Eight and a Half Bit

Apr 13 2014

Episode 101 – Wonderful Worlds to Explore (You can include ESO if you want)

Welcome to Eight and a Half Bit 101. In today’s lesson we will cover James going on about Elder Scrolls Online for some reason, Paul’s history with the Mercenary Kings and Ben’s well documented obsession with Kinect Sports Rivals. We’ve got demos for Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect and Chaos Reborn plus SOE announces a DayZ competitor and we would be amis if we did not also mention the amazing underwater exploration in Subnautica, Smash Bros news, a new Borderlands and a partridge in a pear tree!

Crowd Sourcing Picks
Ben: Pixel Noir
James: Prisonscape
Paul: Outcast Reboot HD

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Tagged Android, Armello, Below, Black Desert, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Chaos Reborn, Character Creator, Civilisation: Beyond Earth, Diablo 3, Dirty Sexy Soccer, Elder Scrolls online, Everquest Next, Goat simulator, H1Z1, Inochi Project, Jet Set Radio, Kinect Sports Rivals, Last Life, Let’s Go Camping, Mark of the Old Ones, Mercenary Kings, Moga Pro, Nintendo Directm Fortnite, Outcast Reboot HD, Pixel Noir, Planetside 2, Prisonscape, PS4, Sightline, Smash Bros Wii, Smash Bros Wii-u, Source, Subnautica, Technolust, Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect, The Last of Us Remastered, Treachery in Beatdown City, Vectropolis, Vita, wii-u, xbone

Apr 06 2014

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Episode 100 – 100 Shades of Yay

100 episodes in and we’ve decided to celebrate by talking about video games! What a treat! We get into some Goat Simulator, Monument Valley, the Amazon Fire TV, April Fool’s Day, a bunch of other stuff and maybe some cake? (Spoiler: There is no cake involved)

Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: The Breakout
James: Dead Years
Paul: Four Sided Fantasy

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Tagged Amazon Fire TV, April Fool’s Day, bees, Blood Dragon 3, Clint Hocking, Cult County, Dancers of War, Dead Crusade, Dead Years, Death in Candlewood, Dynabot: The Robo Marble, EVA, Everquest Next, Final Fantasy 14, Flying Hamster 2, Flying Hamster II, Four Sided Fantasy, Gamespy, Goat simulator, Guild Wars 2, Hearthstone, Kim Swift, Landmark, Monument Valley, Oliver and Spike, Phil Spencer, Planetside 2, Player Studio, Pop Up Dungeon, Ring Runner, ScummVM, Shining Empire, SOE, Super Mega Bob, The Breakout, xbone

Apr 03 2014

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Elevator Pitch Video

Elevator Pitch – Nova 111

Kalin Gorski of Funktronic Labs joins us to talk about and show off in detail their hot new turn based, real time hybrid Nova 111.

http://nova111.com/

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Tagged arcade, Funktronic Labs, indie game, Nova 111, puzzle, Q-Games, Real Time, scientists, turn based

Apr 02 2014

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Top 5 Audio

Top 5 – Mining Games

What treasures are there to be found hidden in the depths? Perhaps an abandoned copy of this podcast someone sealed away for future generations to enjoy!

Next Week: Top 5 games to play with your partner

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Tagged mines, Mining, videogames

Mar 30 2014

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Episode 99 – The Billion Dollar Kickstarter

Facebook bought Oculus Rift this week for $2 billion. That’s weird. Also James gets into Titanfall, Simone gets into some pixelated piracy and Paul revisits Little Big Adventure. Lots more game talk and some rocking crowd funding projects await those who dare to listen.

Crowd Funding Picks
Ben: Serpent in the Staglands
Simone: Cosmochoria
James: Choice Chamber
Paul: Still Alive

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Tagged 3DRealms, Advertcity, Apexicon, Assassin’s Creed Comet, Banished, Batman: Arkham Knight, Choice Chamber, Cosmochoria, Dark Souls 2, Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls, Duke Nukem, Facebook, Flockers, Frog Fractions 2, Grave, Hex Heroes, Killstorm, Lemma, Little Big Adventure, Luftrausers, Minecraft, Notch, Oculus Rift, Pixel Pirates, Serpent in the Staglands, Steam Streaming, Still Alive, The Weird Story of Waldemar the Warlock, Titanfall, Zombies Monsters Robots

Mar 26 2014

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Top 5 Audio

Top 5 – Briefly Burning Fires

If you love something set it free… and then promptly forget about it. I don’t even remember what I was doing in the first place.

Next Week: Top 5 Mining Games

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Tagged brief obsessions, briefly burning fires, top 5, videogames

Mar 23 2014

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Epiosode 98 – G.D.C.James

James is back from GDC and boy is he sleepy. Paul plays some Luftrausers, James gets Bravely Default and Ben watches more Youtube videos of Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze because that’s how he rolls. New VR gear, game engines, Assassin’s Creed, Gauntlet, Simulated bears and all other sorts of things are included.

Crowd Funding picks
Ben: Chaos Reborn
James: The Red Solstice
Paul: The Seed

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Tagged Assassin’s Creed Unity, Bear Simulator, Bravely Default, Bulletstorm, Chaos Reborn, CryEngine, Dark Skyes, Dark Souls 2, Dead of the dead, Diablo 3, Eye Tracking, Far Cry 4, Frog Fractions 2, Gauntlet, GDC, GDC2014, GOG, Kickstarter, Linux, Luftrausers, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, Project Morpheus, ROFLpillar, Sim City, Skyforege, The Red Solstice, The Seed, Titan Run, Titanfall, Unreal Engine

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