AOTF Podcast
45 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsAttack of the Fanboy Crew talks about this week in video games.
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Attack of the Fanboy Podcast #68 – Outriders Broken but still good?
April 08, 2021 16:19The Attack of the Fanboy podcast returns for episode #68. Kyle, Brandon and Will sit down for a chat about the big stories in gaming this week as well as our impressions on everything we’ve been playing. For the timeline of topics in this week’s show, head to the list below for a full breakdown of the discussion. Episode #68 News Topics In this week’s episode we’re talking E3 2021 and the cancellation of a physical show. Is Cliff Bleszinski coming out of retirement to make another ga...
AOTF Podcast #67
April 01, 2021 05:05The Attack of the Fanboy Podcast (AOTF) returns for episode #67. Kyle, Brandon, and Will sit down to chat about the latest games we’ve been playing and the most important video game news of the week. Below you’ll find a timeline for the latest podcast. In this week’s episode of the podcast we talk CD Projekt and the seemingly cancelled multiplayer mode for Cyberpunk 2077. Will video game conventions return in 2021? Apparently PAX organizers think that conventions will return later thi...
Attack of the Fanboy Podcast – Episode 62 – Video Game Slow News Week
October 08, 2020 18:21This week on the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast, Brandon, Kyle, Dean and Will sit down to discuss all the latest news in video games for the week of October 5th, 2020. Admittedly, it wasn’t much. As for new releases and reviews on the site, this wasn’t much either, but we’re looking at it as a “calm before the storm” which in the coming weeks will bring us new consoles, and a slew of “new” games to play on the Xbox Series X/S and the PlayStation 5. Attack of the Fanboy Podcast Episode 62 ...
Attack of the Fanboy Podcast #68 – Outriders Broken but still good?Attack of the Fanboy Podcast – Episode 62 – Video Game Slow News WeekAttack of the Fanboy Podcast #68 – Outriders Broken but still good?
October 08, 2020 18:21This week on the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast, Brandon, Kyle, Dean and Will sit down to discuss all the...
AOTF Podcast #52: Microtransactions, Loot Boxes, and the Future of Gaming
October 11, 2017 17:54In episode 51 of the AOTF Podcast we talked briefly about the microtransactions in NBA 2K18 and how they’d grown so intrusive that they detracted from the overall enjoyment of the game. Now, for AOTF Podcast #52 we’re diving into the topic which has become a firestorm in the gaming industry. NBA 2K18 was just the start, and now we have more games riddled with microtransactions and loot boxes releasing around the same time. Do Forza Motorsport 7 and Middle-earth: Shadow of War deserve the sa...
AOTF Podcast #50: The Arguments are Back! (Destiny 2, Pokemon, and Xbox’s Exclusives Drought)AOTF Podcast #51: Xbox’s Trajectory, PUBG is Broken, and NBA 2K18 MicrotransactionsAOTF Podcast #50: The Arguments are Back! (Destiny 2, Pokemon, and Xbox’s Exclusives Drought)
September 21, 2017 20:28Hey guys, welcome back for AOTF Podcast #51. You might be surprised to see me here since last episode I talked about how Hurricane Irma wasn’t coming my way, right before it turned straight toward me, but I survived! Sure, I went a few days without power, thus delaying this podcast for a week, but I’m here with Will and we’re ready to talk about the gaming news that I have barely been able to pay attention to while I cleaned up debris from my yard. This includes our usual favorite topic ...
AOTF Podcast #51: Xbox’s Trajectory, PUBG is Broken, and NBA 2K18 Microtransactions
September 21, 2017 20:28Hey guys, welcome back for AOTF Podcast #51. You might be surprised to see me here since last episode I talked about how Hurricane Irma wasn’t coming my way, right before it turned straight toward me, but I survived! Sure, I went a few days without power, thus delaying this podcast for a week, but I’m here with Will and we’re ready to talk about the gaming news that I have barely been able to pay attention to while I cleaned up debris from my yard. This includes our usual favorite topic ...
