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In this week's episode, I look back at some of my favorite classic video games, and also discuss my book advertising results from October 2023. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of CLOAK OF BLADES as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of CLOAK OF BLADES for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: NOVBLADES The coupon code is valid through November 28th, 2023, so if you find yourself wanting to get caught up with Nadia's adventures before CLOAK OF EMBERS comes out, why not start with an audiobook? TRANSCRIPT Hey, everyone. Welcome to Episode 174 of the Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is November the 3rd, 2023, and today we're going to talk about classic video games. We'll also discuss October 2023's ad results and made up words that turn out to be not made up after all. Before we get into all that and then an update about my current writing project, it is time for Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon is for the audiobook of Cloak of Blades as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of Cloak of Blades for 75% off in my Payhip store with this coupon code NOVBLADES and that is spelled NOVBLADES and you get that in the show notes. The coupon code is valid through November 28th, 2023, so if you find yourself wanting to get caught up with Nadia's adventures before Cloak of Embers comes out, why not start with an audiobook? You can get the coupon code and the links in the show notes for this episode. Now let's have an update on my current writing projects. I am 107,000 words into Cloak of Embers, which puts me on Chapter 21 of 22 so I'm almost done and I'm hoping to get that wrapped up next week if all goes well. At 107,000 words, I'm not sure how long it will be once I'm done editing and by the time the rough draft is done, but it will almost certainly be either the longest or second longest book that had Nadia as a main character. So that will be something to look forward to. I'm also 9,500 words into the book I'm going to write after Cloak of Embers and I will discuss that a bit more and what I intend to do with that after Cloak of Embers is published, hopefully in November. But we'll see. In audiobook news, Dragon Skull: Wrath of the Warlock is almost done in audiobook, as excellently narrated by Brad Wills and we just have to finish proof listening to it and hopefully we should have that come out before the end of November if all goes well. Brad is also going to start work on Dragonskull: Doom of the Sorceress before much longer, and that will probably (given how the holidays are falling this year) come out in either late December or January, with January being the more likely outcome. In other audiobook news, Hollis McCarthy will soon start the recording of Ghost in the Serpent, so hopefully we'll have more updates on that soon.   00:02:30 Reader Questions/Comments Before we get to our topics today, let's have a few questions from readers. Our first question is from Lisa, who writes to ask: Hello, I just started reading your book series with your character Ridmark Arban and I am wondering what is the very first book to start with. Is it the one called the First Quest or is it a different one to start with? Also I have been looking all over the Internet trying to figure out what the book order is for your character Ridmark Arban and I'm having no luck. In answer to your question Lisa, the very first book with Ridmark Arban would be Frostborn: The Gray Knight. That is the first book in the Frostborn series, and Ridmark is also the main character in Sevenfold Sword and then Dragontiarna, though I would recommend starting with Frostborn: The Gray Knight. And you can find the series reading order on either my website or it should be in the metadata on all the different retailers. And I think we have that set up properly now. Frostborn: The First Quest is a prequel to the main Frostborn series that I put out for free to people to read and enjoy as a bit of back story, but it's a prequel and the actual official starting point of the Frostborn series would be Frostborn: The Gray Knight. Our next question…well, it's more of a comment really is from Juana who writes about the upcoming Cloak of Embers and her opinion of the character of Victoria Carrow. And this is what she thinks Victoria will be A: she's the head of Singularity B: She is a criminal elf. C: She killed Tarlia and took her place or D: She is an anthrophage elder with really good impulse control. In any case, she is bad news and I just don't like her. Ah, as you might guess from that comment, Juana is a longtime reader who has read many of my books. Thanks for that, Juana. She has been very suspicious of Victoria Carrow from the beginning, when she first appeared, way back in Cloak of Ashes back in 2020. Well, Victoria does have a secret and we are going to find out what it is in Cloak of Embers. And during the process of writing this book, I realized that talking about Victoria's secret had an additional meaning that I did not intend but in this sense we are talking about the secret held by Victoria Carrow and not the apparel company. And now for a question a couple of different readers have had over the past few months since Silent Order: Pulse Hand came out. A reader emailed to ask of the word materiel, spelled MATERIEL in Silent Order: Pulse Hand was a mistake and asked if it should have been spelled material, MATERIAL. No, that spelling is correct. Materiel is a real word when spelled with an E. It refers to weaponry, supplies and equipment used for war in the military or to quote the Wikipedia definition: “Materiel are supplies, equipment and weapons in a military supply chain management, and typically supplies and equipment in a commercial supply chain context. In a military context, the term materiel refers to either the specific needs, excluding manpower of a force to complete a specific mission, or the general sense of the needs, excluding manpower of a functioning army. An important category of materiel is commonly referred to as ordnance, especially concerning mounted guns, artillery and the shells they consume, along with fuel and munitions in general the steady supply of ordnance is an ongoing logistical challenge in active combat zones.” Or to put it another way, not only is materiel a real word, it is in fact a topic to which many serious minded military officers have devoted much serious minded thought since a failure to address your military's