Author Archives: Paul Bit

Elevator Pitch – Wayward Terran Frontier

In space no one can hear you loot

We talk to George Hultgren about his incredible looking project, Wayward Terran Frontier which mixes space adventure with hardcore ship simulation. You can support the project on kickstarter or follow the game and try the alpha at the game’s home page.

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Episode 90 – Nintendoom and the saga of the candy douchebags

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Nintendo is dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed except for all their money and fantastic games. Nidhogg rules and so does the DayZ Standalone, King.com try to sue the candy out of everyone, Assassin’s creed meets Batman Arkum Asylum in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and a truly knock out week of crowd funding projects await within.

Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: Cradle
James: ReVen
Paul: La Mulana 2

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Top 5 – Good Games with Bad Ideas

High salt and Free drinks? Idiocy!

As an alternate take on our old “Bad games with Good Ideas” list we present the shockingly titled “Good Games with Bad Ideas”. How do we do it?!

Next Week: Top 5 Early Works

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Episode 89 – Broken Wallets

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The Kickstarters are returning! See the proud creatures as they roam freely through the open fields of the interwebz. Also we talk about Double Fine’s Broken Age, if game discounting is a good thing and valve did so much this week it gets its own news attack.

Crowd Funding Picks
Ben and James: Wayward Terran Frontier
Paul: Project Rain World

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Top 5 – PS3 Exclusives

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Have you heard of the Playstation 3? It’s a game playing device! There are even some game that can only be played on this particular type of game station. Come in and join our three intrepid adventurers as we discuss our top 5 games that fall under that previously mentioned category of games that can only be played on the Playstation 3. I mean what am I going to write here really? The entire concept of the episode is summed up in the title. This is pretty much pointless and a bit hard really. Anyone ever read this episode text? I don’t and I write it. I might go get some breakfast. Don’t get too excited it’s just cereal.

Next Week: Top 5 Good Games with Bad Ideas

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Episode 88 – Videogame Abbey

Presenting Master Wank

It’s time for another scandalous episode of Eight and a half bit. From the Kaiju inspired monsters of Evolve to the emotional artiness of Continue?9876543210 James, Paul and a suspiciously quiet Ben handle the daily chores of running the most Videogame Abbey in town.

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Top 5 – Classic Games available for Digital Download

Once good, always good

Did you grow up with ye olde games? Are you currently growing up and have therefore missed out on ye olde games?! You can still play them and some of them are so easy to get all you need to do is use The Secret (money and internet).

Next week: Top 5 PS3 Exclusives

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