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Episode 166: Snirkles, From the Makers of STARK

We’re back with a brand new schedule! Expect us every Friday from now on! Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo join forces once again to tackle difficult Destiny drudges, personal Pyre preferential plus Persona, and luscious long locks litigation. That, plus some follow up news from last week, and also some of the best trailers we’ve seen in a while. Also a special guest to weigh in on the important question of what constitutes long hair.

Games we played:

Matt: Finished Pyre, Persona 5

Ethan: Destiny 2

Ricardo: Destiny 2

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Fortnite “error” temporarily allowed PS4 and Xbox One players to play together.

Battleborn support ending just 1 ¼ years after release.

Update: YouTube accepts Campo Santo DMCA claim, Steam review bombings occur, and Valve releases a new review-monitoring tool.

Goodnight, flappy prince; Flappy Bird no longer playable after iOS 11 update.

Nintendo Arcade games are coming to the Switch

WEIRD NEWS: Game Boy Advance SP inside an ECG machine

Trailer trash:

Heat Signature – Launch Trailer

Lake Ridden – Story Trailer

Mario Party: The Top 100

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case – Official Announcement Trailer

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – TGS 2017 Trailer

Left Alive – TGS 2017 Announcement Trailer

Battle Princess Madelyn – Teaser Trailer

Monster Hunter World – TGS 2017 Trailer

TOMB RAIDER – Official Trailer [very long hair]

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Episode 164: SHAEKU SHAEKU SHAEKU

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Amber joins Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo as the team catches up on some older games they’ve still yet to finish. Ricardo has been losing all his souls to a board game, Ethan brought breakfast, Amber is has been chasing the dragons, and Matt really wants everyone to know that Luigi dabs. Meanwhile, Valve springs a story leak, Blizzard doubles down on making their trailers longer and more like other films you’ve seen, and who the hell knows what KFC is doing.

Games we played:

Matt: Pyre, PUBG First Person

Ethan: Pyre, Horizon: Zero Dawn

Ricardo: Dark Souls: The Board Game, Pyre, Smite

Amber: Breath of the Wild

THE BEER REVIEW: Mikkeller Brewing – Beer Geek Breakfast

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Oh boy. Former writer at Valve basically spoils what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would have been… if ya know… it was still being made.

Speaking of which, the Steam community is taking out Half-Life 3 frustrations on DOTA 2’s Steam review, now.

And speaking of DOTA 2, can you guess which game has overtaken it in concurrent users numbers?

Indie dev would rather you pirate the game (from their torrent) than go to a key reseller

Microsoft store officially no longer selling the original Xbox One design.

Trailer trash:

Overwatch – “Rise and Shine” Animated Short

Rocket League: Car Battles Trailer

Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Trailer

Rock of Ages II Bigger & Boulder – Launch Trailer

Absolver – Launch Trailer

TEKKEN 7 DLC 1 – Tekken bowl trailer

FINAL FANTASY XV: Assassin’s Festival

The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor – Console Launch Trailer

Fist of the North Star – Japanese PS4 Trailer

Hearthstone – “Hearth and Home” animated short

The Hard Way: A Virtual Reality Training Experience

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Episode 162: The Ghost of Ambers Past

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Sorry for the long break but we’re back on schedule! Due to family stuff and trips we’ve been out, but now Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo reconvene to talk more games! Matt can’t remember any Pyre character’s names, Ethan compares Splatoon 2 to For Honor, and Ricardo’s would like to clarify that the Trailer Trash voice in no way reflects the accents of those in the Southern United States.

Games we played:

Matt: Pyre, Slime Rancher, Overwatch Summer Games, PUBG

Ethan: Pyre, For Honor, Splatoon 2, Little Big Planet 3, Zelda BOTW

Ricardo: PPKP, Card Thief

THE BEER REVIEW: Gunwhale Brewery – Majordomo

The SLOW NEWS HOUR News Topics:

For Honor tournament won by player using infamous exploit

Blizzard kinda gives up on renaming its online multiplayer service

Valve announces Dota card game… to mixed reactions

Swery’s next game is about a town whose residents become cats at night because yeah

Trailer trash:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Official “Born from Ashes” Trailer

Spellforce 3 – Cinematic Trailer

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite – Story Trailer 3

Iron Harvest – Official Teaser Trailer

We Happy Few – Announce Trailer

Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time – Gameplay Trailer

Nidhogg 2 – Launch Trailer

Fishing Planet

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Episode 139: There Will Be Bloodborne

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The Pixel Podcast gets brutal this week as Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo bathe in the blood of their enemies! Ricardo has been slaying every Viking, Knight, or Samurai that gets in his way, Ethan has been killing werewolves and injecting their blood into his leg, and Matt makes cute anime creatures battle one another for sport! That plus some of our final Switch news before it comes out, the rise and fall of YouTube sensation PewDiePie, and refreshingly good trailer trash!

