Summary: <p>Microsoft is softening its stance on your right to repair your own Xbox, which might save you a lot of shipping and downtime in the future, plus keep a lot of systems out of landfills.</p> <h3><strong>Other Video Game News</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Xbox is Making Some Pretty Cool Shoes</li> <li>I Hate Bitcoin Miners So Much</li> <li>Why Does Anyone Care if a Non-PVP Game is Pay to Win?</li> <li>Man, Blizzard Stepped in it Again</li> <li>Deus Ex Mod Adds a Female Protagonist 21 Years Ago</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Questions</strong></h3> <p>DA VINSTER (Vinny): Do you guys have any excitement for the Steam Deck? As primarily a PC GamerI personally feel it will be the best handheld on the market, even without the lack of "exclusives" like the Switch has (although the PC exclusive is the tons and tons of indie games you get before anyone else).</p> <p>Happyfunball: What kind of monies are developers seeing for inclusion on Game Pass and do they feel it’s worthwhile?</p> <p>Primefan: What game would be a good simulation and how would you think that it would be accomplished??</p> <p>Princess_Megan: If money was no object, which piece of game memorabilia would you purchase?</p> <p>Tr1pletrouble88: potatoes? yes or no</p> <h3><strong>Cheap/Free Games</strong></h3> <p><strong>Epic Games</strong></p> <ul> <li> <strong>Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse</strong><br> Be the Zombie. Kick A** and Take Brains. It’s 1959 and the city of Punchbowl, PA, is a beacon of progress and ideal living. Show the living that law and order are no match for a dead man on a mission!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Game Pass</strong></p> <ul> <li>Back 4 Blood – October 12 (Console, PC, Cloud)</li> <li>Destiny 2: Beyond Light (PC) – October 12</li> <li>The Riftbreaker – October 14 (Console, PC)</li> <li>Ring of Pain (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – October 14</li> <li>The Good Life – October 15 (Console)</li> <li>Into the Pit - October 19 (Console/PC)</li> <li>Echo Generation – October 21 (Console, PC, Cloud)</li> <li>Moonglow Bay – October 26 (Console, PC, Cloud)</li> <li>Age Of Empires IV – October 28 (PC, Cloud)</li> <li>Bassmaster Fishing 2022 – October 28 (Console, PC, Cloud)</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>Joe Cole Jr.</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
