Greetings From 22: Google Stadia’s No Good Very Bad Week

EPISODE SUMMARY

In our first episode of the Greetings From News Recap, we cover the biggest news from 11/12/19 through 11/26/19. We talked about the Half-Life Alyx announcement, Google Stadia’s rough launch, and the announcements from Xbox’s conference, XO 19.

EPISODE NOTES

Half-Life: Alyx Announcement Sources

“Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx, its first flagship VR game,” by Sean Hollister, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/18/20971514/valve-announces-half-life-alyx-its-first-flagship-vr-game
“Half-Life: Alyx Announcement Trailer,” by Valve, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2W0N3uKXmo
“Half-Life: Alyx demands more than a VR headset – it also needs 12GB RAM (minimum),” by Darren Allan, TechRadar: https://www.techradar.com/news/half-life-alyx-demands-more-than-a-vr-headset-it-also-needs-12gb-ram-minimum
“Data Suggests Most Steam Users’ PCs Aren’t Ready To Play Half-Life: Alyx,” by Nathan Grayson, Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/data-suggests-most-steam-users-pcs-arent-ready-to-play-1840037617
“Half-Life: Alyx Is ‘About the Same Length as Half-Life 2’,” by Matt Kim, IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/21/half-life-alyx-is-about-the-same-length-as-half-life-2“
“The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx — Behind Closed Doors at Valve Interview,” by The Game Awards, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9K0eJEmMEw
“Half-Life: Full-Life Consequences: Free Man,” by ICTON, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULWgEnnmcv4
“Freeman’s Mind: Episode 1,” by Accursed Farms, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQhfkpX9bc

Google Stadia Has A Rough Launch Sources

“Stadia Is a Glimpse Into the Future—But Maybe Not Yours or Google’s,” by Alex Cranz, Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/stadia-is-a-glimpse-into-the-future-but-maybe-not-yours-1840000235
“Google Stadia Review,” by Kevin Lee, IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/22/google-stadia-review
“Microsoft’s Xbox streaming app isn’t official yet, but it’s already way better than Google’s new video game service,” by Kevin Webb, Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-project-xcloud-xbox-google-stadia-streaming-comparison-cloud-gaming-2019-11
“Chromecast Ultra Overheating,” by armadeon7479, reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/dzd6v8/chromecast_ultra_overheating/
“Stadia – Official Launch Trailer | Now Available,” by Stadia, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry72b_fIKAk
“Frank Cifaldi twitter thread about Stadia,” by @frankcifaldi, Twitter: https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1196880617369145362
:Google Points Finger at Developers For Stadia Games Not Streaming at 4K,: by Patrick Kleppek, Vice: https://vice.com/en_us/article/bjwqb4/google-points-finger-at-developers-for-stadia-games-not-streaming-at-4k
Stadia Launched With One Exclusive Game, and It’s Not Very Good: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywa8d7/stadia-launched-with-one-exclusive-game-and-its-not-very-good
“A day later, many Google Stadia founders still don’t have their launch codes,” by Sean Hollister, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/19/20973139/google-stadia-launch-codes-founder-unique-name-cloud-gaming
“Google says you might have to wait to play Stadia, even if you preorder,” by Jay Peters, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/22/20927575/google-stadia-founders-edition-sold-out-premiere-edition-release-date

Xbox XO19 Sources

“Everything Announced For Xbox One And PC At X019”, by Chris Kohler, Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/everything-announced-for-xbox-one-and-pc-at-x019-1839867694
“Everything Announced at X019’s Inside Xbox Conference,” by Jonathon Dornbush, IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/11/14/everything-announced-at-x019s-inside-xbox-conference
“Microsoft Reveals All 24 Playable Games At XO19,” by Gavin Sheehan, Bleeding Cool: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-reveals-all-24-playable-games-at-xo19/
“Classic Final Fantasy Games Coming to Xbox Game Pass In 2020,” by JNyla, Evostrix: https://evostrix.com/classic-final-fantasy-games-coming-to-xbox-game-pass-in-2020/
“Rare reveals its next game, Everwild,” by Michael McWhertor, Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/14/20965184/rare-everwild-game-announced-xbox-one-windows-pc-x019

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