Today's News Tonight w/ Reb Valentine (12/21/20) - Believing in Good People (Patreon)

In Episode 26 of Today's News Tonight, we're joined by Reb Valentine of gameindustry.biz to talk about Halo's online shutting down on Xbox 360, Geno's early designs in Super Mario RPG, Twitch's new guidelines on unusable words, Miyamoto's New Yorker interview, and more!

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Website: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-18-animal-crossing-new-horizons-games-of-the-year-2020

Twitter: https://twitter.com/duckvalentine

Podcast: https://twitter.com/CozywoodKitchen

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

8:11 - All Halo services on Xbox 360 going offline on December 2021

20:27 - Mario RPG character designer shares early concept art of Geno

31:36 - A class-action lawsuit may in the works against CD Projekt Red

44:40 - Twitch bans any use of the N-word with a hard R, also automatically blocks the word in chat

55:11 - Doug Bowser confirms more Animal Crossing updates coming in 2021

1:14:53 - Miyamoto talks about his kids/wanting to create a kinder world in New Yorker interview

Sources: 

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/sunsetting-halo-xbox-360-game-services-in-2021

https://twitter.com/kurashimakaz/status/1339775358522912769

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/style/cyberpunk-2077-video-game-disaster.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-12-20-gog-advises-cyberpunk-2077-players-to-keep-a-lower-amount-of-items-to-avoid-corrupting-save-files

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/12/09/introducing-our-new-hateful-conduct-harassment-policy/

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/21/animal-crossing-updates-2021/

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/21/nintendo-switch-halfway-life-cycle/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/shigeru-miyamoto-wants-to-create-a-kinder-world