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Season 15, Episode 26
August 08, 2021 14:31 - 93.3 MBIf the same thing that’s happened at Activision took place at another company that you support by playing their game, would you continue playing it? I asked that question at the tail end of this episode so there weren’t any responses. It is a question I tried asking myself, and couldn’t easily answer. The reason […]
Season 15, Episode 25
August 01, 2021 13:48 - 89.7 MBI can’t remember the last time James was on the show. He may have called in for a segment or two but the last time he was in-studio I think we talked about Prey. The newer one…not the portal one with the awesome intro of the bar getting sucked into the spaceship or Art Bell […]
Season 15, Episode 24
July 25, 2021 13:48 - 1 MBIt’s a strange place to be in gaming when the highlight of a publisher/developer showcase is a remake of a game from over ten years ago. We shouldn’t even be getting a Dead Space remake since there’s really no reason this series should have ever ended. I mean, sure, sales numbers or critical reviews may […]
Season 15, Episode 23
July 18, 2021 15:18 - 92 MBValve can really sneak up on you. Just out of nowhere announce a new device. And more so, a device we’ll see this year. Usually for console reveals or announcements, you’ll get a head’s up that something is coming or something will leak or you’ll get some sort of vague hints that lead to major […]
Season 15, Episode 22
July 11, 2021 13:52 - 91.2 MBFirst up is a note to apologize for the audio issues after the first 30 minutes or so. If you’re listening to the audio from iTunes, it’ll just cut from music to talking, and if you’re watching the video, it’s about 2 minutes of trying to read our lips and suddenly realizing no one can […]
Season 15, Episode 21
June 27, 2021 15:06 - 92.5 MBJust a head’s up that there will be no show for next weekend. We’ll see you back on Saturday the 10th. Thinking back on this episode, I mentioned why we weren’t talking about Activision and all the money they are giving to ol’ Bobby. I’d said it was because it always happens, each year, without […]
Season 15, Episode 20
June 20, 2021 14:32 - 91.5 MBWe’re a week out from E3 at this point and we barely break the bubble of discussion on it. I’m saving a lot of articles I had for this episode and bringing them over for the next episode just to discuss more of E3. Especially the analytics of it. All the analysis of everything that […]
Season 15, Episode 19
June 13, 2021 13:25 - 91.4 MBHappy E3! This past week had new reveals as did this past weekend, and we’ve got more as of today’s posting here and more to come in the days ahead. So there’s still plenty of time to recover and redeem the fact that Ubisoft dropped the ball on Splinter Cell, yet again. It’s unlikely, however, […]
Season 15, Episode 18
June 06, 2021 14:07 - 92.9 MBWhat a completely crazy two weeks it’s been. And most of it we tell you about right at the opening. Most of it having to do with our website being down, then back up, then split between 3 different people and now, finally, all under one roof. It’s a lot to figure out, but the […]
Season 15, Episode 17
May 16, 2021 13:21 - 93.7 MBLast week, when RJ mentioned he wouldn’t be able to be on the show this week, I wasn’t really expecting to do an episode. But, given that next Friday I get my second vaccine shot, and the weekend after is Memorial Day weekend, it potentially meant we’d be gone for possibly 3 weeks in a […]
Season 15, Episode 16
May 09, 2021 13:51 - 92.5 MBThe first thirty minutes of this show have barely anything to do with gaming at all. It’s just the recap of a VERY chaotic week. The rest of it has to do with Epic and Apple and everything we learned in just the first few days of that court case. And the speculation of how […]
Season 15, Episode 15
May 02, 2021 13:44 - 93.7 MBI’ve long since stopped trying to find the magic ratio for game to value. We talked about this with Returnal and it’s price tag. And how, at $60, I was more than entertaining the idea of picking up the game. Until I found out it was $70 and apparently that extra 10 bucks was just […]
Season 15, Episode 14