AOTF Podcast #50: The Arguments are Back! (Destiny 2, Pokemon, and Xbox’s Exclusives Drought)
September 08, 2017 04:18We’re back (again)! After an extended absence that was only broken by the massiveness of E3 2017, Will and I are back at it, giving you the latest video game news, reviews, impressions, and opinions. Sometimes we argue, like if we talk about Nintendo, Pokemon, or Destiny, or about a dozen other topics. And that’s exactly what we do this week! The last week, hell, the last month or two have kind of been dull in the world of video games. Not much news has happened, despite PAX West 2017 tak...
E3 2017: Are You Sure You Want to Play Skyrim Again?
June 16, 2017 03:07E3 2017 comes to a close and we make a mad dash to see and play all of things that we didn’t get to in days one and two. Our third day at the show brought us to Warner Bros. to go hands-on with the impressive Shadow of War, over to Bethesda to check out a rather unimpressive hands-on, crashing demo on Wolfenstein 2. At Square Enix we got a chance to see the unnecessary prequel to Life is Strange. Crytek surprised with an interesting game that’s coming sometime in the future with Hunt: S...
E3 2017: Call of Duty WW2 is Really Effing Good
June 15, 2017 04:44Day two of E3 2017 is in the books and we got a chance to get hands-on with some of the biggest games of the show today. Kyle thinks Call of Duty: WW2 is really effing good. Well, his real thoughts were far more vulgar, but you get the point. He goes hands-on with the new war mode, divisions, and team deathmatch in this year’s shooter. Kyle also takes a new Guardian for a spin in Destiny. Bandai Namco had a suprisingly good lineup this year that did not contain anything Dark Souls rel...
E3 Day One Wrap-Up Podcast: Nintendo Wins E3 2017
June 14, 2017 05:21Day One of E3 2017 is in the books and we can say that Nintendo seems to be continuing their hot streak with both a solid press conference stream ahead of the show and games for the Nintendo Switch on the floor of E3 that impressed. Showstoppers for Nintendo’s Press Conference included the announement of a new Metroid Prime Game, and the reveal that a completely new Pokemon title would be arriving on the console. Kyle soldiered through the massive E3 wasteland to get hands-on with Mario ...
E3 2017 Day 0.5 Wrap-Up: Skyrim Dominating E3
June 13, 2017 05:53E3 2017’s press conferences are mostly over and we’re in agreement that this isn’t the best showing that we’ve seen in recent years. So far we’ve seen an abundance of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. In fact, it’s turning into the story of the show with yet another version of the game popping up in Sony’s E3 Press Conference despite launching all the way back in 2011. Today Kyle and I talk about the second day of big press conferences with Sony and Ubisoft set to dominate the conversation o...
E3 Day Zero Wrap-Up Podcast: Microsoft, EA, and Bethesda
June 13, 2017 04:42Technically E3 doesn’t start until June 11th, but with companies jockying for position in getting their message out in a non-crowded environment things have started earlier and earlier each year. This year, EA decided to go completely off the reservation taking their EA Play event far outside of the normal convention area and pushing the festivities up a day. Sunday, which Kyle & I discuss in this Day Zero podcast cover Microsoft and Bethesdas announcements. We grade the two companies o...
What the Hell Happened at the Nintendo Switch Presentation: AOTF Podcast #49
January 19, 2017 16:06It finally happened. After months of waiting we have actually had Nintendo do a full breakdown of the Nintendo Switch. We know the price, we know the release date, and we know the games that are coming to the portable/home console hybrid. Now it’s time to figure out what it all means. To do that Dean and I sat sat down to go over everything we’d seen and what we thought about it. It’s the AOTF Podcast #49. Dean was the person to chat with about this. As the site is called Attack of the Fa...
