Take-Two's Private Division & The Future of AA Games | The Video Game Pals Episode 34

Take-Two has announced an exciting new initiative focused on AA games by AAA talent and the Pals are digging in to what this might mean for the industry! PLUS: What the heck happened at PSX? The show: -Reader Mail -Random Question of the Week Da News: 1. PSX Announcements: http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/09/all-the-news-and-trailers-from-psx-2017s-opening-ceremony 2. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Windows PC May 2018 https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/10/16759800/street-fighter-30th-anniversary-collection-switch-ps4-xbox-pc 3. Overkill Software, the team behind the Payday series, released a trailer for their upcoming game set in the Walking Dead Universe: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-12-11-overkills-the-walking-dead-game-resurfaces-with-cool-new-teaser-trailer http://www.pcgamer.com/overkills-the-walking-dead-is-a-four-player-co-op-shooter-where-you-fight-zombies-and-other-humans/ 4. Atari has “indefinitely” delayed the AtariBox: Sourced by email 5. Nintendo Switch has sold 10 million units: http://variety.com/2017/digital/games/nintendo-switch-10-million-console-sales-1202636150/ 6. PUBG finally came to Xbox this week and sold over 1 million copies in its first 48 hours on the platform: https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/15/16781354/pubg-free-xbox-one-x Meat and Potatoes: Take-Two Interactive has announced a new publishing label called Private Division which will be focusing solely on AA games from some really exciting talent. What does this mean for the industry and the future of AA games? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPoHP9PJeU http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2017/12/14/take-two-announces-new-publishing-label-private-division.aspx http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/04/23/patrice-desilets-new-game-explores-mankinds-greatest-achievements.aspx Outro Music: "Swanky Ballroom Party For Sophisticated People" by Adhesive Wombat - @adhesivewombat The Video Game Pals is The Pals Network's weekly video game podcast where we talk about video games, the news and how it all makes us feel. The Pals: Sean: twitter.com/SeansSoapbox Pete: twitter.com/Loud_Pete Thompson: twitter.com/RelicVampire Andy: twitter.com/tiger_millions Peggy: twitter.com/MoiraiOW