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Episode 79: The singular seventy-ninth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight, we have a special guest! Maitland Hemby also known as Follow @androidqueen. Maitland is a friend and classmate of The Wolf Doctor and Miz Sylver who is a Senior Gameplay Engineer at Arkane Studios in the Austin office. She's worked at several other game studios including Harmonix, BioWare, and Edge of Reality. She talks about how she got into games, the ups and downs of being in the industry, and her favorite things she made for Prey. We also get her advice for aspiring game developers, which does include moving to Austin. Her Austin area gaming pick is Juegos Rancheros indie gaming meet-ups. Follow Maitland on Instagram for cute dog photos!
The upcoming-this-summer Namco Museum
for the Switch will include Pac-Mac Vs., the insane game where one player plays Pac-Man while up to three other players play as ghosts!
The Super NES Classic is announced for September 29th. Stay tuned for details on pre-orders and such.
Nintendo and Hasbro are teaming up to bring us Monopoly Gamer, essentially Mario-nopoly.
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Episode 78: The squishy seventy-eighth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! This week we focus on the confusion and excitement of the latest Pokemon Go update! We also talk news:
The "Gabe said so sale" is happening in Smite!
Earn 10 Gems for a First Win of the Day in any of the 10 game modes. That means you can earn 100 Gems per day, EACH day, totaling 300 Gems over the whole weekend! Many skins are 20-75% off, too! Also, the Ultimate God Pack is on sale on PC for 33% off.
Nintendo Switch Update 3.0.0 has happened. It lets you sync up friends across different Nintendo consoles!
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Pokemon GO is in the middle of their Solstice event! Extra XP for catching and increased appearance of fire and ice-type pokemon!
Like League of Legends? Super League Gaming is kicking off their League of Legends series with a special FREE event June 21st at game centers across the country. Check out their Facebook page for sign-up info. In the Boston area, the event starts at 6:30 pm at the Dave & Buster's in Braintree. Free food and free gaming!
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A special episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast: Miz Sylver reviews Cave Story+, a game created by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya and published by Nicalis! Miz Sylver played the upcoming version for Switch, but it is already out for Steam if that's your platform of choice. You can read her written review here! We won't spoil the review (or the game in our review), but let's just say Miz Sylver really enjoyed it and will be doing more play-throughs! Thank you to Follow @nicalis for providing a copy of the game for review! If you want a physical copy with all the goodies including a keychain, pre-order at GameStop.
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Episode 76: the satisfying seventy=sixth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! This week we have two very special guests! Lance and Clint Trahan of Duck Block Games! Their game Forsaken Castle had an incredibly successful KickStarter, and will be coming out later this year on Steam (it's been GreenLit), Windows, Mac, Linux, PS4, and Switch! They tell us about all how they got their start in making games, where the idea for Forsaken Castle came from, the Steam and Kickstarter process. They give props to their awesome composer Zack Parrish (who did the music for Valdis Story: Abyssal City), the Baton Rouge IGDA chapter Follow @IGDABatonRouge, the awesome Level Up Lab, hanging out with Pixel Dash Studios (creators of Road Redemption), and of course, their favorite pokemon.
Pokemon GO is getting a big update June 13th, including and event with increased appearance of fire and ice pokemon, extra XP for ball throwing skills, discounts on lucky eggs, and an unknown update to gyms that will see them out of commission!
The biggest excitement is the first ever ticketed Pokemon Go live event on July 22, in Chicago's Grant Park! Tickets will go on sale June 19th at 1 pm EST. Details are scant at the moment, but I am sure it's going to be popular!
In addition, from the press release,
"European Trainers can look forward to Pokémon GO celebrations hosted across the continent from June through September in partnership with Unibail-Rodamco shopping centers. We'll be posting a complete schedule for these events very soon. Also, The Pokémon Company is organizing “Pikachu Outbreak”, a Pokémon event in Yokohama, Japan, in August where they’re exploring a unique Pokémon GO experience."
Reminder: PAX West is September 1-4. Tickets went on sale last week, and are sold out, but if you want to look for trades now is the time.
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Episode 75: The stunning seventy-fifth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. This week, we have an incredible special guest, the amazing writer Jean Rabe! Jean started off in journalism, majoring in it at Northern Illinois University. After several years covering news at newspapers in the Midwest, she applied to work at TSR (now part of Wizards of the Coast) as a coordinator for the RPGA (which has now evolved into the D&D Adventurers League). Inspired by authors such as George R.R. Martin (particularly the book Fevre Dream), Jean always wrote fiction for fun. Her first chance to publish came when TSR published her novel Red Magic, launching her career as a fantasy author. Her favorite Dragonlance books that she's written are The Stonetellers series. Jean talks about her process, the differences between writing fantasy and crime fiction, the importance of participating in blogs and newsletters (Jean maintains a personal blog, participates in The LadyKillers blog, and does a newsletter that you can sign up for on her blog), and so much more. Her latest book, The Dead of Winter: A Piper Blackwell Mystery is available on Amazon, with the follow-up novel The Dead of Night due out from her publisher Imajin Books September 1st! Jean's got a story in the recently released anthology Trials and Tribulations if you are looking to try out her fantasy work. Look for "The Bone Tapestry", a thriller set in Italy, soon!
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