Lots of Bethesda related news this week, with updates about Fallout 76 and how they are dealing with a**holes, Bethesda is demanding cross play for any system that is getting Elder Scrolls Legends, Doom Eternal was announced at Quakecon, The Chinese Room has been acquired by Sumo Group and Chief Design Officer Patrick Soderlund is leaving EA.Vinny's question generated some...vigorous...discussion, we talk Fluffernutters and cheap/free games!
Showtime is making a Halo show and it's going to focus on Master Chief, the Fallout 76 beta will not have an NDA, progress will carry over and the game will not be on Steam, get an axe in Red Dead 2 by doing quests in GTA 5 Online, FIFA 2019 adds house rules and Xbox TV & Movies is joining Movies Anywhere.Plus we answer questions from Vinny, Jjames, Joe Coleslaw, SuperHyperMightyWepaman and...Cliff? Plus, Cheap/Free Games a Small Bytes entry!
Dylan might be on some exotic beach somewhere, but Adam and Cliff are hard at work in the podcast mines, digging out nuggets of podcast goodness. At least I think that's how it works?There are new JoyCons available from Hori that might make your life easier in some games, the PS4 and Switch sold a lot of units & the Xbox make a lot of money, Origin Access Premiere launched and it looks like a pretty good deal and the London Spitfire wins the first season of the Overwatch League.It was a bit ...
August is the last month before the flood of games that are going to release starting in October (Red Dead Redemption 2, you might have heard of it) and of course all the huge games that are going to start hitting for holiday sales. But that doesn't mean that there aren't some great games coming out! Give the podcast a listen and let us know what you are looking forward to!If you want to follow along, you can also get all the details with videos at: https://bytemepodcast.com/podcast/special-epis...
No Man's Sky Next is out and will have a "season" of free updates, the first episode of the fan made Day of the Tentacle sequel is out, Guacamelee 2 gets details and a (very close) release date, the Fallout 76 beta kicks off in October, Amazon might help you make your next PC or PC gear purchase easier, Nintendo shuts down two rom sites and I guess your current TV is pretty big.Plus great questions from Vinny, Jack Irish, Turndwn4wht, TommyToInches, SuperHyperMightyWepaman and JoeColeslaw.
Todd Howard doesn't like to use the word "survival" to describe Fallout 76, Rainbow 6 Siege is banning players for hate speech, there might be a reason to get back into The Division, Sea of Thieves: Cursed Sails is launching soon, typos take down Aliens: Colonial Marines, PUBG has custom games but they may cost you eventually, Nathan Fillion doesn't voice Cayde 6 anymore (and doesn't actually think he's dead), pretending to be nice actually works in Overwatch and what do you think about cheating...
Nintendo is talking about launching 20-30 Switch games a week, Blizzard raised a ton of money for charity, Fast Start lets you play your Game Pass games sooner, ever wonder what the top 10 games are on Steam, Nathan Drake is just super lucky and PUBG bans top streamer for cheating.Plus, questions from Vinny, Joe Coleslaw and TommyToInches, cheap and free games, plus Troll Corner!
Today we talked about Halo getting it's own TV series, Fallout 76 sounds better all the time, Fortnite is cracking up, Overwatch has a new (adorable!) hero, you might want to hold off on that video card purchase and Google might be making a game console!Plus, great questions from Vinny, Colby, Jacob, Joe Coleslaw, Josh, Jjames and Mansocks, plus tons of free games!Also, Sony is in troll corner. Forever.
Hey, help out some less fortunate folks and buy the Country Roads song from the Fallout 76 trailer on iTunes! Proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity!We talked about that, plus cloud streaming on the Switch, Fortnite is suing someone again, PUBG is suing one less person, Trials is coming to Switch, Red Dead might be coming to the PC, Friday the 13th gets axed and nukes in Fallout 76 aren't that big of a deal.Plus questions from Vinny, JoeColeslaw, Josh and Mansocks, plus the latest Game Pass and PS ...
Even with E3 ending last week, this week was still stuffed with announcements we just couldn't fit into Episode 82. We talk about EA's new streaming platform, Origin Access Premiere, Microsoft's five new studios, Sea of Thieves is getting two new expansions, Prey is getting a ton of new modes and DLC, God of War adds a challenging New Game +, Blacks Ops 1 and 2 maps are coming to Black Ops 3 and 4, Destiny 2: Forsaken gets announced and Bungie lays out the next season or new content, Nintendo re...
