The XboxCast

#212: Apache Attack Holiday

And we're back to normal programing! Did you miss us? I bet you did. 
 
This week in The Xboxcast:
 
We ask will Microsoft announce exclusive publisher rights to the biggest games this year? Its rumored at the moment.
Nineteen! Nineteen original Xbox games come to BackCompat and are looking better than ever in true 4K. 
Over 1 billion hours of gaming done on Xbox Live in just 7 days. Thats over 100,000 years! 
Battlefront II gets Ewoks. 
And more.
 
On the new games front, Simone talks to us about new pinball tables in Pinball FX3 which causes Lee to go on and on about hating The Last Jedi, and a bunch of ID@Xbox games drop. 
 
And when it commes to what we've been playing... Well, you'll just have to find out. 
 
PSA: Our website was down. But its back now! 
 
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Paul: HippoHQ on Twitter, Xbox, YouTube and Mixer
 

#211: What The Actual Even?

Kyle is away on important study leave and Lee has bailed. That leaves Simone and Paul to champion this week's news and games!
 
Joined by guests, Jeremy and Rebekah, we discuss the latest Spyro Remaster, this week's backwards compatible games, the Fastest-selling game in Far Cry history, and PUBG weekly events!
 
We also have information on the new game arrivals this week, including Extinction, Owlboy, Robocraft Infinity and Bombslinger.
 
Join us as Paul shares his latest adventures in X-COM; Rebekah lays out a list of everything she's played this year; Jeremy details his adventures in Subnautica and A Way Out, and Simone reminds everyone why she's taking a break from Fable II.
 
 
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With Special Guests:
Rebekah: SpiritedSojourn on Twitter and Xbox
Jeremy: Pythagean on Twitter and Xbox

#210: Best Employee Evar!

Can you believe it! We're already 10 episodes into Season 2.
And Destiny 2 is pants? 
 
For episode 10, we have a very sad Simone. It seems life in Fable 2 is getting a little too realistic. But we soon forget about the sadness with a few awesome Sea of Thieves stories. 
 
In the news, Sea of Thieves has become a behemoth of a game, Fortnite breaks all the YouTube records, Resident Evil VII and The Division are getting enhanced for Xbox One X and No Mans Sky is coming to Xbox. That makes a good few Playstation exclusives no longer that exclusive... 
 
And you must have fallen through a worm hole, because there is actually an indie game that Kyle likes! Is this even real life?
 
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#209: Sandwich Mode

Simone entertains us with even more Fable fables, Kyle takes us on his Sea of Thieves adventures and Lee struggles with news, in what is probably our most profressional episode ever. 
 
Playstation console exclusive Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice comes to Xbox, with Xbox One X support in tow, Doom is coming with a 4K patch and Xbox is having another sale. We take a trip down memory lane and discuss the legendary Duke controller as well. 
 
But all the news is drowned out over the tidal success of Sea of Thieves and Lee fills us in on some really impressive stats. 
 
And as a side note - Farcry 5 is being released this week. 
 
All this and more, in this week's episode of The Xboxcast. 
 
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#208: Sea of Thweebs

Yarrr! Welcome aboard Ye Ole Xboxcast and sail with us on the high seas, as we seek to unravel the mysteries of this week in the land o' Xbox.  
 
Take a wild guess at what we are super hyped about! Oh, just a small game called Sea of Thieves. You've probably never heard of it. Thats why we're here. To help you out.
You're welcome.  
 
Apart from being pirates, we listen to Simone's continued trials and tribulations in Fable 2, The Xboxcast's Gears of War 4 event and even Kyle's take on Surviving Mars. Thats right, this week was a week full of gaming for our hosts - truely a rare occasion. 
 
On the news front we discuss Weta moving into the game sapce (huge for New Zealand), Lee getting super excited about Super Bomber Man, The Verge being wrong (again) and Microsoft preparing for their biggest E3 ever! Throw in some games coming out, games leaving Game Pass, mix in some Games with Gold, and you have yourself an hour and a half of our soothing voices! 
 
On The Xboxcast news front - we're now on Spotify! So subscribe to us there. And tell your friends!
 
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#207: Simone's Fable Fables

Now with 100% more stories about Fable II!
 
With a bunch of new games that are lauching, or have launched, this week, we get stuck talking about Surviving Mars and how hyped Kyle is (but isn't he always hyped?) and Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse gets everyone quite excited again. 
 
