What We're Playing Cliff: Blue Prints Dungeons of Hinterburg News Xbox Showcase ROG Xbox Ally ROG Xbox Ally X Clockwork Revolution Grounded 2 Keeper The Outer Worlds 2 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Aniimo Aphelion At Fate’s End Beast of Reincarnation Cronos: The New Dawn Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Final Fantasy XVI Planet of Lana II Super Meat Boy 3D There Are No Ghosts at The Grand Indie Highlight Easy Delivery Co: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3293010/Easy_Delivery_Co/ Recesses: h...
Jun 12, 2025•42 min
What We're Playing Cliff: Doom: The Dark Ages, American Arcadia Colby: Crime Scene Cleaner!!! Dylan: Montana News Nintendo Game Chat Will Require a Subscription and a Phone Number Indie Highlight Shroom & Gloom ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/Shroom_and_Gloom/) Relic Abyss ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3017760/Relic_Abyss/) Questions Goopknight — It’s a bit early, but any picks for GOTY yet? Cheap/Free Games Xbox Game Pass Monster Train 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) ...
May 29, 2025•58 min•Ep. 351
What We're Playing Cliff: Avowed, South of Midnight, Expedition 33, Dredge, Forever Skies Colby: AC Shadows Indie Highlight POGOPPL (demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640220/POGOPPL/ ) Beyond Sunset (demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1665260/Beyond_Sunset/ ) News We discuss price increases on Xbox and Switch. Questions Princess_Megan: What are your thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2? Including system capabilities, games, and price when compared to not only the original, but also ot...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 350
Usually, I talk about video games here, but everyone needs to go to AZ and visit Bedrock City, because apparently it's still open! What We're Playing Cliff: Diablo 4 Colby: Diablo 4, Indivisible, Adventures of Pip Dylan: Helldivers 2 News Lawbreakers is Back! PS5 Pro Games Are Coming Outlaws is Locking Missions Behind Season Pass Don’t Forget to Tip Your Game Devs Questions Joe Coleslaw: Podcast Follow Up Question: are you sure there is going to be an episode this week? Did anyone catch the ecli...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Ubisoft is calling this the future of gaming, we are less convinced. What We're Playing Cliff: Baldur's Gate Colby: Final Fantasy 6, Tales of Arise Dylan: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor News The FUTURE of Video Games New Parental Controls for Steam Finishing Every Mario Maker Level The PS5 Pro is Coming Game Pass for Minecraft Billionaires Calling Each Other Names Questions Primefan13: Thoughts on the Doom games? Cheap/Free Games Epic Games Call of the Wild: The Angler Atom Eve Xbox Game Pass Ligh...
Mar 23, 2024•58 min
We talk about all of the Xbox news from the last week and how it might impact the Xbox's future. What We're Playing Cliff: Baldur’s Gate 3 Colby: Persona 3, Monster Sanctuary News The Future is Xbox! I Mean, the Future Has to Be Something I Guess? There Are a Lot of Game Pass Subs We Are About to See a Bunch of New-ish Systems Finally, a Reason to Buy a PlayStation Portal Fallout is Getting a Very Cool Special Edition Questions Mansocks: What is the best video game movie or TV show adaption (and...
Feb 22, 2024•53 min
A new study from GLAAD confirms that we need more games with LGBTQ characters and storylines and anyone who says otherwise doesn't really game that much anyway. What We're Playing Cliff: Baldurs Gate 3 Colby: Elden Ring, Persona 3 News LGBTQ Inclusion in Video Games Everything Isn’t Great with the Dead Cells Team Some Xbox Games Might Not Be Just Xbox Games for Long Physical Games Aren’t as Expensive As I Thought Subnautica 2 is Getting 4 Player Coop Questions *monotone screaming*: I don’t have ...