April 25, 2021 13:16 - 89.8 MBWelcome to an episode that almost never was…twice! Some of it’s explained in the show itself. That being the bad weather we were having and you’ll notice this show starts differently than the rest because of all the hecticness that was happening at the time. However, 24 hours earlier I was dead set against not […]
Season 15, Episode 13
April 18, 2021 13:01 - 95.2 MBAt this point I’m pretty sure ANY Pac-Man game will get my attention and will also end up being something that’ll just keep me playing over and over. It’s been doing that since the whole “Championship Edition” versions have been released. And it’s doing it again with some slinky little free game (free with a […]
Season 15, Episode 12
April 04, 2021 12:58 - 92.9 MBJust a quick show note: No new episode next week. We’ll be back live again on the 17th. I don’t want to sound like a shill for Microsoft, but I can’t really find a reason why you should NOT have a Game Pass subscription if you own an Xbox or even a PC. I mean, […]
Season 15, Episode 11
March 28, 2021 12:55 - 93.7 MBI don’t consider myself a hoarder, but I can imagine some people would say otherwise about me. I do tend to “hold on” to things a lot longer than most from time to time. Although I’ve recently backed off a bit with that habit. Or, at least, put a limit on what I’ll consider. Then […]
Season 15, Episode 10
March 21, 2021 14:59 - 94.4 MBI was going to lay out my whole situation here but it’s covered pretty well in the second half of the first hour of the show. Last fall I built a new PC. Almost everything in it was new except for two things: my power supply and my graphics card. This past week I somehow […]
Season 15, Episode 09
March 14, 2021 13:40 - 93 MBStrictly speaking consoles, when you take the big 3 and put all their exclusives together, Nintendo probably leads the pack with the most, both in intellectual property and games featuring that IP. Microsoft SHOULD be in the number 2 spot there or maybe even number 1. I would think Sony would come in last but […]
Season15, Episode 08
March 07, 2021 13:54 - 93.9 MBEver had peer pressure to play a game. Honestly, I never have, but there is some sort of feeling when you see so many people playing or talking about a game and you aren’t in on it. Maybe it’s an odd social pressure. Currently, for me, that pressure is Valheim. A lot of people are […]
Season 15, Episode 07
February 28, 2021 14:37 - 92 MBApparently, I really need to play Until Dawn. And from our caller praising it I’m actually looking forward to it. Now to just finish up some more time with Destiny before that. Anthem never really did anything for me (or anybody else it seems, for that matter), but I didn’t want it to die. I […]
Season 15, Episode 06
February 21, 2021 13:13 - 93 MBWe’re having trouble with our metaphors. But we think we’ve got it in the bag. I’m always surprised at how something becomes popular. Even when I know, I sometimes can’t understand it and, even when I’m involved, it can still be hard to explain. Valheim is the best and most current explanation of what I […]
Season 15, Episode 05
February 07, 2021 16:11 - 93.5 MBJust a quick show note since I forget to bring it up at the beginning of this episode: No show next weekend. There’s double dipping in a number of different ways be it comic books, video games, movies, music, etc. It’s not something I do a lot of, though I have bought the DVD, Blu-Ray, […]
Season 15, Episode 04
January 31, 2021 15:51 - 94.5 MBTime for another episode of our show about playing video games. So let’s get right to it and talk about the stock market! Yeah, that’s how we open the show and only really because of the stock involved. We’re it almost anything else (and it was already random as hell that it turned out to […]
Season 15, Episode 03
January 24, 2021 14:41 - 95 MBIt’s good to catch up. Be it with friends or just a backlog of games. As of late, I’ve been doing both. Well, on the gaming side of things it mainly means I’ve slowed down my time with Destiny 2 and have gotten back to playing other games and hopefully finding the time to dip […]
Season 15, Episode 02
January 17, 2021 15:00 - 93.9 MBEvery now and then a game, or some aspect of a game will dominate the talk. Not just ours but everyone playing games. Such is the case with Cyberpunk 2077. It had the hype going for it and the numerous delays as well. All of that combined to make it a talked about game in […]
