Twitch purchased by Amazom for $970 Million!

It is official as of August 25, 2014 Twitch the number one video game streaming service has been purchased by Amazon. Contrary to earlier reports that google were the ones who were gonna purchase Twitch fora billion dollars, Amazon instead bought them for $970 million. Why go with Amazon instead of Google's cool billion, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear states-&nbs...

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New Pokemon Game! A Fighter!?!

 How would you feel about playing arcade fighting game with Pokemon in it? Thanks too the wonderful people of Bandai Namco and Katsuhiro Harada, the director of the Tekken series a possible 3D arcade Pokemon fighting game is the in making. In the video below it shows a small taste of whats to come a fight between Lucario and Machamp. Lucario, already being a star in Smash Bros, shows some fluid quick combos; even a moment where...

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Developer Interview : Robert Maher from "Rex Rocket"

I had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of Rex Rocket Mr. Robert Maher. He was the lead developer behind Indie Game Rex Rocket! Hope you enoy! ...

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Slowpoke Music Video?

So over in japan the latest advertisement Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is in the form of this slow poke music video that features a Caribbean Mc by Anthony Gatlin video down below enjoy.  ...

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Binding of Isaac Beta footage and GIFs

Here at 8bitdrum, we LOVE the Binding of Isaac. If you don't know, the Binding of Isaac is a Zelda dungeon inspired Rogue-like game developed by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl that has heavy religious and game culture references sprinkled throughout. The thing is, that game came out in 2011 and us high level Isaac players and fans have been long awaiting the release of its sequal The Binding of Isaac : Rebirth and finally, after much...

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8BitDrum Podcast test 2

New Episode of the 8 bit drum podcast! were still trouble shooting so bear with us. ...

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Console Review : Nintendo 2DS

Image from Kotaku The 2DS, all I wanted it to be. Whats keeping you from buying a current Generation Nintendo console? Irrational fear of 3D? Price point? Well good news! The 2DS shines in these two areas, and these two alone. For 99 USD you can play your 3DS games in stunning 2D! NO WAY! Right!? I mean..who would want to buy a downgraded version of a product? *Cough Cough Watch Dogs Cough* Well, I did, 3 times because the 2DS for...

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Hype Train!: Destiny

 I don't think it's a surprise we Here at 8BitDrum love destiny! With numerous hours clocked in across the Alpha and Beta I cant imagine my self playing anything else once September 9th rolls around, and I'm sure you know the hype behind this game is enormous. But un-like some other triple A releases I have full confidence that Destiny will come out and be the game we were actually promised not some not some half ass shell of what could...

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Hype Train!: Far Cry 4

Lets go from a man to a warrior in Far cry 4.Coming November 18 2014 im so excited to see what Ubisoft has instore for everyone. I enjoyed everything about Far Cry 3 from the single player to the co op online. Most of all i enjoyed Vass one of the main protagonist in the storyline, he made being a psycho look cool and funny. But now we have new protagonist called Pagan Min who clames himself as a king and also has a very short temper which can...

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Next Gen Port of sleeping dogs Announced.

For those sleeping dogs fans out there if you could not tell by the title of this article a next gen port of sleeping dogs has been announced. And square has decided to follow up on Tomb Raider's next gen port and call it Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, it is set for a North American release of October 14th . It will come with all 24 packs of dlc an run at a native 1080p and be released on PS4, X Box One and PC. Is Square doing to much? are...

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First Impressions: Road Not Taken

PlayStation Plus gives out some cool games every month and for August one of them is Road Not Taken. Road Not Taken is is a cute pastel colored with a dark twist. The game focuses around saving kids from the woods in the middle of winter or they die! It is basically a rouge like puzzle game and a really cool one at that. At first the game was pretty easy but the more you play the harder it gets even after you die it does not scale back the difficulty....

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First Impressions: Rex Rocket

Look down at your goolies (Irish slang for balls). Is your name OG Mudbone? Then your balls aren't as hard as this game, and they never will be.                                                 Pictured above : Title Screen Let's start there, the game is hard as hell. But allow me to qualify the difficulty level; 8 Bit NES...

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Comic Reviews: Rocket Raccoon Issue #2

This comic. Just wow. Recently, I have finally came into having enough means to do things that I've always wanted to do. Things, like purchasing comic books. The first western comic book I ever purchased was Rocket Raccoon Issue #1 But as fantastic as that was, we are here to talk about its successor A Chasing Tale Part 2. A quick synopsis for those of us who don't know. This special 4 part special comic follows "Guardians...

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Hype Train!: Mortal Kombat X

Are you ready for Blood, Brutality, and Fatalitys'? Well if so your in luck, Netherrealm studios has announced Mortal Kombat X for 2015. Words can not explain how excited I am for this new entry to the Mortal Kombat franchise. For every new Mortal Kombat game that comes out Netherrealm takes the game to the next level, adding something unique that the last game didn't have.  So if you enjoy ripping your friends apart as much as I do then...

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Destiny: Breaking Out Of The Map

So we here at 8BitDrum Can wait for Destiny just like the rest of the world. We have played the Alpha and Beta to death. Any second of free time we had we were playing destiny so its no surprise we found a way out of the map, actually we found a few ways out of the map. But the one I recorded is by far the best. Check out the video below on how to break out of the tower in destiny. The reason why your seeing this now and not earlier...

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Check out The new 8 Bit Drum Podcast!

This is a test for our new podcast please give feedback on how we can improve. Please check out new episodes when they come out!...

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