The Pitch

Links:

• Ex-Men | Little Big Bangs
• Duckstream 2017: Days of Future Cast Live - YouTube — You can watch this instead of listening if you want to see all of our beautiful faces

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Year of the Dog celebrations, Prey, and we ask you how you name your characters in games.

• Overwatch does some year of the dog celebrations.
• Konami explains the MGS V disarmament bug.
• Dab on ‘em Haterz is a game about bad YouTube comments.
• Twitch has added new chat channels for channels who chat.
• New loot box laws in are falling into place.

• How do you choose names for your in-game characters?

• Kole: Prey. Alan Wake.
• Ben: The Witness. Subnautica.
• Dennis: Knack. Desert Golfing.
• David: Monster Hunter: World. Destiny 2.

Mech month was a lot of fun, and you turned out in force to share your thoughts about these games.

Next month we're covering Ikaruga, Jamestown, The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone, and the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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Behold the Mario 64 that might have been. Argonaut was on top of the world, doing 3D programming for Nintendo. When they cooked up a prototype 3D Yoshi game in their spare time, Nintendo was intrigued... but they passed. So the two organizations went their separate ways. That prototype became Croc, while Nintendo went on to make Mario 64. Are these things related? I don't know, let's just talk about pubes.

What happened during Roland's return to Gilead from Mejis, and how exactly did Gilead fall? Murph joins me to talk about two story arcs from the Dark Tower comics: The Long Road Home and Treachery. These give us a little more time in Gilead that was before it falls, and show us some of the cosmic implications of Roland's quest.

It's a spooky and funny, fun and fast platformer from a series that is notably bad.

This penny is swallowed, and these undead are Hollowed!