 Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Prime News. I got five big stories for you to end our week. That's right, this is the last episode of Prime News this week. It will be a series running Monday through Friday, releasing between 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Central Standard Time. If you guys haven't figured that out by now, I'm trying to be super consistent with this. If an episode ever gets delayed till later in the day, it's likely because there are just so many big stories that need to be covered in a certain way or updates to stories as they go. But I'm trying my best to get these out and hopefully have been enjoying them. This is an old series kind of reinvigorated and brought back. Speaking of reinvigorated and brought back, we have more giveaways going on. We're giving away two copies of Super Mario 3D All Stars. If you want to find out how to enter 3D All Stars. I did it again. You guys have been catching me on this all week. It's Super Mario 3D Worldless Bowser's Fury. We're giving away two copies of that through the link down in the description. I should say a link. The how to enter is detailed down in the description or in the pinned comment. Man, I'm losing it. It's been a long week. Let's get into the first story. Activision Blizzard recently did an earnings call with investors. Again, it's that time of the year. It's that time of the month where this is happening at all major businesses. And we learned a couple notable things that affect some Switch owners, but also gamers in general. And that is that Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 are not releasing this year. Now, they didn't say for sure they're going to come out in 2022. However, we've known about both of these games for quite some time. Now, if you're a Switch owner hoping that we could play these games, well, good news is Overwatch 2 was already announced for Nintendo Switch. And we got Diablo 3 on Nintendo Switch last year. So there's actually a lot of hope that both of these games are going to come to Switch. One of them already confirmed. Now, if you guys don't remember, if you own the original Overwatch, you already will get the PvP section of Overwatch 2 for free because they are focusing Overwatch 2 while there will be new PvP content, more so on PvE. So that is actually a big thing in Overwatch already and they're just expanding upon it in Overwatch 2. But again, 2022 is the earliest we're going to see either one of these games. And I frankly can't wait it feels like we've been stuck with Diablo 3 and stuck with Overwatch for quite some time. But then the pandemic hit. I think these games were supposed to come last year for completely honest. But you know what, the pandemic makes things a little bit worse for all of us. Next up, we have a bit of an oopsie from Dave Malloy. So, you guys remember, Ghost of Shishima came out last year for PlayStation 4 and then they actually did a big PlayStation 5 update for it. So now it's in that crisp 4k, 60 FPS is one of the best-looking games really of last generation and current generation for now. Well, here's the thing. He did an oopsie on his LinkedIn bio profile where he says, hey look, I'm working on the next Ghost of Shishima for PlayStation 5. Now he is the cinematic creative director of that game at Sucker Punch. And the thing is, some people were like, well it just says Ghost of Shishima. How do we know it's the sequel? Well all the PlayStation 5 updates have already been done and this stuff appeared in his bio in the last week which highly suggests we're talking about a brand new game, a sequel, all that jazz. So again, shouldn't be a really surprising we're going to get a Ghost of Shishima sequel but now we know it's probably an act of development over at Sucker Punch. So, hey, you know what? PlayStation 5 owners, the all five of you that exist, be hyped. Our next story is going to require some looking at the notes because we're talking about a Sonic game, a brand new, unannounced Sonic game that has a slew of leaks over the past months that have been all culminated over on, you know, much maligned forum NeoGaff. But I'll put a link down to the original post for all this. I'm going to go through all these details because people are starting to say that this is coming from reputable sources. Again, truckload assault and all that. Let's just get into it. The game is called Sonic Unlimited. And I think this news is all coming around because of Sonic Prime that was officially announced as a new Netflix series. So it's not a reboot of the Sonic series, but it is going to be set up as a new entry point. So if you've never played a Sonic game before, they're looking at this as, hey look, get into Sonic again with this game. It deals with the Hedgehog series, species and lore, and that this is actually directly related to the story that's going to be in Sonic Prime. So there you go, kind of a tease for Sonic Prime potentially. And also, hey, they're going to take that lore behind the Hedgehog itself and put it into this game. There is no boost, which is a common move in Sonic games that is not in this game. There is a new female protagonist. They are modeled after a hair, you know, rabbits, all that jazz. They use a spear and they look like a dragon somehow from Final Fantasy. I'm just telling you what it says on my paper here. I don't make these leaks in rumors. They're not from me. I'm not the source. I'm just the messenger. Eggman has a new minion, female minion called Tribot. The game should be released this year. However, pandemic, COVID, all that jazz, even though leakers are like, it could possibly be delayed to early 2022. There are no Wisps, but there are limited power-ups that exist through things called Moon Shards that only Hedgehogs can use. And that means Amy and Sonic can use these. Only Amy and Sonic are playable. Claims the gameplay feels really good, whatever that means. You know, we've had good and bad Sonic games over the years. So they're saying this lean store is good, but we've heard stuff like this before and then the games ended up just being so we'll see what happens. This game has a lot of story and the most cut scenes ever for a Sonic game, the most ever. The game is the deepest story why Sonic has ever been. And then Super Forms returns. So you know, you take this for what it is, I love Sonic games to a certain extent. I actually really enjoyed Sonic Forces a lot. Some people aren't really into that. Also Sonic the Lost World back on Wii U. You guys remember that game? Oh, I remember that game because I beat it. And I played that Skyward Sword level like crazy. Like I really liked the Lost World. It's actually my favorite Sonic game, believe it or not, beating out Sonic Adventures too. So it is what it is. I've been playing Sonic games pretty much as long as I've been playing Mario games. So it's really cool to see that hey, another one's coming, likely coming this year. And of course, when we saw the announcement of Sonic Prime, there's almost always like a show game linking that happens in the Sonic series. So yeah, that's a thing. I actually have to look at my notes again for this next story because I'm a little... You know what? No, I'm dropping the paper. I'm going to do this from memory and I'll fix it in post if I mess up. So Apple is