microsoft – Drink a Beer and Play a Game https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:46:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 129877729 The Power Hour Podcast Ep. 148 | Xbox buys Activision/Blizzard https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-ep-148-xbox-buys-activision-blizzard/ https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-ep-148-xbox-buys-activision-blizzard/#respond Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:46:48 +0000 https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/?post_type=podcast&p=4013 Welcome to the Power Hour Podcast. In this episode Brian and Jim discuss the following.

Intro
What we are drinking
What we are playing
Patreon questions (thank Travis Lee for signing up)
Microsoft buys Activision/Blizzard for 68.7 billion https://twitter.com/xbox/status/1483431175041347584?s=21
Microsoft Mascot Fighting Game, who would you want in it?
Microsoft PR response on Kotick https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1483452296746913799?s=21
AB considered purchasing Kotaku and PC Gamer https://www.ign.com/articles/activision-blizzard-considered-buying-kotaku-pc-gamer
FF7 porn interrupts Italy meeting https://twitter.com/kotaku/status/1483527196971081729?s=21
Yuengling Reaponds to Budweisers new logo https://breweriesinpa.com/another-week-another-anheuser-busch-copyright-infringement-against-yuengling/?fbclid=IwAR1cECWL3z7Yc7x0VExtCnFzJiKFL0YUtaTlcK7zsN5HhEjN0eZMIbBOiMU

Activision #Xbox #Blizzard

]]> https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-ep-148-xbox-buys-activision-blizzard/feed/ 0 4013 The Power Hour Podcast Episode 86 https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-episode-86/ https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-episode-86/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:50:56 +0000 http://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2110 Welcome to Episode 86 of the Power Hour. During the episode Brian and Jim discuss:

  • What we drink
  • What we play
  • Designer for Golden Axed comments on development and sudden release on steam https://twitter.com/ironicaccount/status/1316622918248349696?s=21
  • Patreon
  • GameStop and Microsoft team up https://gamerant.com/gamestop-microsoft-partnership/
    72% of preorders went to ps5 https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-10-08-ps5-accounts-for-72-percent-of-us-next-gen-pre-orders
  • Game Music:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTDj-I8LiXM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE45t__bQ7U
  • Which is better?: as player 2: first party arcade sticks or 3rd party pad controllers
  • Overrated/Underrated: Golden Axe series

ThePowerHourPodcast #GoldenAxe #Microsoft

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Chipho Instrumental by RoccoW

]]> https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-episode-86/feed/ 0 2110 The Power Hour Podcast – Episode 82 https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-episode-82/ https://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/podcast/the-power-hour-podcast-episode-82/#respond Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:13:17 +0000 http://www.drinkabeerandplayagame.com/?post_type=podcast&p=2090 During this episode Brian and Jim discuss the following.

  • Support HibikiTMD https://www.youtube.com/c/HibikITMD and – NerdyNick https://www.youtube.com/c/NerdyNick91
  • What we are drinking
  • What we are playing
  • Patreon Questions
  • Yuengling partners with coors for west coast expansion https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/business/yuengling-molson-coors-joint-venture/index.html
  • Microsoft buys Bethesda https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-bethesda-zenimax-aquisition
  • Microsoft might have bought Sega too https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/rumor-microsoft-podria-haber-comprado-sega-despues-hacerse-bethesda-722167
  • Gaming Music: Contra Hard Corps – Baby Got Back
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFznA4NLwrs – Contra Hard Corps
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho – baby Got Back
  • Which is better: Music edition- SF2 or Mortal Kombat 2 (kitt)
  • Overrated/Underrated: the Halo series (kitt)
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