Pens & Pixels Popcast

Aaand in rolls the Best Movies and TV shows of the year! Your hosts, Cal and Mike, go over the best and worst of 2016 in film.

SPOILER WARNING for any of the movies we bring up. Everything is fair game, so tread carefully and get ready to fast forward if you hear a movie brought up you don't want spoiled.

Then after the break (01:12:34) there's a brief of the best Television in 2016 and then they look ahead to 2017 and see what the most anticipated movies are of next year. ​

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

It's Game of the Year time folks and your hosts, Cal and Mike, list their favorite games of the year. There are some odd ones in there, so get ready for some against the grain choices.

Be warned, there are SPOILERS for all the games we bring up. Tread carefully when you hear a name of a game you don't want spoiled.

Then, after the break (41:53) they choose the most interesting looking 2017 game titles they're looking forward to. 2017 is shaping up to be a pretty crazy year for gaming, we touch on Death's Gambit, Mass Effect Andromeda, Persona 5, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and much more.

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

This week on the Popcast we go over new talks for Neil Blomkamp's Alien sequel, Amy Schumer as Barbie, new Resident Evil 7 info, finding out who Obi-Wan really is, Final Fantasy XV sales, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 and rumors of a Damian Wayne lead Batman game.

Then after the break (48:15)we go over all the Game Awards and PSX bets PLUS the reveals of some huge hitters like Last of Us Part 2, Death Stranding's Mad Mikkelsen and Marvel VS Capcom Infinite.

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

With Final Fantasy XV finally here, your hosts Cal and Mike, go over their initial impressions of the long awaited game. They hash out their likes and dislikes with very light spoilers up until Chapter 4.

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

After a week long absence we're back to invade your ear drums with some hot Newsy News (9:23) including, the Watch Dogs 2 Vagina Fiasco, The Walking Dead's stumbling ratings, the potential Dune movie, the merits of Galactic Space Councils, Weaponized Pinocchios, X-Men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe being an impossibility, and Ubisoft's new "less storytelling" direction.

Then after the break (58:54) we go over The Game Awards 2016's nominees and predict who will win and what we'd personally cast our vote for.

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

​In the Newsy News this week we have Young Justice Season 3, Jason Momoa thinking he was going to play Lobo, Spiderman's child friendly lack of punching in Homecoming, X-Men's maybe kind of reboot, Shane Black's newest Predator denials, Pacific Rim Maelstrom, Final Fantasy 16 and X-3 tidbits (You read that right!)

Then after the break ( 51:45 ) we have a big ol' info dump of Mass Effect Andromeda news that was collected from various sources that were not covered in the trailer. We cover which races you'll see again, the lack of a Paragon/Renegade system, how the new class system works, the new combat mechanics and miscellaneous story bits.

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

It's the Popcast's 50th episode! And with that comes a heavy helping of Newsy News with a Wonder Woman trailer breakdown, Olivia Munn's role in the next Predator, our first run in with weird fan-art, rumblings of Hunter X Hunter's return, Mass Effect N7 Day speculation, Stranger Things, and much more.

Then (50:45) with Playstation Experience 2016 only a month away we make some predictions on what announcements they could make. And some of our unreasonable hopes and dreams. Devil May Cry 5 will live.

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

The boys have seen Dr, Strange and ramble about it's highs, lows and it's place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They go on to speculate about the timeline and how Stephen Strange may impact other MCU movies.

This Popcast is full on SPOILERS so don't listen until you've seen the movie.

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

​Happy Halloween Boils and Ghouls! In this spooktacular Halloween Popcast the boys go over the best scares both film and video game related they've experienced. There's some classic jumpscares, some unconventional creeps and misremembered moments.

SPOILER WARNING for any movie/game we bring up. This includes The Exorcist, Friday the 13th, Insidious, The Conjuring, Alien, Sinister, Resident Evil series, Silent Hill series, Dead Space, Until Dawn and probably a few more. Tread carefully when you hear a movie brought up you don't want spoiled!

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​

This week the boys jump headfirst into the biggest newsy news stories like the reveal of the Nintendo Switch, Red Dead Redemption 2, Jurassic World's sequel comparison, and Marvel's reluctance to crossover Netflix with the MCU.

Then after the break we ramp up the spookiness and delve into our favourite monster designs. We have another Donkey Kong Country 2 situation on our hands folks.

Questions? Comments? Something you'd like us to touch on?

Email us at [email protected]

Tell us what you think in the comments! Or if you're on iTunes why not drop us a rating? We'd super appreciate it.

Find Pens&Pixels: www.pensandpixels.ca

Find Cal at: www.twitter.com/thecalgee

Find Mike at: www.twitter.com/mikekentdraws​​