BYTE ME PODCAST

In an interview with Phil Spencer says that he’s not interested in fighting a console war with Sony and Nintendo “…while Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world.”

February is a little bit busier than January, but we are still in a bit of a video game drought!

In perhaps the strangest news we’ve ever had, Atari is going to build a bunch of hotels that provide a “…unique lodging experience combining the iconic brand with a one-of-a-kind video game-themed destination”. No word yet if every room will have it’s own Atari 2600.

Sony has announced they won’t be attending E3 this year even though they are releasing new hardware, instead choosing to participate “…in hundreds of consumer events across the globe”, whatever that means.

It’s GOTY time! We talk about our favorite Xbox, PS4, Switch and PC games, along with our favorite game not from 2019 and, of course, our favorite game from this year!

The game release schedule for January is mostly DLC and remasters, but there might be a few hidden gems in there as well!

I’ll be honest, there was so little news that I almost thought about making some up. But we played a ton of games, so we talked about those instead!

Watching what games are getting played on Twitch year over year gives us a really interesting look into not only what is popular, but what is popular again. Not to be all Buzzfeed, but you’ll never guess what game TRIPLED it’s the number of hours it was streamed on Twitch this year vs. last year.

The Game Awards were last week and we’re talking about them this week. See who won, who lost, what new games were announced and (maybe most importantly) what Xbox Scarlett news was announced!