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Episode 39. September 27th, 2015. Nerd Culture has made major headway in the last decade, but still gets a bad rap. Recently a friend made a joke that just didn’t sit well with Andrew, regarding “nerd” culture. Why do we find the need to criticize the nerd/geek because they like Marvel, Pokemon, Mario, or any […]
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Episode 38. September 20th, 2015. Mike and Andrew discuss Bungie’s The Taken King expansion for the popular Destiny game. Well, we think it’s Popular. We enjoy the new expansion. Deal with it. For real though we talk about the different changes and how the amount of depth to the content that has been added is […]
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Party Hard……or Die Trying! Just kidding, in Party Hard you actually play the “good” bad guy. Well, if you consider quieting down that noisy party that’s been going on next door for hours and it’s 3 in the morning and you want to sleep by killing everyone there…then yes, you are very much the good […]
20XX, the Roguelike Mega-Man co-op game is officially out of Alpha! Heading into the Beta, a number of changes and upgrades to the game have been made. Since my experience with in in Early Access on steam, I’ve been able to play through several variations of the levels as both characters, with varying rates of […]
NOTE: WE SPOIL UNTIL DAWN IN THIS PODCAST. Also there are a few bits of audio that got static/echo for unknown reasons, so I tried to lower the volume at those parts to not hurt your ears. Episode 37. September 12th, 2015. Special guest and friend of the show Kristine Steimer from Steimer Says joined […]
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Episode 36. Part 2. September 7th, 2015. Andrew chats with Mike about his Pax Prime experience, and basically gives you the run down on all the games and things he saw. In (to the best of his ability) the order things were discussed: ID@Xbox Event > Razer Booth (PC Gear) > Riptide GP: Renegade > […]
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Episode 36. September 7th, 2015. Andrew chats with Mike about his Pax Prime experience, and basically gives you the run down on all the games and things he saw. In (to the best of his ability) the order things were discussed: ID@Xbox Event > Razer Booth (PC Gear) > Riptide GP: Renegade > POLLEN (Oculus […]
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This new Homefront game is definitely going to turn heads with its new open-roam style game play. Homefront: The Revolution takes players through an occupied Philadelphia as a resistance fighter. There are main story missions, but in your “off time” you can free roam the area, destroy Korean patrols for ammo and supplies, or side objectives. Similar to […]
Ever play a little game called Hydro Thunder? Maybe on your N64 or PlayStation, or dare I say your Dreamcast? No?! What about the arcade version? Well, grab your wetsuits because Vector Unit is making a new Riptide game called Riptide GP®: Renegade, the next game in the Riptide series. Vector Unit also made Hydro […]
Clapfoot Games is working on a new game that mixes gameplay elements from “castle defense” style games with a 3rd person shooter mentality. Taking place in the 1950s, you can play as several characters, each with their own special abilities. Fortified takes the modern shooter, adds in strategy and real-time base defense mechanics in a […]
Pollen, or P.O.L.L.E.N. is a first person exploration simulation game. Designed for VR, Pollen takes you through a story in a non-traditional way thanks to VR. As taken from the Pollen website, “The story begins with you taking the role of a replacement employee for a space mechanic that has disappeared on a Saturnine moon […]
The ID @ Xbox Event Thursday evening before PAX was a free and open to the public event located on Campus 92 (aka one of the MANY buildings on the Microsoft campus) just outside of Seattle at MS headquarters. The feature of the event, 50 different independent games coming to, or already available on Xbox/Windows platforms. Developers […]
Episode 35. August 23rd, 2015. Mike and Andrew talk about a bunch of stuff today, including Cliffy B’s newly launched “The Shattering” website for Project Bluestreak that has a countdown timer to a reveal on Wednesday. Destiny creeps in with The Taken King (also known as the Tooken King) where we discuss some of the […]
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Adventures of Pip is everything you ever wanted from the retro days of side-scrolling platformers with a new age feel. Tic Toc Games, the developers behind AoP, have created a lovely game with a rich experience that’s not just “jump and evade till you reach the end of the level” gameplay. Your character/hero’s name is […]
Siegecraft Commander is the latest in the Siegecraft series by Blowfish Studios, and is set to release in Q1 of 2016. The action/strategy battle game series has seen over 1.5 million downloads, and the latest installment is set to release across multiple platforms (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, NVidia Shield, Windows, and the Nintendo Wii U) […]
Episode 34. August 16th, 2015. Mike is back from Kansas City Comic Con so he tells us all about his adventures with Ultra Girls Cosplay. Mike chats about having a booth and meeting some voice actors. Good times were had. Andrew and Mike then talk about other upcoming cons like the recent Destiny Con get […]
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Episode 33. August 5th, 2015. Mike and Andrew pre-recorded this episode because Mike is (probably) still getting back home from Kansas City Comic-Con. This week’s discussion revolves around conventions, specifically Mike being at KCCC and Andrew being at Pax Prime at the end of the month. Andrew will be a panelist at Pax Prime and […]
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Rocket League is the successor to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, which is a mouthful of a name. SARPBC (for short) originally released by Psyonix Studios on PS3 back in 2008, and I’d never heard of it. When Rocket League recently was announced for PS4, I was able to get into the beta for the game, […]
Pots, pans and ingredients in hand Pixel Junk’s new game, NomNomGalaxy, makes for a Soup-er good time. We’ll be cutting away all the Soup-erfluous information and give you a great creamy, but pixelated, recipe for a delicious bowl! Background: In a galaxy where Soup is the number one product in the market, everyone is hopping […]
Episode 32. August 3rd, 2015. Mike and Andrew take a question from our buddy Icydude, also known as KB, also known as Kevin, also yeah. You get the idea. Anyways, the question at hand was what the landscape of the holiday season will look like between Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Who wins? Who sells […]
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