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Minecraft 2 Confirmed, AC: Shadows Delayed and Witcher 4 Updates - Gaming Podcast
Thu, 16 Jan 2025
The Video Gamers Podcast is back with another incredible episode of This Week in Gaming. Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are back chatting the latest gaming news. This week we discuss Notch confirming Minecraft 2, the delay of Assassins Creed Shadows, CD Projekt gives an update on Witcher 4 and more! All the video game news you need, each and every week from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Thanks to Legendary Supporter: FitNerdJohn Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. On this episode of This Week in Gaming, we're discussing Notch confirming Minecraft 2, Assassin's Creed Shadows getting delayed, some news on the Witcher 4 development, and more. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh.
And joining me, he's been practicing his slappies, his boned ollies, his wallies, his power slides, his pre-wind spins, and his grind bump outs.
It's Ryan. Bro, you think I should go switch flip that ledge there? gnarly half cab throwback like come on gnarly that'd be so gnarly man wait can i gnarly half cab i don't think i can gnarly half cab i don't know no you idiot gnarly half cab what are you talking about fakey half cab there we go yeah yeah skater dive what was the move from uh tony hawks where the dude christ there like the
christ air that was one of my favorites dude yeah the christ was great yeah you're just like you're just flowing in the air just spinning yep oh man that was great oh well if people didn't know we're gonna be talking about some skate here in a little bit yeah but welcome into the show everybody today's episode we finally got some video game news ryan we do it's it's it's uh been a long time coming so i'm excited
Apparently, all the news outlets take this really extended break from Christmas to mid-January where they're like, dude, we don't feel like working. We don't want to talk about video games. There's no video game news. And we've been making the best of it. I got to say, we've had some pretty darn good episodes lately.
Absolutely. Heck yeah, man. I'm excited.
But we do like to keep people up to date with the goings on in the gaming world. And so that's what these episodes are. That's why we call them This Week in Gaming. It's just to kind of catch you up on things that are going on in the gaming industry. We teased some of it. I mean, Minecraft 2? How is this thing flying under the radar? So we'll talk about that story and some others.
But before we get into that... Ryan, we got somebody to thank, man.
Do we?
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Chapter 2: What are the details about Minecraft 2 confirmation?
Yeah, so, all right, well, let's get into it because we actually have a lot of news to cover. So the first one, and I did tease this at the intro, is Notch, who is the creator of Minecraft. Yes. Filthy, stinking rich guy, by the way, at this point. You and I were chatting before we actually started recording. And fun little tidbit for people that are fans of Minecraft.
Notch sold the rights for Minecraft, a.k.a. Mojang, the company, to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, with a B. With a B. With a B and then promptly just disappeared into obscurity while the world made Minecraft the most sold video game of all time, I believe. It's up there. This one's weird, man. You ever try to look something up on the Internet and you can't get like a straight answer? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. All the time. Try to look up like the video game that's the most popular, most sold video game. And it's like half the time you're going to see Minecraft. The other half of the time you're going to see Tetris. And it's like, I don't know if one actually has like more monetary sales, but one has like more actual like number of sales or I don't I don't know.
You know, we're not accountants. We're not mathematicians. But what we do know is some Minecraft. Yeah. Notch goes onto social media and he creates a poll that says, hey, what kind of game would you guys like to see me create? And he came back afterwards and he basically goes, hey, I just confirmed Minecraft 2 to everybody. And so I'm making it. Yeah.
And like, I don't understand how this is not just all over the place, man, because I think this is one of those cases where people don't really believe it until they see it kind of thing. Um, Now, I'm going to read the tweet. So this is actually from Notch himself. And it says, honest and legitimate request for feedback for once.
The new game I'm passionately working on is currently set to be a traditional roguelike mixed with a tile-based first-person dungeon crawler a la Legend of Grimrock or Eye of the Beholder. But... I, but then I got to thinking that maybe there are people who like my work, but might not share my taste in retro nostalgia and would prefer for me to make a spiritual successor thing to Minecraft.
And I mean, sure, I'd take that cash. So market research, I'd be happy to oblige either which one would make you happier. Now this got 286,000 votes. This was not like 14 people voting on this, right?
Yeah.
81.5% of people said, make Minecraft 2, Boomer. Do it now. It's literally the option. And so, number one, that's an overwhelming majority of people that said, dude, we want Minecraft 2. But so then Notch comes out and says, hey, based on this, I... I guess people actually want me to make another game that's similar to the first one. And he said, I'm loving working on games again.
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Chapter 3: Why was Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed?
Yeah.
But it is an EA game. It is going to be free to play. They're just calling it Skate. This is the spiritual kind of successor to the Skate franchise. They are actually doing their console play testing is happening, which is this is kind of big because it means the game's far enough in its development that they're getting people in there and they are there.
You know, they're letting them test these things out. I watched, admittedly, I told you right before we started recording, I said, dude, I don't know that I've actually seen gameplay for this prior to now. I'm familiar with the series and I loved Tony Hawk, you know, their games. So I'm,
I'm pretty excited about this, Ryan, but as our resident skater, dude, um, why don't you, uh, why don't you talk about this one a little bit? I mean, you're excited for this game, you know, why, and what's your hopes for this?
Um, I am excited. I mean, it's like you said, it's been in development for quite some time. Um, but it's just, it's kind of, it is that successor, but more of that SIM style, realistic kind of skating, um,
exposure type game like it it is not that you're not going to get that 25 combo move thing and just jump over buildings and do things like that like you do in Tony Hawk so it's going to be a little bit different a little more realistic but um Man, I sure hope this game is good.
