Extreme Gaming Podcast

Gray, Trev, and Hans tackle next-generation console rumours, Xbox’s studio shake-ups, and GTA 6’s expanding world—including a pricey merchandise collection that somehow forgets the game.

The Witcher 3 remaster takes centre stage, with discussion of path tracing, accessibility improvements, and whether unofficial DLSS 5 mods make an already beautiful game worth replaying. Hans has now tested DLSS 5 across roughly 70 games, while another modder has squeezed neural rendering into a web browser.

The crew also debates PS5 jailbreaks, emulation, physical media, and Meta’s ambitious VR glasses. Elsewhere, it’s Starfield’s uncertain sequel prospects, Microsoft’s in-game advertising patent, Fallout 76’s roadmap, AI-assisted graphics development, and The Division 2’s proposed crossplay rollout and new expansion.

God of War’s Faye adventure rounds out the news before Witcher trivia produces questionable pronunciation and a disputed answer. Naturally. It’s another packed episode of gaming news, hardware frustration, enthusiastic PC tinkering and a healthy dose of fun.

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Episode 350 brings the full EGP crew together for a packed milestone show. Bungie promises to restore vaulted Destiny 2 content, prompting discussion about rebuilding trust, Destiny 3 and whether Marathon should survive. The team also examines War Dogs’ unexpected success, rising PC hardware costs, Xbox restructuring, Game Pass cloud limits and the eye-watering price of Valve’s Steam Frame.

The Hot Shots include unofficial DLSS 5 experiments, RTX 60-series delays and PlayStation 6 rumours. Matt samples Road Diner Simulator before exploring The Commission, an ambitious GTA V roleplay project that drags Los Santos back to 1975. Hans somehow finds a Switch 2 for €150, while GTA 6 multiplayer and its enormous soundtrack enter the rumour mill.

Finally, it’s Gears of War: E-Day PC specs, a strangely scented RTX 5070 and three increasingly difficult Gears trivia questions. Just another perfectly normal episode, lol.

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DLSS 5 takes center stage as Gray, Trev, and Hans examine the rapidly expanding world of unofficial neural-rendering mods. They compare DLSS 5 Autopilot, Swapper, Neural Upstream, frame generation, performance costs, slider controls, and Hans’ experiences testing the technology across dozens of games.

The crew also discusses Sony’s argument that digital purchases are licenses rather than ownership, GTA 6 boosting console sales, Nintendo finally adding docked VRR to Switch 2, and the approach of Valheim 1.0. Plus: The Witcher 3’s free path-tracing upgrade, EA’s leaked Iron Man footage, outrageous RTX 5090 prices, the Ocarina of Time remake, Xbox rescuing Kojima’s PHYSINT, NVIDIA Pair turning home PCs into a local AI cluster, and Blizzard announcing a StarCraft shooter and Diablo V years in advance.

It’s another packed episode of gaming news, hardware frustration, questionable business decisions, enthusiastic PC tinkering and a healthy dose of fun.

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EGP 348 brings Gray, Hans and Matt together for PlayStation disappointment, DLSS 5 experimentation, indie game reviews and a deep dive into gaming laptops.

The crew reacts to Sony’s latest State of Play, debates PlayStation exclusives, digital ownership and whether clicking “Buy” should actually mean you own your game. Then DLSS 5 takes center stage as Hans shares his own testing, while the guys discuss huge performance penalties, VRAM usage, user-controlled neural-rendering sliders, DLSS 5 Swapper, OptiScaler improvements and modders repeatedly unlocking features Nvidia would rather keep restricted.

Matt gives first impressions of the military sandbox War Dogs before reviewing the wonderfully strange zombie-and-alien survival game Beat Survival. Hans finally delivers his long-awaited desktop-vs-gaming-laptop comparison, including performance, noise, cooling and whether high-end laptops have become legitimate desktop replacements.

The show closes with three Nvidia-themed “truth, the whole truth” trivia questions.

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EGP 347 this week is a two-man show with Gray and Hans, and Hans has just returned from Gamescom 2026 with plenty to report. He shares firsthand impressions of the massive crowds, huge booths, cosplay scene, indie areas and his long-awaited hands-on time with the new Castlevania, while Gray digs into the surprise reveal of The Witcher 3 Remastered and everything CD Projekt Red is changing.

The guys also cover Crazy Taxi, Gears of War: E-Day, Star Wars: Zero Company, Age of Empires, retro gaming’s continued resurgence, laptop-heavy hardware booths and the realities of modern PC pricing.

Later, the discussion turns to the massive Valve/Steam archive leak, RTX 5090 performance rumors, repasting an aging RTX 2080 Ti, and the leaked DLSS 5 developer build. Gray and Hans debate whether AI-driven graphics are genuinely transformative, overhyped, or simply inevitable—and why sliders may be the key to making DLSS 5 work.

