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There's only really two big things going on in the video-game world right now: Destiny and NHL 15. GamerEdie Sellers, Holy Goalie, and Nick Dinicola. We got lots of talk about both, and a few additional news items, including:- Mojang being sold to Microsoft for $2 billion;- New iPhones and iWatch are interesting, expensive;- Watch Dogs coming to the WiiU on November 18;- Xbox One fails miserably in Japan;- Microsoft banned from advertising Destiny on Xbox, tries to anyway;- World of Warcraft includes tribute to Robin William;- Some XBox Ones are noisy; they'll be replaced;- Shadow of the Colossus movie now has a director;- Electronic Arts already has two teams prototyping games for the iWatch;- Some foreign XBox Ones don't have the same features as U.S. XBox Ones;- Shadow of Mordor for last-gen consoles will be delayed.Stay tuned for future episodes where we'll offer up information about the PAX Prime Swag Bag, which we'll be giving away.Enjoy.

We're just barely recovered from our marathon of game coverage at PAX Prime 2014 in Seattle, but we managed to crawl to the computer and edit together one hour of interviews for your enjoyment.

Why? Because we're gluttons for punishment and we will do anything for our listeners. 

Out of courtesy to you and your internet connection, we've broken all our interviews down into separate shows of about one hour each. We're also offering these up in sequential order of when we recorded them so you can hear us slowly deconstruct as we become increasingly exhaused and succumb to the effects of too much booze and not enough sleep. 

This episode features:

Shaz and Duncan Greenwood of Free Lives about "Broforce and Brospendables;"

John Ribbins of Roll7 about "Not a Hero" and "OlliOlli;"

Seth Rosen of Klei Entertainment about "Don't Starve Together;"

Bunny Dast and Rikki Knight of On the Level Studios about "Boo Bunny Plague;"

Armin Ibrisadic and Oscar Jilsén of Coffee Stain Studios about "Goat Simulator" for iOS and Android;

Jon SmallWood from Deep Silver about "Escape Dead Island;"

Adam Winkles of Asteroid Base about "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

Also, don't forget, details on how to win our gigantic PAX Prime Swag Bag will be on next Wednesday's show. 

Enjoy.

The exhausted GameHounds staff of Holy Goalie, Edie Sellers, and Nick Dinicola recap their wild week in Seattle at PAX Prime 2014. There's no news this week because it's all about the games.

 

What games, you ask? 

 

Well, the list includes:

 

- Shadow of Mordor;

- Evolve;

- Far Cry 4;

- Dead Island 2;

- Dreadnought;

- The Order 1886;

- The Crew;

- Drive Club;

- Alien: Isolation;

- Until Dawn;

- Nidhog;

- Nuclear Throne;

- Apotheon;

- Broforce;

- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime;

- Cannon Brawl;

- Chariot;

- Viking Force;

- RedShift;

- Crawl;

- And lots more.

 

Also, don't forget we will be giving out our massive PAX Pack of event swag, including more than 20 t-shirts and tchotchkes from the major titles at PAX. Stay tuned to our website (www.gamehounds.net) for more details in coming days.

 

Enjoy.

It's the last show before we head off to PAX Prime, but there's still a lot of news to chat about. Gamer Edie, Nick Dinicola, and Holy Goalie bring you the latest with aplomb. 

 

 

•Hackers hit Playstation Network and an number of other online games hard on Sunday;

•Amazon buys Twitch for $1 billion, give or take;

•Further research shows a large amount of Microsoft customers jumping ship for the PS4;

•Microsoft will release Xbox One Kinect standalone for $150;

•Bioware reveals a four-man multiplayer experience for Dragon Age: Inquisition;

•OlliOlli comes to PS4 and PS3;

•The PS4 becomes the lead platform for Battlefield 4;

•Rockstar files suit against Lindsey Lohan for her “frivolous” lawsuit;

•Playstation Now’s odd pricing scheme may be based on consumer psychology;

•Why we don’t go to Tokyo Game Show;

•What we’re seeing at PAX Prime and what do you want us to see.

 

ALSO! Don’t forget to sign up for Spreaker for live (hopefully) interviews with developers this weekend and for our Facebook page for alerts of interviews as they’re posted. 

 

Enjoy.

We finally have all three hosts—Holy Goalie, Nick Dinicola, and Edie Sellers—together for a show. It's about damn time, am I right?

 

But there's only one game on their minds: Diablo III for the PS4. The crew chats up gameplay changes and the host of new additions to the title for its Playstation debut. 

 

News, of course, also plays a big role. Topics include:

 

 EXTENSIVE review of Diablo III (PS4);

 Assassin's Creed Monopoly board game coming to Europe;

 Rockstar debuts 10 new flight-based missions for Grand Theft Auto V;

 What died faster: Watch Dogs or Titanfall?

 Telltale nabs Destiny writer Joshua Rubin for its Game of Thrones series;

 Shuhei Youshida says Sony's not very sure why the PlayStation 4 is so popular;

 GamesCom attendance this year: 335,000;

 No Man's Sky will not be "infinite," but it's pretty damned close;

 Recent Assassin's Creed games will not come to Wii U and Ubisoft will no longer make mature-rated games for the Wii U;

 Madden on the PS4 will have Coach Glass on mobile devices;

 Lawsuit over Aliens: Colonial Marines' advertising may be settled for $1.25 million;

 Cards Against Humanity guys launch a new Kickstarter;

 Microsoft is selling Xbox Entertainment Studios;

 Two fish are playing Street Fighter 2 on Twitch.

