The Pixel Podcast

The tale of two conventions! Matt, Ethan, Ricardo and Amber sit down to discuss the two events so big we had to take a week off of podcasting! We talk so much about Evo and Comic Con that we have to skip news a bit, but there’s still plenty of time for Trailer Trash! It’s the year of the Sonic, and we find out just who owns this Pokemon GO thing we’ve been hearing so much about.

Beer review: Pabst Old Tankard Ale

Con Talk:

EVO

Games We Played:

Ethan: Deformed, Battlefield 1, Monster Hunter: Generations, Titanfall 2

Ricardo: Monster Hunter: Generations, Pokemon GO, Street Fighter V

Matt: ReCORE, Below, VIDEOBALL

Amber: ReCORE, Below, Kentucky Route Zero Act IV

NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Investors do research, find out Nintendo isn’t sole owner of Pokemon GO, shares plummet

You won’t need a PS+ Subscription to play No Man’s Sky

Dude who threatened Blizzard has been indicted

TRAILER TRASH (a-hyuk):

Kojima Productions official logo trailer

Sonic Mania – 25th Anniversary Debut

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV trailer

Project Sonic 2017 Debut Trailer

Human: Fall Flat launch trailer

Haimrik announcement trailer

Quadrilateral Cowboy release trailer

Cook Serve Delicious 2 Reveal trailer

Matt, Ethan, Ricardo, and Amber are all chasing the dragon, by which we mean a rare Dragonite or Gyarados! It’s like the 90s all over again! Besides the inevitable Pokemon GO talk we also found some time to discuss the wonderful stories of Inside and…Street Fighter V?

Games we played:

Ethan: Pokemon GO

Ricardo: Pokemon GO, Street Fighter V (Story and Online)

Matt: Pokemon GO, Inside, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, HITMAN

Amber: Pokemon GO, Inside

POKEMON GO NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:

The Good: Nintendo’s stock rises with launch of Pokemon GO

The Bad: Niantic Labs gets full access to your Google account when you register

The Ugly: Girl finds dead body in river following Pokemon GO excursion

Battlefield television series greenlit by Paramount

Adam Boyes leaves Sony

Follow ups from last week:

SGDQ sets new record for charity

CSGO Lotto and its owners have been sued

Dumb News:

People are harassing a poor NJ pizzeria with calls about Five Nights at Freddy’s

TRAILER TRASH (a-hyuk):

Brawlout Reveal

Song of the Deep Launch Trailer

Blade Ballet Launch Date Announcement

The Girl and the Robot Launch Trailer

The Great Whale Road Steam Early Access Trailer

Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo decide to eat socially while recording this week’s podcast and stream to Twitch! In the meantime we talk some new Drawful, some cheatin’ Hitman, some competitive Overwatch, and some cooperative Total War! Plus an in-depth look into the shady underbelly of Counter Strike skins.

Games we played:

Ethan: HITMAN, Total War: Warhammer, Drawful 2, Legacy of the Beast, SFV story

Ricardo: Drawful 2, Heroes of the Storm

Matt: Drawful 2, Overwatch competitive

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

CSGO LOTTERY OH MY PLEASE READ

Cheating tool is getting sued by Blizzard for copyright infringement

Board game kickstarters raised six times as much as video games

EVO will be televised by ESPN2 (and pixel legends :3)

Twitch has Muk-Bang channel now

Trailer trash:

The Bunker

Pokemon Sun/Moon new Pokemon, please reveal

Tumblestone

Faeria Early Access

Furi Launch Trailer

We’re drinking cheap beers and making cheap jokes in this week’s episode! Ricardo’s been Witchin’, Ethan’s been Hittin’, and Matt hasn’t played anything new. Overwatch still finds a way to break into the podcast, and we go over some bad PR choices, some bad translation choices, and some bad accusations of cheating in this weeks news. Plus: a Trailer Trash segment with one of the most anticipated titles of the year: Mario and Sonic at the Rio Olympic Games.

