 Hey everyone, I am Nathan and this is Prime News, but before we get into the news, I want to remind you to enter our Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch Bundle giveaway through the Gleam.i link down in the description. It is a 50,000 subscriber giveaway, so when we hit 50k, we'll announce the winner of that giveaway. That being said, please enjoy this news, drop a like, and subscribe for more content. Yesterday we talked about how there was going to be a stream that would feature something from RuneFactory 5, but they did announce that RuneFactory 5 will indeed be landing in 2020, and there will be bonus content given to you if you happen to have RuneFactory 4 special save data on your Nintendo Switch. So basically, if you want everything you can possibly have in RuneFactory 5, you need to buy RuneFactory 4 special. You don't know what the content is, they didn't elaborate, so it was kind of a bit of a letdown after hyping up RuneFactory 5, but hey, at least we know it is for sure a 2020 title. Starlink Battle for Atlas was a game that released last year on multiple platforms but seemed to see its most success on Nintendo Switch. That being said, it's still underperformed. In fact, there will be no more toys releasing for the game, which I think is something most people who own Starlink Battle for Atlas expected, but there will be a lot more content. Starlink has released a big update on the official blog for Starlink Battle for Atlas and here is what it had to say. Pilots of the Starlink Initiative Thank you so much for the warm response to the new Starlink content announced during the February Nintendo Direct. With the announcement of new content arriving this April, we felt that it is important to provide an update on the topic of physical toys. Starlink Battle for Atlas has been a passion project for us from the start, and we are incredibly proud of the modular Starship technology we have developed and how well players have responded to it. Despite the immense and continuous support from our players, the sales for Starlink Battle for Atlas fell below expectations. Consequently, we recently made the decision to not release any additional physical toys for the spring update and in the future. As part of our effort to do right by our passion and dedicated community, we are currently hard at work on our biggest update to the game so far and are pleased to tell all of you that there will be new digital ships, pilots, and weapons to collect. Additionally, there will be a ton of free content to expand your games such as additional missions, challenges, and new activities to engage in throughout Atlas, including content that was inspired by community suggestions such as outlaw racing. We are very grateful for the support we have received from players around the world and can't wait for everyone to get their hands on the next big update launching this April. So yeah, there's a big update launching this April. It has that racing stuff. Now you guys remember when Star Fox Racing Rumor was kind of rolling around and then we saw this and then it turned around and it was like, oh, that's supposed to bend that Star Fox Racing Rumor. Actually this was inspired after the game came out. So at least that's what I got out of that outlaw racing was inspired by the community. It wasn't something they had been dreaming of before Starling came out. That being said, maybe that puts the Star Fox Racing Rumors back in the limelight. I'm not sure. All I know is I'm glad to see this update still coming. I'm glad to see that they haven't abandoned this game entirely despite the fact that the sales are what they once were. I am curious what the sales breakdown is because if the Switch version, as I suspect, was the leading sales getter, the future of this franchise may very well lay with Nintendo and Ubisoft deciding to make this an exclusive IP to Nintendo moving forward, especially if they're going to continue to have Star Fox melded into it. Again, I really like Starling Battle for Alice. I think it's one of the best games on Switch, really on any platform. But I think the Toys To Life thing was probably the biggest factor that sunk it because the Toys To Life stuff is kind of a relic of last gen. So it was really weird when they announced it with Toys To Life. Now it's not going to have it anymore. At least you can still get your R-Wings with Star Fox. It would have been cool to get the whole collection of Star Fox pilots. But hey, it's whatever. At least we're still getting free content updates. And they haven't abandoned the game entirely. And hopefully we will get a sequel at some point in the future to at least appease Nintendo fans like myself that really, really enjoyed Starling Battle for Alice. We're going to briefly talk about Pokemon Go. And if you know we're bringing up Pokemon Go, it means it must have just a new milestone, right? Well, yeah. Since its launch in 2017, Pokemon Go has had $2.5 billion in revenue. To put this in perspective, Pokemon Sun and Moon made about $650 million in revenue. Pokemon Ultra Sun Ultra Moon made about $350 million in revenue. And Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee made about $600 million in revenue. If you do the math, that means those three titles over the same time spend that Pokemon Go was out made $1.6 billion. Pokemon Go, meanwhile, as a free-to-play mobile game, made $2.5 billion. Yeah, Pokemon Go is a big deal. It's still a big deal. The community is still growing. They just announced three new Pokemon Go Fest for this year. It's a big deal, folks. Pokemon Go is not going anywhere. So buckle up and get ready. Because Pokemon Go in 2019 is actually better than Pokemon Go's ever been. It's quietly become a very good game that is starting to deliver on a lot of those initial promises that it didn't back in 2017. This next story is actually going to be our last story for today. Because I don't really want to talk about anything else after this one. Because