The Arcade

With only two shows left before The Arcade's 9th annual Christmas Music Special, Mike and Dennis are jamming in as much to talk about as they possibly can. Ready to go for this week's show, they discuss: a new Rambo TV series being in development at Fox; a working video phone is made in Minecraft; the creator's of Dragon's Lair cancel their Kickstarter campaign for a Dragon's Lair movie; Blizzard increases the prize pool for 2016 Hearthstone World Championships to $1 Million; Sony expands Remote Play to now be available for PC and Mac; Mario Kart 8 gets its own eSports special on Disney XD; and LittleBigPlanet 3 is getting a bunch of Doctor Who costumes. Our Blast From The Past segment this week focuses on the uncanny occurrence of two great albums by two legendary bands being released at the same time. On the very same day in 1965, The Beatles released their sixth studio album, Rubber Soul while The Who released their debut album, My Generation. Continue reading →

It's our final show for November, and we'll close out the month by talking about: Desert Bus for Hope raising over $675k for Child's Play by playing one of the most boring games ever created; Scientists at Tufts University get a worm to grow a new, completely different head; Sony announces PS2 emulation will come to the PS4; Futurama is set to live on as a mobile game; 3D Realms delays Bombshell until Jan. 2016; Nintendo opens up a brand-new store… on eBay; and the Wii U Gamepad will be sold by itself in Japan. Our Blast From The Past segment this is home to three items. The first two items are TV shows from the heyday of Disney cartoons in the 90's, they are DuckTales and Aladdin. Our third item is a movie that showed the world what happened when a simple boxer from Philadelphia took on communism in Rocky IV. Continue reading →

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future, which means that it's time for a new episode of The Arcade! Lined up this week, Mike and Dennis discuss a diamond-studded Master Chief helmet selling for charity; Pornhub blaming Fallout 4 for a dip in their site traffic; a recap of the most recent Nintendo Direct event; nominees being announced for the 2015 Game Awards; and Minecraft announces a partnership with Code.org. Our Blast From The Past segment this week has two big pieces of entertainment from 1995. First up is the sequel to one of the biggest Super Nintendo games of all-time, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. Following that is the biggest movie from 1995 which made Pixar a household name and has become a touchstone for an entire generation; Toy Story. Continue reading →

Mike and Dennis are back with you for another brand-new episode of The Arcade! This week, they discuss Twitch becoming the home of Monday Night Bob Ross; Cloud strife coming to Super Smash Bros.; Blizzard creating a character for Heroes Of The Storm that requires two players to use; Activision making plans for a Skylanders animated TV series, and Call of Duty movies; the first batch of Steam Machines being released; the Kickstarter for a new Friday the 13th video game reaching its funding goal; and Geoff Keighley bringing The Game Awards back for a second year. In our Blast From The Past segment this week, they layer on the all the early 90's nostalgia you can handle. First up is that staple of after-school TV watching, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, which is followed by an absolute class of that era which has become a must watch movie every holiday season, Home Alone. Continue reading →

We're kicking off the homestretch of 2015 by getting back to business as usual, after having some special episodes over the past few weeks. On this week's show, we get back up to speed by talking about Activision spending almost $6 Billion to purchase the maker of Candy Crush; Nintendo releasing the first details on their debut mobile effort and new account system; China topping the USA to become the world's largest market for video games; a Kickstarter launching to fund a new video game based on Friday the 13th; and No Man's Sky is getting a release window of June 2016. In our Blast From The Past segment this week, we talk about one of the best cartoons from the 2000's which flew under most people's radar, The Boondocks. We'll also talk about the game that launched the music game genre and caused us to buy those damn plastic instruments, Guitar Hero. Continue reading →

Happy Halloween boils and ghouls! It's time for us here at The Arcade to celebrate the season of ghosts, goblins, and candy by shelving the video game talk for one week to bring you a hearty helping of Halloween-appropriate songs on our annual Halloween Music Special! Despite what commercial radio would have you believe, there are more Halloween songs out there than Thriller and the Monster Mash, and we've brought some of them together on this year's show. Our playlist ranges all the way from Elvira to King Diamond, remixes of 90's kids TV show themes to German power metal about a Stephen King novel, and from Broadway musicals to the Great Old One, Cthulhu! So tune in and let us be your soundtrack for this scary season. Continue reading →

Friends, we're using this week's show to celebrate an important milestone in the history of modern video gaming: the 30th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System releasing in North America! To celebrate, we interviewed some really smart people to discuss the NES, its history, and some interesting information you might not have known about the machine itself. Jeff Ryan, author of Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, (which is available for purchase here), discussed the legacy of the NES and Super Mario Bros. Blake J. Harris, author of Console Wars, spoke with us about Nintendo of America and the people involved with helping to bring the console to North American homes in 1985. Nathan Altice, author of I AM ERROR, (which is available for purchase here), shed some light about the actual hardware of the NES, and what went in to making it work. In our Blast From The Past segment this week, we talk about some of the NES games that are still memorable to us. Continue reading →

With some special shows planned throughout October, this is our last "business as usual" episode for the month. Naturally, that means we have a lot to get to! We'll talk about some hilariously unnecessary cross-branding efforts in Cthulu Monopoly and a KFC/DC Comics comic book; a game fully-funded on Kickstarter that's managed to run out of money; Ubisoft announcing a new entry in the Far Cry series; Microsoft announcing a slew of different Xbox One bundles for the holidays; Nintendo giving a release date for Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival on the Wii U; and RollerCoaster Tycoon getting a new release date. In our Blast From The Past segment, we'll talk about Mortal Kombat 3 on the PlayStation, as well as the television institution that is Saturday Night Live. Continue reading →

We didn't just walk into October, we busted down its door with this fully-charged new episode! On tap for you this week, we talk about The Pokémon Co. selling merchandise in Japan of Pokémon butts; TBS announcing plans to add a weekly eSports competition show to its lineup; FanDuel quickly follows in the shoes of DraftKings by getting in on the daily fantasy eSports action; Keiji Inafune and Comcept give a new release date for Mighty No. 9; Nintendo announces a replacement for Star Fox Zero, Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash; Microsoft decides to make Project Spark totally free, planned Conker DLC gets cancelled; Telltale Games announces plans to release Back to the Future: The Game on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. This week, our Blast From The Past segment is overflowing with all kinds of awesomeness because it has both the movie Commando, AND Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. Continue reading →

We're ending the month of September on a high-note with this all-new episode of The Arcade! On tap for you this week, we tell you about: DARPA developing a prosthetic limb that gave a paralyzed man the sensation of touch; a rare Sonic the Hedgehog arcade game is discovered in Japan and dumped online; Konami is reportedly ending production of triple-a console games; Nintendo delays Star Fox Zero until early 2016; fantasy betting site Draft Kings adds eSports to its roster of wagering offerings; System Shock gets an updated re-release on its 21st anniversary; pre-ordering Rock Band 4 will get you "Weird Al" Yankovic and BABYMETAL songs. Our Blast From The Past segment this week takes all the way from the stone-age to the edge of the known 'verse. First up is the classic animated TV series from the 1960's, The Flintstones, and after that, we have the cinematic conclusion to Joss Whedon's cult TV series in Serenity. Continue reading →