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Welcome to episode 177 of Game Briefs, your authority on games, news, tech and gadgets. We are now with Ultimategamer.com and welcome those of you who have been brave enough to join us in the chatroom there. Of course, you can also interact with us via our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/GameBriefs/ With me this evening are our cowhores The recently appointed Secretary of Badassery, Bob Lohblaw The self professed lord of the noobs steel valor And new to the team, the empress of estrogen Sky! ************** Tonight on Game Briefs we have for you The Frontlines In The Farting corner with Bob Noobie Toobie with Steel Audio Ebola and more! But first! Let’s start first by welcoming our guest Steven Alexander with Team Infamy We talk about Quest for Infamy making a retro game challenges and successes on Kickstarter HIs favorite old school RPG His LEAST favorite Old School RPG ****** The Farting Corner w/ Steel Truecrypt is no longer secure …. EVERYONE PANIC!!! As mentioned by my security mentor, Brian Krebs, Truecrypt has closed it’s doors and caused major waves in the paranoid encryption community. So what is up with this? Why did they disappear? Was it the NSA? Snowden… PUTIN!?!? IMHO it’s was M$. You see the notes on the Truecrypt website mysteriously support bit locker. BIT LOCKER! TC is a million times more secure than BL! Why? Triple Encryption Random Seeds and Keygens Hidden PARTITIONS! So what is my suggestion? Keep using TrueCrypt. Why? Because the FBI gave up on trying to crack it due to it’s complexity. The Farting corner with Bob http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/21/ebay-alerts-users-to-change-passwords-following-cyberattack Ebay was hacked in February or early March. Employee credentials compromised and possibly users. Why are we just finding out about this now? ****************************** The Frontlines Bob: http://MayOne.us Steel: In-Home Streaming, a new feature of Steam, is now released to all users. Players who have multiple computers at home can immediately take advantage of the new feature. When you login to Steam on two computers on the same network, they automatically connect, allowing you to remotely install, launch, and play games as though you were sitting at the remote PC.Steam In-Home Streaming allows you to play your PC games on a lower-end computer, such as a laptop or home theater PC, or a computer running another operating system, such as Mac OS X, SteamOS, or Linux. When you play a game using In-Hom

In case you missed it, we have our full on page right over here: We're putting these notes up really just for those of you on the feed, and those that are too cool for school.  You should go to Theultimategamer.com anyhow- they're awesome! Episode 176! Welcome to episode 176 of Game Briefs, your authority on games, news, tech and gadgets. We are now with Ultimategamer.com and welcome those of you who have been brave enough to join us in the chatroom there. Of course, you can also interact with us via our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/GameBriefs/ With me this evening are two gentlemen, and I use that term loosely, that need introductions. Former Editor of Technomite, sarcastic badass and purveyor of the Farting Corner, Bob Lohblaw And Metal know it all, former industry insider and the guy who has more awkward pauses than Jimmy Kimmel without his teleprompter- Steel Valor! ************** Tonight on Game Briefs we have for you the type of show you would want to listen to, but not admit to your friends that you are an avid listener of with: The Frontlines In The Farting corner with Bob Noobie Toobie with Steel and more! But first! Let’s start first by welcoming our guests, Jane Jensen of Pinkerton Road and Katie Hallahan, PR Director and Designer at Phoenix Online Studios Be sure to visit their sites: http://www.gabrielknight20th.com/ http://www.postudios.com/company/ ****** The Farting Corner w/ Bob Net Neutrality The Frontlines Bob: Phil Spencer’s impact already being felt by Microsoft’s Xbox division. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/05/rumor-xbox-live-to-remove-gold-requirement-for-netflix-hulu/ Steel: There is no need to panic and change your mobile phone platform for the new Titanfall app, like I did for Call of Duty (FML) ... because it's available for everything... everything but Blackberry. Awwww bbm gets no love, but honestly, the only people I know that use blackberry's are ex-seals and paranoids. So what's included in the new app? Stats, history, stats, interactive maps, stats, loadouts, stats, player tracking, stats, scoreboards and stats. ... oh and stats. BTW ... from what I've seen so far it's an excellent addition as a real time tracker while you're playing. Just try not to get killed while you're staring at it. There is a bit of PC hate in the review for the app because it favors the consoles, but let’s face it. The PC master race just is denying it’s roots. Who’s your daddy? Ralph Baer’s your

If you missed the show last week, and don't have the time to listen to the whole show, FRET NOT!  We have a rare treat for you here. Here's the scenario: Bob railed against M$ and the lack of Bing rewards on its own phone. I went to ECGC 2014, and a M$ tech evangelist attempted to "convert" me. I told him of their lack of support for WinPhone (and Bob's reaction to that) He agreed to go on air to discuss this.  Despite our talking about it before hand, he still didn't know what we would be talking about.   The rest is all in the audio.   Seriously, if you haven't heard Bob rage before, you should listen to this.  If you have, you should share it with someone.   Want to hear the whole show? Of course you do.  Listen to us as we talk with Logan Decker, and Pete Hines- Click Here!

