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It's the holiday season, which means almost nothing is coming out this month, with one very, very big exception! Yes, it's Puyo Puyo Tetris 2! Chronos: Before the Ashes (PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch) - December 1 - $30 Empire of Sin (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch) – 1st December - $40 Sam & Max Save the World Remastered (PC, Switch) – December 2 - $20 Immortals Fenyx Rising (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X,...

Phil Spencer says that you might be playing xCloud on your TV as soon as next year via an app on your smart TV, bringing cloud gaming even closer to the masses. Other Video Game News Starting Dec. 1 You Can Play RDR2 Online for $5 Phil Spencer Hates the Console Wars as Much as You Do Firewatch Dev Bans Dota 2 Player Sony is Working on Their Game Pass Competitor Controller Usage Has Doubled on Stea...

It's looking like it's going to be hard to get an Xbox Series X or Series X well into the new year, maybe even as late as April! I am very sad.

It turns out that xCloud is also pretty handy for developers like Activision, who are using xCloud to make developing games during the pandemic even easier.

In completely unrelated news, Todd Howard revealed a bunch of new information about Starfield, the next game we are going to see from Bethesda.

November sees the release of both the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 and a TON of new games! YesterMorrow (Switch, PC, Xbox, PS4) - Nov 5 - $20Dirt 5 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) – November 6 - $60PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC) – November 6 - $40Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered (PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, Switch) - November 6/13 - $40Assass...

In a recent interview, Phil Spencer brought up the idea of a Google Chromecast like device that would allow you to stream xCloud directly to your TV, no Xbox required and we are HERE for it!

I promise, there is a bunch of real news this week too, but this weekend the Byte Me team raised over $5,300 for Extra Life and sick kids! Huge shoutout to everyone that donated and folks that played video games all weekend to help raise those donations!

Microsoft has announced that some last-gen games (in this case Fallout 4) will run at 60 FPS on the Series X even though they are frame locked at 30 FPS. I assume this involved some sort of black magic.

With PlayStation supporting both backward compatible and PS5 "upgradable" versions of their games, you would think that getting saves between the two systems would have been a priority. Apparently not.

CD Project Red has announced that employees working on Cyberpunk 2077 will start mandatory crunch, adding a sixth day of work to their required schedule.

In what might be the biggest surprise of the year, Microsoft bought Bethesda's parent company Zenimax for $7.5 billion. They now own The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom and a ton more, with all future games coming to Game Pass!

Can you believe that we made it all the way to 200!?! And to celebrate, we brought some of our closest friends on to the podcast for a live 2-hour extravaganza!

It's been a staring content between Sony and Microsoft for months now, but with the leak of the Series S over the weekend, Microsoft decided to pull back the curtain and reveal the launch date and price for the Xbox Series S and Series X.

The choice is yours, you can buy an Xbox Series X, a PlayStation 5 and probably a Switch OR a Geforce 3090. You have to really, really like PC games to pick the latter.

It's a AAA extravaganza this month, but a few cool indies snuck in. Stadia is even getting a little bit of love!

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has officially been announced and it's coming out soon. Expect zombies, cross-play and maybe a visit from the guys from Bad Dudes?

Epic, Google and Apple are in a slap fight over paying app royalties all in the name of...freedom? But the folks who really have the most to lose are app store devs using the Unity engine that might see their apps delisted. Other Video Game NewsSony Is Working on a New VR Headset (But it Might not be PSVR) Ghost of Tsushima is Getting a New Co-op Mode This Fall Untitled Goose Game is Also Getting...

The internet ate the first hour of our podcast. Which sucks. So your news this week is: Didn’t Play Death Stranding? Maybe You’d Like to Read It Instead?

It looks like xCloud isn't coming to iOS (at least in September), Microsoft announces the first round of games coming to xCloud next month and new first-party games will hit xCloud day one.

It's possible that we won't be seeing a test flight of Halo Infinite as we have for the other Halo games in the Master Chief Collection. The studio is blaming COVID, but is possible that they just don't want folks seeing it until launch (especially after their reveal last week?)

Cliff and Vinny watched Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase and were pretty impressed by what they saw. Check out a game by game recap!

If you are a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber you are going to be able to play all (roughly) 371 games that are in Game Pass on your phone come September for FREE courtesy of the new xCloud streaming service. That's a very, very good deal.

Speculating that COVID-19 will continue to play a large role in how gamers spend their time, Sony has doubled the number of PS5s being produced, bringing the total up to 10 million units that will be available through March 31.

It's looking like AAA games for the PS5 and Xbox Series X are going to get a $10 price bump up to $70 if the newly released pricing for NBA 2k21 is any indication. We dig into the pricing and what that might mean for other things like microtransactions, DLC and season passes.