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Dermie and Jason pull apart another big week in gaming news: - Why Gamepass is a parent's best friend - Why in-game chat is dead - Results of the IGEA report about gaming during lockdown - Minecraft is coming to Gamepass (but Caves and Cliffs is still in limbo) - We tried Xcloud and game streaming on Australian internet and it was not awful - FarCry and fighting chickens #newsgameplus more
More game news with Dermie and Jason: - Dermie loves his reconditioned Gameboy Advance with backlit screen - Will Sportsball Fans and Esports ever get along? - Why you should get your child a Switch instead of letting them play iPad games - The dirty tricks that social media platforms are using to protecting their turf - MSM finally did a (half) decent story about videogames - Epic lawsuit reveals Sony's cross-play shenanigans - Sony got an awful Esports gambling-related patent - Seriously it is awful - Bad Sony - Stop it #newsgameplus more
Catch up on all the videogame news with Dermie and Jason: - Titanfall trolls Polygon and gets popular again - A Chinese man was arrested for threatening to kill the Genshin Impact devs because they removed his favourite bunny costumes - Sega selling NFTs - Sony Playstation sales numbers - Fortnite makes almost half its money from Playstation players - Esports and gambling ads shows the continual lack of imagination in tech and gaming spaces - Epic refusing to put Fornite on xCloud because it's a competitor #newsgameplus more
Dermie and Jason are back for another dose of videogame news: - Industry personal moves - XBox Live Gold no longer required to play rubbish games like Fortnite - PS3 and Vita stores no longer being closed - Sony patents A.I. that will finish hard levels for you - Knuckles will be in the Sonic 2 movie probably because Sega no longer makes the third episode of Sonic things any more - Sony is paying devs to keep their games off GamePass - Sony is also paying devs to not allow cross-play - Sonic games are coming back and life is good (for Dermie at least) - Is Sony going to add movies to PS+ ? - Should you buy games at full price if you want more of them? - After all the Cyberpunk backlash how did it actually affect sales? #newsgameplus more
Dermie and Jason are back with the an in-depth take on the big gaming news: - Minecraft Cave and Cliffs update is now coming in 2 parts and Dermie thinks Microsoft has a problem - Square Enix says it is not for sale - Oxenfree 2 announced (play the first one now if you haven't) - PS5 can now save games to USB but as usual because it is Sony there is a big catch - More games get FPS boosts including Crysis because your console isn't hot enough - Ubisoft is shutting down some game servers - Avengers is adding something but who even cares - People are buying lots of PS5's for some reason - Latest US consumer videogame spending numbers say gamers actually like being locked indoors - Sony is investing big money into Epic. Why? #newsgameplus more
Dermie and Jason look at another big week of videogame news: - Peter Dutton is blaming Grand Theft Auto for sexism - Ghost of Tsushima is getting a movie - Among Us is coming to GamePass - Cancel Culture is after Six Days in Fallujah, but Dermie reckons everybody is looking in the wrong direction - EA Play now part of GamePass PC - Which games got an FPS boost on Xbox Series S & X ? - Will Pikmin AR succeed where Minecraft AR failed? - One day in the future when your PS4 battery dies your games will die as well (forever) - BAFTA Game Award winners #newsgameplus lots more
Another massive week of gaming news gets pulled apart and mocked by Dermie and Jason: - Will Halo Infinite be open world? - Dermie explains how Elite Dangerous destroyed itself and became no fun - How political will Six Days In Fallujah actually be? - Denuvo DRM is being used in PS5 games for some reason - Take 2 CEO reckons gamers want to pay more money for games #newsgameplus lots more
Another big week of gaming news means another big podcast. Dermie and Jason deep dive into: - anti-union ads on Twitch - are videogame controversies looking in the wrong place for things to get upset about? - Harry Potter - Cyberpunk 2077 can not be played in 4K on any existing GPU - Diablo save files - Sony is dead in Japan; Nintendo is in charge now - Switch 4K rumours #newsgameplus more
Dermie and Jason update you on another massive week in gaming news: - Lots of Pokemon announcements - Is the PS5's speedy new hard drive too speedy for its own good? - A Division movie is coming - Harry Potter game shenanigans - Anthem is dead but will anybody notice? - Epic settles a class action in V-Bucks as if that is real money now - Apple demands all Steam's sales info and Steam says GTFO fite me IRL #newsgameplus more
We're back after being grounded again. This week Dermie and Jason catch up on 2 big weeks of gaming news: - Xbox Series X backward compatibility gets even better - Splatoon 3 is coming to Switch - Fall Guys is coming to Switch and Xbox - Bungie has a new IP coming in 2025 - Diablo 2 is being remastered - Last year's Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 announcements were exactly what we thought they were at the time - The Last Of Us TV show gets its 2 main actors - Sony's PS5 game pricing is suicidal - The Sonic 2 movie is official #newsgameplus more
