 Hey everyone welcome back to here's the news before I tell you what the news is because we've got man what seven massive stories for you guys today I want to remind you to enter our giveaway down in the description or the pinned comment we are giving away a $99 Nintendo Switch eShop or $100 PlayStation or Xbox you know what screw it let's throw PC in as well for Steam or whatever platform you prefer on PC gift card also we're giving away a $60 game musta had to rise that's right get away a copy a musta rise for Nintendo Switch and then a two additional $20 Nintendo Switch PlayStation or Xbox gift cards I know it's a lot just check out the giveaway button the link and all that we have all the details on how to enter it ends at the end of the month and let's get into the news so our first story today is about Gotham Knights they announced today that Gotham Knights is being delayed to 2022 now this is the next game from WB following up the ever popular Batman series that have been going on for a little bit in this one it looks like based on the trailer reveal they had about six months ago and obviously we're moving on from Batman himself and moving into side characters in the series again it kind of disappointing to see a game delayed like this but not unexpected since there are likely to be many many COVID related delays and I presume this is one of them they don't note that it's delayed specifically because of COVID but because they want to deliver the best possible experience so this largely is a good thing so yay Gotham Knights delayed 20 to a day to our second story is about Game Pass subscriber info now we don't know the subscriber growth we're going to have to wait for Microsoft's official financial report for that but we do have a new article talking about all of the subscriber things like how are they making money and how many games are these people playing so it looks like 20% more time is spent playing games by people who are subscribed to Game Pass versus people who aren't obviously this is just examining the Xbox ecosystem 30% more games in general are played by those subscribed to Game Pass versus those that aren't and what's even cooler is 40% more genres are played by each individual person on Game Pass than those that aren't now this is obviously because there's a wide variety of games it's kind of like a Netflix people participate in more different types of shows and different types of movies on Netflix because they pay one flat fee for access to them all versus going to like a movie theater and having to spend all this money to go to each individual movie you're probably only going to go to the ones that you know you're going to enjoy versus checking out things you aren't sure if you'll enjoy and that seems to be what's happening on Game Pass is it's creating a more diverse gaming audience that is just more experienced in general so yeah that's a pretty cool what's also good for Microsoft is it looks like people who are subscribed to Game Pass spend 20 percent more money than those that aren't now obviously we're not including the original game you know purchased in there but once a game is purchased it looks like 20% more money is spent by those on Game Pass than not this would be on micro transactions DLC in game currency all that jazz yes those that are subscribed to Game Pass tend to spend more money on that stuff than those that aren't so this is kind of a nice experimental territory for Microsoft as they push really into this games as a service category and maybe try to become more profitable at it sooner rather than later so we'll have to see if these numbers continue and what the actual subscriber base is it's presumed to have grown since the release of Xbox Series X also expansion to PC but we'll have to wait and see payday 3 has left design phases and now in full production so payday 3 is obviously the follow-up to the ever popular payday and payday 2 yes payday 2 is also on switch so maybe a switch game we'll have to wait and see right now they're aiming to release this game in 2023 so yeah kind of a way early announcement for it but it is what it is they have an 18-month post launch plans for a games as a service deal which makes a lot of sense for games like payday because it is an ongoing kind of service game it has a co-publishing deal with Koch media who is fully supportive of all the marketing and everything it uses unreal engine and it will release on PC and consoles again specific consoles not mentioned but the 2023 release that you got to assume it's probably leaving PlayStation 4 and Xbox one behind is it gonna leave switch behind is it gonna be on switch pro who knows 2023 is a long ways away at least that feels that way I hope it's a long ways away it is just 2021 so anyways payday 3 is likely gonna be a fantastic game and I can't wait to experience it so keeping our theme of Microsoft stories today we have a rumor for you guys fresh out of the Jeff Grubb games beat journalistic rumor mill and that is that Starfield is going to be completely blown out by Microsoft at E3 oh and by the way it's releasing this year barring a COVID related delay so yeah it could be delayed because of COVID but right now it's still slated to come out this year now it'll be interesting to see what happens with this game and if it continues to be a multi-platform game or not there was a point last year in October where Todd Howard came out and basically said he doesn't foresee Starfield or Elder Scrolls 6 be an exclusive to Xbox but that was back in October before say finalized even Phil Spencer back then was trying to be really coy on what was gonna be exclusive or not now Phil Spencer's been like yeah we're making everything that doesn't have a contract exclusive don't know that Starfield had a contract to be on PlayStation but if it is slated to release this year it does kind of give PlayStation gamers a little bit of hope since it would have obviously been almost done with development and probably have a PlayStation version in existence but again it's Microsoft's IP now so all bets are off the table when it comes to a going multi-platform well if you haven't been paying attention there's actually a massive sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop now the eShop actually always has a lot of sales there's over 800 games on sale right now pretty insane but there's actually a bunch of notable games and I'm gonna go through a long list of them but there's actually several that are first we're gonna start with a bunch of Ubisoft offerings so we have Assassin's Creed 3 remastered going for $15.99 right now when it's usually 40 bucks we have Immortals Phoenix Rising which oh my gosh you guys need to play it if you love Breath of the Wild I'm telling you it is for $29.99 right now and it's usually $60 Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle is now it's lowest price on the eShop at $9.99 normally $60 there's also the battle gold edition version of it for $13.59 that's usually $80 so that includes all the DLC and all that so I think it's worth spending the extra money to get that we have self-parked the fractured but whole edition at $14 when it's usually $50 we have self-parked to stick a truth with it usually $11 which is actually $11.99 right now and that's usually $60 well I'm sorry that's usually $30 we have Starlink Battle for Atlas deluxe edition for $23.99 that's normally $80 and then Starlink