Gamerhead Radio

Episode 154 - Let's Hangout with Friends

This week we host our first Hangout Show and invite some of our listeners on to talk about the show and give us their feedback.

PLUS: Crash Bandicoot might be returning, Rise of the Tomb Raider wins big, and Amazon gives away a Lumberyard. All this and more in this week's episode of Gamerhead Radio!

Please take our Listener Survey and Census at http://survey.gamerheadradio.com!

This Week's News Stories

1. Amazon Releases Its Own Game Engine For Free
2. Google is working on a VR headset that doesn’t need a phone or PC
3. EA's Social Media Accounts Are Being Spammed by Skate Fans
4. Rise of the Tomb Raider wins big at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards
5. Toy maker teases return of Crash Bandicoot

Episode 153 - Happy Birthday to Us, and State of the Gamerhead 2016

This week your hosts celebrate our official third anniversary and update everyone on where we are at with our plans for Gamerhead Radio for the coming year.

Please take our Listener Survey and Census at http://survey.gamerheadradio.com!

PLUS: A Counterstrike player tricked thousands of cheaters into getting banned, Bungie wants to know why everyone is leaving Destiny, and The Witness is apparently doing really well after all. All this and more in this week's episode of Gamerhead Radio!

This Week's New Stories

1. Chinese mobile game revenues could double to $11.1B by 2019
2. The Witness clears more than $5M in its first week of sales
3. How one Counter-Strike player tricked over 3000 cheaters into getting banned
4. Kojima and Del Toro holding joint DICE talk
5. Bungie wants to know if you're still having fun in Destiny

Episode 152 - OBOKAIDEM Developer Feature, or Whatever Floats Your Goat

This week your hosts take a look at some mobile games by newer developer OBOKAIDEM and share their thoughts. (Spoiler alert: They're really addicting!)

PLUS: Multiple companies are stepping up VR development, a Solitaire app from an unlikely source is getting popular, and piracy continues to threaten smaller developers. All this and more in this week's edition of Gamerhead Radio!

NEWS STORIES:

1. The Witness is getting pirated hard - creator Jonathan Blow warns it'll impact future projects
2. Samsung is opening a new studio to develop VR games for Gear VR
3. Source: Bungie to sell Destiny ammo packs for real money
4. Donald Rumsfeld releases solitaire app
5. Halo's Arbiter Teased for Killer Instinct Next Season

Episode 151 - LIVE at Anime Apocalypse with Chris Sabat

Our honorary 3rd Anniversary show is one of our best yet! We are joined by Christopher Sabat, the voice of Vegeta, Piccolo and more from Dragonball Z, as well as from many other anime series and video games. If you thought the Villains caused our show to go off the rails in past episodes, you haven't seen anything yet!

PLUS: Video of this episode is also available at twitch.tv/GamerheadRadio and YouTube.com/GamerheadRadio!

Thanks again to Chris, Anime Apocalypse, The Hyatt Regency Schaumburg, and everyone that came to the show, watched online, or downloads later.

News Stories From This Episode:

1. It Has Come To This: Balls Kicking Simulator 2016 Released to Steam Greenlight
2. Last Week, Microsoft Reportedly Sold 99 Xbox Ones in Japan
3. Pennsylvania man arrested for peeing on video games in a Target
4. EA not trying to be "a corporate beast", says CEO
5. Fire Emblem: Fates controversial scene removed from Western release

Episode 150 - Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!

This week your hosts return with a fully functioning rig to re-discuss ours and your 2016 predictions, gush over Pocket Mortys, and to get excited for our live recording at Anime Apocalypse on Saturday, January 23rd!

PLUS: Angolan rebel sues Activision for portraying him as an angolan rebel, ESPN wants to be the ESPN of sports, and Microsoft promises HoloLens features that sound too good to be true. All this and more in this week's episode of Gamerhead Radio!

This week's news stories:

1. ESPN has decided to become the ESPN of esports
2. Norwegian high school will include esports in its sports curriculum
3. Microsoft's HoloLens will be 'totally wireless' with up to 5.5 hours of battery life
4. Rise of the Tomb Raider director takes a new gig at Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward
5. Call of Duty publisher sued by family of Angolan rebel

Episode 149 - Charlie Gear Solid: The Phantom Show

A shame the almost double meaning the title ended up having.

On this week's half-episode of Gamerhead Radio, your hosts are joined by Jenny "Captain Killjoy" Rychter to talk about what they're been playing recently, and also about a whole lot more that you'll never hear. Listen to find out why!

All this and nothing more in this week's episode of Gamerhead Radio!

The stories you don't get to hear us cover this week:

1. Oculus Rift Price Finally Confirmed
2. Hideo Kojima inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame
3. Sony tries to trademark Let's Play and pisses off the Internet
4. Piracy group nearly gives up on cracking Just Cause 3, warns of bleak future
5. Pornhub reveals which console's owners visited the most last year

Episode 148 - 2015 Predictions Review

Your hosts start off 2016 by reviewing their predictions for 2015 - which one of them guessed the most correctly?

PLUS: Christmas 2015 gave the gift of strangers' Steam accounts, bouncing paychecks, and a MLG acquisition. All this and more in this week's episode of Gamerhead Radio!

Note: Episode 147, our Best of 2015 Show, will be posted at a later date. We explain the delay in this episode.

Episode 146 - Con+Alt+Delete 2015 and Our Year-End Wrapup

For our last regular episode of the year, we bring you an extra large helping of Gamerhead for the holidays! Join your hosts as they discuss and explore Con+Alt+Delete 2015, and also review your favorite games from 2015 and most anticipated games to come in 2016.

PLUS: Hello Kitty gets hacked, Coleco is back, and Hideo Kojima gives us all what we wanted and announces that he's opening his own gaming studio. All this and more in 2015's extra large last helping of Gamerhead Radio!

New Stories:

1. Old-School Video Game Maker Coleco Is Making a New Cartridge-Based Console
2. 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Accounts Exposed In Database Breach
3. French Consumer Group Sues Valve Over Ban On Steam Resales
4. Tomb Raider studio head departs after ten years with Square Enix
5. Hideo Kojima forms independent Kojima Productions, partners with Sony

Episode 145 - Gamerhead Radio's Games of the Year for 2015

This week your hosts run down their top games for 2015 (regardless of if it was released this year or not!) and Jon reviews The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes.

PLUS: Nintendo doesn't think that putting their games on mobile platforms will "print money", but Microsoft would love to have them! Esports is here to stay, and a teacher revolutionizes learning in her classroom through gaming. All this and more in this week's episode of Gamerhead Radio!

News Links:

• Microsoft's Phil Spencer "Would Be Happy" To See Nintendo Games On Xbox One
• Reggie: Releasing Mario on Smartphones Isn't a Recipe to Print Money
• Teacher turns class into a video game - and now every student is passing
• Sony's Open to Acquiring Additional First-Party Studios
• 334 Million People Watched the League of Legends 2015 World Championships

Episode 144 - The One Where Things Don't Go As Planned

On this week's episode, Jon's "Karnami" prevents him from attending the show, so he phones it in instead - which was something we probably should have tested first, since apparently audio sync is hard for some programs. Sorry about the quality, it literally took 4 days to get it to sound as "good" as it does. But, we do still manage to talk all about the news and winners from The Game Awards and The PlayStation Experience.

PLUS: Game development is hard, the Wii U sold a crap ton of units on Black Friday, and Konami proves once again that they are run by a bag of dicks. And as a bonus, Michelle joins for a few minutes to talk about Moschino's Mario "fashion" line. All this and more in our newest episode of Gamerhead Radio!