Games we played:

Ethan: Total War: Warhammer, Eon Altar, Hitman

Ricardo: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Matt: More Total War: Warhammer and Overwatch

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

We love Overwatch and so does Korea

Oculus will no longer perform a hardware check

No Gamergate in Color Splash, but I bet there’s a reference to Watergate

Burnout makers are now just working on Star Wars instead of “Beyond Cars”

Mighty No. 9 game dev needs some PR training

SUPERCELL has been bought by Tencent as China continues to dominate everything

Trailer trash:

BERSERK

BALROG REVEAL

Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic games – Heroes Showdown

The Technomancer launch trailer

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Official Accolades Trailer

Touhou Genso Rondo — Bullet Ballet Official System Trailer

Amber joins Matt, Ethan and Ricardo for another revelation-filled episode of the Pixel Podcast! She’s been playing Overwatch (which we can’t talk about), Matt’s learning fantasy definitions, Ethan’s in a hurry to end this dumb podcast and go get food, and Ricardo has a revelation that will SHOCK you. Stay tuned!

Games we played:

Ethan: Total War: Warhammer, Resident Evil VII Demo

Ricardo: Hearthstone: Whispers of the Old Gods expansion

Matt: Total War: Warhammer (…Overwatch?)

Amber: Overwatch, tennis phone game

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Fallout 4 console mods now require a steam account

TWITCH HATES THEM CHAT BOTS

E3 has a lower attendance, but not by much

WARCRAFT IS DA MOST SUCCESSFUL VIDEO GAME MOVIE EVER

Unsurprisingly, Mass Effect Andromeda won’t acknowledge your ME3 ending

Trailer trash:

The greatest Hearthstone ad of all time

Paper Mario Color Splash E3

Yo-Kai Watch 2 E3

Mario Party Star Rush

The giant spectacular E3 episode is here! LIVE! Or it was live last night, now it’s just a recording, but still just as good! Apologies for the delay but we wanted to hear as much E3 news as possible before we recorded! Check out all our hot takes, including some thoughts on the Warcraft movie and some thoughts on our latest beers. PLUS you know all that news from E3!

Thoughts on the Warcraft film

The E3 EXTRAVAGANZA:

http://e3recap.com/ < check here for all details and trailers!

THE EA CONFERENCE

THE BETHESDA CONFERENCE

THE MICROSOFT CONFERENCE

THE AWKWARD PC CONFERENCE

THE UBISOFT CONFERENCE

THE PLAYSTATION CONFERENCE

WHATEVER NINTENDO’S THING WAS

MISC.

Matt, Ethan and Ricardo try with varying levels of success to steer the conversation away from Overwatch and talk about some of the other games they’ve been playing! Like…listen Overwatch is pretty good, OK? We check out the news with Ethan’s clickbait skills put to the test, Capcom bans, undelivered Kickstarters and Xbox One price cuts. Trailer Trash is actually pretty good this week, check out all those new trailers!

Games we played:

Ethan: Overwatch, SFV

Ricardo: Overwatch, SFV

Matt: Overwatch, Total War: Warhammer, DOOM

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

THIS 16-YEAR-OLD KID HAS HIS OWN GAME COMPANY HOW HE DID IT WILL SHOCK YOU

RIP Allison Road

Noel Brown gets the ban hammer from Capcom and EVO for sexual harassment

Too bad Capcom is slipping at their own game

Xbox One price cut

Payday is bought by Starbreeze

Trailer trash:

AGONY Intro Trailer

Kick and Fennick

Agents of Mayhem

HORIZON ZERO DAWN – Aloy’s Journey Trailer

Yooka-Laylee | E3 2016 gameplay trailer

Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder

Surgeon Simulator: Inside Donald Trump

Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo are joined by Brandon to pretty much just gush about Overwatch for an hour (OK fine, we do get into some critical analysis of the characters) and then talk about a few other games as well! Ricardo teaches us a little bit too much about how horses are managed and Matt digs into Total War: Warhammer after finding out that it’s actually really good despite not being Overwatch. All that plus a bunch of news and some trailers! See if you can spot the really terrible one! See if you can spot the one Ricardo got really excited about!