Games we played:

Matt: Pokemon Moon, Dandy Dungeon

Ethan: Bloodborne

Ricardo: For Honor

Beer: Eye of the Hawk Imperial Ale – Mendocino Brewing; Trader Joe’s Peach Ice Tea

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Nintendo may have actually done something right for once as your eShop purchases look like they’ll be tied to account, not system…

Except apparently you’re gonna need substantial external memory if you want to download anything on your Switch.

Sony is discontinuing Playstation NOW support for PS3 (naturally) and PSVita (ruh-roh) among other devices

Erik Wolpaw, writer for Portal and Left 4 Dead, has left Valve

PewDiePie series dropped from YouTube, G2A still loves him, blames the media

Trailer trash:

Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 3 – Prophecy of War Trailer

Typoman – Xbox One Launch Trailer

Vertical Drop Heroes HD – Launch Trailer

Mutant Football League – GORE Trailer

Mothergunship – Announcement Teaser Trailer

Dropzone Gameplay Trailer

Hidden Folks Trailer

Sumer Gameplay Trailer

Where Cards Fall – Release and Platform Trailer

Oἶκοςpiel Book I Release Trailer OFFICIAL

Full Metal Furies

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Episode 135: A Brand New Beer!

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Another episode of the Pixel Podcast brings a brand new beer that hasn’t been featured before on a previous podcast in the last few months! Amber returns to tell tales of sexy professors! Ethan pretends to rob someone in the Witcher 3, Ricardo always be textin’ in Lifeline: Flatline (Online), and Matt gets thrown into a volcano.

Games we played:

Matt: DOOM, The Witcher 3

Ethan: The Witness, The Witcher 3

Ricardo: SFV, The Last of Us, Lifeline: Flatline

Amber: Pokemon Sun

Beer we drank: LAger – Angel City Brewing

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

SONY UK sponsorse “bootcamp” for girls aspiring to enter the games and technology field

BOOM, Headshot!, a report on violent games breeding violence, has been retracted

Guillermo Del Toro not involved creatively with Death Stranding

Gabe says there’s still a Portal and Half Life movie coming and they still make single player game

Trailer trash:

Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World “A Woolly Distraction” Trailer

Dark Souls 3 “The Ringed City” announcement trailer

Toby the Secret Mine Xbox One trailer

Touhou Genso Wanderer “Partners” trailer

Tekken 7 “Rage & Sorrow” trailer

Fire Emblem Mobile

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Episode 126: I’m with Sombra

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It’s the end of the political season (and life as we know it) but the Pixel Legends crew is still here to talk about video games! Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo have all been playing some new games, some ye olde shooters, some future anime shooters, some shooters where you’re an owl flying through floating islands carrying a guy who is doing the shooting. A lot of variety. Also Ethan went to BlizzCon so we talk about that for a while!

Games we played:

Ethan: Titanfall 2, Batman Telltale Episode 2

Ricardo: Battlefield 1

Matt: Oh… Sir!!, Owlboy

Beer we drank: Refuge Brewery Blood Orange Wit

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Blizzcon? Ethan went

Call of Duty PC players get segmented

Akuma is coming to SFV

Wii U is dead, RIP

Valve makes sure you have to have real screen shots to sell a game

Uwe Boll isn’t going to make any more movies

Trailer trash:

Mass Effect Andromeda

Mass Effect Andromeda 2

Overwatch League

Dishonored 2 Narrative Trailer

Political Animals

Yankai’s Triangle

Creepy Castle Launch Trailer

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Episode 119: Agents of Overrocks

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It’s an episode full of Original Character’s (Do not Steal) as Matt’s learning to make games, Ricardo is creating new House of Cards and Overwatch spinoffs, Ethan is speccing his stats the wrong way, and Amber is enumerating Nonograms. That plus we have a debate on what counts as beer, what makes games old, and how good smooth forks are.

Games we played:

Ethan: Sunset Overdrive, Doom, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Ricardo: Nothing new… Diablo 3

Matt: Game Maker, Swift Playground, BoxMaker

Amber: Picross 3D Round 2

Beer we drank: Brooks Dry Cider

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Steam’s new review system!

Speaking of Steam, a developer decided to sue some people

Marvel: Avengers Alliance gets the lay offs as Disney remembers it has a games division

Trailer trash:

Gears of War 4

Bakahaza

Call of Duty Inifite Warfare Story

Dishonored 2

Horizon Zero Dawn

Tekken 7

Berserk: Band of the Hawk

Gravity Rush 2

Monster Hunter Stories

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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