855361

• Bungie lays off 220 employees (17% of workforce) and is trying to migrate another 155 to SIE https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/article/newpath

• Destiny 3 was never in development, “Payback” spinoff was canceled https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-02/sony-s-bungie-maker-of-halo-and-destiny-faces-reckoning-after-mass-layoff

• Avowed delayed to February 18, 2025 “to give players’ backlogs some breathing room” https://x.com/Xbox/status/1819495487155982486

• Microsoft & Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard to work on smaller 'AA' games based on existing IP https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-and-activision-have-formed-a-new-team-within-blizzard-to-work-on-smaller-aa-games-based-on-existing-ip

• Open-world Patrick Star game leaks, apparently launches October 4 https://x.com/joshnamesnotjo1/status/1818635146771279886

• Little Nightmares creator Tarsier Studios is revealing a new game at Gamescom Opening Night Live on August 20

• THQ Nordic has 23 games in development (HandyGames not included), 13 still unannounced

• SEGA trademarks ‘Yakuza Wars’ in Japan https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/sega-trademarks-yakuza-wars-in-japan

• "Project White Sands" and codename HLX suggest a new Half-Life might be coming https://www.eurogamer.net/more-evidence-of-fully-fledged-half-life-game-revealed-by-valve-dataminer

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What we’re playing:

Mary: Final Fantasy 16, The World Ends With You, I have not had the time to play a lot lately

John: Ys: Memories of Celceta (finished), Ys V

Greg: Apex Legends, Guardians of the Galaxy, COD

Brett L: CFB 25, Ratchet and Clank

Brett M: BONER JAMS ‘97