Game Crunch

This week on Game Crunch:  Tom returns (possibly as a squid) and talks about the life consuming game Splatoon! Brandon shares his final thoughts on Hatred and jumps into the console wars reborn in Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1.  Meanwhile, Nick is all aboard the Fallout 4 hype train and passing the time by playing Fallout 3.  News topics this week include: Lucas DLC and pre-E3 presentation for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS, Uwe Boll finished with Kickstarter, some more E3 leaks and more!

This week on Game Crunch: With E3 looming the Game Crunch crew shares their outlandish E3 predictions! The first order of business though: Splatoon!  Mike and Brandon share their thoughts on the addictive ink splattering game.  Mike also takes on a piece of the Humble Nindie Bundle with SteamWorld Dig.  Brandon on the flip side takes on the controversial game Hatred.  Meanwhile, Nick does THINGS! Filling out the rest of the episode there is a ton of news!  From an Nintendo Micro Direct, to surprise announcements like XCom 2, to Amiibo and more!  This is one packed episode leading up to E3!

This week on Game Crunch: This week’s holiday left Mike and Brandon on their own to catch up on what they’ve been playing and the news leading into E3.  With Brandon’s shiny and new Playstation TV he’s found himself uncovering a new catalog of games he hasn’t been able to experience yet, like Muramasa Rebirth and Dragon’s Crown, but even that can’t stop him from taking on the Witcher 3!  On Mike’s end of things he finally got around to finishing up Yoshi’s New Island.  On the news side the crew talks Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon, Bloodborne expansion, Iwata not attending E3 and more!

This week on Game Crunch: Now that Mike has made his final peace with Donkey Kong 64 he soars into his next adventure on the islands of Baten Kaitos Origins.  Nick and Brandon on the other hand take gaming to the road with Project CARS.  The group also takes time to talk about their time with Splatoon as it approaches closer to launch.  News really starts to ramp up as the E3 HYPE TRAIN starts into motion!  With talk of Gears of War, Doom 4, Fallout 4, Nintendo World Championship and much more!

This week on Game Crunch: Game Crunch is 100!  Mike wanted a 100th episode extravaganza so that is what the crew set out to deliver!  Starting off the episode Game Crunch is happy to unveil their new theme song delivered by the one and only NLoyalist! This week’s episode is a game debate episode with the theme being the greatest in gaming! The crew answers burning questions like, which games do you come back to year after year? What are your favorite first party developed games? What is your favorite soundtrack? What is your favorite preorder bonus?  Mike brings a quiz based on the best selling series.  Can you do better that Brandon Nick and Tom? Finally, they all converge to work out a Top 20 greatest games of all time!  Can you agree with what makes the list? Can you handle the massive amount of content in this episode? Can you believe that Georgia has not one single peach in the entire state?  All this and more in the greatest episode of Game Crunch yet!

This week on Game Crunch: Mike finishes up Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, but now he is forced to finish his greatest foe: Donkey Kong 64.  He is committed to finishing it, but his anger continues to intensify.  Not everyone is on the hate train this week though, Nick picks up Shovel Knight for the PS4 and finds it to be a shining example of how to Kickstart a game.  Brandon finds a new addiction in Final Fantasy Record Keeper and love in The Last of Us Remastered.  This week in news the crew talks about Yooka-Laylee and it’s Kickstarter success, D4 coming to PC, Nintendo’s admission regarding the Amiibo dilemma.  Other topics this week include: Yoshi’s New Island, Ouya, Puzzle and Dragons and much more!

This week on Game Crunch: Mike and Nick spend some time with Big Blue.  No, it is not a new F-Zero game, but the awesome new Mario Kart 8 content! After craving it for a while, Brandon finally jumps into Bravely Default.  However, the meat and potatoes of this episode though is in the news!  The crew talks about Silent Hills cancellation and what this means for Konami’s future.  Following that up there is talk about the Xenoblade Chronicles X Treehouse Live, how many Five Nights at Freddies is too much, paid mods on Steam and much more!

This week on Game Crunch:  Mike continues his adventures on the Bionis in Xenoblade Chronicles 3D and unleashes his true feelings about Donkey Kong 64 in his first attempt to play the game.   Brandon returns to Grand Theft Auto V, now better in first person.  Tom talks about his quest to play Fire Emblem Gaiden.  Nick finds out that he is never alone while he streams Never Alone and even when he talks about Mortal Kombat X, as he teams up with Brandon to share some love on the new release! Elsewhere in the podcast: Mewtwo DLC released for Smash Bros, new StreetPass games: Ultimate Angler and Battleground Z released, news about the Mario Kart DLC, Guitar Hero Live, Star Ocean 5, Mass Effect 4 rumors and a ton more!

This week on Game Crunch: Mike offers  up his final thoughts on Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Super Mario 64.  Now with those off of his game list he can devote his time into the meaty Xenoblade Chronicles 3D!  Brandon takes the new free to play Pokemon Rumble World for a spin.  Nick, determined to beat a game, trucks back into Axiom Verge. Wrapping things up the crew jumps into news to talk about a bunch of announcements and rumors: Monster Hunter Stories, Fantasy Life 2, Professor Layton 7, Project X Zone 2: Brave New World, Uncharted Trilogy for PS4, etc. All this and more on the latest and greatest episode of Game Crunch!

This week on Game Crunch: As last week wrapped up a lot of games for the crew a bunch of new ones have popped up.  Mike starts a new game in a franchise he visited earlier this year.  Can you guess what it is better than the Game Crunch crew?  Nick picks up the sequel err- clone of Metroid, Axiom Verge. Tom is back with a few new mobile games.  Meanwhile, Brandon cashes in his Club Nintendo rewards for New Super Mario Bros. 2.  That isn’t all though!  The long awaited and prophesied Nintendo Direct finally hit and they sort through all of the goodies that Nintendo threw at them and the pains of collecting Amiibo!