This episode was delayed a few days thanks to some acting work for Jonah Falcon. The podcast moving forward will be recorded on Wednesdays, partly because videogame releases are on Tuesdays. The guys also discuss the disaster No Man’s Sky has been.
This week’s news includes:
- EA strongly hints that Mass Effect games will get remastered
- No Man’s Sky’s PC patch is out now
- NPD: 3DS, Xbox One, And GTA V lead brutal July slump
All this and Listener Feedback, too.

Apple cutting into
This weeks gaming podcast, emotions run wild while we talk about our initial
I read that Civ 6 will use DX12, so it might help low tier PCs as the low-level API reduces overhead, and it could be coded for async compute to accommodate AMD GCN and Nvidia Pascal GPUs via concurrency to gain more performance:
https://www.techpowerup.com/224112/amd-partners-with-firaxis-on-civilization-vi-development