Episodes

Ian Decker talks about the Drag show and Ian Buck and Sam Roth talk about the Holofoil problem.

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss another T-Mobile Uncarrier event, Target's Brightspot, the gold master of Mavericks, Bill Gates potential ousting, the spec sheet of the 300 Steam Machines, HTML5 and DRM, a short initial impression review of iOS 7, a review from Ryan on the 15000 mAh Anker battery pack and so much more.

Before the show, Ryan and Matt compile some show notes, update an iPad and talk about building a new machine for the studio because Ryan can.

Andrew and Steven get ready for the show and discuss private keys and daylight savings time.

Andrew welcomes back Steven to talk about old computers, government shutdowns, CERN, Google Street View, chiptunes, more GPU news, Valve, GNU, Bill Gates, funny observations, 64-bit, Mozilla, copyright, debugging private keys, and more.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss a BlackBerry sale, an impossible T-Mobile and Sprint combination, ads in Gmail's new app, new Microsoft Surfaces, new Kindle Fires from Amazon, Apple's record breaking iPhone sales, Valve's Steam plans and so much more!

Matt tells Ryan about a mischievous Pork-u-pine, rant a little on the oddity that's Valve's pushing and play an ancient Universe clip.

Ian Buck, Ian Decker and first time guest Paul Schliep, discuss Sony's hardware to service model, Microsoft's Halo 4 to phone streaming, AMD's Mantle API, China's game ban lifting, three huge Valve announcements, Paul's review of GTA V, Buck on A Machine for Pigs and Decker on Trine 2.

Ryan mentions a new AMD graphics card that Ian somehow miss, Decker doesn't realize it's dinner time and eats and then we find Urban Dictionary.

After Ian figures out how Skype has audio settings set as, Andrew wonders if he's ever interviewed Ian and talk about GPUs a little bit, while Ian gets familiar with the show topics.

Chris decided to be sick, so Andrew ropes in Ian Buck to talk about himself, Steam, GPUs, NVidia, GPU drivers, how GPUs render, Java using GPUs, GPU manufacturers, Google, and so forth. It's like there's some sort of theme to this episode!

Ian Buck and Ian Decker play SUPER HOT, PS3 to PS4 incentives, a teaser for the Steam Box and an impending announcement on Monday, Hiroshi Yamauchi's death, and so much more!

Ian Buck plays Audiosurf before the show, Ian Decker plays some game after the show and Ryan tries to setup the Touchpad again.

Before the ATN #94, Brian Mitchell installs the Hangouts plugin, we watch Ian Buck eat, search long and hard for Andrew Bailey and eventually, discover that Matt is actually alive after he returned from hunting.

Along with an extraordinary panel comprised of Andrew Bailey, Brian Mitchell and Ian Buck, returning hunter Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss the BlackBerry prosumer plunge, Sprint's One Up, JBQ's Yahoo job, a Nexus 5 launch date and model names, a Surface 2 announcement date, an always horiztonal Xbox One, iOS 7 market penetration, download updates, Tim Cook's new Twitter account, HP's bid to be different and so much more!

Andrew and Chris talk about the LoadingReadyRun Kickstarter and domestic happenings.

Andrew almost dies, so Chris comes back. They talk about long names, video games, LoadingReadyRun, disasters, Dell, tries, Linux, Bezos, outgunned, dark poetry, and listener feedback.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with first time guest Dominick Benedetto discuss the insane graphics of The Witcher 3, a new Indie Humble Bundle, a retro-platformer Game of Thrones, a review of Total War: Rome 2 from Benedetto and Amnesia: the Dark Descent from Buck.

Ian Decker reveals that he has a Twitter account and after the show, Matthew toots his horn at Decker.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl find a Glass Guy, discuss new Haswell Chromebooks without actual specs, prices or launch dates, a world with Cortana, rejoice at a Twitter IPO, the new thinner and lighter PS Vita, HP and AMD's stock market demise and some Apple iPhone event updates.

Matt and Ryan gather the show notes and try to fix a buzzing board before At The Nexus #93.

Andrew explains Kickstarter and FM transmission, then interviews Steven. They also talk about far flung topics like risk, business decisions, loans, McAfee, chargers, web servers, databases, display managers, social networks, signing up, Steam, compromised security algorithms, listener feedback, and so much more.

Andrew explains how RASPBERRY! works and how his platform at work uses SOAP, and Steven talks about how he wants to use a Raspberry Pi as a FM radio transmitter.

Apple releases the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C and Ryan Rampersad and special guest Brian Mitchell to discuss today's announcement, from a unapologetically plastic case to sub-epidermal fingerprint scanning, and so much more!

