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This week on the SyrupCast, Brad Shankar and Brad Bennett are joined by Chris Brown, a friend of the site, to discuss the 2024 Game Awards. This is a big year for MobileSyrup since Brad Shankar has been able to get us onto the jury at the awards. This meant we got to participate in the voting for all the awards, and on his own, Brad Shankar even went to the show in person. If you want to hear what...

After a long hiatus, the SyrupCast is back. We're still ironing out our production, but we're excited to be back, and this week, we're talking about the best tech and games of the year. In the new year, we're aiming to release a new episode every two weeks. If you have any feedback, let us know on social media or by emailing us at Community@moblesyrup.com. The next episode will be in two weeks and...

What a week! This has been a WWDC for the books with the announcement of Apple's foray into the AI space. That said, there's also a ton of other news to cover for every operating system under the Apple umbrella, so I had to call in some help this week. Joining me are special guests Drew Kozub from Canada's Breakfast Television and KissFM radio. Alongside him is TikTok star Brett Turner, who most o...

This is a special edition episode of the SyrupCast and the SyrupArcade Cast, where Dean Daley and Brad Shankar speak to Black industry professionals about their experiences in the technology industry, including Fūnk-é Joseph (Focus Entertainment), Enobong Etteh (Boredatwork.com), and Kadeem Dunn (Google) (Diaspora Games). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the latest episode of the SyrupCast, Patrick O’Rourke , Brad Bennett , and Dean Daley discuss Mobile World Congress 2024 (MWC) and everything Dean saw at this year's event in Barcelona, Spain. This includes checking out the TCL Ray Neo X2s , Samsung's Galaxy Ring , a lot of weird robotic AI contraptions and the highlight of the show for him, the Humane AI Pin . Afterward, the three talk about t...

On the latest episode of the SyrupCast, Patrick O’Rourke , Brad Bennett , Dean Daley and Chris Brown discuss Samsung's new Galaxy S24 series . Both Dean and Chris outline what the vibes were like at this year's Unpacked, break down their first impressions of the Galaxy S24 Ultra (including an at-even recording of an unboxing) and discuss Samsung's new Galaxy AI features. Are new AI features like '...

Similar to last year, the MobileSyrup team is having a video game fantasy draft. We assembled the regular SyrupArcade Cast hosts, Dean Daley,   Brad Shankar , Chris Brown  and MobileSyrup freelancer and writer for The Gamer , Gabrielle Huston . From there, each person selects three games they believe will be the top-scoring of the year. The quartet will also do a follow-up podcast i...

The Game Awards 2023 have taken place, so the Syrup ArcadeCast crew, including, Dean Daley Brad Shankar , and Chris Brown, alongside special guest, Steve Vegvari , breakdown this year's event. The podcast team talks about the awards winners , including Baldur's Gate 3 , Alan Wake 2 , The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom   and more. They also discuss the controversy surrounding the awards...

Ahead of The Game Awards, co-hosts Dean Daley  and  Brad Shankar are joined once again by Blue Ant Plus’ Chris Brown to discuss our thoughts on the nominees. Of course, a lot of this episode is dedicated to the six Game of the Year nominees: Baldur’s Gate 3 , The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 , Super Mario Bros. Wonder , Resident Evil 4   and  Al...

On this episode of the Syrupcast, the pod squad discusses their favourite smartphones of 2023 in our annual year-end episode. The team also tries out several new segments, including the return of a news recap, 'Tech Treat or Tech Trash' and more, as the pod squad prepares to revamp the SyrupCast in the new year. Along with episodes still hosted by Patrick O'Rourke, Dean will also take on hosting d...

