We watched Ready Player One. It is bad. We talk about it being bad. Like really bad. I was going to call the movie a crime against humanity. I, Brian, normally use this space to make jokes about the content of an episode and invite the listener to play along. It's fun. But I struggle to joke about something being a crime against humanity when there are people in cages on our border. So maybe listen to this garbage and then legit write your Congressperson about people in cages. It would be in service of human rights and Festival Hardbody would be proud of you.
The gang discuss mouthbreathers' total lack of understanding of boobs and bras. Brian is anime now so the natural order is completely upset and EA, Randy Pitchford and Elon Musk all do what they do best this week.Please hang out in our weird Pokemon gym and use our waffle maker. Spooky neckbeards need not apply.
Rocky, Tegan and Brian perform an E3 post-mortem. They don't agree on the cause of death. Heck, they don't even agree if the patient is dead! Rocky and Tegan think Brian is wrong about Nintendo and crowds. We discover that Earth has always been a battle royale and there are new video games even though it is hot, gross summer. Pull up a chair there's Bahama Mamas for everybody.
This is kind of a sealed envelope podcast. Brian and Tegan circled up on Saturday for their last look at the world prior to E3 2019 popping off. They talk Pokemon (British), lawsuits (Apple) and Musk (Elon). Of course Impossible Coin's premier Call of Duty correspondent is here to tell you where to put the boots. Time to smoke weed, eat pizza and play CoD!
Rocky, Tegan and Brian happily limp across the finish line of press conferences and Nintendo is here to give them electrolyte enhanced sports drinks, bananas and a protein bar. Nintendo presents a conference which is NOT a deep dive of various sound effects in Smash. They find time to troll us, surprise and provide us with some new desired details. Press F for new back compat titles on Xbox One.
Here's what you need to know; Tegan had hard cider. Rocky had a lot of red wine and Brian had craft beer. E3 marches on! First the team argues about the Ikumi Nakamura and Twitter. Then Ubisoft has two bangers with a dog in between. Square-Enix mostly does well. Everyone and their body pillows is GONNA LOVE IT.
The gang convenes an emergency meeting to dig through the carnage of the opening of E3 and the Google conference. EA impresses no one, Ikumi Nakamura impresses everybody and Rocky calls Brian a corporate Stan for Microsoft. Come with us on a journey with twists and turns and lots of Devolver Digital lore. Free Nina Struthers.
Incredible fire episode here folks. We got Big Sach in the house. However, we do not have Karen Troutfisher. The gang discusses perpetual disappointment engine Rockstar and walking calamity Randy Pitchford. We also got feet pics, horny Digimon, an amazing wrestling pay-per-view and a whole rack of lamb. THIS IS VIDEO GAMES.
RIP Brian's Xbox One. (Kind of.) Rocky gets that discount sushi. (For the Switch.) Tegan lies to her mother. (About this podcast.) Folks, you can get more than a mattress from a loot box now. You can also get crankable video game consoles, potentially ineffective legislation, Chris JERWRECKO and cereal to murder people with. Video games!
What happens when you warm Rocky, Tegan and Brian's heart? You congratulate yourself for making the Detective Pikachu movie! The gang takes a trip to Spoiler Town and reviews our thoughts and feels on the movie. (including appreciated similarity to some other films.) Join us friends and do the mental health version of doing stuff.
Rocky, Tegan and Brian dig into what they are expecting at E3 this year. Will Sony drop a video closer to the show? Does Nintendo want to show off the baby Switch? Will Microsoft deliver on all the anticipation? Who will crap the bed harder, Bethesda or Square-Enix? What's next in Devolver Digital lore? Grab a Ham Duet! It's E3 prediction time!
I'm pretty sure I've used the 'the episode has everything schtick' before but hey, THIS EPISODE HAS EVERYTHING. We got an update on the shed, Scorpion versus a Boeing Jet in this year's hottest cross tag battle game, unwashed legs and hindquarters, upside-down England, Steam bullshit, Randy Pitchford and of course unfair labor practices. THESE ARE VIDEO GAMES.
Brian returns from being sick. He is, however, sick of his dad's crap. (The shed is explained.) Tegan and Rocky accuse Brian of gatekeeping a blue hedgehog. He calls them out on the malarky. You might want to unbuckle your pants for Kickstarter's next big hit and you can leave them unbuckled for Call of Duty. The crew salutes Solitaire before colliding with a bat to destroy the bat.
