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
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Dermie and Jason pull apart another big week in gaming news:
- Why Gamepass is a parent's best friend
- Why in-game chat is dead
- Results of the IGEA report about gaming during lockdown
- Minecraft is coming to Gamepass (but Caves and Cliffs is still in limbo)
- We tried Xcloud and game streaming on Australian internet and it was not awful
- FarCry and fighting chickens
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Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
More game news with Dermie and Jason:
- Dermie loves his reconditioned Gameboy Advance with backlit screen
- Will Sportsball Fans and Esports ever get along?
- Why you should get your child a Switch instead of letting them play iPad games
- The dirty tricks that social media platforms are using to protecting their turf
- MSM finally did a (half) decent story about videogames
- Epic lawsuit reveals Sony's cross-play shenanigans
- Sony got an awful Esports gambling-related patent
- Seriously it is awful
- Bad Sony
- Stop it
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Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Catch up on all the videogame news with Dermie and Jason:
- Titanfall trolls Polygon and gets popular again
- A Chinese man was arrested for threatening to kill the Genshin Impact devs because they removed his favourite bunny costumes
- Sega selling NFTs
- Sony Playstation sales numbers
- Fortnite makes almost half its money from Playstation players
- Esports and gambling ads shows the continual lack of imagination in tech and gaming spaces
- Epic refusing to put Fornite on xCloud because it's a competitor
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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Dermie and Jason are back for another dose of videogame news:
- Industry personal moves
- XBox Live Gold no longer required to play rubbish games like Fortnite
- PS3 and Vita stores no longer being closed
- Sony patents A.I. that will finish hard levels for you
- Knuckles will be in the Sonic 2 movie probably because Sega no longer makes the third episode of Sonic things any more
- Sony is paying devs to keep their games off GamePass
- Sony is also paying devs to not allow cross-play
- Sonic games are coming back and life is good (for Dermie at least)
- Is Sony going to add movies to PS+ ?
- Should you buy games at full price if you want more of them?
- After all the Cyberpunk backlash how did it actually affect sales?
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Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Dermie and Jason are back with the an in-depth take on the big gaming news:
- Minecraft Cave and Cliffs update is now coming in 2 parts and Dermie thinks Microsoft has a problem
- Square Enix says it is not for sale
- Oxenfree 2 announced (play the first one now if you haven't)
- PS5 can now save games to USB but as usual because it is Sony there is a big catch
- More games get FPS boosts including Crysis because your console isn't hot enough
- Ubisoft is shutting down some game servers
- Avengers is adding something but who even cares
- People are buying lots of PS5's for some reason
- Latest US consumer videogame spending numbers say gamers actually like being locked indoors
- Sony is investing big money into Epic. Why?
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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Dermie and Jason look at another big week of videogame news:
- Peter Dutton is blaming Grand Theft Auto for sexism
- Ghost of Tsushima is getting a movie
- Among Us is coming to GamePass
- Cancel Culture is after Six Days in Fallujah, but Dermie reckons everybody is looking in the wrong direction
- EA Play now part of GamePass PC
- Which games got an FPS boost on Xbox Series S & X ?
- Will Pikmin AR succeed where Minecraft AR failed?
- One day in the future when your PS4 battery dies your games will die as well (forever)
- BAFTA Game Award winners
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Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Another massive week of gaming news gets pulled apart and mocked by Dermie and Jason:
- Will Halo Infinite be open world?
- Dermie explains how Elite Dangerous destroyed itself and became no fun
- How political will Six Days In Fallujah actually be?
- Denuvo DRM is being used in PS5 games for some reason
- Take 2 CEO reckons gamers want to pay more money for games
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Thursday Apr 08, 2021
Thursday Apr 08, 2021
Another big week of gaming news means another big podcast. Dermie and Jason deep dive into:
- anti-union ads on Twitch
- are videogame controversies looking in the wrong place for things to get upset about?
- Harry Potter
- Cyberpunk 2077 can not be played in 4K on any existing GPU
- Diablo save files
- Sony is dead in Japan; Nintendo is in charge now
- Switch 4K rumours
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Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Dermie and Jason update you on another massive week in gaming news:
- Lots of Pokemon announcements
- Is the PS5's speedy new hard drive too speedy for its own good?
- A Division movie is coming
- Harry Potter game shenanigans
- Anthem is dead but will anybody notice?
- Epic settles a class action in V-Bucks as if that is real money now
- Apple demands all Steam's sales info and Steam says GTFO fite me IRL
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Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
We're back after being grounded again. This week Dermie and Jason catch up on 2 big weeks of gaming news:
- Xbox Series X backward compatibility gets even better
- Splatoon 3 is coming to Switch
- Fall Guys is coming to Switch and Xbox
- Bungie has a new IP coming in 2025
- Diablo 2 is being remastered
- Last year's Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 announcements were exactly what we thought they were at the time
- The Last Of Us TV show gets its 2 main actors
- Sony's PS5 game pricing is suicidal
- The Sonic 2 movie is official
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