Get in touch: PR@IBeatItFirst.com

Category: About The Games

Taiyou Con 2018

The first weekend of 2018 is here, and with it, con season has started here in Arizona with Taiyou Con at the Mesa Convention Center. Taiyou Con is in it’s 8th year and featured voice actors from Japan as well as the US. We want to cover more conventions this year, so I decided to
Read more...

January 7, 2018
Mad Catz Proves it has 9 Lives

Mad Catz, the peripheral manufacturer most known for making cheap see through plastic console controllers with a turbo button, you know, the ones that were relegated to 2nd player, is back from the dead. Mad Catz had bet it all on Rock Band 4, and lost big entering bankruptcy and closing down back in March
Read more...

January 4, 2018
IBIF Podcast 15: Everybody Is Wrong

What better way to recount 2017 than with our longest podcast to date. Ringing in at a whopping 2 hours and 7 minutes it certainly is long, but we do get EVERYONE’s top 5 for 2017 and spend ample time arguing about what does and does not make a good game. A very special shoutout
Read more...

December 12, 2017
Best of 2017

The end of 2017 is upon us, and what a great year for games it has been. Nintendo released the Switch and two of the best reviewed games of all time in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. Sony came out swinging with amazing exclusives in Horizon: Zero Dawn, NieR:
Read more...

November 29, 2017
IBIF Podcast 14: Fat Deadpool Gets Skinny

Join Eric, Jason, & Chris for some post-Thanksgiving shenanigans. In this episode we find out what Chris has been playing for the last two weeks (spoiler alert, it’s jack shit), that Eric has already watched way too many Christmas movies, and you’ll also hear the safest YAWBR yet. So sit back, relax, and laugh at
Read more...

November 28, 2017
Initial D Legend 1 to get Theatrical Release

Initial D Legend 1: Awakening, the first film in a trilogy that retells the beginning of Initial D. Drifting fans are well versed with the manga and anime, with professional drifter Fredric Aasbo doing a shot for shot remake of the intro to the anime prior to the beginning of this year’s season of Formula
Read more...

November 15, 2017
IBIF Podcast 13: Canadians Don’t Say Can’t

Join the IBeatItFirst crew to talk games with our VERY special guest Shawn Petraschuk from COGConnected.com . This is an extra long, extra special episode, with an EXTRA drunk Canadian. In this episode we cover the Xbox One X, Call of Duty WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, real life Drift Racing, Assassins Creed Origins, Shawn’s You
Read more...

November 15, 2017
Razer Announces the Meh Phone

First there was the Razer Meh TV, then the Razer Meh Watch, and today they announced the Razer Meh Phone. The Razer Meh Phone is a powerful piece of hardware priced at a very reasonable $699, but in the crowded smartphone market, the powerful hardware doesn’t set it apart from other flagship devices. Simply dubbed
Read more...

November 1, 2017
IBIF Podcast 12: Reading is Fundamental

Join Eric, Chris, and Jason to talk about the games we’re playing. Tune in for our reviews of Fire Emblem Warriors, Mad Max, & Yooka-Laylee (in case you couldn’t tell, Jason has been bargain bin diving again), as well as Chris’ first impressions of Assassins Creed Origins. You’ll also get a chance to hear all
Read more...

October 31, 2017
Lost Sphear Story Trailer Released

Yesterday Square Enix released a new story trailer for Lost Sphear, the second JRPG from Tokyo RPG Factory. We’ve included the trailer before so you don’t have to go searching around on YouTube for it, because we’re nice like that. If you didn’t know, Lost Sphear is a classic style JRPG, similar to I Am
Read more...

October 25, 2017