No Man’s Sky gets a release date, Xbox games get smeared on things that aren’t Xboxes, and Jay still likes Pokemon.   A whole decrepit attic full of talking points: No Man’s Sky release date. The Division. Microsoft unifying Xbox One games with PC, phones and tablets. Always-online systems. Hololens. Disappointing games such as X Rebirth. Anno 2205. Sim City. Assassin’s Creed Unity. Beavis and Butthead SNES. DMC. Pokemon Black & White. Metal Gear Solid 2. Rust. Mass Effect. Trails of Cold Steel. Persona 4 Golden. Senran Kagura: Estival Versus. Danganronpa. Crashland. Hitman GO. Clash Royale. Black Desert Online. Destiny. This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, Jay Petrequin, Adam Foster, Gary Swallow, and Kevin Chapman talk about release dates, the inevitable extinction of console generations, disappointing games, game theories becoming game realities,…

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Yeah, we totally have a console! This is what a console looks like! Wait, you mean we had to make the parts for it OURSELVES?   Talking points: Nintendo Direct. Metroid Prime: Federation Force. Star Fox Zero. Kirby: Planet Robobot. Coleco Chameleon. Pokemon Blue. Shardlight. Stranger of Sword City. Jet Set Radio. Runescape 2007. Super Smash Bros. Black Desert Online. Lompaku Graffitti. Samurai Warriors 4 Empires. Good Robot. Jay Petrequin, Francis Dipersio, Adam Foster, Mike Vito, and Donald Burton come together to talk about the woes of release dates, and the perils of pushing games of questionable quality. Then it’s time to talk about the Coleco Chameleon, or, as it should be called, the bootleg Super Nintendo. We also answer some lovely Facebook questions. What games have…

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Yes, we are aware that’s not actually how you spell it.   On-topic talking points: Pokemon Sun and Moon, a new batch of NX rumors, Kanye West’s questionable album title plans, Foul Play, Kid Dracula, We are the Dwarves, Pokemon Red and Blue, Fire Emblem Fates, Far Cry Primal, Superhot, The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition, Fallout 4, Zheroes, Scrudd the DIsposable Assassin, Goofy’s Hysterical History Tour, Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, Contra: Hard Corps, Firewatch, Minecraft on Vita, Shardlight, and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire.  Yo, so let’s be real here. This is the first episode where we’ve ever been running video chat while recording. As a result, we’re all seeing each other’s actual, real-life faces as we talk. How cool is that! No seriously, how cool is that? Like,…

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Do you take this woman to be your bride? And this one? And this one? How about this one? This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, Jay Petrequin, Frank DiPersio, Adam Foster, and Ser Flash talk about the Street Fighter V situation as a barely-finished game, and what it represents as part of gaming culture as a larger unit. Also: wives, sex toys, video game super fans, long video game names, and the mysteries of the Canadian alphabet. Jay gets a terrible birthday present. Frank becomes nightmare fuel Dagwood. Adam wants to dismantle capitalism. Ser has more wives than there are human beings living on planet Earth. On-topic talking points: Street Fighter V, Fallout 4 season pass, Dying Light: The Following, XCOM 2, Firewatch, Disgaea, 10 Billion Wives, Strikers 1945 2,…

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Taking guesses now on which will be worse: Destiny 2, Watch Dogs 2, or Only One?   Jay Petrequin, Adam Foster, Gary Swallow, Jonathan Trussler, and Ser Flash find some time to hop on to record on Valentine’s Day. Frank and Alex couldn’t join in the fun because they were off actually doing things with their significant others, like weirdos. Jay convinces his professor not to drop a baby. Adam masters the making of metaphors. Gary bears witness. Johnathan gives a cultural demonstration on the ritual of Hatentines’ Day. Ser builds some cool pixel art spaceships. Talking points include: Destiny 2, Watch Dogs 2, Only One, Unravel, XCOM 2, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, The Witness, Megadimension Neptunia, and Sayonara Umihara Kawase. Music comes from Unravel, The Witness, and Sayonara Umihara Kawase.   The…

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Some sort of sporting event occurred, but we’re more interested in the sport of speaking into the ears of robotic voice thieves. This week on the Hey Poor Podcast, Jay Petrequin, Adam Foster, Ser Flash and Alex Lupella convene to not care very much about football. Alex states some claims about the ol’ sport of the pigskin. Jay gets way too excited over the concept of owning some old Bionicle comics. Adam is dissatisfied with the podcast’s new weekly schedule. Ser becomes a Canadian-American financial consultant. Things repeatedly unravel. The darkness ebbs ever closer. Talking points include: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mother 3, XCOM 2, Megadimension Neptunia, Back to Bed, and some new round table suggestions ranging from TV shows to cool and rare figures. Opening…

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Marge gon’ give it to ya. She gon’ give it to ya. Jay, Frank, Adam and Ser come together to talk about creamy memes, dank screams, depressing teens, and dying while shitting. Oh, and Gamestop is helping Insomniac make a game. Also, Mighty No. 9 got delayed again, and somehow people are still surprised. Frank’s been taking the Totoro cat bus to anime town, and brought back a real steamy chest of anime body pillows. Ser bought a Japanese Xbox 360. Adam actually played the King of Fighters MOBA we talked about on the previous episode. Jay feels the corporate clutch of Junes a bit too close to home. Other talking points include Megadimension Neptunia VII, Power Instinct Matrimelee, Asura’s Wrath, Sunless Sea, T00 Human, Klaus, and Soma. A correction: In the episode,…

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A King of Fighters MOBA, An invasion from Planet Space, and some Playstation Prostitution. Jay Petrequin is joined by Adam Foster, Gary Swallow, Johnathan Trussler, and Ser Flash, in the first proper Hey Poor Podcast of 2016. It’s time, once again, to discuss what games we’re looking forward to in the coming year, and boy do we have a whole bushel of them to talk about! Jay pays for some handheld pleasures. Adam gets emotionally ruined by the existence of a MOBA he had not been aware of. Gary continues to be taken by a king. Johnathan is a tea-sippin’ stereotype. Ser has actually developed the capacity to enjoy things. Other talking points include Earth Defense Force, Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, The Deadly Tower of Monsters, Danganronpa, Starcraft 2,…

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The HPP New Years office party was crazy. I think Frank built a dragon out of meat.   Oh god, that was a real crazy time last night. Frank started the evening out grilling, and ended it by drunkenly constructing giant sculptures out of sausage and beef. Adam tried to order a pizza, but somehow ended up ordering ten pounds of black tar heroin. I don’t remember anyone actually using it, but all of it is now gone without a trace. Gary started picking up different musical instruments and attempting to play Wonderwall on them (he was surprisingly good with the harmonica). Jay bartended, mixing weird drinks for the crew. My favorite was the “Disappointing Press Conference,” which included a bunch of flashy mixers but no…

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The great Crystal Joystick is up for grabs, in the first ever official Hey Poor Player game of the year episode! NOTE: Some post-compression audio issues happened with this episode. Everyone’s voices are quiet, while the opening end ending music is really loud. We’re really sorry about your ears, and are working on fixing it. Come one, come all, to the sparkling diamond thunderdome. Before you stands a shining retro game controller, dazzling and pristine, forged from pure, unblemished crystal. That’s right; for the first time ever, Hey Poor Player is crowning an official game of the year. 12 games shall enter, but only one shall come home with the coveted Crystal Joystick. Jay Petrequin, Francis DiPersio, Adam Foster and Gary Swallow band together with a…

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