Balanced Pixels

Season 3 Episode 3 | Fallout 76 Update! Join us as we take a trip to Atlantic City in Fallout 76, easter eggs, quality of life updates and new areas to explore! "FALLOUT 76: ATLANTIC CITY – BOARDWALK PARADISE IS HERE!" Bethesda https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/2VYdp0JUeNKi1ut4jxQgEO/fallout-76-atlantic-city-boardwalk-paradise-release "ATLANTIC CITY – BOARDWALK PARADISE UPDATE...

Season 3 Episode 2 | Unravel 1 and 2! Join us as we talk about possibly two of the cutest indie games we've ever seen! Podcast's Links Balanced Pixels is a podcast where three friends from different walks of life share their love of video games, and how they manage to fit all those pixels into their busy schedules. Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/balancedpixels/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter:...

Season 3 Episode 1 | Spooky Games! Join us as we talk about spooky games we played this past spooky season as well as The Gamer's best horror games that were inspired by folklore. "Best Horror Games Inspired by Folklore" The Gamer https://www.thegamer.com/best-horror-games-inspired-by-folklore/#detention The Pickle Song" by Mandy Brooke https://youtu.be/uV-A1eba9nM?si=-C8SCgaqsZ...

Season 2 Episode 31 | Assassin's Creed: Valhalla! It's finally time for our last Assassin's Creed game (for now) and what would make it even better? Vikings! Strap on your hidden blade, swap that eagle for a raven and set sail with us through the open seas to conquer new lands with the best twists we've seen in this franchise so far! We hope you've enjoyed this very long journe...

Season 2 Episode 30 | (Spoiler Free) Starfield! (This episode is spoiler free for the storyline, as we do not discuss plot points or main quests.) Bethesda's newest universe is finally here and we can't put it down long enough to even record this episode! Trizzle isn't here with us this time because she's out in the stars being the best medic Starfield has ever seen, Gress is build...

Season 2 Episode 29 | Assassin's Creed: Odyssey! Grestiodoss is back and we're back in the AC universe in Ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. We play as one of the two siblings, Alexios and Kassandra, in search of family, "happy endings", and wrecking another older version of Templar Order. With more on what's happening with Layla after gett...

Season 2 Episode 28 | Lake! Grestiodoss is out attending the thumb wrestling world championship this week so join the giggle squad: Trizzle and Skullie, for a relaxing, slow pace (but not as slow as the walking pace!) indie game, Lake. Relax as a mail carrier in a beautiful small town in the Pacific Northwest as you deliver mail and romance as the lovely Meredith Weiss, a a software developer taki...

Season 2 Episode 27 | Assassin's Creed: Origins! Come with us to ancient Egypt where the infinitely long battle between the Assassin's and Templars began. We play as the Medjay, Bayek and his wife Aya on a quest for vengeance after the lost of their young son, yes Ubisoft come out swinging at our emotions at right in the beginning of this installment! Dodging angry hippos, overthrowing Pha...

Season 2 Episode 26 | Redfall! Grestiodoss is out resting his thumbs from his epic thumb war escapades so it's just the giggliest ladies on the pod this episode! Join us as we talk about our experiences, opinions, and funny moments with Bethesda and Arkane Studio's latest game Redfall. Vampires, handsome gentlemen, bad ass queens, and funny glitches, who could ask for more? Well we could ask for a...

Next Episode is running late, California is on fire again but the Skull Family is safe! Podcast's Links Balanced Pixels is a podcast where three friends from different walks of life share their love of video games, and how they manage to fit all those pixels into their busy schedules. Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/balancedpixels/⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/BalancedPixels⁠⁠⁠ F...

Season 2 Episode 25 | Assassin's Creed: Syndicate! All aboard the Assassin Hideout train heading for Skullie's favorite game in this franchise! Set just after the industrial boom in Victorian London and surrounding areas we play as not one but two assassins! Twins Jacob and Evie Frye set off to take back control of London from the templars in this steampunk vibing, death obbessed, child la...

Season 2 Episode 24 | Ubisoft Forward, Xbox Showcase and Starfield Direct! To say we're excited for all the announcements made during both these showcases would be an understatement, join us as we gush, squeal and swoon over the upcoming content, games and more during this episode! Links for this episode Xbox Games Showcase and Starfield Direct recap: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/06/11/xbo...

Season 2 Episode 23 | Cozy Games! Let's talk cozy games, upcoming, already out, some for the spooky season and more! Links for this episode Follow MawTater! (We love her!): https://www.twitch.tv/mawtater Games Mentioned Disney Dreamlight Valley: https://disneydreamlightvalley.com/ Animal Crossing: New Horizons: https://www.animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/ Hokko Life: https://hokko.life/ Tiny...

