Brad is joined this week by Carrie as we give our 5 favorite games of 2018! We also discuss Capcom getting rid of their obtrusive Street Fighter V ads (for now), Bloodstained dropping support for a couple more platforms, Bethesda's homework assignment for banned Fallout 76 players, Overwatch continuing to be one of the most inclusive games out there, and what happened when Soulja Boy tried to step to Nintendo.   Headlines  

• Capcom bows to pressure, or it’s because the Capcom Pro Tour happened, but Street Fighter V ads are gone for now
• Bloodstained drops support for Mac and Linux
• If you’d like your banned Fallout 76 account back, you’ll have to write Bethesda an essay
• Overwatch confirms another of their heroes as LGBTQ
• Nintendo games now being sold on the Humble Store
• Soulja Boy out of the console business; website redirects to Nintendo’s site                                        

  Top Stories  

• Our 2018 Games of the Year
• Dense Pixels Post Office

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Special episode of The Nerdpocalypse called 'No Time To Bleed.' A discussion of our favorite action movies. This week the guys discuss the 1985 classic Commando!

It's the last Dense Pixels of 2018, and as a special holiday treat we have a return of What Do You People Want in the Dense Pixels Post Office! Before we get there though, we have to discuss the Kingdom Hearts III retail leak and why it's hilarious, Discord attempting to stand toe-to-toe with Steam and Epic Games, the desperate flailing of everybody to get their cut of Fortnite's success, and Kage (that's Kar-gay, btw!) debuting in Street Fighter V.    Headlines  

• Kingdom Hearts III retail copies leak well ahead of the game’s launch; game director pleads for fans to not post content online
• Discord store now allowing developers to self-publish and only taking a 10% revenue share
• Epic opening up Fortnite’s cross-platform services to all developers
• Alfonso Ribeiro sueing Epic Games for use of the ‘Carlton Dance’ in Fortnite
• Kage is a sort of new character that has released for Street Fighter V

  Top Stories  

• Dense Pixels Post Office - What Do You People Want?

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***Apologies for the sub-standard audio quality on this episode. We were forced to use our backup recording this week.***   This week Carrie finally joins the show to valiantly defend the dumpster fire that is Fallout 76! We also give our initial impressions of Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and Terrence makes his triumphant return after a few weeks away! We also discuss Epic being the first real contender to Steam, even more bad news for Bethesda and their cursed canvas bag, Street Fighter V getting intrusive in-game advertisements, Soulja Boy becoming a player in the console space (not really!), and we go over The Game Awards 2018 discussing the winners, our favorite trailers, and the future relevance of this awards show.   Headlines  

• Epic Games launched a store and is taking a lesser cut than Steam
• Bethesda support site leaks out info of Fallout 76 customers just trying to get their canvas bags
• Street Fighter V getting in-game ads
• Soulja Boy makes half-hearted swing at continued relevance, selling overpriced emulators

  Top Stories  

• The Game Awards 2018
  • The Winners
  • The Trailers

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This week Brad and Micah discuss Valve increasing revenue to its most successful games, the FTC and loot boxes, Nintendo joining digital media in 2018 with the end of the YouTube Creators Program, our cautious optimism for Dragon Age news, Bethesda's falsely advertising Fallout 76's Collector's Edition, and the nasty homophobic incident that occurred in Fallout last week.   Headlines  

• Valve now giving larger percentage of Steam Revenue to very successful games
• FTC pledges to look into loot crates
• Nintendo finally ending YouTube Creators program
• Are we getting Dragon Age news this week?