Where are my Mass Effect Remasters and Why is PS4 Selling so Well? – AOTF Podcast #48
January 06, 2017 14:59Hey, we’re back on a weekly schedule…for now. It’s the AOTF Podcast #48. This week Will and I talk about some big gaming news that has hit in the last week. The biggest was obviously the Mass Effect Andromeda release date announcement, which prompted a trip down memory lane. Yes, it’s the age old argument of just how terrible the Mass Effect 3 ending was. While I was quite upset by it, Will wasn’t. The eventual altering of the ending by Bioware was seen by many fans as a great thing, maki...
No Man’s Sky Wins a Game of the Year Award for 2016: AOTF Podcast #47
December 30, 2016 14:39That was a long year. 2016 was equal parts amazing and awful in a number of different ways, so Will and I sat down to talk all about it. The conversation went a bit longer than usual, but for such a crazy year, it seems warranted. We mostly discuss our Best and Worst Games of 2016 awards, where all of our writers got together to decide what did and did not work in 2016. Before that though, there were some diversions. It’s the AOTF Podcast #47. Since we hadn’t talked since before Christmas...
PS4 Wins November and is the Nintendo Switch Even Real? AOTF Podcast #46
December 09, 2016 16:29It’s been an eventful few weeks in video games, so it was time for Will and I to sit down once again and talk about all the stuff that’s going on out there. It’s the AOTF Podcast #46, and we’re as salty as ever. Not really. Actually we’ve seen a lot of great gaming news and releases over the last few weeks, but we’re still pretty cynical, which is probably how you want it. On this podcast we dive right into news, with NPD numbers releasing right before we recorded. PS4 won the month, usur...
Was 2016 a Bad Year for Games? AOTF Podcast #45
November 18, 2016 20:40It has been a while since our last podcast, so Will and I sat down this week less to talk about news, and more to just catch up on some trends that we’re seeing in the gaming world. Along with discussions about consoles, games, and the state of gaming, we also delve more deeply into the behind the scenes operation of our site, and how games journalism is shifting in a lot of big ways. To hear about all of this and more, check out the AOTF Podcast #45 below. Starting off with some discussi...
Nintendo Switch Doubts and is Battlefield 1 Good? : AOTF Podcast #44
October 22, 2016 00:03AOTF Podcast #44 actually happened last week, but computers do what computers do and now we’re doing it all over again. Luckily this week had just a bit more news for Will and I to talk about. While last week saw the launch of PlayStation VR, this week had a number of big announcements of upcoming games, and even new hardware. To hear what we though on these topics and more, check out the podcast below. The biggest story was of course the unveiling of the Nintendo NX, or the Nintendo Swit...
Hurricane Preparation and Xbox One Non-Competition: AOTF Podcast #43
October 07, 2016 09:00This is Kyle Hanson, reporting live from within the eye of Hurricane Matthew…well, not yet anyway. Actually I should be well out of its path over here on the west coast of Florida, but the impending wall of water, wind, and pure hatred of mankind has impacted me in other ways, with my house becoming a temporary shelter for friends and family. Still, I can’t let a little thing like that deter me from discussing this week’s gaming news with Will, now can I? As we head toward the holiday sea...
Xbox One S Sales Dominating PS4 Slim and No Man’s Sky Lies – AOTF Podcast #42
September 30, 2016 16:40Notice: Everything that is written or said in the following article, its title, and the podcast itself are the opinions of the hosts alone. They are not firm representations of facts, and are not being said to imply that they are completely objective assessments of the base fundamentals of reality. When we say things like “the Dreamcast is a big dumb failure” it does not intrinsically make it so. So please, chill out in the comments guys. Whew, been wanting to type that out for a while. I...
Xbox One Project Scorpio Overpromises and Pokemon Go Plus Woes – AOTF Podcast #41
September 23, 2016 14:45The AOTF Podcast heads into Episode 41 with a bit of a light week in terms of news. Sure, stuff happened, but there was little that reshaped the gaming world, like we’ve seen recently. There may have been no brand new, major announcements, but what did happen this week was still pretty surprising and important. Starting off with the death of Battle.net, being reborn into…well, no one knows what yet. The iconic Blizzard online gaming service is getting a rename, likely more inline with oth...
