Hey Poor Podcast

Today Melbourne, Austrialia based filmmakers StudioBento have released a brief teaser trailer of their in-production film about the world of indie game development, GameLoading: Rise of the Indies. The video is an effort to support StudioBento’s new Kickstarter campaign to fund this snapshot into the rapidly-advancing world of independent games development. Thie brief snippet in the teaser trailer introduces three independent devs as they showcase their projects at GDC 2013. The studios; Austrialian developer Jigxor, Romanian studio ThoseAwesomeGuys and Kalio of Uraguay offer a glimpse into the studios and characters the indie film aims to explore. “We did not go to GDC Play with any specific intentions or interviewee targets but when we met these three really interesting developers we made the time to shoot…

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Last weekend at EVO 2013, Capcom made an announcement that Street Fighter fans heard around the world: Ultra Street Fighter IV. This new version is coming to PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, and features five new characters and six new stages, along with new modes and re-balanced gameplay to keep things fresh and interesting for veteran players. The new characters, Poison, Hugo, Elena, and Rolento, are joined by a mysterious secret character. Each brings their own unique fighting style to the table, bringing the game’s roster up to a whopping 44 characters. New stages such as Cosmic Elevator, Half Pipe, and Pitstop 109 each provide a new and unique background to the intense fighting. Interestingly, the new elements in this game come directly from fan feedback…

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Deus Ex: The Fall is now available on the iOS App Store. Here’s a launch trailer featuring the cybernetically charged bad-assery you can expect on this cyberpunk tour of Panama. In related new, many gamers were surprised this morning to find that Deus Ex: The Fall was listed as incompatible with the iPad 2 when it became available on Apple’s App Store, contrary to previous announcements indicating it would be available on Apple’s second generation tablet. While the app is only currently available  iPod Touch 5, iPhone 4S and above, and iPad 3 and above. The game will be available on iPad 2 in the near future according to Square Enix.

Today Dragon Nest’s developer NEXON delivers us a walkthrough of the new glittering loot, lethal skills, and Nest Dragons to be found in the game’s latest update titled Resurrection. In addition to the shiny new gear and deadly combat abilities, this patch also bumps the game’s level cap up to 60, giving you room to grow as you and your merry band of bad asses plow through Resurrection’s five new dungeons ripe for the exploring.

Today Nordic Games unveiled the first gameplay trailer for their upcoming point-and-click adventure The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief.  The trailer, narrated by Marco Rosenberg, Executive Producer at King Art, offers a glimpse at what players can expect from the first chapter of this three part adventure when it is released July 23rd on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Inspired by Agatha Christie novels and gangster films, The Raven puts players in control of Swiss investigator Jakob Zellner as he pursues a daring master thief whose brazen acts of grand larceny bear a striking resemblance to those of a cunning crook dubbed the Raven who met his end at the hands of hotshot investigator Nicolas LeGrand during his final fatal caper. The…

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Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda, director of the upcoming POKÉMON X and Y, speaks to budding POKÉMON trainers at the Japan Games Expo in Paris, France.

Dungeon Masters as well as fans of classic beat ’em ups have reason to rejoice today. Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara is now available on Steam, Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network. This collection of Capcom’s popular fantasy brawlers Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and its sequel, Dugeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara features all the classic hack and slash goodness of the original titles, along with several new features to spice up the experience. Chronicles of Mystara marks the first time Western gamers get to enjoy these classic brawlers outside of the arcade. Those who missed out on the golden days of arcade gaming may be asking what’s so special about these long lost classics. Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons releases offer the…

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A whole new slew of information of Pokémon X and Y information has been coming out of E3 these past couple of days, and it seems like it just won’t stop.  Today, a fourth gameplay trailer was shown, and more information about the games were given out. Players who start up the game will find themselves in Vaniville Town (sounds sort of like vanilla, mmm). Like how in Black and White where you had two friends that traveled with you, this time you have four! Their names are Shauna, Tierno, Trevor, and Calem/Serena (depending on if you choose a girl or boy, respectively). They all have their own unique personalities, which we’ll all grow to enjoy or be annoyed by. Eventually you’ll make it to the…

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I also would have accepted “Toldblerone”. This week Jay, Frank, Andrew and Marius join forces to talk about E3, and all of the controversy surrounding it. We talk the good, the bad, and the frankly perplexing, and then delve into the round table and watchya playin’. Also, the show will be going bi-weekly from this point onward, just for quality’s sake. We wouldn’t be doing it if it wasn’t the right thing, we swear. We know what we’re doing, or at least we pretend to. Check us out at HeyPoorPlayer.com and Mushroomtomatoes.com, on Twitter @HeyPoorPlayer, on Facebook in the Hey Poor Player group, on YouTube at Noiseless Mound, on Tumblr at hppofficial.tumblr.com, on reddit at reddit.com/r/heypoorplayer, and on the Hey Poor Player steam group! Music for this week’s episode includes the main…

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Today Publisher Nordic Games and developer King Art, creators of the critically acclaimed adventure title, The Book of Unwritten Tales, released a new trailer for their upcoming point-and-click adventure, The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief. The Raven is a classic point-and-click adventure that’s set in 1960’s Europe. The story revolves around a rash of high-profile burglaries conducted by a masterful thief known only as The Raven that have left local authorities baffled. During one fateful night in 1960 during a heist in Paris a hotshot investigator Nicolas LeGrand stuns the world when he supposedly mortally wounds the cunning crook. Fast forward four years later, a priceless ruby dubbed ‘the Eye of the Sphinx’ is looted from a London museum. Left behind at the scene…

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