Adam is back, but Cliff is missing. Which means that Cliff doesn't really know what to write here. QuestionsVinny: What is your personal Mount Rushmore of video game characters?Eduardo Desperado: Who would be in the Nintendo version of Magic Mike ?Operator Jack: Do you guys miss the days of renting out video games from shops before deciding to buy them?OptimistPrime: Turn any video game character into a celebrity chef and tell us what their top selling dish would be?Cheap/Free GamesGame Pass:Bat...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 28 min
Adam is on the final episode of his podcast hiatus and we knew that with a topic as big as E3 we needed to call in an expert. And who better than a guy that live streamed the entire conference? Hey, oh, it's Vinny!Stadia:Price Point & Stadia in GeneralXbox:Jedi Fallen OrderBlair WitchCyberPunk 2077Game Pass & PC Game Pass OverallBriefly Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga12 MinutesGears 5New Elite ControllerXCloud and ScarlettHalo Infinite Bethesda:Fallout 76Wolfenstein Young BloodOrion?D...
Jun 13, 2019•1 hr 36 min
NewsI mean, we barely talk about it, but it's totally going to happen either way, just wanted y'all to be aware.We talked about the new Pokemon Sword & Shield game, the new Magic the Gathering series coming to Netflix, Battalion 1944 is a new competitive online WWII shooter that looks interesting, Game Pass is officially coming to PC, Cuphead is coming to Tesla cars and Minecraft Story might be going away...forever.QuestionsVinny: What was the first game experience you had that made realize ...
Jun 06, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Warhammer: Chaosbane (PC, XBOX, PS4) - June 4 - $50Hell Let Loose – Steam Early Access (PC) – June 6 - $30Journey (PC) – June 6 - $15Octopath Traveller (PC) - June 7 - $60Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PC, PS4, XBOX , Switch) – June 18/25 - $40Luna (PS4, PS VR) – June 18 - $15Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled (PS4, XBOX, Switch) - June 21 - $40Heavy Rain (PC) - June 24 - $20Super Mario Maker (Switch) - June 28 - $60My Friend Pedro (PC, Switch) – June - ???
May 31, 2019•16 min
NewsLots of rumors are starting to hit as we lead up to E3! Borderlands 2 might be getting new DLC, Ubisoft might be launching a subscription service, Death Stranding has a release date, Playstation exclusive Journey is coming to the PC, Konami announces the games we'll get in the Contra Anniversary Collection and Nintendo is gamifying sleep now. QuestionsVinny: With Next Gen almost upon us, what are each of your top 3 games of this generation and why? EddieSpaghetti: With E3 just days away, whi...
May 30, 2019•1 hr 30 min
News We saw Detective Pikachu!The Overwatch Anniversary Events just started, get loot, access to old brawl events and more!Overwatch just added Workshop support as well that allow for custom game typesDauntless is a F2P Monster Hunter clone with cross play on all systemsMS & Sony are partnering on cloud gaming...but nobody told Sony GamesThe Ouya store is still open?QuestionsVinny: What is THE game do you feel got you into gaming?JoeCloeslaw: What is a game that proved to be a hidden treasur...
May 23, 2019•1 hr 8 min
NewsArcade1Up has a new Mortal Kombat cabinet out, with upgraded monitors, sticks and improved paint Diablo, Warcraft and Warcraft 2 on out on GoGNew games for the upcoming Sega Mini have been announcedEMUParadise and other ROM sites are shutting downFighting GamesWe run through over two decades of fighting games, from 1976's Heavyweight Champ to 1999's Super Smash Brothers!QuestionsJoeColeslaw: What's Is your go to retro game to play? One that will never get old!
May 21, 2019•1 hr
NewsRed Dead Online is out of beta and has a ton of new content, World of Warcraft Classic gets a release date, the Division 2 gets new DLC missions, Division 2 raids won't have matchmaking and Beat Saber is finally leaving Steam Early Access (and getting a level editor!)QuestionsVinny: Even though its only a little less than a month away, I've been thinking about E3 a lot! Question this week is what is your favorite get hype moment at any E3 conference? (P.S. you can watch along E3 with me and ...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Riot and Gearbox are having what sounds like massive internal issues, with Gearbox fighting accusations of harassment and an employee walkout and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford arguing on Twitter with Claptrap voice David Eddings.In better news, EA Access is finally coming to the PlayStation, Microsoft is trying to cut down on harassment on Xbox and the upcoming Master Chief Collection will have cross progression between the Xbox and PC (and maybe cross play!)QuestionsVinny: With the excitement of ...
May 09, 2019•1 hr 16 min
NewsBorderlands 3 got a gameplay reveal today and we have the details, Valve is building their own (very expensive) VR headset, apparently there is going to be a Saint's Row movie, Razer is expanding into the kitchen, somebody important isn't coming to the Minecraft 10 year anniversary party, Sonic has human teeth and Epic Games is buying Psyonix!QuestionsVinny: What game or franchise would you like to see become a games as a service type game?EddieSpaghetti: This or That:Oreos vs AdamDylan vs S...
