8-4, Ltd.
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A game localization and publishing company based in Shibuya that will be forever remembered for its peerless work on Fire Emblem: Awakening, Imagine: Make-up Artist and Petz Hamsterz Bunch. Named after the final level in Super Mario Bros (8-4).
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12/26/2014 -- Last Podcast (I Gave You My heart)
Xmas in Japan, Final Fantasy Explorers, Hack ‘n’ Slash, retro gaming gift memories, Fantasy Life, Nintendo Donut DS, amiibo cards, our favorite games of the year and JJ’s Candy Room fantasies.
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12/12/2014 -- "Meet the Fokkers"
Amiibos, Wii U Smash Bros., Captain Toad, Jake Kazdal, Persona Q, Bravely Second, PlayStation Experience, The Game Awards, and more!
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11/28/2014 -- "Fuuuuuuuuuun! ... And Games?"
Pokemon, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, Steamworld Dig, Evil Within, Assassin's Creed: Unity, Crossy Road, random Japanese gaming memories, and more!
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11/14/2014 -- "The Bald & The Beautiful"
Captain Toad, Forza Horizon 2, SingStar, LEGO Batman 3, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Nintendo Direct, Iwata on region locking, Sonic Boom, Black Friday deals, and more!
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10/31/2014 -- "Ventures in Dreamland"
The Evil Within, Monster Strike, Terra Battle, Fantasy Life, Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Japanese strategy guides, retro game shopping, Nintendo earnings, QOL devices, Bloodborne 30fps-gate, Dominos Pizza, Valkyria Chronicles, and more!
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10/17/2014 -- "Terra-ble"
New Nintendo 3DS, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Danganronpa, Vib-Ribbon, Terra Battle, Alien: Isolation, Destiny, Japanese Sales, NPDs, Ex-Irrational Kickstarters, and more!
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10/03/2014 -- "Super Smashed Bros."
Shadow of Mordor, Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, Final Fantasy 14, Destiny, Terra Battle, Super Smash Bros. parity problems, Media Create numbers, Nomura's burning rage, Call of Duty in decline, and more!
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09/19/2014 -- "Tokyo Game Show 2014"
Join us for our 5th annual Tokyo Game Show free-for-all, with guests from Polygon, Game Informer, SCEA, 17-Bit and more on-hand to talk Bloodborne, FF15, Bravely Second, FF Explorers, The Evil Within, RE Revelations 2, Silent Hills, DQ Heroes, Mighty No. 9, the New 3DS and everything else at TGS!
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09/5/2014 -- "One on None"
Hop on the Tokyo Game Show Hype (Bullet) Train with talk of Nintendo's New 3DS, Sony's Pre-TGS Press Conference, and Microsoft's Japan Xbox One launch, plus more thoughts on Gunvolt, Dark Souls II DLC, Final Fantasy XIV, Disgaea 4, and more!
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08/22/2014 -- "C+/B-"
Hyrule Warriors, P.T., Azure Striker Gunvolt, more Dark Souls II DLC, Gamescom press conferences, the Night Trap Kickstarter, Monster Hunter’s 10th Anniversary expo, and more!
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08/8/2014 -- "Party of V"
Dark Souls 2 DLC, The Legend of Heroes: TITS, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy X, Resident Evil Remake Remake, Twitch.tv content id-gate, Iwata Drama (tm), EA Access, PlayStation Now and more!
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07/25/2014 -- "A Rose By Any Other Name"
FRB Japan’s Scott Popular joins us to talk about Evo 2014, the Destiny beta, Xenoblade Chronicles, Yo-Kai Watch (of course), The International 4, Kim Kardashian, aDanza, Sega Genesis music, plot holes in Double Dragon, and more!
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07/11/2014 -- "MOBA-Tah Blues"
Yo-kai Watch 2, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Japanese baths, Dragon Quest X for 3DS, John’s free-to-play addiction, preorder DLC, 3DS update speculation, EVO 2014 hyyyype!
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06/27/2014 -- "Can You Even Have a Baby?!"
Superagent Ben Judd joins the crew to recap what we learned from E3, dig deep into Shovel Knight, the Destiny Alpha, Summer Games Done Quick, balloon swords, Evo 2014, and more.
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06/13/2014 -- "E3 2014 Supercast"
John Davison, Garnett Lee, and Mike McWhertor — plus a surprise blast of bonus guests! — join Mark and John from LA to talk anything and everything E3, including Smash Bros, Destiny, Zelda, Bloodborne, Splatoon, and plenty more!