PS4’s No Good, Very Bad Week: AOTF Podcast #40
September 16, 2016 19:09After a bit of a break over the Summer, brought on by the time-sink that is Pokemon Go, and the overall lack of all that much interesting in the world of video games, we’re back! AOTF Podcast #40 is here, though this is actually the second episode 40 that we’ve recorded. That will just have to be the lost episode though. For this week’s episode we have Will, myself, Anthony (returning after a multi-month absence), and newcomer Dean. Dean’s been writing on the site for a long time, but this ...
Why Even Own an Xbox? – AOTF Podcast #39
July 01, 2016 17:15Slightly late this week, Will and I sat down for the AOTF Podcast #39. As the post-E3 rest comes to an end this week saw some major developments in the gaming world. We discuss (read: argue) about all the big stuff right here for your listening pleasure. First up is our seemingly endless topic of just what the hell is going on over at Microsoft. We now have a console that will be almost totally devoid of exclusives, with the Xbox Play Anywhere initiative becoming the law of the land. On t...
E3 2016 Breakdown: Who Won? What were the Best Games? – AOTF Podcast #38
June 23, 2016 17:38 - 80.1 MBWe’re back. After the endless slog that was E3 2016, Will and I have rested and processed the crazy week that was E3 2016. Now we’re gonna break the whole thing down for you in the AOTF Podcast #38. I make another push for why Sony won the whole show, while Will defends the “most powerful console of all time” and its high quality pixels. In terms of games, I’ve already given my top 3, with Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Resident Evil 7, and Agents of Mayhem impressing me the most. Will was mo...
E3 2016 Might Not Totally Suck After All: AOTF Podcast #37
June 16, 2016 15:17E3 2016 heads into day 2, with Will and I hitting up a bunch of great games today. If you listened to yesterday’s AOTF Podcast then you know that we’ve so far been a bit disappointed in the show and what we’d seen. Today seems to have rectified this for both of us, with each of us seeing some good stuff. Now you can hear what we thought of all of these games and gaming accessories in the AOTF Podcast #37. We were both pretty busy on E3 2016 day 2, with Will hitting up a lot of peripheral ...
Nintendo Steals Day 1 of E3 2016 with Zelda: Breath of the Wild: AOTF Podcast #36
June 15, 2016 16:07What a day. E3 2016 is in full swing, and while the games we checked out weren’t stellar, we did get a sense of what this E3 is going to be like. It is definitely the year of VR, at least in terms of lots of people getting to go hands-on with tons of fully developed games. The show floor is full of VR titles, and people are lining up for hours to try them out. We got to see a lot of this stuff, so now we’ll tell you all about it on AOTF Podcast #36. But, while people are filling the halls...
Sony PS4 Wins E3 2016: AOTF Podcast #35
June 14, 2016 15:02It’s day 0 of E3 2016, with Microsoft, Ubisoft, AMD, and Sony holding their big press conferences the day before the convention officially opens. We’re here with the AOTF Podcast #35 to go over everything that we saw at the conferences, and what we saw afterward. Will, Dylan, and myself discuss the shows and what we thought, with some disagreement on the finer points. Microsoft kicked off the day with a very lackluster press conference, showing a lot of stuff that we’d either seen before,...
E3 2016 Day -1 EA and Bethesda Press Conference News and Impressions: AOTF Podcast #34
June 13, 2016 08:00It’s E3 2016 time, and we’re here in Los Angeles with AOTF Podcast #34, giving you all the news that the week has to offer. This is sort of the first day of E3, but really this is just the precursor to the insanity that starts on Tuesday. So, we’re calling this E3 2016 Day -1. EA and Bethesda have shown off all that they have for the coming year, and we came away with some mixed impressions. EA started the day off with a press conference that may have been a little light on press. People ...
