Eight Bit #62: Swagway

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Andrew Bailey discuss Steam for the Oculus Rift, GameFace running on Android, another augmented reality game tying into Endgame, Gabe Newell's selfie, Nintendo's losses, news from Steam Dev Days and a reviews of Broken Age from Andrew and Ingress from Buck.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Andrew Bailey discuss Steam for the Oculus Rift, GameFace running on Android, another augmented reality game tying into Endgame, Gabe Newell's selfie, Nintendo's losses, news from Steam Dev Days and a reviews of Broken Age from Andrew and Ingress from Buck.


Links

Valve launch Steam VR beta ahead of their Dev Days event | PC Gamer
Patch 4.1 Notes | League of Legends
Games for Windows Live will soon be dead (hooray!), here’s a list of devs removing it from their games | PC Gamer
GameFace offering Oculus Rift alternative with wireless, Android-powered headset | Polygon
Thief system requirements released – how good a PC will you need to steal? | PC Gamer
EA adding offline mode to SimCity | Polygon
Steam Greenlight :: CATLATERAL DAMAGE
Valve loves content creators, paid out $400K in the first week of 2014 | PC Gamer
Latest Road Redemption video shows promising progress | PC Gamer
Google’s Niantic Labs creating AR tie-in game for Endgame trilogy | Polygon
No Man’s Sky won’t face delay, despite flood’s best efforts | PC Gamer
Going mobile ‘sunk’ Mutant Football League’s first go at Kickstarter | Joystiq
Gone Home reimagined as an FPS in Gun Home | Polygon
Steam to add support for 12 new currencies in 2014 | PC Gamer
Group behind forced-perspective puzzle demo meets with Double Fine, eyes the future | Polygon
Twitch: 68 percent of users have cut back on TV | Polygon
Final Fantasy Tactics designer launches new tactical RPG on Kickstarter | PC Gamer
BBC – Newsbeat – Plastic surgery app game aimed at children taken down
Square Enix game streaming service Core Online taken offline | Polygon
Next Car Game launches on Steam Early Access | PC Gamer
Xbox Multimedia Executive Leaves Microsoft, Cites New Direction as Cause | The Escapist
DayZ diary: the one where PC Gamer is hunted by the internet | PC Gamer
The Wolf Among Us Episode 2 to be released early next month | PC Gamer
Gabe Newell Gets Ignored on Reddit, Posts “Selfie” to Prove Identity | The Escapist
GTA 5 bug log lists PC version and DirectX 11 effects | PC Gamer
Barony trailer shows Ultima Underworld inspired multiplayer roguelike | PC Gamer
Nintendo considers ‘new business structure’ in wake of losses | Polygon
Steam Machine Hardware Benchmarked – IGN
Steam Machines performance reviews – Futuremark
Star Wars 1313 trademark ‘abandoned’ | Polygon
Octodad: Dadliest Catch PC Release Date Announced – IGN
New Dark Souls 2 Trailer Reveals Monsters and Mysteries – IGN
Gabe Newell wants to “make Greenlight go away” as Steam evolves | PC Gamer
Steam gained 10M new users in three months | Polygon
Steam Holiday Sale saw 2M daily community market transactions, 2M Snow Globe card trades | Polygon
Valve updates Steam Controller with new buttons, drops touchscreen | PC Gamer
Beta Status Update :: Steam In-Home Streaming
Broken Age hitting Steam with Season Pass, not Early Access | Polygon
Broken Age: Act 1 | the Andrew Bailey
Ian Buck: Ingress Review

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