After stuffing ourselves with turkey and other treats, the Bulletin is back to break down some of the latest video game news that has hit our feeds!
Google’s Doodle on December 1 featured an interactable tribute to Jerry Lawson, a Black computer engineer credited with developing the first video game cartridges. The International Game Developers Association has acknowledged and honored Lawson as one of the first few Black engineers who worked in Silicon Valley during the 70s.
The Steam Deck is shipping to Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan later this month. Pre-orders can now be made to customers in those said regions.
Meanwhile, stay tuned during The Game Awards this upcoming week on December 8, because they are apparently giving away Steam Decks during it too.
Maxis is looking ahead for the future and growth of The Sims to possibly expand locations to Europe. Maxis has been through a turbulent history and has been a division of Electronic Arts since 2006.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sadly has been riddled with a slew of technical issues and bugs since release, and Nintendo has finally released a statement on addressing these problems. A patch update for the game has been released.
More content for Sonic Frontiers will be happening into the next year of 2023. You can check out Rose’s review of the game here.
CD Projekt says their remake of the first Witcher game will be “open world”. That said, it likely won’t be out until the fourth game of the series comes around.
Co-founder and former CEO of Tripwire Interactive John Gibson has returned to publicly air grievances that “cancel culture” ruined his life on a show with pundit Tucker Carlson. Gibson infamously tweeted anti-abortion comments in the wake of the controversy of the Texas Heartbeat Act that was passed in 2021. He has since resigned from the company, and his opinions has stoked ire from many industry colleagues.
Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios has released a public apology and is pledging to investigate their hiring practices following a controversial hire back in 2021. The hiree in question has since resigned of this year, and their name has never been disclosed publicly.
Twitch releases “Shield Mode”, a new feature for streamer that hopes to mitigate issues of harassment. Shield Mode will give way to more finessed settings that will allow streamers and their mods to adjust things like commenting privileges and verification options.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has squashed Activision Blizzard’s efforts to impound upon the Blizzard Albany union’s vote. On all occasions since Blizzard Albany has announced unionization, Activision Blizzard has refused to voluntarily recognize the shop and by attempting to file motions that the shop should be expanded, impeding the QA tester union’s numbers. The NLRB has denied these attempts.
The official trailer for Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is out, and you can see it for yourself:
