Pop in with your hosts, Cal and Mike, to dive into this week's news including a the ghoulish Sonic getting a redesign, Kanye West's alternate reality, big publishers not interested in little games, E3 transforming, the Valve Index, a Left 4 Dead 3 rumor, keeping the crunch convo going and Randy Pitchford's meltdown.

Then After Dark, where we talk about what we've been reading watching and playing: we talk Avengers Endgame. Beware as it's full spoiler time.
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TIME STAMPS

02:01 - Sonic Design Backlash
17:40 - Kanye West alternate reality show
22:34 - Child of Light 2 not happening
27:09 - Transforming E3
31:33 - Valve Index VR & Left 4 Dead?
36:22 - Riot Games and Netherealm employee conditions/crunch
38:42 - Gearbox CEO twitter meltdown

After Dark

48:02 Avengers Endgame Review SPOILERS
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Sonic's Design Backlash, Avengers Endgame Review & Kanye's New Show - Episode 177

The Popcast is a podcast where two artists, Cal Gee and Mike Kent, talk about the art and news of video games, comics and movies that week. 

A weekly show released by Pens & Pixels, a concept art and illustration collective.

Leisure

Pop in once again with your hosts, Cal and Mike, to go over the week in Newsy News including Hayao Miyazaki's return, Vision's dick and just dick in general media, Mass Effect Legendary Edition's changes and removed DLC, Sony's slippery slope of patents and possible Silent Hill.

Then, After Dark, brief reviews of Promising Young Woman, Psycho Goreman and a swift takedown of the Winter Anime Season. 

We're physical distancing for the foreseeable future, so please excuse any audio issues
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TIME STAMPS

14:00 - Hayao Miyazaki is back
20:28 - Vision's dick
27:47 - Mass Effect legendary Edition changes
39:02 - Sony's newest VR patent
47:12 - RUMOR: Silent Hill is coming

After Dark

56:25 - Promising Young Woman
58:39 - Winter Anime Season
1:16:34 - Psycho Goreman
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Mass Effect Legendary Edition changes, another Silent Hill rumor + Winter Anime Season review

Pop in once again with your hosts, Cal and Mike, to go reach into that sticky sticky Question Bag and answer burning questions about strange video game habits, what our last meal would be, casting our favourite actors in games, grinding for disappointment and much more. 

We're physical distancing for the foreseeable future, so please excuse any audio issues
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TIME STAMPS

12:05 - Casting actors in your dream game
19:39 - Options menu tweaking
28:27 - Doing strange things in video games
40:07 - Grinding for items and getting disappointed
53:57 - Last meal?
1:05:28 - Gaming Accomplishments
1:16:25 - One mechanic or many?
1:20:46 - GAME TIME: Speedrun Guesses
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Question Bag: Last meals, Gaming Resumes & Speedrun guesses

Pop in once again with your hosts, Cal and Mike, to go over the week in Newsy News including Microsoft's Necromancy, Square-Enix's new Final Fantasy 7 trademarks, Ubisoft's new open-world Star Wars game, Resident Evil 4 Remake's internal restructuring and our fav boy Josef Fares going off on Xbox. 

Then, After Dark, spoilery takes on Yakuza Like a Dragon and Cyberpunk 2077. Plus brief thoughts on Donkey Kong Country 3, Carrion and Spider-Man Miles Morales. 

We're physical distancing for the foreseeable future, so please excuse any audio issues
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TIME STAMPS

10:54 - Microsoft dead people chat bot
17:15 - Square Enix FF7 trademarks
25:44- Ubisoft's Open World Star Wars
33:24 - Resident Evil 4 Remake restructuring
38:10 - Josef Fares goes off on Xbox

AFTER DARK

43:55 - Yakuza Like a Dragon (Post-Game Endgame spoilers)
53:34 - Donkey Kong Country 3
55:45 - Carrion
1:00:30 - Spider-Man Miles Morales 
1:02:49 - Cyberpunk 2077 (Spoilers)
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Resident Evil 4 Remake's overhauled plans, Ubisoft's Open World Star Wars + Cyberpunk 2077 Review

Just checking in to let you know that there's no episode this week, BUt we'll be back next week to talk about Indiana Jones games, what Mike wants out of an open-world Star Wars, some mysterious Square-Enix trademarks and whatever other wacky game industry shit happens next week. 

Anyways, see you next week, stay safe and keep on poppin 

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No Episode this week!

Last of our Best of 2020 is here to give out Movie awards, run down the 2021 movie release schedule and give our Pop Predictions for what's to come in the film landscape.

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TIME STAMPS

00:13 - Craziest Movie News
05:26 - Movies of the Year
33:08 - Upcoming 2021 Movie Releases
1:01:03 - Pop Predictions
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Sonic's Design Backlash, Avengers Endgame Review & Kanye's New Show - Episode 177

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