Everybody was talking stonks this week so Dermie and Jason got their Trading Places vibe on and joined in: - we have the latest stats about employment in the Australia videogame industry - AMD says PS5 and Xbox Series X shortages will continue for the first half of this year - Gamestonk #newsgameplus more
Dermie and Jason get stuck into the latest 2021 videogame news and there is a lot to cover: - Resident Evil Village will set a world record for going Rule 34 - You don't need Xbox Gold to play Fortnite but you should because it is a bad game - Vicarious Visions merges into Blizzard - Melbourne dev Big Ant purchased by Nacom - An open world Star Wars game is coming from the team that made The Division - Minecraft Earth getting shut down because we were all grounded - Optus and Telstra have one job but they want game streaming services to do it for them #newsgameplus and more
In the second part of our 2020 Rewind, Dermie and Jason revisit all the big videogame stories from the post-apocalyptic, locked-down version of 2020, and look at how everything actually turned out. #newsgameplus
In the first part of our 2020 Rewind, Dermie and Jason revisit all the big videogame stories from before the world was grounded. Remember the carefree days when we had announcements like Pax Aus dates or when E3 was still a thing? Good times. #newsgameplus
Another week of massive gaming news with Dermie and Jason: - What the hell is going on with Cyberpunk 2077? - Fortnite is stealing ideas again - it's only a matter of time before they start a podcast called News Game Plus - EA wins the auction for Codemasters on Ebay - Telstra reckons they can make your games go faster - We need to talk about Devotion and China #newsgameplus
Dermie and Jason are back with the week's big gaming news. All your favourite segments are here - Pants Watch, Twitter Is Full Of Dickheads, and Jason Has Bad Taste In Movies. Now guaranteed to have at least 20% videogame related content!! #newsgameplus
Dermie and Jason are back for another irreverent take on the latest news in videogames... - Avengers is yet to turn a profit for Square Enix - xCloud streaming could be coming to smart TVs as an app - Cyberpunk 2077 is now only delaying DLC announcements - Fortnite has a monthly subscription - Tim Sweeney does it again #newsgameplus
Don reviews Destiny 2 Beyond Light, Meg reviews Bugsnax, Jason reviews Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity and Em reviews Spider-Man Miles Morales!
Jason reviews Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Kart reviews Demon Souls, and Meg interviews Jarrod Farquhar-Nicol! #newgameplustv
Dermie and Jason take another irreverent look at the week's big gaming news: - Is Square Enix selling its IPs to Ubisoft after their Avengers disaster? - More PS5 Bugs - Cyberpunk 2077 - The best and worst videogame movies - Activision Blizzard casualising staff - Esports and The Game Awards #newsgameplus
Dermie and Jason take another irreverent look at the week's big gaming news: - Fake News and smoking Xboxes - PS5 Bugs - Take 2 buying Codemasters - No 1440 mode in PS5 unless you ask nice - Twitch DMCA shenanigans #newsgameplus
Don reviews Dirt 5, Kart reviews Pikmin 3 Deluxe and Meg reviews Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope! #newgameplustv
We're back to recording live in person. Dermie and Jason take an irreverent look at the week's big gaming news: - Mass Effect is getting a Legendary Edition and a new game - Sony shuts down a company making replacement wings for the PS5 - Kinect is even deaderer now - Tom Holland as Nathan Drake - A Stadia creative director is trying to get himself fired - Streaming services on the new consoles - Jason answers viewer questions about his new Xbox Series X - Baby Yoda makes a guest appearance but this is a podcast so you can't see him #newsgameplus
We review Spiritfarer and Watch Dogs Legion! #newgameplustv
We review Among Us, Genshin Impact and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time! #newgameplustv
Jason revisits Monster Hunter World now the team have finished all the late game content, and Kart reviews Going Under! #newgameplustv
Dermie and Jason talk about something sportsball TV coverage gets away with that videogames wouldn't, the new Monster Hunter movie, Sega's 60th anniversary giveaways, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series backward compatibility, changing history in games to make us feel better, and the disturbing ramifications of requiring a Facebook login to use an Oculus headset. #newsgameplus
We discuss the gaming news of the week, Don reviews Star Wars Squadron and Jason reviews Rebel Galaxy Outlaw! #newgameplustv
This week in News Game Plus Dermie and Jason analyse the PlayStation 5 tear-down video, cloud gaming, Sony's sales plans, plus heaps more Sony and Microsoft console news. #newsgameplus
Jamie & Jason review 13 Sentinels, Crinj chats with Tina about Quantum Suicide and Don reviews Hades!
Kart reviews Moon & discusses cult followings in games, and Jason reviews Not Tonight!
Don, Jamie and Kart review Project Cars 3, and Meg chats with Alex Blaikie from ESL Australia!
Meg & Jason review Tony Hawk's Pro Skate 1+2, Em checks out Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and Meg reviews Tell Me Why!
