Picking Up the Pixels
By Michael Hannon
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Podcast Description
Digging deeper into video games, this is the podcast version of the blog Picking Up the Pixels.
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PUP Episode 010: RPG Love, May 2012 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:42:05 Music by MusiM (Website | Bandcamp) After a short break, we’re back to chat about Dragon Age: Origins, Devil Survivor 2, Eternal Sonata, the Mass Effect trilogy, Final Fantasy VII, Fallout: New Vegas, Dungeon Siege 3, and Diablo 3. Mass Effect 3: The Extended Cut announced, coming this Summer Dark Souls comes to PC in August with new bosses... ...and Dark Souls is going offline after a celebration Atlus takes over publishing duties for Dragon’s Crown Skyrim’s first DLC, Dawn Guard announced XSEED drops publishing plans for Grand Knight’s History YESSSSSSSSS Persona 4: The Golden announced for North America! Elder Scrolls MMO announced with few details | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 009: RPG Love, April 2012 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:47:42 Music by MusiM (Website | Bandcamp) Despite a few audio issues on my end, we chat about the Mass Effect trilogy (spoiler free!), Wasteland, Mother, Bard’s Tale, Star Control II, SMT: Devil Survivor 2, and Final Fantasy VII. Wasteland 2 Kickstarter is well on its way Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions coming this Summer Banner Saga Kickstarter is well on its way to Viking glory And Monkey Paw tries to publish a game via Kickstarter And the unannounced Dragon Age II expansion was cancelled | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 008: RPG Love, March 2012 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:38:10 Music by MusiM (Website | Bandcamp) I was out of town, so this episode is up a little late, but we make it for it by taking a lot about Mass Effect 3, Skyrim, Oblivion, Final Fantasy IX, Devil Summoner: Overdrive, Devil Survivor 2, Ys: Oath In Felghana, Borderlands, and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Radiant Historia gets a reprint, please go buy it. Persona 4: The Arena has a release date and platforms. Yay Chie! Borderlands 2 comes out September 18th! Wub wub! Xseed rocks it again, is bringing out The Last Story in NA 999’s sequel, Virtue’s Last Reward announced for the US The second half of Persona 2 is getting the same treatment as the first part Pokemon White 2 and Black 2 announced, but with very few details Level-5 joins the ESA, is now a US publisher | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 007: RPG Love, February 2012 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 2:15:59 Music by MusiM (Website | Bandcamp) We make up for not having very many news stories with a huge collection of games, like Diablo III (beta), Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy IX, Chrono Trigger, Ys 3, Oblivion, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Skyrim, and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Crazy new details about Persona 4: The Golden Final Fantasy X HD announced to be a remaster, not a full remake | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP RPG Love: January, 2012 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:13:41 Music by MusiM (Website | Bandcamp) It’s been a quiet month for RPGs, but we played a whole bunch of Skyrim, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Devil Survivor: Overclocked, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Torchlight, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Age 2. RUMOR: Diablo 3 release date, which Blizzard already debunked by the time I edited the show... Dark Souls may come to PC; sign the petition if you’re interested/hate yourself | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPUP Episode 005: RPG Love, December 2011 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:32:02 Music by MusiM This month we chat about Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Skyrim, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Age II, Xenoblade Chronicles, Infinity Blade, and Persona 2: Something Subtitle. If an official Final Fantasy VII remake existed, it would probably be pretty different Obisidian announces their new RPG, a South Park RPG Official Skyrim mod tools to be released soon, sound pretty awesome Xenoblade is coming to the US! Hooray! | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 004: RPG Love - November 2011 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:41:23 Music by MusiM We join forces again to chat about RPGs! This month we talk about Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Borderlans, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Persona 2, Dragon Age 2 DLC, Xenoblade, Oblivion, and Torchlight. Tons of Ni No Kuni news! Mass Effect 3’s Collector;s Edition has a robot dog in-game, is automatically awesome Matsuno joins three others to make Guild 01, which sounds oddly interesting Shining Blade is coming to PSP, will we get it? Torchlight 2 is still coming in 2011 unless a team member literally dies. Seriously. More Square PSX RPGs are on their way. You should seriousl play FF6 if you haven’t. The next WoW expansion, Mists of Pandaria, was announced at Blizzcon. | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 003: RPG Love, October 2011 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 1:54:16 Music by MusiM RPG Love returns for another moving of Love, where we chat about Star Ocean 1, Persona 4, Demon’s Souls, Chrono Trigger, Deus Ex, SMT: Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Torchlight, and Xenoblade. Final Fantasy XIII-2 gains time travel New Fire Emblem game announced Bravely Default: Flying Fairy has a strange name, a familiar job system Europe gets an awesome Persona 2 bundle FFX remake announced for PS3 and Vita Sony announces PSVita launch window RPGs and launch window RPGs and post-launch RPGs The World Ends With You appearing in Kingdom Hearts 3D Ni No Kuni coming to NA! Yay! Details are slim, but there’s a new Suikoden game for the PSP Oh, also, the PSVita is region free. Huzzah! Diablo 3 gets ”delayed” Persona 4 anime US release plans announced and they’re pretty awesome | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 002: RPG Love, September 2011 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 3:05:27 Music by MusiM We’re extremely chatty this month, so in this marathon episode we chat about Persona 4, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the original Deus Ex, Master of Magic, Star Ocean, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy V, Breath of Fire IV, Legend of Heroes: Trails In the Sky, and Xenoblade. Disgaea 3 will see a Vita re-release Witcher 2 version 2.0 and an Xbox 360 version announced Level 5 World detailed, I hope Dark Cloud 3 will be shown New Layton game incldues a full 100 hour RPG 999 developers show off a new Extreme Escape game Black Rock Shooter game coming to the US, features a woman with a gun that shoots rocks Torchlight 2 announces the final class and super cheap price Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 3 getting made! So much Persona news I can’t help myself! | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PUP Episode 001: RPG Love, August 2011 | Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John “Musim” Beauchamp Running Time: 2:09:03 Music by MusiM For our first episode, we chat about Persona 4, Catherine, Star Ocean: First Departure, Radiant Historia, Final Fantasy V, Chrono Trigger, and Dungeon Siege III. Final Fantasy Versus XIII not yet in full production Square Enix investigating Final Fantasy XI for Vita Rounding out the Square Enix Update, Final Fantasy XIII-2 gets a North American release date Tales of Vesperia PS3 fan translation is coming along nicely... ... and Tales of the Abyss 3DS is still coming out! Persona 2 surprises us all, comes with a soundtrack. But this one has exclusive stuff and remixes! Blizzard announces some controversial changes for Diablo 3 Europe will be getting a bunch of Japanese and US PS One releases Borderlands 2 is announced, makes us far too giddy. Catherine is Atlus’ highest selling launch in the company’s history | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
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I love this show! It delivers on the simple premise of RPGs and does it extremely well. It's refreshing to hear guys who love RPGs express their insights and passion for the genre.
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