Battle for Atlas digital edition for $14.99 and that's usually $60 and I again Starlink to me is also one of those underrated Ubisoft games really should check out especially if you're like a fan of Star Fox and slash Star Fox adventure it's kind of like a combo it's really interesting all right that ends the Ubisoft portion there are other Ubisoft games on sale if you're interested just nothing that I felt was notable now we have just a random smorgasbord including a ton of Final Fantasy games so we have Final Fantasy 7 the original is now $7.99 when it usually sells for $16 Final Fantasy 10 is $10.49 when it's usually $21 Final Fantasy 9 is now $9 when it's usually $20 Final Fantasy X and X2 is now $24.99 when it's usually $50 same as Super Final Fantasy 12 is it's now $24 and 99 cents was usually $50 Borderlands legendary collection is now $19.99 when it's usually $50 Trials of Mana is now $29.99 when it's usually $50 and I finally might buy that game it's the one Mana game I haven't played and this is the remastered one so I'll have to give it a try here NBA 2K21 is now $19.79 although let's be honest NBA 2K21 is almost always like discounted at this point we have Bioshock collection at $19.99 it's usually $50 Okami HD at $9.99 when it's usually $20 and Civ 6 at $19.79 which usually $60 this and more great deals are going on on the Nintendo Switch eShop so go check it out if you happen to have some spare coinage and you're looking for more games to play our next story is a big one especially for people who enjoy events like e3 although this isn't e3 it's potentially the replacement for e3 gamescom is coming back this year now look gamescom's been going out for a while but they seem to have a firm plan and it includes in-person stuff so they're going to have in-person demos for a limited amount of visitors that's focused exclusively on new games there's a couple other minor in-person things they are gonna have like a cosplay gathering so like that but they're very restrictive and who's gonna be able to attend probably because of COVID so we'll see how it plays out but they are having an in-person event which is interesting since e3 is not having anything in person if they even have an event at all they are going to expand their digital events as well now for those who don't know gamescom always has press conferences and stuff just like e3 they're usually just not as big of a deal as the e3 ones but if people choose not to go to e3 maybe they choose to go to gamescom there's also going to be Jeff Kealy returning to support this which is interesting Jeff Kealy supported every single e3 until last year and then e3 didn't happen Jeff Kealy is now hosting opening night live which includes a bunch of game reveals and all that for gamescom so yeah that's you know interesting look forward to as we get closer to gamescom which always happens later in the year we will have to give it a look you know towards the end of summer I'm pretty excited to see gamescom come back I'm excited to see the digital event expanded we'll see if there's going to be more and more press conferences we'll live react to all of that when it's appropriate our final story today is about shimigami 2 nocturne HD remaster now technically the release date got leaked but now it's been all officially announced we have a bunch of official information so let me just get to my notes because who there's a lot to get over here so it does arrive on May 25th that's the big thing to remember if you're looking forward to shimigami 2 we have a digital deluxe edition of it which there's some things in here one thing in particular I'm not excited about here it comes with a full game also if you get the digital deluxe edition you'll be able to play four days early you get the maniacs pack which adds Dante from devil may cry you also get the chronicle pack which adds ray do from devil summoner series you have merciful difficulty as well which adds an easier difficulty mode which we'll get into this later because I don't like that mercy and expectation map pack which adds a little masters mercy and masters expectations there's also the the shimigami tense BGM pack which is music so we have the BGM pack one which has two songs from shimigami tense we have the BGM pack two which has two songs from shimigami shimigami tense two okay the faster you say it the harder is to say there's a BGM pack three from shimigami tense a four that has two songs and a BGM pack four which has shimigami tense a four apocalypse couple songs from that as well the normal game is going to be 49 99 the digital deluxe edition is going to be 69 99 so it's a pretty decent amount more it's 20 bucks more there's it's going to have remastered 3d models and backgrounds additional difficulty levels maybe even beyond the one that's in the digital looks version a suspense save English and Japanese voiceover and an alternative branch featuring radio I can't pronounce his last name so I won't even bother here's the thing I actually think this is really great news for gamers especially those that have never experienced the original which in most people's opinion is one of the best games on PlayStation 2 but here's the thing locking difficulty modes behind a deluxe version aka pay DLC is dumb and you see this back here that's like a little image on the on the monitor from breath of the wild breath of the wild they're the same thing and I hated it they locked master mode behind paid DLC which is basically hard difficulty here they're locking the easiest difficulty mode which might be you know you might say who cares the easiest difficulty mode well for gamers like me that don't have a lot of time sometimes the easy difficulty mode are fun if you just want to experience the story you have to pay extra for that for a game that came out back up PlayStation 2 I got to be extra for an easier mode today stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid again I will never agree with charging extra money for difficulty modes be it harder or easier it's dumb it's a practice I want to see eliminated but it's not gonna go anywhere because they keep tagging it in with other content releases why did master mode work for breath of the wild because they tied it in with a DLC packs that ended up including extra story content I know the first DLC came in didn't but you know people bought the combo bundle for that so I think it's stupid I think this just is not a fun direction for the industry not positive for consumers most you guys aren't gonna end up caring because you either bought we're gonna get the DLC for breath of the wild anyways or already have or like you weren't interested in this game in the first place so who cares but this is starting to become you know coming up more and more and more often in the industry where difficulty modes are something we pay for and isn't just part of the game I'm not sure I can get behind that but you know what that is today's here's the news not as obviously big and dramatic as the one yesterday when we had the massive stuff going on with switch pro which I don't basically everyone skipped you but hey you know what not every episode of here's the news is gonna have all the banger news but there's some good stuff in your fear of Microsoft fan all that jazz shimmy guy would tend to a fan like sales on the e-shop all right folks I'm Nathan Robert Jansson Nintendo Prime and I'll catch you guys in the next video