Eight Bit
119 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 9 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsEight Bit is a show about gaming news, gaming hardware, gaming reviews, and pretty much anything that starts with gaming, hosted by Ian Buck and Ian Decker.
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Episodes
Eight Bit #119: Getting Jokes On The First Pass
May 26, 2015 03:29 - 53 minutes - 25.5 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Nintendo's future DRM-strategy, Fallout 4, Twitch's new reduced delay setting, Candy Crush Saga on Windows 10, the high hardware requirements of the Oculus Rift and more!
Eight Bit #118: We Saw Their Details
May 11, 2015 03:19 - 1 hour - 38.7 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker, with first time guest Cory Lau, discuss the DirectX multi-adapter, a Hearthstone milestone, a Magicka 2 trailer, the next Assassin's Creed, and reviews of The Talos Principle, Nidhogg and Hitman: GO.
Eight Bit #117: The Dam(n) Level is Way Bigger
May 04, 2015 22:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Andrew Bailey discuss the failure of Ouya, Banjo-Kazooie's spiritual successor - Yooka-Laylee, Valve's rollback on paid mods, a fancy preview of Final Fantasy 15 on DirectX 12
Eight Bit #116: Speaking of Tangents
April 28, 2015 06:03 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBBan Iuck and Dan Iecker with guest Rai Tielle, discuss the Valve Workshop uproar, secret Microsoft technologies, the launch of Galactic Civilizations III in just a couple weeks, a Telltale Marvel game in 2017, the Trans community in gaming, plus reviews of Final Fantasy 14 and Hearthstone Blackwing Lair.
Eight Bit #115: Fuzzy In My Brain
April 20, 2015 06:10 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Heartstone on smartphones -- finally, Valve's crusade against spam and fake accounts, Anita Sarkeesian in TIME, Firefly Online's progress, Star Wars Battlefront coming in the fall, speaking of which, that new Star Wars trailer, and a review of Hearthstone’s Blackrock Spire.
Eight Bit #114: The Guy From Texas
April 13, 2015 04:51 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss how Five Nights at Freddy's is turning into a movie, the new Star Wars Movie Digital Collection, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a unique take on the video game industry, and a few unusual reviews - movie reviews!
Eight Bit #113: Borderline Asphyxiation
April 04, 2015 23:08 - 52 minutes - 24.9 MBIt's April Fool's Week with Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with sort of guest Ryan Rampersad, with discussion on positive representations of females in games, a solution for no problem in Plays.TV, a pretty huge YouTube vulnerability patched just in time, the closure of OnLive, and many reviews!
Eight Bit #112: Pants Are The Worst
March 31, 2015 00:30 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker, with first time guest Liv Klemek, discuss The Game of Thrones adaptation deviation, the false report of a Zelda live-action series, a Twitch security breach, and YouTube's next try at game-streaming, a strange Halo game that will only be available in Russia, with reviews on Never Alone.
Eight Bit #111: Get Off Your Hipster Horse!
March 24, 2015 01:02 - 59 minutes - 24.3 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Valve's customer support, Nintendo's plan to make games for mobile devices, age ratings for Play Store games, a pretty special musical puzzle game called Cadence, walkthroughs of Star Citizen ships and a review from Ian.
Eight Bit #110: I Can’t Roman Numeral
March 16, 2015 06:41 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBWith guest Andrew Bailey, Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Star Citizen, Cibele - a game of developing sexuality, free Titanfall DLC, the demise of Maxis, and reviews of République, Enslaved, Trivia Crack and Crossy Road!
Eight Bit #109: A Sneak Peak
March 09, 2015 03:35 - 52 minutes - 21.8 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Nvidia's new Titan X and the Shield console, Valve's latest version of Steam controller, the release of Source 2 Engine, a little story about No Man's Sky, Sony's Morpheus timeline, the future of Microsoft and Xbox and so much more!
Eight Bit #108: Mr. Dad
March 03, 2015 16:36 - 51 minutes - 21.3 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the Valve and HTC's new joint adventure with HTC's new Vive VR headset, a false advertising lawsuit aimed at Nvidia's 970's, broadband reclassification, the best games for change, Twitch Plays Halo, and more!