This week, the editor for Dialect Inc., former editor of PC Gamer, Maximum PC and CEO of the Cute Fuzzy Bastards Conglomerate Logan Decker joins us. He miraculously stays with us the entire show and at the end you'll get to hear Steel and Option talk w...

I had a chance to meet with The Tiddly Bit, talk a bit about their game (available for download here), talk about older games, and general shenanigans.  Here's Option with Rellik Nisssassa photobombing winners of a raffle. (photo credit Laurie Payne, who is awesome.)  

GAME BRIEFS Intro Segment: Welcome to episode 174 of GameBriefs, your authority on games, news, tech and gadgets.  We are from WeWearNoPants dot com, and you can find us pretty much everywhere you want to be. Of course, you  can also interact with us in our chat room, or via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GameBriefs/ With me this evening on the Skype-line from our New York studios are  two guys who need introductions ....Bob Lohblaw and Steel Valor! ************** Tonight, we have a nicaraguan maduro, aged 4 years and hand rolled on the inner thighs of honduran women, featuring: The Frontlines In The Farting corner with Bob Noobie Toobie with Steel ? and more!  But first, we’re gonna talk about   Heart bleed http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html Did the NSA really know? We can speculate.   http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/man-who-introduced-serious-heartbleed-security-flaw-denies-he-inserted-it-deliberately-20140410-zqta1.html - Was it really overlooked? What it is, how to protect yourself from it - Get Chromebleed to tip you off to sites who haven’t updated or patched correctly Lastpass gets a plug from Option   In other news: ---------------- Marty O’Donnell leaves Bungie, and not in the best of ways.- Play halo theme (Twitter post, etc) What does this mean, how does this affect Bungie, etc. ---------------- New Borderlands Prequel coming to old gen consoles- thoughts on first shots? - The only season pass I don’t regret buying -------------- Mechrunner launched.  What a great website that is there. ***** The Farting Corner w/ Bob   Facebook forcing users to download messenger.   http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/facebook-messenger-or-the-highway/   Who remembers Facebook home? The Frontlines   Bob:   Comcast wins as worst company in America in Consumerist’s poll. They even beat out Monsanto. Now we can feel even more secure knowing that Comcast wants to merge with TWC and have a stranglehold on broadband. Data caps for everyone? If they win it is coming. Steel: Is it not enough that Google gets blamed for being evil that even in the face of public outcry of the privacy invading Google Glass that they are looking at the possibility of making contact lenses with a simillar functionality? Have they not kept up with the news that people are pissed about the NSA & govt spying programs? Have they not seen the you

Here is your primer for cigar buying, lighting, and smoking cigars from our own Option Disabled.  This is the most basic of tutorials, to get you "in the game."  Listen, absorb, and listen again as Option guides you through the most basic of ways to smoke a cigar.  Be sure to send questions to option@wewearnopants.com

Show notes, for whatever good that did for this show: GAME BRIEFS Intro Segment: Welcome to episode 173 of GameBriefs, your authority on games, news, tech and gadgets.  We are from WeWearNoPants dot com, and you can find us pretty much everywhere you want to be. Of course, you  can also interact with us in our chat room, or via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GameBriefs/ With me this evening on the Skype-line from our New York studios are the two most hated men in their area code, Bob Lohblaw and Steel Valor! ************** Tonight, we have our finest vintage, bottled in the Napa valley during the height of the growth season: The Frontlines In The Farting corner with Bob, r Noobie Toobie with Steel ? and more!  But first, we’re gonna talk about Option got chromecast. Should you?   Titanfall has dropped. What do Bob and Steel think after some more extensive time with the game.   Does multiplayer live up to expectations? Did Respawn successfully phase out traditional campaign?   Do we want to discuss the PS4 VR headset?   http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/18/5523984/sony-reveals-project-morpheus-its-vr-system-for-ps4 http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5533914/spec-sheet-sonys-project-morpheus-takes-on-oculus-rift We’ll discuss everything and take a quick break ***** The Farting Corner w/ Bob   Microsoft looks into a users email account in an investigation   http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5533814/google-yahoo-apple-all-share-microsofts-troubling-email-privacy-policy   Change policy - too little too late?   http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/20/5531428/microsoft-changes-outlook-com-email-policies The Frontlines   Bob:   YouTube for Kids under 10   http://www.techspot.com/news/56032-youtube-reportedly-building-a-version-for-kids-under-10-years-old.html   Steel:Do you own a 360?  Want to play Titanfall?  TOO BAD!  The title just got pushed back… again… to April 8th (the 11th in Europe).  What is the problem here, exactly?  They knew they were going to release this game to the 360, they had the kits- what is the holdup?  Well the official word is, it’s on hold so they can “make it better”. Sucks to be a 360 owner right about now, doesn’t it Option? http://kotaku.com/titanfall-for-the-xbox-360-delayed-until-april-1547063509   Option:And finally, it’s been a while since we have talked about Sacred here.  I know a certain Steel Valor will be quite glad to hear that Sacred 3 will be hitting shelv

