Black Lives Matter: What We're Learning - What's Good Games (Ep. 163 )

This week we begin the show with a discussion led by Riana Manuel on the protests taking place in the United States and the Black Lives Matter movement. In the second segment we chat about news including the Kingdoms of Amalur remaster, Sega's new console announcement, and what Infinity Ward is doing to combat racism in Call of Duty...plus...Brittney has info about a very important Sims 4 update. Riana then chats about her time in Apex Legends while Britt decided to investigate what Telling Lies is all about.  Resources from our Black Lives Matter discussion: Riana's recommended books from black female writers: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Kindred by Octavia Butler Follow Kahlief Adams: http://www.twitter.com/kahjahkins Follow Parris Lilly: http://www.twitter.com/vicious696 To learn about black video game creators, follow http://www.twitter.com/blackgamedev Educational material for June Justice: http://www.bit.ly/junejustice Educational Twitter thread: http://www.twitter.com/clairewillett Thank you to our Patreon Producers: • Chewy’s Godson • Alex Rigopulos • Faris Attieh • Mohammed Mohammed • Marcus Brown • Molly Bittner • Punkdefied Support What’s Good Games on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/whatsgoodgames Discuss the podcast on our social channels! http://www.facebook.com/whatsgoodgames http://www.twitter.com/whatsgood_games http://www.youtube.com/whatsgoodgames Join the community page! https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatsgoodgames/  Timestamps: Segment One: Let’s Talk about BLM & Current Events :00 A statement from WGG 2:52 Welcome to the show! 8:00 A message from Ri 9:16: What has stood out to you this week? Surprised you? 21:12 What didn’t you expect to be mad at? 37:13: Ri, how are you so amazing all the time? – Wout 38:14 Can you recommend black video game creators, and sci-fi or fantasy writers? - Siân 52:15 Are companies being sincere right now? -Hugo 57:45 Thank you Ri! -Marcus Brown 58:43 Homework from Ri  Segment Two: Part 1 - News 1:00:09 Welcome back! 1:00:38 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning 1:09:19 Sega announces Game Gear Micro 1:16:07 CoD will get better at flagging racist usernames 1:18:36 Summer of Pride 1:21:48 Destiny 2: Year 4 reveal coming next week! 1:24:55 Cyberpunk’s, Sony, PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show showcases delayed 1:29:17 Has the new Xbox dashboard leaked?! 1:32:36 Sims are literally peeing fire  Segment Two: Part 2 – Hands-On 1:37:15 Apex Legends 1:41:25 Telling Lies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices