May 21, 2014
In this episode of The Show Radio, Uriyya talks about Halo 5, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and the $399 Xbox One. Later in the episode Uriyya interview David from Turtle Beach and Monty Oum from Rooster Teeth.
Interviews
- Interview with David from Turtle Beach -
- Interview with Monty Oum from Rooster Teeth -
Technology News
- Twitter allows you to mute people
- SmallX264 helps you transcode better using Handbrake
- Texting 911 in case of an emergency is now a thing
- Send Anywhere helps you transfer files quickly, no signup needed
- Buffer adds a feed reader to their services
- TimePin dynamically changes your Android’s Pin
- Paypal is an option to by stuff on Google Play
- Chorus is a web based remote control for XBMC
- Small Tabs allow you to fit more tabs in Firefox
- DuckDuckGo has a new interface and design
- Google Plus gets a new UI
Gaming News
- In Sony's last fiscal year (April 2013-March 2014), it managed to sell 14.6 million PlayStation consoles (PS3 & PS4). Sony sold about 7 million PS4 as of April, Sony apparently sold about 7 million PS3s as well. Sales toward handheld (PSP & Vitas) devices summed 4.1 million in sales. In his fiscal year, (April 2014-March 2015) Sony wants to sell 17 million Playstation consoles and only 3.5 million handhelds.
According to the Natural Resource Defense Council
- The newest consoles gobble more energy in standby mode and when showing videos than playing games, over a year.
- Almost half of the Xbox One’s annual energy consumption occurs when no one is using it, but it’s listening for users to say “Xbox on” even in the middle of the night or when no one’s home.
- If all U.S. Xbox One owners use their consoles for TV watching, it would add $300 million to their yearly energy bills.
- The PS4 and Xbox One use 30 to 45 times more power to stream a movie than dedicated media players (such as Apple TV or Google Chromecast).
- Twitch choose Google over Microsoft, in talks of being bought out for 1 Billion
- Dish app coming coming to PS3 and PS4
- Skype gets a snap feature upgrade
- Some of Farcry’s plot was leaked Due out in November
- PlayStation Now beta is in progress and more individuals will be added in the near future
- Porting Last of Us to PS4 was tough
- Mortal Kombat will still have life once the Gamespy infrastructure closes down
- Mortal Kombat is now on BluRay
- Sunset overdrive looks awesome and will have online co-op
- Killzone gets co-op in June
- Flappy Bird is coming back in August
- Watch Dog will be 900p on PS4 and 792p on the Xbox One
- Microsoft to give out refunds for those who kept their gold membership just to use apps
- Call of Duty: Advance Warfare’s narrative took 2+ years to write
- Frank O’Connor on why Halo 5 is set for 2015
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Xbox is shifting back to the community
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