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8 Bits
by 8bits.gg
A weekly gaming podcast wrapping up the top 8 stories of the week as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Episodes
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Counter-Strike, GDC, and Tax Season: 8 Bits 100 (03.24.23)
Did I ever think I would producer 100 episodes of my news show? No, never. Am I glad I did? Very yes. Time for some news.
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Starfield, Dragonball Z, and Mario Day: 8 Bits (03.10.23)
WAHOO! YIPPEE! MAMMA MIA! And other assorted Mario noises.
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Elden Ring DLC, Pokemon, and Potential Prison? 8 Bits (03.03.23)
Elden Ring stands as my favorite game of 2022 and going back to the Lands Between for another adventure sound incredibly fun. I'm excited to see what lies in the shadow of the erdtree.
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Mortal Kombat 12, State of Play, and EVO 2023: 8 Bits (02.24.23)
Few fighting games do single player modes like Mortal Kombat. I have never been the biggest MK fan, but after playing through the single player campaign alongside a friend in college, Mortal Kombat X sold me on the series story and lore. MK11 further dug me in with all the cinematics and…
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Game Pass, The Voice of AI, and Tetris: 8 Bits (02.17.23)
More games should end in a way where, if the original version is going away, then the game can be preserved by fans for years to come. I'm a big proponent for preservation and, considering how lots of games seem to be ending recently, it's nice that companies are putting in the effort for their...
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Nintendo Direct, Activision Blizzard, and The Grammys: 8 Bits (02.10.23)
The first ever video game song to receive a Grammy was the song Baba Yetu composed by Christopher Tin as the theme for Civilization 4 on 2011, though that was before there was an official category for video game music. I'm glad to see who gets nominated next year. Because of the Grammy cut-off...
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DC Video Games, E3 2023, and Nick Offerman for Some Reason: 8 Bits (02.03.23)
I hope to never see bad superhero movie tie-ins ever again. Oh, and news!
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Developer_Direct, Avengers Disassembled, and No More Uncharted? 8 Bits (01.27.23)
I really don't think there needs to be any more Uncharted. Too often now are companies focused on producing more and more from an IP until returns diminish and not when it is a suitable time to end. Uncharted 4 is one of the most fitting endings to a series I've ever played and I would not want…
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Dungeons and Dragons, Labor, and F1: 8 Bits (01.20.23)
I don't play enough racing games. I put a few dozen hours into Forza every once in a while, but I do miss a good simulation racing experience like the mainline Forza Motorsport games. I grew up playing Gran Turismo, but Forza spoke to me more starting with 2. Needless to say, I'm excited for the...
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Beyond D&D, Rick and Morty, and AGDQ 2023: 8 Bits (01.13.23)
I'm a big fan of open source. Stuff being open and available for everyone to freely use and build off of is a cool thing, especially empowering people to create without the motivation of money. I like that. Oh yeah, and news!
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The Last of Us Part 3, One D&D, and Sony at CES: 8 Bits (01.06.23)
A 10-year-old with 25 years of experience sounds like what entry-level jobs want you to have on your resume. Oh, and news!
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The Second Annual 8 Bits Non-Denominational Holiday Special
This year we are joined by writer at VideoGameUtopia and host of the Player's Club podcast Emmett Watkins Jr. to talk about eight - and a lot more - of our favorite games that came out this year!
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The United States V. Gamers, Spider-Man, and Theme Parks: 8 Bits (12.16.22)
THIS IS THE LAST NORMAL EPISODE OF THE YEAR! Stay tuned for the second annual Non-Denominational Holiday Special next week!
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Everything at The Game Awards 2022, The FTC, and The Death of Rhythm Games: 8 Bits (12.09.22)
If there's any star to come from The Game Awards 2022, it was the absolute king of woodwinds and flutes Pedro Eustache during the final GOTY orchestral medley. The dude absolutely rocking the flute parts for the music of Xenoblade 3? The guy headbanging through the whole thing? Yeah, that dude is…
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Super Smashed Bros., The Game Awards, and The US Army: 8 Bits (12.02.22)
Nintendo has effectively placed their very large, money making foot in their mouth for the sake of their brand and control regarding the Smash World Tour and could lead to large ramifications for their esports aspirations with other titles such as Splatoon 3. Also, get the military out of games.
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The Game Awards, Sonic Creator Arrested, and Gaming News Amidst the Collapse of Social Media: 8 Bits (11.18.22)
If someone tweets in a forest, and no servers are up to hear it, does it still make a sound? Oh, and we're off next week because of Thanksgiving in the US. If Twitter does go down, perhaps the turkey will make a tweet.
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Gears of War Movies, Mass Effect 4, and Lots of Legal Drama: 8 Bits (11.11.22)
Remember when Starfield was supposed to come out today?
