Episodes

Ryan and Matthew discuss the results of Mobile World Congress, from the Galaxy S5, Sony Z2, Firefox phones, BlackBerry handsets and more, and discuss Barnes and Noble's next Nook chapter, another Microsoft executive move, the end of Facebook's email service and so much more.

Ryan and Matt go on an adventure to the depths of the Internet hidden behind one photographer's flash.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss dubstep in the new game Chroma, the winding down of Irrational Games, more Titanfall details, the Kinect's remote, an Oculus Rift convention near you, a review of The Walking Dead 400 Days DLC from Buck and more!

Decker threatens to eat on the show which Buck hates, and after, Decker decides to tickle Sarah.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp and what it means, one less Snapdragon, Microsoft's attempt to make Windows 8.1-boxes, a bunch of graphics cards, two acquisitions by Google, a huge iOS security bug and so much more.

Ryan threatens Matt to put malicious content in the front, Matt listens to Andrew's recent podcast with the impression that nuts were involved and at the end, Matt's really tired.

Andrew and Ryan talk about gaming, character encodings, and cloud storage.

Ryan and Andrew talk about being hacked, Linux, Google, social media, benchmarks, singletons, programming platforms, languages, libraries, and user feedback.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with first time guest Max Marti discuss the Flappy Birth phenomena and its abrupt end, the slim PS Vita in North America for just $200, a Twitch channel for playing Pokemon Red, Steam's new user tags, a review of the Titanfall beta along with Decker's review of Jazzpunk and Buck's review of The Wolf Among Us Episode 2.

Ian Buck begins the show after numerous pushbacks and we find the post office man attempting to saw the studio in half, among other things.

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad explain the Comcast purchase of Time Warner Cable, discuss the changes to the major plans from T-Mobile and Verizon, the cost of Windows 7 for Microsoft, how Nook's final corner was just cut off, Mozilla's desperation, Google's entry into the enterprise market with virtualization and so much more!

For about two hours (before time compression and truncation), Ryan tries to type up the notes and Matt talks about work.

Ian Decker returns to the United States and joins Ian Buck and returning guest Declan McCrory and discusses the Double Helix acquisition, the first Oculus exclusive, the upcoming standalone DLC for AC4 - Freedom Cry, the DICE awards and reviews on Rouge Legacy from Declan and Octodad: Dadliest Catch from Buck.

Ian Decker returns from aboard and tells us stories before the show, briefly, and then Sarah pays him a visit after the show for chocolate.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the new Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella and Bill Gates' ascension to Technical Advisor, Dell's insane layoff numbers, a spate of Chromebox announcements from Google and partners, Newegg's alternative to Prime and so much more.

Matt coughed in the fringe and then Ryan explained something relatively pointless about WordPress taxonomies, cores and pagans.

Sam Roth and first time guest Ian Buck discuss a new Dreamcast game on Kickstarter, a bill to fix Iowa's gaming tournament circuit, a new Duke Nukem game that is starting to brew, a <em>gigantic</em> EVE Online battle, Nintendo's pending changes and new direction in the future and a little review from Buck on World of Warplanes.

Sam and Ian discuss the latency of echos in their microsofts and after the show Sam reveals some connections he has with a famous YouTube celebrity.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss Q413 earnings from Apple, Google and Amazon, the future of the Wii U and a cheaper Xbox One, speculation on the next Microsoft CEO, and Google's patent deal with Samsung and Motorola sellout to Lenovo.

Ryan finds a free U2 song on iTunes, Matt and Ryan work on some show notes, and Ryan again explains some reasoning behind yet another computer.

Andrew talks about Fallout: New Vegas, and Steven talks about his Raspberry Pi.

Andrew and Steven talk about near catastrophes, data retrieval, old hardware, new hardware, hard drives, Microsoft, killing processes, encryption, listener feedback and more.

Ian Buck with guest host Katie Reddemann discuss Sony's saved data corruption problem and the upcoming Vita Slim, Microsoft's next effort to reduce the price of their online games, the saga of the Candy trademark and reviews of World of Tanks from Ian and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from Katie.

Before the show, we deal with some audio issues and then after we talk about games surprisingly and then setup a Gravatar for Katie.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss T-Mobile's Un-bank scheme, Microsoft's surprising earnings, rumors of Windows 8.1 Update 1, the next fate of WebOS, AMD's delusion, Apple's thirtieth anniversary of the Mac and so much more.