materiel needs means you're going to lose the war before the first shot is fired. To be fair, as a science fiction and fantasy writer, I make up a lot of words. Grammarly is always so impressed that I use so many unique words but it really isn't fair because I do make a lot of them up. That said, I was a history major, which was not helpful to finding a real job, but turned out to be useful for concept and terms for fantasy novels. Like in Frostborn, I use the terms dux and comes for noblemen instead of duke and count because Latin was the primary language of Andomhaim and the terms duke and count were derived from the Latin words dux and comes. However, given how confused some people were by the terms dux and comes, if I had to do it all over again, I would probably default to duke and count, just to reduce reader confusion. Though urvaalg was one of my better made-up words. No one ever gets confused about what an urvaalg is. So those are the comments and questions for the week. If you have a comment or question you'd like addressed on the show, leave it as a comment on one of my websites and we will see if we can get to it.   00:07:09 Ad Results for October 2023 Our next topic for today is ad results from October 2023. Since it's past the 1st of November, it's good time to look back and see how my ads did for October 2023. I have to admit that October was a pretty weak month for sales for a variety of reasons beyond my control or honestly anyone's control. For one thing, the economy remains bad and inflation is high, especially in the US. For another, the international news in October was very bad, which always puts a damper on discretionary entertainment spending like books. Amazon US was consistently glitchy throughout all of October and still isn't working right as of the time of this recording. I can't prove this, but I think the books category faced strong competition from video games in October, especially Spiderman 2 for PlayStation and Super Mario Wonder for the Switch. Full disclosure, I did buy Super Mario Wonder and I'm playing it and it's excellent. On the plus side, Ghost in the Serpent had a strong start and Silent Order did very well in October on the strength of the Bookbub feature deal back in the first week of September and the lingering halo effect from Pulse Hand coming out soon afterwards. People are generally more willing to start a finished series than an unfinished one, especially in the science fiction and fantasy space. All my ads for October turned a profit, which I am very grateful for. So here's how the Facebook ads did. For Frostborn, I got back $5.44 for every dollar I spent, with 44% of my profit coming from the audiobooks. For the Ghosts. I got back $7.46 for every dollar spent, with 8% of the profit coming from audiobooks. If you take out Ghost in the Serpent, my profit comes to $2.95 with 20% of the profit coming from the audiobooks. For Cloak Games and Cloak Mage, I got back $3.19 for every dollar spent and for Silent Order, I got back $4.45 for every dollar spent. For Amazon ads, the only thing I advertised myself was Dragonskull: Sword of the Squire, which did pretty well. For every dollar spent, I got back $3.41, with 27% of the profit coming from the audiobook. So we see once again, that audiobooks, once you have them, are usually a good additional profit for a long series. For some reason I could never really get the Cloak Games or Cloak Mage audiobooks to sell, which is why I said usually instead of certainly. I think in November I'm going to do things a little bit differently. I'm going to try advertising Frostborn entirely on Bookbub ads, which I haven't used in a while. Facebook has been making some changes to the way targeting works on its ad platform, and I can see those changes making it less useful to advertise books there. Additionally, Facebook has also begun testing a subscription service for an ad free experience, which obviously would make Facebook way less useful for book advertising. The advantage for Bookbub ads is that some of the targeting has already been done for you. Like with Facebook ads, one of the keys to success is to make sure you've targeted your audience correctly. With Bookbub ads, everyone looking at the Bookbub e-mail is already looking for discount books anyway, so some of the targeting work has been done for you already. Anyway, if Facebook is considering pivoting away from ads in favor of paid subscriptions, it will be good to have backup options ready. And as always, thanks for reading. There would be no point in advertising these books if people didn't read them.   00:10:29 Main Topic of the Week: Classic Video Games   So, let's go on to our main topic this week: something fun because it's my podcast and I wanted to talk about something fun. That topic is classic video games. The main way I have played classic video games for the last four years is the Nintendo Switch, which I bought in September 2019. I've mentioned before that I didn't play any console games from about 1998 to 2019. There were several good reasons for this. First, I was really busy. Second, consoles are expensive and I definitely didn't have the money to drop on many games for the 2000s and most of the 2010s. Third, while I did play games, I played on the PC. I remember in 2007 not going out to eat for a while to save up to buy a better video card so I could play Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion on something other than the very lowest video settings. But 2019 marked a major personal milestone, my 100th book. Dragontiarna: Knights was about to come out and a few people asked what I wanted to do to mark this milestone. Maybe take a trip, go on vacation, that kind of thing. Instead, I decided that I wanted a Nintendo Switch. But why a Nintendo Switch? At Easter 2018, my younger brother unexpectedly gave me a Super Nintendo Classic as a present. For a while, at the end of the 2010s, Nintendo intermittently sold two mini consoles, the Nintendo Classic and the Super Nintendo Classic, each one accompanied with recreations of the old style controllers and some of the greatest hits for the respective console. Playing around with the Super Nintendo Classic got me interested in the Switch since the Switch online subscription service also came with emulators for the NES and the Super Nintendo. I have played a lot of NES and Super Nintendo games back in the 1990s, but I only rarely had the chance to finish them. Partly it was because I was busy and partly because the technology to save games back then really didn't