  Top Stories  

• Fallout 76 falsely advertises the bag that came with the Power Armor edition; throws pittance at upset fans
• Looks like they were able to get some pretty nice bags out to influencers though!
• Bethesda lifetime bans group of players after vile homophobic attack
• Dense Pixels Post Office

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It's a jam-packed holiday edition of the Dense Pixels Post Office where we answer a ton of your gaming queries including if it's possible to love and hate a game simultaneously and what elements are needed to tell a great story in a game. We also discuss who's going to pay $800 for a box of Amiibos, Shenmue's total haul from their fans, and the new pinnacle weapons coming to Destiny 2 and if Brad thinks the new Crucible weapon is going to break PvP.   Headlines  

• There’s a super-limited number of Smash Amiibo boxes that include 63 Amiibo figures
• Ubisoft reversing course on censoring Rainbow Six Siege for everyone because of the Chinese market
• Shenmue has apparently still been crowdfunding; announces their final total
• New pinnacle weapons coming to Season 5 of Destiny 2

  Top Stories  

• Dense Pixels Post Office

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It's a jam-packed show, as Brad and Micah have both a bevy of game news and Survivor Series talk this week! On the game front, we're going over our picks for the 2018 Game Awards, PlayStation skipping E3 for the first time ever, Reggie pouring cold water on the N64 Classic rumors, a video game-related criminal being brought to justice, and the disc-less Xbox One. Then we breakdown the action from both NXT TakeOver: War Games and Survivor Series 2018 and what we thought of all the action shown over the weekend. Headlines

• The Game Awards 2018 predictions
• PlayStation skipping E3 for first time ever in 2019
• Reggie pours cold water on N64 Classic rumors
• Call of Duty Swatter pleads to several federal charges stemming from incident that led to death of uninvolved individual
• Microsoft rumored to be working on entry-level Xbox One console that will forego disc drive

Top Stories

• Survivor Series 2018 review
• Dense Pixels Post Office

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This week we discuss Red Dead Redemption 2's unmatched success, the death of strategy guides in video games, Square canceling the rest of Final Fantasy XV's DLC, all the news from XO18 last weekend, and what YouTube can do to combat game streamers operating in bad faith without gating the platform.   Headlines  

• Nintendo removing offensive imagery from Super Smash Bros Ultimate
• Red Dead 2 has already shipped 17 million copies
• Strategy Guide maker Prima Games is shutting down
• Square cancels remaining Final Fantasy XV DLC, and game director leaves company

  Top Stories  

• All the announcements from XO18: The Microsoft streaming event
• YouTube pulls then reinstates Red Dead YouTube videos made in bad faith by streamer

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This week Carrie joins Micah and Brad to discuss Micah's first impressions of Red Dead Redemption 2, Carrie's experiences in the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A., the PlayStation Classic games list, Blizzard's misstep with the reveal of Diablo Immortal at BlizzCon, the surprise release of Deltarune, our reaction to the Smash Bros Nintendo Direct, and your questions about the board game Brad wants to play with the TNP crew, whether lapsed Pokemon fans should hop back on with Let's Go, and if Anthem can be a Destiny killer.   Headlines  

• Full PS Classic game list revealed
• Blizzard announces Diablo Immortal mobile game at BlizzCon; fans...not pleased
• Toby Fox drops Deltarune first chapter/demo on Halloween

  Top Stories  

• Smash Direct sure was a thing that happened
  • Ken, Incineroar, Piranha Plant are new characters
  • Spirits Mode
  • World of Light AKA Sakurai murders the entire Smash universe completely out of spite
  • DLC will have five new characters added by early 2020 + new stages and new music
• QUESTION OF THE WEEK - Dense Pixels Post Office

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This week the whole crew is back to discuss Micah's impressions of SoulCalibur VI, the new game that Terrence invested over 20 hours in last weekend which makes him a MASSIVE hypocrite, Rockstar employees coming to the studio's defense over crunch allegations, Epic hunting big YouTube game in court over Fortnite cheats, Hitman 2 going full meta with their first elusive target, the Devil May Cry 5 Collector's Edition that may be the most overpriced CE of all time, and then we answer your questions including what the term "hardcore gamer" means to us, the best secondary peripherals in gaming history, and whether or not we can play Resident Evil with the lights off.   Headlines  

• Rockstar employees given green light by HR to flock to studio’s defense
• Epic taking major YouTube influencer to court
• Jade Raymond departs EA after 3 years
• Sean Bean will be Hitman 2’s first elusive target
• A DMC5 Collector’s Edition with Dante’s coat only costs $8000!

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