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PSVR2, New AMD Graphics Cards, and IKEA For Some Reason: 8 Bits (11.04.22)
IKEA is the perfect place for a horror game. Each visit feels ever so slightly unsettling. The gray voids between these supposedly lived in spaces triggers a feeling of discomfort in me, like the uncanny valley feeling. Perhaps its that same feeling from witnessing liminal spaces, the spooky…
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Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and The Spookiest of All - The Sims: 8 Bits (10.21.22)
The trailer for Silent Hill F is one of the most effective trailers I've seen in a long time. The atmosphere, the vibes, the imagery, the mushrooms, all very scary. I'm not even particularly into horror games but just the trailer has sold me on the game. Mushrooms in horror games - SO big right...
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The Super Mario Movie, Cyberpunk 2077 2, and Hot Tubs: 8 Bits (10.07.22)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer outdid any expectations I had of what the movie would look like. In one shot, there's a little stream near Mario and it's full of Cheap Cheaps! All the little details are there. Despite the reception around them, none of the criticisms around Illumination's…
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Rest in Peace Stadia, Hopefully Not in the WalMetaverse: 8 Bits (09.30.22)
Whatever the exact opposite of joy and creativity is, it can be found in the WalMetaverse. And news.
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GTA 6, RTX 4090, and Another Relevant Abbreviation and Number: 8 Bits (09.23.22)
I don't normally report on leaks, but this GTA 6 one is arguably one of the biggest leaks to come from any game ever. One of my favorite things to come from the leak was the outpouring of support from other developers showing early forms of their games as early as Gray Box. Gray Box is when there...
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Everything Tokyo Game Show and More: 8 Bits (09.16.22)
The first time I heard of Tokyo Game Show, I thought it was like an actual game show, where various developers would compete to see who had the best game. That was how the show's Game of the Year was decided - by having various developers compete in game show competitions and antics to see who…
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Disney, Ubisoft Forward, and Backwards Florida: 8 Bits (09.09.22)
This episode was delayed from its usual Friday upload to get the biggest updates from D23 and Ubisoft! Hopefully the extra news gets you through the extra two days of waiting! Go back and listen to the PAX West 2022 special. It's good! or at least of equal quality to the usual 8 Bits episode!…
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The PAX West 2022 Special
When you think of a video game alcohol, what comes to mind? Is it something like shot of gin poured into a can of Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel? Perhaps an alcoholic version of the old Final Fantasy energy drink? Whatever you thought a video game alcohol might be, the official The Last of Us whisky is...
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Call of Duty Stays, Halo Goes: 8 Bits (09.02.22)
Real friends are going to be decided by who gets let on to Game Pass Friends and Family subscription.
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Play$tation and Gamescom 2022: 8 Bits (08.26.22)
I'll be at PAX West 2022 checking out all sorts of neat indie games and whatever cool stuff happens to be there. I'll see if I can record a special to post to the channel in two weeks once all is said and done! Now, news!
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The One Company to Own Them All: 8 Bits (08.19.22)
Dang, maybe the real treasure was the stuff we enjoyed along the way before it was bought up by another mega corporation. Or maybe it was news, like the news in this show!
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Splatoon 3, Brazil, and Super Punch Out: 8 Bits (08.12.22)
That's it. I'm gonna go pro in the one fighting game I'm good at: the 1992 Street Fighter 2 Tiger Electronics handheld. Watch out for me at EVO next year! Oh yeah, and news.
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Pokemon, Logitech Stream Deck, and EVO 2022: 8 Bits
So cloud gaming is pretty great. I frequently turn to Xbox Game Streaming when I'm avoiding my responsibilities at work or killing time between meetings, but mostly the former. There's some genres of games that the services work very nicely with, like card-based games or turn-based strategy.…
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Meta's Continued Quest for Money: 8 Bits (07.29.22)
VRChat was the metaverse before it was cool.
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FaZe Clan, Gaming NFTs, and John Romero: 8 Bits (07.22.22)
There is no extent to the amount of money companies can drain from gamers. All that's needed is new ways to do it! I'm coming off of the one of the worst colds I've ever had because of (circumstances that get you censored to all hell if you so much as type out the name of the thing on various...
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Ragnarok, GTA6, and E3 23: 8 Bits (07.08.22)
After a week of watching GamesDoneQuick, I've been doing nothing but playing games quickly. Neon White dropped at just the right time. The game constantly asks to be played faster and faster and, oh boy, did it grab me real hard. I've gotten an Ace on every level I've played so far and I think I...
