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We are going to be referencing White Wolf a lot, even though we have experience with multiple systems. Why? And why "the Old World of Darkness"?

We're going to talk about where we're coming from, what we like about the Old World and share some stories of how we got here.

To watch this episode on our YouTube channel

https://youtu.be/Trqh8qsKhxY

Sorry for the lateness, like everything else, we're adjusting to the new changes.

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How do you get someone to join your amazing game? How do you get someone who has never played roleplaying games, significant others, friends, etc to want to sit at the table and explore a fantastical world that comes from your imagination?

Sakura and Richard get together and share some of their experiences and approaches to this core problem of growing your gaming group.

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Who is Morbius? When is it going to come out.

We record everything we know...before quarantine, but it should still be on schedule for March 21st, 2021.

In the 616 comic universe, Michael Morbius was a scientist born in Greece who became a Nobel Prize winning biochemist. He suffered from a debilitating blood disease and developed an experimental treatment involving vampire bats and electroshocks. Its side effects turned him into a pseudo-vampire who needed to consume blood in order to survive, and gained typical vampire characteristics such as an aversion to sunlight, and the powers of flight, enhanced strength, speed, and healing (a healing factor). His overall appearance changed as well: he gained fangs, his nose flattened to appear more bat-like, and his skin became extremely pale. Additionally, the victims of his bite would turn into living vampires themselves. When he first experienced the change, he killed the assistant who had helped him develop the treatment.

What will he be like in the film? We share everything we know so far!

FrankenCastle - He's so cool!

If you want to watch us record this episode, here is the video version

 

https://youtu.be/VAhXZxCZR8I

Leaks from Sony came out in the form of Playstation 5’s new logo, which looks EXACTLY the same as the other 4. 

Sony also announced it has no intention of attending E3 this year and will do their own show to officially announce the PS5.

For the first time ever, a movie was “patched”. Cats received a day 1 update to fix some CGI that was missed.

Ryan Reynolds confirmed Deadpool 3 is in the works, and at Marvel Studios no less!

In an unprecedented move, “New Mutants” is back and will be released April 3rd

In a somewhat heartwarming story (depends on how you view things) a teenager was saved while he had a seizure from his friend 5,000 miles away who heard him and called the police to come to his house.

Kenobi is coming, with Ewan McGregor!

Jared Leto is back…in Morbius?

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We cover all of the best things of 2019!  Agree? Disagree? Comment or message us on social media!

TV Shows

Umbrella Academy

Raising Dion

Mandalorian

Witcher

Stranger Things

Movies

Alita: Battle Angel

Frozen II

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker

Endgame

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Games

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Borderlands 3

Slay the Spire

Enter the Gungeon

Graveyard Keeper

Board Games

Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle Earth

Secret Hitler

Gloomhaven

Betrayal Legacy

Terraforming Mars

Gadgets

Smart Bulbs

Oculus Quest

Disney Princess “Live Your Story” Castle

Samuel Jackson Alexa

Musicozy Sleep Headphones/Eye Mask

This week’s mission debriefs: News from the Video Game Awards and Sony’s State of Play.

The Announcements!

X-Box unveils the title, in which they put a LOT of thought into, of their next-gen console. Aptly dubbed, X-Box Series X, or as we call it… XboxX

Gearbox is making another “Looter” type game, but this one is a “Looter-Slasher” and is a PS5 launch game. ‘Godfall’ looks ridiculous, in a good way.

The man who started Battle Royales announced…something. We got a ‘teaser’ for something mysteriously named “Prologue”

Ghosts of Tsushima trailer dropped. Let’s talk about it.

The AWARDS!

Game of the Year: Sekiro: Shadow’s Die Twice

Action Game: Devil May Cry 5

Action-Adventure Game: Sekiro (Again)

Disco Elysium, blowing it away with: Fresh Indie Game, Independent Game, Narrative, RPG

VR Game: No suprise, Beat Saber

Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing

Fighting Game: Smash Bros, (anyone surprised?)

The State of Play announcements: 

Spellbreak. What to say about it?

Dreams. Coming Valentine’s Day 2020, will it bust?

Untitled Goose Game. December 17th

Babylon’s Fall, from the makers of Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising, and Nier: Automata. And it looks like… the same games, but better quality?

Predator: Hunting Grounds seems super fun, but looks, not up to par with today’s graphics.