Feb 15, 2024•55 min
What We're Playing Cliff: Baldur’s Gate Colby: Elden Ring, Persona 3 Dylan: Fortnite, Marvel Snap, Monster Train News Go Pirate Spec Ops: The Line Disney Buys $1.5 Billion Worth of Epic Taylor Swifts Boyfriend Wants Bring Back Backyard Sport You Know I Can’t Resist a New Controller New Rock Band Guitars, Let’s Go! Jedi Survivor Wins a Grammy Questions Joe Coleslaw: Accessibility minded keybinds and settings.... some games, (Palworld) make you long press a button, or mash a button, when not every...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 17 min
The folks that are making Dragons Dogma 2 think they know better than I do how I want to use fast travel. They are wrong. What We're Playing Cliff: Baldur's Gate Colby: Elden Ring, Palworld News Are You a Fan of Fast Travel? PalWord is Selling Like Hotcakes But Has Some Issues The Digital Only Future Has Begun Time to Get The Last Rock Band 4 DLC RTX Remix Will Update Your Old Games Questions Joe Coleslaw: Wakes up from 8 week Coma Oh, hey guys! Great show last week! Did you know Sea of Thieves ...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 4 min
It's been a while, but we are back! Get the lowdown on our GOTY picks! What We're Playing Cliff: Baldur's Gate, While the Irons Hot Colby: Elden Ring, Vampire Survivor News GOTY Best Selling Steam Games of 2023 Questions Primefan13: Thoughts on the big snow across the country? monotone screaming : What’s the next long-awaited game you’re hoping for in 2024? (i.e Titanfall 3, hollow knight silksong, etc.) Tr1pletrouble88: What would your favorite game character's new year's resolution be? and no ...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min
We've seen the GTA VI trailer and it looks great, but do we really have to wait until 2025 to play it? What We're Playing Cliff: Starfield, Cocoon, Meniko’s Night Market, Steamworld Build, From Space Colby: Biomutant, Soma Dylan: Planet Zoo, Steamworld Build, Tropico 6 News GTA6 Has Its First Trailer But It’s Probably Not Coming to PC at Launch Bethesda Is Giving Paid Content Another Shot I’d Love to See This Venn Diagram Apparently People Think Achievements Need Work? These Controllers Are Weir...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 27 min
We all can't wait to play a remaster of Ski Resort Tycoon, right? What We're Playing Cliff: Starfield Colby: Starfield Dylan: Dead Space, One Piece: Odyssey Extra Life https://bytemepodcast.com/extralife/ News Everything That Microsoft Owns Now Why There Aren’t Activision Games on Game Pass This Year Starfield is Doing Just Fine Minecraft Passes Another Sales Milestone Cow! Cows! Cows! The King Kong Game is Bad for a Reason Apparently, Nintendo is Just Too Nice of a Place for Unions Question Ext...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 22 min
There is a new PS 5 Slim coming out this year with a removable $80 hard drive. What We're Playing Cliff: Are there other games that aren’t Starfield? Dylan: Fortnite, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor Demo, Vampire Survivors News Has Anybody Ever Said “I Want an External Bluray Player for my PS5”? We Can Finally Stop Talking About Activision/Blizzard This Week. Maybe? Maybe Cloud Streaming Isn’t That Hard After All? Could Disney Buy EA? Add A Screen to Your Xbox Series S Both Epic and Telltale Are La...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Unity Is In the "Finding Out" Stage I BelieveUnity made some absolutely terrible changes to their pricing structure and the indie games dev community is pissed. What We're Playing Cliff: Graveyard Keeper, Starfield It’s Hans, Bitch: Tarkov, Starfield, Rolling Thunder Colby: no Colby only, Zuul (Hans) Dylan: Fortnite News Unity is Doing the Bad Just All of the Starfield News Get Your PC Warmed Up for Cyberpunk Lets All Pool Our Money and Buy Gearbox PS Plus ++ Game Noods Hans’ Stuff Questions *mo...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 58 min
Now that Josh is officially Dr. Josh, we had him back on the podcast to have him give us an update on his video game research. What We're Playing Cliff: Graveyard Keeper, Everspace 2 Josh: BG3 Dylan: Stray, BG3, Fortnite Dr. Josh! Man, This Isn’t What I Wanna Hear About Starfield Starfield Leaker Arrested Nintendo Has Sold A Lot of Switches The PlayStation Portal Pricing Has Been Announced So Much Balder’s Gate News Game Pass is Coming to Geforce Now MS Gives It Another Try in the UK Epics Got a...
