This month, we’re shifting the Community Game-Along theme focus away from genres of games to a game developer! The theme for May is Game Freak, the Japanese game developer famous for the Pokémon series. But that’s not all! This month is a great time to dive into the rest of their catalog, from Drill Dozer to Pocket Card Jockey.
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We thought it was a slow news period these past two weeks, but we still found plenty to talk about! Marcus gets started on his next game for review, Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, Anne has had enough of Sumikko Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town, and both share their thoughts on this whole employer health tracking thing. We’ve got lots of movie, game streaming, and VR talk in this episode, too, so sit down with your favorite beverage or strap on those running shoes (or whatever else you like to do when listening to podcasts, really), and enjoy!
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15:00 – Media Minutes: Night in the Woods, Sumikko Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, SOCIETY, Cloverfield, Criterion Channel
34:00 – Notable News: Blizzard tracking employee’s health, Mixer teams up with anti-cyberbullying group, Labo VR, JAST USA Classic Visual Novel archive
Anne’s Sumikko Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town review
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta
Sumikko Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town is the second game featuring Sumikko Gurashi characters to come out on the Nintendo Switch in Japan. The first game, Sumikko Park e Youkoso, was a Mario Party-style party game, while Sumikko Town is a town building game with a few mini-games sprinkled in.
Sumikko Park e Youkoso was adorable, but I ultimately found it rather repetitive, and soon grew tired of it. Does Sumikko: Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town step up the variety and fill the gap until Animal Crossing comes out on the Switch? Read on to find out!
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This episode is all across the board! We cover everything from bad 90s horror films to gender-locked MMO races and a Sumikko Gurashi ant (excuse me, town) simulator. Marcus recaps the Arcade Expo, details plans of his next convention, and Anne talks about what it’s like to juggle freelance work. All this and more in the latest episode of Pixel x Pixel!
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27:00 – Media Minutes: The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up, Sumikko Gurashi Atsumare Sumikko Town, Captain Toad, The Suckling, Criterion Channel
50:00 – Notable News: Google Stadia, Apple Arcade, new Final Fantasy XIV: ARR races gender-locked, Sega Genesis Mini
Marcus’ Hadaka Shitsuji review
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta
Spring is in the air in the Northern Hemisphere, which makes it a perfect time to enjoy growing and tending to crops in video games. You won’t even get your hands dirty! That’s right, this month the Community Game-Along is dedicated to farming games!
To participate in the farming game Community Game-Along, play a farming game or game with farming elements and share your thoughts and experiences using #FarmingGameMonth on social media. Blog posts, let’s plays, live streams, photos of your collection, podcasts… All kinds of contributions are welcome!
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Now that we’re a third of the way through 2019, it may seem silly to still be looking back at 2018. But the truth is, there’s so much great media from 2018 that I’m still catching up!
While I probably won’t ever be completely caught up on all the games I want to play, manga I want to read, and anime I want to watch, I feel that at this point I’ve been able to sample the 2018 releases I was most interested in and deliver a list of my favorite media from the year.
So, if you’re looking for some new media to check out, read on to see what I found most memorable from 2018!
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March is chugging along, and so are we! Marcus chats about all the expos and conventions he’s been going to, Anne talks about the nuts and bolts of freelance translation test and translating for live streams. Then we talk about what media we’ve been consuming, including the hot new superhero movie Captain Marvel, and all the news that’s on our radar!
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21:30 – Media Minutes: Heart of the Woods, Hadaka Shitsuji: Naked Butlers, Captain Marvel, Apex
38:00 – Notable News: Valve’s response to Rape Day game, Google controller patent, sales of SEGA game Judgement (Judge Eyes) halted due to actor’s cocaine allegations
♫ “Willie Lomans,” “5 minutes pleasure,” and “6 pence and moon” from Alphabet Planet by Hiroki Kikuta