 Today we have a bevy of news for you guys, 3 really big stories and then a ton of release states and updates on games already known or even games not known that now have release states. I'm really excited about all of this stuff, I don't want to waste too much of your time so we're going to hop right in after I remind you that we are on our road to 150,000 subscribers so if you want to drop a like and subscribe to the channel and ring a link on the bell icon so we can notify you of every video we upload that would be greatly appreciated but without further ado let's jump right into our very first story and this deals with Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet. Now normally when this comes out we're talking DLC, we're talking something crazy but today we're actually talking about concept art that was released by CDEC today and what's really interesting about this concept art is it's just the one image that really stands out to me, there's like a handful of them but I'm going to ignore the other handful but I will put a link down in the description if you would like to check those out. But we're going to focus on this one image because it shows a gorgeous scene that never really fully manifest that well in the actual game. It just showed their ambition may have exceeded their capabilities or their execution or maybe just the switch can't do this, that's a common thought all the time, the switch isn't that powerful or whatever but it does show that visually they have an idea and a concept of something that they haven't really fully realized in the series yet and it does show that there's likely to be a lot of visual improvements especially on the next generation switch in terms of just the ambition of what they want to do with Pokemon visually especially the environments, obviously we know the Pokemon are all simple designs but yeah it'll be quite interesting to see what they do and hopefully that this concept art maybe gives us an idea that there's somewhere else they'd like to go from a visual perspective and they just quite haven't gotten there yet. Now that we're done with that we're going to move into a new section that we're going to call Quick Hits because it's a bunch of news that we're going to rattle through super quickly but it's all very very notable. So Turok 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch and other platforms this November, whole bunch of changes to it, you guys are seeing clips of it right now, looks utterly fantastic, I played a ton of Turok 3 back in the day, really glad to see this coming to Nintendo Switch this November, we don't have an exact day yet though, Steamworld build not to be confused with Steamworld Dig although it's the same IP, it is coming to Switch this December 1st and it does look utterly incredible, your building stuff, your building houses and villages and it just looks really really good and I always love the Steamworld art direction. Next up we have Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster was announced for Nintendo Switch but we don't have a release date on this yet, they did say that they will give us a release date in the future, okay I mean duh, it looks pretty solid, they redid some of the visuals obviously still maintaining that older style, I'll admit this is one of those Star Wars games from my childhood I didn't actually play so if some of you played Dark Forces let me know how good this game is and if I should check it out. Next up we do have an update for Sonic Frontiers, this was announced at Gamescom opening night live, the final horizon free update was announced and it does drop next month and what's really interesting on this by the way, September 28th we do have a date on this, it features a brand new story and the ability to play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy and what they are calling a climatic free update so whether this is the last update coming or the climax of the story, I don't know but anyways I love Sonic Frontiers so it's really nice to see a free update coming, not to be outdone, Sonic Superstars has some updates as well, it's arriving October 17th which is three days before Mario Wonder and Spider-Man 2, also the original design for Sonic will be playable and we're not just saying like oh you know Sonic on the Sega Genesis, I don't know we're talking about this rabbit looking weird thing, I don't know, it's playable in the game as a character, pretty interesting, maybe it's just a skin we'll have to wait and see, next up we do have another date for something that's not a game but it's game related and Tears of the Kingdom is likely to be involved and that of course is the game awards, it was announced for December 7th, we're not going to dive too deep into the game awards now we'll wait until they have all their nominees and their categories and all of that but it's coming back and yeah Tears of the Kingdom is probably up for Game of the Year so that's going to be one to pay attention to, next up we have the Metal Gear Collection Volume 1 on Switch has gotten some tech detail updates confirmed and man people are not happy about this so it's 720p in handheld, 1080p on you know docked that's fine but it's 30 FPS and only on switches at 30 FPS and what makes people really mad about this is this isn't a remaster, this isn't anything