Brian and Ryan discuss some points of the Apple event before the show to get ready.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Katie Reddemann discuss Minecraft Mass Effected themed DLC, a Mega-Man revival, a virtual reality headset from Sony, Disney: Infinity for PC, reviews of Deadpool and Dust: An Elysian Tail from Katie and Antichamber from Ian Buck.

Before the show, the Ians look at embarrasing Street view photos and Katie shares a poll, what kind of gamer are you?

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the biggest week in tech news in months, three incredible phones from Sony, Samsung and Xiaomi, Amazon's quiet launches for MatchBox and the new Kindle Paperwhite, a Nexus 4 sellout, an incredible Intel CPU -- 4960X and its inverse, an ARM A9 in a box, and more!

Matt and Ryan recompile a few show notes, discuss remembering names and try to find country music.

For a little fun, Matthew Petschl, Ian Buck and Ryan Rampersad join forces once again to create a big bang in The Universe, with discussion on storms on Saturn, a cloning registry for horses, book plugs, some comics, a good review of Stargate Universe and a preview Gravity.

Before the show, we gather some show notes to falsify our believability while we listen to our old favorite, Neon Pegasus, how Matt's finding a girlfriend and more.

Chris says that he has to hurry up, so Andrew and him do.

Andrew and Chris talk about copyright, the Amish, language, AES, game engines, memory, good judtment, SEO, CSS, and colors.

Ian Buck and Ian Decker with first time guest Brian Mitchell discuss the Guild Wars 2 first year anniversary, the first taste of Star Citizen, a great Steam Greenlight sale, SimCity for the Mac, a special Nintendo section from Sam Roth, and reviews on Color Zen and Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches.

Ian Decker joins Ryan in the studio before Eight Bit #43 and Ian tries remote desktop with four monitors from Morris.

Ryan and Matthew discuss the Bang with Friends comeback, Moto X and its build cost, another Microsoft Surface price cut, the departure of top-level Google Android executive, the new iPhone trade-in program and Nintendo's latest handheld entry - the 2DS.

Before the show, Matt and Ryan discuss fan noise, odd names, and watch a couple funny videos that parody service advertising among other things.

Andrew wakes Chris up (again). Then they talk about what's going to be on the show.

Andrew and Chris agree to not talk about the NSA, discuss the number 42, a bus, StarCraft science, updates on Kickstarters, Siria, Linux, Ballmer, FiOS, YouTube, ECMAScript, unwanted wares, adblocking, Xerox, frameworks, destroying code, Firefox plugins, and whitelisting.

Ryan and Matthew discuss Android 4.3 system updates, extremely generic patents, Amazon's expensive downtime, the fate of the Ubuntu Edge, a reason to shout "Developers!" from the rooftops and Ryan's review of the Chromecast and its oddities.

Ryan catches up on the news he missed during the weekend while trying to write the CMS and Matt shares his problems with Google Docs.

Season 2 of Eight Bit begins with special guest Rachel Wolters with innuendo specialists Ian Buck and Ian Decker, with a review of everyone's favorite Android game - Dots, and headlines on Audiosurf 2, Elder Scrolls Online, notes on interesting recent releases over the summer and more!

Ian, Ian and Rachel find the studio and begin the fringe and Ryan walks into his own house and finds podcasters, Ryan shows off the Chromecast and the Ian's tell the story of their roll-in.

Andrew eventually presses record, and Chris tries to connect a laptop to his WiFi.

Chris and Andrew wonders whether or not you should have this much jargon or snails, game genre alphabet soup, reckless twittering, filesystems, Google, Windows 8, XML, the NSA (yet again), war on general computing, and more games.

Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad talk about a rogue BlackBerry 7 OS release, a Firefox Phone on eBay, definite dates for the next Apple event and Windows 8.1 release, a little story about Steve Jobs and the Google Guys from Larry Ellison and so much more!

Before the show and as per instructed, Ryan and Matt initiate a call to Dave but don't find him, suddenly run off an play Ingress and return, find Dave and then deal with show notes or the lack there of.

Chris and Andrew talk about StarCraft Universe, then Chris turns it all morbid.

Andrew tells of his pinball excursions, then joins Chris and discuss SDL, Linux, SATA, clueless kids, websites being down, hashing algorithims, DeviantArt, NSA, feedback, and some other stuff.

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss the Ubuntu Edge dulling, a quarter of growth for T-Mobile - finally, ads in Google Maps, Apple's solution to power-adapter electrocution, Comcast's new copyright scheme, Ryan's Moto X epiphany, how our good friend Jeff bought a newspaper and so much more!