News Game Plus

Dermie and Jason deep dive into the week's big gaming news - what makes Arcane such a masterpiece (and how did it avoid the usual on-line dramas), Naughty Dog is finally making a new IP, big CD Project Red news, the latest Sonic movie preview, Dermie gives his take on the Australian government's misinformation laws and social media ban, and lots more. Now go watch Arcane. 

In News Game Plus this week we take a close look at what is missing from The Game Awards nominations, Steam is under attack from the usual idiots who hate fun, and the hand-held console wars are about to heat up.

Dermie and Jason are back for another massive week of gaming news - Adam Jensen wants more, GoG is preserving old games, Sony commits to single player games, Warner Bros keeps burning money trying to make a live service game happen, No Man's Sky gets a massive update (and a second chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy to your fleet), Dermie doesn't understand how visual gags on audio podcasts work, and more!

To celebrate the US election, high value males Jake Dermie and Logan Jason try brocasting with deep dives into lazy writing, videogame preservation, Switch 2 backward compatibility, a new study suggests that women might prefer sexualised characters in games, what's your bodycount, buy our crypto, we used to like Coffeezilla before he exposed our rug pulls, buy our lead-based food product, and more high value bro content. 

In this spooky Halloween edition of News Game Plus Jason and Dermie discuss the Nintendo Music app, conservative US commentator Glenn Beck banned his daughters from dating gamers, the Vatican has released an anime mascot, Trip Hawkins on the current state of game development, and the United Nations is very concerned about the impact of Japanese media on gender violence and women.

More gaming news with Dermie and Jason - is Microsoft stealing Skyblock from its creator, Halo dev hates guns, why nerds love science fiction, more modern retro games coming to Evercade, Analog's new 4K HDMI FPGA N64 console is a beauty, and we deep dive into ex-Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Shawn Layden's comments about the current state of gaming.

This week Dermie and Jason analyse the week's big gaming news including why you should be watching CrackerMilk, PAX Aus, the modern retro game scene, the current Palworld situation, Nintendo making alarm clocks, Steam Deck officially coming to Australia, videogame media being racist against Black Myth Wukong again, the AAA industry's jump to Unreal Engine, a new Halo studio, and Dermie asks what the hell Microsoft is actually doing these days.

In this episode Dermie and Jason look into the latest Helldivers update, the reason Nintendo has finally sued Palworld, Steam's new Family sharing system, the return of Flappy Bird, Google's AI powered Doom, and discuss EA's investor presentation about how they are using AI to power their game development.

In this episode Dermie and Jason look console prices and the PS5 Pro, the developers of Stray all quit, Dr Disrespect might be a dickhead, Nikocado Avocado's dramatic weight loss, and CD Project Red is making more new TV shows. And same gaming news.

In this episode Dermie and Jason discuss the Minecraft Movie trailer, Concord's cancellation, why Denuvo is a terrible idea for Civ 7, ads on Netflix, better movie endings, some up-coming remasters, and the racist treatment of Black Myth: Wukong in videogame media.