1. GDD Industry News
November 14th, 2017

2. Past Week's Releases Game Title Platform Release Date Cost Doom NS
November 10th
$ 60
Batman: The Telltale Series
November 14th
$ 25
L.A. Noire
PS4, XBO, NS
$ 50
Rocket League
$ 20

3. This Week’s (And Next’s) Releases
Game Title
Platform
Release Date
Cost
Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon
3DS
November 17th
$ 40
School Girl/Zombie Hunter
PS4
Star Wars Battlefront II
PC, PS4, XBO
$ 60
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim NS
The Sims 4
PS4, XBO
$ 50
Lumo
November 20th
$ 30
Superbeat: Xonic
November 21st
The Inpatient
Resident Evil Revelations 1 and 2
November 28th

4. News
CD Projekt Red Will "Probably" Return to World of The Witcher - It Just Won't Be The Witcher 4
EA to Acquire Respawn Entertainment
Nintendo plans to make 25 million to 30 million Switch game consoles next year
Niantic’s follow-up to Pokemon Go will be a Harry Potter AR game launching in 2018
Io-Interactive confirms next Hitman game in development
Play Overwatch free between November 17th–20th [PC, PlayStation 4, XBOX ONE]
Take-Two plans to only release games with 'recurrent consumer spending' hooks
Ace Attorney Switch game coming FY2018 : Trial Minutes

5. News - StarCraft 2 Free to Play
Campaign: Wings of Liberty Free (+ Heart of the Swarm if you already have WoL)
Commanders: Free to lvl 5
Ranked: Free Unlock
SC2 has had a consistent 1.8 million to 2 million monthly userbase the entire year.

6. Game Shamelight

7. Official EA Statement Digital Deluxe Doesn’t contain all unlocks
Pay-2-Win Lootboxes still in the game
Estimated 40 Hours to unlock Darth Vader, 40 more for Luke
Several 10,000 hours to unlock all of the content
Official EA Statement

8. Aftermath Reduced hero costs by 75% AMA on Wednesday
Campaign reward was lowered by 75%, it gave enough for one of the minor heroes
AMA on Wednesday
Estimated 70k + pre-order cancellations thus far
Reviews aren’t super favorable
Pre-orders were difficult to cancel, many found the return button missing
Cooldown on earning credits in Arcade Mode