Season 15, Episode 01
January 10, 2021 14:52 - 93.7 MBIt’s the beginning of the year. So, really, there wasn’t much to talk about actually. At least nothing we hadn’t already covered. We do spend a good time talking about what we’ve played over the past two weeks (for me that means about 3 or 4 more games other than Destiny – though it’s mentioned […]
Season 14, Episode 36
December 20, 2020 13:50 - 133 MBIt’s the end of the year. Just as a show note, we’re probably done with episodes for the next two weeks. With that in mind, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for sticking by this year. I think 36 episodes is probably one of our lowest outputs of the time […]
Season 14, Episode 35
December 13, 2020 14:04 - 92.7 MBSo, last week I talked about playing Cyberpunk on consoles since my PC isn’t ready to handle such a game. Turns out, the consoles aren’t either for the most part. I guess I’ll get around to it at some point, on some system. Meanwhile, I’ll hammer away at Destiny 2 and, as the grind of […]
Season 14, Episode 34
December 06, 2020 14:27 - 94.1 MBI know better now to say that I’m not going to get new consoles when they release. I said I wouldn’t for the Switch and then was there day one. I said I wouldn’t for the two new systems, and yet they were both hooked up to the TV right after Thanksgiving. Don’t tempt the […]
Season 14, Episode 33
November 22, 2020 08:58 - 93.7 MBOur schedule has been a bit sporadic as of late and we’d like to tell you upfront that, due to the holiday, we will NOT be doing a show next week. After that, however, we’ll be back on a regular, more reliable schedule. Then again, this is 2020, so who knows? As always at this […]
Season 14, Episode 31
November 08, 2020 16:44 - 92.7 MBSorry for the delay. We’re back, even if just for a moment. If you didn’t already know why there was a long stint between shows then you’ll find out in this episode. In fact, you’ll hear more about me personally in this episode than any one before it. And you’ll hear more about me personally […]
Season 14, Episode 30
October 04, 2020 15:07 - 93.5 MBToday, I build. For the first time in about 8 years I’m doing a brand new build of a PC. All the parts finally arrived and I’m good to go. So, that’s what I’ll be doing right after this gets posted. Actually, I’ll be taking stock to make sure I have all I need and […]
Season 14, Episode 29
September 27, 2020 14:59 - 93.3 MBSo, turns out I had one of those major life things happen this week. We were still able to do a show, but there was a chance we almost didn’t. I explain within the first 30 minutes of the show here if you’re at all curious as to what happened. The point of that conversation […]
Season 14, Episode 28
September 20, 2020 14:55 - 94.4 MBI kept wondering how Sony would react to what Microsoft has on offer for the holiday season in terms of the consoles, the release date, value, etc. And now I’m wondering if they felt like they pulled off a win, here? Because it doesn’t feel like one. I’m still not down for either console, right […]
Season 14, Episode 27
September 13, 2020 14:23 - 92 MBUp until this week, nothing has really excited me about the new consoles coming out in a few months. The features and games, there was nothing pulling me in really. Then Microsoft really opened the doors on what they’ve got and now…well, I feel a bit of that excitement coming back. And oddly enough, I’m […]
Season 14, Episode 26
August 30, 2020 15:53 - 93.8 MBThe Switch is really coming into its own for me, lately. I remember getting it at launch. This was after weeks of saying I had no interest in it and that it just didn’t seem like anything I would ever play. Obviously I’m a sucker for new systems. I had it, I just didn’t have […]
Season 14, Episode 25
August 16, 2020 15:04 - 92.8 MBWhen two companies battle, it’s usually a good thing for the consumer. But I am almost certain when Epic and Apple battle, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with YOU. However, Epic has positioned itself to look like it has everything to do with you and Apple’s pretty much painted themselves into a corner. Look, […]
