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Eight Bit

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Eight Bit is a show about gaming news, gaming hardware, gaming reviews, and pretty much anything that starts with gaming, hosted by Ian Buck and Ian Decker.
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Episodes

Eight Bit #119: Getting Jokes On The First Pass

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Nintendo's future DRM-strategy, Fallout 4, Twitch's new reduced delay setting, Candy Crush Saga on Windows 10, the high hardware requirements of the Oculus Rift and more!

May 26, 201554 min

Eight Bit #118: We Saw Their Details

Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with first time guest Cory Lau, discuss the DirectX multi-adapter, a Hearthstone milestone, a Magicka 2 trailer, the next Assassin's Creed, and reviews of The Talos Principle, Nidhogg and Hitman: GO.

May 11, 20151 hr 31 min

Eight Bit #117: The Dam(n) Level is Way Bigger

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Andrew Bailey discuss the failure of Ouya, Banjo-Kazooie's spiritual successor - Yooka-Laylee, Valve's rollback on paid mods, a fancy preview of Final Fantasy 15 on DirectX 12

May 04, 20151 hr 42 min

Eight Bit #116: Speaking of Tangents

Ban Iuck and Dan Iecker with guest Rai Tielle, discuss the Valve Workshop uproar, secret Microsoft technologies, the launch of Galactic Civilizations III in just a couple weeks, a Telltale Marvel game in 2017, the Trans community in gaming, plus reviews of Final Fantasy 14 and Hearthstone Blackwing Lair.

Apr 28, 20151 hr 36 min

Eight Bit #115: Fuzzy In My Brain

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Heartstone on smartphones -- finally, Valve's crusade against spam and fake accounts, Anita Sarkeesian in TIME, Firefly Online's progress, Star Wars Battlefront coming in the fall, speaking of which, that new Star Wars trailer, and a review of Hearthstone’s Blackrock Spire.

Apr 20, 20151 hr 5 min

Eight Bit #114: The Guy From Texas

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss how Five Nights at Freddy's is turning into a movie, the new Star Wars Movie Digital Collection, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a unique take on the video game industry, and a few unusual reviews - movie reviews!

Apr 13, 20151 hr 31 min

Eight Bit #113: Borderline Asphyxiation

It's April Fool's Week with Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with sort of guest Ryan Rampersad, with discussion on positive representations of females in games, a solution for no problem in Plays.TV, a pretty huge YouTube vulnerability patched just in time, the closure of OnLive, and many reviews!

Apr 04, 201552 min

Eight Bit #112: Pants Are The Worst

Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with first time guest Liv Klemek, discuss The Game of Thrones adaptation deviation, the false report of a Zelda live-action series, a Twitch security breach, and YouTube's next try at game-streaming, a strange Halo game that will only be available in Russia, with reviews on Never Alone.

Mar 31, 20151 hr 28 min

Eight Bit #111: Get Off Your Hipster Horse!

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Valve's customer support, Nintendo's plan to make games for mobile devices, age ratings for Play Store games, a pretty special musical puzzle game called Cadence, walkthroughs of Star Citizen ships and a review from Ian.

Mar 24, 201559 min

Eight Bit #110: I Can’t Roman Numeral

With guest Andrew Bailey, Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Star Citizen, Cibele - a game of developing sexuality, free Titanfall DLC, the demise of Maxis, and reviews of République, Enslaved, Trivia Crack and Crossy Road!

Mar 16, 20151 hr 18 min

Eight Bit #109: A Sneak Peak

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Nvidia's new Titan X and the Shield console, Valve's latest version of Steam controller, the release of Source 2 Engine, a little story about No Man's Sky, Sony's Morpheus timeline, the future of Microsoft and Xbox and so much more!

Mar 09, 201553 min

Eight Bit #108: Mr. Dad

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the Valve and HTC's new joint adventure with HTC's new Vive VR headset, a false advertising lawsuit aimed at Nvidia's 970's, broadband reclassification, the best games for change, Twitch Plays Halo, and more!

Mar 03, 201551 min

Eight Bit #107: When You Give A Dork A Cookie

Ian Buck and Ian Decker review viewer feedback and discuss crowd funded games, a Steam record set, Paranautical Activity's return to Steam, the balance in Evolve, an ambiguous TwitchCon and an Eight Bit First - a review of the Nvidia Shield tablet.

Feb 24, 201559 min

Eight Bit #106: Looks Like Cthulhu

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with guests Katie Reddemann and Sonja Richardson discuss Towerfall's new characters, stolen Uplay and Origin game codes, the new Daybreak Games' layoffs, Bethesda and Nintendo's return to E3 and reviews of Evolve and Game of Thrones Episode 2.

