We’re trying something new this week. We recorded ourselves playing a game called “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes,” where only one of us (Jason) can see a bomb on his screen, and Mike and Will try to help him defuse it by using a bomb defusal manual.
Sorry for the long layoff (“producer” issues), but we finally posted a new episode! Here’s what we discussed:
- No follow-up!
- Video Games
- Fallout 4 impressions (or not)
- Bethesda’s random name database
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Nintendo Direct
- Twilight Princess HD for Wii U
- Hyrule Warriors
- Linkle, the female version of Link
- Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow available on the Nintendo eShop
- Super Smash Bros. gets Cloud from Final Fantasy
- Fallout 4 impressions (or not)
- Sonos TruePlay
- TAG Heuer Connected smartwatch
- Alienware Steam machine
- More like “Steam”-ing pile of crap
- iPad Pro impressions
- Is it a laptop replacement?
- Yao Ming-Verne Troyer commercial
- Pencil impressions
On this week’s episode:
- No follow-up!
- Video games
- Halo 5
- Xbox One Elite controller
- Halo 5 drops split-screen support
- Online multiplayer vs. same-room multiplayer
- New Xbox One Experience
- Xbox Games with Gold doubles number of free games
- Problems with existing Xbox One experience
- Fallout 4
- Amazon’s terrible pre-order policy for digital games
- Playstation 4 vs. Xbox One
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Polygon review
- Mike remembers he already pre-ordered the game
- Apple TV
- Apple TV is a radical rethinking of your relationship with the hardware and games you own
- Would this help on consoles?
- Our favorite Apple TV apps
- Impressions and complaints
- Cord-cutting
- CEC support
- Master of None
- Apple TV is a radical rethinking of your relationship with the hardware and games you own
- Steve Jobs movie
- Apple
- Surface Book
- Mike has lost interest due to reports of hardware crashes 🙁
- Normal “Bear” Questions
- Overcast app has changed Will’s life
- Favorite podcasts
- Will can count (confirmed)
- Our workspaces
- Standing desks
- Overcast app has changed Will’s life
- We have a producer!?
On this week’s episode, which was actually recorded two weeks ago:
- Will visits NYC!
- Follow-up
- Apple’s policy on in-app purchase pricing
- New Apple products
- 4K and 5K iMacs
- “Magic” accessories
- Magic Trackpad 2 tap-to-click woes
- Magic Keyboard’s lack of travel
- Magic Mouse 2 charging port gripes
- iPhone “Chipgate”
- Windows Hello
- Surface Book
- Apple TV preorders
- Steven Levy’s “The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs”
- Phil Schiller on Apple’s continuum of products
- Is Microsoft’s philosophy really any different?
- Nintendo NX
- WSJ: NX will be a console and a handheld
- Is it enough for the NX to be “on par” with current consoles?
- Cross-buying potential
- YouTube Gaming allows for streaming of mobile games
- Dropbox Paper
- Will’s “Normal Guy” questions
- Cloud storage
- New Star Wars trailer
- Halo 5!
We had to skip a week because one of us was living it up in Hawaii (hint: it wasn’t Mike or me):
- Follow-up
- Netflix is making more Black Mirror
- iPhone 6S Plus impressions
- 3D Touch
- Keyboard highlighting
- Thanks, Harbs!
- Live Photos
- Congrats, Ja!
- Low light performance
- Touch ID – too fast?
- Why Some Left-Handed People Are Having Big Problems With the iPhone
- Waterproof testing
- 3D Touch
- TiVo Bolt
- Commercial skipping
- Quick Mode
- Overcast and Smart Speed
- Chairigami standing desk
- Amazon to stop selling Apple TV and Chromecast
- Apple TV and iPad Pro rumored release window
- Microsoft event
- Hololens
- Microsoft Band
- Lumia phones
- Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book
- Windows Hello vs. Touch ID
- Comparison to iPad Pro
- Does any of this even matter?
- Will’s normal person questions
- How do you use Apple Pay without looking like a jackass?
- A “teaser” of next week’s question