exist for either the Nintendo or the Super Nintendo, with a few exceptions. If you ran out of lives and died, or you had to go do something and turn off the console, that was it. Your game was gone and you had to start over from scratch. But after Dragontiarna: Knights was published, I made up my mind about what I wanted to do to celebrate, and I got a Switch. As it turned out, getting the Nintendo Switch 8 months before the great COVID freak out turned out to be a really, really good idea. It gave me the opportunity to beat several games, actually numerous games that I had run out of time to play. The first one was The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, which I had gotten for the PC back in 2011 and played intermittently ever since, but never found the time to finish. I beat it for the first time on Switch and then I finished Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which was a spiritual successor to the various Castlevania games of the 1990s. With a combination of Switch Online, save states, and some of the anthology collections available for the console, I managed to finish some of the classic games from the ‘80s and early ‘90s that I never had the chance to finish earlier, like the original Super Mario Games, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario 3 for the NES, and Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo. I never really got into Super Mario 2 for the NES and never really tried to play it. The Castlevania series: the three Castlevania games for NES, Castlevania 2 for the Game Boy (the first Castlevania for Game Boy really isn't worth playing) and Castlevania 4 and Castlevania Dracula X for the Super Nintendo and I finally got to beat all those. The Zelda series: the original Legend of Zelda for NES (which I never finished) and Link to the Past for Super Nintendo, which is in fact one of the few Super Nintendo games I actually finished back when it originally came out, but I enjoyed being able to play it on the Switch with saved states. Super Metroid, which I never got a chance to play at all in the ‘90s and is deservedly a classic. You frequently see its mechanics turn up in many other modern games. Lest you think I spent all my time replaying the classics, I did finish some newer games as well. The remake of Link's Awakening was excellent, a good updating of the Gameboy Classic. Metroid Dread was absolutely superb, even though it took me a while to finish some of the boss fights. I also finished Elder Scrolls Blades, which I'm not going to say was a great game, but I still enjoyed it and I am proud to say I beat the final boss without paying for a single micro transaction, though I did buy the soundtrack, which makes for good background listening while writing epic fantasy. I keep meaning to play the remake of Metroid Prime, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. The multiplayer games also turned out to be great fun. I started bringing Mario Kart 8 and some controllers to family gatherings. Turns out nearly everyone likes Mario Kart. They say alcohol is a social lubricant, but Mario Kart is almost as effective and results in a lot fewer hangovers, though I do lose at Mario Kart a lot. Additionally, playing the old multiplayer classics like the original Super Mario with someone who appreciates them is always fun. So I think it's safe to say that I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of that Nintendo Switch I bought back in 2019. What's interesting is that the Switch is about 7 years old now as of this recording, which is the eternity in technology terms, yet it's still going strong. Microsoft, Sony, and the PC game market have been locked in an arms race for even more powerful hardware and more detailed graphics. By contrast, the Switch was fairly underpowered even for 2017, when it came out. And while it's been updated a few times in the year since, it's still essentially the same device. Pretty much every phone manufactured in the 2020s is more powerful than the Switch, but Nintendo doesn't seem super interested in rushing into their next console, though the rumor mill has been talking about the Switch Two or the Switch Pro for years. In fact, just a couple of weeks ago they released a Super Mario Wonder for the Nintendo Switch, and it was a huge hit and received universal acclaim on Metacritic. This approach makes sense once you know of Nintendo's philosophy of withered technology. This was a strategy articulated by Nintendo game designer Gunpei Yokoi (and I apologize if I pronounce his name wrong), who called it lateral thinking of withered technology. This philosophy described using mature technology that was well understood and cheaply obtained rather than cutting edge stuff to create unique game experiences different than anything else available. I suspect this is a variant of a philosophy you see among successful people in every field. They rely on the boring but practical methods and combine them in ways to create something unique. Or if you dig into the many successes, you will find that the people behind them stuck to the well established fundamentals but did them really well, and that's what the Switch does, isn't it? It's a unique experience. You can plug it into the dock and play it on your TV or unplug it and use it like a handhole console like a super powered Game Boy. I can play on my couch or take it with me to those family gatherings and plug into the TV for Mario Kart 8. It's an idea that seems incredibly obvious in hindsight, but it really wasn't at the time. Dragontiarna: Knights was my hundredth book in 2019, and my most recent book, Ghost in the Serpent, was 145. Maybe when I hit 150 I should get a Switch OLED model, or the mythical Switch 2, if it is come out by then. So that is it for this week. Thanks for listening to the Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show enjoyable. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on thepulpwritershow.com. And if you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Is James potentially back for an episode? Who knows, but for sure you will hear Jacob, Roo, Jarin, and Visor discuss "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door," and all its hilarious quirks. Could another Nintendo Classic upset the balance of the podcast? Why does James try and keep jumping to new topics so early? You won't believe what happens in the second half of this podcast!https://www.thefirsthourpod.com/reviews/paper-mario-thousand-year-doorSupport the showhttps://linktr.ee/thefirsthourpodcast

