Episodes

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss (live on their Twitch stream) a suspicious backdoor into League of Legends accounts, Polygon's noble pursuit of gaming journalism, Sony Online Entertainment's sudden selloff and rebranding, The Legend of Zelda's new home on Netflix and the DICE Awards!

Ian Buck tells us a story of deer in the woods and deer at the alter, among other things.

Andrew and Steve prepare for the emergency Raspberry podcast.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B has been released, and Steven and Andrew are so excited that they did a podcast out of schedule!

Ian Buck and Ian Decker talk the greatest episode on The Nexus ever - TED #2, and everyone's new Twitch stream, and discuss Nintendo's revised affiliate program, a guide to game streaming online, Greece's new finance minister, the demise of Joystiq plus reviews of Mr Torgue's Campaign of Carnage and Tales from the Borderlands.

Ryan leaves Ian and Ian to write their notes and eat while he gets the pizza, and twizzlers are getting snipped. Plus, a brief episode of the Studless show afterwards!

Ian Decker brings guest JPM, conductor of the Gustavus Adolphus Wind Orchestra, to discuss the effects of game music on the psychology of gamers.

Ryan explains some of the metadata for The Extra Dimension and JPM prepares for his great episode.

Steve tells about how cold he is, and Andrew talks about mechanical keyboards.

Steve and Andrew talk about Chris, gaming, Windows, Firefox, networking, Verizon, EFF, Emscripten, vacuums, and podcast feedback.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Civilization on the iPad - coming soon, Steam broadcasting's availability to everyone, Theme Hospital giveaway and Microsoft's comeback: Windows 10, Xbox and their vision of the future with HoloLens.

Ian Decker reveals he uses Macs, Buck reveals he lets random girls into his room while others sleep on the bed, and afterwards, Matt and Ryan record the second episode of The Studless Show (remember -- read the eight volumes to ascend).

Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with returning guest Katie Reddemann, discuss Notch's mansion housewarming party, safe Twitch music, Razer's virtual reality initiative, and a review of Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons from Buck.

If you manage to get there, listen to our new episode of The Studless Show, with Matt and Ryan, after The Fringe of Eight Bit.

Chris doesn't let Andrew talk about smoke detectors, and instead talks about injections, Frozen, alternate technology objects, spigowing, sushi, and does a drive-by with an automatic, all with perfect enunciation.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker look back on 2014 and think about what 2015 will bring, and then some of Eight Bit's most popular guests, Sonja, Andrew and Savannah, stop by to chat.

Warning: this fringe is long - it is out of order and it is hilarious. The Ian's and their guests talk about all sorts of funny things.

Steve and Andrew play the Oregon Trail, the Internet Archive's collection of DOS games, Steve's favorite naval battle game, and Andrew talks about old hardware after the show.

Andrew and Steve find a whole bunch of DOS games, then talk about crap, MozJPEG, Microsoft, encryption methods, the NSA, and answer listener feedback.

It's New Year's Adam at The Nexus, and we host a summary of fun show with your favorite hosts, Andrew Bailey, Steven Orvis, Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad, discussing the entire year!

This is The Fringe to listen to, with banter from Matt and Ryan before Andrew and Steven appear, and so much more.

On the last episode before New Year's, Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Humble Bundle charity contributions, Hearthstone on Android, news about The Witcher 3, and Notch's new mega-mansion, plus a review of Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 1.

Ian Buck tells us about the time he left his edible underwear at home in his room while a German exchange student was occupying it, and more. Plus, Matt stops by to make noise!

Ryan figits with his sound settings, Andrew prereviews his gadget, and then they talk about Ars Technica for a bit.

Andrew drags Ryan out of podcasting midterms to talk about coffee, Apple, storage, Google, Skype, and extreme definition sound.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss pushing The Witcher 3 back yet again, Microsoft's timed exclusive of Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox One, EA's SimCity 2000 giveaway, Sony in China, the Steam holiday auction, Mass Effect comics and more!

Before the show, the Ian's adopt a Spongebob song, and after, Ryan's boom is drooping.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss more Evolve news, Guild Wars 2 PVP updates, the next Assassin's Creed, a pretty musical Saint's Row trailer, and all of the exciting choices made at the Game Awards!

We discuss branding and massive threads of computerized innuendos before the show, and after, Ian Buck discovers that 99 comes before 100.

Steve talks about The Stanley Parable with Andrew, then talk about jpegs, CPUs, silencers, and HTML9.

Andrew and Steve talk about Thanksgiving activities, buzzwords, DRM, Swartz, FLAC support, Mozilla, UI design tips, HTML, HTTP, and Blizzard.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the new Star Wars trailer and what it all means, then some news including a weird Oculus Rift experiment, Nintendo patents a way to print money, and some reviews on Codename Cygnus and the Forgotten Shores!

Decker's mic is strong, and it hears the infamous question, "Why!" and later, Matt appears to say hi and toot his horn.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the Walmart PS4 scams, clever DRM-detection, the strange Hacker Barbie phenomena, reviews of TwoDots from Buck and the initial review of Far Cry 4 from Decker!

Ian and Ryan discuss developer-y things and the strange world of Barbie memes, and more about processors, devices and apps afterwards.

Andrew and Steve discuss mice that don't work, Stanley Parable, World of Tanks, and microphone noise.

Andrew and Steve talk about the past, present, and future, with Desert Bus, Raspberry, Winamp, Dot Net, TLS certificates, and Google Play.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss a real game developer on the show, and discuss the Telltale Game of Thrones game, the new Monument Valley expansion, Nvidia's GRID system, a VGA-alternative and a review of Smite.

Before the show, Ryan asks Buck about his Nexus 6 review impressions, and after, Buck ponders going near a black hole, among other things.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the future of Destiny, more Dragon Age and Far Cry 4 trailers, a new StarCraft 2 game, and reviews of Among the Sleep DLC and the sort-of-mini-game, The Plan.

The Ian's work on the notes a bit before the show, and Ryan shares a tea-story about Matt.

Steven and Andrew talk about cats, whether or not the Ubuntu website has "Linux" on it, and a little bit about Dell.

Andrew and Steve talk about hiring people, new PC concepts, encryption, package managers, Ubuntu, math hacks, extensions, MD5, N64, moon robots, gaming, even more encryption, and sound systems.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the new shirtless policy on Twitch, the release of Lucasarts games, impressive profits for Nintendo for the first time in years ,some Kentucky Route Zero news and a review of the classic, Audiosurf.

It's not 1992 anymore, it's 1982 now. Before the show, Ian Decker discusses Nic Cage and his likeness to Disney Princesses, among other things. After, it's all about smells, apparently.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss a Steam death threat, some new GTX 900 series features, a new Titanfall game mode, the next Living World installment in Guild Wars 2, the new Google Knowledge Graph showing game information, the Golden Joystick results, and Buck's review of Badland.

When Ian Buck publishes his blog post, it crashes his computer so we wait in silence for a bit, and then listen to some creepy song.

Andrew gives a spoiler alert, and Steven talks about a deer he almost got.

Steve and Andrew talk about encryption, encryption vulnerabilities, unreliability, Linux, Alto, and surround sound.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss more GamerGate developments, a new Civilization: Beyond Earth cinematic, the winner of the League of Legends World Championship, a strange Half Life 3 ad campaign, a look back at Mass Effect and reviews of Assassin's Creed Pirates and Octodad DLC.