Sep 01, 2023•2 hr 20 min
The CEO of Take-Two is the right price for Red Dead Redemption...we think he's wrong. What We're Playing Cliff: The Cave, Figment 2: Creed Valley, Vampire Survivors, Broforce, Graveyard Keeper, Crusader Kings 3 Colby: Scourge Bringer, Broforce Forever, Remnant 2, Sword and Fairy: Together Forever Dylan: Baldur’s Gate 3, Stray News The Take Two CEO is Wrong Stop Saving So Much Guys! EA Kills More Servers Maybe This Will Get the UK to Figure Things Out STRONGBAD! Questions Princess_Megan: What is ...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 27 min
The rumors tell us that there could be a new Switch this time next year, but does anyone really want one? What We're Playing Cliff: Toem, The Cave, Disney Illusion Island, Tribes of Midguard Colby: Remnant 2, Coffee Talk News It Looks Like We Are Getting a New Switch Awww, No More Immortals Fenyx Rising No. Just No. This Is Great News PS5 Beta is Fueling Slim Rumors This is Just Weird Questions DA VINSTER (Vinny): What is your favorite single player game you've played this year and your favorite...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Once again, we've influenced the universe and just by mentioning it have willed a Red Dead Redemption Remaster into existence. Probably. Cliff: HiFi Rush, Bramble: The Mountain King Colby: AC Valhalla, Arcade Paradise Are We Getting an RDR Remaster? You Can Now Get (Essentially) GamePass for Your Quest Not Many Folks Are Going to Get These Six Items in Diablo 4 Can We Just Stop Blaming Video Games for Things? Tarkov is Going to Sue Data Miners Apparently, All Xbox Games are Shooters or Multiplay...
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Microsoft officially delays the acquisition of Activision/Blizzard until October 18, giving them more time to work with the FTC and CMA. What We're Playing Cliff: The Big Con, Beacon Pines Colby: FarCry 6, Lego Star Wars, Arcade Paradise News MS Looking to Extend Their Deal with Activision/Blizzard Games with Gold is Gone GP Friends And Family is Ending Sony Signs Ten Year Deal with Microsoft You’ll Probably Be Able to Change Out the Battery on Your Next Switch Watch Your Heated Gamer Moments Fo...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 3 min
What We're Playing Cliff:The Big Con, Bramble: The Mountain King Colby: AC Valhalla, Arcade Paradise, FarCry 6, Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer Dylan: Diablo IV News Microsoft Fought the FTC…and Won There Are a Lot of Classic Games Missing Game Pass Got More Expensive Terreria is a Lot More Popular Than I Would Have Thought Colby Can Finally Just Live in RDR2 Sega of America Has a Union Now Questions Rdeacon: Do you fold your pizza when you eat it If you get to a point in a...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Xbox showed us every game we're going to be playing for the next 18 months and I'm hyped! Also, sorry about the audio on this episode, it sounded fine when we were recording, not sure why it sounds like Cliff is in the back of a dark cave. Cliff: Planet of Lana, Ravenlock, High-Fi Rush, Chicory: A Colorful Talke Colby: AC Valhalla, The Big Con Xbox Games Showcase GameStop Just Fired Their CEO PC Game Pass Coming to GeForce Now Diablo Has Microtransactions, Who Else is Shocked? Now You Can Play M...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 10 min
There are some great games coming to the PlayStation (and they'd like you to think they aren't coming to the Xbox or PC, but they are). Cliff: Dragon Age: Inquisition Colby: Shadow Warrior 3, Ravenlok, Eastern Exorcist, Fall Guys, AC Valhalla, Planet of Lana Everything From the PlayStation Showcase Nintendo is Not a Fan of the Dolphin Emulator XBOX Appeals the CMA Decision Sony Is Making Money with Playstation Plus Folks Are Buying PSVR2 Regardless of What You Hear At Least Activision Blizard is...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 36 min
May 25, 2023•58 min
For three quarters in a row, Activision/Blizzard have been raking in cash from folks on PC, leaving the filthy console peasants in the dust. What We're Playing Cliff: Dragon Age: Inquisition Colby: Redfall, Immortals Fenyx Rising, TMNT News Activision is Making More Money Off of PCs Than Consoles Biden Wants to Tax Crypto Xbox SSDs are Coming Down in Price Phil Spenser is Disappointed in the CMA Decision Riot Games is Gonna Have to Spend a Lot of Money Doom 2 RPG is Now on PC Give a Friend GameP...
