Japanese photographer arrested for allegedly drugging and assaulting cosplayers, new Godzilla TV series, and Tifa Lockhart shows up at the Italian Senate. Also, new mixed media project from Goro Taniguchi, vtuber Dejiko, and Sailor Moon celebrates 30 years! Meanwhile in Japan, 70 year old man arrested for fighting 10 bikers, man breaks into school to retrieve items from 40 years ago, and the Konami Code Cafe?! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/animejamsession/support

Tonight, we celebrate and thank all of our community for 900 weekly episodes across 20 years of broadcasting. Thank you all for your support! We jump right into the gaming news of the week which of course includes the major bombshell that Microsoft is purchasing Activision-Blizzard. We discuss with our live chat what this might mean for the future of the company (and some of those retro titles in the vault). We also get into the frustration of how the "bad guys" might win, with a major payout for a CEO who destroyed the company with the toxic culture he created. We discuss this and much more on another week of the longest running podcast about video games online, Orange Lounge Radio!

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Bobby Blackwolf of The Bobby Blackwolf Show and Rob Roberts of Orange Lounge Radio went on Twitch on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, to discuss the biggest gaming news of the day: Microsoft's intent to purchase Activision Blizzard King.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 Online raised over $3.4 Million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which is a WR for speedrun charity marathons! Check out the show notes on VOGNetwork.com for links to the unofficial charts referenced regarding donations over time and how they were broken down by game. I was a host/donation reader for four games, and it had its ups and downs. Overall, it was a very positive experience and I hope to audition well enough to do it again in the summer. People ask me if I'm a speedrunner, and I used to tell them no...until now. It turns out that the Any% Major Glitches speedrun of The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past is super simple to pull off, and I teach you how it's done, courtesy of a bonus incentive on the final night of AGDQ 2022. Then we talk to Rob about the news that I didn't talk about. Don't let the fact that I didn't talk about the big gaming news distract you from the fact that Georgia defeated Alabama 33-18 to win the 2021 College Football National Championship! Go Dawgs!

And we're back from break! And there's so much to discuss! DJ Ranma S has a Hot Take on COVID and conventions, so you definitely want to check that out! Also, Taiyou Con's director steps down, AMC Networks buys Sentai Filmworks, RetroCrush is bought out, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World... The anime? Plus, new Urusei Yatsura anime, an international anti-piracy coalition is formed, and police officers are fired for playing Pokémon GO while a robbery was in progress! Meanwhile in Japan, a man is arrested for attempting to marry a woman with her knowledge, and The Great McDonald's Japan French Fry Shortage! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/animejamsession/support

We reflect back on 2021 and some of our games of the year, as well as some of the lower points of the year in gaming. We look ahead to 2022 with some predictions for the year, then get into our gaming weeks. We also discuss the news headlines, which include a major acquisition of a mostly mobile gaming company by Take Two. Were they really worth that much, or are there some crazy casual games we aren't considering enough? Our live chat joins in the discussion on another week of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio!

We get a viewer comment that lists their favorite games that came out in 2021 - and there were a lot of great games that came out! Stern Pinball showed off the Rush Pinball machine in detail, and I threw my wallet at them. At CES, Sony revealed PlayStation VR 2 - but not a release date or price. E3 has cancelled their in-person show for 2022, conveniently blaming the current COVID variant. Then we talk to Rob about Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Xbox Game Pass, and Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster.

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Playstation VR 2 was revealed, along with a quick tease of a VR game in the Horizon universe. What do we think about the prospects of a new Playstation VR unit? We get into all this, our gaming weeks, and more, on a cable company failure abbreviated edition of Orange Lounge Radio.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 is this week, and I've got three shifts as a host/donation reader! I'm hosting the first half of Final Fantasy XIII on Tuesday, Lost Judgment on Thursday, and on Saturday I have Earthbound and Fallout New Vegas. Hype! Stern Pinball teased a Rush pinball machine...More next week! Tim Sweeney responded to a user on Twitter explaining that the Epic Games Store can't offer gift cards because they don't take as much of a cut from developers as Steam does - which shows where Epic's priorities are. John Madden might be best known as a football coach and commentator, but he was also an influential game designer, shaping sports video games forever. I talk about what it's ACTUALLY like to play video games like Sonic The Hedgehog, Cuphead, and Beach Buggy Racing 2 in a 2015 Tesla Model S - and what you can and can't do while the vehicle is in operation. Then we talk to Rob about our favorite games of 2021.