Episode 40: The full-time fortieth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight we have the return of celebrity DM and Wizards of the Coast Organized Play leader Greg Marks aka Skerrit the Green aka Green Mario. He's here to tell us about Gen Con 2016. He was there as a celebrity DM for D&D Adventurers League. (If you want to follow him on Twitter: Follow @Skerrit7h3green) The D&D Organized Play is run at Gen Con by Baldman Games, and Greg was recruited to run 8 adventures! Our discussion touches on the new game slot schedule, the impressive number of adventures being run at the Con, how he didn't make it to play Pathfinder with the Paizo folks, how he's excited for the Star Trek RPG, cosplay, Gen Con attendance, Robo Rally and so much more. (He also brags about his many podcast guest spots, like on the Down with D&D Podcast...) Greg has a lot of stuff going on right now: Greg is celebrating the release of two new books he worked on from Kobold Press, The Book of Lairs and the Tome of Beasts.Greg is doing his celebrity DM thing at Dan's Con of the Vale, October 21 - 23 at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel. And at Stuffed COWS 15 November 25-27 at the College of DuPage (near Chicago). And at Gamehole Con November 4th - 6th, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. Who names these things??? And at Queen City Conquest Sep 9 - Sep 11, 2016, at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. Green Mario also recommends this Comic about IV's by Maphrox, despite the fact he's not playing! You can use an IV calculator such as this one from Poke Assistant to figure out your Pokemon's IVs in Pokemon GO! Events! This weekend is Boston Comic Con! August 12th - 14th, Seaport World Trade Center. William Shatner is going to be there! Friday is Family Friday with special kid focused events, including a Mini Putt Golf and Bean Bag Toss with Yoshi and Pikachu, happening 12-4 pm. Meet and Greet! Win Prizes! There's full game demos of Metroid Prime: Federation Force, today, Friday, from 4-7 pm at select GameStops, including Leominster, MA and Concord, NH. If you make it up to Concord, you can hang out with Matt, one of the New England Nintendo reps! TempleCon 16 is happening August 25-28, in Warwick, Rhode Island. Miz Sylver and the Wolf Doctor will be attending and running the Get Super Smashed Bros. Doubles tournament, and Miz Sylver will be DM'ing two D&D events! Tacticon Colorado is happening September 1st - 4th at the Hotel Elegante Conference and Event Center, Colorado Springs, CO. Friend of the Podcast Mayhem's Muse organizes the con and invited Miz Sylver to attend as a special guest! Her event schedule will be posted soon! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Did you see Green Mario at Gen Con? Are you living it up at Boston Comic Con? Wanna Get Super Smashed Bros. with us at TempleCon? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 47: The fabulous forty-seventh episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight, we have a special guest, Junae Benne aka the Natural Hair Gamer! Before we chat with her, we chat a little news! The Wolf Doctor attended Player 1/Player 2 at Laugh Boston last Tuesday! Friend of the Podcast the amazing Jonathan Holmes co-hosts the show. The next session is Tuesday October 11th. The episodes are streamed live on the OfficialAGE Twitch stream. Episode 1 featured Ichiro Lambe of Dejobaan Games! This coming Thursday, October 6th, Chris Chung will be giving a talk to the Boston Unity Group hosted by Akamai in Cambridge, MA. Chris is the creator of Catlateral Damage and will be a guest on an upcoming episode, keep your (cat) ears open for that! Some more news bits and bytes: May's Pokemon of the Month Darkrai is back for Pokemon X, Y, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire. October's Pokemon of the Month is Keldeo! There are new Pokemon 3DS home screen themes available for Team Rocket and Team Galactic! Other new 3DS homescreen themes are available now, including a free Sonic theme in honor of the 25th anniversary of Sonic. Also, Yo-Kai Watch 2 themes for 3DS featuring Komasan, Komajiro, and Robonyan in honor of the release of the game. This weekend (September 30 - October 2) is a Street Pass Weekend also in honor of the game! If you visit a Nintendo Zone you may get a code for a 5 star coin for the Crank-a-Kai! This week's special guest is Junae Benne. She met Miz Sylver while they were both working at the Nintendo Play Summer tour! Junae is a game journalist for Girl Gamer Vogue, Game Skinny, and Black Girl Nerds. She runs Gaming Dojo, a gaming lounge event, and Game On Afterschool, which is a program to teach kids to code through games. Right now she is running a Patreon to help purchase new recording equipment, travel to conventions and tournaments as a journalist to cover the events and increase representation at events like this for women and gamers of color, to help launch her Curls + Controllers subscription box for women of color who are also nerds. Find Junae on Twitter Follow @junaebenne, Facebook, Tumblr, Patreon, Twitch Check her out on YouTube! We hope you enjoyed our chat with Junae! Hit her up on Twitter, you'll be in good company with Ava DuVernay! Join up online with The Gaming Dojo! Follow on FaceBook, Instagram, and Twitter Follow @GamingDojoCO Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Do you have any questions for our awesome guest Junae Benne? Will you try out her new Curls + Controllers subscription box? Do you share our love of Charmander? Do you think Yo-Kai is kinda creepy? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 41: the fascinating forty-first episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! This week we learn the meaning of the word "melange"! The Wolf Doctor played the mysteriously appearing demo of Disney Art Academy on 3DS. The game came out for North America in May, but they are pushing it on the Nintendo eShop right now. Did it appear on your homescreen too? We talk about Pokemon Uranium and the game takedown. The Wolf Doctor has watched a lot of gameplay videos, but neither of our heroes has managed to play yet. Speaking of gameplay videos, The Wolf Doctor watched the new Final Fantasy XV new footage gameplay hour, released to sooth the masses angered by the delay of the game until late November. Miz Sylver has been typing in her pre-order info to enter the Carbuncle Surprise sweepstakes, which has all kinds of small prizes including digital goodies as well as big top prizes. Anyway, check out the gameplay video after the podcast if you want to make fun of the character names with us. And speaking of FFXV disappointment, Kingsglaive the Final Fantasy XV Movie is showing in theaters tonight, just not anywhere even kinda near Boston. But you should check if it's playing near you! More news and bits: Miz Sylver wants to remind all SMITE players that there are all kinds of events going on online. The Great Games are still going on, but there's also more events going on in honor of Gamescon. All gods are free to play during the Gamescon week (the 16th through the 21st), and the 3 first wins of the day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday gets you a free Enigma Chest! Miz Sylver is working at the Boston leg of the Play Nintendo Tour, August 19-21 at the South Shore Plaza. Meet and greet with Luigi & Jibanyan on Saturday, Mario & Pikachu on Sunday from 11 am - 5 pm. Check out an excellent edited video of last weekend at Roosevelt Field’s North Court in Garden City NY by KirbyGCN17 after the podcast and the FFXV gameplay. The 2016 Pokémon World Championships are happening in San Francisco this weekend starting August 19th. You can check out live coverage if you can't make it in person! GameStop is hosting events to celebrate, so stop by select GameStop stores to compete against other Pokémon fans in Pokémon Omega Ruby or Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. The first 50 people at each event on Saturday, August 20th from 12:00pm – 3:00pm will receive a set of Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon art cards while supplies last. And also don’t forget to pre-order your copies of Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon. In the Boston area, the Leominster store is hosting one of these events, or if you are one of Miz Sylver's Wisconsin friends (and want to spare her poor mom from having to go get the art cards for her), you can go to the GameStop at 7420 W Holmes Ave in Greenfield, WI or the one at 8118 Mineral Point Rd. in Madison, WI. Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Are you playing Pokemon Uranium? Are you upset about the delay of FFXV? Does Prompto sound like the name of a Mega Man villain to you? Is your other ride a Bahamut? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 46: the foolish forty-sixth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. Today we rant and rave about the Pokemon GO Plus. Miz Sylver's is here, and the Wolf Doctor's is on the way! We also talk more about the Pokemon Go buddy system. Both are voted improvements to the game. Nintendo is having its 127th anniversary this week! The Smite Odyssey is happening now! The 2017 Odyssey is the third incarnation of this event, where you complete quests and collect items to win Odyssey points that you can use on exclusive items. The top prize is the Demon Anubis skin, which the players got to vote on! One of the early events of the Odyssey is Xing Tian's Mountain, a charity event featuring a player versus environment game mode, which is apparently quite difficult! Miz Sylver is hosting for Super League again this fall, which is a gaming event where you can go play Minecraft in a movie theater! The four week fall league Metropolis Madness starts as early as October 18th. There are still some one day events before the league starts! Use Miz Sylver's code ACTION9 when you register to get a DISCOUNT! Listeners, we encourage you to enter the Explorers Wanted contest. BioWare is offering fans the chance to voice a character in the newest Mass Effect game. You record yourself performing one of two provided scripts, upload to the web, and email the link to BioWare. You have until 6:59 AM GMT on September 28th. If you want to share your take with us, please, leave a comment here with the link, too! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Are you still waiting for your Pokemon Go Plus? Do you want us to listen to your Mass Effect Explorers Wanted audition? Do you have a Demon Anubis in your life already? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 45: the fulfilling forty-fifth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast, starring Jonathan Holmes! The noted guy who writes about games for Destructoid! You can find him in the pages of Nintendo Force Magazine which you can get HERE! He's spoken to amazing game industry professionals in his recently retired Sup Holmes podcast, and this week he graces our podcast to discuss his path to writing about games, the inside scoop on Destructoid, and his secret favorite Pokemon. Check out Sup Holmes on YouTube! Or subscribe on iTunes. Follow @TronKnotts on Twitter! Hear his voice acting in Read Only Memories! Our conversation covers so many topics, from Tingle to Pinball Wizard, including a mention of his completely secret upcoming game, of which nothing is revealed. Did we mention that he created Constructoid? (Episode 1 is posted below the podcast.) And that you can see him hosting the new Game Over Boston event Player 1/Player 2 at Laugh Boston on September 27th. This is a busy man! After Jonathan flees our studio, we talk a few news items! Pokemon GO introduces the buddy system, update your game! In theory the Pokemon GO Plus came out on Friday, but we didn't get ours yet :( Miz Sylver is working at Super League this fall! She's working at the Showcase Cinema de Lux Revere location for the one day events on Tuesday Sept 27th and Saturday Oct 1st. The full Fall League at that location will be Wednesdays 4:30 pm - 6 pm, Oct. 19 - Nov. 9. Find locations near you! Katy Rogers of the Revere Journal wrote a nice article about Super League at this location On October 28th, a new New 3DS XL for Pokemon Sun and Moon comes out. It has Solgaleo and Lunala! Dragon Quest VII was just (re-)released for 3DS. The new YoKai Watch Season 2 YoKai Watch Model Zero Toy is now available! And, if you are going to see YoKai Watch: the Movie on October 15th, get there early to get an exclusive Yo-kai Medal for the hero of the movie, Hovernyan! This medal will only be available to those attending the screenings. This exclusive Hovernyan medal will work with Hasbro's new Yo-kai Watch Model Zero toy AND you can scan the QR code on the back of the medal into the YO-KAI WATCH 2 video games for Nintendo 3DS to unlock a special reward! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Do you have questions for Jonathan Holmes? Were you on the Real World: Road Rules in the 90's? Will we see you at Laugh Boston for Player 1/Player 2? Can you pronounce Solgaleo? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 44: the flowery forty-fourth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! This week your hosts are both in the same room together for the first episode in quite a while! First we talk a bit about the PAX West Omegathon finals, which featured Mario again! Mario is all over the place, now coming to your iPhone in a free-running game coming in December! They sneaked in a mention of some new Nintendo emoji, but the other big news from the Apple Stream event is that the Apple Watch is getting a Pokemon Go app! People are already talking about if this will be the killer app for the Apple Watch, or if the upcoming Pokemon GO Plus will take the lead! Miz Sylver is getting one when they come out on September 16th, even though the total functionality is not 100% clear yet... And speaking of Pokemon, more Sun and Moon footage is out, introducing the new Type, Null! And the Aether Foundation, led by the glamorous Lusamine. There's a lot of goodies that are going on right now. Besides being the Month of Victini, there's stuff going on in Monster Hunter, SMITE, and more! Monster Hunter Generation's free DLC for September includes a Star Fox inspired outfit for Felynes. This weekend is Free Overwatch Weekend for PS4 and XBox One. It's going on right now, ending September 12 at 4:00 p.m. PT (23:00 UTC). (That's 7pm for our East Coast peeps!) Camp Lazy Day is happening in Smite. Complete the three events to get a new Bacchus skin, which is a sort of America People-of-Walmart vibe! They've just announces the PlayStation Pro, a new updated version of the PS4, being released November 10, 2016 for $399. It supports 4K everything! Pre-orders from lots of different retailers are linked on the Sony site. YoKai Watch: the Movie is coming to select theaters Saturday, October 15 at 11:00 a.m. Movie event tickets on sale now at that site. In the Boston area, it's at the AMC Assembly Row 12 in Somerville, and the Showcase Cinema De Lux in Revere. Finally, Miz Sylver talks Tacticon. She had a great time hanging Mayhem's Muse. One of her favorite streamers at the Con was Eswoogi, who speed ran FFVII at the Con! Miz Sylver was one of the judges of the costume contest, along with Sam and Mae of Anatomy of Cosplay and Michael, a designer who works with Mayhem's Muse. Miz Sylver got in a lot of fun gaming. She was on RT_LoZelda's channel to play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, which we Let's Play'ed waaay back in Episode 4. She played a lot of Overwatch, and got to try out Overcooked! One new gaming idea she's excited for is the Board Gamers' League, which is a group where you record your score weekly on different board games to get ranked against other players to compete for prizes! There isn't a branch in the Boston area yet, but maybe our friends at the Compleat Strategist will start one! And don't forget, GenghisCon is being brought to us by the same team in the Denver area over President's Day weekend! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Did you go to a Con over Labor Day weekend? Are you gonna get a PS4 Pro? Did you get Barret on the date in FFVII? Are there spiders everywhere? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 43: The frightening forty-third episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. This is our first new episode on our new hosting solution! This is our Pre-PAX West episode, featuring an incredible interview with Lisa CherryAngel24 who was one of the Omeganauts for Pax East this past April. She was always a big fan of the Omegathon, and when her chance to be a player came she seized the day! She tells us about the process of becoming an Omeganaut, how she prepared for the contest, her hopes and fears, the perks like getting to go to media hour on the show floor, and her advice for future Omeganauts! If you are an Omeganaut and need a coach, or if you just want to ask her some questions about Omeganauting, you can email her at labmember004 at outlook dot com (you know the drill, substitute @ for "at" and . for "dot" and take away the spaces.) or hit her up on Facebook. She's ready to do a training montage with you! Meanwhile, Miz Sylver is at Tacticon Colorado. We talk about all sorts of awesome stuff, like September 1st's Nintendo Direct, shown below the podcast. So much good stuff was announced! New Zelda amiibo are coming soon, Yoshi's Wooly World and Super Mario Maker are coming to the 3DS, and there's going to be a new "premium" update to StreetPass Mii Plaza that will up the number of StreetPasses that you can collect from 10 to 100! September is the Month of Victini! And now there are cute Eevees at Build-a-Bear! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Do you want to be an Omeganaut? Do you have a Charizard hoodie made of real Charizard? Have you seen this crazy Rainbow Road song video (linked below the Nintendo Direct)? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');

Episode 42: the answer to life, the universe, and the PokeProblemsPodcast. This week, Tenku No Oni guest hosts with the Wolf Doctor. We (including Miz Sylver) are at TempleCon this weekend! It started on Thursday, and ends Sunday, August 28th. This afternoon, we are running the Get Super Smashed Bros. Doubles Tournament, starting at noon. There are awesome trophies for the winners! Tomorrow, Tenku No Oni is running a Heartstone Last Hero Standing Single Elimination starting at 10 am. (He has the fortitude to get up early!) Miz Sylver is running a D&D 5th Edition adventure Sunday afternoon that she wrote called the Temple of Fire & Ice, starting at 2pm. This is an adventure that uses pre-made characters, so you do not need lots of background to play. Both of these events still (as of writing) have slots available, and they try to squeeze in standby players, so if you are interested you should go. Templecon has day passes available as of this writing, so come on down! Miz Sylver is appearing at Tacticon Colorado! September 1st through 4th. Friend of the podcast Mayhem's Muse is one of the organizers. The September Pokemon of the Month is Victini! The new Pokemon GO update added a new feature to the Pokemon profile menu: between Favorite and Transfer, there is now an Appraise choice! Your team leader will appear and give you a rundown of how your Pokemon stacks up. Your leader will use several code phrases that are based on the Pokemon's IV's. We've talked about IV's before, they are essentially stat bumps that are different between individual specimens of a species of Pokemon. A Pokemon with higher IVs will have higher total stats at a given level and at maximum level. We mentioned IV calculators before, but the new Appraise feature is meant to substitute for external apps by giving you a hint at your Pokemon's IVs. Several websites have tabulated correlation between the phrases said by your team leader and your Pokemon's IVs. We discuss how we feel about this feature, which is "meh"? Listeners, I just want you know that we will be experiencing technical difficulties in the next few weeks, due to some issues with our hosting. We are working on a new solution to our hosting, but for the next few weeks expect some turmoil! We hope to have an episode up for you next week, but if one doesn't appear, don't send out a search party, we are probably just still figuring things out! Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Are you attending TempleCon? Have you found the new Appraise feature in Pokemon GO useful? Do you want to host our podcast? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know! Follow @pokemoncast Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');