The SAG-AFTRA Strike | The Video Game Pals Episode 23

With the end finally in sight for the SAG-AFTRA strike, the pals decided it was time to unpack the boycott and it's affect on the industry. We've also got updates on Red Dead Redemption 2, PUBG on PS4 and the SNES Classic's release. PLUS: Hear the tale of Captain Sean Bartley! -What we’re playing -Watch Until Dawn on Pals Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9A1Kt_PksA -RANDOM QUESTION OF THE WEEK DA NEWS: 1. Trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F63h3v9QV7w 2. #thompsonwasright about the Aratibox: http://mailchi.mp/ataribox/first-look-ataribox-design-36241?e=316bc4d53e 3. Bluehole has announced that the team working on PUBG has been spun off to a new subsidiary called PUBG Corp: http://www.pcgamer.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-gets-its-own-company-pubg-corp/ 4. PUBG Corp CEO says they're "in talks" with Sony for a PS4 version of the game: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-27/one-man-s-journey-from-welfare-to-world-s-hottest-video-game 5. Volition, the studio behind the Saints Row series, laid off over 30 people from it’s 200+ person team this week including general manager Dan Cermak: https://kotaku.com/big-layoffs-hit-agents-of-mayhem-developer-volition-1818844285 The Chinese Room, the team behind Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has been forced to lay off all of its staff: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-25-the-doors-close-on-the-chinese-room-for-now 6. Nintendo has changed the terms for their YouTube partner program: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/29/16384236/youtube-nintendo-livestream-monetization 7. Moving on to SNES Classic news, we’re happy to report Reggie made good on his word and the SNES Classic launch went off pretty smoothly!: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/29/16387592/nintendo-snes-classic-retailer-launch As an added bonus, just like they did with the NES Classic, Nintendo has posted the manuals for all of the console’s games online, including EarthBound’s 135-page strategy guide, which has historically sold online for a LOT of money: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/29/16384230/super-snes-classic-manual-earthbound-strategy-guide-mario-zelda 8. Eurogamer did a little investigative reporting by cracking open an SNES Classic to look at its innards, only to find…an NES Classic: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-snes-mini-teardown-confirmed-recycled-nes-mini-tech 9. 11 months after the strike began, video game voice actors represented by The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (hereafter referred to as SAG) reached a “tentative agreement” last Saturday with the 11 companies that they had been striking against: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/25/16363872/video-game-voice-actors-strike-sag-aftra-agreement Meat and Potatoes: Since this story started before the Video Game Pals, we haven’t really covered it outside when it affected Life is Strange: Before the Storm. Now that the dust has settled, what do we think about this strike? 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 Andy: twitter.com/Tiger_Millions Thompson: twitter.com/RelicVampire