 

Enjoy.

We've got a sick Goalie on our hands, so this week it was just a mostly Gamer Edie and Nick Dinicola show. Goalie starts with us and has a quick lie-down. We eventually get to news and reviews, with topics including:

 

- Reviews of tick-borne illnesses, Dragon Age: Origins revisited, Black Bar, Type: Rider;

- Yes you CAN share downloaded games on the PS4, but it takes some workarounds;

- Robin Williams, a great actor, comedian and gamer, left us;

- Payday developer/publisher Overkill Software and Starbreeze Studios  will release a Walking Dead co-op game;

- Minecraft for PS4 is in final testing;

- The next Tomb Raider game, Rise of the Tomb Raider, will be Xbox only, at least for a while;

- Bungie says first Destiny DLC, The Dark Below, will come in December. 

- Bungie also says your character from last month's Destiny beta will not transfer over to the game;

- Ubisoft offers more info on the ability for your friends to share your Far Cry 4 game;

- Sierra Games is reborn and shows up at GamesCon with some game announcements;

- Microsoft says it will allow pre-downloading pre-ordered games in the future for "select titles;"

-  Xbox One Sunset Overdrive bundle, with the white Xbox One, hits stores October 28 for $400;

- Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Xbox One bundle will have a 1 TB hard drive and will sell for $500;

- GameStop explains its trade-in policy changes, and it all boils down to cash vs. credit and PowerUp Rewards member or not.

It's a Nick-less show, but we still have Holy Goalie and Edie Sellers, and they're joined by community manager Pissboy. Let's face it, we didn't really need Nick, did we?

 

Topics include:

 

- Preorders of Destiny's Ghost Edition are getting limited and cancelled because there's not enough plastic stuff to go around.

- GameStop changes its buy-back pricing structure, eliminating the odd percent bonus you used to get for doing stuff;

- Diablo 3 update will allow you to save data to cloud and eventually transfer it to next-gen consoles;

- Justin.tv is dead;

- Study says gamers experience auditory halucinations after playing;

- World of Warcraft loses 800,000 players, a mere 6.5 million left;

- Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

 

Enjoy.

Tornadoes, mummies, and loansharks, oh my! Sounds like your average day at GameStop, but in fact it's just a regular day on the GameHounds podcast.Nick Dinicola, Holy Goalie, and Edie Sellers brings you the video-game news and reviews like always, with a healthy dose of funny.This week's topics include:- More than 4.6 million players try Destiny;- Rumors say GameStop will soon roll out a credit card with an eye-popping 27-percent interest rate;- PS4 update includes 3D Blu-ray support and a few other tricks;- Xbox One announces EA's vault plan;- PS debuts PS Now; - Games for Gold and PSN Plus games for August;- Deep Silver buys Homefront from Crytek, lives on to possibly curse yet another studio;- Trials Fusion DLC out now;- Fake mummy curses are better than real ones.Enjoy.

It's been an eventful week in gaming, what with the Destiny beta coming to all platforms and Microsoft self-inflicting wounds. But Holy Goalie, Nick Dinicola, and Edie Sellers have all the details. Topics include:- Destiny beta (PS4), One Piece Unlimited World Red (Wii U);- Microsoft lays off 18,000 workers and shutters Xbox Entertainment Studio;- Battlefield Hardline is delayed a lot, Dragon Age: Inquisition delayed a little;- Nintendo will hand deliver demos of Super Smash Bros. to San Diego ComiCon attendees;- Gamestop will offer 50 percent discounts on The Last of Us Remastered with a trade-in of The Last of Us for PS3;- Lengendary game music composer Marty O'Donnel wins nearly $100,000 in damages from former employer Bungie;- Google will no longer allow app developers to label apps with in-game purchases as "free" on Google Play and other digital storefronts;- Email and questions from listeners.Enjoy

It's a drought my friends. Of water. On the West Coast. For games, there's no drought, but soon (oh, so soon) more games will rain down on us. Bask in the glory. In this week's episode, Edie Sellers, Nick Dinicola, and Holy Goalie will guide you through the sea of games and video-game news of the week, including:- Reviews of The Wolf Among Us, episode 5 (360), Child of Light (Wii U), Valiant Hearts (PS4), Sniper Elite 3 (PS4), MLB 14: The Show 1975 Roster add-on (PS4), Killzone Shadowfall, Gunpoint (Steam), further love for One Finger Death Punch (Steam);- Killzone Shadowfall will offer DLC to allow planking and farting;- Manuel Noriega, for president of Panama, is suing Activision for use of his likeness in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2;- Sniper Elite DLC Hitler mission, The Hunt of the Grey Wolf, available to all for $8;- Bloomberg says a big round of layoffs is coming to Microsoft;- Recent interview with Sony's Shuhei Yoshida reveals that the company doesn't make money on most indie games on PSN; - PSN offers a bunch of 2-for-1 bundles;- Wolf Among Us will come to retail disk for all major consoles except Wii U;- Gamasutra survey finds that more than a quarter of YouTube video-game personalities (ie: Let's Play) with more than 5,000 subscribers have received cash from game developers or publishers to record videos of their games;- EA is ending support for The Sims 2, but not before Origin-registered customers will get a nice pack of goodies;- Don't Starve: Reign of Giants will hit PS4 July 22 and 23;- Open Broadcast Software now offers a Mac version, Linux to follow;- OlliOlli coming to Steam on July 22 for $13;Enjoy.