Phil Spencer tells consumers that they love the Kinect, EA has been wrongfully banning players from Battlefield, and Satoru Iwata goes bananas in the news of the week!
Iwata has been grounded from attending E3, May has seen extremely strong sales for PS4 and Wii U, and Destructoid derps pretty bloody hard in the news of the week!
With some high quality Nintendo titles looming on the horizon for 2014, Mel dusts off his WiiU. But in the process he wonders why it has to be this way and examines some of the elements getting in the way of change.
Nintendo puts together an outlandish new plan to save the Wii U, Microsoft buys Gears of War, and Square Enix lies about Tomb Raider’s deficiencies in the news of the week!
Nintendo drastically revises downward their Wii U sales estimates, Tomb Raider finally becomes profitable, and PS4 teardowns reveal additional components in the news of the week.
Lusipurr, utterly disconsolate at England’s poor run of form on the Cricket pitch, is joined by the morale-boosting SiliconNooB, Blitzmage, Gyme, Mel, and special guest, Melchiz. Helpfully, the VGX Awards are detailed, and Bravely Default is discussed.
England follow up retaining the Ashes by winning the Ashes, much to the delight of Lusipurr and the chagrin of SiliconNooB. However, sports rivalries are eventually set aside in favour of a discussion about intellectual pursuits and Hamburger Helper.
The Ashes continues at Chester-le-Street. Even though Lusipurr and SiliconNooB back opposing teams, they are united–along with Mel and TsubakiSamurai–in their dismay at Nintendo’s continued faffing about with the overpriced, under-supported, Wii U.
As the Ashes contest resumes in England at Old Trafford, the panel takes an educational turn, querying the purpose and meaning of Nightwatchmen, Silly Mid-Offs, Follow-Ons, and Fine Legs. Lusipurr obliges the natural curiosity with a helpful diagram.