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EGP 346 brings another packed week of gaming news, industry chaos, retro nostalgia and one very strange simulator.

Special guest Marek from GameHo.io returns to talk about pay-as-you-play game server hosting, supported titles, upcoming additions and why multiplayer server demand tends to come in waves. The crew then digs into the latest GTA 6 leaked footage, Take-Two’s aggressive response, Netflix’s timed GTA 6 presentation, the rise of retro gaming stores, Xbox and IKEA’s bizarre furniture collaboration, and Nintendo taking down hundreds of Switch emulator repositories.

Gray unloads on Sony’s Horizon live-service experiment before discussing the strong sales of 007 First Light and a revealing SSD test showing surprisingly little gaming-performance difference between old SATA drives and modern PCIe 5.0 SSDs.

Matt reviews the bizarre petrol-station/hunting/horror management game Goo Deer (https://store.steampowered.com/app/4349210/Goo_Deer/), while Hans unveils his appropriately named “Massive Extreme” laptop cooler. The show wraps with Xbox anniversary pricing, Switch 2 price increases, Call of Duty on Switch 2, possible Assassin’s Creed Odyssey updates and three trivia questions about famous gaming leaks.

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EGP 345 covers another week of gaming news, hardware insanity and industry weirdness. The crew discusses Twitch quietly opting streamers into generative-AI training, leaked Zelda 40th-anniversary hardware, the confirmation of Hogwarts Legacy 2, and Gray’s deep dive into the Corsair XENEON EDGE and his animated Elite Dangerous Stream Deck setup.

The guys also dig into the new Battlefield 6 x Top Gun crossover, with Carrier Strike, Wake Island-style combat and returning Top Gun: Maverick actors. PC hardware prices remain a major concern as GPU costs climb, entry-level cards get squeezed and Intel warns the mainstream market is “taking a beating.” Hans previews what he hopes to see at Gamescom 2026, while the crew also covers a possible Simpsons Hit & Run revival, modded 20GB RTX 3080s, GTA 6 reshaping the 2026 release calendar, Gears of War: E-Day’s strong beta numbers and the growing backlash against generative AI in games.

The show closes with entertainment-crossover trivia.

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Extreme Gaming Podcast 344 is packed with gaming news, hardware arguments, retro nostalgia, and a few inevitable detours. The crew discusses Take-Two’s enormous GTA 6 expectations, Quake’s 30th anniversary, PS5 Pro’s PSSR 2.0 update, Nvidia DLSS 5, and the latest GTA 6/Netflix rumors. Gray digs into Roblox’s massive valuation drop and a strange new diamond-powered quantum-computing claim, while Matt returns to Project Zomboid and explains why its brutal survival mechanics and community mods keep pulling him back. Terminator: Survivors also resurfaces with major changes, including the removal of co-op.

Later, the guys tackle Xbox backward compatibility on PC, EA’s $55 billion buyout, Microsoft’s Windows 11 RAM recommendations, No Man’s Sky’s tenth anniversary, Doom on Evercade, Xbox expansion-storage prices, future TSMC chip technology, Steam’s latest hardware survey, and another extended AMD/X3D debate. The show closes with three EA-themed trivia questions.

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This week on the Extreme Gaming Podcast, Gray, Trev, Hans and Matt cover Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 potentially coming to Switch 2, the return of Crazy Taxi, GTA 6’s region-locked PlayStation codes and another painful wave of GPU, RAM and console price increases.

The crew also examines new gaming announcements from San Diego Comic-Con, including future God of War plans, Marvel’s Wolverine, Star Wars: Zero Company and Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2.

Hans finally receives his long-awaited opportunity to unload on AMD’s X3D chips, one-percent-low performance and the reviewers he believes failed to highlight the problem. Matt reviews the slow-moving Seafarer: The Ship Sim and the far more affecting War Angels demo.

The episode wraps with Steam Machine upgrades, Xbox Series X price hikes, the future of physical discs, Gears of War: E-Day and a Gears-themed trivia showdown.

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This week on the Extreme Gaming Podcast, Gray returns from Scotland, Matt returns to the show, Hans eventually escapes traffic, and Trev tries to keep the whole operation from sinking faster than a badly managed submarine.

The crew discusses the possible return of Ghost Recon Wildlands, the continuing collapse of physical game sales, DLSS 5 customization, Nvidia’s expanding ARM support, GTA 6’s staggering preorder projections, and Bethesda insisting that The Elder Scrolls VI is progressing exactly as planned—which apparently means taking forever.

Also covered: Amazon’s plans for future James Bond games, another Tomb Raider delay, Xbox bringing classic games to PC, free cloud gaming supported by ads, AMD’s long-term AM5 roadmap, and the increasingly brutal cost of RAM and SSDs.

Matt reviews Sonar and Low-Budget Repairs, while the episode concludes with James Bond game trivia, half a Golden Gun, and the usual amount of chaos.

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