TechRaptor Gaming Podcast

We watched the stream entitled “The Game Awards” this week, which featured a bunch of trailers and also some awards here and there. We talk about the latest. You should also actually check out The Matrix: Awakens, and now we’ve all had a chance to play Halo Infinite’s campaign, where one of us is having trouble understanding just why Master Chief is a cool guy. https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/e...

Our review for Halo Infinite is live now and we talk about it with our reviewer Stretch, Rut wastes our time talking about Elex II, Dead Cells is still pretty great, and we get some into mind-bending puzzler Superliminal. There’s of course the news, with some BioShock 4 rumors, It Takes Two getting hit by copyright by Take Two, and PlayStation supposedly getting its Game Pass competitor. https://t...

Some day, it will be nice to not have the biggest stories of the week or month dominated by the awful industry practices in gaming, but it is not this day. We get into the PlayStation gender discrimination lawsuit, and we talk about CDPR’s claims that people will one day see Cyberpunk 2077 as "a very good game." Some cool game preservation news this week as well, with fans recreating the Spaceworl...

Rockstar has apologized for their awful GTA trilogy release, and the explosive news about Bobby Kotick and Activision Blizzard never seems to end. We get into the news on both and talk about our site coverage of Activision Blizzard, Riot, and Ubisoft. Of course, we all played some of the newly released Halo Infinite multiplayer, and Stretch beat Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and is for some reason als...

We talk about what may be the worst game launch of all time with Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy and some about Skyrim Anniversary mods. We also get into the turn-based tactical survival game The Last Spell, some more about Forza Horizon 5, The Outer Worlds briefly, SMT V, and we talk about Devolver Digital’s latest hit Inscryption without spoiling it too much. https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/gta...

The big news of the week was the reveal of Elden Ring’s gameplay of course, Spider-Man is finally coming to Avengers after they got rid of the awful XP boosts, Netflix has some games now that are definitely worth your time, and Devolver Digital has gone public - we talk what that means for the company. We also get into Forza Horizon 5, Shin Megami Tensei V, and we talk about some Stardew Valley mo...

Just Cause 2-like Halo Infinite put out its campaign trailer, we talk Facebook turning into Meta and its effects on Oculus, and the sad news of PAX South being discontinued. We also get into the news free Game Pass game Age of Empires IV and talk even more about Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy now that the rest of us got our hands on it. https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/halo-infinite-campaign-h...

Releasing tomorrow, we talk about our review of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, the Uncharted Movie, God of War on PC, New World’s invincibility nonsense, and Paizo recognizing their worker’s union. We also get into The Cycle, Against The Storm, Echo Generation, and Guilty Gear Strive. Links https://techraptor.net/gaming/reviews/marvels-guardians-of-galaxy-review https://techraptor.net/gaming/ne...

Nintendo Online gets an upgrade with the Expansion Pack but is it worth it? And we discuss Valve banning games that use cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Also, is Back 4 Blood difficult or do we just need to git gud? https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/latest-animal-crossing-new-horizons-direct-event-announces-new-content-for-november https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/valve-bans-cryptocurrency-games-on-s...

Twitch had its source code and much more leaked, prompting a discussion on the issues with Twitch as a platform; the greatest character to ever be made, Sora, is finally in Smash; and Turtle Rock Studios is making some weird decisions with Back 4 Blood’s single player. We also talk about games we’re playing: the gorgeous indie RPG Eastward, depressing capitalist living simulator New World, dark su...

In the inaugural episode of the TechRaptor Podcast, we kick it off right with some Konami rumors about reviving old series and some news about new accessibility features from Xbox. Of course, we get into games as well, with Deathloop, Legion TD 2, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, and Life is Strange: True Colors Wavelengths. https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/konami-reportedly-to-revive...