The Arcade

It's a jam-packed episode of The Arcade this week, so there's no time to waste! This week we take about a university in Japan creating a robot unbeatable at rock-paper-scissors; the commercial pitchman for Rock Band 4 hails from Winnipeg, MB; Nintendo names a new company president; Pokémon Go announced for mobile devices; LEGO Dimensions revealed its star-studded voice cast; and Sony announces the official, and very creative name for Project Morpheus. Our Blast From The Past segment this week covers everybody's two favourite topics, sex and violence, with the 1995 movie Showgirls, and the 2005 video game, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks. Continue reading →

Summer might unofficially be over, but that won't stop The Arcade from going full-steam ahead with this week's brand new episode! On tap this week, we discuss: scientists calculating how much food you need to walk to Mordor; PewDiePie reaching 10 billion views; Apple showing off a new Apple TV box with more gaming capabilities; Shigeru Miyamoto casually confirms that Pikmin 4 is far along in development; Press Play Studios announces the results of fan voting for their next project; and Bethesda gives the first details about Fallout 4 DLC. Our Blast From The Past segment is super-sized this week, with three entries! All three of them are classic 90's TV shows in their own right, which is why we have to talk about The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Pinky and the Brain, and the iconic Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Continue reading →

It's Labor Day weekend, so kick back and relax with an all-new episode of The Arcade! On this week's show, we discuss scientists in Scotland finding a way to make ice cream melt slower; Atari cartridges found in the Alamogordo landfill making over $100,000 on eBay; Sony announcing new colours of PlayStation Vita systems; Nintendo releasing bundles of the New Nintendo 3DS of Animal Crossing and Legend of Zelda; Amazon now acting as a digital storefront for Nintendo eShop purchases; 11bit Studios releasing an PS4 and Xbox 360 game that tells a story of war from a child's perspective; Capcom releasing package of HD remasters of Resident Evil and Resident Evil 0 in 2016. In our Blast From The Past segment this week isthe Judas Priest album, Painkiller, and the very 90's syndicated TV series, Xena: Warrior Princess. Continue reading →

On this freshly baked episode of The Arcade, we talk about: a Dutch nightclub plans on having an actual blood rave this Halloween; a new patent filing may give us an idea about the Nintendo NX; Nintendo announces their release schedule through the end of this year; Pokkén Tournament will be hitting Wii U systems worldwide in 2016; Minecraft: Story Mode will release for the Wii U; Shovel Knight announced as being the first, third-party amiibo figure; and Turok and Turok 2 are getting remastered for the PC. Our Blast From The Past segment this week contains Killer Instinct (circa 1995), and BattleBots (circa 2000). Continue reading →

Welcome back for another episode of The Arcade! On this week's program, we'll discuss: architects starting an IndieGogo page to try and fund their plans for an actual, real-world Minas Tirith from the Lord of the Rings; a Chinese company is seeking crowdfunding for their new game console that manages to rip-off the OUYA, PS4, and Xbox One all at the same time; a new crowdfunding site is launched for video games that aims to make funders into investors; Gearbox and 3D Realms/Interceptor have agreed to settle their lawsuit over who actually owns Duke Nukem; Sony is bringing back the PlayStation Experience for 2015, and moving it to San Francisco; Microsoft seeking fan votes on which project one of its studios should develop next; the Goosebumps books are getting turned into a point-and-click adventure game. In our Blast From The Past segment this week, we'll talk about The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Chrono Trigger. Continue reading →

On this week's all-new episode of The Arcade, we talk about: scientists building a robot capable of making its own offspring and evolving them; Fallout 4 footage leaked from Gamescom onto PornHub; Blizzard announcing the next WoW expansion, World of Warcraft: Legion; Capcom announces an HD remake of Resident Evil 2; Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff adding Snoop Dogg, Deadmau5, Weird Al and Rick Astley in September; a portable Steam machine gets a fall release date; Motörhead announced as the theme for next expansion in Victor Vran; a mobile game company pirates their own game to troll pirates. Our Blast From The Past segment this week has two items for you: the first is the Mortal Kombat movie, and the second is Chrono Cross for the PlayStation One. Continue reading →

Looks like we're posting the show a day earlier than normal again, but that just means you'll have more time to take in everything from this fully-loaded show! On the program this week, we discuss: a charity speedrun event raising over $1 million for charity; Bungie completely scrubbing Peter Dinklage from Destiny; Xbox One getting backwards compatibility in November; TV DVR functionality arrives for Xbox One in 2016; Quantum Break finally gets a release date; Seagate and Microsoft are teaming up to release an external Xbox hard drive; Halo 5: Guardians is getting its own console bundle; Keiji Inafune delays Mighty No. 9 from September until early 2016; Capcom releasing Mega Man Legacy Collection on Aug. 26; Nintendo releasing the next wave of amiibo figures on Sept. 11; Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes arrives on 3DS on Oct. 23; LEGO Marvel's Avengers hits consoles and everything else in January of 2016. Closing out the show is our Blast From The Past segment which has one movie and one album this week. The movie is Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, while the album is Weasels Ripped My Flesh from Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention. Continue reading →