May 02, 2019•1 hr
Lots of Switch remasters coming out this month, plus Rage and two other cool looking games that might not be on your radar!Life is Strange 2: Episode 3 (PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – May 9 - $8Team Sonic Racing (PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - May 21 - $40Rage 2 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) - May 14 - $60Assassin's Creed III Remastered/Liberation Remastered (Switch) – May 21 - $40Resident Evil Origins Collection (Switch) - $60Resident Evil (Switch) – May 21- $30Resident Evil 4 (Switch) – May 21 - $30Resident Evi...
May 01, 2019•6 min
Adam and Dylan talked about the new Switch, Fortnite devs are working way to much, Anthem content gets delayed, nobody is streaming Apex Legends anymore and the Sea of Thieves Anniversary update is just days away!Grab Transistor on the Epic Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/transistor/home Get World of Goo on May 2nd: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/world-of-goo/home QuestionsVinny: Sometimes it's too easy to harp on the negatives in gaming culture, so what are s...
Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Hey, there is a new Xbox One coming out next month and Cliff has decided we should call it the Xbox One SADE, but pronounce SADE like the singer of Smooth Operator. Microsoft will be letting folks bundle Game Pass and Xbox Gold into a single package, which is a pretty good deal if you want to pay monthly. Sony announces a bunch of specs that might very well describe their next system, or maybe not! It's honestly anybody's guess at this point. Capcom is releasing a huge new arcade controller that...
Apr 18, 2019•1 hr 41 min
Dylan is at the Happiest Place on Earth (well, next to Adam's studio anyway) and so it's just a duo today!Overwatch is going co-op again with the Storm Rising event, Super Meat Boy is missing it's launch date for a great reason, review bombing Borderlands just didn't work out, Apex cheaters are getting banned at a hardware level, Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild are getting VR support, Twitter is making in-game dogs more pettable and Resident Evil 2 is letting you unlock rewards for real lif...
Apr 11, 2019•1 hr 29 min
We are firmly on the Borderlands 3 bandwagon, talking release dates, new vault hunters, at least a billion different guns, which edition to buy (including one perfect for Adam) and whether the game will feature cross platform co-op. On top of all that, Borderlands, The Handsome Collection and Borderlands 2 VR are also all getting free updates!There was, of course, some non-Borderlands 3 news too. Best Buy listed some surprising (and not so surprising) games that we are hoping to see actually com...
Apr 04, 2019•1 hr 27 min
Falcon Age [PS4, PSVR] - April 9 - $???Hearthstone: Rise of Shadows [PC, iOS, Android] – April 9 - $49.99Shovel Knight Showdown [PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch] – April 9 - $9.99Table of Tales [PSVR] - April 16 - $???Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster [Xbox, Switch] – April 16 - $49.99My Time At Portia [PS4, Xbox, Switch] – April 16 - $39.99World War Z [PC, PS4, Xbox] – April 16 - $39.99Jupiter & Mars [PSVR] - April 22 - $Mortal Kombat 11 [PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch] – April 23 - $59.99SteamWorld Quest [Sw...
Apr 01, 2019•34 min
Buckle up folks, it's a long one!There are a ton of new games coming out for nearly every platform and I think they all got announced or got a release date this week! SteamWorld Quest, nine new PSVR games, Wolfenstein: Youngblood and eight new ID@Xbox games coming to Game Pass!EA laid off nearly 4% of their workforce (mainly folks in marketing, publishing and operations) and we want to wish them the best of luck finding new jobs. Sony is going to stop selling PS4 game codes at retail and that is...
Mar 28, 2019•1 hr 43 min
We talk at length about Google Stadia, the new streaming platform that Google announced at GDC. We also talked about Lucasarts coming back (and then found out after the fact that it's probably not true, whoops!) Nintendo is releasing a TON of games on the Switch including a surprise Zelda game and Oculus revealed the Rift S.We answered a bunch of great questions (some about video games, some not) and dug into some great cheap and free games coming out in the last half of the month.
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 32 min
Hans got to play the new Sterns Munsters Pinball, the Playstation Classic has been hovering around $40 for a while now (and might be worth that?), a guy found a NES Championship cart worth $15-20k in his attic, a very specific Super Mario Bros cartridge sold for $100k, new games are available on the Switch if you subscribe to Switch Online and Sega is asking for recommendations on games for the new Sega Mini.After the news we take a deep dive into Beat 'Em Ups from Kung Fu Master to Double Drago...
Mar 18, 2019•1 hr 10 min
The Master Chief Collection is coming to PC (and Steam!), the OG version of Diablo is back and up on GOG, the Dead Cells DLC is coming out way sooner than we thought, Bioware is patching bugs and players are pissed, Devil May Cry 5 has a scene that is only censored on the PS4 and a couple of new Octopath games are in the pipeline.Plus we answer a bunch of great questions (some that are about breakfast), talk cheap and free games, look at a new Small Bites and throw Spiro in Troll Corner.