Eight Bit #107: When You Give A Dork A Cookie
February 24, 2015 06:51 - 58 minutes - 25.1 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker review viewer feedback and discuss crowd funded games, a Steam record set, Paranautical Activity's return to Steam, the balance in Evolve, an ambiguous TwitchCon and an Eight Bit First - a review of the Nvidia Shield tablet.
Eight Bit #106: Looks Like Cthulhu
February 15, 2015 01:29 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker with guests Katie Reddemann and Sonja Richardson discuss Towerfall's new characters, stolen Uplay and Origin game codes, the new Daybreak Games' layoffs, Bethesda and Nintendo's return to E3 and reviews of Evolve and Game of Thrones Episode 2.
Eight Bit #105: Bus Full Of Crackers
February 10, 2015 06:44 - 51 minutes - 22.1 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss (live on their Twitch stream) a suspicious backdoor into League of Legends accounts, Polygon's noble pursuit of gaming journalism, Sony Online Entertainment's sudden selloff and rebranding, The Legend of Zelda's new home on Netflix and the DICE Awards!
Eight Bit #104: Pretend To Be Whoever You Need To Be
February 02, 2015 06:54 - 55 minutes - 23 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker talk the greatest episode on The Nexus ever - TED #2, and everyone's new Twitch stream, and discuss Nintendo's revised affiliate program, a guide to game streaming online, Greece's new finance minister, the demise of Joystiq plus reviews of Mr Torgue's Campaign of Carnage and Tales from the Borderlands.
Eight Bit #103: Geofafa
January 26, 2015 22:29 - 45 minutes - 18.8 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Civilization on the iPad - coming soon, Steam broadcasting's availability to everyone, Theme Hospital giveaway and Microsoft's comeback: Windows 10, Xbox and their vision of the future with HoloLens.
Eight Bit #102: Steeeeeeve!
January 20, 2015 02:08 - 1 hour - 26 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker, with returning guest Katie Reddemann, discuss Notch's mansion housewarming party, safe Twitch music, Razer's virtual reality initiative, and a review of Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons from Buck.
Eight Bit #101: Guestravaganza
January 12, 2015 09:07 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker look back on 2014 and think about what 2015 will bring, and then some of Eight Bit's most popular guests, Sonja, Andrew and Savannah, stop by to chat.
Eight Bit #100: Spoonerate It
December 21, 2014 06:38 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBOn the last episode before New Year's, Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Humble Bundle charity contributions, Hearthstone on Android, news about The Witcher 3, and Notch's new mega-mansion, plus a review of Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 1.
Eight Bit #99: Two Of You, One Of Me
December 15, 2014 02:17 - 53 minutes - 22.3 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss pushing The Witcher 3 back yet again, Microsoft's timed exclusive of Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox One, EA's SimCity 2000 giveaway, Sony in China, the Steam holiday auction, Mass Effect comics and more!
Eight Bit #98: Betray An Underlying Insecurity
December 07, 2014 21:36 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss more Evolve news, Guild Wars 2 PVP updates, the next Assassin's Creed, a pretty musical Saint's Row trailer, and all of the exciting choices made at the Game Awards!
Eight Bit #97: Cexhells
December 01, 2014 02:59 - 1 hour - 25.9 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the new Star Wars trailer and what it all means, then some news including a weird Oculus Rift experiment, Nintendo patents a way to print money, and some reviews on Codename Cygnus and the Forgotten Shores!
Eight Bit #96: PETA Would Love This
November 24, 2014 07:45 - 1 hour - 27.2 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the Walmart PS4 scams, clever DRM-detection, the strange Hacker Barbie phenomena, reviews of TwoDots from Buck and the initial review of Far Cry 4 from Decker!
Eight Bit #95: Shameless Plug V2.0
November 16, 2014 21:56 - 56 minutes - 23.2 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss a real game developer on the show, and discuss the Telltale Game of Thrones game, the new Monument Valley expansion, Nvidia's GRID system, a VGA-alternative and a review of Smite.
Eight Bit #94: Melt The Frozen Heart
November 10, 2014 01:38 - 48 minutes - 20.3 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the future of Destiny, more Dragon Age and Far Cry 4 trailers, a new StarCraft 2 game, and reviews of Among the Sleep DLC and the sort-of-mini-game, The Plan.
