The Pixel Podcast

Look let’s be real. This is the podcast where we finally gush about Overwatch. Of course we do it when Matt’s away, but that’s okay. He’ll get to chime in next week. Tons of great news and a new sort of feature, where we bring in a beer and talk about it. Yup, this is now a hipster podcast where we drink craft beer and share our opinions. Ethan’s man bun is pleased by this.

Beer of the week: New Belgium Heavy Melon

Ethan: Overwatch, Hearthstone

Ricardo: Overwatch

Titanfall developer making a new Star Wars game, get hyped.

Six games for 2016 video game hall of fame

Yo, no one likes Infinite Warfare

Sonic Boom isn’t for Youtube

Battlefield 1

Persona 5

DOOM LAUNCH TRAILER

Dangerous Golf

Dead Island: Retro Revenge

It’s our 100th episode! (Confetti falls from the sky) Aaaand other than that it’s pretty much things as normal on the Pixel Podcast. Matt walks us through the slow and steady beginnings of Twilight Princess HD, Ricardo’s sweet feelings towards Star Fox Zero have a slightly bitter aftertaste compared to his meal of Dark Souls 3, and Ethan has made friends with his inner Italian house burglar (and murderer.) All that, plus a wealth of negative Nintendo news, a Rock Band multiplayer feature that we thought was included already, and some trailers that are out of this world (because one is in space and the other is in a digital world.)

Games we played:

Ethan: Hitman Episode 2: SAPIENZA, Hearthstone

Ricardo: Dark Souls 3, Star Fox Zero

Matt: Enter the Gungeon, Hyper Light Drifter, The Banner Saga 2, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Nintendo only has one game at E3

Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing on phones

NX coming out in March 2017 (also Zelda is NX as well, plus delayed)

Oculus launch has been hot garbage

Rock Band 4 getting online multiplayer

John Romero’s kickstarter put on hold while making demo

Trailer trash:

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Squid sister’s Amiibo

Asemblance release trailer

Battleborn launch trailer

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Official Help Restore Light Trailer

Soft Body

Ethan is back! And with him he brought a bunch of weird games to talk about. Matt is still coping away from his gaming PC and Ricardo decided to check out his favorite franchise. Lots of surprises in this episode including our trailer trash winner!

Ethan: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Nuclear Throne

Ricardo: Dark Souls 3, Star Fox Zero

Matt: Stardew Valley…On Mac

Patrice Desilets of former Assassin’s Creed fame gets rights back to produce Amsterdam 1666

Top Starcraft 2 pro indicted on match fixing charges (alongside 10 others)

YouPorn’s esports team banned from Electronic Sports League competition

Long “in-development” Tekken X Street Fighter put on hold

Paragon “Essentials” trailer:

ARK Survival Evolved Official mods trailer

Push Me Pull You release date trailer

Lawbreakers “Between our Guns” trailer

Ruiner announcement trailer

Mafia III

Seven

By over indulging in podcast hosting Ethan has given himself the sickness, so it’s up to Matt and Ricardo to hold down the fort now. We talk world building in Dark Souls 3 and Hyper Light Drifter, bullet hell (literally) rogue lights with Enter the Gungeon, and pure anime madness with Bayonetta. We discuss the news of firings and lawsuits and neo Playstations. Finally we get to the shortest trailer trash segment ever!

Games We Played

Matt: Enter the Gungeon, Hyper Light Drifter

Ricardo: Dark Souls 3, Bayonetta

The NEWS!!!

Ken Levine writing interactive Twilight Zone

Former Rockerstar North president sues them, Rockstart sues back!

PlayStation NEO… whoa…

Trailer Trash

The Banner Saga 2

Ethan: This War of Mine

Ricardo: SMITE, Diablo III

Matt: Pokemon Picross, Airplane Tetris, Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon

Brando: Enter the Gungeon, Splatoon, Clash Royale

Blizzard shuts down “Vanilla” World of Warcraft server

Speaking of Blizzard, Tracer gets a new win pose in Overwatch

Rust adds new feature; randomly assigning gender to players. Some peeps are upset of course

Rare Beavis and Butthead arcade machine found

Titanfall 2 Teaser (XBONE)

Severed (PSVita)

Gears of War 4 Story Trailer (XBONE)

Miss the Small Council? Well, Ethan and Ricardo reunite to bring you a one-on-one podcast that doesn’t involve that awful Game of Thrones game. Instead, they talk about eSports, the biggest wrestling event of the year, being excellent at Hitman, the dark social app that is Miitomo and much more!

