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Episode 112: To Cut the Head Off the Snake…

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Matt, Ethan and Ricardo take a week to look at the art of hunting monsters, as well as the art of being monsters. Plus we’ve heard about those NX rumors, those No Man’s Sky leaks, and those crazy, crazy new Pokemon.

 

Games we played:

Ethan: Evolve: Phase 2, Tumblestone, SFV

Ricardo: Hearthstone, Monster Hunter Generations, Tumblestone

Matt:  Total War: Warhammer Call of the Beastmen DLC, Tumblestone

 

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

LOOK AT DES POKEMAN

The Last patch for Destiny Ps3 and 360

Pokemon GO, people are pissed

Dude gets No Man’s Sky early, starts bumming people out with reports

Solid NX rumor is what we all thought

 

Trailer trash:

The Sonic anniversary stream

Transport fever

The longest five minutes teaser trailer

Rollercoaster Dreams

Tricky Towers

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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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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

World of Warriors Official Announce Trailer

Ghost Recon Wildlands’ Wild New In-Engine Trailer

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Mechanical Apartheid Live-Action Trailer

Monster Hunter Stories – Japanese Trailer

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Episode 88: $80 Mic Stand

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Matt, Ethan and Ricardo are joined once again by Laurentius for a chat about Helldivers, XCOM 2, the various Final Fantasy games Ricardo is playing, frustrations with The Witness, our 3 month check up on Destiny, angry cats and their gaming peripherals, and a chunk of other news about video games!

 

 

Ethan: XCOM 2

Ricardo: FFXIV, Guitar Hero LIVE, Helldivers

Matt: Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witness, Total War: Shogun 2

Laurentius: XCOM 2, Destiny, Metal Gear Solid V

 

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Mad Catz replaces CEO and chairman right before earnings report. They said that Rock Band , which they co-published, needed to be a success.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/8/10939752/mad-catz-executive-board-changes-rock-band-4-earnings

Red Dead Redemption was backward compatible! But then it wasn’t…. but then it was!

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/8/10936850/red-dead-redemption-backward-compatibility-xbox-360-microsoft

Hearthstone is scraping it’s old TCG expansions to keep the meta from getting bad:

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/blizzard-plans-to-drop-old-card-sets-from-standard/1100-5388/

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Episode 47: Konami on Fire

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Matt, Ethan and Ricardo join forces once again to discuss video games like Broken Age, Mortal Kombat 9 (not X), Goat Simulator, the fact that Total War: Warhammer exists, the slow implosion of Konami and the ubiquity of the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise.

 

Some musical tracks provided by Bensound: bensound.com

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