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Zack’s Goodbye Post

Zack — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:17:24 +0000

I never was good at a lot of things. For example, starting an article or post – like this – was always tough. Like most people, once I got going, it would be easier. But starting was always hard. I never quite knew how to say what I wanted to say. Maybe it’s because I was better at expressing myself through video, or on the podcast. Maybe it’s the ol’ ADHD brain – the way all the words just jumble around in my skull, like a mosh pit of half baked ideas. It’s never been easy to deal with. Do you know what else I have trouble with?

Farewells.

You can probably guess what I’m on about by the overly dramatic tone and… uh, well, shit, the title of the post, I guess. There’s really no reason to be anything but blunt: I’m officially dropping from Chooch’s staff. I’m moving on to do bigger and better things. (Actually, realistically, I’m more likely to move on to smaller and worse things. But the thought is nice.) It’s been a fucking amazing time, and I have met friends that I will hopefully be able to cherish for years to come. And really, with a community as strong as you all? It’s not like I’ll be going anywhere any time soon. You’ll still see me posting garbage on Twitter Dot Com, and acting like a damn fool in The Game Zone Dot Zone. So, cheer up, reader. Wipe away the tears you have almost certainly shed. Instead, watch Xchoom episode 0, because it still makes me laugh until I can’t breathe.

Be good. I love y’all.

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Video Game Choo Choo Live! at CEO 2019

Zack — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:09:05 +0000

The Video Game Choo Choo is rolling straight through CEO 2019! Join John, Scott, Michael, and Zack for our first ever live podcast performance where possible topics may include: Our terrible characters and how they’d fare against AEW, Duke Nukem and his opinions on internet pornography, the concept of Sodamilk with Gamer Goo, Vegeta’s favorite wings from Applebees, etc. Come aboard! Posi-vibes only. Powered by Gamer Goo.

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Devolver Premiers Fall Guys, A Mini-Game Battle Royale

Zack — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 02:18:09 +0000

Devolver’s wacky Nintendo Direct parody started fairly strong with Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, which is the first battle royale concept I’ve given a shit about in at least a year.

From what they’ve shown, it’s Human Fall Flat meets Warioware, but also, it’s a battle royale. Neat! Like, legitimately.

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout releases early 2020, for PlayStation 4 and PC.

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Id’s New “Orion” Offers Faster Streaming To Mobile Devices. Much Faster.

Zack — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 01:47:44 +0000

Id Software announced what they describe as a breakthrough in streaming games to mobile devices. There was a lot of technobabble, but what it seems to come down to is that Orion is built into the game engine – apparently it’s a simple to use SDK. Supposedly, Orion will allow games to stream 20% faster per frame, using 40% less bandwidth. Because of this, Id claims, you can easily stream on the highest graphic settings available, and streaming with this method saves money on both the player’s side, and the publisher’s.

To prove their point, they streamed Doom onstage in 60 fps on a mobile phone.

Doom being played on mobile, streamed, showing no latency pic.twitter.com/SD30k5sbDk

— Wario64 (@Wario64) June 10, 2019

Registration for the beta of Orion (Or maybe just streaming Doom with Orion?) is available at Slayersclub.com, though the site went down basically immediately after their announcement , so good luck.

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Tango Gameworks announces Ghostwire Tokyo

Zack — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 01:05:51 +0000

Shinji Mikami of Tango Gameworks took to the stage for Bethesda’s E3 conference to announce a spooky action-adventure game about disappearances in Tokyo because uh, spirits I guess? Everyone gets raptured and you need to kill ghosts as a cool archer guy. Maybe? The cinematic trailer explained next to nothing, but god damn did it look pretty. Did you see those ramen noodles?

Ghostwire Tokyo doesn’t have a release date quite yet, but we’ll keep you updated.

I hope the Hannya mask guy is playable.

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Halo Infinite Announced for Project Scarlett

Zack — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:40:19 +0000

After a reveal that Project Scarlett – Microsoft’s codename for the new Xbox – will release holiday 2020, Phil Spencer announced that launching alongside the new mainline console will be an Xbox staple – it’s Halo baby!! A clean shaven man grows a beard in thirty seconds and finds Master Chief floating around in space. He was big chillin’, taking a nap in space. But, oh shit, Cortana’s missing! And, oh shit, the Halo exploded. The Chief’s gonna have to put that back together himself, I guess.

Halo Infinite will be releasing for the Xbox One, Project Scarlett, and the PC – holiday 2020.

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Sequel(?) to CrossFire, Crossfire X revealed at E3

Zack — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:26:33 +0000

A cinematic trailer for Crossfire X was shown, showing off some realistic guns, realistic jets, realistic tanks, and a guy issuing military commands from under water with some real dope butt rock. I genuinely can’t tell if this is a new intellectual property, if it’s a sequel to SmileGate’s CrossFire – the free to play first person shooter and, at one time, most played multiplayer game in the world – or if it’s a video game adaptation to the board game Crossfire. You know, the one with that really sick song in the commercial.

More than likely it’s the second thing. But I’m choosing the believe it’s the third.

It’ll be coming to Xbox One before anything else in 2020.

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New Dying Light 2 Trailer Revealed

Zack — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:15:16 +0000

A new trailer for the zombie-hatcheting wall-running parkour-survival simulator, Chris Avellone’s Dying Light 2, was shown during Microsoft’s E3 conference, featuring a voice over from the game’s protagonist revealing a whole lot of “well, everything is awful and there’s zombies. Also, I’m infected I guess. You know how it goes, I’m gonna go run along a wall now.”

Dying Light 2 is slated to release Spring 2020 for the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC.

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New Wasteland 3 Trailer Revealed

Zack — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:52:45 +0000

In a particularly wacky trailer set in post-apocalyptic Colorado, we were given our first look in three years at the sequel to the influential Wasteland series. Development on Wasteland 3 has been relatively quiet since Microsoft’s acquisition of inXile, so it’s plenty exciting to see the game is still, you know, happening. The new trailer shows off plenty of borderline cartoon-ish characters and more of the game’s grid-based combat.

Still no official release date for Wasteland 3, but it’s supposedly slated for Q4 2019. Fingers crossed.

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CD Projekt Red reveals Cyberpunk 2077 Release Date

Zack — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:35:13 +0000

CD Projekt Red presented a new cinematic trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 during the Xbox conference. The trailer showed some gruesome arm-blade swinging action in the backroom of a nightclub following a robbery gone wrong. CD Projekt Red has had a rocky reputation recently after various transphobic “did you assume my gender?” jokes on social media, which has left a foul taste in many folks’ mouths when discussing the game. Though it’s yet to be seen whether these… well, trashy views are in the actual game’s writing, it has not been a great look on the company as a whole.

The trailer drops a surprise reveal right at the end – the protagonist wakes up in a garbage pile, awakened by a real cool one liner by a cyborg in sunglasses. He pulls off his sunglasses and shows his face – a face that, in my opinion, single-handedly saves the trailer. Check it out below.

Keanu Reeves takes to the stage and discusses his involvement with the game, and introduces a second, short trailer, ending with a release date. John Wick 2077 – I mean, Cyberpunk 2077 is slated to release April 16, 2020.

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