Pointless Side Cast Episode 8: Crimes Against My Mouth

It's time for episode 8 of Pointless Side Cast! Join John Markley, Corey Atwood, Logan Kraus, Nick Nguyen, and Jade Kimmel as their discussion of their experiences with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One is catastrophically derailed before it even leaves the station by an ill-advised dare from Corey involving the words “if you drank the entire thing.”

Don't miss out on an episode filled with:

Pure evil in concentrated liquid form!

Battlefield 4!

The Nature Boy Ric Flair!

The awesomeness that is Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death!

Interstellar genocide!

Blacklight: Retribution!

John coughing out an entire lung live on the air!

Crusader Kings II!

The latest sanity-shattering horror Nick has unleashed upon the world!

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which we actually do get to eventually!

Lines between man and machine that never should have been crossed!

Batman: Arkham Origins!

New definitions of pain and suffering!

Logan reporting on the new Kinect!

Birdemic-based relationship abuse!

Knack!

Fine liquor sellers of Chicagoland!

Persona!

Thirst for the blood of children!

Solar 2!

Ass droids!

Ryse: Son of Rome!

Jade's mysterious secret! 

World of Warcraft!

Crippling addictive behavior!

Dead or Alive Ultimate!

And, of course, much more.

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Pointless Side Cast Episode 7: Nick's Kitchen of Terror

It's time for Episode 7 of Pointless Side Cast! The whole gang is here as John Markley, Nick Nguyen, Corey Atwood, Jade Kimmel, and Logan Kraus gather together to discuss PlayStation 4 launch titles, games they've played lately, the most recent of Nick's seemingly endless procession of bizarre household mishaps, John's petty mind games, Corey's corrupting influence, and beyond. Join them for all this, plus:

Crusader Kings II!

Illinois' baffling non-Euclidean geography!

Grand Theft Auto V!

Starscream!

Beyond: Two Souls!

Hitler's mechazombies!

Shadows of the Damned!

Nick's poison cupcakes!

Divekick!

Blasphemous kitchen necromancy!

Knack!

The wit and wisdom of the YouTube comments section!

A thoughtful discussion about the relative merits of Call of Duty and Battlefield, lead by someone who hasn't played either since the first Modern Warfare!

Spelunky!

Transformers: War for Cybertron!

Confusing, arbitrary selection criteria!

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn!

Human sacrifice!

Race the Sun!

Suda 51's restrained, nuanced approach to human anatomy!

Speedrunners!

Amnesia: The Dark Descent!

Depraved 11th-century Welsh aristocrats!

Killer Instinct!

Lemmy!

Killzone: Shadow Fall!

Corey undergoes mitosis live on the air!

Watch Dogs!

The first reference to Bubsy anyone has made since the Clinton administration!

And much, much more.

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Pointless Side Cast Episode 6: Baphomet 5eva

It's time for Episode 6 of Pointless Side Cast! Join John Markley, Nick Nguyen, Corey Atwood, and Logan Krauss as they talk about what they've been playing lately and  valiantly attempt to keep discussion on-topic long enough to discuss launch titles for this month's next-gen consoles. Featuring:

Xbox One!

Grand Theft Auto V!

Japan's confused love affair with 17th-century European mounted infantry!

The plague of River City Ransom-inspired violence destroying the youth of America!

Ryse: Son of Rome!

The orientation-transcending sexual magnetism of Keith David!

Dead Rising 3!

The high-stakes world of turnip trading!

Saint's Row 4!

Tom Clancy and Elmer T. Lee, apropos of nothing!

VR Troopers!

Nick pays tribute to the recent passing of gaming industry titan Hiroshi Yamauchi by completely forgetting his name!

Prototype!

The draconian football sign regime at Washington State University!

Papers, Please!

Terraria!

Ridiculous accents of classical antiquity!

Animal Crossing: New Leaf!

Logan's lust for tiger-assisted violence!

Killer Instinct!

The corpse-choked rivers of the Oregon Trail!

Crimson Dragon!

And much more.

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Nick would like to dedicate this episode to the memory of:

Nintendo Guy

1927-2013

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Pointless Side Cast Episode 5: Starring Vin Diesel as Fluttershy

It's time for episode 5 of Pointless Side Cast! Join John Markley, Nick Nguyen, and Logan Krauss as their attempts to discuss the Summer Steam Sale are continuously derailed in this digression-riddled trainwreck of an episode! 

Don't miss out on topics like:

Nick's apartment burning down!

Duke Nukem Forever!

Logan reporting live from a metal tool shed!

The Last of Us!

The rich mythoi of The Fast and The Furious and My Little Pony, joined together at last!

Call of Juarez!

Luc Besson movies!

Suda 51!

The horrors of Saints Row 2's PC port!

Brief musical interludes to patch over the part where I edited out a twenty-minute discussion of camera angles in action movies!

