[Grammar] In today’s IGN Daily Fix, [host mane] talks/reports ...

[kadioguy]

In today’s IGN Daily Fix, Sydnee Goodman talks PlayStation Plus free games for July 2020 and reports that an Xbox Series S (aka Project Lockhart) announcement is coming.

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Why are the blue parts used in the present simple? What effects do this use have?

I assume:

1. We can watch it as many times as we like. It is always there. So the present simple is appropriate.

2. This use is something like the 'commentary' use of the present simple. The writer is giving a commentary of IGN Daily Fix.

What do you think?

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http://feeds.ign.com/ignfeeds/podcasts/video/dailyfix

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

In today’s IGN Daily Fix, Sydnee Goodman talks PlayStation Plus free games for July 2020 and reports that an Xbox Series S (aka Project Lockhart) announcement is coming.

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Why are the blue parts used in the present simple? What effects do this use have?

I assume:

1. We can watch it as many times as we like. It is always there. So the present simple is appropriate.

No.

2. This use is something like the 'commentary' use of the present simple. The writer is giving a commentary of IGN Daily Fix.

Yes.

What do you think?

As you suggest in #2, summaries of narratives (books, articles, movies, plays) are customarily told in the simple present tense.

This might seem odd, but it's actually a very helpful way to do it.