fancy that they're doing, it is a collection of old Metal Gear games and on old systems like the PlayStation 2 the games were 60 FPS, why they're not 60 FPS on Switch makes no sense to anyone but their 60 FPS on all of the other platforms really feels like they just didn't put any effort into the Switch ports at this time I don't know it's why people are mad it doesn't make any sense these are not new games they're old games whatever, next up last but not least Switch does remain the second best-selling console for the month of July in North America reportedly its unit sales were pretty close to PlayStation 5 and well ahead of the Xbox series there's nothing notable for game sales really for the month of July beyond remnant to overall being the best-selling game in July and of course we're just talking about North American sales here so Switch is still selling pretty well but obviously it's in a decline it is down year over year for the month of July so that's going to do it for our quick hit section that's going to do our next big story and this deals with DeNuvo you know gamers favorite DRM to prevent piracy oh boy you already know that this is going to be a rough a rough one right it's it this is going to be tough to talk about so we're here over on the official website for DeNuvo versus Project Renewable Empowered it says DeNuvo by Erdato I don't know I can't pronounce their name now registered as an authorized Nintendo Switch middleware game developers and publishers can now access the video game protection software in the middleware section of the Nintendo developers portal so DeNuvo the global global leader in providing security solutions for video games on desktop console and mobile platforms is pleased to announce its protection technologies are now available on the Nintendo developer portal as authorized by Nintendo Switch middleware the Nintendo developer portal offers documentation tools and other useful materials we're not going to go through this whole announcement we're just going to get to what this the intent of DeNuvo is on Nintendo Switch if you can't even figure that out so it says that DeNuvo is the first security partner added into the portal where developers are now able to access Nintendo Switch emulator protection a revolutionary technology to protect games launching on Nintendo Switch from piracy even if a game is protected against piracy on its pc version the version released on Nintendo Switch can be emulated from day one and played on pc therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the pc version this can happen with any of the numerous games available on switch regions saw it happen with tears of the kingdom and Pikmin 4 by blocking unauthorized emulations on pc studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window which is the most important period for monetization well for most games nintendo has uh evergreen status with their games anyways the nintendo switch emulator protection will ensure that anyone wishing to play the game has to buy a legitimate copy as with all other DeNuvo solutions the technologies integrates seamlessly into the build toolchain with no impact on gaming performance i feel like they say this all the time then we later find out it actually does impact performance anyways it then allows for the insertion of checks into the code which blocks gameplay on emulators as gamers we know firsthand how piracy negatively affects the gaming industry most gamers don't really complain that much about it but outside of leaks you know leaking story details and stuff and we're thrilled to be part of the nintendo developer portal so that we can provide the latest technology to help fight this issue for nintendo switch players and developers as the ceo so that's that's cool and it is true nintendo has had a big issue with this stuff but i want to go to this article on this website i've actually never been to says make use of and they go a little bit into what DeNuvo is and why do gamers hate it because this is obviously something that if you don't know the history of DeNuvo as nintendo switch players it's good to know why gamers really don't like it it's got nothing to do with preventing you from pirating games has to actually do with hurting legit consumers while people who pirate games continue to pirate them pretty much without issue uh so this goes into you know popular things like competitive multiplayer so what is drm and anti-cheat software when it comes to video games cheats have always been around from spawning tons of weapons and grants of auto to seeing through walls while hacking fps games like counter strike and call of duty video game cheats allow players to gain unfair advantage by exploiting the game's core mechanics an anti-cheat tool is a piece of software integrated into the game to control cheating by detecting cheaters now this is not really what we're worried about right now we're actually worried about piracy but we'll get to that in a moment anti-cheat software either works from the user mode or the kernel mode drm or digital rights management software on the other hand deals primarily with protecting the game's code and dlls from being hooked hijacked or tampered with in any way ensuring integrity in the game code and preventing piracy so what does DeNuvo do DeNuvo is primarily a drm