Xbox unveiled the world's first Priate Blaster, PUBG gets some future planning, Everspace goes full 4K and the adorable PixARK gets shown to the world. Lee goes down the rumor rabbit hole and starts randomly listing games that might or might not be shown at E3 or might even not be real at all. We even go over the console gaming numbers for 2017, and some of those will surprise you. 
 
In Xboxcast News, we have hit over 500 listens under 2 months, and just want to thank you guys for joining us. You're welcome to give feedback on Twitter, Facebook, our website and even on the PodBean comments. In celebration, we have a Looking For Group event in our Xbox Live Group. So if you own Gears of War 4, feel free to jump in. If not, we're sure Lee will stream it. Check the Club for futer infomation.
 
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A Conversation With Josh

The Xboxcast Present: A Conversation With Josh
 
For our March Special, we chat to Josh, who is long time friend of Jordan, and certainly knows his stuff.
 
Josh is super knowledgeable about all things gaming, and it was a pleasure to talk to him. From Elite Dangerous, Monster Hunter World, For Honor and Halo, we cover exactly how many hours he's played. And lets just say that you will be surprised. And jealous. He's inspired at least one member of The Xboxcast to devote more time to crashing spaceships in Elite Dangerous. 
 
Josh comes all the way from Wellington and you can stalk him on Xbox Live at Srgnt Kingsley.
 
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#206: Stupid Clown Wizard

Nah ah, you're a stupid clown wizard! 
 
In what has been the quietest week ever for Xbox news, we have all decided that we really like games. And so we played a bunch of different ones! Simone has started Fable 2, Kyle decided to play Batman Arkham Knight and even Lee, much to everyone's surprise, started 2 news games - GTA V and Super Lucky's Tale. Want to hear what we thought of these games? Well listen and find out.
 
Adding to that we discuss Mixer's new controller sharing feature, what to expect from Bethesda at E3 and how many hours the oldies are playing a week. Surprise of the week goes to 3D Realms releasing a new game - Ion Maiden. We also talk about The Darwin Project and other games that came out this week. 
 
The Xboxcast News: We have a Discord and Xbox Live Club you can join. And a donate button on our website now. Be a dear and give it a test for us, please?
 
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#205: Lightning VS Cloud

We're trying to make sense of Lee. But it seems impossible. Can you help? 
 
This week Xbox 360 versions of The Witcher 2, Crackdown (which is 11 years old), Fable and Forza Horizon (yes, the original) got enhanced for the One X, which is pretty amazing, and they are looking better than ever. 
 
We go over the best selling games of January and number 10 will underwhelm you, Ubisoft is making all the right moves, Burnout Paradise is getting remastered and Destiny 2 gets an update. We also have a donate button on our website and stickers!
 
But possibly the most exciting thing for this week is that Rare is immortalising players' most memorable achievements in Sea of Thieves and doing a fantastic job of it. 
 
This is a full on week for news and excitement and so far one of our best episodes (no bias at all here). 
 
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#204: I Always Want A Cookie

What we thought was a quiet week on the news side ends up with info coming at us from all sides! Luckily we are here to help break it all down for you. 
 
EA might lose Star Wars, mods coming to Cities: Skylines, Xbox One is on fire in Japan and GTA 5 sells how many copies!?
 
Simone tries to prepare us for a llama apocolypse but we get distracted by Age of Empires Definitive Edition and we hear all about the other new games that have headed, or are still heading, our way this week. And its true - Simone knows things!
 
Kyle raves about Firewatch, Lee says how bad Crazy Taxi is and Simone puts the boys to shame by completeing Ryse on Legendary difficulty.
 
All this and more in this weeks episode.
 
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#203: Pillars of Paternity

ESports in the olympics? It could be coming sooner than you think! 
 
This week in the world of Xbox, we discuss Fortnite getting 3.4 million concurrent players and then promptly crashing, Battlefront 2 getting Clone Wars DLC, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire coming to Xbox One, Destiny 2's Crimson Days and Kingdom Hearts 3's new Monster's Inc reveal! All this and more in this weeks episode of The Xboxcast. 
 
Also, 30 something days until Sea of Thieves, which continues to get us hyped with a captial hype!
 
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#202: Gears of Star Wars

Episode 2 of Season 2! 
We're so excited, we almost skip the intro completely. 
 
Sea of Thieves has a real life store thats about to take all our money, Respawn are working on a Star Wars game, Final Fantasy XV is getting cross-play and we would be totally cool if Microsoft bought EA. All this and more in this weeks Xboxcast. 
Oh, and we even had the local newspaper come take photos of us! 
 
All in all, this has been a very exciting week in the live of The Xboxcast!
 
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