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The Overseas Connection Podcast #184

The Overseas Connection, the official G4TE.com Community weekly podcast discusses gaming news, community feedback, new releases and the podcast teams current play lists. Tune-in and listen to this combination U.S. and U.K. video game podcast as they discuss this weeks topics:

* We talk up Madden 13, Inversion and Sleeping Dogs.
* We discuss if we feel Nintendo has done enough to sell us on the WiiU.
* WiiU price and release allegedly leaked out.
* New Metal Gear game announced.
* Brothers in Arms Furisous 4 getting a new name?
* New releases for the current week.
* RE6 gets pocketed in Poland.
* We announce a give away for Defense Grid on Steam.
* And much more…

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Leave us a voicemail if you live in the U.S.:(626)50-OCPOD

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jsslifelike4274d ago

Another great show with funny outtakes! What's the name of the show break tune?

OC_MurphysLaw4274d ago

That would be "Screw the Nether" via The Yogscast on Youtube.

HiddenMission4274d ago

Great show as always. I'm looking to start Gamerz411 back up before years end. I just want to get HiddenMission.com off to a great start before I start the next series of projects.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos22h ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H915h ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX9h ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H97h ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro4h ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

banger8815h ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk7712h ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos10h ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris7h ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Ghost of Tsushima PC has 84% positive reviews and a peak online audience of 72 thousand people

On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.

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PrinceOfAnger3d ago

69,477
all-time peak 3 minutes ago.

thorstein3d ago

Nice. It's really cool that PC players get to play this masterpiece.

PrinceOfAnger3d ago

It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.

itsmebryan2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.

RNTody3d ago

Great, I loved this game. Definitely think it's Sucker Punch's best work to date!

rippermcrip3d ago

Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.

Christopher3d ago

Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.

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shinoff21832d ago

I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5

GamerzElite3d ago

This is good game and Ghost eliminate all fake outrage.

CrimsonWing693d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?

Fishy Fingers3d ago

Im not sure how its confusing :\

72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.

A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.

But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.

shinoff21832d ago

Lmao. How many swords swung. I was hoping for how many steps

wesnytsfs2d ago

And its how many years old from initial release.

Crows903d ago

72k is concurrent
...that is not the sold figure.

Michiel19893d ago

for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.

Plague-Doctor273d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI

elazz2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.

According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.

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VR MOBA 'Mecha Party' Is Now Available On Steam & PSVR 2

Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.

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Babadook72d ago

This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).