The hierarchy of the DC Universe did change, just not in the way the Rock would want you to believe. In todays episode we have a review of Black Adam, James Gunn takes over DC Studios. Phil Spencer gets candid, and Sausage Party is coming to a TV near you.

The guys are starting 2021 off with another celebration of a Nintendo Classic. If you remember, 2020 was the Mario’s 35 year anniversary and now it is time for Link! The first episode of our year long celebration is “The Legend of Zelda”. Listen to the guys reminisce about their childhoods while playing these games!The […] The post Episode 202 – The Legend of Zelda (NES) appeared first on DrinkIN GeekOUT.

Adam and a special guest talk all about a game they love. In this episode, he's joined by the lovely Sandie Robertson, co-founder of No Ordinary Heroes, talking Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. The Nintendo Classic is always a fun topic and a personal favourite of both. Adam's Twitter: twitter.com/IzzetTinkerer Adam Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCSLruBtkMUPVfZ0Ea6rzAkw Sandie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jealousyballet/ Sandie's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSW-6MzLFc-Y7LywwxDo03g Fantastic Universes: www.fantasticuniverses.com Opening Music and Advert Music - 'The Attic' by Professor Elemental Closing Music - 'Theme Music' by Professor Elemental

This week Wes and Sam played some games on the Nintendo classic. The games include Super Contra, Gradius, Pacman and Super Mario Bros. Listen to find out if Sam enjoys some old school games.

Hey guys thanks for listening! We talk videogames this episode! Thanks for 2019 we will see you all in 2020!

Does everyone deserve forgiveness? And who really benefits, the perpetrator or the victim? We're also talking about ni&&as vs. black people. Is there really a difference? And it's Christmas time!! Who's splurging this year?

The #bookcommander Podcast returns as bestselling author John M. Davis talks about spring break, the Nintendo Classic, and his upcoming book.

Metroid Prime 4 gets scrapped and restarted, Splatoon 2 and Smash Ultimate online tournaments, Square Enix has a new trademark, the Queen of England’s Golden Wii finally discovered and a possible leak of N64 and Gamecube classic consoles. All this and more, you’re listening to Kanto Cast. FEH Orb Mirror Cake Video FEH Orb Mirror Cake Photos All the Medias: KCB Collective on Discord KCB Bryan on Twitter KCY Jenna on Twitter KCB Bryan on Instagram KCB Bryan on Twitch KCB Bryan on YouTube Merch at TeePublic Kanto Cast on Anchor The FEH Cast on Anchor Intro/Outro Music Credit: Kevin Corso --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kantocast/support

This week, I have a really big announcement that I am so excited to share!!! Also, Aquaman and Sony's Playstation 4 have hit major milestones, along with new Nintendo Classic rumors circulating. I also talk about Apple possibly being at work on a new iPod Touch, and why I think it's a bad idea. This episode is a good one, check it out!!!

