Game Bytes

This week’s episode features a gruesome twosome of Dale and Jeremy talking about GAMES. The games they played this week, in fact. Dale covers the board-game-to-PC-game adaptation of Space Hulk (pretty sure we either have or have not covered this one before) and has to set the licensing record as straight as he can. Jeremy played the technical test beta for Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (not to be confused with the old Lee Majors TV show, Jeremy), and describes the defeat-focused gameplay that just keeps bringing him back.

Intro: “Everybody Falls (main theme)” – Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Outro: “March of the Blood Angels (theme)” – Space Hulk

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This week’s news meanders a bit, but we make sure your core needs are being addressed: the need for gaming news. This episode covers Microsoft’s response to our questions about Xbox Game Pass. We discuss mod support in the Epic Games Store. Ubisoft SORT OF addresses public demand for their franchises, and Metal Gear Solid 5 players reach a peaceful conclusion, sort of. Plus, new releases and all of August’s freebies, and we discuss the most game-changing mods we’ve enjoyed in the past!

Intro: “Well Thought Out Twinkles” – Skater XL, by Silversun Pickups
Outro: “Feral Instincts” – Nowhere Prophet, by Mike Beaton

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In this week’s episode we dig into a handful of very different (yet strangely contiguous) games to talk about! First, LeGrande gets into World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. It’s an MMO with a tinge of tentacle talk. Dale talks about his experience with The Lord of the Rings Online, continuing the swords-and-magic MMO theme and revisiting an oldie-but-maybe-goodie. Finally, Jeremy returns to tentacles with Carrion on Xbox Game Pass, and makes a sideways jaunt to other blobby appendages with the full release of Teenage Blob.

Intro: “Guitar Zero” – Teenage Blob, by the Superweaks
Outro: “LOTRO Legacy” – Lord of the Rings Online, by Chance Thomas

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It’s time to catch our breath from non-E3 2020 and take stock of what’s been happening. Microsoft had their event, and also close Mixer. Ninteno suffers a deep probe-and-release, and Ubisoft hints at their next-gen price point. Half the kids in America are playing one game, and GabeN has been off the radar for a while. Plus, new releases and some sales and freebies, and we square up the PS5 and Xbox Series X based on their respective showings in recent weeks.

Intro: “Super mario World RAP!” – MissaSinfonia
Outro: “A Reckoning in Blood” – Ghost of Tsushima, by Ilan Eshkeri & Shigeru Umebayashi

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We return true to our final form, with another podcast of games impressions with a 3-man crew. This time we get into a hoof-in-mouth brawl with Them’s Fightin’ Herds, we love good strategy but tire of anime in Fire Emblem Awakening on the 3DS (in 2D), and we try out the new battle royale game Hyper Scape from the Ubisoft Forward open beta!

Intro: “Final Future (Drop Music)” – Hyper Scape, by Schala
Outro: “The Woodland [Oleander’s Stage]” – Them’s Fightin’ Herds, by Scott Ferguson & Whitetail

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This week, the mid-July power duo Dale and Jeremy get down to business with leisure. It’s video game time! Dale delves into The Legend of Grimrock 2 for some good old-fashioned dungeon crawling, but with that classic “farmer eats food to gain XP” twist. Jeremy takes a quick trip to the banana republic of Tropico 2 for the weekend, and comes away with an appreciation for the delicacy of the position of presidente-for-life!

Intro: “Main Theme” – Legend of Grimrock 2, by Perttu Vanska, Hannu Honkonen, & Henri Vartio
Outro: “Friday Fiesta” – Tropico 6

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In this week’s news we deal with upheaval at EVO and Ubisoft, Fortnite finally gets out of early access, Fallout gets a TV adaptation, Paradox wants to get into mobile, and Minecraft is part of your balanced brick-fast. We discuss new releases and freebies currently circulating. We also remember the life and times of DLC we have known.

Intro: “God In Fire” – Dissidia 012 Duodecim Final Fantasy, by Takeharu Ishimoto
Outro: “Chirp” – Minecraft, by C418

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Oh the games that we play. Specifically, oh the games that we play each week to bring to you on the GameBytes Show podcast! This week LeGrande kicks us off with his descent into hell, over and over again with Hades. Dale gets got, over and over again with surprisingly-rewarding card game Legends of Runeterra. Jeremy plumbs the SNK freebie fighting games on Twitch Prime to sort out who is truly the King of Fighters… 2000.

Intro: “KD0084” – King of Fighters 2000 Outro: “Good Riddance (Orpheus & Euridyce)” – Hades, by Darren Korb ft Ashley Barret

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This action-packed news episode of the podcast has been in the chamber for a few hours now, and it’s ready to hit your earwaves with a gangsta style hit of current events! Valve changes the face of digital retail, Microsoft folds their brick-and-mortar stores, Tencent muscles in on Twitch, and several games are getting adaptations. Plus, we cover new releases, and have an impromptu and deep discussion about the latest Web 2.3.4.0 happenings, and it’s Christopher Nolan movies. (no joke).

Intro: “Calling” – The World Ends With You, by Takeharu Ishimoto
Outro: “Whirling Cafeteria (Day)” – Disco Elysium, by British Sea Power

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This week we get a little philosophical about the nature of sidequests and how much work and ethics are involved therein. LeGrande goes back to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to lament the overabundance of “pretty good” sidequests on the game’s map. But how can he choose? Dale has gotten into Destiny 2, and a little bit of The Horus Heresy: Legions. Jeremy traversed the deserts and savannahs of northern Africa in the pre-WWII nazi-fighter, Pathway.

Intro: “Main Theme” – Pathway, by Gavin Harrison
Outro: “The Court of Savathûn” – Destiny 2 Season of Arrivals, by Michael Salvatori & Skye Lewin, Josh Mosser, Michael Sechrist, Rotem Moav and Pieter Shlosse

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