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
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Dermie and Jason cover the big gaming news of the week including Gamepass, Helldivers, the new Sword Art Online game, and Evercade retro consoles.
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
Tuesday Jul 09, 2024
In this episode Dermie and Jason continue their quest to get cancelled by discussing the Dr Disrespect situation.
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Friday Jun 28, 2024
Dermie and Jason discuss Nintendo's latest direct, the influence of WB on the re-release of Multiversus and more as we shake the rust off after the break.
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Dermie and Jason reunite to discuss the former E3 window and what it's become, as well as gaming IP TV shows and what becomes of Steam after GabeN.
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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