Turn 82 – Can I Take a Picture of Your Little Child?

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Featuring Joey “Nebula”, John “MusiM”, Lauren “Literally”, Scott “Artisan002”, and Suzy “Specter”.

Music by MusiM.  Buy the music at musim.bandcamp.com

Our intended topics are screen language, Settlers of Catan, Borderlands, Gratuitous Space Battles, Tales of the Abyss, Persona 4 Arena, Tokyo in Tulsa, GlitchCon, Alcarys Complex, Long Road Home, Wastelands, Dark Knight Rises, Lost, Sleeping Beauty, Neverland, and Tin Man.

Be sure and email us for the next show at [email protected]!

Comics Review: Mass Effect Evolution

Mass Effect Evolution

Dark Horse Comics – 4 Issues

Mac Walters
John Jackson Miller
Omar Francia

This will be short and sweet.  Mass Effect Evolution is a prequel to a very important character in the Mass Effect universe.  If you read the Amazon entry in the link above that reveal will be spoiled for you.  Although to be honest, the answer to the importance of protagonist Jack Harper may be identified in one of the videogames’ codex entries.  This comic series is short and sweet.  The artwork is good and the writing is average.  There isn’t a lot a story that can get done in four issues.  This series will only be appealing to fans of the games who want a little more out of the Mass Effect universe and its characters.  The story starts out following a small mercenary band working for the Alliance during the human/turian war.

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Turn 53 – RPG Love 2007-2008

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Featuring John “MusiM” Beauchamp and Michael “Boston” Hannon

Music by MusiM

And for this installment in the RPG Series, we cover Rogue Galaxy, Pokemon Diamond, Odin Sphere, Brave Story: New Traveler, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Persona 3, Persona 3 FES, Persona P3P, Persona 4, The World Ends With You, Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimore of the Rift, Tales of Vesperia, Fallout 3, Valkyria Chronicles, Etrian Odyssey, Luminous Arc, and many more.

 

Update:

http://pickingupthepixels.com/blog/2011/06/15/the-last-few-weeks/

Turn 50 – Fine Purveyors of Something

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Featuring John “MusiM” and Scott “Artisan002”.

This week its extra length with videogames, movies, and music we’ve been experiencing lately.  For videogames we discuss Tactics Ogre, Gratuitous Space Battles, Republic Commando, Mass Effect, and more.  For videos we discuss Twin Peaks, Hanna, Machete, TMNT, Fast and Furious Five, and more.  For music we talked Tron: Legacy Reconfigured, Hanna, and Sucker Punch.

And of course a giant section on the PSN.


Turn 24 – Safe word: Gamma Ray

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Featuring John “MusiM” Beauchamp, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Michael “Boston” Hannon.

Music: Untitled by MusiM; Middle and Outro: Serene (Lost in the Eyes of God)

This week welcome our special guests from That Video Game Podcast (http://tvgp.tv) as we discuss video game expectations such as game length, cut scenes, preorders, and reusing proven design/mechanics.  Games included in discussion are The Viking, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, God of War, Bayonetta, Mirror’s Edge, Halo 3, Halo: Reach, Vanquish, Gungrave, Godhand, Rez, Too Human, Gears of War 2, Stellar 7, Kane and Lynch 2, Zone of Enders, Gears of War, Final Fantasy 7, Catacombs, Blake Stone, Ultima, Doom, Doom 2, Stonekeep, Heimdall, Fallout, Grim Fandango, Wolfenstein, Police Quest, Scorched Earth, Xenogears, Quake, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Rise of the Triad, Quake, Duke Nuke ’em, Commander Keen, Command and Conquer, Dune, Warcraft, Herzog Zwei, Sewer Shark, Night Trap, Hell, Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Brothers 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Dot Hack, Tales of Destiny, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Xenosaga, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Alpha Protocol, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Jak 2, Dead Space 2, Ratchet and Clank, Infamous, Tony Hawk, Dragonquest, Marathon, Crackdown, Terminal Velocity, and many more.

Visit Boston and Knobs at http://tvgp.tv

NOTE:  Okay so I didn’t setup the scheduled post right and it didn’t post to libsyn but turn 24 is now posted and available to listen to.  Apologies for the delay!

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