Saturday while I was streaming here (along with Twitch & YouTube) I had to step away for a second to let the dog out. When I came back my projection screen was blank, stream feeds shut down and my iMac used for streaming was also shut down. Investigated further and seems the iMac is completely dead and I do not have the finances to replace it at this time (even though I do have access to inexpensive Macs to replace it, I lack the funds to do it).
So until the time comes I can afford to replace it, I will be limited to streaming only directly from my consoles. This limits me to only using my Xbox One, Xbox Series S and PS4 catalog of games. It also limits me to only streaming on Twitch or maybe YouTube on my PS4 as neither supports Rumble. So for the foreseeable future I'll be streaming live on Twitch and exporting that content to YouTube.
Will be airing the next episode of my newest show, The Board Gamer, tonight live on Rumble, Twitch and now YouTube as well. Will go over the basics of the game, playing the base game against computer AI and trying to knock out a couple of the achievements (or at least make some solid progress on the grindy ones). Will also take a look at the 1st expansion, Rivers I, which is included in the base game.
Game is a Backward Compatible 360 title so can be played on the One and Series X|S consoles as well. Game is still available for purchase and has 2 other expansions available (need to grab) these myself). This was not released on PS3 so is an Xbox exclusive by default. Game features local (1-4) and online play (2-5), and has a ranked mode.
At a later date I will host some community play weekends for this as well as Catan which was featured in past episodes. I will likely coordinate this with the True Achievements boosting session tool in order to line up some guaranteed players. It will NOT...
Tonight going to be doing some Throwback Thursday action with some more Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast. I'll be starting a new Ranger character to use in next week's episode of CO-OPTED to better complement Gunnie's character created on this week's episode. Live 8-8:30 CDT
I'll be streaming live on my Twitch, Rumble and Kick channels simultaneously (links to be posted just before I go live). I'll be playing this on the original Xbox, possibly taking it online to play with viewers as I am not concerned with unlocking levels this time around -save that for CO-OPTED on Tuesday.
Gunnie & I will be back for a new season of CO-OPTED, the streaming show dedicated to cooperative games...and sometimes delving into the Versus Modes. Featured game tonight will be a surprise as we do not even know what we will be playing yet. It will most likely be something retro, just don't know how far back we are going. So tune in on Rumble, Twitch or Kick as we should be online sometime after 7PM CDT - hoping to get an earlier start but going with this for now and will update if the situation changes.
