In a more than upbeat presentation than the "dire" scenarios that many outlets were rumoring, Microsoft Gaming finally came forward about the future of #Xbox and while acknowledging that all the mentioned things in the special Xbox Podcast episode were planned as early in December, it doesn't need to be taken a change of plans at all. Xbox Game Studios will be launching 4 unnamed games for Playstation 5 and Nintendo Switch and it was hinted that 2 of them are more than a year since launched, are community-drive games and no, is not neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones and for now they are not committing on more games. First party Xbox games will be on Game Pass with no End of date, including new launches and actually, new games will be releasing on Day1 and Game Pass is an Xbox service exclusively. Activision Blizzard King Games will be coming to Game Pass starting with Diablo IV on March 28th. Phil Spencer interestingly acknowledged that there is an importance of exclusive games for platforms, that includes Xbox, but he foresee that the strategy will be small part for the industry in between the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of that, Xbox President Sarah Bond assured that Xbox is not abandoning the hardware business and actually, next-gen Xbox is already in development and we are inbound for some news this Holidays season but, Microsoft Gaming did not acknowledged the future of physical games while addressing Xbox's view on gaming preservation. Tomorrow I will be given my takeaways in a new gaming podcast episode. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Nintendo announced that #NintendoSwitch have surpassed the 139.36 million unit sold and overtaking DS family as the best-selling video game system of all time in Japan. During their quarterly conference with investor, Nintendo claims that Switch will be main business for 2024 & didn't mention anything about its successor, slated to be released this year and reportedly, key partners are already developing games with dev kits. During the three months until December 31, Nintendo reported an operating profit of ¥184 billion yen, slightly down on the same period last year but still, went better than analyst expected. Analyst are impressed on how Nintendo have a steady business with an aged Nintendo Switch ecosystem & limited hardware compared to PC and gaming consoles, all this without major price cuts. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Good morning gamers! At midday GMT-4 you will be receiving a reminder of this week's #gaming content, including the audio-only version of the podcast. Talking about the podcast, some external review says that I should avoid my semi-vtuber avatar and should make episodes short. So with that in mind, next week is part two and will focus on June-December main news and runner-up will be short listed and will be mentioned without extra details that I went on part 1 to avoid going over 30-45 mins, an hour at worst-case. About showing my face again, I really avoided setting up the camera due laziness and easiness to edit, so please bear with me on using the avatar a little longer. GG!

Geoff Keighley confirmed that more than 30 nominees for #TheGameAwards 2023 will be announced on Nov 13, 2023. The ceremony will be held on Thursday December 3, 2023 from Peacock Theater (formerly Microsoft Theater) in Los Angeles. #Gaming #GamingNews

Meta have began pre-orders processing for the new Quest 3 VR headset and yesterday, it was announced that there will be a BETA for the VR version #Xbox Game Pass Cloud applicable to ALL Quest headsets starting December. #Gaming #GamingNews

With a few hours remaining for Gamescom, Geoff Keighley confirmed that the 2023 edition of #TheGameAwards will go live on Thrusday December 7th from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It will be the 10th edition so I guess it will be a special one. #Gaming #GamingNews

Fear The Gun Studios confirmed that Friday the 13th: The Game will be retired on New Year's Eve from storefronts as the IP license from Warner Bros will expire by the end of 2023. The game is expected to be functional at least until December 31st, 2024.

I've decided to add some new long-form video content to our YouTube channel. The first video will be around 2 minutes long, and we will gradually expand to longer videos. The first video will be released on December 31st at 3pm Eastern! Heres the thumbnail

Here's what you'll see from me this week on Twitch. Only 2 streams this week on Twitch due to MrsJayD's birthday today. This week also starts the 12 gifts of Christmas which will run through December 24th. There will also be a few unscheduled streams on Trovo this week as well.

Amazon announced that Prime Gaming will have extra games to be claimable for free to keep via their Amazon Games launcher later this month and includes: -Dishonored 2 -Metal Slug -Metal Slug X -Metal Slug 3 -Real Bout Fatal Fury -The King of Fighters 2003 -The Last Blade -The Last Blade 2 -Twinkle Star Sprites -SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Obviously for a limited time, starting December 27th, 2022 and yes, this is mainly for those who could not take advantage of the previous SNK partnership that brought classic fighting games for free, so if you are one of those gamers, here is your chance again!