E3 2016 Predictions, Everybody Loves Overwatch, and is VR too Expensive: AOTF Podcast #33
June 08, 2016 16:55It’s June, which might not mean much to the rest of the world, but for gamers it is a magical time of rampant speculation, news leaks, and huge levels of anticipation. It’s E3 2016 time, and we’re here to give you our thoughts, hopes, and dreams in the AOTF Podcast Episode #33. Of course we discuss the hot topic of E3 2016, the possibility of Microsoft and Sony pushing out new consoles just a few years after the introduction of the Xbox One and PS4. At this point these things seem like ho...
Xbox One Upgrades, Oculus Rift in Crisis, and E3 Disappointment: AOTF Podcast #32
May 26, 2016 18:55It’s time for AOTF Podcast #32, with Will and I discussing the gaming news of the week. I just wanted to go one week without having to discuss the possibility of new consoles arriving so soon after the introduction of the PS4 and Xbox One. That hope was dashed with Kotaku’s report that a slim Xbox One would be arriving this year and a totally upgraded model next. Supposedly this upgraded Xbox One would have 4K and Oculus Rift support. I’m still just not wrapping my head around this massiv...
New Consoles Everywhere, Resident Evil 7, and the CoD vs Battlefield Feud Heats Up: AOTF Podcast #31
May 18, 2016 16:11It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When the PS4 and Xbox One first launched a short two and a half years ago, we weren’t supposed to be talking about their possible successors already, but here we are. This week on AOTF Podcast #31, Will and I discuss all the rumors surrounding what some believe to be mid-generation upgrades, while others are going all the way and assuming that the PS5 and Xbox Two are right around the corner. It has become clear that these consoles were not powerful enou...
Battlefield 1 Hype, Battlefront 2 Doubts, and more: AOTF Podcast #30
May 11, 2016 15:14Will and I are back for AOTF Podcast #30, giving you another discussion of the week’s gaming news. A definite uptick in news as we head toward the specter of E3 2016. EA dominated the entire week, filling the front page with big news stories. The first, and most interesting of these has to be the official unveiling of Battlefield 1, which was formerly known as Battlefield 5. This prequel takes gamers all the way back to World War I, offering a very different take on the multiplayer shoote...
AOTF Podcast #29: Call of Duty vs Battlefield, Binding of Isaac Giveaway, Uncharted 4, and Overwatch
May 05, 2016 07:01The AOTF Podcast is back with Episode 29. After a few dull weeks this one was anything but, with big news hitting about some major franchises. Call of Duty finally unleashed its latest entry, Infinite Warfare, and while rumors of a Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered were true, the rest of the game is all new. Meanwhile, Battlefield is promising a full unveiling later this month, one which will supposedly melt the internet and make CoD: Infinite Warfare look like it came from 2010. Whi...
AOTF Podcast #28: New Giveaway, Nintendo NX and Zelda Craziness, and the VR Hype Train
April 29, 2016 15:34Only a few short days after our PAX East extravaganza, Will and I are back with AOTF Podcast #28. After the slow news week we had last time, it’s surprising just how much has happened in the last couple of days. The biggest attention getter was definitely Nintendo, but before that we have a special giveaway. Dreadnought, our favorite upcoming space combat game, is entering its Closed Beta and we have a bunch of keys to giveaway. In the podcast we announce one key, and instructions for the...
AOTF Podcast #27: PAX East 2016! VR Extravaganza, Overwatch, and Some Cool Indies
April 26, 2016 02:48It’s PAX East 2016 time! After three insane days of video gaming goodness, I am officially exhausted. However, I’ve avoided passing out just long enough to report on almost everything that I saw at the show, with Will here to ask me all about it. If PAX East 2016 could be summed up in just one item it would be Virtual Reality. Whether it was PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, or HTC Vive, the VR stations were always busy. But people weren’t just playing VR games, they were talking about them. I...
