Eleven Years Of Early Access

After eleven years in Early Access, 7 Days to Die hits 1.0! Steam is upgrading its demo scene, Esports are headed to the Olympics, Google buys Reddit, and how does an MMO survive with only 60 players?

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
01:31 Quench the Cwench
03:18 Wide-body Pedro
06:19 Steam updates demos
08:15 Valve employee missed demos
08:56 Games need demos
09:20 Steam demo hub
10:00 Reluctant Valve videos
11:12 ExoCross mixed reviews
13:01 Play Trackmania with us!
13:16 Arcade vs sim racing
16:57 A Hollow game title
17:21 Hollow Survivors
18:16 USB only WTF?
19:17 Vampire Survivors at home
20:53 7 Days to Die: Eleven Years Of Early Access
21:47 Console upgrade path
23:51 Region blocked
24:52 Splintered Sea update
25:36 Shark FX
26:20 Besiege MMO
27:50 Shroud of the Avatar updates?
29:00 30 active players
29:35 Expensive MMOs
30:45 Getting in-game QUICK
31:39 How many streamers?
32:44 NVIDIA tattoo
33:56 NVIDIA open-source drivers
34:52 Problems with Proton
36:42 Fanless AMD 7900X
37:30 Olympic eSports
39:44 No FPS in the Olympics
41:39 Age requirements to compete?
42:41 What games would we watch?
43:07 Platform accessibility
44:01 Pedro is 2 cool for E sports
46:03 Google buys Reddit
48:59 Have you ever used Bing?
51:19 RIP Venn Tech Tips
52:10 The problem with BBS
53:09 No Reddit alternative
54:27 Rediscovering old podcasts
57:16 From NVIDIA to AMD