this is an evolving story. But there are rampant claims that Microsoft and the Xbox Division in particular have rampant sexual harassment basically happening throughout the whole of the company. And forgive the language I'm about to use here. But one quote put it this way that every woman inside Xbox except one had been called a bitch at some point during a professional meeting. So this is an ever-evolving story. And if you're wondering what happened, essentially there's been this giant email chain with HR that has gone public at a certain publication. We'll put a link down in the description for it if you want to check it out. And Microsoft hasn't commented publicly on this yet. It is known that Phil Spencer at least publicly did a huge speech, a big 45 minute speech not too long ago about how he hit him as the leader of Xbox trying to make a more inclusive team, trying to signal boost women within the company. So it's unknown if maybe Phil Spencer was above the fray and not aware of what was going on below him. Which believe it or not that can happen. What is clear in this email chain is that Microsoft is investigating this sexual harassment claims and the head of HR herself is actually taking this personally under her wing and having every female who has a complaint come to her personally so she could try to deal with this herself. She said she brought this attention to the upper brass at Microsoft, which would obviously include Phil Spencer. And according to her in the emails, they were appalled to find out about this. So it's unknown how far up the chain the sexual harassment awareness went. What is clear is that there were so lower level HR people that did kind of sweep it under the rug. In fact, some of the lower level HR people were actually present during some of the sexual harassment, which some of the claims in the email chain include having women during meetings with HR even sit on men's laps. There's also where a woman that was working in the tech specific field was suddenly being treated as if she wasn't assistant and only being allowed to schedule meetings and bring coffee for people. Stuff that, again, when you are a programmer isn't necessarily your job. Obviously, assistants and all of that are there to handle that kind of thing. But as a female programmer, there weren't any other male programmers being asked to do such things. So very interesting that this is happening. Obviously, we know about the grander me too movement going on, which is something we haven't talked about at this channel because we try to stay out of religion and politics and these kind of social movements. But again, this is happening at Microsoft, a company that Nintendo is more buddy buddy with and working closely with. And it is something I wanted to draw some attention to because we can't just let these things go because letting these things go is how it actually got to this point in the first place. And I'm sure Microsoft isn't the only company in the world suffering from these problems in the tech space. There's been a lot of people in the wake of this coming out wondering when the other shoe was going to fall in the tech world because the tech world was kind of risen above the me too movement as if there's no problems there. But apparently like rampant sexism is an issue, not just in video games, but in the tech world. And it was notable throughout this email chain that this wasn't an Xbox division exclusive thing. This is something that is kind of permeating all throughout Microsoft. So it's hard to know how the culture was formed and how it's been maintained without certain people finding out. But that kind of is what happens when you are a multi-billion dollar company. Sometimes the upper brass just isn't aware. Now, I'm not going to say Phil Spencer did not know, absolutely. But it's very curious how stuff like this occurs and not even the head of HR herself with people that work under her knew about it. So it is notable that Microsoft is aware of the situation. They are trying to deal with it. I'm sure some heads are going to be rolling at the end of all of this. But it's very interesting to see Microsoft kind of get exposed like this in the midst of them getting ready for E3 and whatever is going to come next. Who knows, knowing Phil Spencer, assuming he's not involved in any of this. Personally, he might address this publicly as he's addressed in the past at E3 or something like that about how he stands with female developers and all of that and doesn't believe in this. And if he ever hears about this with anyone underneath him again, they will probably have their heads rolled. Because it's not a good look for Microsoft. It's not a good look for human beings in general. So you guys don't need to think about that story. You can go read some of the email chain if you would like so yourself. Again, it's an ongoing developing story. I don't know how much more coverage we're going to do for Prime News. What I wanted to bring it up is kind of like the highlight story of the day. Because it is, man, it's kind of bothering me. I don't know how we get to this point of being this sexist. But again, these are allegations right now. And Microsoft is currently investigating to see how valid they are. Anyway, folks, I want to thank you for tuning into Prime News. It's been a great time outside of that final story. And hey, you know what? I don't have much else to say after a story like that except subscribe for more content. It's been interesting, actually, the last week or so. We've had some, quote unquote, real stories like this that I don't actually enjoy covering. I wish stuff like this didn't happen. Hey, video game industry, tech companies, I don't care who you are. Get your crap together. We're all people, female, male, non-gender specific, whatever community you abide to. We're all people, we should all be treated with respect, especially when we're all doing the same job. Thank you so much, folks. I'll catch you in the next one.