Over the Fence Over the Fence

* Netflix for FREE on XBoxes? Linky

* XBox One is NOW $400 (by dropping Kinect) to compete with PS4 Linky

* PS Now Closed Beta Link

* Steam Home Streaming

* PC Gaming is more profitable than Consoles (duh!) Linky

* Pre-E3 News



Photo by JD Hancock

* Cliffy B leaves Epic? Linky Irrational Games shuts down as Ken Levine leaves? Linky John Carmack leaves ID? Linky Where are we going to get our AAA titles now?

* PC gaming in the Living room in late 2014? Anyone ready / willing / wanting this? Linky Maybe use the nVidia Shield Linky

* Martin O’Donnell fired from Bungie Linky

* 2014 Gaming forecast, any winners you want to talk about?

* Borderlands 3, a sequel prequel. Link

* Captain America 2, perhaps recent movies in general. Captain America 3 to release the same day as Batman vs. Superman.

* Evolve, from Turtle Rock (L4D developer) Site Link

* What are you playing lately?



 

In our first podcast of 2014, we discuss:



* Steam active user base exceeds Xbox Live



* Sony launches bricks at user base and the state of the Wii U as it turns 2.

* EA launches BF4 in what can charitably be called an ‘Alpha state’

* The past Console generation that was called ‘next gen,’ the games it spawned in console-land and PC, our thoughts on it, retrospective.

* 2013 in gaming and tech retrospective, what mattered to us and why

* Valve Steam Machines announced at CES



* AGDQ & the world of speedrunning



* What we’re playing



Art based on a photo by Piero Sierra

 

The OTF staff fires up its warp engines and discusses:



* Apple news



* Batman Arkham City goes GFWL-less – GOTY free on Steam; GFWL shutting down

* Steam Universe/Machines/OS

* Fall / next-gen titles people are looking forward to and why?

* What we’re playing lately

* Post E3 / next gen impressions, hopes, dreams, etc.

* Valve’s Pipeline to teach HS students how to get into the video game industry



* Steam Summer Sale

* Windows 8 Failed to Boost PC Market Linky

* PC Market seeing a sharp decline in 2013 Linky Funny Linky

* Apple’s re-org suggest unification of iOS and OS X Linky

* Epic Games seeing an exodus of employees Linky, more than just Cliffy B Linky

* Ubisoft’s former creative director of Assassin’s Creed left in 2010, then joined THQ Montreal, which was later acquired by Ubisoft, at which time they fired him. Linky

* BioShock Infinite ‘over the top’ violent? Linky

* Gearbox ripped off the art style of Borderlands? Linky Proof: Linky

* Farcry 3 Blood Dragon DLC is 1980’s Action Sci-Fi Cartoon Come to Life! Linky

* MegaUpload tries to combat US government corruption (from Hollywood), will that get anywhere? Linky

* Lucasarts folds; Star Wars license handed over to EA, who announces no major SW releases in 2014. Linky

* J’nathus’s random topic