rumored, reported, leaked to be working on a VR headset. And the reason we're talking about this isn't because oh look, we already have VR headsets out in the space. I'm not even that big in the VR. Although that Half-Life Alex experience was like the quintessential VR game. So yeah, we have all these other competitors in the space. Apple's looking to get in with their own headset. And what's crazy is Apple's not going for no low end. Not that we should expect an Apple product ever to go for the low end. They're going for the highest of possible ends. And that includes 8K lenses for each eye. That's right, 8K resolution on each eye. That's a 16K worth of resolution between both eyes. That is... That is insane. It's apparently codenamed the N301. And yeah, they're going to do some interesting things here. One version of it reportedly has 12 cameras on the head that not only track your hands for obviously some epic VR action, but also allow for really, really good augmented reality experiences by lighting the outside world in and then being able to overlay over it. We've seen things attempted like this with Google Glass and stuff in the past. But to see Apple kind of go full bore with this so you get amazing AR plus amazing VR in one headset. Should be interesting. How are they achieving this? Well, they're using the successor to their current M1 chip which is used in their pro and air laptops. So that's their new chip super fast. It's done really, really well for video editing and all that jazz. It's replaced intel processors in their stuff. But here's the thing. They're actually going to use the successor. So whatever's next in the M1 line in this and how they're going to achieve that 8K resolution per eye is essentially the only things that are going to be perfectly in 8K are what you're focused on. The things that are kind of on the edges or that your eyes are not looking at they're using special eye tracking technology will be a little bit more blurry. So they won't be at that full 8K resolution in the peripheral until you focus over to that area of the scene. This is actually a well known technology that already exists in VR and it's actually something that's been used in traditional games as well. That's why sometimes you'll see like the center of your TV when you're playing a game looks more focused than the outside edges. This is a well known technique in gaming. So to see it being taken advantage of when you're pushing 8K resolution to each eye individually. Yeah, that's that's a lot of pixels. So we'll see it's rumored to cost three thousand dollars at the consumer level to buy this headset. Don't know if the headsets even going to get an ounce this year come out but that's the thing that's out there. And yeah, I just needed to talk about it because our last story is actually kind of a sad one. So I'm going to go on to my notes for that last story because I just want to make sure that I don't mess anything up here. And I feel a little bit guilty having this story in a Prime News episode because these episodes are monetized and I don't want to be seen as someone who is profiting off of a tragedy like this. But it's just big news and I didn't want to do its own video and I have a lot of college stuff today. So I'm not sure I could get this video out anyway. So I'm just doing this at the end of Prime News. I think we need to have a little bit of a moment of silence because the Xenomax CEO Robert Altman has died. So let's just take a moment to just reflect. So he was 73 years old. So he at least got to live up into his 70s. He's also married to the original Wonder Woman for those who don't know. Lydia Carter. He founded Xenomax Media actually back in 1999 but before that he was actually a lawyer. So he was already pretty successful in life before founding Xenomax Media for people who want to know why we care about Xenomax Media as a gamer. They're actually the parent company to id software, Arcane Studios, Machine Games, Bethesda Studios and Tango Gameworks. So they've done a lot of acquisitions and stuff over the years and these acquisitions if we're honest have not actually impacted the quality of the games coming from these companies. So some people always weren't sure about Altman because of the way that he was getting control of these companies but he was really using his lawyer background to find all the legal ways to attain these studios and the studios actually ended up flourishing under Xenomax. Now we on those Xenomax itself is actually in the process of being sold to Microsoft for 7.5 billion dollars but still it doesn't change the fact that this is the person that made Xenomax happen that ultimately led to Microsoft's acquisition which is going to be decided on March 5th in Europe. I think that's what they're waiting on right now to finalize the sale. There's a there's a whole legal thing going on there about it. Now the big thing that I want to note here is that he based on how people are reacting various studio heads and all that he appears to have been extremely loved by the people that worked under him and he he was very personable during the pandemic. An email's been released we're not going to read the whole email but essentially he was constantly checking in on all the employees in the entire company calling them the Xenomax family and checking in on them during the pandemic to make sure they're doing well mentally to take a step back and enjoy some of the things we're getting back in the world like more birds and animals and more nature things as as there's less you know human interaction with with the wild and then also to be like hey you understand that's really hard to just stay home all the time and these stay at home orders in places like California are difficult and he just wants people to take mental breaks from the work they're trying to do at home so they can try to keep a healthy you know work at home versus you know actually being with your family at home life so he looked like he actually gave a shit about the employees that worked under him and that's probably why we haven't heard a ton of horror stories about the crazy crunch that happens at the companies at Xenomax control because the guy at the top the CEO himself actually valued people's mental health and that can't be understated because there's so few CEOs of major corporations that seem to give a shit about anything but the bottom dollar and he seemed legitimately care about them as people so you know thanks Robert Altman for what you've done both the good and the bad because obviously there's always going to be those bad stories out there they don't go away just because someone has passed away we're not sure why he died I'm not even going to begin to speculate on why he died because that is for the family to worry about but you know my thoughts and prayers I know people say who cares about that stuff you know what I'm religious so I care my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and any of the employees working under him that ended up being personally affected by this rest in peace man all right folks that's the end of prime news again a somber end I don't really feel like it's right to to dance my way out of here so we're just going to fade out thank you guys for tuning in and hopefully we have a nice figure uptake positive start to prime news next week