GAME BRIEFS Intro Segment: Welcome to episode 172 of GameBriefs, your authority on games, news, tech and gadgets. We are from WeWearNoPants dot com, and you can find us on our page, through Blubrry, techpodcasts, stitcher radio, fluctu8, gigadial, and Itunes! You can also interact with us in our chat room, or via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GameBriefs/ With me this evening on the Skype-line from our New York studios are the wick-ed-ly talented "Blair Lezwis"and "Saul Tayzlor" ************** Tonight, we have our fun and fancy free The Frontlines In The Farting corner with Bob, r Noobie Toobie with Steel ? and more! But first, we’re gonna talk about The return of the onlive system Ken Levine left Infinite games, but not 2K=- “Levine announced he was "winding down Irrational Games as you know it", the studio he co-founded 17 years ago. His new venture will be "a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor" at Take-Two, 2K's parent company. All but 15 at Irrational have been let go.” A: What are those 15 people doing? B: does he mean social games? C: Why step away? And, we played a game- we’ll talk about it here. We’ll discuss everything and take a quick break ***** The Farting Corner w/ Bob http://majornelson.com/2014/03/06/coming-soon-purchase-xbox-one-in-the-u-s-and-get-forza-motorsport-5/ The Frontlines Bob: Oscar Mayer Wake Up and Smell the Bacon. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=824320132&mt=8 http://www.wakeupandsmellthebacon.com/ http://youtu.be/r9_JuInAyxs Steel: It’s no secret that I think Edward Snowden is a whistle blower with a traitorous agenda. He’s leaked information that is not only scandalous, but also vital to security of our country. One of those leaks is the not so secret, at least to a chosen few, news that the NSA bought a workable backdoor to the random number generator that was placed within the AES specification. What is AES? The Advanced Encryption Standard is currently the strongest civilian encryption available ... which is compromised by the NSA. It’s used to store password, SSNs, credit card info and other personal info. So can you trust it? Folks, this might be news to you but the internet is not anonymous and everything is logged. Here’s my advice. Yes, use HTTPS and AES but also don’t make poor descisions and do things that could end up bad for you online or anywhere for that matter. You never know who is on the other end of that ch

GAME BRIEFS Intro Segment: Welcome to episode 171 GameBriefs, your authority on games, news, tech and gadgets.  We are from WeWearNoPants dot com, which is not a porn site, I assure you.  You can find us on our page, through Blubrry, techpodcasts, st...

Victor Lucas of Electronics Playground fame has recently launched a new venture, Vic's Basement. (You can follow him via twitter @Victor_Lucas)  We wish him all the best, as this interview reveals his big heart, and his deep seeded understanding of games. Join Option, Steel, Bob, and Big Slick (aka Bill Roper) for some retro love-- From Episode 129 (back in 2011), we bring you the Victor Lucas Interview!

Ep.152 Steel and Option anchor the show as Bob is off gallivanting.  This week we cover the Modern Warfare 3 launch, Xbox Fall Update, Kinect’s birthday, and more.  And of course, we have some of your favorite segments like The Farting Corner and The Frontlines.

Ep.149 – El Presidente Wins a Fourth Term Bulletproof Interview Ted Brockwood, Kalypso Media Tropico 4 is here and we dish the dirt with Ted. Top News Steve Jobs steps down from Apple but remains on the Board for both Apple and Disney Gamestop apologies for removal of ONLIVE DeusEx coupon EA’s Origin causes some privacy concerns amoung users NPD Group releases taxonomy of digital games market City of Heroes to go free to play? Fukushima Game Jam to stimulate development following disaster Community Spotlight Spirits of Fire, members of the Good Game Network Apollo, ElusiveEagle, and Kalamari The Frontlines Diablo fans unite and starting taking your biotin! Blizzard has thrown down the gauntlet with the “Daibleard” challenge. Starting now, you’re to grow the best beard you can and submit your pics to the Diablo team. Why? Our very own SteelValor says, WHY NOT! The only difference between you and him is he won’t shave it off like everyone else will the day Diablo III is released. Best of luck to our own little Diableard contestant. Chances are you will see his mug on the site very soon. This week I got a sneak peek at VALVe’s upcoming title CounterStrike Global Offensive and let me just sum up the screenshots and promo movie with … Meeeeeeeh. Yes, VALVe may be bringing this title to the consoles but it’s not excuse for taking such a beloved game like CS and turning it into a slightly better looking title. oh wait, I just remembered this is the same company that butchered the hearts of Team Fortress Classic players when they released the sequel. Team Fortress 2 … The Incredibles Edition. Now before I get hate mail from Doug Lombardi let it be know I still love VALVe … but hate the direction that they’ve taken with my two fav VALVe mp games. …and speaking of VALVe and games that are shaping up to be Meh. Activision and VALVe have teamed up together to provide us with Modern Warfare 3 on Steam AND the Steamworks services such as autoupdating and SteelValor’s favorite, Steam Achievements! Actually, Steel loves any and all achievements. The MW3 title is available for PC users only, Sorry Steve/Todd, there is no Mac version in planning. So make sure you pre-order for the release of MW3 on November 8th … but only if you really want it The Farting Corner Xbox Live has gone from trash talking 12 year olds to emo 15 year olds Scan Complete Singularity Review In Other News Our thoughts on what has been shown at PAX   Top New

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