Press Play to Save Ep96: I hardly KNOW her!

by

It’s a red letter episode! Not only to we hit the deals, including extra iPhone storage (yes, it’s a thing, kinda), but we hit a HEAPING pile of news, such as a Prime Day post-mortem and the pre-post-mortem of a Comcast/EA joint venture. And we kick off a brand new segment called Bundle Roulette – where we all get assigned a random bundled game to play and review, no matter how punishing!  RIDE THE WHITE DRAGON!

 

Press Play to Save - A Podcast for Cheap Video Gaming

Noteworthy Sales

  • Greenmangaming finishing up their summer sale (link)
  • Mophie 32 gb expansion memory and battery for iphone 5/5s at Best Buy only $57 down from $180.  Don’t bother with the website – that price is in-store only.

The News Ticker

  • Rektreational 2 update/team standings (Link)
  • Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata died at 55 years of age (link)
  • Prime Day Post Mortem (link) (link)
  • PRO-jecting: The International DotA2 Tournament will be broadcast IN THEATERS (link)
  • Comcast and EA launch Xfinity Games streaming beta – comes with all the caveats you’d expect (link)
    1. Uses tablet app for controller (when it works)
    2. Requires syncing to an Origin (or EA) account
    3. Only EA Games (23 of em)
    4. Popcap is a “genre”
  • EVO NEWS
    • Winner, Momochi, took the title despite his stick breaking in the middle of the Grand Final (link)
    • Player makes a second round massive come-back to the best in the business in Guilty Gear, gets third-round trashed while celebrating toward the audience. (link)
    • Street Fighter V claimed to be a continually evolving platform where new features will be earnable and unlockable in-game (link)
    • Jamie Lee Curtis went to EVO as shirtless Vega from Street Fighter (however she was not shirtless) (link)
      • Husband, Christopher Guest as Dr. Geppetto from Tekken
      • Part of her son’s “Graduation Trip”

 

 The RUNDOWN

  • Commodore Phone comes with official emulators (link)
  • Warcraft movie footage leaked from Comic Con (link) – Due out Summer, 2016
  • One Pro Counter-Strike player says all the pros are on Adderall (link)
  • Broken PC Port of Batman: Arkham Knight won’t be fixed until SEPTEMBER (link)
  • Kojima’s name removed from Metal Gear Box Art (link) – severing ties with Konami
  • Goat Simulator coming to PS3 and 4 in August (link)
  • Epic Games forums gets straight up PSN’ed (hacked and shut down) (link)
  • Dead Island 2 hits a setback when publisher Deep Silver dropped developer Yager (link)
  • Comcast tests streaming EA games to your cable box (link)
  • Assassin’s Creed and Watchdogs lead Jade Raymond now joining forces with Uncharted writer/director Amy Hennig for the next EA Star Wars game. (link)
  • Exclusive Battletoads soundtrack sold at Comic Con on yellow-green-slimesque vinyl and limited to only 300 copies (link)
  • New Horizons reaches Pluto using a PS1 (sorta)  (link)
  • WoW adding disguises for PvP area in Warlords of Whatever (link)
  • Mortal Kombat X adding “Tremor” or “the Tan Ninja” as playable character on July 21st – is not poop-themed (link)
  • Your Origin ID is about to be replaced by an “EA Account.” (link)
  • Just approved settlement for NCAA athletes to get compensated for the name, image, and likenesses to be used in college sport games (link)
  • Xbox ONE Games can now be streamed to Windows 10
  • After hearing Arkham Night PC wouldn’t be fixed until September, WB announced a significant patch for release in August
  • Immersit wants to bring 4D gaming and viewing to your house (finally) (link)

 

BUNDLE ROULETTE

We put our sanity in the bony, cold hands of fate with a new segment that may indeed be the blow that breaks us.  Listen to find out more!

 

Play With Us Online:

Find your hosts on Twitter at:

Subscribe and Rate Us:

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:22 — 84.6MB)

Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | TuneIn | RSS