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started Pixel Legends originally to cover E3 2011. Aside from video games Matt also enjoys books, wasting time on the internet, and being from England. He doesn’t have a British accent.

Episode 110: Pocket Monsters: Global Offensive

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Matt, Ethan, Ricardo, and Amber are all chasing the dragon, by which we mean a rare Dragonite or Gyarados! It’s like the 90s all over again! Besides the inevitable Pokemon GO talk we also found some time to discuss the wonderful stories of Inside and…Street Fighter V?

Games we played:

Ethan: Pokemon GO

Ricardo: Pokemon GO, Street Fighter V (Story and Online)

Matt: Pokemon GO, Inside, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, HITMAN

Amber: Pokemon GO, Inside

POKEMON GO NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:

The Good: Nintendo’s stock rises with launch of Pokemon GO

The Bad: Niantic Labs gets full access to your Google account when you register

The Ugly: Girl finds dead body in river following Pokemon GO excursion

Battlefield television series greenlit by Paramount

Adam Boyes leaves Sony

Follow ups from last week:

SGDQ sets new record for charity

CSGO Lotto and its owners have been sued

Dumb News:

People are harassing a poor NJ pizzeria with calls about Five Nights at Freddy’s

TRAILER TRASH (a-hyuk):

Brawlout Reveal

Song of the Deep Launch Trailer

Blade Ballet Launch Date Announcement

The Girl and the Robot Launch Trailer

The Great Whale Road Steam Early Access Trailer

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Episode 109: Computers aren’t Hipster

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Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo decide to eat socially while recording this week’s podcast and stream to Twitch! In the meantime we talk some new Drawful, some cheatin’ Hitman, some competitive Overwatch, and some cooperative Total War! Plus an in-depth look into the shady underbelly of Counter Strike skins.

Games we played:

Ethan: HITMAN, Total War: Warhammer, Drawful 2, Legacy of the Beast, SFV story

Ricardo: Drawful 2, Heroes of the Storm

Matt: Drawful 2, Overwatch competitive

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

CSGO LOTTERY OH MY PLEASE READ

Cheating tool is getting sued by Blizzard for copyright infringement

Board game kickstarters raised six times as much as video games

EVO will be televised by ESPN2 (and pixel legends :3)

Twitch has Muk-Bang channel now

Trailer trash:

The Bunker

Pokemon Sun/Moon new Pokemon, please reveal

Tumblestone

Faeria Early Access

Furi Launch Trailer

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Episode 108: Eggman M.D.

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We’re drinking cheap beers and making cheap jokes in this week’s episode! Ricardo’s been Witchin’, Ethan’s been Hittin’, and Matt hasn’t played anything new. Overwatch still finds a way to break into the podcast, and we go over some bad PR choices, some bad translation choices, and some bad accusations of cheating in this weeks news. Plus: a Trailer Trash segment with one of the most anticipated titles of the year: Mario and Sonic at the Rio Olympic Games.

Games we played:

Ethan: Total War: Warhammer, Eon Altar, Hitman

Ricardo: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Matt: More Total War: Warhammer and Overwatch

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

We love Overwatch and so does Korea

Oculus will no longer perform a hardware check

No Gamergate in Color Splash, but I bet there’s a reference to Watergate

Burnout makers are now just working on Star Wars instead of “Beyond Cars”

Mighty No. 9 game dev needs some PR training

SUPERCELL has been bought by Tencent as China continues to dominate everything

Trailer trash:

BERSERK

BALROG REVEAL

Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic games – Heroes Showdown

The Technomancer launch trailer

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Official Accolades Trailer

Touhou Genso Rondo — Bullet Ballet Official System Trailer

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Episode 107: Flaccid Sci-Fi

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Amber joins Matt, Ethan and Ricardo for another revelation-filled episode of the Pixel Podcast! She’s been playing Overwatch (which we can’t talk about), Matt’s learning fantasy definitions, Ethan’s in a hurry to end this dumb podcast and go get food, and Ricardo has a revelation that will SHOCK you. Stay tuned!

Games we played:

Ethan: Total War: Warhammer, Resident Evil VII Demo

Ricardo: Hearthstone: Whispers of the Old Gods expansion

Matt: Total War: Warhammer (…Overwatch?)

Amber: Overwatch, tennis phone game

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Fallout 4 console mods now require a steam account

TWITCH HATES THEM CHAT BOTS

E3 has a lower attendance, but not by much

WARCRAFT IS DA MOST SUCCESSFUL VIDEO GAME MOVIE EVER

Unsurprisingly, Mass Effect Andromeda won’t acknowledge your ME3 ending

Trailer trash:

The greatest Hearthstone ad of all time

Paper Mario Color Splash E3

Yo-Kai Watch 2 E3

Mario Party Star Rush

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Stellaris: Legends of the Galaxy Ep. 1 Dat’Boi Begins

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Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo start up their Stellaris empire the only way they know how, by turning a dumb meme into an intergalactic empire.

