Episodes

Ian Buck and Ryan talk about regex, redirection, the show note parser, and later, Ian and Ryan also chat about the good old days when the Nexus 5 just came out.

Brian Mitchell and Ryan Rampersad discuss OSX Yosemite, the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, the new Mac mini and highly pixelated Retina 5K iMac.

Ryan gathers a few notes before the show and after, Brian and Ryan chat about getting an Apple Watch.

Ian R Buck and Ryan Rampersad discuss the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop, the Nexus 6 and 9 and a new entry, the Nexus Player.

Ryan forgets to turn the mixer on before the show and together, they gather the notes. Ian cannot experience The Verge search button. Later, Ryan has to run to class.

Ian Buck returns from St. Petersburg and joins Ian Decker to follow up on feedback and discuss the Xbox China launch, a new Myst TV show and game tie-in, the next step from the Niantic team and a review of Smash Hit from Buck.

Ian Decker eats burnt popcorn before the show and Ian and Ryan discuss the problem of needing to know how it works.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss HP's break up plans, upcoming events for Google and Apple, sapphire manufacturers suddenly going bankrupt, Xbox sales in China and so much more!

Ryan and Matt actually record a show and Ryan even prepared before hand. All Matt can say is: the mail. man, the mail.

Andrew gives another Chris installment, then discusses games with Steven.

Andrew and Steve talk about lights, Raspberry, spin offs, TV, patents, Postgres, Shellshock, and hacked drivers.

Ian Decker interviews first time guest JPM and discusses Final Fantasy and the music of JRPGs, and then Ryan Rampersad joins Ian for headlines including Steam scams, Joystick awards, potential Guild Wars news, more FarCry 4 trailers, Wrack, and so much more!

Before the show, Ian gives JPM a rundown of how Eight Bit works and figure out the latest dreaming episode opening.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl react to the huge Windows 10 announcement on Tuesday, and then talk briefly about the week's news, from SoftBank's attempt to buy DreamWorks to Nexus 6 leaks, and so much more!

Ryan and Matt sit through the entire Windows 9 -- wait -- it was renamed to Windows 10 -- announcement, live, on The Fringe. Warning: because this was recorded in the daytime, it's one of those days.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss Wander - the new "walking simulator MMO", a new Far Cry 4 trailer, Blizzard's canceled MMO that almost nobody knew of, singificant end game updates for Ingress, the Steam Store's major revamp, a new #Classics segment and a review of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

Before the show, Decker explains his file loss woes on campus and after, Putnam and Matt drop in and make noise.

Andrew tries to fix Steve's microphone, and Steve delivers another Chris installment.

Andrew talks about the past and the future, then joins Steven in the present to discuss Linux, caching, dependency independence, drive reliability, company domination, the NSA, and some other things.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl return to talk about Amazon's updated Kindle line, new GTX 900 series hardware, impressive Apple sales, update rates and worrying structural issues, Google's good and terrible Play Store updates, Microsoft's Miracast dongle and more!

It was one of those days on The Fringe. Matt and Ryan discover bending phones, shop on Amazon and Ryan shows Matt some NFC tags.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the big Microsoft-Mojang acquisition, Twitch on Chromecast, a new Oculus Rift development kit, Nvidia's Game24 and the announcement of the new GTX 900 series, and reviews of The Room and South Park: The Stick Of Truth.

Ryan mentions a Twitter inquisition and tells the tale of Matt's squirrel poaching, and Buck hates his borrowed laptop.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker celebrate Sam Roth's birthday, and discussing an impressive Dark Souls feat, League retexturing, the Humble Indie Bundle 12, an unexpected Microsoft-Minecraft announcement, the consumer Oculus Rift, and reviews on Saint’s Row IV and Monument Valley.

Ian and Ian share their Steam Accounts again, and then Ian walks away while Ryan and Ian discuss Google's need for a Presentation remote.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl review IFA and the big Apple event, and then discuss T-Mobile's 7th Uncarrier event, the new Google Hangouts and Voice integration, Microsoft's contempt, new Intel hardware and so much more!

Matt tries to stop Ryan from adding show notes after having not written any himself.

Steve talks about his Raspberry Pi shenanigans, Andrew figures out what a Bug-A-Salt is, and both discuss open source project names.

Andrew and Steven note some Apple event, discuss sorting algorithms, hashing algorithms, garbage collection algorithms, company perks, Markdown, Unreal Engine 4, NASes, The Stanley Parable, bugs, listener feedback, and the Steven-Chris showdown.

Brian Mitchell and Ryan Rampersad discuss the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and "one more thing" - the Apple Watch, from the 2014 Apple September Event!

Before the show, Ryan and Brian experience audio issues with fake computers.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the third Walking Dead season, a pretty cool map of Destiny's world, the Gear VR from Samsung at IFA 2014, a huge event from Nvidia called Game24 and the advent of the GTX 900 series, and reviews from both!

Before the show, Ryan and Ian talk about Destiny and after, Decker plays some music.

Matt wants to buy a branch chainsaw, and solution to his tree troubles.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss all of the phones and watches that out during IFA 2014.

Matt and Ryan discuss the upcoming event extravaganza at IFA 2014 and the six smart watches that could be shown off at the convention, and new enthusiast processors from Intel and minor refreshes from AMD, more iPhone and Nexus 9 rumors and so much more!

Before the show, Matt has a few Diet Pepsi's and Ryan declares his ant farm be "an unholy place" in an Amazon review.

Ian Buck (in Sweden) and Ian Decker with returning guest Sonja Richardson discuss Microsoft's next cloud gaming platform, Amazon's the true owner of Twitch, release dates for the next Pokemon games and Kingdom Hearts 3, Nintendo's revised 3DS handhelds, and a review The Walking Dead Season 2 Finale!

Ryan and Ian wait for Sonja and Ian, and after the show, Ryan mentions a train killing a guy and how the University tracks us all.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss some changes to T-Mobile and Sprint plans, AT&T's new third CEO, all sorts of events scheduled at IFA 2014, some iPhone speculation and concerns, more Windows 9 rumors and so much more!

Matt decides to add a new segment about Knots and then Matt begins another new segment on shopping for absurd junk on Amazon.

Andrew and Steve talk about their Raspberries, CDs, Windows, zip codes, gaming services and devices, emergent orange, Chris, and listener feedback.

Ian Buck wanted to make a test call with Ryan and ian in preparation for future episodes of Eight Bit. International latency will not stop us!

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss T-Mobile's new P2P stance and Sprint's new pretty cheap plans, tons of phones coming out pretty soon from Samsung, Motorola and oddly enough, Sharp, Apple's solution to USB connectors' four-dimensional paradox, Microsoft's Threshold in Fall and so much more!

Matt tries to login into something without LastPass, Ryan shows off his new PS2 emulator and Matt and Ryan discuss many Guild Wars 2 problems.

Steve goes to get a mic, and Andrew gets familiar with Steve's surroundings.

After talking about what they've been doing at home, Andrew and Steve talk about Raspberry Pi, Broadwell, game development, the internet, Internet Explorer, OpenGL, USB, Markov Chains, and dice.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss this week's epic T-Mobile and Sprint rumblings, Moto X+1 rumors, multiple failed lawsuits from Apple, the iPhone event in September, news on Microsoft's Threshold and so much more!

Ryan and Matt discuss Pokemon and Digimon for an hour and then begin the show.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the latest Virgin Mobile plan, Sprint's French competition and a joint adventure with T-Mobile, broken LG G Watches, HP's next mass market failure, a planned HTC event, MacBook Pro updates, Google+ Photo's dissolution, and so much more!