Director of Publishing & PR @Harmonix and Project Lead on @RecordRun, John Drake comes on to talk about the newest mobile game from the music-minded developer.

John gives us a candid rundown of Harmonix’s history with handhelds, the story behind the timing of releasing Record Run during the Amplitude Kickstarter and definitively restates that no, no one is currently working on Rock Band 4 (yet).

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Former Bitmob community writer, current Destructoid community writer and fellow pokemaniac Marcel Hoang makes his Gamers on the Go debut to discuss Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire, the beginning of the third generation of Pokemon games and a refresh of the popular series.

Marcel lends his considerable knowledge about competitive Pokemon play, offering a stark contrast to Chase’s “catch ‘em all” attitude.

Sorry about some of the audio issues present in this episode. There was some echo we just couldn’t quite kill. Also, we tried upping the bitrate a little for this episode. Hopefully, we can put it all together in future episodes.

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On this special episode of Gamers on the Go, Chase has traveled to Boston to see the great handheld (and some not handheld) games on the showfloor of PAX East 2014.

Along with East Coast Correspondent Matt Giguere, we talk about a ton of promising indie titles that are coming to a Vita near you.

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Shuffled’s Matt Giguere returns to chat about Metroid Prime Hunters: a sort of black sheep in the Metroid series.

We also discuss the pathetic history of first-person shooters on handheld systems, the death of Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection and Chase makes an impromptu endorsement of Vlambeer’s new game, Luftrausers.

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Back from the holidays, we’re starting 2014 right with CEO of Swedish developer Image & Form, Brjann Sigurgeirsson speaking with us about their breakout eShop hit, SteamWorld Dig!

In addition to a fair amount of talk about the mining platforming adventure, we talk about the studio’s early days of “edutainment” games and how they’ve transitioned to original IPs. We also discuss what drew them to developing games for Nintendo handhelds as well as what Image & Form might be up to in the very near future.

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Matt Giguere and Zach Fleeman return to talk about the year’s best in handheld gaming. For our second and final part (you can check out Part 1 here), we cover 2013’s greatest iOS and Vita games.

And then we finally get down to business and pick our overall favorites of 2013.

Thank you all for a great year! Gamers on the Go will be back in January.

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Joined by Gamers on the Go veterans Matt Giguere and Zach Fleeman, we discuss the year’s best handheld games, starting with the 3DS.

What a fantastic year for this little system. In fact, it was such a great year, we had to dedicate an entire episode to all the great games found on the Nintendo handheld.

Check back in tomorrow for Part 2 where we chat about the best games to come to Vita and iOS, as well as our picks for Handheld Game of the Year!

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Giant Bomb’s Patrick Klepek joins Chase to talk about one of the best (and most interesting) Vita games to come out this year.

In addition to the Tearaway discussion, Patrick and Chase also muse on the future of Nintendo, the potential dangers of PlayStation Plus and talk about some of their favorite handheld games of the year (and Chase accidentally displays some clairvoyance in today’s Smash Bros announcement).

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While not originally a handheld game, we bend the rules for one of the best-selling and best-loved portable games of all time.

And who do we have on to talk about such an important game? Why it’s returning guest, Pierce Courchaine.

We explore the entire Tetris saga, from its creator, Alexey Pajitnov, to the game’s disputed rights and how it finally came to the Nintendo’s consoles.

We also take a look at the many improvements and no-so-improvements of subsequent Tetris games and declare what we believe to be the definitive Tetris experience.

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Fellow former Bitmob writer and Pokemon master, Matt Polen, joins Chase as we return to our look at the Pokemon franchise, digging this time into the second generation.

The thing is…the new Pokemon X and Y are still pretty fresh in our minds, so the conversation inevitably deviates into that territory time and again.

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