News Game Plus
New Game Plus is a new look take on gaming TV. Incorporating a strong gaming focus, with a healthy dose of related subcultures, NG+ aims to bring you thoughtful reviews, exclusive interviews and event coverage, and the best videos from a range of specialist contributors.
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Episodes
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Our podcasts are back for 2020 with Dermie and Jason discussing all the big gaming news:
- Joe Biden wants to regulate videogames because they teach Americans (and only Americans for some reason) how to murder
- Pax Aus dates announced
- High framefrates are better than high resolutions and you can fight XBox head Phil Spencer irl if you disagree
- what does the "strategic partnership" between Activision and Google really mean?
- Dermie is worried that videogames being delayed means he'll be dead before he gets to play them
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Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
In this week's podcast Dermie and Jason talk Xbox Series X, Australia reviewing its videogame classification system, what are PewDiePie's real plans, the new Playstation controller add-on, and our Game Of The Year.
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Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Dermie and Jason bring you all the gaming news for the week:
- Forza now has a Battle Royale mode because all games will eventually have one
- Untitled Goose Game is coming to Game Pass
- Minecraft is finally cross play on PS4
- Rebellion aquires the rights to Bitmap Brothers games - will we finally see Speedball Online?
- Which console is being used to watch porn on and what are its users searching for? The answers may disturb you
- Dermie wants to know why YouTube is being turned into TV to keep advertisers happy instead of the other way round
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Thursday Dec 05, 2019
Thursday Dec 05, 2019
This week's gaming news with Dermie and Jason:
- Sony says it will never make a handheld console again
- Riot Games will pay out 10 million dollars because of their ridiculous culture and Dermie compares those allegations to his history in corporate I.T. and consulting
- The Australian videogame industry only has 1,275 full-time employees. Canada's has 48,000 and generates 4 billion dollarydoos. We have a look at some of the numbers
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Thursday Nov 28, 2019
Thursday Nov 28, 2019
On this week's gaming news podcast Dermie and Jason occasionally talk about gaming news:
- Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer will be monetised so start saving for costumes
- Battleborn servers will be shut down in January and that has big ramifications for future retro gamers
- Amazon is launching a game streaming service next year
- Half Life Alyx looks great but does VR have a future?
- You can cook eggs on a Google Stadia while watching your bandwidth fly out the window
- Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries is coming and it looks incredible
- Can and should games be political?
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Wednesday Nov 20, 2019
Wednesday Nov 20, 2019
On this week's podcast Dermie and Jason rant about:
- Command & Conquer and Red Alert are being resomethinged for PC
- Half Life Alyx VR sadly does not have a 3 in the title
- The best Halo game is coming to Masterchief Collection and PC
- Project Xcloud is coming to "Other Devices"
- 3 Yakuza games are coming to Xbox Game Pass
- What do we think of the Dorito Pope Game Awards nominees?
- Yu Suzuki may the best game developer many people don't know about
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Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Dermie and Jason pick apart this week's news in videogames:
- Sonic got redesigned for the Sonic Movie and he looks fantastic
- Death Stranding is coming to Steam and Epic
- Minecraft Earth is in early access in Australia
- Tencent wants to partner with Nintendo
- Naughty Dog is hiring for a multiplayer game
- China has introduced gaming curfews and spending caps
- The Switch has sold 10 million units in Japan so we look at how that compares with other consoles
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Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Dermie and Jason bring you the week's gaming news:
- Fortnite pro banned for using an aimbot
- Kojima wants to make movies
- Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 were announced so that everybody forgets why they were angry at Blizzard
- Fallout 76 customers in Australia will get refunds
- Boulderdash 30th anniversary is coming to Switch and Dermie is excited
- Horizon Zero Dawn 2 is coming
- Epic Games Store will soon be getting some actual store functionality
- Angry Birds isn't what it used to be
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Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
This week's gaming news:
- Ancestor The Humankind Odyssey creator calls out reviewers who didn't play the game
- Kotaku staff reprimanded for calling out their owners
- Telstra wants you to buy lots of 5G to play Xbox Cloud games
- EA is back on Steam
- Sony trademarks PS1 through PS10 brand names
- Sonic has had a redesign for his movie
- Call of Duty tries to claim Russians did what USA did
- Fallout 1st subscribers are getting pre-used servers
- NBA2K20 has unskippable ads
- Star Citizen is free to play until November 3rd and Derek Smart is excited
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Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
All the latest gaming news with Dermie and the Social Jason Warrior:
- You can get a Fallout 76 subscription for the bargain price of only $180 per year!
- Stadia pre-orders will be delivered 2 weeks after Stadia hits retail
- An Oxford University study finds there is not "sufficient evidence" to conclude that gaming disorders are a thing
- Game Pass subscribers play 40% more games
- Outer Worlds has a 38GB day one patch on Xbox One but Jason still wants it
- The Panzer Dragoon remake will be available as a physical version
- EA may be returning to Steam
- CouchWarriors has expanded into South Australia and New South Wales
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