On the latest episode of the SyrupArcade Cast, co-hosts Dean Daley and  Brad Shankar  are joined by Blue Ant Plus’ Chris Brown to share our thoughts on Starfield , Baldur's Gate 3   and  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 . Expect some controversial takes on Starfield  before we all gush about  Baldur's Gate 3  and Spidey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

This week's SyrupCast episode is all about Google's Pixel 8 Pro , Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At this year's fall hardware event, the SyrupCast team had the opportunity to record its annual iPhone event recap video in a fancy studio at Apple Park. This week's episode features Patrick O’Rourke , Brad Bennett and Alain McKenna , a Montreal-based technology journalist who has covered the industry for decades and currently writes for LeDevoir . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Back in January, MobileSyrup created a 'Fantasy Football' league-like draft for 2023 video game releases. Dean Daley , Brad Shankar , Chris Brown and Steve Vegvari contributed to the list of fantasy selections. Here's how it worked: in January, we were given the chance to select three games we felt would be among the year's top-scoring on OpenCritic. This time, we selected two more games for a tot...

Last week was Summer Game Fest , which included its own showcase alongside presentations from Xbox and Bethesda , Ubisoft, Digital Devolver, Capcom and more throughout the week. In this week's episode, Brad and Dean Daley are joined by Blue Ant Plus' Chris Brown to discuss the events in depth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s SyrupCast , Patrick O’Rourke and Brad Bennett chat about Apple's WWDC 2023, including upcoming software updates like iOS 17 / iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and more. Next, the team delves into 15-inch MacBook Pro , the M2 Max/M2 Ultra Mac Studio and finally, the Apple Vision Pro . The pod squad unpacks what it was like to attend WWDC, why they think this year's event was so packed and what...

We haven't recorded a SyrupArcade Cast in over a month, but with so much happening in the video game world right now, we figured it's best to talk about everything all at once. In April, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched, followed by Redfall   and  Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom .  To close May off, PlayStation also held its first Showcase in over 600 days. Hosted on Acast. S...

On this week’s SyrupCast , Patrick O’Rourke , Brad Bennett, Dean Daley and Jon Lamont chat about the Pixel 7a , the Pixel Tablet and the Pixel Fold after going hands-on with several of the devices ahead of Google I/O 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s SyrupCast , Patrick O’Rourke , Brad Bennett and Jon Lamont chat about Rogers' $26 billion takeover of Shaw (we'll record a dedicated SyrupCast telecom episode soon), Nothing's new Ear (2) wireless earbuds and the secret video project Brad Bennett's been working on for the last few months. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

March is Women's History Month, which focuses on women's contributions to history. On this week's SyrupArcade Cast, the team chats about women/femme characters in video games, the women behind games, and the recent Game Developers Conference (GDC). Brad Shankar and Dean Daley are joined by Rose Behar , MobileSyrup 's former telecom reporter who currently works as a narrative designer. Hosted on Ac...

With rumours surrounding new video game consoles circulating, the SyrupArcade Cast team unpacks all of the latest leaks. In the latest episode of the SyrupArcade Cast, Brad Shankar , Dean Daley and Chris Brown discuss rumours that a PS5 Pro is on the way, a potential Nintendo Switch successor, and talk about the games they've recently played, including Hogwarts Legacy . Hosted on Acast. See acast....

On this episode of the SyrupArcade Cast, Brad Shankar and Dean Daley speak to Indigo Doyle , game designer and the creative lead at Toronto-based Pushing Vertices on Rollergirl . Rollergirl is based on the life of Doyle, a Black woman who grew up in Belleville, Ontario. In the game, you roll around town on rollerblades exploring the neighbourhood as Naomi, a Black 17-year-old doing odd jobs to aff...

On this week's SyrupCast Patrick O’Rourke , Brad Bennett and Dean Daley chat about Samsung's new Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra , and the smartphones' recent launch event in San Francisco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's SyrupArcade Cast, Brad Shankar , Dean Daley, and special guests Steve Vegvari and Chris Brown, host a fantasy video game draft where we pick the games we believe will be the highest-rated in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode two of the SyrupArcade Cast, we talk about everything The Game Awards-related, including some of the weird nominations, the games we didn't want to win and the coolest trailers we saw at the event. This week's episode features Brad Shankar , Dean Daley and Chris Brown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.