Show Notes/Outline for The 1-Up Club
Updated 7/17/2018
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- Introductions
- 1-Up Club
- All-new 1-up.club website
- Follow on YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Podbean
- Visit the store
- Game-Block.com
- Ease-In
- E3 in retrospect
- A month later: what we think
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- Story 1
- [LINK] Saudi Arabia Bans 47 Games After 2 Children Appear to Commit Suicide
- 13 year old girl, 12 year old boy
- Both recently played Blue Whale Game
- Ban covers Grand Theft Auto, Assassin's Creed, and The Witcher series as well as others
- Egypt and United Arab Emirates have already enacted similar bans on Blue Whale Game
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- Story 2
- [LINK] BioWare's James Ohlen Retires from Game Industry
- 22-year career at BioWare
- Creative director for games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and The Old Republic, Balder's Gate 1 & 2, upcoming Anthem
- Will continue work on "smaller, more personal projects"
- Stays on as founder of Arcanum Worlds working on D&D projects
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- Story 3
- [LINK] Uncharted Fan Film Hits YouTube
- 15-minute fan flick stars Nathan Fillion
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- Story 3
- [LINK] Epic Adjusts its Unreal Engine Payout Structure to Benefit Developers
- Epic reduces take from 30/70 to 12/88
- Credited the success of Fortnite for the move
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- Game Releases This Week
- June 17
- Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion (PS4, XB1, PC)
- Sonic Mania Plus (PS4, XB1, Switch, PC)
- June 24
- Mega Man X Collection 1 & 2 (PS4, XB1, Switch, PC)
- No Man's Sky (XB1)
- The Banner Saga (PS4, XB1, Switch, PC, Mac)
- Plugs/Goodbyes
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