Ryan explains his odd class schedule to Matt, Matt shows Ryan a book from 1924, Matt plays his favorite rap song and after the show, Matt mugs Ian's show notes.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Andrew Bailey discuss Steam for the Oculus Rift, GameFace running on Android, another augmented reality game tying into Endgame, Gabe Newell's selfie, Nintendo's losses, news from Steam Dev Days and a reviews of Broken Age from Andrew and Ingress from Buck.

Ian Buck and Ryan discuss the new monitor in the studio to enable the future, and Ian Decker brings his own guest, Sarah!

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss Sprint's progress on buying T-Mobile, EasyPay and OneUp and the new WiFi calling scheme, the famous Moto G's Play Store entry, Target's affiliation with mother Russia, President Obama's NSA reforms, Microsoft's sellout on BUILD 2014, another failed AMD CPU product, Google owning Nest and how the Internet has died.

Matt comments briefly on some minor studio changes, prepares the pizza and Ryan discovers code he wrote six months ago to be competent beyond his expectations.

Andrew and Steven talk about programmer jokes and GPUs, mostly.

Andrew and Steven return to podcasting to talk about lost technology, acquisitions, web browsers, New Year's resolutions, deprecation of the web and the internet, Markov chains, and more, along with a long winded explanation of btrfs features.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Katie Reddemann discuss Steam's now active family and friends game library sharing feature, console units sold from Microsoft and Sony, Valve's upcoming Virtual Reality SDK and news from CES such as Razer's modular but proprietary PC, the updated Oculus Rift and so much more.

On Saturday, expecting to record Eight Bit, Ian Buck turns on Sasha only to find no Ian Decker. On Sunday, both Ians unite and find Katie. There is much eating, much entertainment, and much sarcasm.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl wrap up the end of CES 2014, discuss the rebirth of Windows and Microsoft upon the Threshold, Target's revised hacking statistics, Sprint's Framily plan, AT&T and Sponsored Data, PC sales slumping and so much more.

Ryan explains the schedule reshuffle, Matt eats popcorn and ponders whether or not the scratches he sees in his classes are really in his eyes.

The Nexus CES 2014 Special, hosted by Ryan Rampersad, Matthew Petschl and Ian R Buck, discussing all the major keynotes, from Intel, Nvidia, Sony to Yahoo and T-Mobile. This is not the CES of <em>The Internet of Things</em>, but rather, the CES of <em>the middle 85%</em>.

Matthew opens a bottle and Ian and Ryan chat about things before the annual CES special since he is returning to Morris.

Ryan tries to play SphereChess for the first time and Ian Decker discovers his monitor has travel damage.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker discuss the China's Ministry of Culture's decision on Battlefield 4, the introduction SphereChess, Titanfall's lack of modding tools at launch, a review of "Fly, Catbug, Fly" from Ian Buck.

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad on the first episode of the new year discuss Winamp's sale to Radiomony, T-Mobile's response to AT&T's response, Sprint's rebranding efforts, browser and OS market shares, a tax on YouTube and Facebook by France, iPhone backdoors, NSA quantum computers and so much more!

Matt and Ryan gather a couple notes and mention a couple things about analytics from the Google's insane counting schemes.

In our annual year end special episode, we look back at many of the events, products, releases and more that made 2013 a fantastic year, with Ryan Rampersad, Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl.

On the final episode of Eight Bit in 2013, Ian Buck and Ian Decker commit final reviews of Assassin's's Creed 4 and Far Cry 3, and then proceed to the <em>Eight Bit Gaming Awards</em>.

Ian Decker arrives first and then Ian Buck appears. They discuss some of their listener feedback, Ryan mentions his mixer dreams and a mouse teleporter. After the show Matt comes in to tell us about the Putnam's game night.

Ryan looks for more show notes at the last minute and Matt looks for another horrible flag to buy.

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad review their holiday festivities and discuss the Mac Pro's swappable Xeon processors, the HP Chromebook 11's return, Amazon's best shopping season ever, Snowden's message to the world, T-Mobile's impending buyout, Target's encryption that's not so safe and so much more!

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with first time guest Martin Worely-Myers discuss the new Xbox One, along with initial Steam Machine videos, an interesting Super Smash Bros. mod, early access to DayZ for just $30, Obsidian's impending Kickstarter, more on the YouTube ContentID scandal, eight bit gift giving and so much more!

Martin gets to see the studio for the first time and Buck recounts the Paul Horn story yet again and Decker reads something really long at the end of the show.

On Christmas Adam's Eve, Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss Moto G updates and even the device it self -- it is pretty decent, the next Un-carrier update by T-Mobile at CES, WinAmp's miraculous eleventh hour buy-up, LG's Chromebase and the hacking assault on Target.