The Crossplay Cooperative Ep001 - Cold Opens

Welcome to the first ever episode of the Crossplay Cooperative! Three chaps from New Zealand discuss recent gaming news/trends and take a deeper dive into game concepts, mechanics and topics. It's really important stuff, honestly. In this episode, we talk about Sony shutting down Bluepoint, Phil Spencer's retirement, discuss several games from Steam's Next Fest and have a chat about extraction shooters. Are they good?  We also look at our Fantasy Critic rankings so far. (00:00:00) - The Coldest Open (00:02:25) - Intro Theme NEWS (00:04:08) - US Administration Tries To Block Tencent (00:10:01) - Sony Drops The Ball With Bluepoint (00:18:32) - Phil Spencer Retires, So Does Sarah Bond (00:34:20) - Metacritic Removes AI Review From Its Site (00:42:29) - Konami is back! (Also, Dave doesn’t rate haggis) (00:44:40) - Paramount Buys Warner Bros (00:50:05) - Highguard Studio Shutdown (01:00:00) - Red Octane Announces Guitar Hero Successor NEXT FEST (01:04:26) - Beyond Words (01:09:00) - Denshattack (01:13:10) - Enter The Chronosphere (01:17:30) - Down With The Ship (01:19:51) - Pragmata (01:25:32) - Wanderburg (01:27:59) - The Eternal Life of Goldman (01:38:34) - Outbound (01:41:33) - Witchspire  (01:42:40) - Vampire Crawlers (01:47:11) - Spider-Man 2 (Not Next Fest) (01:50:47) - Dino Blade (01:53:50) - Starship Troopers (Nate's Connection Drops) MARATHON (DEEP-ish DIVE) (01:55:50) - Marathon/Extraction Shooter Dive FANTASY CRITIC (02:18:50) - Fantasy Critic Update (02:23:23) - Outro