E3 really is Christmas for gamers and this year wasn't any different! We've scoured the conferences and came away with info on roughly 100 games that you are probably going to want to check out over the next year or two.If you want to follow along (or just watch the videos) head over to https://bytemepodcast.com/blogs/games-e3-2018/ for a full listing of all the games we are talking about with systems, release dates and videos!Special thanks to our two Producer level Patrons Kevin Schuld and Joe...
Brace yourself, E3 is coming! We roll through the times you are going to want to be somewhere you can stream and chat a bit about what you can expect to see. Xbox might be getting Alexa and Google Home support, Jurrassic World DLC is coming to Rocket League (and the goal explosion alone is worth the $2), State of Decay 2 gets a 20GB patch and passes the 2 million player mark, Red Dead Redemption 2's Special Editions get announced and it's going to have PS4 specific content (of some sort).We answ...
Dylan is back after experiencing everything that Minnesota had to offer! We talked about the two new Pokemon games coming to the Switch, Bethesda is teasing Fallout 76, Microsoft laid off employees and replaced them with volunteers, Apple kills the Steam Link app on iOS, PUBG is suing Fortnite (in Korea), PUBG knows they have problems (and want to fix them), Fortnite is getting "vehicles", Fortnite is getting a playground mode you can practice in and Star Citizen is launching a DLC that cost $27...
Dylan is out of town this week, so Cliff and Adam held down the fort!They talked about Fortnite's $100 million dollars in prize money (and their accidental release of a storm chasing backpack), GTA 5 hits another sales milestone, RIP Vita games, No Man's Sky gets multiplayer and an Xbox edition, PS4 enters it's final phase (which sadly doesn't appear to be a giant robot), Mario + Rabbids + DK and brace yourself E3 is coming (along with Devolver Digital).Every wondered what podcast we listen to (...
This week on Byte Me Podcast, we talk about enhancements to Sea of Thieves (including private crews), the Walmart leak pushes out Rage 2, the NES Classic is coming back in June, Radical Heights isn't enough to save Boss Key, Rocket League gets a "Rocket Pass", Destiny 2 clues lead to real life treasures and you need to start figuring out who is going to be in your Nintendo Family.We also answer some questions from Josh and Vinny that turn out to be very thought provoking (although Dylan is still...
It's a quick episode this week, but we packed it full of video game goodness!Thanos comes to Fortnite (and it's apparently pretty awesome), Nintendo is hiring and probably making a new Zelda game, buy a pink skin for Mercy and help fight breast cancer, fight for cheese in the new DOTA 2 Battle Royale mode, a bunch of games leak pre-E3 (thanks Walmart of Canada!), Nintendo says there won't be a virtual console for the Switch and soon you'll be able to play your steam games on your phone!
The Oculus Go made a surprise launch, Stardew Valley Multiplayer is in beta, the comet hit in Fortnite, Destiny's Music of the Spheres is getting released (finally) and the Atari Box is back. Yay?We answer some great questions, guess how many Battle Royale games will get announced at E3 and talk some steak.If you like cheap and free games, this is also 100% your month!
First off, as we are posting this episode we hit 200,000 total downloads for the podcast. It's still amazing to us that we've hit that huge of a milestone and we owe it all to our amazing listeners! Thanks so much for coming back and listening every week.In news this week, Blizzard finally makes good on a promise from nine years ago, hardware hackers have made the first steps in cracking the switch, Xbox PUBG players get access to Miramar this week, Valve buys Firewatch devs Campo Santo, Discord...
God of War is getting amazing reviews (and there is a right and a wrong way to play it on the PS4), Billy "King of Kong" Mitchell got his high scores wiped, you might want to update your Joycons, Hellblade cleaned up the BAFTAs, Battlefront 2 is getting a fun sounding Ewok mode, Sea of Thieves has a update schedule planned, there might be a bunch of Sega games coming to the Switch and there is a new Castlevania game coming out...on iOS.We take a fun quiz from Vinny and answer questions from Jjam...