Episode 106: E3 2016! Angry Dads and Robot Hate

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The giant spectacular E3 episode is here! LIVE! Or it was live last night, now it’s just a recording, but still just as good! Apologies for the delay but we wanted to hear as much E3 news as possible before we recorded! Check out all our hot takes, including some thoughts on the Warcraft movie and some thoughts on our latest beers. PLUS you know all that news from E3!

Thoughts on the Warcraft film

The E3 EXTRAVAGANZA:

http://e3recap.com/ < check here for all details and trailers!

THE EA CONFERENCE

Titanfall 2

SPORTS (Madden and Fifa)

Fe(?)

Look at all the Star Wars that’s going to probably come out

Battlefield 1

THE BETHESDA CONFERENCE

Quake Champions

Hearthst… I mean The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Fallout and Doom stuff

Fuckin’ here’s Skyrim again, who gives a fuck…

PREY IS ALIVE

Elder Scrolls Online like who give a fuck, c’mon

Dishonored 2

THE MICROSOFT CONFERENCE

New Xbox model!

Gears of 4

General Raam coming to Killer Instinct

Forza, gents… right oh KOO-DOS points

ReCore

Final Fantasy XV

Division stuff…

A buncha dev stuff. I dunno, VR. Minecraft

We Happy Few

Hearthst… I mean Gwent

De4d Rising

SCALEBOUND

Tekken 7

Sea of Thieves

State of Decay 2

Halo Wars 2

SCORPIOOOOOOOOOOO

THE AWKWARD PC CONFERENCE

Dawn of War III

Oxygen Not Included

ARK

Lawbreakers

A buncha VR bullshit, who cares…

Vampyr

Mount and Blade 2? Whut?

Killing Floor 2

Arma 3…

Observer

Turing Test

Overland

Dual Universe

Days of Infamy

Mirage: Arcane Warfare

Mages of Mystralia

Warframe Lunario

THE UBISOFT CONFERENCE

Just Dance… fuck

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Some more VR bullshit, Jesus

FOR HONOR

Grow Up

Trials of the Blood Dragon

Watch Dogs 2

Steep

THE PLAYSTATION CONFERENCE

God of 4

Days Gone

THE LAST GUARDIAN HAS A RELEASE DATE

Horizon Zero Dawn

Detroit

Resident EVIL

Buncha licensed VR stuff, I dunno you can be Batman or something

THE CALLA DOOTIES

Crash Bandicoot is back and he’s all over the place

LEGO Star Wars… okay

Death Stranding

Spider-Man

WHATEVER NINTENDO’S THING WAS

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Pokemans

MISC.

Injustice 2

Walking Dead Season 3

Telltale’s Batman

Mafia 3

Friday the 13th

Harvest Moon: Skytree Village

Tacoma
Rhythm Heaven Megamix

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Episode 105: Ahoy Mother@#$%er!

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Matt, Ethan and Ricardo try with varying levels of success to steer the conversation away from Overwatch and talk about some of the other games they’ve been playing! Like…listen Overwatch is pretty good, OK? We check out the news with Ethan’s clickbait skills put to the test, Capcom bans, undelivered Kickstarters and Xbox One price cuts. Trailer Trash is actually pretty good this week, check out all those new trailers!

Games we played:

Ethan: Overwatch, SFV

Ricardo: Overwatch, SFV

Matt: Overwatch, Total War: Warhammer, DOOM

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

THIS 16-YEAR-OLD KID HAS HIS OWN GAME COMPANY HOW HE DID IT WILL SHOCK YOU

RIP Allison Road

Noel Brown gets the ban hammer from Capcom and EVO for sexual harassment

Too bad Capcom is slipping at their own game

Xbox One price cut

Payday is bought by Starbreeze

Trailer trash:

AGONY Intro Trailer

Kick and Fennick

Agents of Mayhem

HORIZON ZERO DAWN – Aloy’s Journey Trailer

Yooka-Laylee | E3 2016 gameplay trailer

Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder

Surgeon Simulator: Inside Donald Trump

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Episode 104: Please Don’t Buy Loot Boxes

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Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo are joined by Brandon to pretty much just gush about Overwatch for an hour (OK fine, we do get into some critical analysis of the characters) and then talk about a few other games as well! Ricardo teaches us a little bit too much about how horses are managed and Matt digs into Total War: Warhammer after finding out that it’s actually really good despite not being Overwatch. All that plus a bunch of news and some trailers! See if you can spot the really terrible one! See if you can spot the one Ricardo got really excited about!

Games we played:

Ethan: Overwatch, Darkest Dungeon

Ricardo: Overwatch, Pocket Card Jockeys

Matt: Overwatch, Total War: Warhammer, Star Fox: Zero

Brandon: Overwatch

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

ESA free public e3 event

Microsoft gonna release some new console maybe

No Man Sky delay

Trailer trash:

Mighty Number 9

Independence Day Resurgence: Battle Heroes