A slightly shorter show this week but it’s still a good one! We’re joined by Brazilian Concept Artist for games and media Michele Cavaloti. She shares her struggles to success coming from a poor family, moving to Portugal to study, trying to find a job in a male dominated industry and now kicking butt for projects like The Angry Birds Movie! We talk about women in games, concept art, ice cream, gorillas, and much more! Can Michele avoid getting crushed by barrels against our boss of the week, DONKEY KONG?

Shxx happens is putting it lightly….Ummm yeah…we lost a recording….WOW, that sucks! Oh well, the show must go on, so we’re going to do it again! As Jon so eloquently put it, “We can’t go down like that!” Back to it: 35 Years of Donkey Kong! Nintendo NX going to cartridges?! Uncharted 4 is finally here too, but we’re not talking about it! No spoilers! Join us as we discuss many things such as the EA/Madden Curse, the all of fame of video games, the end of Disney Infinity and Donkey Kong’s 35 year anniversary! We’re celebrating with T-shirts! Grab yours at www.teespring.com/DonkeyKong. Our guest this week is Sidney Fernandez, indie game developer and CEO of Trike Girl Studios. Can Sid, flex his organic muscle against the organism hating Dr. Nefarious from Ratchet and Clank in the Boss Battle?

We love music and sound in video games. We’re joined this week by Akash Takkar, someone who knows a thing or two about the subject having recently done the sound for HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER! Akash is an accomplished video game composer/sound designer, public speaker, teacher and entrepreneur. Turns out he also likes the gym a lot too! We talk about xbox indie promotions, HYPER LIGHT DRIFTER, Madden, Lifting, getting swoll, the influence of music in games, square-enix and their new creative projects, health in the game industry,…did I mention the gym? Can Akash deadlift his way to a victory over the boss of the week: Mecha-Hitler?

The podcast isn’t young anymore and we’re in our 30’s! We welcome Boris Kondratenko as our featured guest this week all the way from the Ukraine. Boris is a freelance artist, graphic designer, UI/UX designer for video games and other media who has an amazing story of escaping the eastern Ukraine a couple of years ago during the terrorist take-over. We discuss his art, the Nintendo NX official launch date, Zelda pushed to 2017, Hearthstone, eating cow faces, boiled pig fat, Madden, 8-bit Armies RTS games, and Uncharted. Can Boris outrun the bosses of the week – Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde the Ghosts from Pac-Man?

Ted is back! Yes he was in Indonesia for 2 weeks island hopping, playing with Komodo dragons, not showering for days, and also frequenting luxury resorts?! Whoa…Well the gang is back together and we are excited for a fun episode and to get things on track. We introduce a couple of new segments that we will be doing, “Disabled Gamers and Accessible Gaming” and “The Sounds of Gaming”. Both fun ways to keep you (and us) entertained for the 2 hours we blab. We also discuss Rocket League hoops, PlayStation NEO, the future of game development, our favorite fast food, RIP Prince, Xbox 360 stopping production, will PS5 happen and a triumphant return to the energy drink topic. Enjoy!

Ok, we said we are back on schedule but Ted had to take a trip to Indonesia randomly! With ipad, iphone, and Gameboy loaded and ready to rock, I’m sure he’ll be back with some stories of the massive amounts of games he played on the 24 hours worth of transit time each way! In the meantime, enjoy the rebroadcast of Episode 16 – “The Ikea Retro Room” featuring our guest hailing from Sweden, Heidi! She is a master retro game collector with the most amazing collection we’ve ever seen!

Hey Hey! We’re back in the studio with regularly scheduling programming and a guest, Johnathan Aloni, expert in video game law! Johnathan brings years of experience in the table-top gaming industry and currently teaches game design students how to legally protect their games. Join us on this judicially focused episode as we tackle the official release of the second big player in VR, the HTC vive, Atari games, table top gaming, Lara Croft Go, Sony helping disabled gamers, Oculus shipping woes, is “Xbox One.5” really happening, esports and more! Can Johnathan hold court against the boss of the week, Death Adder from Golden Axe?

So our regular scheduled shows with guests have been off… I have been on the road in London for business and then yesterday, March 31st was my birthday so there was a little hiatus! Next week we’ll be back to our normal show schedule with new guests, boss battles, weird antics, emails, and more great stuff (debatable haha). For this week’s show we will be giving you arebroadcast of Episode 8 (one of my favorites), our Thanksgiving episode last year with guest Chase Bethea titled – “TURKEY DAY SPREADSHEETS”. Enjoy!

A little different episode this week! No guest, but Jon and Ted are in the house together as always with weekly shenanigans. This week we discuss the PlayStation 4.5, Ted get’s quizzed on NES sound tracks, we do a Ted’s Top List, all leading up to our discussion of “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline. There will be spoilers!

“GET OVER HERE!”…and listen to this episode with guest Housam Cherif aka “Mitsuownes” professional Mortal Kombat gamer and one of the top Scorpion players in the world! Hailing all the way from Germany he talks to us about MKX and the professional fighting game community! A lot is going on this week with GDC and the works! We discuss topics such as, Microsoft’s new cross network play feature, Rocket League basketball, Start Citizen (as usual), PlayStation VR price and release date announcement, AMD’s new VR headset, Maria Sharipova, fighting games, Mortal Kombat, Lupe Fiasco vs. Daigo and more! Can Mitsuownes perform a fatality and win in his show down against King Pig in this week’s Boss Battle?