AOTF Podcast #26: Red Dead Redemption 2 Rumors, PS4 Domination, and Gears of War 4 Beta
April 18, 2016 00:54We’re back again, a bit quicker this time around, with AOTF Podcast #26. It’s been a definite slow news week, but that just means we can really dive into the few topics we have available. This includes the massive and growing Minecraft generation of gamers. With 10,000 copies sold every single day, the game is less a piece of entertainment, and more of a lifestyle at this point. Still, the average age of a Minecraft player was reported as 28-29 years old, which seems a bit odd based on some...
AOTF Podcast #25: The Division Giveaway, VR Disaster, Dark Souls 3 Hate, and Xbox NeXt
April 09, 2016 21:46After a bit of a hiatus, the AOTF Podcast is back with the long awaited Episode #25. Will and I take some time to discuss the latest news and rumors, before diving into the games we played over the last week. Also, be sure to listen to the whole thing, as we give instructions for our The Division Season Pass giveaway for the Xbox One. Starting things off, we talk about the massive disaster that is the Oculus Rift launch, with the HTC Vive not really looking that much better as of late. It...
The Secret Hate of Destiny: AOTF Podcast #24
August 21, 2015 13:17Some people, I’m not naming names, hate Destiny. Well, Maybe hate is a strong word — have a strong dislike for the game. These people also claimed to have “liked” the game as far back as 2014. Screw it, these people are named Kyle, and in this week of the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast, Kyle, Anthony, and Will discuss the week’s events, primarily the new features coming to Destiny in The Taken King. Something that we could agree on was the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Beta. We all got a cha...
AOTF Podcast #23: Resident Evil & The Best Games Thus Far of ’15
August 14, 2015 13:42 - 62.9 MBThis week on the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast, Kyle and Will reflect on the recent lack of new game news, discuss the Resident Evil 2 Remake, The International 5, and the best game thus far of 2015. Kyle played Olli Olli 2 for PC (4.5/5), and Will has been game-free for almost seven days. Want to skip around? Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s episode: 0:00 – Intro 0:45 – Resident Evil 2 Remake 9:30 – Kyle watches The International 5 14:52 – The Best Games of 2015 Thus Far ...
AOTF Podcast #22: Microsoft Wins GamesCom Against Themselves
August 07, 2015 09:37This week on the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast, Kyle and Will discuss the ongoing multi-million dollar eSports tournament known as The International 5, how Microsoft managed to win GamesCom by default, Bungie’s abandonment of Peter Dinklage, and more. This week, we played Galak-Z for the PlayStation 4 and Rare Replay for the Xbox One. Want to skip around? Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s episode and where you’ll find it: 0:00 – The International 5 8:40 – Microsoft at Gamescom ...
AOTF Podcast #21: The Unstoppable PlayStation 4
July 31, 2015 14:35This week on the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast Episode 21, Kyle, Anthony, and Will discuss Sony’s recent financial disclosures and their incredible tally of shipped consoles worldwide. Kyle can’t stop playing Rocket League. Will is done with F1 2015 but looks for a better outing in 2016. Anthony has managed to discover all 240-something Riddler trophies in Batman: Arkham Knight. Watch and Listen on YouTube, iTunes, or through the links below. https://attackofthefanboy.com/wp-content/up...
AOTF Podcast #20: Journey on PS4, Backwards Compatibility and Rocket League Are The Best Things Ever… This Week
July 24, 2015 19:22This week on the Attack of the Fanboy podcast, Kyle, Anthony, and William discuss video game news topics which include...
AOTF Podcast #19: Remembering Iwata, Shenmue III Kickstarter, #BetterPSN
July 17, 2015 19:33 - 115 MBThis week on the Attack of the Fanboy Podcast, Kyle, Anthony, and Will remember Satoru Iwata. Kyle tries to talk...
AOTF Podcast #18: PSN Down, Is Diablo Better on Consoles, The Best Ending for Breaking Bad
July 10, 2015 11:40 - 121 MBThis week on the Attack of the Fanboy podcast, Kyle, Anthony and Will discuss numerous topics, a few of which...