Gaming news with hardware grudges and group chaos.
Extreme Gaming Podcast runs on rapid group banter, console speculation, PC hardware complaints, and whatever tangent survives the interruption. Its best moments sound like familiar gamers comparing notes before a purchase, then swerving into jokes, side stories, and community housekeeping.
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Extreme Gaming Podcast feels less like a formal gaming bulletin and more like a long-running group chat that has learned how to stay useful while staying messy. The show follows gaming news, hardware stories, industry rumors, and recent releases, but the path is rarely straight. One segment might start with Denuvo and player frustration, then slide into future console pricing, SSD cuts, optional disk drives, and the question of how companies sell new boxes when performance gains feel harder to see. Another might use horror polls as a way to compare Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dead Space, and the different kinds of fear those franchises actually deliver. Short version: it argues. The hardware talk can get surprisingly specific. Gaming laptops, GPUs, DLSS, high-refresh monitors, high polling rates, gear, Steam Deck-style controls, Android docked mode, and Windows rumors all sit comfortably beside complaints about price, comfort, jank, and diminishing returns. The group also spends time on games that are not automatic headline bait, including News Tower, Hades 2, Crimson Desert, and smaller oddities that catch someone’s eye. It is not tidy. Speakers overlap, repeat themselves, correct names, tease absent regulars, and occasionally lose the thread before circling back. Trev, Grey Gamer, Hans, and Matt give the show its shape through familiarity rather than polish. The chemistry is blunt, jokey, and sometimes deliberately ridiculous, with recurring bits around shared notes, missing regulars, technical issues, and the wider Discord community. There are regular reminders about email, YouTube, Discord, and the related Extreme Hollywood podcast, so the community layer is part of the texture rather than a separate announcement block. Some excerpts include ad material that does not reflect the core show. The central appeal is still clear: a fast, opinion-heavy gaming conversation where enthusiasm and skepticism share the same chair.
Made for: For players who follow gaming news, console rumors, PC hardware, and industry weirdness, especially when they prefer informal group arguments over polished coverage.
What sets it apart: Its edge comes from the recurring group dynamic: technical gaming talk keeps colliding with teasing, community plugs, side tangents, and visible production roughness.
In this podcast we are a group of everyday gamers who don’t take life to seriously, we like to have a laugh and talk about the games and tech that we love across all gaming platforms. We cover gaming/hardware news, games we’ve played and our own general views whilst often going off on wild tangents. We also run a free Discord server called 'Extreme Gaming Podcast' (https://discord.gg/extremegamingpodcast) or search for us on Google. Our aim is to grow and build a great community whilst having fun along the way. Have a listen and give us your honest feedback we hope you enjoy!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A candid gaming roundtable where competing opinions make hardware choices and industry developments easier to assess.
Extreme Gaming Podcast turns gaming news into a loose, argumentative conversation among Trev, Gray, Hans and Matt. Games and hardware receive equal attention: the group moves from Resident Evil and Silent Hill to graphics cards, motherboards, console storage and Windows…
A 'godlike' motherboard gets you hardware talk with its bragging rights cheerfully punctured.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
GPU gripes, horror-game debate, and Grey's low-battery exit give this episode an easygoing charge.
The Extreme Gaming Podcast treats GPUs less as spec-sheet trophies than as hardware with awkward real-world baggage, especially the rough edges that can come from how they were built.
A loose gaming-tech conversation that moves from Denuvo into PS6 storage, disk-drive, and pricing speculation.
Episode 326 opens with Trev, Hans, and Epstein teeing up Crimson Desert Deluxe and a Denuvo good-or-bad prompt, then gradually moves into future-console speculation.
A personable game-list episode where News Tower sparks curiosity and Hades 2 nudges the hosts into mythology talk.
Episode 322 has Greg Amber and Mr. Trev sorting through a game-heavy list in the relaxed mode of players comparing notes. News Tower gives them the clearest hook, with its old-style newspaper setup and the pressure of deciding what makes the deadline.
A Steam Deck-style keyboard, a better-fitting mouse, and motherboard bravado drive a relaxed hardware hangout.
Gaming hardware gives the episode its clearest shape, as Trev and Hans work through a keyboard built around a Steam Deck-style control panel, its numpad mode, and the still slightly hazy appeal of 8K polling.
A weekly gaming panel turns God of War's anniversary release and Bethesda's long timelines into loose, skeptical banter.
Extreme Gaming Podcast episode 320 moves like a relaxed roundtable on the week's gaming news, with its most focused run landing on Santa Monica Studio and Sony's 20th-anniversary treatment of God of War.
A relaxed return where PC talk, abandoned Steam games, and quiz banter carry the mood.
The episode returns after a missed week with Trev, Gray, Matt, and Hans briefly explaining the technical problems that kept it off schedule, then settling into the kind of loose gaming chat that suits the show best.
Game Informer's editors review new releases and debrief hands-on previews from events like Summer Game Fest.
Rockstar's GTA 6 collector's edition lists 11 merchandise items for $400, but omits the game and charges shipping.
The hosts of the Extreme Gaming Podcast engage in casual banter about clothing and bus seats before briefly mentioning a previous discussion about NASA's Artemis monitors.
Episode 326 of Extreme Gaming Podcast spends a long segment on Denuvo, with the hosts describing it as multi-layered copy protection that is “not cracked” but has been bypassed.
This episode discusses layoffs as the new meta in the game industry, with a sponsor segment for Shopify.
The Extreme Gaming Podcast episode 324 discusses gaming news, including Switch games playable on Android in docked mode, and teases a discussion about DLSS 5 and AI finishing graphics.
The hosts of the Extreme Gaming Podcast joke about notes and introduce the topic of 1000Hz monitors being faster than 240Hz.
The hosts of the Extreme Gaming Podcast discuss the absence of two co-hosts and preview upcoming tech news about Windows 12.
Extreme Gaming Podcast episode 321 centers on Resident Evil 9, also called Resident Evil Requiem, and the hosts compare Grace’s first-person section with Leon’s third-person section.
Matt says Windrose is "the demo that asks, what if Sea of Thieves had a baby with Valheim?"
Hosts Trev, Gray, Matt, and Hans of the Extreme Gaming Podcast cover episode 319.5's gaming news, including Take-Two's denial that GTA 6 will skip a physical release, No Man's Sky's new remnant update adding gravity manipulation, and rumors from YouTuber Nate the Hate of a 2027 God of War game shifting away from Norse mythology.
The hosts discuss launching a new entertainment podcast called Extreme Hollywood while promoting their existing gaming podcast.
The Extreme Gaming Podcast discusses upcoming RTX Supers, AMD's response to Nvidia-Intel deal, Xbox Game Pass price increase, and updates on Silent Hill F and Fallout London DLC.
The hosts discuss gaming news including Silent Hill f impressions, Dune Awakening, Hell Is Us, NVIDIA's investment in Intel, DNA storage, and the Tencent vs Sony lawsuit.
The Extreme Gaming Podcast crew discusses recent gaming news including GTA 6 delays, new trailers, and upcoming releases.