PC Gaming Podcast

News Announcement/ Disclaimer: The AFK Podcast is primarily a hobby podcast.  We do not claim to be a news agency.  We simply find news that is of interest to us, or that we think is of interest to our community and talk about it.  If there is something you would like us to talk about or cover please email us at mail@theafkpodcast.com or reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, or Discord.   We do our best to cite our sources, but sometimes our sources can be rumors.  Please keep that in mind.  

CODMW 2 Open Beta

Cyberpunk Resurgence Continues

Valve launches Steam Charts

Respawn Harassment

Rockstar GTA6 leak

Ryzen 7000 is out

Intel Responds with 13th Gen 

• Videocardz link with slides

• Also Intel can get bent with marketing crap like this graph (see the tiny red line)

The nvidia announcement 

• OMG that pricing

Ubisoft Stadia games to transfer to Ubisoft Connect

WoW dragon flight dropping in November

The Modern Warefare II Beta was the largest in the franchise history

Seasonal Steam Sale Changes

Jim

• Andor

• Fall favorites – Goonies
• LOTR – The extended editions, never seen them.
• Middle Earth First Age or whatever they are calling it.
• West World, new Season

Curls

• In the Dark
• Dahmer Ep.1

Logun

• Eternals
• DOTA Dragon’s Blood Season 3 finale
• Star Wars Rebels
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• She-Hulk
• Cobra Kai Season 5

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net  There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord.  Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

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Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

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• Hardware installation

Logun

• They Are Billions
• Hero Question (Boardgame)
• Steam Deck has arrived!

Curlen

• 300 miles in the mountains today!
• Too much to name #steamdeck
• Making music
• Built a new steam machine
• Ordered new laptop, trying to sell the current one

ETH Mining is now officially dead and you should expect cards to flood the market

RTX 4090 600w TBP Leak: Lovelace is CONFIRMED to be …

Some Modern Ware II Details

Super Power 3 coming next month

E/A launching “Kernal Level” anti-cheat.  Isn’t that called a root kit?

Uncharted Legacy of thieves next month

Jim

• Parks and Rec on my DVR
• Rewatched the Hobbit series and lord of the Rings
• Lord of the Rings Prime TV show  (Yawn)
• Uncharted
• Ghost Busters Afterlife

Logun

• StarWars The Clone Wars Finished all Seasons
• Star Wars Rebels
• She-Hulk
• Locke and Key Season 3 Epi 1 and 2
• DOTA Dragon’s Blood Season 3 Epi 1-6
• The Witcher Seasons 1 and 2
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Ms Marvel

We don’t closely monitor twitter anymore.  If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net  There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord.  Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

• CODMW, Saints Row the Third Remastered
• New Monitor Dell QDOled  Ultra wide it’s just awesome
• Ordered a Tesla Model Y with autopilot  80k  (6-9 months before expected delivery)
• Still waiting on Steam Deck
• Will be out of town on vacation and then a business trip to vegas.  I’ll be unable to podcast the last two weeks of June.   

Logun

• Forza Horizon 5
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Middle-Earth Shadow of War
• Star Wars Battlefront II
• Borderlands 2 
• Borderlands 3
• I hate Samsung

Prince of Persia Delayed

Resident Evil 4 Remake Next Year

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 announcement next week.  

Pax West will be an inperson event

EA wants to be bought or merged with

Spider-man and Spider-man: Miles Morales coming to PC

Jim

•  YouTube Tech Streams
• Kenobi series

Logun

• Star Trek ToS (Netflix)
• Moonknight (Disney+)
• Star Wars The Clone Wars (Disney+)
• Star Wars Vintage Clone Wars Micro Series (Disney+)
• 300 (Plex)
• The Boys Diabolical Animated shorts (Prime)
• Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness (Theater)
• Top Gun Maverick (Theatre)

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net  There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord.  Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.
Additional Support for the show:
Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org
Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku
Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku
The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

        – Call of Duty Multiplayer 

Curls – The Benchmark Game

• Horizon Forbidden West

Logun

• Forza Horizon 5
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• New tv this week! OR ELSE!!!

Codemasters Merging Studios for Next Need for Speed

AMD graphics driver preview delivers up to 17% better performance for DirectX11 games

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 – preview – FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0

New AMD Adrenalin Drivers; AMD FSR 2.0 Launches Thursday

Starfield and Redfall delayed until 2023

EA Reveals Four Unannounced Titles and a Remake

Hardware News:

Radeon Releases the RX6950XT, 6750XT, and 6650XT

• The Witcher 2, SWTOR 
• Hardware shuffle
• New Egg sucks….still
• Basement/lab clean up
• Studying for network plus cert
• Working remotely because the kids have Covid

Logun 

• Forza Horizon 5

Curls

• Phasmophobia
• The 8-core Benchmark Game (link for anyone interested, listeners included)
• Upcoming EP Release 5-16-22
• Uploaded a little live performance on Youtube

Whitney

• Work work, zug zug. No games this week.

Square Enix sells Tomb Raider and Deus Ex for 300MM

Activision/Blizzard getting sued (yes again)

Xbox plans to launch a streaming puck and Samsung app in the next year

Prince of Persia delayed, moved to new studio

HARDWARE

Radeon has had GPU’s in stock for MSRP pretty regularly now.  

I kinda want one of these desks

Personal project.  Using a Steam Link to stream a virtual machine that have hardware access to a GPU, and the reason for this.  So guests can have a desktop to do whatever on, and when they leave, I can reset it. (slick stuff isn’t it? -Curls)

I will be attending HPE Discover and other such hardware events through work.  Hoping to do some youtube tech videos.   

On Sale on Amazon

• Razer Kraken for 50% off.  $39.99 (I bought 4)    

Jim

• New season of South Park
• Smithsonain channel stuff
• WW3
• The Wanginator

Logun

• LoTR
• Star Trek TOS

Curls

• Put a Ring on it
• Discovery
• Starting Strange New Worlds soon

Whitney

• The Batman
• Moon Knight
• World Beyond, not New World