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Duos with Dale and Jeremy, 600K subscribers! This time around the block we’ve been playing the Sea of Thieves Final Beta and dabbling in a bit of Final Fantasy Comrades. Dale is back on his Tactics Ogre kick, and does a deep dive on Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s staying power.

Intro: “Battle 1” – Final Fantasy XV: Comrades, by Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura
Outro: “Autumnal Sky” – Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, by Hitoshi Sakimoto

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ALERT. ALERT. TOP-OF-THE-WEEK NEWS INCOMING. We’re on the scene with the latest updates and happenings in video games, and we need YOU to be prepared. This week we revisit Mario’s occupational crisis, the recent Nintendo Direct announcements, political meetings, Valve’s re-entry into actual games, The Division 2, and how you can play Grand Theft Auto 6 RIGHT NOW. Plus, we spend a lot of time talking about Fortnite and what’s happening in the “battle royale” genre these days (yes it’s probably a genre now).

Intro: “Diggin’ It / Bee-Having” – Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy, by Josh Mancell
Outro: “Champion” Main Menu (Season 3) – Fortnite, by Marco Beltrami and Pinar Toprak

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You know the drill. We’ve been playing video games, we want to talk about them, and you want to hear us. We continue our storied tradition of the mid-week “games we’re playin” show with Monster Hunter World, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Guilt Battle Arena, Beyond: Two Souls, XCOM Enemy Within, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution! Get your listenin on!

Intro: “Honghua Brothel” – Deus Ex: Human Revolution, by Michael McCann
Outro: “Main Menu” – Beyond: Two Souls, by Lorne Balfe

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It’s time for your weekly brain-dump of the news, new releases, and games discussion! That’s right, we’re selecting all the best stuff that we think is important this week and telling you just how it is! Politics and business, acquisitions, PS+ service changes, and oh yeah, a few actual video games! We hit the newest and best (?) game releases, and we discuss the first year of the Nintendo Switch.

Intro: “Rushin'” – Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, by Hyd Lunch, Akiko Akiyama, 季世, ZENTA, POPHOLIC, Masahiko Iida, 83key
Outro: “Metalhead” – Spyro the Dragon, by Stewart Copeland

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In this mid-week show, we finally stretch the limits of Jeremy’s feeble memory as he tries to remember the games he’s been playing! He finally lands on a “duo” of games with an unlikely connection! First, Starfox Zero on the Wii U spreads its wings and goes into all-range mode as we explore what makes the game similar to and different from its predecessors. Next, he talks about the prototype version of Pixeljunk Monsters Duo, not yet released on mobile devices but sharing a development parentage, and also sharing praise this week. Dale pipes in with the desert level of New Super Mario Bros 2, and finally repels the alien threat in XCOM: Enemy Unknown… but he then returns to dabble in dark genetic manipulation in XCOM: Enemy Within.

Intro: “Corneria” – Star Fox Zero, by Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yukari Suita, Hitomi Kurokawa, Naofumi Harada, Rei Kondoh, Keiki Kobayashi
Outro: “lumiere trembolotante” – Pixeljunk Monsters, by Otograph

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Matters must be attended: What does DICE stand for again? Just how sad can Phil Spencer make us? Who created Star Control after all? How cool would it be for Nathan Drake to hold a ship together with his webbing? Some of these questions may be answered in our video game news show this week! Also, new releases and updates, along with our freebies channel on Discord (link below). Finally, we discuss whether we’ve ever been embarrassed to play games in public, or how we deal with whipping out our gear for all to see. We institute the GameBytes Show Challenge!

Intro: “Pac is Pac” – Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus, by Taku Inoue, Toshio Kai, Akitaka Yohyama, Hiroshi Okubo, Hiroyuki Kawada, and Junko Ozawa
Outro: “The Time Machine KC:D 1403” – Kingdom Come: Deliverance, by Warhorse Studios

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Games. Games to edify you in this tribulation known as the midweek. But we’re here for you. We’re here with games like Monster Hunter World. With games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance. And with games like Bayonetta. With these games, you shall defeat all who oppose you, until you stand proudly atop the piled bodies of Wednesday, Thursday, and yes, even that false friend Friday. You’ll make it. We’ll take you there. With games.

Intro: “Fly Me to the Moon (Climax)” – Bayonetta, by Hiroshi Yamaguchi ft. Helena Noguerra
Outro: “Things Worth Living For” – Kingdom Come: Deliverance, by Jan Valta & Adam Sporka

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In our top-of-the-week news show, we cover happenings in the biz-nezz of video games including an update on Net Neutrality, Intel lawsuits over CPU vulnerabilities and performance hits, as well as EA’s Star Wars license in jeopardy. A new hope for Switch gamers, trouble with developer Steam reviews and the System Shock reboot, and WHO is thinking about starting a new crypto currency?? Also, we cover new releases, sales, and we discuss our favorite mobile adaptations of “big boy” games.

Intro: “Let’s Dance, Boys” – Bayonetta, by Naofumi Harada
Outro: “Soundtrack 01” – Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, by Kevin Manthei

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The guys are back with tales of video games to astonish and delight! So please, be astonished and delighted by…. Final Fantasy 15 Pocket Edition! (ooh) Gems of War PS4! (ahh) Pokemon Picross! (ohh) XCOM Enemy Unknown! (eee) Final Fantasy 12 Zodiac Age! (haha) Monster Hunter World! (hoho) and a smattering of other wonders and curiosities that we bring directly to your ears in a bumper crop of audio harvests!

Intro: “Gems of War montage” – Gems of War, by Aaron C. Edwards
Outro: “Stage (Picross)” – Pokemon Picross, by Yuka Tsujiyoko

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The news of this past week jumps out of history and COMES ALIVE through the GameBytes Show podcast! Such ancient stories as Activision’s annual DLC haul (it’s big), a record for Fortnite (also big), PS4 firmware update results (sufficiently big), and someone has made a brand new Sega Genesis game (average size)! Plus, we talk about the new releases, PS+ and Xbox Games with Gold freebies, and we discuss “painting yourself into a corner” in video games. We’re not THAT angry. So join us!

Intro: “Vigilo Confido” – XCOM: Enemy Within, by Michael McCann
Outro: “Love Theme” – Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland, by Manual of Errors Artists Inc.

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