Phil Spencer says that you might be playing xCloud on your TV as soon as next year via an app on your smart TV, bringing cloud gaming even closer to the masses. Other Video Game News Starting Dec. 1 You Can Play RDR2 Online for $5 Phil Spencer Hates the Console Wars as Much as You Do Firewatch Dev Bans Dota 2 Player Sony is Working on Their Game Pass Competitor Controller Usage Has Doubled on Steam You Can Play Geforce Now on Your iPhone Now PS4 Games Might Have Problems Hitting 120 FPS, But Not...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 210
It's looking like it's going to be hard to get an Xbox Series X or Series X well into the new year, maybe even as late as April! I am very sad.
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 42 min
It turns out that xCloud is also pretty handy for developers like Activision, who are using xCloud to make developing games during the pandemic even easier.
Nov 12, 2020•1 hr 26 min
In completely unrelated news, Todd Howard revealed a bunch of new information about Starfield, the next game we are going to see from Bethesda.
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 24 min
November sees the release of both the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 and a TON of new games!YesterMorrow (Switch, PC, Xbox, PS4) - Nov 5 - $20Dirt 5 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) – November 6 - $60PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC) – November 6 - $40Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered (PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, Switch) - November 6/13 - $40Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC) – November 10 - $60Yakuza: Like A Dragon ...
Nov 01, 2020•17 min
In a recent interview, Phil Spencer brought up the idea of a Google Chromecast like device that would allow you to stream xCloud directly to your TV, no Xbox required and we are HERE for it!
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 46 min
I promise, there is a bunch of real news this week too, but this weekend the Byte Me team raised over $5,300 for Extra Life and sick kids! Huge shoutout to everyone that donated and folks that played video games all weekend to help raise those donations!
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Microsoft has announced that some last-gen games (in this case Fallout 4) will run at 60 FPS on the Series X even though they are frame locked at 30 FPS. I assume this involved some sort of black magic.
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 35 min
With PlayStation supporting both backward compatible and PS5 "upgradable" versions of their games, you would think that getting saves between the two systems would have been a priority. Apparently not.
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 26 min
CD Project Red has announced that employees working on Cyberpunk 2077 will start mandatory crunch, adding a sixth day of work to their required schedule.
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 38 min
In what might be the biggest surprise of the year, Microsoft bought Bethesda's parent company Zenimax for $7.5 billion. They now own The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom and a ton more, with all future games coming to Game Pass!
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 57 min
Can you believe that we made it all the way to 200!?! And to celebrate, we brought some of our closest friends on to the podcast for a live 2-hour extravaganza!
Sep 17, 2020•2 hr 3 min
It's been a staring content between Sony and Microsoft for months now, but with the leak of the Series S over the weekend, Microsoft decided to pull back the curtain and reveal the launch date and price for the Xbox Series S and Series X.
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 44 min
The choice is yours, you can buy an Xbox Series X, a PlayStation 5 and probably a Switch OR a Geforce 3090. You have to really, really like PC games to pick the latter.
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 29 min
It's a AAA extravaganza this month, but a few cool indies snuck in. Stadia is even getting a little bit of love!
Sep 02, 2020•14 min
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has officially been announced and it's coming out soon. Expect zombies, cross-play and maybe a visit from the guys from Bad Dudes?
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Epic, Google and Apple are in a slap fight over paying app royalties all in the name of...freedom? But the folks who really have the most to lose are app store devs using the Unity engine that might see their apps delisted.Other Video Game NewsSony Is Working on a New VR Headset (But it Might not be PSVR) Ghost of Tsushima is Getting a New Co-op Mode This Fall Untitled Goose Game is Also Getting a Free Co-op Mode in September Please, Please, Please Give Me a Firewatch Movie The Switch is Getting...
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 47 min
The internet ate the first hour of our podcast. Which sucks. So your news this week is: Didn’t Play Death Stranding? Maybe You’d Like to Read It Instead?
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min
It looks like xCloud isn't coming to iOS (at least in September), Microsoft announces the first round of games coming to xCloud next month and new first-party games will hit xCloud day one.
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 30 min
It's possible that we won't be seeing a test flight of Halo Infinite as we have for the other Halo games in the Master Chief Collection. The studio is blaming COVID, but is possible that they just don't want folks seeing it until launch (especially after their reveal last week?)
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr 33 min
Cliff and Vinny watched Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase and were pretty impressed by what they saw. Check out a game by game recap!
Jul 23, 2020•1 hr 12 min
If you are a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber you are going to be able to play all (roughly) 371 games that are in Game Pass on your phone come September for FREE courtesy of the new xCloud streaming service. That's a very, very good deal.
Jul 23, 2020•1 hr 54 min
Speculating that COVID-19 will continue to play a large role in how gamers spend their time, Sony has doubled the number of PS5s being produced, bringing the total up to 10 million units that will be available through March 31.
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 40 min
It's looking like AAA games for the PS5 and Xbox Series X are going to get a $10 price bump up to $70 if the newly released pricing for NBA 2k21 is any indication. We dig into the pricing and what that might mean for other things like microtransactions, DLC and season passes.
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 51 min
Sorry this is so late, it's been a week! A better description will get posted eventually!
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 23 min
With effectively zero warning, Microsoft pulled the plug on Mixer this week, stating that "It became clear that the time needed to grow our own live streaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences we want to deliver to gamers now." Existing Mixer Partners are being redirected to Facebook Gaming (a destination that a lot of folks aren't pleased with.) Other Video Game NewsThe Games Industry Faces a Reckoning As Sexual Assault and Harassment Survivors Name NamesWhat...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 52 min
Just to be on the record, Cliff called this at least a month ago. The bad news is there isn't going to be a PAX West or PAX Australia this year. The good news is that they are replacing it with a nine-day virtual show!
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 44 min
Sony made its first big PS5 announcement today with a 70-minute show that debuted over 25 games that we'll be seeing on the newest PlayStation when it launches later this year.
Jun 12, 2020•1 hr 51 min
Video games preservationists have uncovered a rare, unpublished NES game in a treasure trove of 40 floppy discs donated from the collection of developer Chris Oberth. After weeks of digitizing and un-encrypting, an unreleased version of Days of Thunder was recovered.What We're PlayingColby: The Hunter, Minecraft DungeonsCliff: Mass Effect Andromeda, Minecraft DungeonsDylan: PitchstormOther Video Game NewsWarzone and PS5 Announce Delayed Because of Mass Protests GeForce Now Might Be Getting More ...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 37 min
June is a bit of a slow month, with one major, major exception that comes out on the 19th. Yes, you heard it here first, Burnout Paradise Remastered for the Switch comes out on June 19th.
Jun 01, 2020•10 min
