Blizzard of Cash

From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.

Vital Statistics

Blizzard of Cash

Date: August 8, 2011

Written and Performed By: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, and Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders and Jeremy Petter

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Music: Bradley Rains

Edited By: Jeremy Petter

Thanks To: Russ Pitts, Alexander Macris and Penny Arcade

Produced By: Graham Stark and Paul Saunders

Today

A soul in search of answers that aren't free. Find out more on today's CheckPoint.

Stories

• The 3DS gets a large price cut, slashing prices by a third.
• SONY purchases Sucker Punch studios to the surprise of everyone since we thought they were already owned by Sony.
• Modern Warfare 3 will not include the teleporting "knife lunge."
• Blizzard announces Diablo 3 features including the controversial Real Money Auction House.
• Paul has more information on how much more money we will be paying Blizzard for this service.
• A Duke Nukem patch will let players carry more than two guns.
• Over 50% of Netflix streaming usage is on consoles, and over half of that traffic is on the Wii.

Coming Up

Capcom gets the rights to snoopy to make a social game.

Trivia

• The end credits and Coming Up segments were done in 8 bit style "to save on bandwidth costs" because most people watch Netflix via the Wii a non-HD platform.