Episode 617: Steam Decked

The Steam Deck has been released, and TJ and Scott are just excited about it. They’re able to play indie games on a Switch-like device even though many of the same games on the Switch. Jonah already has Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and therefore already plays games with a controller on his cellphone.

This week’s news includes:

  • Some Steam Deck preorders won’t ship until September 2022
  • PES is dead, replaced by the F2P ‘football platform’ eFootball
  • Humankind dev pulls controversial Denuvo DRM from game before launch
  • Xbox Game Pass is about to have an unbelievably good month

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Episode 255: The Darkness II ContestEpisode 255: The Darkness II Contest

Dan Quick returns again to cover for Paul Nowak, and this week, the Gaming Podcast is offering free copies of The Darkness II Limited Edition, which comes with the main game and some free DLC. The guys are giving away an Xbox 360 version and a PlayStation 3 version. To win, just listen to the podcast and post what your favorite scary movie is.

The game news this week includes:

  • Ex-SCEE senior VP Phil Harrison joins Microsoft’s European team
  • DOOM developer John Romero has “plans” for “old school” shooter
  • EA defends Mass Effect 3 From Ashes DLC data being on disc
  • Notch settles with Bethesda over “Scrolls” trademark
  • DICE: 2GB RAM won’t be enough for next gen consoles
  • Angry Birds theme park to open in Finland
  • GAME puts itself up for sale, GameStop interested
  • Diablo III release date announcement “in a few days“, no PvP in launch version

And yes, they know that the announcement was just made today – May 15th release date for Diablo III.

The contest to win either the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 version of The Darkness II will run this and next week, with the winners announced in Episode 257.

Episode 728: No Man’s RenewalEpisode 728: No Man’s Renewal

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In this episode, the guys discuss Riot Games reportedly canceled an unannounced platform fighter, Fallout getting nominated for 16 Emmy Awards, and a player coming back after a 11 year, 5 month ban to continue the same argument from 2013.

The news includes:

  • No Man’s Sky goes 5.0 with a sweeping tech update
  • Yakuza studio Ryu Ga Gotoku will reveal its next game at Tokyo Game Show 2024
  • Nintendo reveals Emio – The Smiling Man as a new Famicom Detective Club game

Let us know what you think.

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Episode 600: It’s Another Milestone. Again.Episode 600: It’s Another Milestone. Again.

Gaming Podcast celebrates another major milestone, this time on February 2 — so expect some Groundhog Day jokes. This month has no Gaming Flashback, but there’s a lot of show in this sexcentennial podcast.

  • MLB The Show 21 announced for Xbox and PlayStation
  • Nintendo not planning to announce a new Switch model “anytime soon”
  • Yakuza spinoff Judgment coming to PS5, Xbox Series X in April
  • Xbox Series X will be in short supply until at least June
  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition now available for pre-order
  • EA returns to college football
  • Nintendo reportedly updating multiplayer server backend for first time in over a decade

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