PAX Prime 2012: Minion Master summons an impressive digital tabletop experience
A mashup of deck-building, RTS, tabletop, and strategy good-ness. Minion Master is the beginning of something entirely awesome in the digital tabletop gaming arena.
PAX Prime 2012: PuzzleJuice is tighter than a hipster’s jeans at a dive bar on an 80’s vinyl night
Featuring most excellent bleeps and beats from our bud, Big Giant Circles!
PAX Prime 2012: Wii U makes a believer out of Mii
We hit the PAX Expo floor and get some hands-on experience with the Wii U hardware, including New Super Mario Bros U and ZombiU. And the verdict…. ?
PAX Prime 2012: Hands on “The Cave” from Double Fine
The Cave is an upcoming Double Fine, 2D adventure game from Maniac Mansion mastermind Ron Gilbert. We get our hands dirty as we explore the first 20 minutes of the Cave at PAX Prime 2012. Total awesome-sauce.
Rated NA 72: Nerd Appropriate Strikes Back
Ash and Scott return from Star Wars Celebration VI to bring you tales of fun from a galaxy far, far away. We do spoiler-free talk about the season finale’s of Newsroom and True Blood. And, in the spirit of SWCVI, we ask: What is your Bounty Hunter name? Hijinks ensue as the gang prepares for PAX Prime. We’re going to need a bigger bacta tank.
Star Wars Celebration VI: Puppet masters Tim Rose and Mike Quinn take the stage
Alternate working title, “Inside the Ackbar Studio,” Tim Rose and Mike Quinn talk about their experiences as puppet masters, working with Jim Henson and The Muppets, Star Wars, and how Rose was fired off ROTJ by Harrison Ford… sort of.
Rated NA 71: It’s ladies night somewhere
The gang gets into karaoke in the QOTW. We talk SWCVI, PAX Prime, tech business, Avengers 2, and Capcom’s Remember me. We review ME3’s Firefight DLC, Nexus 7, Orcs Must Die 2, Risen 2, Darksiders 2, and Bourne Legacy. Special thanks this week to Mark Dago for the Star Wars inspired track Knightfall, available at markdago.bandcamp.com
The Versatile Nerd: A gamer’s perspective on fantasy football.
A look at how fantasy football isn’t just for sports fans anymore, and how tabletop skills translate to FF wins!
Rated NA 70: Jennifer Hale – Hale to the Queen
What is Jennifer Hale’s favorite podcast on the Citadel? Listen to find out.
First Impressions — Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (demo)
Because the transformers I love aren’t crude stereotypes with wrecking balls.
SWTOR going free to play this fall, keeping Subscriptions too
A long (longer) time ago, in a galaxy far, far way… MMORPGs were free to play.
Rated NA 69: An Awkward Position
Nerd rage abounds on this podcast as we talk about London Olympics, Violence in Games, Windows H8, and an Avengers TV show. We review Indie Game: The Movie, The Dark Knight Rises, and Wreckateer for Kinect. Finally, your plans for a video game triathlon in our QotW. “69, Dudes!”