The XboxCast

You're looking good. Have you lost weight?    We are back and we even live streamed this episode! Hit up our YouTube if you want to see our big beautiful faces!    This week, we are joined by Jeremy and Lee as we just have a chat about games. Something we don't do often enough. And certainly a little different to normal.    From what we are playing, to our gaming wish list, to even a few unpopular...

Put seatbelts on your ears, because this is the Post Xbox E3 Hype Show and boy do we have a lot to cover.   To start off, Xbox showed off 52 games, 18 exclusives and 15 world premiers to a crowd of 6,000 people! And to help you digest it all, we are going to go over everything they covered, in the order it was shown.    Joined by Simone and Jeremy to keep Kyle's heart from exploding with hype, let...

With Lee away, the cat is out to play. And that cats' name is E3. Only the biggest time fo the year for gaming fans.    Kyle, Paul and Simone couldn't really care much about the news or the new games this week, BECAUSE E3 GUYS! So to make sure you are just as excited as we are, we go over the games getting us the most excited. Both confirmed and rumored to be shown off or on the show floor. And of...

Chris Pratt riding a T-Rex and saving the world is the brand new franchise that you never knew you needed. Until now! So while that happens, we stop everything to completely go gaga for State of Decay 2.  Seriously, no other game exists for The Xboxcast any more. We're all playing it, and you totally should to. In fact we even get Jeremy to join us and talk about his adventures in the zombie waste...

Sarcasm. Its that thing that you never expect. Unless, of course, you do. In that case, its not unexpected.   This week, Kyle and Simone are back, and we are almost back to normal programing. We talk about Apple giving all the 3.5 jacks to Microsoft for use in their new Xbox Adaptive Controller, more titles leaving Game Pass and Fortnite getting $100 million for its foray into e-sports. Its also n...

Kyle and Simone are still away and so we have mixed things up. A guest introducing the podcast! This is almost a special episode...   Today Lee and Paul are joined by Rebekah and her sister Charlie as we learn the best ways to trade in for Warframes in Warframe, the upcoming expansions for Overwatch and City Skylines, how Minecraft and Te Papa are teaching kids about earthquake safety. and we fini...

Kyle and Simone are enjoying a well deserved break. Which means the podcast has been left in the hands of Paul, Rebekah and Lee...anything could happen!   During the news Lee and Paul try and sell Gamepass to Rebekah   Rebekah feels at home in our top platformers run down, and gives us a great review of what we should all be playing.   Lee and Paul show their age when talking about the Gaming Hall...

Did you know we have a website? Well now you do. So whats stopping you from visiting it?   Join our heroes this week as they talk about getting free goats. In Pure Farming 2018 of course. No one goes around these days just handing out goats.   Sea of Thieves is riding the wave to be the biggest game Rare has ever done. And we're not going to take any wind out of their sails. Its not Rare these day...

We have cake. And beer. And its great. You should have been there.    To celebrate hitting our first 1,000 listens of the year, we brought in cake! And ate it all. Thank you guys for listening to us, and please remember to like and share and tell everyone about us. Because we're awesome. And its the right thing to do.    This week, a bunch more games decide to go Battle Royal, Sam is getting Serio...

And we're back to normal programing! Did you miss us? I bet you did.    This week in The Xboxcast:   We ask will Microsoft announce exclusive publisher rights to the biggest games this year? Its rumored at the moment. Nineteen! Nineteen original Xbox games come to BackCompat and are looking better than ever in true 4K.  Over 1 billion hours of gaming done on Xbox Live in just 7 days. Thats over 10...

Kyle is away on important study leave and Lee has bailed. That leaves Simone and Paul to champion this week's news and games!   Joined by guests, Jeremy and Rebekah, we discuss the latest Spyro Remaster, this week's backwards compatible games, the Fastest-selling game in Far Cry history, and PUBG weekly events!   We also have information on the new game arrivals this week, including Extinction, Ow...

Can you believe it! We're already 10 episodes into Season 2. And Destiny 2 is pants?    For episode 10, we have a very sad Simone. It seems life in Fable 2 is getting a little too realistic. But we soon forget about the sadness with a few awesome Sea of Thieves stories.    In the news, Sea of Thieves has become a behemoth of a game, Fortnite breaks all the YouTube records, Resident Evil VII and Th...

Simone entertains us with even more Fable fables, Kyle takes us on his Sea of Thieves adventures and Lee struggles with news, in what is probably our most profressional episode ever.    Playstation console exclusive Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice comes to Xbox, with Xbox One X support in tow, Doom is coming with a 4K patch and Xbox is having another sale. We take a trip down memory lane and discuss...

