Delivering the news as of 9th May, 2022. Today's transfer includes more Babylon's Fall drops to one concurrent player, Nintendo of America contract workers treated poorly, Fornite cloud streaming sidesteps Apple's Appstore ban, GTA 6 has a release window, and plenty more! Welcome to The Dead Drop, your secret cache of game news delivered safely and securely to your podcast player.

Sources for the stories in this episode:

Story 1: Babylon’s Fall drops to one concurrent player on Steam last week.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/babylons-fall-dropped-to-just-one-concurrent-player-on-pc/
Story 2: Growing discontent of workers at Nintendo of America due to conditions and lack of progression
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-america-contractors-full-time-complaints-report 
https://youtu.be/XdBUNgFFws4?t=3300 (I also discuss this on the Game ‘n Watch Podcast)
Story 3: Fortnite cloud streaming on phones after Epic Games and Microsoft side-step Apple’s ban
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/fortnite-xbox-cloud-gaming-apple
Story 4: Nvidia to pay $5.5 million after hiding revenue made from selling direct to cryptocurrency miners in their “Gaming” report
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059930/nvidia-sec-charges-fine-settlement-gaming-gpu-crypto-mining
Story 5: Xbox Cloud outages prevent gamers accessing offline content
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/7/23061588/xbox-having-more-issues-affecting-cloud-gaming-digital-titles
Story 6: Grand Theft Auto 6 release rumoured to be second half of 2024
https://tech4gamers.com/gta-6-and-other-release-dates/ 
Story 7: Supermassive Games’ follow-up to Until Dawn, “The Quarry”, will include a death rewind mechanic
https://www.gamesradar.com/the-quarry-is-getting-a-death-rewind-mechanic/ 
Story 8: “Unpacking” coming to Playstation on May 10th
https://www.eurogamer.net/gentle-puzzler-unpacking-gets-playstation-release-date

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