Pursuing Pixels

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels .  We're bent on utter destruction with a bunch of combat-heavy games to talk about this week.  John is on the crew full-time, but we're still missing Randall for this one.  Kevin gets things started with a new release of an early indie classic from Vlambeer, Super Crate Box.  DJ finally gets around to trying his hand at 20XX—he beats it on hard mode and unlocks new...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, John fills in for Randall, and also joins the podcast full-time!  (Or, at least whenever he can.)  He's also a man of his word and is back to share some brief thoughts on a PP favorite, Chasm.  Apart from that, we dance over to Cadence of Hyrule thank to a little nudge from Link's Awakening last week.  John and Kevin each dip into new puzzle games out o...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, Randall and Kevin take a trip to Koholint Island in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.  Kevin and DJ can't resist the call to the throne, this time taking a look at a 'sequel of sorts,' Kingdom: Two Crowns.  Randall finishes off Chasm completionist-style, and shares some closing thoughts on one of our favorite indies in recent memory.  DJ closes us...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels—and welcome back to DJ!  He's back with us this week for a discussion on September's GOTM, Katana Zero.  Apart from that, we've all (for once) been playing through some new releases lately.  Randall and Kevin give some early impressions on Untitled Goose Game.  Randall also checks out one of the most intriguing games in the Apple Arcade lineup (though he's playing i...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  John is officially paying Kevin rent, as he joins us for yet another week of gaming chatter, filling in for DJ.  He's also the only one playing anything shiny and new, with the delightfully charming Wilmot's Warehouse.  Kevin finally gets around to checking out NieR: Automata, crossing his fingers that his PS4 doesn't take flight.  From there, Randall and John hac...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  John is back once again, filling in for DJ this week.  Randall and Kevin descend beneath the surface and look to set the record straight on Chasm.  20 SNES games have finally arrived on the Nintendo Switch—we have a quick round table highlighting what we've been playing since they arrived, including Stunt Race FX, F-Zero, Breath of Fire, & more.  Kevin gives a qui...

Welcome back to Pursing Pixels.  John joins us once again this week, doing his best to keep us relevant with Fire Emblem: Three Houses.  Kevin and DJ build a couple empires of their own in Kingdom: New Lands.  Kevin and Randall follow that up with a look at the quickly-forgotten action-puzzler on the Switch/3DS, Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido.  We wrap things up with a little more Nintendo talk...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels—and welcome back to our good buddy John Heinze, who joins us once again for another Game of the Month episode.  For the month of August, we the fight the battle of Mechs vs. Veks in Into the Breach, another roguelike (chess-like?) strategy game.  Kevin finally gets around to grabbing (and playing) Super Hot after it was surprisingly released during the Nintendo Indi...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  It was a busy week, but as always, we still managed to squeeze in quite a few games.  DJ reminisces about the SOCOM days on the PS2 as he checks out some of the online modes in Sniper Elite 4.  Kevin and Randall check out a couple of newer bulltethell shmup releases, one a re-release/re-imagining of a 'classic' arcade series in the Vasara Collection, and the other...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We kick things off with a little expert analysis on a game that none of us have played, No Man's Sky, which just received its new Beyond update, also being dubbed '2.0.'  Randall and DJ race through the Wipeout: Omega Collection.  DJ steers the conversation towards Sniper Elite 4, the former and the latter both 'free' offerings on PS Plus this month.  Randall foll...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  It's been a long, draining week, but somehow we've all managed to squeeze in quite a bit of gaming.  We kick things off by revisiting one of our favorite 2D platformers, Celeste, inspired a great video from Game Maker's Toolkit .  Randall channels his inner 'Tommy' and gives us all a free history lesson on pinball, bouncing around between a handful of video pinbal...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we have a highly anticipated appearance from John Heinze, as he joins us to talk about July's Game of the Month, the Castlevania-inspired Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.  We 'casually' roll through a longer-than-usual discussion on that, and slip right into a follow-up from John, who has also been putting a ton of time into the recently released succes...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We've got another jam-packed week of gaming to discuss, so let's get right into it.  Kevin & DJ follow-up on their time with a couple of games from last week, Eagle Island & The Witcher III.  They also start channeling their inner Babe Ruth, calling shots in the new Astro Bears update with online Jetfish(?) leaderboards—perhaps it's all of the fine spirits we cons...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  Ahhh...that's more like it.  We're back to our more typical habits this week, and polishing off games that we've talked about in previous episodes.  Uncle Randall is back on his bullshit, trying to rebuild the Pistons from scratch around Blake Griffin in NBA 2K19.  But can he get past LeBron?  He also plays Miles & Kilo along with Kevin, who actually finishes a ga...