software additionally it's an anti-cheat solution stops people from cracking and pirating games and also identifies and bans cheaters in multiplayer games DeNuvo is most famous for or in the video game circle infamous for its key feature anti tamper protection when implemented as drm and employees techniques like obfuscation and anti debugging implementations virtualization and encryption on the video games core files to fortress the video game from being reverse engineered and cracked by video game piracy groups it also implements online activation in hardware signing to prevent unauthorized access to the game and this has become a very controversial point in the DeNuvo process that has hurt legit consumers DeNuvo is an anti-cheat and an equally tough nut to crack we're not going to worry about the anti-cheat stuff we're going to go down here and we're going to why do some people hate DeNuvo DeNuvo anti-cheat uses kernel level drivers to function so if someone manages to exploit it to gain access to the kernel they can access almost everything stored on your computer so there's that it's not very good at having security for your whole thing but but there's other things almost all games that are protected by DeNuvo anti tamper suffer from increased loading times lower frame rates and other performance issues so even though it claims it has no hit to performance games using DeNuvo have longer load times lower frame rates and often resolution issues yes folks DeNuvo has shown an impact on performance despite their claims it gets worse DeNuvo can leave developers with a hefty bill so it's not always good for developers as well because it is a service that you must pay to use and yeah it knows the video game anti-cheats and DRM are obviously here to stay one thing it's not noting in here and I can say this based on my personal experience dealing with DeNuvo is that sometimes you can't even access your video game if you don't have an online connection now I don't know they're going to use this technique on Nintendo Switch since it's a portable system that isn't always meant to have an internet connection but it is notable on PC yeah sometimes you just can't play your game well hack people who are playing a hacked version of the game that removed DeNuvo are not only seeing better performance they're also able to play it offline so I'm it's not necessarily been a good thing in the industry seen by most gamers but it is something that we do have to deal with and now it's coming to Nintendo Switch here's hoping they somehow made it better I don't know that they can but let's open uh we need to get to our next story here and we're gonna end with a happier story or at least some sort of a positive note here talking about a next generation Nintendo Switch game from Nintendo this time a first party next generation game that's right we actually have news um something what is it the next Xenoblade game that's right Xenoblade would likely be something vastly different says the series director and we're getting this news over on Nintendo everything so according to Xenoblade Chronicles director Tetsuya Takahashi assuming that we see another entry in the series which it's been growing so I assume we will they've in fact they released two of them plus the definitive edition um switch that's three games just didn't get x I don't know what's up with that anyways a message from him was included in a recently released Xenoblade Chronicles 3 soundtrack so this is official stuff here's what the translation reads rather than playing on defense going on the offense change rather than maintain this is a stance I have continued to hold for 30 years if there is another Xenoblade which they're clearly will because it sells well it will likely be something vastly different from what came before in style and in music I would like to make my next goal something that will betray everyone's expectations in a good way of course this leads it to you guys to figure out what sort of experimentation is actually going to be happening with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 like I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I'm the biggest Xenoblade you know aficionado and know everything about it despite dabbling in all the games but man it is exciting to think that you know what even with Xenoblade they think there's ways it can innovate and you know just surprise our expectations in the future and obviously the next Xenoblade games since the last one just came out this year believe it or not well at least the DLC right uh yeah we're obviously going to see this next one on the next generation of hardware and I can't wait to see what monolith soft can do with that kind of power anyways folks thank you so much for tuning in it's been a long road to get to the end of this video be sure you turn into our podcast tonight or if you're watching this tomorrow go back and watch our podcast that happened at 8 p.m. central time on the 26th or whatever day it is a 23rd sorry 23rd and you know what we got switch force on there we got Andres restart Nick would know okay flam is back we got Eric back on the show it's going to be good times so hopefully you guys go check that out as we talk about Charles Marnay's retirement and more we have actually quite a bit to talk about catch you guys in the next video