newegg pls
Channel: Mike B aka Fony
Date: 2022-02-20

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Chapters:
00:00 Let's Do Some News!
04:23 Newegg and Tech Jesus have a kerfuffle
19:01 Best Buy adds a consumer demand tax
23:32 Nintendo advocating for piracy again
34:37 XFIRE (??) EXCLUSIVE: BF2042 Blame Game Begins
41:59 Bad Boy Bobby Basically Beats Babies
46:55 DFEH expand investigation, ABK gets salty
49:00 ABK QA VP discourages Unions in Co. Slack
56:02 MS goes on the charm offensive
1:01:05 Bioshock x Netflix
1:08:00 Google Stadia gets the white label treatment


Link Dump:

Newegg vs Gamer Nexus
Steve Burke aka Tech Jesus (TJ) 
https://youtu.be/CL-eB_Bv5Ik?t=772
TJ receives new motherboard from NE, does not open and returns. NE responds rejecting the RMA https://youtu.be/2fnXsmXzphI?t=221
“Says that the motherboard pins were damaged”
https://youtu.be/2fnXsmXzphI?t=405
JT sends NE to VM
https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1488670479002923013
JT finds out that NE sent the RMA under another name
https://youtu.be/CL-eB_Bv5Ik?t=458
JT goes to NE HQ
https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1493057387791540224
JT posts update “today” with video to follow
https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1494794554804944897


Wii U & Nintendo 3DS eShop Discontinuation
https://twitter.com/TheUncleAlShow/status/1494051154916958209

Fire Emblem, and others, go for insane money on ebay
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=fire+emblem+wii&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1



The Battlefield 2042 failure blame game has started
https://www.xfire.com/ea-acknowledges-battlefield-2042-failure-post-motem/






Bobby K donated to GOP PACs through secret shell companies
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/17/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-has-second-secret-company-that-donated-to-gop-campaigns.html


DFEH Expanding investigation against ActiBlizz
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/dfeh-sec-expand-their-investigations-into-activision-blizzard



Activision QA VP: Unions could “hurt our ability to create great games”
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-02-01-activision-qa-vp-unions-could-hurt-our-ability-to-create-great-games
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKc08ffUUAIZ5AG?format=jpg&name=large


Microsoft says it will open up the Xbox store in light of the Activision Blizzard deal
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/09/microsoft-activision-blizzard-call-of-duty-deal/


Epic Games invests in film animation studio with metaverse motives
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/epic-games-invests-in-film-animation-studio-with-metaverse-motives


Netflix + Bioshock
https://twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1493631216788066310
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/bioshock-movie-neflix-1235093896/


Best Buy locks GPUs behind $200 paywall
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/best-buy-totaltech-geforce-rtx




Team17 tried NFTs but didn’t even make it a day
https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/78019/team17-worms-nft-collection/

https://twitter.com/Team17/status/1488618187109408780



Google Is Reportedly Trying To Salvage Stadia Under New Name Google Stream
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/google-is-reportedly-trying-to-salvage-stadia-under-new-name-google-stream/1100-6500333/