Eight Bit #93: Podcatch On Twist
November 02, 2014 22:02 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the new shirtless policy on Twitch, the release of Lucasarts games, impressive profits for Nintendo for the first time in years ,some Kentucky Route Zero news and a review of the classic, Audiosurf.
Eight Bit #92: Fuzzy Wuzzy
October 26, 2014 21:43 - 1 hour - 25.5 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss a Steam death threat, some new GTX 900 series features, a new Titanfall game mode, the next Living World installment in Guild Wars 2, the new Google Knowledge Graph showing game information, the Golden Joystick results, and Buck's review of Badland.
Eight Bit #91: Unicornitis
October 19, 2014 22:22 - 51 minutes - 21.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss more GamerGate developments, a new Civilization: Beyond Earth cinematic, the winner of the League of Legends World Championship, a strange Half Life 3 ad campaign, a look back at Mass Effect and reviews of Assassin's Creed Pirates and Octodad DLC.
Eight Bit #90: That Is Very Very Satisfying
October 12, 2014 01:22 - 51 minutes - 21.4 MBIan Buck returns from St. Petersburg and joins Ian Decker to follow up on feedback and discuss the Xbox China launch, a new Myst TV show and game tie-in, the next step from the Niantic team and a review of Smash Hit from Buck.
Eight Bit #89: Throwing Balls At Things
October 06, 2014 05:30 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBIan Decker interviews first time guest JPM and discusses Final Fantasy and the music of JRPGs, and then Ryan Rampersad joins Ian for headlines including Steam scams, Joystick awards, potential Guild Wars news, more FarCry 4 trailers, Wrack, and so much more!
Eight Bit #88: Trust Our Opinions
September 29, 2014 02:04 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Wander - the new "walking simulator MMO", a new Far Cry 4 trailer, Blizzard's canceled MMO that almost nobody knew of, singificant end game updates for Ingress, the Steam Store's major revamp, a new #Classics segment and a review of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
Eight Bit #87: You Never Forget Your First
September 22, 2014 06:58 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the big Microsoft-Mojang acquisition, Twitch on Chromecast, a new Oculus Rift development kit, Nvidia's Game24 and the announcement of the new GTX 900 series, and reviews of The Room and South Park: The Stick Of Truth.
Eight Bit #86: Find Some Balls
September 13, 2014 21:27 - 1 hour - 26.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker celebrate Sam Roth's birthday, and discussing an impressive Dark Souls feat, League retexturing, the Humble Indie Bundle 12, an unexpected Microsoft-Minecraft announcement, the consumer Oculus Rift, and reviews on Saint’s Row IV and Monument Valley.
Eight Bit #85: Threshold of Stupid
September 08, 2014 04:23 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the third Walking Dead season, a pretty cool map of Destiny's world, the Gear VR from Samsung at IFA 2014, a huge event from Nvidia called Game24 and the advent of the GTX 900 series, and reviews from both!
Eight Bit #84: Play With My Analog Stick
August 31, 2014 21:59 - 1 hour - 26.5 MBIan Buck (in Sweden) and Ian Decker with returning guest Sonja Richardson discuss Microsoft's next cloud gaming platform, Amazon's the true owner of Twitch, release dates for the next Pokemon games and Kingdom Hearts 3, Nintendo's revised 3DS handhelds, and a review The Walking Dead Season 2 Finale!
Eight Bit #83: Pleasant Surprises
July 07, 2014 05:44 - 59 minutes - 28.9 MBBack for another camp episode, Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Twitch-YouTube annotations, a Tomb Raider novel, a Witcher MOBA, a last ditch effort from Ouya, Steam's summer sale and reviews of Dragon Age 2 and "A Story About My Uncle".
Eight Bit #82: Busy Crazy — Crazy Busy
June 18, 2014 05:43 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker return for their last major hurrah of the Summer, with many stories about camp, thoughts on E3 and some actual game time and a bit of news here and there.
Eight Bit #81: Talk in Circles
June 02, 2014 08:40 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Savannah Haslow discuss the Ian Challenge!, as well Sony's plans to bring gaming to China, a Ubisoft PR stunt gone wrong, a joint effort among Samsung, Facebook and Oculus, Nintendo's revised Let's Play policy, a discussion on Bethesda's BattleCry and reviews of VVVVV and The Wolf Among Us Episode 4.