Games we played:

Ethan: Overwatch, Darkest Dungeon

Ricardo: Overwatch, Pocket Card Jockeys

Matt: Overwatch, Total War: Warhammer, Star Fox: Zero

Brandon: Overwatch

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

ESA free public e3 event

Microsoft gonna release some new console maybe

No Man Sky delay

Trailer trash:

Mighty Number 9

Independence Day Resurgence: Battle Heroes

World of Warriors Official Announce Trailer

Ghost Recon Wildlands’ Wild New In-Engine Trailer

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – Mechanical Apartheid Live-Action Trailer

Monster Hunter Stories – Japanese Trailer

Matt, Ethan and Ricardo are joined by Amber to discuss the some more games and a new beer! With everyone in the world from Tokyo to New York playing Overwatch we dip our toes into that, but don’t think we only focus on that mirage, as other games have taken up plenty of our game sessions like DOOM, Factorio, Stardew Valley, Star Fox Zero, Pocket Card Jockey and more! We’ve got more news than you can shake stick at, like Nintendo’s restaurant business and Apple’s anti-political messaging. That and some of the weirder trailers we’ve seen in a while…. #FE

Games we played:

Ethan: DOOM, Factorio, SFV

Ricardo: God of War III Remastered, Pocket Card Jockey

Matt: Star Fox Zero, The Banner Saga 2, OVERWATCH

Amber: Stardew Valley

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

YouTube is dumb, Family Guy is dumb…. http://kotaku.com/7-year-old-gaming-vid-briefly-pulled-from-youtube-becau-1778002951

Apple was dumb, then decided to stop being dumb…

http://kotaku.com/apple-says-game-about-palestine-israel-conflict-isnt-a-1778217660

THE HYPE FOR OVERWATCH IS SO REAL LOOK AT THESE GIANT FIGURES

http://kotaku.com/giant-overwatch-action-figures-are-neat-1778105216

Aaaannnd Battleborn drops to $40…

http://kotaku.com/battleborn-drops-to-40-just-in-time-for-overwatch-1778167718

Some cool Overwatch Beta Stats

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20119622

Do we still remember Yooka-Laylee?

http://www.playtonicgames.com/raising-the-curtain/

Nintendo Restaurants! Nintendo Computer Software! Nintendo Vitality Sensors!

http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/18/11703550/nintendo-business-diversification-plans-2016

Trailer trash:

Overwatch short “Hero”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRRupAM4DI

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE “Hyped for Combat”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJD48GsHqE

Vigor Roads Opening Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynxTEFE_XvI

Dino Dini’s Kick-Off Revival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKbke9b7uso

Night in the Woods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEErDK1FJtI

Maize: https://youtu.be/7yi7uyxLpV4

Despite reocording problems and actually having to edit, Matt, Ethan, and Ricardo all return to bring you more of the Pixel Podcast you crave. We review a new beer, talk about some Indie darlings as well as the 3rd latest game in the Uncharted series, and then take some time to review some news and trailers. Some sad Disney news, some weird Nintendo news, and a very stark trailer for Civilization VI await! Word of advice: don’t buy beer that’s 8% ABV for use while recording a podcast.

Games We Played

Ethan: Factorio, Uncharted 2

Ricardo: Tropico 5

Matt: Stellaris, thoughts about Overwatch

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Goodbye Disney Infinity

Battlefront 2 Sequel

NX is not a successor for to the Wii U or 3DS

Nintendo is going to start producing its own movies

Fig still can’t collect from Psychonaut investors

2DS price cut

RIP project spark

Trailer trash:

Civilization VI

Asscreed movie

Overwatch – Dragons

Hitman Elusive Target

Ultimate Word Search Collection 2

Smashing The Battle