3/20/2015: DeNA TEST

Bloodborne, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines, Cities: Skylines, Nintendo going mobile, Nintendo NX, Minter vs. Atari, Level-5 Vision 2015, and more!

Mar 20, '15

3/6/2015: BACK TO FRONT

Majora's Mask, OlliOlli2, Counterspy, Dragon Quest Heroes, Hyrule Warriors, FF14 Gold Saucer update, htol#NiQ, White Night, VR, free game engines, gold amiibos, Clay Fighter, and more!

Mar 6, '15

2/20/2015: RODEO TIME

Majora's Mask, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Persona 5, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, The Last Guardian, Nintendo's investor meeting, (more!) amiibos, live action Zelda, the Tokyo Zelda concert, and more!

Feb 20, '15

2/6/2015: #84BBQ

Pokemon Cafe, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M, Darkest Dungeon, The Swapper, Destiny, dreeps, Terra Battle, Dragon's Dogma Online, Apex 2015, Amiibos, Football (?)...and other stuff.

Feb 6, '15

1/23/2015: DON'T BE RIDICULOUS

Driveclub, Hako-Boy, Infamous: First Light, The Swapper, Mario Galaxy 2, Dreeps, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Nintendo Direct, Hololens, and more!

Jan 23, '15

1/9/2015: AWESOME PODCAST DONE SLOW

New Years in Japan, Final Fantasy XIV, Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD, Battle of the Tetris games, Fantasy Life, Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Edition, CES, Steam Machines and more!

Jan 9, '15

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.

Dec 26, '14

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!

Dec 12, '14

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!

Nov 29, '14

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!

Nov 14, '14

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!

Oct 31, '14

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!

Oct 17, '14

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!

Oct 3, '14

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!

Sep 19, '14

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!

Sep 5, '14

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!

Aug 22, '14

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!

Aug 8, '14

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!

Jul 25, '14

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!

Jul 11, '14

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.

Jun 27, '14

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.

May 30, '14

05/16/2014 -- "Express Bus to the Train Station"

With only a couple weeks till the hype train leaves the station we take a quick stop to talk about Super TIME Force, Sportsfriends, Kero Blaster, Yo-Kai Watch, the Kinect cut and run, Nintendo's financial results, Project Beast, Tetsuya Mizuguchi returning to video games and more.

May 19, '14

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.

May 2, '14

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.

Apr 18, '14

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!

Apr 4, '14

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!

Mar 24, '14

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.

Mar 7, '14

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!).

Feb 21, '14

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!

Feb 7, '14

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!

Jan 24, '14

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!

Jan 10, '14

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!

Dec 28, '13

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.

Dec 13, '13

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.

Nov 29, '13

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.”

Nov 15, '13

11/1/2013 -- "With So Much Drama in the VGC"

Resolutions and media centers and firmware, oh my! Special guest @CheapyD joins the gang in dissecting every damn detail trickling out about next-gen, and why it will matter--unless it won't. Plus Battlefield 4 PTSD, SF II trivia, and war stories from the Dark Souls II beta (and not the game).

Nov 1, '13

10/18/2013 -- "Dinner for 11,500"

With Captain MacDonald of the good ship 8-4 Play off plundering the high seas, the rest of the crew have assembled or a relaxed bout of hearty discussion (read: directionless rambling) on topics such as Pokémon X/Y, Wind Waker, Device 6, the new Vita, Supercell's billions, the Sonic cartoon, the Valve controller, Boogerman's long-awaited (?) return, and more.

Oct 18, '13

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.

Oct 4, '13

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.

Sep 20, '13