Mar 14, 2019•1 hr 16 min
It's another great week in podcastland! We talk about a fun writer reveal for Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, Days Gone effectively has two full length movies stuffed inside of it, the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition might actually be a thing, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Switch Edition: Plus DLC is a thing (although we still aren't sure how), if you aren't playing Apex Legends or Fortnite what are you actually playing, Anthem is not very stable on the PS4 and RIP PS Vita.We also answer some grea...
Mar 07, 2019•1 hr 27 min
A bunch of new games coming out this month, enjoy! - Dead or Alive 6 [PC, PS4, Xbox] – March 1 - $60 - ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove [PC, PS4, Xbox, Switch] – March 1 - $19.99 - Devil May Cry 5 [PC, PS4, Xbox] – March 8 - $60 - Kirby's Epic Yarn [3DS] – March 8 - $40 - The Division 2 [PC, PS4, Xbox] – March 15 - $60 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice [PC, PS4, Xbox] – March 22 - $60 - Final Fantasy 15: Episode Ardyn DLC [PC, PS4, Xbox] – March 26 - $5? - Generation Zero [PC, PS4, Xbox] – March ...
Mar 01, 2019•22 min
It seems like it's been forever since the entire Byte Me Podcast team has all been in the same room together and so we let this one take as long as it needed to!We talked about the Pokemon Sword and Shield announcement, the new Detective Pikachu trailer, Dead Cells is getting free DLC this year, Kingdom Hearts is getting a board game, Anthem has a pretty solid 90 day plan, Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring (and being replaced by Bowser), Chex Quest HD has a new trailer, and Xbox games might be coming...
Feb 28, 2019•1 hr 42 min
Cliff was out having fun in the Florida sun in WDW and forgot to post this episode in the timely manner to which you have become accustomed. Please forgive him. :)Dylan and Adam held down the fort in Seattle, talking about free copies of AC: Odyssey showing up in Uplay for people who played it via Google Stream, Crackdown 3 isn't quite living up to people's expectations, the Anthem Day One patch is huge (but helps with load times), Skull & Bones is getting a TV show (before it even has a rel...
Feb 21, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Sadly we were without Adam again this week (but he should be back next week, just in time for Cliff to leave.) On the plus side, Cliff played enough games last week to make up for Dylan and Adam.There was a TON of news to talk about this week. Just before we started recording, Activision-Blizzard announced they were laying off roughly 8% of their workforce, or 775 employees. Apex Legends his the 25 million player mark and announces both the start of their first season and a Valentine's Day based...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Dylan and Cliff did their first remote podcast, recorded from the comfort of their respective houses!This week, we talked about Apex Legends, the new game from Respawn Entertainment, the developers of Titanfall. The good news is it's apparently a very solid squad based battle royale game set in the Titanfall universe. The bad news is that nobody is working on Titanfall 3. We also talked about how Anthem won't have guilds at launch, how 10 million people watched an EDM concert in Fortnite and how...
Feb 07, 2019•1 hr 23 min
Full disclosure, this is actually episode 5, but we screwed up the numbering. So just pretend that episode 5 is some sort of missing episode, lost to the sands of time!Hans, Cliff and Dylan get nostalgic for Disney in this months episode! But first, we talked about all the new Arcade1Up cabinets debuting at CES and the new Munsters pinball.We then took a deep dive, starting with Tron in the arcades, through early 80's when a bunch of future Sierra folks got started making games for the mouse, in...
Feb 01, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Adam is sick today, so it was just Cliff and Dylan holding down the fort for Episode 114. Cliff was also sick, but not as sick as Adam, so please excuse any sniffling and coughing. :)In our now playing section, Dylan told us all about a new board game he's been playing called Gloomhaven (https://amzn.to/2UtnuOO). Cliff is still busing playing Hellblade for Byte Me DLC Plays (http://bit.ly/2Wvpece), he finally got to play Rocket League via crossplay with everyone and got to try out the Anthem VIP...
Jan 31, 2019•1 hr 3 min
We dig into all of the games coming out in February (and there are a ton of them!) - Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (PC) – February 1 - $60 - Wargroove (PC, Switch) – February 1 - $20 - Salt and Sanctuary (Xbox One) – February 6 - $18? - Astroneer official launch (PC, Xbox One) – February 6 - $30 - Trials Rising (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – February 12 - $25 - Eastshade (PC) – February 13 - $20-25 - OlliOlli: Switch Stance (Switch) – February 14 - $15 - Civilization 6: Gathering Storm (PC) – Febru...
Jan 30, 2019•22 min
There is a new game in the SteamWorld Universe, the Switch is selling just fine (thank you very much), Anthem has a confusing demo coming out, Far Cry: New Dawn is adding some RPG elements and the Epic Store has some interesting ideas of how to get customers.Plus great (long!) questions and some cheap/free games!https://twitter.com/bytemepodcasthttps://www.facebook.com/bytemepodcasthttps://discordapp.com/invite/Fujr3J8https://bytemepodcast.com/humble/
Jan 24, 2019•1 hr 11 min
