30 in 60 (An Over 30 Clan Podcast) Episode 36 - A Year Of Re

EPISODE 36
Date 1/5/2019

Full show notes/timeline here: https://pastebin.com/Q97HQEej
Check for a link in the description of this podcast.

Intro Music and Outro Music
Offical Over 30 Clan Theme Song "Fuck Yeah!"
Written by BlackDeath produced by Undergunned Productions
https://soundcloud.com/undergunnedproductions

HOSTS
BlackDeath
Nubs
NukeLaCoog
T Nitti

Pre show bullshit

SHOW START

CLAN INTRO / SOCIAL MEDIA CONTACTS
www.over30clan.com
Twitter and Facebook @over30clanusa
www.twitch.tv/over30clanusa
soundcloud.com/over30clan
iTunes search for "over 30 clan"
Our blog GamerViews blog.over30clan.com


STATE OF THE CLAN
FNG BREAKDOWN FOR December
128	registered
38	applied
10	pc
7	xb
21	ps4

FINANCIAL REPORT

These totals include funds generated from our Holiday Fundraising Sweepstakes
https://go.rallyup.com/over30clan2018

$225 raised so far half of which will be given away

PAYPAL 	$421.68
BANK 	$636.05
Total 	$1057.73

Paid bills in December
$50 gift card (Holiday Sweepstakes Fundraiser Winner)
$50 gift card (Holiday Sweepstakes Fundraiser Winner)
$99 Humble Bundle 12 month extension sub for clan key giveaways

GIVEAWAYS - December
Two $50 GameStop gift card winners for the Holiday Sweepstakes Fundraiser
We had a total of 27 winners for our Wheel of Giveaways event.  Each of these people won a game to redeem on Steam

KnotPunny
EvilNaxxy
PepperNY
alX Newfie Xla
sightsRhot
Nighthawk04
delrey
Trios
ajnin
ponnojonno
Gsp
Latiron
Tweety_Byrde
Oprey
TheZeroDivide
cWolf
Tre982
alltimescumbag
T Nitti
HellCat71
sneakypi
bookemdann0
DKBossman
Sonick
NukeLaCoog
Vindadu13
Asiangamergirl1


STEALS AND DEALS

Games with Gold
Celeste ($19.99 ERP): Available January 1 to 31 on Xbox One
WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship ($49.99 ERP): Available January 16 to February 15 on Xbox One
Lara Croft: Guardian of Light ($14.99 ERP): Available January 1 to 15 on Xbox One and Xbox 360
Far Cry 2 ($19.99 ERP): Available January 16 to 31 on Xbox One and Xbox 360

Playstation Plus
PlayStation 4 players can get Steep, an extreme sports video game from Ubisoft, and Portal Knights, a co-op 3D sandbox action RPG from 505 Games.

Also in the lineup is Zone of the Enders HD Collection, which consists of the original Zone of the Enders game and its sequel, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, and Amplitude, a delightfully trippy music video game and a sequel to the game Frequency, on PlayStation 3.

PS Vita players can also pick up Super Mutant Alien Assault, an arcade action-platformer, and Fallen Legion: Flames of Rebellion, an intense action role-playing game.

As of March 8th, 2019, Sony will no longer offer free PlayStation 3 or PS Vita games as part of the PS Plus lineup. This change won’t affect any games you may have already downloaded or will download before the deadline. As long as you remain a PS Plus member, you’ll always have access to those games.

Steam Specials
Kingdom Come: Deliverance $29.99 till Jan 7
Terraria $4.99 till Jan 7
RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard $19.49 till Jan 7
Kerbal Space Program $19.99 till Jan 10


UPCOMING CLAN EVENTS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

-Over 30 Clan Secret Santa Review
-Holiday Fundraiser Review
-New Forza 7 Racing Series to kickoff tentitively Jan 25 @ 11pm EST
-We'll likely be closing registrations sometime in Jan or Feb for website upgrades.

GAMING NEWS / RUMORS / MAIN TALKING POINTS:

Video Game Sales on the Rise
-80 per cent of UK video game sales are now digital, new figures have revealed.
The Entertainment Retailers Association said of the £3.86bn generated by the video game market in the UK in 2018, £3.09bn was from digital and £770m was from physical sales.

That digital revenue figure, which includes microtransactions, DLC, subscription services, pay-to-play as well as individual game sales, is up 12.5 per cent year-on-year, while the physical revenue figure is down 2.8 per cent. Overall, the total game sales revenue figure is up 9.1 per cent year on year.

-Comparibly the US saw 2018 video game sales (physical and digital) up 15% from 2.979 billion (2017) to 3.411 billion dollars (2018).  Video game hardware saw a rise of 13% from 817m to 925m. Video game accessories had the most dramatic boost up 29% from 2017 with 956m vs 740m in sales

*source https://www.statista.com

New Console contender?
-New console is in the works to compete with the Big 3 (Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo)
Slightly Mad Studios CEO Ian Bell has revealed the company is developing a standalone console. Exact hardware and software specs haven't been announced yet, but Bell provided a few details.

Bell mentioned that the Mad Box will probably release in about three years and support up to 120 FPS for VR play. "It will support most major VR headsets and those upcoming.  Bell added the specs will be equivalent to a very fast PC two years from now," . "We're in early talks with manufacturers of components so we can't say much more right now other than we have the designs specced out in detail."

Bell added, "We think exclusives are 'exclusionary' but given that we'll be shipping a cross platform engine to all developers it will be their choice. As of now we have no plans to pay developers 'incentives' to exclude other hardware vendors." He further explained that Slightly Mad Studios thinks "the industry is a little too much of a monopoly or a micro oligopoly," and The Mad Box aims to bring some healthy competition to the console race, which for years has pretty much exclusively been a three-way battle between Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation, and Nintendo's hardware.

Bell added that early design builds for the Mad Box will be revealed in about four to six weeks. The Mad Box is planned to release worldwide and be competitively priced in comparison to other upcoming consoles. "We have multiple investors already offering the required funding for us to see the product to completion, but it's still early days and we're looking at the best offers right now," Bell wrote.

More about Slightmad Studios
Founded in 2009 and based out of the UK – we’re the award-winning team behind the Project CARS franchise, and era-defining games such as the GTR® series, Need For Speed® Shift™, Shift 2 Unleashed®, Red Bull Air Race – The Game, and many other top-tier games.

The state-of-the-art MADNESS Engine fuels the most advanced simulation games in the world. It also powers cutting-edge simulation adaptions for our partners and clients, from automotive to mining, autonomous vehicle AI to tailor-made VR showrooms, from off-the-shelf solutions to full bespoke simulation.

New Xbox Controller?
-Xbox may see another new controller.  In June 2017 Microsoft filed for two new patents related to force feedback and adjustable force triggers regarding a controller design.  Both patents were granted in Dec 2018.

Wrap Up
-How was everyone's holidays?  Best gifts / stories?
-Worst gifts ever?
-Worst video games of 2018
-Best video games of 2018