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We try out doing a Google Hangout for the main show for the first time. You can see the video archive on our YouTube page! We talk about Jon's Dead Space stream as well as whatever else we did for Halloween. Sean played more Pokemon as well as Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Batman: Arkham Origins. Nathan revisits Animal Crossing New Leaf, The Wolf Among Us and more Spelunky. There was quite a bi...

We spoil a lot in this but it's Pokemon so there really isn't that much in terms of story anyway. Sean sits down with Pixel Response's Paul Fleck to talk a bunch about the latest Pokemon games.

IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED OR DON'T WANT BEYOND: TWO SOULS SPOILED FOR YOU - DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS! Nathan and Sean sit down to talk some deep spoilers about Beyond: Two Souls.

We have all been playing a ton of games this week. Sean continues with Saints Row 4 as well as plays through Gone Home, a lot of Pokemon X, some of Cloudberry Kingdom and The Stanley Parable (along with Nathan and Jon). Nathan has also been playing Device 6, Spelunky and Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon. Jon is mainly playing a bunch of old games including Lego Batman 2 and Halo 3. In the news section we...

We announce that part 2 of our Japanese Sega Saturn live stream will be October 12th at 6 PM MT. We hope you can tune in and watch some weird games get played! Apart from that, we all discuss the newly released Beyond: Two Souls, we also talk a bit more about GTA5 and FTL, Escape Vector and Saints Row 4 get mentioned too.

Jon and Nathan went to this year's Pincade and Jon left with something very interesting! Nathan has been playing some GTAV Online, Sleeping Dogs and L.A. Noire. Sean finishes up Wind Waker HD and starts GTAV and FTL. Nintendo had a lackluster Nintendo Direct, Steam announces their controller plans and Sega has THE BEST preorder incentive EVER!

Jon is away, stuck in traffic, so Nathan and Sean create the BEST episode ever! Nathan talks more about GTAV and then his evil (better?) twin shows up and tells us how much he's enjoying Sleeping Dogs. Sean explains why The Wonderful 101 is a very odd game and starts playing Wind Waker HD.   Valve has basically taken over the news front this week with two of the three living room announcements alr...

GTAV is out this week and we spend a good deal of time talking about Nathan's enjoyment with it. Sean plays some PlayStation All-Stars and The Wonderful 101 while Jon packs up his things and continues with Mario & Luigi Dream Team. There's a ton of news this week including the death of Hiroshi Yamauchi, a new Nintendo Direct, Atlus being bought by Sega and Criterion Games splitting up.

We're all back for the entire length of this episode. Jon and Sean have been playing Disney Infinity. Sean also plays through Gunpoint and Botanicula while Nathan plays some more Far Cry 2 and Scurvy  Scallywags. Jon also plays some of The Wonderful 101. News is mainly Sony related with the recent Japanese press conference. We also discuss Steam's family mode and the new Humble Bundle.

Jon and Nathan return from Seattle to talk all about this year's PAX Prime. Sean quickly mentions his time with Rayman Legends and The Room Epilogue and we bring up some brief news. After than we jump right into the PAX talk, Sean's internet dies and everyone has a great time!

It's the week before PAX! Sean talks about his time with Pikmin 3, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and a little Plants vs. Zombies 2. Jon reviews the new Flashback as well as checks out Rayman Legends. Nathan revisits Runner 2 and Mirror's Edge. In the news section we talk about the just announced Nintendo 2DS, no more Microsoft points and a possible Xbox One release date.

Sean is away on vacation so Nathan and Jon talk about the games they played for an EXCEEDINGLY long time. New record, its gotta be. So, hear exhaustive breakdowns of the best desert island game around, Miasmata, the critical darling Gone Home, the fourth in a long-running series of quirky RPGs, Mario and Luigi Dream Team, the stylish follow-up to The Dishwasher, Charlie Murder, the perhaps unfortu...

Jon is away being sick this week so Nathan and Sean kick things off by talking about Kick-Ass 2. Sean then shares his thoughts on finishing the first Phoenix Wright as well as starting out with Pikmin 3. Nathan discusses more Papers, Please, Bully and how he can't wait for Gone Home. News has us talking about more policy changes with the Xbox One, a new slate of Humble Bundles to get REALLY excite...

