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Episode 112: To Cut the Head Off the Snake…

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 111: Con Men and Women

The tale of two conventions! Matt, Ethan, Ricardo and Amber sit down to discuss the two events so big we had to take a week off of podcasting! We talk so much about Evo and Comic Con that we have to skip news a bit, but there’s still plenty of time for Trailer Trash! It’s the year of the Sonic, and we find out just who owns this Pokemon GO thing we’ve been hearing so much about.

Beer review: Pabst Old Tankard Ale

Con Talk:

EVO
SDCC

Games We Played:

Ethan: Deformed, Battlefield 1, Monster Hunter: Generations, Titanfall 2

Ricardo: Monster Hunter: Generations, Pokemon GO, Street Fighter V

Matt: ReCORE, Below, VIDEOBALL

Amber: ReCORE, Below, Kentucky Route Zero Act IV

NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Investors do research, find out Nintendo isn’t sole owner of Pokemon GO, shares plummet

You won’t need a PS+ Subscription to play No Man’s Sky

Dude who threatened Blizzard has been indicted

 

TRAILER TRASH (a-hyuk):

Kojima Productions official logo trailer

Sonic Mania – 25th Anniversary Debut

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV trailer

Project Sonic 2017 Debut Trailer

Human: Fall Flat launch trailer

Haimrik announcement trailer

Quadrilateral Cowboy release trailer

Cook Serve Delicious 2 Reveal trailer

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Episode 110: Pocket Monsters: Global Offensive

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

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.

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

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 106: E3 2016! Angry Dads and Robot Hate

 

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!

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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