We’re once again taking orders for the new and improved XB1 accessibility controllers!
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Thanks for your patience! We hope to have a PS4 version soon.
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 96
I’m getting over a cold, so please excuse my weak voice and any coughing I couldn’t quite edit out.
Juicy topics includes:
- The Nintendo Switch Reveal
- Our thoughts on the reveal trailer.
- Do 6 star hotels exist?
- We try to remember the name of the Wisconsin city “Kenosha”
- Who is this product for? xWill 3rd parties support it?
- What the system needs to do in order to have a chance.
- Microsoft Surface Products and new Apple Macbooks
- MS is going for the markets Apple has traditionally held.
- Why Microsoft should concentrate on enterprise customers.
- Could a Surface Phone ever exist?
- Is Apple screwing their most loyal customers? Do they even care?
- How do you pronounce “Wacom”?
- Bethesda’s new Game Review policy
- They are no longer giving out advance review copies.
- Only available to critics one day before launch.
- Why are they doing this? We discuss reaons beyond knee-jerk reactions.
- Ben finally sees the Ghostbuster remake!
- (Trigger warning: I kind of liked it)
- Jones discusses how it compares to Paul Feig’s previous movies (which I have not seen)
- How the original Ghostbusters painted itself into a corner in such a way that made sequels difficult and remakes easier.
- Jones has noticed Tom Cruise has had a lot of recent movies with strong female leads.
- How other recent movies have given women strong roles without just doing a “gender swap”.
- Then Jones and I go completely off topic and discuss Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Rocketeer.
Enjoy!
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Benheck.com Podcast Episode 95
A bit late this month, but here we are! Topics include:
- Looking back on Bioshock
- Why there are so many “remasters” of last-gen games.
- Our thoughts on Bioshock 1, 2 and Infinite.
- The problems with Bioshock Infinite, muddled message.
- Rapture VS Columbia.
- What we’d like to see in a new Bioshock game – our “Moontopia” pitch.
- BTW the Bioshock-related word we couldn’t think of was “objectivism”.
- Movie budgets
- Why are they so high? Who are greenlighting these dumb concepts?
- Type of cheaper movies they could be making.
- Spreading out risk by taking more risks.
- More complaints about Marvel movies drifing too far from reality.
- Video card specs and prices
- Prices are high for the best stuff – is it worth it?
- Forza Horizon 3 on Windows 10 requires DirectX12 – why?
- Consoles vs PC.
- Why are PC’s lasting longer these days between upgrades.
- Ben talks about his ancient keyboards.
Enjoy!
Update on Single Handed Controllers
We have parts on order that will help with the reliability of our single handed controllers. We expect to resume taking orders by the end of October 2016, hopefully in time for the holiday season.
We’re also working on a PS4 version, so stay tuned for that as well.
Thanks for your patience!
America’s Most Haunted Version 23 Now Available!
The moment 150 people have been waiting for – the release of AMH’s biggest update yet! Version 23… nearly 9 months in the making.
Head over to the AMH Update Page to download all the files you need to bring your pinball machine up to the most recent version! Includes a change list of all the new features.
Enjoy!
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 94
We ramble more than usual this month! Topics include:
- No Man’s Sky / planet math
- We learn some new number types as we discuss the alleged number of No Man’s Sky planets.
- Why it would take insane amounts of server space to actually save all 18 quintillion possible planets & custom names.
- If Ben and Jones ran for president / vice president
- Pot.
- A long, boring, discussion about the age of candidates.
- Our proposed “Irony / Coincidence Mis-use Tax”
- More PS4 / PS4K Neo news
- Console market trying to become like cel phones
- Will it go down in history as a watershed “stupid” idea, like 32X, 5200 and Atari Jaguar?
- Movie stuff!
- Sony’s crappy early 90’s movies, like Hudson Hawk & Hook.
- Our idea for a crappy network comedy.
- Ben watches some movie remakes! Why are things called remakes when they aren’t.
- Jones saw Suicide Squad, and didn’t commit suicide like some reviewers did.
- Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star / Samurai Who Will Fight a Mummy
- GI Joe AKA Live Action Team America
- Stranger Things, the Right Kind of Reboot
- A long, boring story about my noise-canceling headphones.
- What we didn’t like about Super 8.
- Why people like it more than all the remakes/reboots
- Emily Blunt & NBC Comedy Action Terrorist Fighters
Enjoy!
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 93
Topics this month include:
- Nintendo NX and Pokemon GO
- Pokemon GO proves Nintendo should go 3rd party.
- Our thoughts on the Nintendo NX rumors.
- Nintendo needs a “Nintervention”.
- Remake, Reboots & “Re-quels”
- Status of summer movies.
- Jones saw the new Ghostbusters! He shares his thoughts.
- Some thoughts on Star Trek Beyond.
- We explain the difference between remake & reboot, because the internet now thinks sequels are reboots. Because UGH.
Enjoy!
