The Pixel Response

We’re back after some scheduling issues last week and Nathan has been playing a whole bunch of Hello Kitty! Island Adventure! Nah, just messing with ya, of course he’s been playing ungodly amounts of Grand Theft Auto V and has a whole bunch to say about it (while not saying anything to ruin it for Paul). Paul is probably done with World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria after hitting level 90 and ins...

Nathan comes home from the Penny Arcade Expo and discusses some lamentations and general feelings from the event. We discuss the “dickwolves” controversy, the differences between League of Legends and Dota 2, jobs that suck and take opposite sides on whether or not Spring Breakers is any good at all. Also, get off our lawn ya damn kids!

Kyle Pulver has always made games using interesting mechanics and ideas, even before his breakout hit Offspring Fling gained popularity in the wider video game audience. Combined with a background in design and art, he has quickly become a household name to the indie game crowd and is an all around awesome guy to have chats with about his craft!

Sean joins Paul this week and the two spend some time talking about not being at PAX (where Nathan is), favorite types of cheese, whether or not The Great Gatsby is worth watching, just how bad are “super hero” movies of the past and how Sean and Paul play Pokemon radically different. Also, Hayao Miyazaki announces his retirement.

This week, we talk about horror movies as Nathan watches The Happening, Scream 4, Dead Silence and Pet Sematary? Again? Paul enjoys some aliens in Dark Skies and gets around to playing Gone Home after getting himself caught up in the Kick-Ass comic book and reminding him of why the first movie was any good at all. The two talk some fun at the theaters after seeing The World’s End and debate the qu...

We return once again to talk about comic book violence on the big screen in Kick-Ass 2 and its severe lack of Nic Cage. Nathan has been playing Gone Home while Paul watches Oblivion and plays a bunch more Dota 2. Also, old movies predicting the future are eerily still relevant.

We’re straight on the heels of the biggest Dota 2 event of the year so Paul discusses The International 3 and esports in general while Nathan has been spending time making some SaltyBets (which, if you don’t know, are the new phenomenon). In the off-time, Paul has been grinding out some Rogue Legacy and Nathan has spent probably too much time sorting documents in Papers, Please. The new Evil Dead...

Paul and Nathan group up with Ben and Peter from SpaghettiCast to talk Britain’s only baby, porn, illegal actitivities, cosplay and Hercules beetles. Also, we try to prank call Gamestop but technology doesn’t work.

We talk about Ryan Davis from Giant Bomb’s untimely death, what it means to us and a bit about floods. Rest in peace, duder.

Things get a little saucy with Nathan back from E3 and we do a late night recording after Nathan gets some bad news regarding his employment. Speaking of bad news, Calgary is basically under water from massive floods and 10% of the population are forced to evacuate their houses. Perfect time to talk some Man of Steel, Warm Bodies and random video games right? Okay, we discuss the flood for quite s...

Would you pay for this podcast? I sure wouldn’t. This week, Nathan goes on a trip and gets his car impounded, we talk some more hockey playoff shenanigans, Paul finally watches Skyfall and people got pissed off about people being too invested in Game of Thrones. Nathan has a great idea for a personal Kickstarter, the co-founder of the Oculus Rift was tragically killed and Speed Runs are the new RE...

Xbox One happened. Do we care? I guess enough to talk about it for close to 40 minutes. We talk some basic hockey play-off opinions, make predictions and remember the brief moments the Calgary Flames were decent. Nathan gives some opinions on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and Paul talks about some small random Netflix movie he decided to give a shot called Archie’s Final project. Nathan gives...

We’re happy to have Fen from Ventchat to come in and answer all our burning questions about the OUYA. Nathan gets excited for E3, Paul plays some Marvel Heroes beta and went to see Iron Man 3. Star Trek: Into Darkness is discussed with slight spoilers, games are getting too scary and the DarkNet keeps beckoning. Nathan is impress with Super Mario 3D Land and Nintendo decides to collect money from...

