Brian McGinly

Found Bytes: A Game Review Series

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Welcome to Found Bytes! We're all about finding small, high-quality video games. This is a podcast that aims to respect your time and money as a gamer and consumer by sifting through storefronts and sales to find gems that may be worth your precious resources. We hope to provide a curation service, accommodating many genres and skill levels. Check for new episodes weekly, and follow Brian on PSN Profiles under "XenoLink", and on Twitter @foundbytesgrs! Also, we are on YouTube here !

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Brian McGinly

Episodes

Tales & Sales - Ep. 16 21.05.2024 14:45

Tales and Sales - May 2024 . Tales (1:11) : Ultros Thunder Ray Darq Howl Library of Babel . Sales: PSN - (8:09) Switch - (12:25) Steam - (12:57) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out the content on...

Hue 16.05.2024 29:01

Episode 70 - Hue . Timestamps: (1:43) Basic Info (5:33) Gameplay (21:04) Vibe (26:25) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Dearest Hue Apex Great Machines Impossible Colours With Compliments . Music by Alkis Livathinos . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out the c...

Observation 02.05.2024 25:06

Episode 69 - Observation . Timestamps: (1:43) Basic Info (4:15) Gameplay (14:59) Vibe (22:32) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Intro Something Odd Killing Me Samly Jettison End Credits . Music by Omar Khan & Robin Finck . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check...

Infernax 18.04.2024 29:22

Episode 68 - Infernax . Timestamps: (1:33) Basic Info (5:22) Gameplay (20:45) Vibe (26:26) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: A Trace of Evil Liquid Town Ruins of Evil Something Is Off Honor and Courage . Music by Jason Letourneau . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and c...

Rollerdrome 04.04.2024 34:13

Episode 67 - Rollerdrome . Timestamps: (1:41) Basic Info (5:12) Gameplay (23:23) Vibe (31:08) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Rollerdrome Theme Echo Basin Kara’s Theme Zabriskie Point The Test . Music by ELECTRIC DRAGON . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out...

Tales & Sales - Ep. 15 28.03.2024 13:31

Tales and Sales - March 2024 . Tales (0:50) : Pumpkin Jack Forgive Me Father Afterdream The Last Faith Untitled Goose Game . Sales: PSN - (8:00) Switch - (11:40) Steam - (12:13) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytes...

Iris and the Giant 21.03.2024 35:27

Episode 66 - Iris and the Giant . Timestamps: (1:45) Basic Info (5:58) Gameplay (26:48) Vibe (32:53) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Iris (Title) Tenarus Pandora’s Box Cloud Path Credits . Music by John Leonard French . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out t...

Laika: Aged Through Blood 07.03.2024 36:46

Episode 65 - Laika: Aged Through Blood . Timestamps: (1:48) Basic Info (4:56) Gameplay (25:57) Vibe (34:01) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: The Whisper Visions of Red Bloody Sunset My Destiny Heartbeat From the Last Century . Music by Beícoli . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foun...

Into The Breach 22.02.2024 35:02

Episode 64 - Into The Breach . Timestamps: (1:43) Basic Info (5:25) Gameplay (27:11) Vibe (32:26) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Open a Breach Into the Breach Antiquity Row Region Secured A.C.I.D. . Music by Ben Prunty . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out...

Tales & Sales - Ep. 14 15.02.2024 10:40

Tales and Sales - February 2024 . Tales (0:49) : Blasphemous 2 Saga of the Moon Priestess Ruiner Creepy Tale Roki . Sales: PSN - (5:55) Steam - (8:18) Switch - (9:21) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and che...

Gunbrella 08.02.2024 32:35

Episode 63 - Gunbrella . Timestamps: (1:40) Basic Info (4:25) Gameplay (23:26) Vibe (29:51) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Interrogation Battle Lock Bench Subway Mountain Pass . Music by Britt Brady & hyperstepp . Missing Bits: Gunbrella has three difficulty levels and was played on Normal . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedbac...

SteamWorld Heist 25.01.2024 30:09

Episode 62 - SteamWorld Heist . Timestamps: (2:03) Basic Info (6:39) Gameplay (23:23) Vibe (27:30) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Start Menu Scrapper Battle Gat’s Bar Deep Space The Outskirts . Music by Steam Powered Giraffe & Johannes Hedberg . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet...