Sean returns to talk about ibb & obb, Phoenix Wright and Hundreds. Jon talks about his upcoming video reviews and Nathan brings up Red Dead Redemption and Papers, Please! As for news, there was a new Nintendo Direct last week, Gone Home gets a release date and Saints Row 4 gets the most ridiculous special edition ever.

It's a knee-slapper this week...that'll make sense a minute or two in. Sorry.  Just Nathan and Jon this week, as they talk open-world games such as Saint's Row the Third and Red Dead Redemption, the final hours of the Cloudberry Kingdom Infinity Cup, The Swapper, The Walking Dead 400 Days and more!  Then we discuss the recent Phil Fish twitter drama surrounding Fez II, some recent upcoming game an...

The Steam sale is over and we wrap up our experiences with it. Jon continues to play Deadpool and Project X Zone as well as checking out Picross e2. Nathan is playing a ton of games including Tomb Raider, Uncharted 3 and ZombiU. Sean finishes up Trine and plays through Cherry Tree High Comedy Club. In the news section we discuss how Atlus is being sold off, Microsoft announcing that the Xbox One w...

It's the Summer Steam Sale and we're talking about the games we've bought and the cards we've collected! Jon also brings up Deadpool and the new Streetpass games/update. Nathan goes through a whole bunch including The Witcher 2, Blood Dragon and the new Call of Juarez. Sean revists Trine and tries out Antichamber. As for the news, we discuss Sony's PLAY line-up of games this summer as well as thei...

We start off by expressing our thoughts on Ryan Davis's passing. He meant a lot to us. Jon has been playing Deadpool, Project X Zone and Epic Mickey on the 3DS. Nathan plays through Alan Wake's The Signal and Gunpoint. Sean reviews The Walking Dead 400 Days and checks out Badland. As for news we have some odd EVO related decisions from Nintendo, China might start allowing game consoles again and t...

This week Jon is talking all about Picross E and Super Luigi U with Sean. Sean also brings up more of The Last of Us and gushes over Game & Wario. Nathan talks The Last Man and Demon Souls. The news section brings up the recent decision from Microsoft to stop charging for patches, DoubleFine asking for more money for Broken Age and Klei Entertainment announces a new game.

Jon's back from his trip to talk about Disneyland and some game convention before his internet dies on us and leaves. Nathan has been playing a lot of games starting with the letter 'A' and Sean talks about The Last of Us some more. News is short but we discuss the latest Layton game that appeared on iOS, a couple games getting banned in Australia and some MGS1 remake confusion.

Our schedules didn't work together this week so you're getting two back to back solocasts in this episode. Jon is still away on his vacation so Nathan is up first with what he's been playing. He talks about Animal Crossing New Leaf and last year's XCOM. Sean comes in next to talk about The Last of Us, Thomas Was Alone and, also, Animal Crossing New Leaf.

This is the longest episode I think we've ever recorded. Clocking in at nearly 3 hours, you get to listen to all our thoughts about E3 2013. We run through the four press conferences and Nintendo Direct that happened on the opening days. Nathan and Jon then go into great detail about the games they played while down in LA.

The three of us are all together and here to share our thoughts on how our Japanese Sega Saturn live stream went. Sean talks about finishing up 999 and playing some Ouendan and Proteus. Nathan talks about a few Mario games and a bunch of NES stuff and Jon brings up a few games from an earlier live stream of his. News is real packed this week with a few announcements dealing with the Xbox One. We a...

Sean has returned from his trip overseas with grand tales of his travels. We discuss some of the games and toys he purchased as well as some upcoming plans. Nathan isn't here this week and Jon discusses Final Fantasy 8 while Sean talks about 999. News is scarce since E3 is getting close but we talk about the ending of Curiosity, Double Fine's new Kickstarter and the two Humble Bundles currently go...

One of our international travelers has returned! Jon is back to talk about the Xbox One (or is it Xone, Xbone or X1?) and a smattering of other news, as well as Witch and Hero, that new-fangled Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Mario's latest Minis escapade on the 3DS. Nathan finally hit the bottom of the Hotline Miami barrel (if Cactus is reading this, level-editor in the sequel, PLEASE make it happ...