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Persona: The Movie, RIP Spellbreak, and Re-Remasters: 8 Bits (07.01.22)
When was the last time a remade game needed to be remade? I was thinking the Master Chief Collection, although that's more along the lines of the game being fundamentally broken at launch and needing to be progressively reworked. Some studios simply invest in re-remaking failed titles, like the...
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Tony Hawk, Hyenas, and Games Done Quick: 8 Bits (06.24.22)
I don't think about it very often, but the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series was really foundational to me early in my gaming career. It was pure gaming bliss in the 3D age, which wasn't as popular in the 3D era outside of Sega arcade ports like Crazy Taxi. It's partially why I still love pure games…
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Fallout 5, and Assassin's Creed Infinity: 8 Bits (06.17.22)
At some point with a franchise you have so many entries that you completely forgo numbers and just start adding colons and subtitles. Assassin's Creed hit that point a long time ago, to the point that they are now completely skipping numbers and just doing all of them. 1, 2, subtitles, 3, 4,...
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Summer Game Fest, Keigh3, and The Future of Gaming: 8 Bits (06.10.22)
It's here! Every June, thousands of gamers across the globe tune into their video platform of choice to watch hours of marketing presented as some sort of capitalistic holiday. This year, with the cartel of industry leaders putting their own show to pasture, only one man could crawl out of the...
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State of PlayStation, Dreadwolf, and Pokemon! 8 Bits (06.03.22)
LeChonk better evolve into LeChungus or we riot. Also, I completely forgot about it during the record, but there was a little indie game announced during the State of Play from Kowloon Nights that looked cool. Eternights is literally an indie Persona game. The guy who made it played Persona 5,...
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Collective Action Wins! 8 Bits (05.27.22)
Hell yeah, unions.
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Starfield Delayed, Playstation Employees Dismayed: 8 Bits (05.13.22)
With Starfield and Redfall both delayed out of this year, Microsoft has no more first party for the rest of 2022. The Xbox and Bethesda presentation are coming up in about a month, so maybe more games will be revealed there? Perhaps the long-coming Forza Motorsport reboot? Fable? We'll have to…
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The Warm Embracer Group of Death: 8 Bits (05.06.22)
It was a relatively safe prediction during my One Year Special (go listen to that, by the way) but I did not expect Square Enix to pull something like this so soon after I made that prediction. The writing has been on the wall for years, but now the company has finally done it. Support…
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Modern Warfare 2, too? Modern Warfare, as well? 8 Bits (04.29.22)
How many different games can you name that have the same name? There's Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider, DOOM and Doom, Ratchet & Clank and Ratchet & Clank; there's a lot of these.
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The 8 Bits One Year Anniversary Special
One year sure goes by fast when you're having fun. This show is frequently one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things I do on a weekly basis, and I'm thankful for everyone that actually tunes in to listen to my work. In this episode, we look back at the first year of this show and the last...
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California vs. Activision Blizzard, now with more California: 8 Bits (04.15.22)
This California v Activision Blizzard case has more twists and turns than the third season of Riverdale.
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Epic Games is Building the Metaverse, with LEGO bricks: 8 Bits (04.08.22)
Do people remember LEGO Backlot? It was this really fun pseudo-sandbox adventure game hosted on the LEGO website on the earlier days of the internet. You were like a production assistant at the LEGO Studios sets making movies. It was a whole 3D adventure game all built in flash. Super fun. Go…
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RIP E3, Breath of the Wild 2 Delayed, and April Fools: 8 Bits (04.01.22)
April Fools Day is literally one of my favorite days of the year.
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Este Episodio Fue Transmitido En SAP: 8 Bits (04.01.22)
El Día de los Inocentes es, literalmente, uno de mis días favoritos del año.
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Bustin' (Toxic People for Their Mistreatment of Others at Their Game Studios) Makes Me Feel Good: 8 Bits (3.25.22)
If this week's show sounds like I recorded it with a ridiculously stuffy nose, it's because I did! With Spring in full swing, seasonal allergies are back and your boy forgot to pick up some allergy medication at Walgreens. Hopefully that doesn't effect the actual content of this week's show!...
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EA Not Playing, Elden Ring Records, and The Quarry: 8 Bits (03.18.22)
I bet the real threat in The Quarry is going to be a ghost unsettled by all the copies of ET on Atari 2600 buried inside the titular quarry. If it does end up being that, this is a legally binding statement that you owe me a dollar. Support Ukraine here Support Texas-based Trans-youth here
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Overwatch 2, EVO 2022, and Unions too: 8 Bits (03.11.22)
Elden Ring is a tough game. You know what else is tough? Trying to maintain an early morning upload schedule when you work all nighters for a week. OOPS. Anyway, after some much needed sleep, here's this week episode. I'll always be here to keep you informed! Direct link to support the Ukrainian...
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