RE3 Remake gets… multiplayer? Project Resistance gets rolled up into RE3 remake…or is it the other way around? Either way, they’re together.

J.J. Abrams does J.J. Abrams things and teased Ahsoka Tano in Rise of Skywalker. Do we trust him?

The amazing rework of Sonic might be for naught. The movie is still coming, but the heroes are reportedly out of a job. Moving Picture Company has shut down.

Samuel L. Jackson can now be Alexa’s voice… complete with explicit options.

Hackers are doing Bethesda’s job and putting NPCs in Fallout 76

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In this “Done Quick” we talk about Resident Evil. Want to know all about this game but don’t want to put 20 hours into playing it? Then listen here and be ready to be the expert tomorrow!

 

The Top 5 Trivia:

Resident Evil’s Japanese name is Biohazard. It had to be changed for American release because of a band with the same name.

The Japanese version used the English dub even though Capcom recorded a Japanese version. This was, ironically, because Capcom thought the Japanese dub was too horrible. Funny enough the English dub is considered some of the worst in video game history.

Albert Wesker is the only Resident Evil character that appears or is mentioned in every Resident Evil game except for the spinoffs. He is pretty much the catalyst for the whole series. In Resident Evil 0 he appears in certain cutscenes. In Resident Evil 2 & 3 the player can find his desk in the S.T.A.R.S’ office. If examined the player will say that it belongs to Wesker, leader of the S.T.A.R.S unit. In Resident Evil 4 he is mentioned by Ada Wong and seen on a small monitor. In Code Veronica he plays a vital role in the storyline, appearing in certain key moments. In Resident Evil 5 he is the main antagonist. In Resident Evil 6 he is mentioned by Chris Redfield when Chris is talking to Jake, Wesker’s son.

Although the genre was not entirely new, this was the first game to use and coin the term “survival horror”.

The canon ending can not be achieved in the game. The best ending for both scenarios has only three characters surviving (Jill, Chris and Barry or Jill, Chris and Rebecca). The characters Jill, Chris, Barry have all appeared in at least one video game taking place after the events of the original Resident Evil videogame. Rebecca returned alongside Chris in the Capcom produced CGI animated feature film Resident Evil Vendetta which is part of the main canon.

The “Done REALLY Quick”:

 

A man and a woman enter a spooky mansion, play with some animals and homeless people, set the bitch on fire and get the hell out of there, but with zombies.

‘Train To Busan’ sequel ‘Peninsula’ release date confirmed. August 12th, 2020

Trailers GALORE!

Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer! – Summer 2020

Season 2 trailer for ‘The Boys’ – 2020

‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Season 3 January 24th, 2020

‘Free Guy’ – July 3rd, 2020

‘Togo’ is coming to Disney+ December 20th. Who is Togo?

Secrets are meant to be unlocked. ‘Locke and Key’ based on the graphic novel, is set to arrive on Netflix on February 7th.

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Principal photography recently wrapped for ‘Avatar 2’ which is due out December 2020. It’s going to have a LOT of underwater-ness

R.I.P. Renee Auberjonois who passed at 79.

Ice Cube is set to revive the famed Celebrity Deathmatch

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis remake coming in April 2020

Could there be a crazy new genre of genres in gaming? Supermash could have the potential to be HUGE

New Bioshock game in the works, and might have been for years now, but officially confirmed!

 

Dorkside Rundown of Bioshock.

The Black Widow trailer is out, did you catch everything?

A Star Wars game show is coming to Disney+ as Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge

Apparently a molotov cocktail resembles ONLY the Hong Kong protest, which resulted in DC removing a promo image for the comic “The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child“

Disney+ gives us a list of content coming…and it’s basically all stuff we knew was coming. Except for a few cool things.

RE3 Remake might have accidentally been leaked and you may see it at the Game Awards (12/12/19).

Happy Birthday, Playstation! And congratulations on becoming the world’s best-selling Home Console brand. 

“For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson, As Told By His Glove” is an unauthorized musical about the life of the Pop Star, as told from the perspective of the glove, who’s a bloodsucking alien, and is being produced by Johnny Depp.

Now we’re not much for rumors, but this one could be fun. Doctor Doom is rumored to be the villain in Black Panther 2

So, the Colour Out of Space will reportedly be the first in a trilogy of Lovecraft movies

Now, this one we missed. Hasbro acquired Death Row Records…what?

The Top 5 movies of the 90s. Each. VS! The Rotten Tomatoes Top 5 list.