Ethan: Hitman, Red Orchestra 2, Miitomo, Stikbol

Ricardo: SFV, Miitomo, Stikbol

Nintendo fires Treehouse representative

Danny DeVito doesn’t know what Pokemon is

Guitar Hero Live developers had to layoff some people

UCI has a eSports scholarship

Retail Xbox can be used as a developer machine

Overwatch: Alive

Enter the Gungeon

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X

DOOM

Killer Instinct Season 3

Miitomo

Dark Souls III

With Matt out of town Ricardo and Ethan hold down the fort with a little help from Parker. The team discusses bad voice acting, CRPGs, VR and video games that Parker finds boring. At the end we got crazy spoilers for hit Zach Snyder film, Batman V Superman. Be careful if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing. It’s a good one!

Games we played:

Ethan: Divinity: Original Sin Enhance Edition, SFV

Ricardo: SFV, Pokken

Parker: Destiny, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Lords of the Fallen

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

VR is here. It seems good, but no great games yet.

Wii U might be shutting down production? Also a fake controller surfaces.

Guess how much all the DLC will cost for RB4 on PC!!

Possible leaked outline for EA E3 presentation

Fake but fun.

Trailer trash:

Dark Souls 3

1979 Revolution

Total War: Warhammer: Master Necromancer

Ratchet and Clank Story Trailer

Starfox Zero nostalgia trip

Ethan, Matt and Ricardo sit down for a chill podcast with just the three of them. On the docket this week is VR, Pokkén, UFC 2 and of course Stardew Valley. If we didn’t convince you to listen already, just know the crew takes a quiz on United States regional sayings. Also we go down a dark rabbit hole of beekeeping. Just make sure you don’t run into any mountain screamers while you’re listening.

Games we played:

Ethan: Street Fighter V, Stardew Valley

Ricardo: Pokkén Tournament, EA Sports UFC 2

Matt: Stardew Valley

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Playstation 4.5 is most likely being worked on

Playstation VR $399 or $499 for the bundle, comes out in October

Trailer trash:

Overwatch short

Nightcry official release trailer

Miitomo Trailer

Below Official Death’s Door trailer

Playstation VR worlds

WWE SUPERCARD SUPERTOKEN

Matt’s cooler younger brother, Andrew, who rides a motorcycle, stopped by the podcast to make fun of Matt. He’s so cool. But besides that games! Ricardo has finally dug into his Wii U purchase and played Splatoon and Hyrule Warriors. Matt started playing Stardew Valley. Ethan on the other hand is letting Stardew Valley take over his life.

Games we played:

Ethan: Stardew Valley

Ricardo: Splatoon, Hyrule Warriors (SFV and Pokemon, yeh yeh…)

Matt: Stardew Valley

Andrew: Rocket League

The NEWS HOUR News Topics (Sponsored by bloodlust):

Radiant Entertainment, the guys making Rising Thunder shut down because Riot bought them.

Cross console multiplayer on Rocket League on Xbox One! Other games to come soon..maybe?

Coleco Cameleon fiasco comes to a close.

Trailer trash:

Quantum Break

The Turing Test

Everything

Skylar & Plux

There’s poop in my soup

Despite not playing many games this week the Pixel Legends crew still delivers an extended podcast! All of us are getting cute farm animals killed in crossbow and spike traps, Ethan is dreaming about married carpenters, Amber is ready to get cooking, Matt gets excited and then un-excited about Paper Mario, and Ricardo has a shocking revelation: He likes Monster Hunter. All this plus lots of news and our new Trailer Trash segment, brought to you by Nintendo Direct!

Also, we learn the limits of where dating sims can go.

Games we played:

Ethan: Stardew Valley, Clash Royale, Ultimate Chicken Horse

Ricardo: Ultimate Chicken Horse

Matt: Ultimate Chicken Horse

Amber: Ultimate Chicken Horse

The NEWS HOUR News Topics:

Microsoft cans Fable Legends and Project Knoxville and will shut Lion Head and Press Play down.

Microsoft plans to unify PC and console and upgrade Xbox One

Goodbye Bear Simulator, he hardly knew thee

Nintendo Direct happened, includes Pokemon, Starfox, Paper Mario

ROCK BAND ON THE PC FOR THE FIRST TIME! Oh wait… I have to pay for development..

Trailer Trash:

Mirror’s Edge combat trailer

Metroid Prime Federation Force Official Project Golem Trailer

Star Fox Zero Official Let’s Rock and Roll Trailer

Monster Hunter Generations Reveal Trailer

Monster Hunter Generations and Fire Emblem Collaboration

Paper Mario Color Splash

Mario and Sonic at the Rio Olympic 2016 Games Trailer

Kirby: Planet Robobot Reveal Trailer

Manual Samuel Official Announcement Trailer

Overcooked Announcement Trailer

PanzerMadels: Tank Dating Sim