Season 14, Episode 24
August 09, 2020 15:05 - 91.1 MBThe Switch is beginning to serve a purpose as of late. And maybe it always did but I just needed the game to make that happen. Apparently I found it in Animal Crossing. I’ve had downtime at work due to the whole world situation. I mean, not always downtime but easily more than I did […]
Season 14, Episode 23
August 02, 2020 15:41 - 94 MBApologies up front. I did as much as I could to take out a horrible hum in the audio. We’re not sure what that is, but we’re going to look into it and hopefully have it corrected by the next episode. I almost completely eliminated it, but if you were perhaps tuning in live, it […]
Season 14, Episode 22
July 26, 2020 16:28 - 93.5 MBIt’s been over a month since I’ve dipped my toes back into The Last Of Us Part 2. Exactly…I played it the first weekend it released and then left it alone for a whole month. I think a lot of that was anxiety to get back into that game and that world. I’m usually far […]
Season 14, Episode 21
July 19, 2020 17:28 - 93.3 MBThe PC Build Bug has bitten yet again. The last time an actual build took place for me was back in 2012 and I still can’t remember why I did it. Usually I’m driven by a game or a few games on the horizon but going back to 2012 and I can’t see a thing […]
Season 14, Episode 20
July 12, 2020 15:44 - 93.2 MBI don’t know if anyone listens to the show who makes video games, but please excuse our talk about gaming moving to a higher price tag. It’s mostly me, and I apologize for speaking out of turn as I have absolutely NO idea how to make video games or even how they are made. Thinking […]
Season 14, Episode 19
June 28, 2020 15:07 - 92.9 MBJust a quick note, first off, to say there will NOT be a new episode next weekend due to the holiday. Well, it’s week two and I haven’t finished Last Of Us Part 2. I’ve gotten further than last time I wrote this but still don’t even think I’m halfway through the thing. Which is […]
Season 14, Episode 18
June 21, 2020 16:01 - 91.8 MBJust a head’s up for this episode – we do discuss The Last Of Us Part II. However, we keep it pretty spoiler free outside of a location you visit in a major US city. Other than that it took a lot longer to discuss just the few hours I’d already put into it – […]
Season 14, Episode 17
June 14, 2020 15:44 - 91.9 MBConsole reveals are fun, aren’t they? I wasn’t expecting to get a look at the actual Playstation 5 when Sony did their showcase this past week. If I remember correctly it only mentioned it would be showing off games for the new system but then at the end we get the reveal. Nice surprise. I […]
Season 14, Episode 16
June 07, 2020 15:24 - 93.6 MBWe really didn’t have a lot to talk about where video games were concerned. A lot of what we might have been talking about in that regard was delayed. And for good reason. Even what we had to talk about was a delay – 90 minutes of watching a ship explode.
Season 14, Episode 15
May 31, 2020 15:57 - 92.4 MBWe can send people to space…. One thing leads to another leads to another and so on. That’s how this episode starts out and we take a little walk down memory lane. Mostly just how badly we all miss arcades. I mean, I say we miss them but I can easily remember being in them […]
Season 14, Episode 14
May 17, 2020 15:55 - 92.9 MBIn my head, it’s more fun to think that Sony and Microsoft are having a stand off and seeing which one moves first. Like some weird game of marketing chicken or a staring contest. But, there’s likely a reality that the price of both systems has already been set. And actually, it probably has except […]
Season 14, Episode 13
May 10, 2020 15:38 - 91.5 MBAs much as I go on a rant at the end of the episode about Ubisoft providing gameplay for what’s touted as a gameplay trailer, I suppose I should take a dose of my own medicine for very little talk of games on a show about video games. Still, when I get folks calling in […]
Season 14, Episode 12
May 03, 2020 13:14 - 93.1 MBPardon the dust and a bit of the rust, as well. Our site is back to…normal? I mean, it looks different, but it works again and is also feeding shows back to iTunes now. And speaking of that, we’re back on iTunes in case you noticed we were missing. And that was because of the […]