Cliff just won't stop talking about Far Cry 5. It might be time for an intervention.We also talked about Fort Grenades in Fortnite, GTA IV is losing a bunch of songs, GTA V might be a bigger deal than you thought, Overwatch is getting a new (temporary) PvE mode, Boss Key's new game Radical Heights is 80's-tastic, Xbox is getting a bunch of great OG Xbox games via backward compatibility and Spyro is getting remastered!We answered a bunch of questions, found out about Dylan's fear of ketchup and c...
Cliff and Adam are both playing Far Cry 5 and LOVING it. We talk a bunch about that, plus PUBG is getting rid of mouse and keyboard controls on consoles, there is a meteor (or comet?) in Fortnite, Assassin's Creed is getting killer control panel, Guacamelee 2 is coming "Soon-ish" and you can pick up the original right now for cheap, Shadow of War is ditching microtransactions, Bizzard is using AI to catch toxic players and a Pirate Legend has been born...sorta.Plus a ton of questions from Vinny,...
We all finally got some time with Sea of Thieves and we (shockingly) have a lot to say about it! We also talked about Microsoft's attempts to regulate content on the Xbox, how the Sea of Thieves devs are listening to feedback, Hellblades release date on the Xbox, Crossplay Hijinks with Randy Pitchford and Tim Sweeney and how you can play Red Dead on the PC (kinda).We also answered a ton of really fun questions this week from Vinny, Jon, Jjames, Ryan, Joe Coleslaw, Michael and Mansocks (in case y...
We talk about so much booty in this episode. Ok, it's mostly just us talking about Sea of Thieves. Mostly.We also talk about the new Ghostbusters themes AR game, Spring 2018 releases, the new Vive Pro, the latest Nintendo Nindies announcement and Austin Wintory is doing a kickstarter!
We are a little bit late this week, but with both Cliff and Adam sick it's been a bit challenging to get three people in a room together that can all talk without dying! Once we did though, we talked Fortnite and PUBG coming to mobile, about the huge dump of games coming to the Switch, Shadow of the Tomb Raider gets a release date, Byte Me favorite What Remains of Edith Finch is nominated for seven BAFTA awards, Skyrim is coming to Vive and Occulus and the Xbox is getting Freesync support!We ans...
Scoop! We talk Kirby: Star Allies and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze after Cliff got to play both new Switch titles at ECCC!Also, it looks like Diablo could be coming to the Switch, there is an Inside Special Edition coming and it includes "something" made by sex toy manufacture Real Dolls, new DLC for The Fractured But Whole is coming this month, the ESA is meeting with President Trump about video game violence, Battlefield V (?) will have a new cool co-op mode, Rainbow Six Siege is crack...
Cliff is back from Disneyland and ready to talk about games (even though he didn't play any last week.)Curious why Diablo 2 hasn't been remastered? The reason why might surprise you. Apparently Dylan's mashup game from last week actually exists...sorta. Fortnite goes "Solid Gold", a new horror game called Blackup Club was announced and it has quite the pedigree, Overwatch adds a new character on the PTR, PS 3 and Vita games get dropped from PS+ next year and the ESRB is going to start letting yo...
Sorry about the late posting, got distracted by Disneyland stuff! Also, I have no idea what this episode is about, but I bet it's great!
The folks at Rare dropped a TON of new information about Sea of Thieves and we talk about it all! Get the down low on how servers will be balanced, info about crew and ship size, character creation, ship customization, legendary mode, microtransactions and more!We also talked about the re-release of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Fortnight SMG changes and Rocket League IRL. We also had a ton of questions and talked about Disneyland just a little bit. Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition was featured...
Pretty much the second we finished recording last week's episode Nintendo dropped a ton of news, so this week we are covering Mario Kart Mobile, Switch Online and the new Mario movie! Plus Fortnite gets a minigun and experimental weapon mechanics and Red Dead Redemption 2 details got leaked.We answer a ton of questions (and wish Vinny a Happy Birthday) and talk about all of the new Humble Bundles!
Adam beat Super Mario Odyssey, Cliff got lost a lot in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Dylan played all the games!We also talked more about Game Pass, Switch hardware and software sales, Battlefront II's missed sales goals and microtransactions, how Microsoft might be going on a buying spree and update chatter in Overwatch, PUBG and Fortnite. Oh, and Cliff and Dylan argued a lot about Overwatch meta.We answer questions from Vinny, Colby, SuperHyperMightyWepaman and Mansocks plus go over the ne...
