This week on the 8bit Awesome Podcast we have  special guest host Tim Minahan joining us to give his impressions one week after the Xbox One reveal. A plethora of (mostly bad) news has come out since the announcement and we give our updated perspective on the console. We start with a quick discussion of what makes gaming fun for us, and why we love Animal crossing so much. The rest of the podcast, we have a heated debate about used games,”always-online” DRM (or at least semi-always online, with network checks every 24 hrs), and Microsoft’s new television fetish. Thanks for joining us for another episode of the 8bit Awesome podcast!

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Today, we have a special edition of the podcast to discuss the tons of news coming out of the Microsoft Xbox event. The console finally has a new name, a new look, and new features, and we are here to discuss it all! We start with a rowdy discussion on the terrible new name: the Xbox One. We also weigh in on the console’s chunky new looks, while finally giving our opinions on all the new games and features (including HMDI-in and Kinect 2.0 functionality)

Thanks for joining us for our very special Microsoft/Xbox One edition of the 8Bit Awesome Podcast!

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This week, right in time for the Microsoft Xbox Event, we give our predictions about what the Xbox 360 successor will have in store for us. We also discuss this week’s Nintendo Direct, and the surprise collaboration between Sega, Nintendo, and Jeff Goldblum (…if only) for Sonic: The Lost World. We also give brief insights into the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Leaf title for the 3DS. Check out our special event breakdown, tomorrow night and see which one of us wins the wager!

Thanks for listening to another great episode of the 8Bit Awesome Podcast!

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It seems like being timely is a thing now! In our latest hour-long episode of the 8 Bit Awesome Podcast, we discuss the ramifications of Electronic Arts taking over the Star Wars game license, as well as the leak of new Pokémon direct from Japan! We also talked (briefly) about the finale of Survivor: Caramoan, as Willie drones on about his love for Pushmo on the Nintendo 3DS. Oh, and apparently Aliens: Colonial Marines sold 1.3 million copies. We’re sad. Thanks for listening to another episode of the 8 Bit Awesome Podcast!

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This week on our surprisingly brief episode of the 8Bit Awesome Podcast, we discuss two big game announcements and media blowouts, namely the ones for Call of Duty: Ghosts and Grand Theft Auto 5. We also talk about the upcoming crowdsourced project and spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, titled Darkness of the Eternals. We also mention the huge Star Wars Steam Sale and and Sleeping Dogs available for free on Playstation Plus. Finally, we finish up with a little more about E3 as the convention quickly speeds toward us. Thanks for listening to another episode of the 8 Bit Awesome Podcast!

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