Nathan sees Iron Man 3, Paul has a collecting problem and the two talk some Guitar Hero and uselessness of “Reset” buttons. Paul watched Noobz and has a general disdain for “Gamer Culture” and Nathan is anticipating E3. Also, Art History is a totally useless class that we both seemed to have had to take.

Eno Metzo joins Paul and Nathan this week as they talk about terrible audio, drug usage and hot 80s actresses (or lack thereof?). Nathan watched Pain & Gain , Eno discovers Christina Hendricks and Paul hates the TSA. After Eno leaves, Paul and Nathan complain about video games (go figure…). Also, we do terrible impersonations. Intro theme is Stunt by Matt McFarland (Matt McFarland)  /&nbs...

Spoiler Alert: We blow the roof off Bioshock Infinite and discuss all the spoils from the beginning to roughly 1:03:49 in. You’ve been warned. Bioshock Infinite gets spoiled, Nathan watches Oblivion and Paul spends a Saturday moving. The two meet up with local indie developers for a drink and some chatting. Also, eco-terrorism and social media sensationalism is a thing.

Bioshock Infinite first impressions, Nathan hates Vanquish , Paul replaces 2Pac in the world of music and we discuss qualities we enjoy in women, Also, we have a special guest discuss her first-hand experience at the Boston Marathon when the explosives went off. Intro theme is Stunt by Matt McFarland (Matt McFarland)  /  CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Eno hates Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance , Nathan likes  Evil Dead and SAT scores are keeping the man down. We lost the main voice in criticism and everything with Karl Urban is amazing (yes, even Doom damnit!!) Also, kinda fuck Apple products… right? Intro theme is Stunt by Matt McFarland (Matt McFarland)  /  CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

We spend some time talking about one of Jon’s favorite series and discuss DuckTales Remastered.

We talk dogs, dead people, racism and something about hot mothers? I dunno. This is not an average episode that’s for sure. Eno Metzo from The Awful Gamer joins us as we try to scrape a show together when none of us have really done any media stuff in the last week. Also, Nathan saw Spring Breakers . Intro theme is Stunt by Matt McFarland (Matt McFarland)  /  CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Nathan is back after being down with the sickness to discuss why he’s rather be famous than rich, the censorship of movies for money, lack of enthusiasm for  Bastion and how  The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is still pretty good. Paul has been playing too much  Fallout 3 , has a new/old job and is baffled by how many  Ultima games Richard Garriott has made (21? Really?!) Also...

With Nathan sick this week, Eno Metzo joins Paul to talk some serious movie and media watching along with some inside stories of travelling to Paris as a flight attendant and their undying love for Gordon Ramsay! ENO IS GIVING AWAY A THQ (R.I.P.) BUNDLE TO A LUCKY WINNER WHO IS BOTH REGISTERED ON PIXEL RESPONSE AND SUBSCRIBED TO THE AWFUL GAMER . LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE AND SEND A MESSAGE TO EITHER...

Ian Stocker, owner and sole employee of MagicalTimeBean studios is well regarded in the XBOX Live Indie Games and XNA community for some of the better made games in the XBLIG store with titles such of SoulCaster I & II and Escape Goat under his belt. We were able to sneak a bit of his time away to find out what it’s like developing for an all-but-forgotten section of the XBOX experience and wh...

We come back with the quickness to bring you discussions on Satoru Iwata’s recent promotion, Sonic Spinball’s awesome music track (only one), Jon’s new phone number and how deep the rabbit hole of Craigslist can go. Oh, also we talk some major Kirby Superstar on the SNES (and DS “Ultra” port)!

Mario64Mario , one of the four hosts of the new SpaghettiCast , joins Paul and Nathan in discussions of Bob Hoskins as Mario, shitty (or not so shitty) Legend of Zelda games and Hoof Beat sponsorship. Also, look at all this cool shit you can find in dumpsters: Intro theme is Stunt by Matt McFarland (Matt McFarland)  /  CC BY-NC-SA 3.0