Welcome back to Pursuing...Polygons?  We kick things off with a journey off the beaten path with a trio of three-dimensional, Triple-A experiences.  Kevin finally starts tackling the Divine Beasts after 100+ hours of Breath of the Wild.  DJ makes quick work (per usual) of Chloe's adventures in Uncharted: Lost Legacy.  And Randall ventures back into the void that is NBA 2K19.  We stick around in th...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  Sorry for the delay on posting the episode this week in lieu of the holiday. That said, with the little bit of extra time this week, we were all able to squeeze in some pretty serious gaming. To kick things off, we spend a little time (some of us, a lot) blowing away baddies in 20XX.  DJ plows through Venture Kid, yet another game with heavy Mega Man influences. ...

 Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we start the morning out right with an intense action-arcade puzzler, #Breakforcist Battle.  Randall and DJ revisit a couple of games from last week—Randall polishes of Crocus and follows up on the remainder of his time with Blossom Tales, while DJ treads into the relentless waters of Bad North.  Kevin scratches beneath the surface of the procedurally-...

...or did he?  Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week we talk the criminally-overlooked adventure game, Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King.  We inevitably get sidetracked into a little Legend of Zelda discussion as well, as the comparisons are impossible to deny (in a good way).  Kevin plays yet another roguelike this week with the minimalist-ish RTS game, Bad North.  DJ tries to stay awake wit...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week we have a few (too many?) drinks as we discuss the kinetic new release from Gabe Cuzillo, Bennet Foddy, Matt Boch, & indie publishing powerhouse Devolver Digital, Ape Out.  Kevin also follows up on last week's game with the spiritual successor to Sonic, Freedom Planet--just announced as a physical release from Limited Run Games.  Randall also goes old sc...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we get maniacal with the most recent 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game (and perhaps the best one to date?).  DJ also hits the ramps in Trials: Fusion, while Kevin and Randy tackle a couple of new releases from indie-publishing giants Devolver Digital & Nicalis) in Gato Roboto and Crystal Crisis, respectively.    Timestamps: Sonic Mania: Plus  -  00:01:48 Trial...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  This week, we get to a bunch of other games on top of the Psikyo shmups we decided to touch upon last week.  Kevin jumps into (yet) another roguelike, Randall hydroplanes into the eye of a hurricane, and--surprise, surprise--DJ beats a few more games.  We also talk about a handful of multiplayer experiences.   Timestamps: Psikyo shmups   -  00:01:35 Steredenn: Bin...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  On this week's episode, Randall and Kevin finally get around to starting up Hollow Knight and see what all the fuss is about.  DJ is on rails this week, and walks us through a couple of simulated experiences.  Kevin and DJ round up a couple more roguelikes (including a brand new one, just out of early access).  Randall also discusses a couple of Nintendo's recent...

Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels.  We all take a few stabs in the dark this week and discuss the random games that we've been powering through.  We also ended up deciding on finally diving into the bugged-out world of Hollow Knight for next week's episode. Kevin plunges into the goopy goodness of Moonlighter, Randall takes to the links in Golf Story, and DJ rolls around for days (or 30 hours) with...

Hello and welcome to Pursuing Pixels. We're hoping to use this podcast--and our other various forms on the internet--to highlight the games that we've been playing and enjoying.  We'll also be trying to pick (at least) one game each month to all play through in order to delve a little deeper into that particular game--as well as crossing a few things off of our ever-expanding backlogs.  Feel free...