Dermie and Jason analyse the week's big gaming news: What is behind the push for higher videogame prices? And who will really pay? Why did Microsoft pay 7.5 BILLION dollars for Bethesda? Is the PS5 launch line-up really the "best ever"? What is Sony's strategy to dwarf Microsoft? And why might it work? Plus a wrap-up of all the other big videogame news.
On News Game Plus this week Dermie and Jason discuss PS5 and Xbox pricing, why the old console generations concept is over, and the epic battle of greedy corporations against other greedy corporations.
We discuss the gaming news of the week, Meg & Don review Marvels Avengers, and Kart reviews Captain Tsubasa!
We discuss the gaming news of the week, Adrian reviews Crystal Chronicles Remastered, Milly reviews Beyond Blue, and Jason reviews Fairy Tail & Destroy All Humans!
Don tests our knowledge of the gaming news headlines in Quiz Time Event, Meg chats with journalist Steph Panecasio and Jamie kicks off a discussion on the 3D platformer renaissance.
Don reviews F1 2020, Kart reviews Microsoft Flight Simulator and Jason joins us to discuss the gaming news of the week!
We discuss the gaming news of the week, including the latest Xbox and Halo announcements, Em reviews Ghost of Tsushima, Jason reviews Fall Guys and Crinj gets a rundown on what to check out on Xbox Game Pass!
Dermie and Jason bring you the big gaming news: - Blizzard, tech and unionising - Spider man and the Avengers - PS4 controllers will not work with PS5 games - Halo Infinite - Sharing save games might be possible on the PS5 - News, games plus more
Dermie and Jason talk Karens, Gaben chooses Xbox over PS5, the Playstation 5 sides can be removed, a white Xbox Series something controller has been photographed in the wild, Dermie misses his Amiga, the Analog Pocket retro handheld, the Xbox games presentation, Halo Infinite and lots more. Big thanks to Luke for this week's thumbnail.
The most controversial News Game Plus podcast so far! Wearing masks, Sony Playstation 5 production numbers, Dermie reckons "review bombing" is a made up problem, playing as girls in games, and lots more.
Dermie and Jason recap the big gaming news of the week: - Microsoft is buying game studios - get ready for an exclusives war - Why do Nintendo's new legal agreements have smaller videogame reviewers worried? - A Fallout TV series is coming - will every episode be about a settlement that needs your help? - Sega's new Astro City Mini has Dermie excited at the thought that retro consoles will finally break through the 16 bit barrier - The UK House Of Lords Select Committee wants loot-boxes classified as gambling - What is going on with Plants Versus Zombies Battle For Neighborville and why is that kind of game so important for the industry?
What is going on with Twitch? Cyberpunk Anime is coming Lots of big games are getting updates IGN did Fake News Seriously, what the hell is going on over at Twitch?
News Game Plus takes another irreverent dive into the latest gaming news: - We give our thoughts on the PlayStation 5 design - What games are coming to the PS5 and will they live up to the hype? - New Pokemon Direct news - IGEA released Australian videogame sales numbers - how do they compare to movies and DVDs?
It's been a big week for the world with Black Lives Matter protests everywhere, so this week's podcast gets serious: start to 16:38 - With one eye on the NDA, Jason talks about The Last of Us II. 16:39 to 46:39 - This week's gaming news. 46:40 to 59:20 - Videogame companies want to stop racism but what are the challenges and is it realistic? 59:21 to end - What can the Australian videogame industry do to help our indigenous community?
News Game Plus turns 50. Join Jason and Dermie for an irreverent deep dive into gaming news. This week: - PlayStation 5 backwards compatibility news - Xbox One Series X backwards compatibility news - Is Sega serious? WTF was that? - Sony patched "backdoor" that allowed Chinese gamers to play unapproved games - Take 2 screws Kerbal Space Program 2 developer
Deep dive into this week's gaming news with Dermie and Jason: - Are gaming events over? - Is Metroid Prime Trilogy coming to Switch? - Why are we hearing so much about the PlayStation 5 Hard Drive? - Why is Dermie ditching Elite Dangerous for No Man's Sky? - Tencent's videogame industry buying spree continues
Deep dive into this week News, Games, Plus more with Dermie and New Game Plus Executive Producer Jason... - Why the difference between Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers and PSN subscriber numbers means Sony is in serious trouble - Dermie explains the real reason Ubisoft is suing Apple and Google over a game that Alibaba copied - Epic Game Store did something good no really - Get ready for the Halo Infinite Box Series X - Tencent continues its buying spree - Jason reveals what kind of animal is our federal treasurer - Start a podcast and make ABC celebrities cry
Deep dive into this week's big gaming news: - Why do Dermie and Jason think Sony is back in top form? - Microsoft and Sony are playing chicken with their next console pricing - Playstation store suspended in China - Civ 6 is showing how DLC can be done properly - Naughty Dog hates dogs - Cyberpunk will allow you to customise your genitals what even does that mean? - What is Nintendo quietly doing that everybody had a big bar fight over? - All the latest new, games, plus more!