Bonus Pretzel, a group of college students, discusses video games they're playing, looking forward to, and the news relating to the industry.
Real life calls Morgan away from us yet again this week, leaving us to fend for ourselves as we discuss recent goings-on and assorted video game nonsense. Craig takes advantage of the power vacuum to start a reign of limited production value and weird Japanese games!
Title says it all. Bonus Pretzel returns from PAX East 2014 with plenty of games to talk about! Also, if you happened to be at PAX and found one of our business cards, shoot us an email or a message on twitter, and there may be a prize in store for you!
The gang goes over the plans for PAX East 2014, and discusses a few games in this shorter podcast.
How many jokes can the crew make about Luftrausers sounding like trousers? Oh, I'm fairly certain you'll find out.
The Bonus Pretzel podcast returns! We recap our long few weeks without podcasts, and find out that Frank has an undying love for skeeball..
This week is slow, as we approach the oncoming swarm of games in the next weeks.
This week starts Gary's hiatus, leaving us with a rag tag group of four. We discuss games like Loadout, The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot, Dark Souls, Dead Rising 3, Killer Instinct, and more!
Close the blinds! Pull the covers over your head! It's a morning edition! Bonus Pretzel returns from a long hiatus to talk about games like Loadout, Banner Saga, GTA IV, Dark Souls, and Spelunky. We also tease at a few new features to reach our site in the coming weeks.
The Bonus Pretzel Podcast is back in the new year, and we kick it off with tales of adventure from Craig and Heather's fantastical time at Magfest. Enjoy!
This is it, friends of the site, it's finally time for Bonus Pretzel's 2013 Game of the Year Podcast! Congratulations to those that won, and those that fought hard to be placed in the official site-wide top 10 list.
The bulk of the remaining categories are covered in Part 2 of Bonus Pretzel's Awards Podcast! The following categories are discussed:Best MusicBacklog HeroMoment of the YearBest RevivalBest StoryGame We Liked Looking at the MostBest New CharacterBest EndingBest Download-Only GameIn Memory
The end of the year awards begin now! This episode goes over the following categories:Most Amazing Title of the YearBest Early Access GameBest DLC of the YearBiggest SurpriseTroy Baker of the YearBest Android or iOS GameBest Multiplayer ExperienceMost Disappointing Game of the Year
On the final typical podcast of the year we discuss GTAV, Starbound, Day Z, Mario 3D World, and The Walking Dead: Season 2. We also discuss the family dynamics of firetrucks.
That's right everyone! Frank played a Pajama Sam game! But that's not all! We also talk about Starbound, Dark Souls, The Last of Us, and the Saints Row IV DLC: How the Saints Saved Christmas.
After brief break for Thanksgiving, the Bonus Pretzel crew returns to discuss all things from Assassin's Creed to World of Warcraft. We also discuss The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, GTA Online, and even Starcraft II.
This week we talk about the Playstation 4 and a slew of its games. We also discuss Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, GTA Online Beach Bum pack, Saints Row IV, Dark Souls, and more!
This week we're joined by Heather McDonald who comes to discuss Batman: Arkham Origins, among a myriad of other topics. We also discuss games such as XCOM: Enemy Within, Desktop Dungeons, Risk of Rain, Battlefield 4, Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus, and Steve Jackson's Sorcery! This Friday the Playstation 4 releases! Are you ready?
This week marks our fiftieth podcast! We discuss games like Rocksmith, Battlefield 4, Volgarr the Viking, GTA Online, Saints Row IV, and more Dark Souls. Look out everyone! Big games coming soon!
Things get a little weird on the Bonus Pretzel podcast...Maybe it's just because its Halloween! We discuss Saints Row IV, GTAOnline, Battlefield 4, and more! We might have talked more, but we pulled a mask off of Frank, only to find out it was old-man Jenkins from the amusement park! Nope, can't do it. Not the Scooby-Doo ending..
This week we discuss the difference between GTA V and Saints Row IV, along with tip-toeing our way around spoilers in The Stanley Parable. Is this the end? Or is it just one of many? Or is it just the beginning?
So many games were played this week! Pokemon X and Y released this Saturday and, spoiler alert, Craig is a Pokemon master. But fear not! Other games such as GTA V, Volgarr The Viking, rymdkapsel, and the Hearthstone beta were played.
This week special guest Heather McDonald joins the Bonus Pretzel Crew to discuss one of the week's big releases, Beyond: Two Souls. We discuss GTA V once again, and other titles such as Dark Souls, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Battlefield 4 Beta, and then some! We also discuss Morgan's chance encounter with an Oculus Rift.
This week we discuss game ideas based around the Seinfeld. Yep. It's one of those weeks. We also discuss the launch, or not launch, of Grand Theft Auto Online. This week we also mourn the loss of Tom Clancy.