Season 2 Episode 22 | Assassin's Creed: Unity! We're back with more assassins! Remember our pal Shay from Rouge? Well getting ready for a doozy because now he's the villain of our storyline in Unity, that's right we have a cross over game! This time in a hacked version of an Abstergo video game, we follow the story of Arno Dorian, orphaned at a young age by Shay, taken in and raise...

Hey everyone, with Skullie out of town without suitable equipment to edit our podcast episodes, we'll be taking an upload break (or upload pause as we kept calling it in this recording!) but we'll keep recording and be back to our regular upload schedule when she returns in May! Until then check out some of our other content, like our Instagrams, TikToks, weird videos and Skullie's socks (you hear...

Season 2 Episode 21 | Disney Dreamlight Valley! (Warning there are spoilers in this episode!) Join us on a cozy adventure into Disney Dreamlight Valley, a place full of familiar characters, tales old as time and stories that journey into the unknown. This game combines several aspects of other cozy games we enjoy, so many quests and mysteries to solve as well as endless creativity, where the only...

Hey everyone, we just wanted to let you know we're still here, just a little busy so we aren't able to record our February Episode! Don't worry we'll be back March 6th with Disney's Dreamlight Valley, until then stay safe out there! Podcast's Links Balanced Pixels is a podcast where three friends from different walks of life share their love of video games, and how they manage to fit all those pix...

Season 2 Episode 20 | Assassin's Creed: Rogue! Take a big leap of faith with us into a new story as another nameless Abstergo Entertainment employee makes a big mistake and tries to correct it by playing through the memories of Assassin turned Templar, Shay Patrick Cormac. Yes you read that right, a Templar! If we didn't get enough of a taste for the other side in Assassin's Creed 3, we'll absolut...

Season 2 Episode 19 | What Remains of Edith Finch. Trigger Warning: This episode contains topics of death, suicide, mental health and substance abuse, please listen at your own discretion. Join us as we climb through the Finch family tree to discover the what happened to Edith's family members through the decades. Unlocking rooms and secrets her mother hid from her, you can decide for yourself if...

Season 2 Episode 18 | Outer Wilds! Join us on a journey through space and time... loops? That's right, time loops! Explore space and uncover the secrets of the race that came before you, as you race through countless time loops to uncover what they were trying to accomplish before they were wiped out. If you're a fan of games that make you think, solve puzzles and play on quantum theory then get y...

Season 2 Episode 17 | Assassin's Creed Black Flag! Desmond's story has finally come to an end, or has it? Join us as we don our pirate hats and set sail into Black Flag, diving deep into Sample 17 aka Desmond's DNA that Abstergo pulled from his corpse (gross), to explore Edward Kenway's memories through a nameless Abstergo Entertainment employee. Pirating, Naval warfare, modern day hacking and esp...

Season 2 Episode 16 | The Mimic - Roblox! When you hear Roblox, you might think light-hearted fun games for kids with graphics similar to Minecraft, but lurking somewhere in there are some spooky horror games ready to delight your spooky appetite with ghosts, phobias and creepy folklore, like The Mimic! For those stepping their toes into horror games or gamers looking for a lighter spooky game to...

Season 2 Episode 15 | Our Top 5 Spooky Games! We're loving spooky season and all it's horror-glory, join us for our top 5 picks of spooky, horror, jump scare games we're loving this year. Team Picks: Phasmophobia and Bioshock Josh's Pick: Resident Evil Village Trizzle's Pick: The Mimic (Roblox) Skullie's Pick: Slay The Princess (Demo) Podcast's Links Balanced Pixels is a podcast where three friend...

Season 2 Episode 14 | Slay The Princess Demo! Spooky season is back and we're creeping into one of the best spooky demos, yes we said demos, available on Steam right now. Slay The Princess is a deliciously dark telltale game that will make you question EVERYTHING! With beautiful pencil artwork, amazing storyline, incredible voice acting and music, Black Tabby Games will have you craving more until...

Season 2 Episode 13 | Assassin's Creed 3! Ezio's storyline has finished but Desmond's carries on as they rush to stop a catastrophe from wiping out mankind,  jumping into new ancestral memories of Connor Kenway, an assassin from the Mohawk tribe and briefly his father Haytham Kenway a British Templar. Giving us new perspectives and a storyline that some fans argue was too drawn out, this game...