Eight Bit #80: Shades Of Gray: In Between
May 26, 2014 06:33 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker along with frequently returning guest Ryan Rampersad and Sonja Richardson discuss the next iteration of PlayStation Now, screenshots from The Forest, a new RTS called Offworld Trading Company, game Steam streaming for everyone, Evolve's release date, a brief review from Buck on The Walking Dead 2 Episode 3 and a long review from Ryan on Transistor.
Eight Bit #79: That’s Not a Solution, That’s a Death Trap
May 19, 2014 07:36 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBIan Buck and returning guests Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the latest new G-Sync alternative standard called Adaptive Sync, Microsoft's relaxation of Xbox Live Gold requirements, the unveiling of FarCry4 (before E3 no less), the revelation of Halo 5: Guardians coming in Fall 2015, and breaking news from YouTube and Twitch.
Eight Bit #78: Gimmick: Move On With My Life
May 13, 2014 05:36 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBIan Buck, Ian Decker, returning guests Savannah Haslow and Ryan Rampersad discuss Nintendo news, Ingress' new levels, the upcoming game - Transistor, a new puzzle game called Engare, the Xbox One's price reduction, new Pokemon games and a review from Ian Buck on Kentucky Route Zero: Act 3.
Eight Bit #77: Classy Star Wars Pron Star
May 05, 2014 04:45 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker celebrate Star Wars day and discuss a Carmack scandal, a new Call of Duty, EVE Online's community beer extravaganza, a tiny stopgap to combat GameSpy's dissolution, and the long awaited review of Borderlands 2 from Buck and Decker.
Eight Bit #76: Handy Robot
April 28, 2014 04:53 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBIan Buck, Ian Decker and returning guest Katie Reddemann discuss the re-release of famous Humongous Games, the new Dragon Age Inquisition trailer, a unique take on microtransactions in H1Z1, Denmark in Minecraft, and reviews: Katie reviews South Park: The Stick of Truth, Buck reviews Thinking With Time Machine and Decker reviews Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Eight Bit #75: Survived An Alien Encounter
April 19, 2014 19:39 - 1 hour - 35.1 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss Steam statistics, the most iconic Game Soundtrack ever, a new Location-based AR game called Run an Empire, reviews of The Wolf Among Us Episode 3 from Buck and the Goat Simulator from Decker and so much more.
Eight Bit #74: Joss Whedon Is Love, Joss Whedon Is Life
April 14, 2014 04:54 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker talk about AMD's beast video card to rival Nvidia's Titan Z, The Last of Us remastered for PS4, a new Borderlands game, the next Super Smash Bros, and reviews of Amnesia Fortnight 2014 and BioShock Infinite Burial At Sea Episode 2 from Buck.
Eight Bit #73: Discriminating Against The Past
April 07, 2014 03:46 - 53 minutes - 22.2 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker return this week with their commentary on the Fire TV and its gaming capabilities, a recreated Half-Life 2 level in UE3, the demise of GameSpy, a barrage of April Fools' jokes and so much more.
Eight Bit #72: Sassy Secretary
March 31, 2014 03:33 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBIan Buck and Katie Reddemann discuss the surprise Oculus VR acquisition by Facebook, the insanely expensive Titan Z, an innovative system for replayable narratives by Ken Levine and Katie and Ian review the IP of the future, Titanfall!
Eight Bit #71: Too Skinny For A Heart
March 23, 2014 00:59 - 54 minutes - 28.1 MBIan Buck and Ian Decker discuss the strange licensing model for Unreal Engine 4, EA's already getting ready for Titanfall 2, Sony's entry in the VR race - Project Morpheus, a new version of the Oculus Rift, a review of Stargate SG-1: Unleashed and Indie Game: the Movie by Buck and then some Voice Acting.
Eight Bit #70: She Didn’t Have Curves, She Had Corners
March 17, 2014 06:23 - 59 minutes - 26.9 MBIan Decker and the returning Ian Buck discuss the Witcher 3's delay, new support for CryEngine on Linux, Valve's new OpenGL translator and Valve's revised controller, Nvidia 800M series mobile graphics, a strange looking Amazon-related gaming controller, some more details on PlayStation now, and a review of The Walking Dead 2 Episode 2 from Buck.