This week we continue our discussion on GTA V but also discuss new games like Wind Waker HD and Frank's new experience in Diablo 3. Stay a while, and listen?
Morgan returns from his short hiatus, and with him he brings a long discussion on Grand Theft Auto V. With a full cast we discuss GTA V, The Wonderful 101, Splinter Cell: Blacklist multiplayer, and some news this week relating to the loss of the former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. Oh yeah, Morgan finally got Payday 2.
After weeks of absence, Gary is finally back in the mix with a new episode, where he spits game about horror before the crew moves on to other recent releases, like Puppeteer and Rayman Legends, and some old standbys as well. Even without Morgan available, we face down Playstation news and maybe even something special for our devoted listeners! Check it out!
Morgan returns home to find that the Bonus Pretzel Crew had eaten each other completely and only left an unwrapped copy of "Learn with Pokemon: Typing Adventure". A wild guest appeared on the show! Friend of the site, Heather McDonald, joins this week to discuss the adventure to Otakon with Craig and the many strange games that came home with them.Damn, it feels good to be back.
This week's episode of the Bonus Pretzel Podcast finds itself without a host, so the rest of the crew try to pick up the slack. Did they succeed? Listen in to find out!
Things get loopy, as they eventually do, on the show this week when we discuss our adventure at Connecticon 2013! We had a cool interview, along with some good laughs. Not to mention all the board gaming that went down!
The Bonus Pretzel Crew was at ConnectiCon 2013, and so was Pwnee Studios, who were showing off their upcoming game, Cloudberry Kingdom. Naturally, we had a quick chat with them about the game and it's development process. Forgive the lack of quality due to the cell phone microphone and Rock Band playing in the background.
This week the Bonus Pretzel crew discusses games and news. Our topics are The Last of Us (Spoiler-free), and Animal Crossing.
This week was a very special week for the Bonus Pretzel Crew! We did some experimenting with live streaming our show, and this was our test run!
Whoa! Spoilers man! This week on the Bonus Pretzel Podcast we discuss the games we've been playing such as Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Gunpoint, Thomas Was Alone, and more! Microsoft tries to explain it's used game DRM for the Xbox One, and we speculate slightly on E3 presentations.
This week on the Bonus Pretzel Podcast we take a look at the new Xbox One! The last of the next generation of consoles reveals itself, and we discuss every bit that we know. Gary's out in Ireland, so we brought in a guest and friend of the show, Frank Ruggiero.
This week on the Bonus Pretzel Podcast, Morgan and Spencer pay Gary a visit!
This week on the Bonus Pretzel Podcast, we discuss this slow week of video games by going over some of our old favorites. This week was also a big week in news as EA announces layoffs, Sony's new indie marketplace, and news surrounding Patrice Desilets and his "firing" from Ubisoft.
On this week's episode of the Bonus Pretzel Podcast we we introduce a new member of the crew. We welcome James "JMD" Morgan-Delossa to the crew as our west-coast correspondent, and we look forward to his future input. This week we discuss titles such as Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Don't Starve, SimCity, League of Legends, Forza Horizon, and more!
This week we discuss some weird ideas, such as the idea of a one month binge on EVE Online, and an Pizza Hut Xbox 360 App? The next generation consoles can't come any faster.
A three-cast this week, where we talk about weird things like fake-bong rip noises, what kind of noise you make when you stretch, and a troubling question about horses. Oh yeah games came out this week, like Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Just another week for the Bonus Pretzel crew, we rant on a non-spoiler standard about Bioshock Infinite, how much we can't wait for Injustice, and wait...a dating-sim involving dinosaurs?! Oh yeah. Just another week.
This week was a bit slow for games, apart from the new release from Behemoth, BattleBlock Theater, and some news including the closing of Lucas Arts development. As part of our crazy portion, we discuss the new Far Cry 3 expansion "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon". Oh yes, the craziness continues.
This week Craig and Morgan went on an adventure to the Penny Arcade Expo in Boston! We discuss our favorite games and things we saw at the event, as well as the usual game and news talk. But if that isn't enough, Craig and Morgan have a weird experience with Pokemon..
Gary's out this week, but that doesn't mean we don't have games to discuss! We discuss our adventures with SimCity, Fire Emblem, Tomb Raider, and yet again Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer. Just be sure to plant your solar panels during the day, and all will be well. If any listener will be attending PAX East this weekend be sure to look for Craig and Morgan on Saturday!
This week the gang discusses games such as Tomb Raider, Sim City, Mass Effect 3 (as usual) and some news surrounding the gaming industry. Does Lara Croft fall into the "Nathan Drake" category of average Joe meets mass killer? Find out this week on.. The Bonus Pretzel Podcast!