Hopped-Up Gaming

HUG and company take this week to get back to what's really important, drinking weird liquors and waxing philosophical about video games, tv, and film, including the story-telling aspects of "The Walking Dead" game, a passionate defense for "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey", and the inherent dangers of both basketball players and their dreaded "Chaos Dunk". We also talk about the pros and cons of Dark Souls, the trials and tribulations of Max Payne, and the deep dark place that Spec Ops: The Line will take your psyche. Also, we shit on the Wii U launch for a while, but I feel like everyone's been doing that lately.

Beer of the Week: Rogue Brewing Chiptole Ale and Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon Ale

This week the HUG boys try and fail to maintain their class and civility, while discussing topics such as the clusterfuck that is Halo 4 offline splitscreen, the relationship between screen-peeking and class warfare, how the world desperately needs a return of "Battlebots". We also discuss the insanity that is ARMA 2, Track IR, James Bond homo-eroticism, and our belief that South Korea is weaponizing the music industry. And maybe, if you're lucky, we talk about video games that let you shoot Hitler's testicles. All this and more on this week's episode of Hopped-Up Gaming!

Beer of the Week: Bridge Brewing Company's North Shore Pale Ale

The top scientific minds behind Hopped-Up Gaming bring what may be their greatest advancement to date: the creation and live taste-testing of Faux Loko, our own off-brand Energy Drink Malt Liquor! While performing this service for you, the listener, we also dig deep into the heart of a number of other important topics, including Canadian hospital extortion rackets, Halo 4 and its relation to internet feminism, the best music to shoot terrorists to, and whether the proper pronounciation is "i-O-S" or "Eye-Os". We also discuss our hatred for Angry Birds, our love for Saturday Morning RPG, what happens when you combine the "Bang Bus" with mythological creatures, and Norris' break-up with Assassin's Creed 3. All this and more on Hopped-Up Gaming!

Drink of the Week: Homemade Four Loko

The Hopped-Up Gamers with special guest and wrestling expert Chris Westaway go guerilla this week, discussing such video game topics as which first lady had the strongest arms, some intense Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson trivia, race politics in the WWE, who between history's tank man and Bradley Manning would be a better Halo player, everyone's favourite apocalypse scenario, checking our privilege in video games, whether or not we'd want to be get left behind after the rapture...look,this is what happens when we haven't played any video games in a week. Just roll with it. We also discuss videogame violence in some detail.

Beer of the Week: Holsten Maibock Blonde

The HUG boys are getting in the revolutionary spirit this week, with the discussion of such groundbreaking topics as the etymology behind the term "Whipits", invoking the right of Prima Nocta in Crusader Kings 2, the deeper meaning behind Hotline Miami's psychadelic grime, being eaten alive in Natural Selection 2, and building up your mercantile empire in Assassin's Creed 3. We also discuss in some detail the world of video game piracy, and our beliefs on the future of digital distribution.

Beer of the Week: Whistler Brewing Co.'s Black Tusk Ale

With a cry of podcast free or die the full HUG team celebrate Halloween the only way they know how - good beer and scary video games. In this episode the crew talks about the relationship between Silent Hill characters and genitalia, how Die Hard's the greatest Christmas film ever made, why RuPaul's Drag Race is the best Reality show ever made, and enough Crusader Kings 2 atrocities to make even the most ardent opponent to the Geneva Convention cry. We also talk about some of the scariest video games we've been playing, as well as discuss what truly makes a terrifying video game.

Beer of the Week: Black Sunshine Blackberry Weizen by Coal Harbour Brewing

Get your body thetans in order, because in this week's episode the gentlemen discuss such important matters as their chest hair, John Woo Halo hangouts, what would happen if Emery were given control of the state of Texas, and the decorative use of severed heads in Dishonored. We also talk about Heavy Rain, the Walking Dead, dogs dressed as the cast of Jersey Shore, and game's we would consider in our minds "perfect".

Beer of the Week: Parallel 49's Schadenfreude Pumpkin Ocktoberfest

This week the HUG crew clear away their forties, put on their nerd goggles, and get into some real game talk. With pinch-hitter Dave Alexander taking over for one sick Emery, the team discusses the whimsical hug that is Granville Island Winter Ale, the demonic hugs given in The Darkness 2, and the hugs you wouldn't want to receive in The Walking Dead, As well as getting straight-up crotchety by discussing what we think is wrong in the video game industry today.

Beer of the Week: Granville Island Winter Ale

The HUG crew wild out this episode, with the discussion of such important topics as the variable quality of malt liquor, sim prisons, anime video games that may or may not have anything to do with Dragon Ball Z, the Kantian ideal of sushi, the Vancouver Film Festival, and our opinions on the current state of Kickstarter. Plus more FTL talk than you can shake a stick at.

Beer of the Week: a forty of Colt 45 each

Our power levels get inscrutable this week, as the hopped-up gaming crew discuss their opinions of Mexican beer, Fallout New Vegas DLC, FTL, metaphorical anatomy within indie games, the difference between low fantasy and hard sci-fi, and our opinions towards free-to-play gaming. Oh, and something called "Mongol Faces", but we're not supposed to talk about that

Beer of the Week: Cerveza Pacífico Clara