Alan Wake!

M. Night Shyamalan!

Hitman!

Nick alienates at least two more vital demographics forever!

Metal Gear!

Why John is a horrible, horrible friend!

Alpha Protocol!

Klezmer!

Lollipop Chainsaw!

The strategic and logistical problems of building prisons in outer space for no reason!

Dust: An Elysian Tail!

Duke Nukem's forbidden love!

The Walking Dead!

The programming wizardry behind Sonic the Hedgehog 2006!

And much, much more.

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Pointless Side Cast, Episode 4: The Loganing

It's time for the fourth episode of Pointless Side Cast! For the first time, this episode gathers all five members of Robot Geek's old Some Assembly Required podcast, with Logan Krauss joining John Markley, Jade Kimmel, Nick Nguyen, and Corey Atwood to talk about the highlights and lowlights of E3 2013 amd other topics from the world of video games. Join the gang for important subjects like:

The future of robe technology!

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain!

Logan joining the conversation via a laptop made in the late 1870s!

Shin Megami Tensei IV!

Crushing despair!

Saint's Row 4!

Appalling Kinect-enabled laziness!

Corey trying to talk Nick into eating candle wax!

Struggling in vain to figure out what the hell the deal with Quantum Break is!

Infamous: Second Son!

Tactical horse espionage!

Titanfall!

Nick accidentally gluing his hands to his own face live on the air!

Mirror's Edge 2!

Stonerville, Pennsylvania!

Dead Rising 3!

Captain Kirk's bloodthirsty misogyny!

Halo!

Me singing part of "I Will Wait for You" badly enough to induce the sudden apoptosis of your entire auditory cortex!

Emilio Estevez!

And much, much more.

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Pointless Side Cast: Episode 1

As you may already know if you've been reading this site for a while, there was once, in the mists of prehistory, a British-based videogame website called Robot Geek. In addition to being a writer there, I was part of their occasional podcast, Some Assembly Required. Robot Geek is no more, but I missed the old gang there. And so, I've been working  on bringing that podcast back in some form.

At last, I'm very pleased to announce the first-ever episode of Pointless Side Cast, featuring John Markley, Corey Atwood, and Jade Kimmel.

Now, I should warn you that the sound is not exactly professional quality. And that we'd all been out of the saddle for a while and take some time to start firing on all cylinders again. And that it was recorded a few weeks ago- Superbowl Sunday, in fact- and wasn't exactly on the bleeding edge of the news even then. And that Corey has an utterly filthy mouth. And that some of us were drinking throughout the show. And that the subject of the conversation sometimes wanders a bit. And that I have a weird, annoying voice that sounds sort of like somebody punched the G-Man from Half-Life in the mouth and started giving him amphetamines and barbiturates simultaneously.

Aside from that, though, it's a good show. You can download it here, as well as subscribe to the feed, or scroll to the bottom to play it without soiling your hard drive.

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You can also check out our (very rudimentary as of right now) page at Podbean.

So join us, if you like the sort of writing I do here at Pointless Side Quest and/or listening to three people in various stages of sobriety discussing such topics as:

Exciting new games of 2013!

Crysis 3's multiplayer beta, and how much I suck at it!

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky turning in his grave! (Special thanks to Musopen)

SimCity's new DRM!

The musical stylings of Master Chief!

Devil May Cry and Max Payne 3 fashion Dos and Dont's!

XCOM: Enemy Unknown!

Dolph Lundgren!

The cruel dramatic irony of Corey telling us about how much he's looking forward to the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines!

Chrissy from Growing Pains!

Watchdogs!

Decades of X-Men continuity fully explained in 15 seconds!

Tomb Raider!

Super Bowl XLVII!

Atlelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk!

The episode of Star Trek that revolved around how horny Spock was!

Shin Megami Tensei, cruelly taunting me once again!

Our impending deaths at the hands of NFL assassins!

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance!

Novel uses for your bathroom!

The Walking Dead, DayZ, and some of the ~400 new zombie-themed games coming out this year!

Star Wars 1313!

Yours truly laboring under the misapprehension that the Superbowl occurs under the auspices of something called "Major League Football!"

And much, much more.

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The Robot Geek American Staff Podcast is here

Over at Robot Geek, I'm part of the first episode of a new regular feature: The Robot Geek Podcast:: American staff edition! Join me and cohost Nick Nguyen for rambling, awkward discussion of video game topics including:
Bulletstorm!

Marvel vs. Capcom 3!

Classic PC game manuals of yesteryear!

Bewhiskered musclemen committing horrific acts of animal cruelty!

Other stuff I can't remember off the top of my head because it was recorded over a month ago!

All of it delivered in my golden G-Man-from-Half-Life-meets-Daffy-Duck-on-barbituates tones! Don't miss it!