So Many Bits

After year off E3 has returned, and after a few months off Brandon Shockney and Di Billick join Bill to talk about what was shown! They cover the major conferences and offer up a few of the games they're most looking forward to in 2021 and beyond!

It's a game about mechs fighting aliens... right? Technically yes, but there's way more to the story of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and Bill, Joe Canalin, and Luis Badillo break it down for you! Favorite characters, favorite twists, and our best effort at explaining what actually happened!

Wrapping up 2020, Bill gets together with Brandon Shockney to discuss their favorite games from the past year! They also, perhaps unwisely, take a glimpse at Spaceballs: The Animated Series during Screenwatching!

The PlayStation 5 and X-Box Series X are all up in our business now, so Bill has chatted with Brandon Shockney and Justine Krueger to get their early impressions!

Shelby Mongan is on this week's episode to break down the mysterious new online phenomenon Blaseball for Bill! We also chat about Among Us, Super Mario 35, Hades, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order!

The classic days of racing games live on! This week have some of team VHR - Rob KTA, Colonel, Aidan, and Ian - to discuss super scaling, drifting, and just going like, really fast.  

Meanwhile, Cliff Murphy and I discuss the surprisingly in-depth gaming discussion from network sitcom The Goldbergs!

Screenwatching - The Goldbergs (4:47)
Interview - Team VHR (39:47)

More games have been played and Cliff Murphy and I are here to discuss them! We chat Hades, Among Us, Until Dawn, the Pokemon TCG, and MTG Arena!

Back to chatting games we've been playing this week with guest Brandon Shockney! We cover Resident Evil 3 (2020), Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Super Mario Galaxy, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore Edition, Starcraft II, and Risk of Rain 2!

Cook, Serve, Delicious! is ready for its 3rd (?!) entry to hit 1.0, and Bill is joined by Vertigo Gaming's Ryan Matejka to discuss! We chart Ryan's progression from fan of series creator David Galindo to veteran writer, new characters debuting, and the series lore even diehard players may not have noticed!

Meanwhile, Brandon Shockney has lots to say about the venerable cartoon Muppet Babies in this week's Screenwatching!

Screenwatching - Muppet Babies (2:29)
Interview - Ryan Matejka (27:33)

Dani, Kevin, and Lisa from Veritable Joy Studios are this week's guests to discuss ValiDate! While I remain distressingly in the dark on what Homestuck is, I do learn a lot about writing rich stories for a diverse cast, where sometimes it can be just as much fun writing about people breaking up as coming together!

Meanwhile, Di Billick gives expert NES analysis from a couple scenes of the long-running show Family Guy in Screenwatching!

Screenwatching - Family Guy (3:21)
Interview -Dani, Kevin, and Lisa (22:14)