Marooners’ Talk – Marooners' Rock

So we recorded this episode about a week and a half ago. There was one small bit of editing I needed to do, however, and other items, as you can see from our Contests page, got in the way. Now that’s all out of the way, though, I’ve found the time to snip out the bit in question and get the podcast episode up! We go through our picks for the best and worst movies and video games of 2012. Of course, this does mean that we touch on our favorite punching bag, Mass Effect 3 (for good damn reason), so keep an ear out for that. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 045 – “2012 Wrap-Up – Best and Worst” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

So, it’s been just under three months since the gang last got together for a podcast. We’ve had a couple of episodes within that three month period, but the band is back together on a (hopefully) weekly basis now for the first time since early August. Episode 044 of Marooners’ Talk, titled “The 44(00),” sees us returning with wild and amazing new super-powers (not really)! We address the vital happenings of the last three months, like the 38 Studios auction, Halo 4 (brought to you by Doritos and Mountain Dew), Assassin’s Creed III, Mists of Pandaria, Marvel, Anarchy Reigns, Disney/Star Wars, Kickstarter, the portrayal of gamer culture, and much, much more. We run about an hour and a half this week, and we’re still getting our podcasting legs back, so be gentle. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 044 – “The 44(00)” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

With Episode 043 of Marooners’ Talk, “Dance Rock Blitz,” we had a chance to sit and chat with Nick Chester and Annette Gonzalez from Harmonix (Publicist and Dance Central Community Manager, respectively) about Dance Central 3 and Rock Band Blitz. Hear about Dance Central 3’s new story mode, Rock Band Blitz’s Score Wars and Rock Band World, and various other topics, including the one song each of the four of us would want on Dance Central more than any other. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 043 – “Dance Rock Blitz” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

Episode 042 of Marooners’ Talk, “Shenanigans with Hoopy Froods,” has a new-to-the-show guest. Former journalist, and current PR in the games industry (specifically, video games), Greg Hutto was kind enough to sit and chat with us about a slew of topics. He managed to get a hat trick of hating/disliking things that Lindsey loves (TOOL, DOOM, and Splinter Cell), which is always fun. We also discuss some things about game journalism and PR, why Coldplay and Interpol suck (this may have been more me than them), the origins of his last name, and PAX. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 042 – “Shenanigans With Hoopy Froods” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

As you may or may not have seen, Episode 041 is actually the second half of Episode 040. Episode 041 of Marooners’ Talk, titled “Quality Journalism,” picks up milliseconds after Episode 040 suddenly cuts off. A double recording session, as you’ll hear at the end of this episode, prompted me to simply call the first half Episode 040 and the second half Episode 041. Here, our favorite dead horse comes up: quality journalism. Standards? Who fucking needs them. ENGLISH? A passing fad. Journalistic integrity? Yo mama so fat, she sat on a rainbow and made Skittles…but she still isn’t as big of a joke as journalistic integrity. Andie, Adam, Lindsey, and I reach varying levels of rage and disappointment with the majority of practitioners of our darling craft in this episode. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 041 – “Quality Journalism” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

Man, this one went ALL OVER the place. For the first time since all the way back in Episode 023, our Internet famous friend from the Twitters joined us for a gabfest. In Episode 040 of Marooners’ Talk, titled “Assassin’s Creed III: Zombio Auditore’s Revolutionary Adventures,” we discuss the TOTALLY SERIOUS possibility of Assassin’s Creed III DLC that features the reanimation of Ezio Auditore’s corpse during the revolutionary war. Ubisoft, if you’re reading/listening, the ball is now in your court. We recorded nearly two hours, with a change in topic around the one hour mark, so we have two episodes out of this weekend’s efforts. Episode 040, presented here, ends abruptly, and picks up immediately in Episode 041, which will be posted later this week or early next week. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 040 – “Assassin’s Creed III: Zombio Auditore’s Revolutionary Adventures” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

Contained within Episode 039 of Marooners’ Talk, titled “Keflings Chat,” are certain EXCLUSIVE details about NinjaBee Games’ upcoming A World of Keflings candy-themed DLC, straight from the mouth of Andrew Hill (PR/Marketing for NinjaBee Games). Aside from exclusive DLC details, Andrew gives us some great insight into the workings of NinjaBee, how he feels about the Xbox Dashboard, and an interesting look at how Avatars made it into A Kingdom for Keflings those many years ago, among many other points. Do you want the official name of A World of Keflings’ candy DLC? How about some details about new characters and new mechanics? Avatar FameStar inclusion? All of this and more within the hour below. All you have to do is click. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go!   The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 039 – “Keflings Chat” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

While Thom and I have been podcasting together for the last few months, and Lindsey and I podcasted together last week, Episode 038 of Marooners’ Talk, “Are You There Adam? It’s Us, Marooners’ Talk” is the first time since E3 2011 that Thom, Lindsey, and I have all podcasted together. Thom reminds Lindsey that he told her to play Mass Effect 2 a year ago, Lindsey wonders who would win in a battle between Superman and Dark Phoenix, Thom and Lindsey discuss True Blood (and get interrupted by the picture embedded below), and, as we have been doing recently, we discussed comic books and comic book characters. All without Adam, yet again. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 038 – “Are You There, Adam? It’s Us, Marooners’ Talk” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

SURPRISE BONUS EPISODE! As you may or may not know, Lindsey has been AFK as far as the site is concerned for the better part of the last year due to her job at BioWare. As you may or may not ALSO know, she is no longer bound by that restriction, so an impromptu podcast episode was recorded! Episode 037 of Marooners’ Talk, “The Original Flava,” is just Lindsey and myself, just like it was in the old days of the MehCast (for those of you who have been around that long), and it marks the first Marooners’ Talk that Lindsey has been on since EPISODE ELEVEN. The normal Marooners’ Talk Co-Conspirators, Thom and Adam, will (if available) return in this weekend’s normal recording. There may or may not be bad singing from each of us over the course of this hour long episode. You may now consider yourself warned. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 037 – “The Original Flava” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.

Thankfully putting our fears of Adam’s demise last week to rest, Adam himself returned triumphantly to this week’s episode of Marooners’ Talk (the 36th of its line), titled, “In Which Rogue Steals Manfaces Instead of Mutant Powers.” Last week, we discussed the Marvel NOW! announcement and what it meant to us (very little). Between the two recordings, I got a look at the Uncanny Avengers #1 cover for Marvel NOW!, and it was fugly (see it below). Deadpool crashed High Moon Studios’ Comic-Con panel to announce his own game, Mass Effect 3 gets brought up again in a negative context (we’re on a roll), and Thom and Adam talk World of Warcraft for a while. As always, you can listen instantly below or subscribe on iTunes and listen on the go! So, you know, do that. Or not. Whatever. Jerk. The post Marooners’ Talk: Episode 036 – “In Which Rogue Steals Manfaces Instead of Mutant Powers” appeared first on Marooners' Rock.