This week’s review is Yoshihiro Nakamura’s End of the World yarn Fish Story. In addition, we chat a bit about This Just In From Gen Con, Patricia describes her love/hate relationship with Super Mario World for the Wii.
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Like the penny jar at the convenience store: Take a podcast promo if you want; send one if you like. I like to promote others. Note: My show has a clean tag.
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Pull up a chair, young ones, and let me tell you the tale of Cock Aeonseeker – ’tis a cautionary tale about bad decisions and mosquito bats. Also, Purity Grimoire…who had a good heart, but a soft head.
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This week we discuss Gamespot’s acquisition of Giant Bomb, videogame journalism, doing the horizontal bop in Bioware games, and Benny Chan’s Shaolin. As usual, SPOILERS!
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This week we discuss the minor internet drama from a few weeks ago regarding Margaret Weis Productions alleged non-payment to freelancers. Yes, we know this is fairly old news at this point – we recorded this episode the day after …
This week Alex makes a super half-assed pitch for his gonzo, retro-RPG Horde of Corpses…and we ask the question ‘If you can’t win an RPG, is it a game?’ No, really – it’s a thing we talk about. Tune …
This week we take a look at the (already) lagging sales of the newly-released Playstation Vita, pimp a great new Kickstarter, and review Olivier Assayas’ 1995 indie flick Irma Vep – which may seem off-topic…but features the legendary Maggie Cheung …
This week we review the 1994 smash-hit videogame adaptation Double Dragon! Actually, that’s a total lie – this film was an abysmal failure…but somehow 3 of the 4 Yellow Menace crew found it in themselves to assign a thumbs-up! Find …
This week we talk some video games – Farmville and Saints Row 3 – and review the Filipino exploitation film documentary Machete Maidens Unleashed! And after the movie talk, find out why Alex is the ‘Filipino Ron Jeremy’.
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This week we take on Gamification – mostly. We start out talking about gamification and then, as is our wont, we wander off deep into the woods and start chatting about what separates Zynga games from MMO’s, achievement points, NASCAR …
Patricia’s back! Although I see fit to demote her to ‘guest host’ status right out of the gate. But never mind, she’ll earn her way back in in short order. This week Patrica, Ed, Clyde, and Alex bitch about cut-scenes …
Another long, rambly talk this week – but it’s a good kind of ramble where you end up in fun, unexpected places. Clyde brings us a news item regarding Hayao Miyazaki’s hiring practices, Ed wants to talk about legal problems …