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05/30/2014 -- "Off the Rails"
With Mark and John out of town, JJ packs the E3 Hype Train™© with a rowdy gang of friends-of-the-show (Jean Snow, ex-intern Tom, ex-intern Johnny, Esteban Salazar of Marvelous AQL, John Davis of Q Games) to discuss / predict / argue what's about to go down in L.A.
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05/02/2014 -- "Gold, Jerry, Gold"
On this, the most golden of weeks, the regular crew checks in to weigh in on Hearthstone, YO-Kai Watch mania, Dark Souls 2 PC, Nintendo E3 news, Xbox TV, the E.T. Dig, old Japanese cell phone games, From Software's sale and more.
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04/18/2014 -- "Once, Twice, 100 Times a Podcast"
Our 100th episode gets the band back together (finally!), along with friends from 17-Bit and 2 Player Productions, to talk PAX East, Below, MGSV: Ground Zeroes, Dark Souls II, PS4 eye tracking, Steam sales numbers, Tomodachi Life, and of course, Sir Mix-a-Lot.
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04/04/2014 -- "Episode 99"
John and Hiroko are back, as are celebrity ex-interns Alex “Jungle Fire” Aniel, Chris “Scan Lines” Reed, and Tom “Hitman” Staniforth, joining us to talk Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3, Gundam Extreme Vs. Maxi Boost, Boom Beach, Monument Valley, Facebook & Oculus, Phil Spencer & Xbox, Amazon Fire TV, Brave Wave music, and more!
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03/21/2014 -- VR TROOPERS
John, Mark, and Hiroko are out working GDC, so it’s up to JJ and guests Johnny Linnert and Jean Snow to pick up the slack! This week we talk Dark Souls II, Luftrausers, Awesomenauts Assemble!, Towerfall: Ascension, Project Morpheus, Bitsummit, Iga going solo and more!
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03/07/2014 -- "CEASELESS DISCHARGE"
Dark Souls. That’s it. 150 minutes of talk about Dark Souls. No other games. No news. Just Dark Souls. Can you survive and make it to the end? In content AND format, truly the Dark Souls of podcasts. ...Dark Souls.
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02/21/2014 -- "I CHOOSE YOU, AAJST(????"
MGS translator Jeremy Blaustein and Sega's Ethan Einhorn join us for the Japanese PS4 launch to talk about their careers (Jaleco! Konami! Sega!), games we've been playing (Titanfall! Strider! Left Behind!), and all the news fit to...uh, recite (Twitch Pokemon! Nintendo Direct! PS4 Launch!).
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02/07/2014 -- "Click Here to Rate Us 5 Stars"
With John working on his Flappy Bird score, Tokyo gaming expert Jean Snow and Johnny (ex) "Intern" Linnert join us to talk Outlast, Brothers, Broken Age, Tales of Xillia, Puppeteer, Sengoku Basara 4, Groove Coaster Arcade, Dark Souls, Nintendo's investors meeting, Xbox One rumors, more!
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1/24/2014 -- "CANDY has a CRUSH on SAGA"
Hours have passed since the occupation of 8-4 Towers by one Alexander O. Smith, founder of the Kajiya sect. Tune in for talk of localization feats (Vagrant Story! Tactics Ogre! FFXII!) as well as his Kickstarter, Unsung Story, and thoughts on Don’t Starve, Kirby: Triple D, DayZ, Zubaz, more!
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01/10/2014 -- "Holiday Hangover"
John’s out sick, but the show must go on! This week we talk about how we spent our New Years, Ys II, Bravely Default, Zelda: ALBW, Mark’s Gamestop experience, what Hiroko *wants* to play, CES, pizza and more!
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12/28/2013 -- "Because the eShop"
8-4 alumni Andy Church and Brendon Pritchard come home for the holidays to tell us all about their latest MMO adventures in Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X Version 2, but not before we talk about Zelda: ALBW (again), Puzzle & Dragons Z, Bravely Default, Electronic Super Joy, Kamen Rider belt buckles, last week's Nintendo Direct, and more. Happy Holidays!
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12/13/13 -- "Take it to the Fridge"
Newcomer Roy Blakely joins the 8-4-some to talk (more) Mario, (more) Zelda, (more) Resogun, Ibb and Obb, Samurai Gunn, Bravely Default, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, 3DS Miiverse, the VGX Awards, the life and times of Hideki Kamiya, and more.
