Summary: <p>Xbox says that Sony is paying to keep games off of Game Pass, which is kinda lame.</p> <h3><strong>What We're Playing</strong></h3> <p>Cliff: Garden Story</p> <p>Colby: Paradise Killer, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, House Flipper</p> <h3><strong>News</strong></h3> <p>MS Says Sony is Keeping Games Off of Game Pass</p> <p>Google Stadia Announces Something New?</p> <p>Nintendo Reported to NLRB</p> <p>It’s Like the SteamDeck for Streaming</p> <p>Nobody is Playing Netflix Mobile Games</p> <p>Your Xbox Series S is Going to Run Just a Little Bit Faster</p> <p>Koch Media Changes Their Name</p> <h3><strong>Questions</strong></h3> <p>Turndwn4wut (Travis): What are some unwritten rules of video games?</p> <p>Rdeacon: You had mentioned on a previous podcast about Backbone (Playstation Stars vs The Harlem Globetrotters) being gorgeous for an 8bit game, do you feel certain games have wasted their visual beauty?</p> <p>Alan S (zeroskill): Favorite new movie from this year?</p> <p>Rdeacon: And... At what age do you feel buttercream icing becomes intolerably sweet?</p> <p>Monotone screaming: Do you think games should get sequels to expand the story or should some stay as standalone games?</p> <h3><strong>Cheap/Free Games</strong></h3> <p><strong>Epic Games</strong></p> <ul> <li>Rumbleverse™ - Boom Boxer Content Pack</li> </ul> <p><strong>Xbox Game Pass</strong></p> <ul> <li>Coffee Talk (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox - Available Today</li> <li>Midnight Fight Express (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – August 23</li> <li>Exapunks (PC) ID@Xbox – August 25</li> <li>Opus: Echo of Starsong – Full Bloom Edition (Console and PC) – August 25</li> <li>Commandos 3 – HD Remaster (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 30</li> <li>Immortality (Cloud, PC, Xbox Series X|S) ID@Xbox – August 30</li> <li>Immortals Fenyx Rising (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 30</li> <li>Tinykin (Console and PC) ID@Xbox – August 30</li> </ul> <p><strong>Leaving Game Pass</strong></p> <ul> <li>Elite Dangerous (cloud and console)</li> <li>Hades (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>Myst (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>NBA 2K22 (cloud and console)</li> <li>Signs of the Sojourner (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>Spiritfarer (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>Twelve Minutes (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>Two Point Hospital (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>What Remains of Edith Finch (cloud, console, and PC)</li> <li>World War Z (cloud, console, and PC)</li> </ul> <p><strong>PlayStation Plus</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bugsnax</li> <li>Dead by Daylight</li> <li>Ghost Recon Wildlands</li> <li>Yakuza 0</li> <li>Yakuza Kiwami</li> <li>Yakuza Kiwami 2</li> <li>Metro Exodus</li> <li>Monopoly Madness</li> <li>Monopoly Plus</li> <li>Trials of Mana</li> <li>Uno</li> </ul> <p><strong>Humble Bundle</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/games/resident-evil-decades-horror" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://www.humblebundle.com/games/resident-evil-decades-horror</u></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/games/tactical-combat-bundle" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://www.humblebundle.com/games/tactical-combat-bundle</u></a></li> </ul> <h3><strong>Patreon</strong></h3> <ul> <li>John Tippins</li> <li>Sean Palmer</li> <li>Austin Palmer</li> <li>Alan Schulte</li> <li>Holden Johnson</li> <li>Joe Cole Jr.</li> <li>Anonymous</li> <li>Rich Deacon</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Extra Life</strong></h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://bytemepodcast.com/extralife/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://bytemepodcast.com/extralife/</u></a></li> </ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/byte-me-podcast/message