Feb 15, 201554 min

Eight Bit #105: Bus Full Of Crackers

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss (live on their Twitch stream) a suspicious backdoor into League of Legends accounts, Polygon's noble pursuit of gaming journalism, Sony Online Entertainment's sudden selloff and rebranding, The Legend of Zelda's new home on Netflix and the DICE Awards!

Feb 10, 201552 min

Eight Bit #104: Pretend To Be Whoever You Need To Be

Ian Buck and Ian Decker talk the greatest episode on The Nexus ever - TED #2, and everyone's new Twitch stream, and discuss Nintendo's revised affiliate program, a guide to game streaming online, Greece's new finance minister, the demise of Joystiq plus reviews of Mr Torgue's Campaign of Carnage and Tales from the Borderlands.

Feb 02, 201556 min

Eight Bit #103: Geofafa

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Civilization on the iPad - coming soon, Steam broadcasting's availability to everyone, Theme Hospital giveaway and Microsoft's comeback: Windows 10, Xbox and their vision of the future with HoloLens.

Jan 26, 201546 min

Eight Bit #102: Steeeeeeve!

Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with returning guest Katie Reddemann, discuss Notch's mansion housewarming party, safe Twitch music, Razer's virtual reality initiative, and a review of Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons from Buck.

Jan 20, 20151 hr 2 min

Eight Bit #101: Guestravaganza

Ian Buck and Ian Decker look back on 2014 and think about what 2015 will bring, and then some of Eight Bit's most popular guests, Sonja, Andrew and Savannah, stop by to chat.

Jan 12, 20151 hr 26 min

Eight Bit #100: Spoonerate It

On the last episode before New Year's, Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Humble Bundle charity contributions, Hearthstone on Android, news about The Witcher 3, and Notch's new mega-mansion, plus a review of Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 1.

Dec 21, 20141 hr 6 min

Eight Bit #99: Two Of You, One Of Me

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss pushing The Witcher 3 back yet again, Microsoft's timed exclusive of Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox One, EA's SimCity 2000 giveaway, Sony in China, the Steam holiday auction, Mass Effect comics and more!

Dec 15, 201454 min

Eight Bit #98: Betray An Underlying Insecurity

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss more Evolve news, Guild Wars 2 PVP updates, the next Assassin's Creed, a pretty musical Saint's Row trailer, and all of the exciting choices made at the Game Awards!

Dec 07, 20141 hr 9 min

Eight Bit #97: Cexhells

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the new Star Wars trailer and what it all means, then some news including a weird Oculus Rift experiment, Nintendo patents a way to print money, and some reviews on Codename Cygnus and the Forgotten Shores!

Dec 01, 20141 hr 3 min

Eight Bit #96: PETA Would Love This

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the Walmart PS4 scams, clever DRM-detection, the strange Hacker Barbie phenomena, reviews of TwoDots from Buck and the initial review of Far Cry 4 from Decker!

Nov 24, 20141 hr 5 min

Eight Bit #95: Shameless Plug V2.0

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss a real game developer on the show, and discuss the Telltale Game of Thrones game, the new Monument Valley expansion, Nvidia's GRID system, a VGA-alternative and a review of Smite.

Nov 16, 201456 min

Eight Bit #94: Melt The Frozen Heart

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the future of Destiny, more Dragon Age and Far Cry 4 trailers, a new StarCraft 2 game, and reviews of Among the Sleep DLC and the sort-of-mini-game, The Plan.

Nov 10, 201449 min

Eight Bit #93: Podcatch On Twist

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the new shirtless policy on Twitch, the release of Lucasarts games, impressive profits for Nintendo for the first time in years ,some Kentucky Route Zero news and a review of the classic, Audiosurf.

Nov 02, 20141 hr 11 min

Eight Bit #92: Fuzzy Wuzzy

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss a Steam death threat, some new GTX 900 series features, a new Titanfall game mode, the next Living World installment in Guild Wars 2, the new Google Knowledge Graph showing game information, the Golden Joystick results, and Buck's review of Badland.

Oct 26, 20141 hr 2 min

Eight Bit #91: Unicornitis

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss more GamerGate developments, a new Civilization: Beyond Earth cinematic, the winner of the League of Legends World Championship, a strange Half Life 3 ad campaign, a look back at Mass Effect and reviews of Assassin's Creed Pirates and Octodad DLC.

Oct 19, 201451 min

Eight Bit #90: That Is Very Very Satisfying

Ian Buck returns from St. Petersburg and joins Ian Decker to follow up on feedback and discuss the Xbox China launch, a new Myst TV show and game tie-in, the next step from the Niantic team and a review of Smash Hit from Buck.

Oct 12, 201452 min
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