Because I just... I still, to this day, I'm just... It's... When you... When you take that on and you become like, you know, quote-unquote skater, it's just like in your blood. And you can't get away from it. So anytime I see things... I still... I broke my wrist a couple years ago skating because I'm a big old goofball trying to do more than he could in a big old 14-foot bowl. And...
snap my wrist to have a skater too much after that, but I still love it. And, and it just never leaves you. So playing a game like this is just something that, you know, it's, it's, I just, I really hope that it, they do well with the production of it. They, they develop it, you know, they've had a plenty of time. So I think I, I don't have any doubts. Honestly, it's just one of those things.
It's like, get it here. Like I'll release it. I wonder, fix the kinks, fix the bugs, and then just release it.
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Chapter 5: How does the gaming community react to delays?
Chapter 6: What makes Minecraft still relevant in gaming?
Do you believe that them delaying this has anything to do with implementing feedback and ensuring an even more ambitious and engaging day one experience?
I'm going to take what is no.
Yeah. Are there any other games that might be big title games that are releasing? I don't know. Right around the first, second week of February? I don't know.
feel like maybe one or two might be pretty dang big coming out in february but i don't know that's just me
I mean, a company like Ubisoft that's on its last leg and is probably saying Assassin's Creed Shadows is really our last chance to steer this ship in the right direction. Do you think a company like that and that's betting everything on Assassin's Creed Shadows probably doesn't want to go up against two major releases that are both looking like they're going to be way better than this game anyway?
Yeah.
Huh.
You don't say.
You don't say. Dude, what is five weeks going to do? Like, come on, man. Oh, we have to implement these changes. We're going to update it and dial it in. No. No, we're not stupid. We're not stupid. Well, we're not entirely stupid. Okay, I was going to say we are kind of stupid, but not fully stupid. We're not fully stupid. We're not all the way stupid.
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Chapter 7: What are the future possibilities for Minecraft spinoffs?
It was like 660 or something crazy.
That's not counting consoles. That's just Steam. So this game is massive. It is worldwide. If you're not at least trying out Marvel Rivals, jump on board. We keep saying this. We don't get anything out of that. They're not giving us a cut. We just want gamers to have fun.
They really should.
I mean... But just give it a shot. Come play with us. Come join our Discord server. There's people that are playing. There's people of all skill sets and all experience levels with this. So have fun. Have fun with other gamers, man. That's one of the things we absolutely love about gaming. And it's one of the things we love about Marvel Rivals is it's bringing everybody together.
Honestly, I can't think of another game that's done this since Helldivers 2.
Yeah, no, exactly.
I mean, it's been almost a year now since Helldivers 2 released. And this is... The only other game that I can think of where it's, like, a huge portion of gamers have kind of come together to, like, enjoy a video game together. So... Speaking of really good video games, Ryan, we don't really have to dive into this one, but... CD Projekt confirmed that The Witcher just turned 10.
So happy birthday, Witcher 3. One of the best games ever made. I love it. Anytime we see somebody say, hey, I'm diving into The Witcher 3 for the first time. And we always go like, oh, man, you're in for such a ride. Oh yeah, by the way, just make it past the first like six hours. Get to the Bloody Baron. I promise you. Yeah, and then you'll understand what the heck everybody's talking about.
But they also did confirm that right now they have over a hundred devs working on The Witcher 4. They also went on to talk about how they have had some of the same quest designers that have worked for the company through Witcher 1, Witcher 2, Witcher 3, and are now working on the Witcher 4.
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Chapter 8: How does Ubisoft's performance impact the gaming industry?
Yeah. And so this is just one of those quick, happy stories that we wanted to talk about because rewarding your staff and saying, hey, good job, I cannot think of a better way to keep your talent working for you than to show them that they're appreciated. and giving people a PS5 Pro and a big fat stack of $3,400 is just a really cool thing to see.
So kudos to Shift Up, who is the developer on this. They had a good year. Stellar Blade was not the only reason or the only game that they released. Apparently, they have some action RPG mobile game that's doing better than Stellar Blade's doing, but they said that Stellar Blade is still consistently selling pretty well. So
just i i'd like to see other devs take a uh take a page from that notebook oh heck yeah i mean and that's gonna uh you know entice people so much more and it's what is it 311 you said yeah 311 employees so that's like i mean roughly based on the money and then the ps5 like that's like 1.3 ish million that they just popped out just like that you know for their staff which is that's that's pretty cool man
You know, when other companies are giving people a pizza party.
Yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, my wife comes from the corporate world. And I'm not ashamed to say it. It was Bank of America. You scum of the earth. But unless you want to sponsor us or advertise or whatever, I'm sure we can work something. Then we can totally work something out. But they would do that all the time. They do these dumb little pizza parties. We hit this quota.
And then it's like, oh, by the way, you're not getting a raise this year. And then their CEO goes and gets some huge bonus. So to see a company do this, to repay and kind of give it back to the people, that's who makes your company run. So it is cool to see a larger company do that for its people. It's rare, honestly. Unfortunately, but it is.
Yeah, it shouldn't be, but yeah. So we did want to end this episode on just kind of a happy note with, like I said, other developers, take a page out of this book, treat your employees well, let them know that they're valued and you're probably going to get better employees that are going to make better video games and stick around for the long haul there as well. Simple as that. Yeah. All right.
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