Microsoft drops some future bombs (the good type of bombs) at this week’s Gamescom. Paul gets into more Nindies (Special note go download them now) and James has a Need for Speed that’s several years old. Also tune in for a super special announcement regarding the future of Eight and a Half Bit.
Cheapskate’s Game Club: Secret of QWERTY
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It’s time to revisit the Ninja action of Ronin (now in early access), get confused by board game descriptions, excite ourselves with confused robots and talk about all the heists that have happened this week in gaming!
Cheapskate’s Game Club: Pinball FX2
Next Week: Regular Human Basketball
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Today we video game the games that are Cities: Skylines and Ori and the Blind Forest. We also video game Glitchhikers and talk about Video Games.
Cheapskate’s Game Club: Glitchhikers
Next Week: Game of War
Crowd Funding Pick: Quiplash
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It can be easy for some gamers to write off the side-scrolling beat-‘em-up genre as shallow and repetitive, especially when taking into account how the medium of video games has evolved and matured over the past two decades, but this is doing the genre a disservice.
Side-scrolling beat-‘em-ups have actually taught us some interesting and valuable things, such as how breaking open a metal bin or a wooden barrel or crate can potentially reveal a delicious whole roast chicken or some similar food hiding within, and how eating such hidden food (well, more “absorbing” than eating) can instantly heal you no matter how badly you’ve been beaten, stabbed, burned, and generally battered.
Eight and a Half Bit 