Greetings Listeners! Hope your holiday season is going well! Tonight for New Year's Eve, we have a special treat for you... The return of our New Year's Eve special! Enjoy this blast from the not so distant past! Regular programming will return next weekend.
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Episode 58: the freezing fifty-eighth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. This week eveyone is sick, and Green Mario steps up to the plate to pretend to play Pokemon! We start off with a quick chat about Super Mario Run, and a spoiler free review of Star Wars: Rogue One! Miz Sylver sent us a list of news items to chat about! This included the Failure of the first Pokemon Sun and Moon Global Mission... The Wolf Doctor blames it on the extra step of registering to participate. Pokemon GO is having their Jotho Holiday Event through December 29th, in which you can catch Pikachus with Santa hats! They also have introduced "baby" Pokemon such as Pichu in egg hatching. You should all enter the Say YES to Nintendo 3DS Sweepstakes, being thrown by Southwest Airlines and Nintendo. Enter daily between now and January 15th.
Overwatch's Winter Wonderland special event is running through January 2nd, get holiday loot boxes that can include holiday skins, emotes, and more. Shantae: Half Genie Hero is finished, and if you Kickstarted it you should have your code in hand. We talk about Kickstarter, and how some great successes have come out of it, like Shadow of the Demon Lord.
Then we get to the heavy discussion: D&D Adventurers League! Greg Marks aka Follow @skerrit7h3green aka Green Mario talks about how D&D organized play is incorporating more writers and refuses to spill the secrets on the themes of Season 6 of Adventurers League. (Miz Sylver wrote an adventure for the current season, Giant Diplomacy, which is premiering at NewCon in Portland, Oregon December 30-January 1!) Greg does tell us about a bunch of new improvements being brought into Adventurers League. The new season will see more Tier 4 adventures (for characters level 17-20, high level characters!), to encourage players to continue through the league adventures. The Adventurers League has also incorporated player feedback to make the adventures easier to run. The adventures will feature highlighted story beats, to help ensure continuity between adventures, for example, if the players are supposed to retrieve an item for a later adventure, the DM will know in the current adventure; recurring NPCs will have added characterization so they a more consistent across adventures; encounters that utilize special rules will highlight those rules and have tips and tricks to make the encounter more interesting to play. In addition, Wizards is taking a more active roll in leading the D&D community, through customer service and organizations like the Heralds Guild. It's great that Wizards is paying more attention to D&D! If you want to see Green Mario in person, his early 2017 convention schedule is:
Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Do you play D&D? What are your thoughts on Star Wars: Rogue One? Is Greg more of a Spiky Mario than a Green Mario? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know!
Episode 57: the fantastic fifty-seventh episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. Our special guest this week is Craig Herndon of Digital Precept! We have a fascinating conversation with him about what drew him to the world of VR, starting Digital Precept with his good friend Jonathan Schrack, the process of developing Digital Precept's upcoming VR title, Kung Fu: Shadow Fist, the stress of showing at PAX South, splitting his time as a member of the Boston VR community and the Memphis Game Developers community, and VR in general! Find him online on the web, on Twitter, on Facebook!
And of course his awesome team mates at Digital Precept, including Jonathan S., Jonathan Marlin, Desmond, George, and Francesca!
If you want to talk to Craig about VR in person (or just want to check out some great VR tech), go to next week's Boston VR Meetup, Thursday December 15th, featuring MakeField and Ilium VR.
We also talk about some news and events! Miz Sylver attended a talk last week on VR storytelling featuring Julia Sourikoff!
Thanks for listening! Do you have a favorite VR headset? Are you planning to go the Boston VR Meetup next week? Do you want to ask Craig about his favorite VR games? Do you agree with the results of our BroQuest poll? Are you only going to see the Assassin's Creed movie because Michael Fassbender is the hotness? If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know!
The Defenders of the Tri-Force Escape Room is releasing new dates in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Diego. If you didn't grab tickets the first time now's your chance. The new tickets for San Francisco and Phoenix were available December 2nd, while the Los Angeles and San Diego tickets will be available December 5th.
The Game Awards 2016 happened this week. Pokemon Go won the Best Mobile/Handheld and Best Family Game categories. Miz Sylver's beloved Overwatch won Game of the Year!
We have a long discussion about Final Fantasy XV: BroQuest! Miz Sylver got the Ultimate Collector's Edition and has been losing sleep playing it! She picked up two bottles of Wiz's Energizing Elixer at Target, which is a creamsicle flavored Jones Soda themed to Chocobos. And we have a very important question for you:
Thanks for listening! Do you like the new tracking system in Pokemon GO? Did you score tickets to Defenders of the Tri-Force? Would you call it FFXV: BroQuest or FFXV: Goth Kingdom Hearts? If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know!
Episode 55: The finest fifty-fifth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast, guest starring KC of TheSwitchCast! The new TheSwitchCast discusses the latest Nintendo Switch news, starting with the promotional videos from Nintendo and following press releases and his favorite reporters Emily Rogers and Laura Kate Dale. Find all of TheSwitchCast's episodes online and follow the show on social media!
We also talk Pokemon Sun and Moon. KC has Popplio pride, and declares Sun and Moon the best game to come out of the main line of Pokemon in ages. We both have high hopes for Moon! (Did you know that Pokemon Stars is a possible title for the Switch?) On the other hand, KC has let Pokemon Go on now go walk out the door. The Wolf Doctor fills him in on the newest Ditto craze, even though she hasn't caught one yet! Thanksgiving is also a double XP event, so it's a good time to get back into Pokemon Go if you are feeling it...
Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Will you start listening to the awesome TheSwitchCast? Do you have the same love for Sun and Moon as KC? Can we tell you're a ditto from your pinpoint eyes? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know!
Episode 54: the faulty fifty-fourth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast. We had a little recording trouble this week, so please forgive the iffy audio quality! Miz Sylver and the Wolf Doctor both had gaming adventures this week. The Wolf Doctor went to Tuesday's Boston VR Meetup! Their next event is happening December 15 in Brookline if you want to go! Miz Sylver, on the other hand, played her new NES Classic! And we both managed to enter the My Nintendo Holiday Sweepstakes! And now, we talk about Sun and Moon!
Miz Sylver toys with the idea of getting the Z-Ring Bracelet!
Tomorrow (Sunday November 20th) from 2 to 4pm, Toys'R'Us is having a Sun and Moon launch party event where you can get some really cool freebies, including a Meowth statue! (Check to make sure your local store is having the event!)
The November/December issue of Nintendo Force Magazine has a lot of features on Sun and Moon, including a sweet double cover featuring Solgaleo and Lunala.
We talk a bit about the newest 3DS utility title, SwapDoodle, the love-child of SwapNote and Art Academy. This title brings back the use of SpotPass to send notes and doodles to your friends. Don't post inappropriate content, remember what happened last time... We wrap up talking about some cool events that are happening...
Coming soon to a city near you, it's Defenders of the Triforce - Real Escape Game x The Legend of Zelda. It's sold out in San Francisco, LA, and San Diego, but there are still tickets for Phoenix. The tickets for Seattle, Chicago, Houston, and the New York area will be on sale January 3rd, 2017, so mark your calendar if you want to go!
Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, we want to hear from you. Are you #TeamSun or #TeamMoon? Litten, Rowlett, or Popplio? Would you like a centerfold of Professor Kukui??? Tweet, email, or comment on the blog or Facebook to let us know!
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