Jotun 11.01.2024 24:00

Episode 61 - Jotun . Timestamps: (2:06) Basic Info (5:42) Gameplay (16:32) Vibe (22:10) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Jotun Facing Frost Wind Witherer A Journey Begins Final Confrontation . Music by Max LL . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out the content...

Tales & Sales - Ep. 13 04.01.2024 11:29

Tales and Sales - January 2024 . Tales (0:50) : Sundered Foreclosed Blade & Bones Scourge Bringer Death & Taxes . Sales: PSN - (7:22) Steam - (n/a) Switch - (n/a) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and...

West of Dead 28.12.2023 33:22

Episode 60 - West of Dead . Timestamps: (2:06) Basic Info (6:05) Gameplay (23:55) Vibe (30:26) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Main Menu Outlaw Fight/Final Boss The Town Battle The Crypts Credits . Music by Phil French & Tom Puttick . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytes...

Chants of Sennaar 21.12.2023 25:24

Episode 59 - Chants of Sennaar . Timestamps: (1:54) Basic Info (5:35) Gameplay (16:44) Vibe (23:03) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Out Of The Cavern And Into The Light Catch Me! Forgotten Bonds Exile Bonds Reforged . Music by Thomas Brunet . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundb...

Trek to Yomi 14.12.2023 32:03

Episode 58 - Trek to Yomi . Timestamps: (1:41) Basic Info (7:07) Gameplay (23:00) Vibe (29:37) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Main Menu Like Water Blood Flows Dancing Blades First Blood Sakura Fubuki . Music by Yoko Honda & Cody Matthew Johnson (Emperia Sound) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@g...

Tales & Sales - Ep. 12 07.12.2023 13:45

Tales and Sales - December 2023 . Tales (0:50) : Rad Gravity Circuit Moonhunters Church in the Darkness One Shot . Sales: PSN - (7:33) Steam - (10:44) Switch - (12:30) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and ch...

Merchant of the Skies 30.11.2023 33:52

Episode 57 - Merchant of the Skies . Timestamps: (1:48) Basic Info (5:36) Gameplay (27:11) Vibe (31:33) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: *tracks are not named or released (captured from gameplay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and check out the content on YouTube !

Wildfire 23.11.2023 32:46

Episode 56 - Wildfire . Timestamps: (1:48) Basic Info (5:45) Gameplay (25:59) Vibe (30:27) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Twisted Advice Ticklish Meadows of Grass Curious Snorts of a Bobcat Nearby Somewhat Less Fish From Embers . Music by Meghann O’Neill . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com o...

Flynn: Son of Crimson 16.11.2023 29:46

Episode 55 - Flynn: Son of Crimson . Timestamps: (1:48) Basic Info (4:57) Gameplay (22:44) Vibe (27:48) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Son of Crimson Cardinal Island Encounter! Hollow’s Reach Mistral Peak . Music by Jacob Lincke . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs and...

Tales & Sales - Ep. 11 09.11.2023 12:29

Tales and Sales - November 2023 . Tales (0:50) : Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights Young Souls Neo Cab Madshot Inmost . Sales: PSN - (6:12) Steam - (9:11) Switch - (10:21) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbytesgrs...

Norco 02.11.2023 26:18

Episode 54 - Norco . Timestamps: (2:03) Basic Info (5:58) Gameplay (18:26) Vibe (24:25) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Delirious Eyes One Night in New Orleans Behind the Fenceline Fourth Flood Endless Eve . Music by Gewgawly I & Thou . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet @foundbyt...

Ikenfell 26.10.2023 27:47

Episode 53 - Ikenfell . Timestamps: (1:50) Basic Info (5:06) Gameplay (18:28) Vibe (25:18) Wrap Up . Featured Tracks: Lullaby for a Witch Forest of Secrets Fireplace Whispers My Happy Place Memories in the Mist . Music by Aivi & Surrashu, Sabrielle Augustin . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@...

Tales & Sales - Ep. 10 19.10.2023 13:53

Tales and Sales - October 2023 . Tales (0:50) : Titan Souls Vernal Edge Children of Zodiarcs Vengeful Guardian Moonrider Eldest Souls . Sales: PSN - (6:52) Steam - (10:36) Switch - (12:00) . Music - Let the Games Begin by Psychronic (pixabay) . Found Bytes Intro Song by Brian McGinly Follow Brian's gaming! https://psnprofiles.com/XenoLink Got feedback? Email us at FoundBytesGRS@gmail.com or Tweet...