Join us gentle listeners as Rocky and Tegan throw the purple bad man with the oven mitt into the mountain of doom in order to restore the power of anime and friendship. Rocky also does a Fortnite and a Fortnite Taco Shop while doing an Apex Legends on YouTube! (Lean in real close nerds. I was sick last weekend and have been busy all week. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS IN THIS EPISODE. Let's pretend that stuff I said was right and find out together. Can you ever forgive me podcast children?)
This show has everything you expect from a video game podcast. We deep-dive the romantic comedy genre and identify those responsible for the rom-com crash (Kate Hudson and Dane Cook). We discuss the phenomenon of shipping real people (including ourselves). Rocky reveals a conspiracy theory to Brian which he doesn't have the strength for. Tegan doesn't have the strength for much. By trying to show us they're good Sony may have proven they're bad. Video games y'all.
Come with me into the ketchup filled ball pit as the crew savors the new Star Wars trailer. Video game companies are still very bad. Labo VR is for more than looking up a chicken's butt. I guess the FTC is putting on LootBoxCon 2019. Can't wait to see the cosplay contest. Hopefully someone wears a copper banana hammock.
Gather round friends! You are invited to the cookout. It's a different kind of cookout. It's one earned by defeating the Aztec Deadmaus with the best grandma ever. Rocky, Tegan and Brian present a cautionary tale of ever pretending to be somebody's boyfriend.
First off, we're not sponsored by The Cubicle Company. If we are they need to stop paying us in beached Garfield phones. We talk about old and incomplete freeways, game industry layoffs, Apple Arcade, the odious people of Philly and a bathroom crime scene. This is a video game podcast. Really.
Baba Is You is a very hard video game. Tegan is uninterested in it. There is some question as to whether Bob Ross is alive or dead. Rocky tries to convince Brian that collecting Noodleberries is fun. Rocky does not persuade Brian. Google tries to convince us that streaming video games is fun. Google has yet to persuade the gang. Necrodancer and Zelda had a baby and the gang is peak excited. Pour yourself a glass of bull milk. It's time for video games.
Big Sach stops by for the mix-up! Fools, WE LEAVE YOU GUESSIN'! The team speculates about Google's gaming plans. Tegan tells about Labo VR. Brian worries that too many of the toys in Labo VR could be used to build Human Labo-pede. There's talk about a bird's butt. Brian legally owns the sex cats. Dwarf Fortress made us sad and Discord is classing up the joint.
Brian got stuck in an elevator AND ALMOST DIED. The nightmare idea of a "quality gamer rum" is invoked. His name isn't Fox McCloud anymore but you can smoke drugs with him and layoffs layoffs layoffs. In a world where Valve disappoints and The Pokemon Company delights this can only be a cast iron podded cast.
Friends it is time for another watchalong! This time the crew revisits a personal favorite for every host, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. We all still love it and lots of the characters are great but we definitely have to reckon with Scott himself being kind of awful. Come along for a watchalong that is indirectly gaming related!
The crew says goodbye to Reggie "Big Reggie" Fils Aime. Serious discussion is had about the nature of trespassing. Big labor comes after bigger video games. Rocky tells Brian to calm down and a Tegan is ready for a speaking tour.
Rocky has a quarrel with ice cream. (what) The team wishes a video game corporate figurehead has a plastic water gun and a sheriff's badge. (who) Video games get Brian big mad and he wishes they were a barn so he could burn them down. (why) Activision Blizzard picks the worst possible time to announce layoffs (when) and in the process discard the humanity of the people who made that decision and disregard the dignity of those effected. (why) LISTEN FOR THE ALL CAPS ANSWERS. Oh, and a Nintendo Direct happened you nerds.
It's our anniversary! The show is now two. So I guess the show is now old enough to act out at a restaurant while Rocky, Tegan and Brian do nothing. YOU CAN GLARE AT US. Various topics are addresses on this #specialepisode. We hit the faking of deaths, wishing a guy who makes cheats well and then calling him a dirtbag, the various kinds of dungeons and we meet business executive Bob Activision. Bob Activision is very busy.