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11/29/2013 -- "A Link Between 3D Worlds"
John and JJ are back! And talking Mario, Zelda, next-gen systems, Mario, Persona 5, microtransactions, Zelda, Resogun, Mario, and taking sides in the console wars. And stick around for a special bonus segment focus(attack)ing on the Ultra SF4 location tests in Japanese arcades.
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11/15/2013 -- "Still Awaiting Greatness"
No PS4s. No John. No JJ. No problem! ...well, OK, one problem with the audio near the start... BUT ANYWAY! CheapyD and Scott Popular pitch in to help go over everything we’ve seen and heard (and not played, yet) of Sony’s new system, plus Super Mario 3D World, Black Friday shopping deals, and how to pronounce “BlazBlue.”
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10/4/2013 -- "Pretty Much No GTA Talk"
Just thought we'd let everyone know that up front. What we ARE talking about is Monster Hunter 4, the Steambox controller, Super Mario 3D World, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Wii U Party, Pikmin 3 DLC, the legacy of the Wii, Dragon Quest X on smartphones, and remembering Hiroshi Yamauchi.
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9/20/2013
Jeremy Parish, Matt Leone, Mike McWhertor, Griffin McElroy, Brian Silva, Jake Kazdal, and the mangod himself, Shane Bettenhausen, all join us to talk Deep Down, Dark Souls 2, MGSV, Vita TV, Gravity Daze...2 (?), Monster Hunter, Yakuza Isshin, Wii Sports Club, Strider, and more. Plus, we all pay our respects to the late, great Nintendo president, Hiroshi Yamauchi.
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09/13/2013
Please stow your laptops and power triangles as we depart for our special 84th (!) episode, with first-blush Monster Hunter 4 and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle, thoughts on Vita TV and the revamped Vita handheld, PS4's rumored headset and virtual lack of games for Japan (or is there?), DQX expansions, and of course, Mighty No. 9! (`_´)ゞ
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08/30/2013
We're off to PAX and a special sumthin' sumthin' -- but first, more on the Wonderful 101, Killer is Dead, Divekick, the 2DS announcement, PS4 and XBONE launch comparison, Gamescom news (and fresh rumors), and more!
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SUMMER GAMES
Kevin Larrabee of Back in my Play (Dorito it!) and Mehdi Debbabi-Zourgani of Je Game Moi Non Plus (cherchez le sur Dorito!) join us to talk retro games, Suda 51, and the...how do you say? ESSAUNCE of The Wonderful 101, DuckTales Remastered, amazon's new console, Carmack at Oculus, Nintendo Direct, MS news, Sony news, and more.
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#REGGIEFORSMASHBROS
Join us for a second helping of Pikmin 3 talk followed by first impressions of Dragon's Crown, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, and a whopping 17 seconds on Rogue Legacy. Plus: the Capcom 13 (BOF6?!), Mike Tyson vs. Glass Joe, indie updates, and plenty more.
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WHERE ALL THE WHITE PIKMIN AT?
Peer into the (near) future for in-depth, spoiler-free impressions of Pikmin 3, then dive back to the (recent) past for 73 minutes (!) of spoiler-packed The Last of Us thoughts. Plus: EVO '13, June NPDs, Strider, Ultra SF4, and more.
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THERE AND BACK AGAIN
(Almost) Live from Seattle! 17-Bit's Jake Kazdal, Camouflaj's Ryan Payton, and ex-Game Informer / Nintendo World Report founder Billy Berghammer join us (well, some of us) for a first-hand recounting of the highs and lows and highs again of this year's rollercoaster E3 game expo.
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5/24/2013
The new controller Kinecting, Halo TV multi-tasking, temperature-reading, sometimes / always / never-online, Quantum Breaking, EA-bro-fisting, Cheapy D'ing, Call-of-Duty fine-hair splitting, smart-glassing, Ray Barnholtin', fingernail-dirt-meets-water-cooler fueled by the infinite power of the cloud entertainment experience that is the Xbox One.
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05/17/2013
Doritos Crash Course 2, Blood Dragon, interns, Pandora's Tower, La Mulana, Dragon Fantasy, interns, Animal Crossing, Monster Hunter, Sorcery, Star Command, interns, NextBox speculation, Nintendo's E3, interns, BS crowdfunding campaigns, GT6, and interns. Also: interns.
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05/03/2013
La Mulana, Monaco, Crimson Clover, Tomodachi Collection, Mother 4 / Earthbound 2 (3?), Robot Unicorn Attack 2, Neo-Geo collecting, Wii U firmware updates, Nintendo's E3 show no-show, Famicom trivia, and NextBox scuttlebutt ('cause hey, we DO comment on rumors and speculation).
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