Yarrr! Welcome aboard Ye Ole Xboxcast and sail with us on the high seas, as we seek to unravel the mysteries of this week in the land o' Xbox.     Take a wild guess at what we are super hyped about! Oh, just a small game called Sea of Thieves. You've probably never heard of it. Thats why we're here. To help you out. You're welcome.     Apart from being pirates, we listen to Simone's continued tria...

Now with 100% more stories about Fable II!   With a bunch of new games that are lauching, or have launched, this week, we get stuck talking about Surviving Mars and how hyped Kyle is (but isn't he always hyped?) and Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse gets everyone quite excited again.    Xbox unveiled the world's first Priate Blaster, PUBG gets some future planning, Everspace goes full 4K and the ado...

The Xboxcast Present: A Conversation With Josh   For our March Special, we chat to Josh, who is long time friend of Jordan, and certainly knows his stuff.   Josh is super knowledgeable about all things gaming, and it was a pleasure to talk to him. From Elite Dangerous, Monster Hunter World, For Honor and Halo, we cover exactly how many hours he's played. And lets just say that you will be surprise...

Nah ah, you're a stupid clown wizard!    In what has been the quietest week ever for Xbox news, we have all decided that we really like games. And so we played a bunch of different ones! Simone has started Fable 2, Kyle decided to play Batman Arkham Knight and even Lee, much to everyone's surprise, started 2 news games - GTA V and Super Lucky's Tale. Want to hear what we thought of these games? We...

We're trying to make sense of Lee. But it seems impossible. Can you help?    This week Xbox 360 versions of The Witcher 2, Crackdown (which is 11 years old), Fable and Forza Horizon (yes, the original) got enhanced for the One X, which is pretty amazing, and they are looking better than ever.    We go over the best selling games of January and number 10 will underwhelm you, Ubisoft is making all t...

What we thought was a quiet week on the news side ends up with info coming at us from all sides! Luckily we are here to help break it all down for you.    EA might lose Star Wars, mods coming to Cities: Skylines, Xbox One is on fire in Japan and GTA 5 sells how many copies!?   Simone tries to prepare us for a llama apocolypse but we get distracted by Age of Empires Definitive Edition and we hear a...

ESports in the olympics? It could be coming sooner than you think!    This week in the world of Xbox, we discuss Fortnite getting 3.4 million concurrent players and then promptly crashing, Battlefront 2 getting Clone Wars DLC, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire coming to Xbox One, Destiny 2's Crimson Days and Kingdom Hearts 3's new Monster's Inc reveal! All this and more in this weeks episode of The...

Episode 2 of Season 2!  We're so excited, we almost skip the intro completely.    Sea of Thieves has a real life store thats about to take all our money, Respawn are working on a Star Wars game, Final Fantasy XV is getting cross-play and we would be totally cool if Microsoft bought EA. All this and more in this weeks Xboxcast.  Oh, and we even had the local newspaper come take photos of us!    All...

Welcome to Season 2! We are back and in your ears.   This week, we talk about Xbox Game Pass getting all the games, Dragon Ball Fighter Z, The Division being awesome, everyone hating on Ubisoft again and even more Sea Of Thieves. And we even talk about Microsoft buying EA! If you want to read more about what we talk about, check out our website. There you'll find links to the news stories we spoke...

The Xboxcast Presents: A Conversation With Merv   This week, we talk to a long-time friend and old colleague of Producer Paul’s. Merv worked at EB Games in Hastings and has some exciting stories to tell about the Gears Of War launch, dressing up in full camo and even pre-ordering $4,000 worth of games.   We start off with some news as things are already ramping up in the world of gaming and Lee ha...

Our first podcast of 2018 brings a very rusty Xboxcast. These holidays might have been a little too good. While we struggle to get back into the groove, we yell questions at our special guest – Jeremy.   Jeremy is a proud owner of an Oculus Rift and has spent many hours in VR, so it a was great opportunity to talk about the technology and where it could be going.   If you like what you hear, follo...

For our last podcast of 2017, we have Lee on with us. You may have heard us mention him as Little Lee or Lieutenant Lee. Lee is new to the Xbox family and new to gaming in general, so his thoughts on Xbox come from a place of 'innocence'...   In a first, The Xboxcast all had more than one beer, so things got a little... excited...   If you like what you hear, follow Lee @Lieutenantlee69 on Twitter...