May 11, 2023•49 min
The CMA (not the Country Music Awards) has decided that Microsoft can't buy Activision/Blizzard for the weirdest reason. What We're Playing Cliff: Dragon Age: Inquistion Rich: Garden Story, Grindstone, BoTW (begrudgingly) News The UK Has Blocked The Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard Merger This is Just the Beginning for AI Sony is Bringing More Games to PC, Because Money Sega of America is Unionizing RIP Waypoint Video Games Cost to Damn Much Money to Make Steam Has a Fancy New Notepad Questions Mis...
May 10, 2023•37 sec
I mean, there are a host of other reasons too, but mostly that joke. What We're Playing Cliff: Dragon Age: Inquisition Colby: Loop Hero, Ghostwire Tokyo, Immortals Fenyx Rising News Please Atari, Just Stop Do you have life insurance? Cuz if you do, you could always use a little more. Am I right or am I right or am I right, right, right, right? SquareSoft Is Going to Be the Last Company on Earth Talking About the Blockchain Aloy Kissed a Lady and Gamers are Fine with It I’m Sure Questions Rdeacon...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Diablo 4 has gone gold, but they've made some really strange decisions regarding the in-game maps. What We're Playing Cliff: Dragon Age: Inquisition Colby: Mass Effect 2, Immortality, Scorn, Mothered, The Long Reach, Loop Hero News Diablo Goes Gold and Is Missing One Key Feature I Guess I’m Going to Have to Start Playing Stardew Again Sega Has $750 Million Dollars? Apparently, Folks Love the Mario Movie Cheating Via Peripherals? I Don’t Need a New Controller, I Don’t Need a New Controller, I Don...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min
I promise that we didn't forget we had a podcast, life just kinda got in the way for a bit. Here's an episode we recorded like 3 weeks ago and never posted. Hopefully, that will get you through to next week.
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 16 min
What We're Playing Cliff: Warhammer: Chaosbane Colby: Mass Effect Andromeda, Red Dead Redemption 2, Warhammer: Chaosbane, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood The Diablo 4 Beta is Going Awesome! Wanna Play Video Games in the Olympics? FIFA Has No Idea What They Are Doing Gamers Aren’t Opposed, But They Should Be Are You Ready for Five More Years of Sea of Thieves? Your Yearly Reminder That Netflix Has Video Games Questions Rdeacon: If you had to delete one gaming system (atari, playstation 1, 2, Game Cube,...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 7 min
What We're Playing Cliff: Dreamscaper, Plague Tale: Requim Dylan: Blood Bowl 3 News I Believe This is Called F&$@ing Around and Finding Out If You Have Verizon This is a Great Deal Capitalism is So Dumb Quest 3 Gets An Upgrade CWA Files Charges Against Activision Wow This is an Ugly PS5 Questions Extra Life Icon: With the announcement of DragonBall Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4, what shows (anime or otherwise) would you like to see get an arena-style fighter? Mazelnut: what’s your favorite show or m...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min