Goobz and Toby were guests on the Rob and Slim Show! This is just the audio from when they were on! They had a fun conversation about video games! Go check Rob and Slim out!Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/RobandSlim/Twitter:https://twitter.com/RobandslimshowPodbean:https://robandslim.podbean.com/iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rob-and-slim-show/id992986831?mt=2YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzTpDnL0utA_87QeeQn5hIASupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmedia)

Sean is back this week, as we all three are, from holidays and some relaxing time with family. Jon has been having fun going through some single player Smash Ultimate stuff this week in between Christmas stuff while Paul gets super into Battlefield 1 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey as a way to try to not play more Hades. Sean, being 2 weeks out, has been enjoying Mutant Year Zero, more Ashen and gets back into Destiny 2 while also getting hooked on Grimvalor on iOS, Tetris Effect and is disappointed with Below. In news, some good games coming out on PS+, Discord "Price is Right"s Epic Games store, the Nintendo "Classic" consoles going away, we wish the PS Classic would, Fornite steals some dances (maybe?) and Heroes of the Storm is stopping all focus on eSports.

Happy Holidays! This week, The Controller Throwers closes out their second year with the annual Gaming Awards. We give our picks for the best and worst games of 2018, games that surprised us, amazing soundtracks, and what we're looking forward to in 2019.That's not all, though! We also talk about games releasing this week, Fortnite creator Epic's legal woes, and give a stern warning about Nintendo ceasing production on the Nintendo Classic and Super Nintendo Classic consoles - so act fast! You can find us on facebook.com/tcthrowers, on Twitter @tcthrowers, and on Twitch at twitch.tv/tcthrowers. If you have any questions or comments, please email us at thecontrollerthrowers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you in 2019!

Ash and Nick emerge from a holiday weekend ready to talk about all things reality. They discuss their Thanksgiving in New Jersey, playing poker, Nintendo Classic, the Are You The One? reunion, and the YouTube series “Staying Relevant.” Do you love all those things? Of course you do. You’re awesome. And if you don’t know exactly what that all is, don’t worry, you’re still awesome, you just need some knowledge, which we will happily provide. Enjoy and don’t forget to rate us 5 stars on the Apple Podcast App! RealityBlowsPodcast@gmail.com @RealityBlowsPod @AshleyBRoberts IG:NickMaritato

GoobZ & Toby have help from some special guests to discuss all the news coming out in the past week! The guys are joined by Jenny-Bean from the DeRailers Podcast and Bob from the Cretins Guild's Nerd or Not Podcast! Topics we discuss: -TellTale closing the door -Playstation Classic -Nintendo 64 Classic -Commodore 64 Classic -1 Up Arcade Cabinets -Nintendo Switch Online Join us on our Side Quest from our normal episodes! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Support the show and order a t-shirt! https://www.teepublic.com/user/secretlevels Follow Secret Levels on all social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretlevelspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/secretlevelspod Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/secretlevelspod/ Check out all our pals on the SomeBuddies Network! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeBuddiesNet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somebuddiesnet/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeBuddies-Network-548993775519049/?ref=your_pages Goobz's other podcast! The DeRailers Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDeRailers Toby's other podcast! Secret Transmission Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/secrettranspod Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmedia)

Put up your gloves and get ready to get hit by this classic Nintendo game! Goobz and Toby discuss the history of the game, the story, the game play, some fun facts, then give it a nice rating at the end! See what they think of this classic! Also, stick around to the very end to hear a song based on the video game by Goobz and Toby's favorite video game inspired rap duo The Adventures of Duane and Brando! Check out the song and the rest of the album here! https://duaneandbrando.bandcamp.com/ Support the show and order a t-shirt! https://www.teepublic.com/user/secretlevels Follow Secret Levels on all social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretlevelspod Instagram: https://instagram.com/secretlevelspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secretlevelspod/ Check out all our pals on the SomeBuddies Network! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeBuddiesNet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somebuddiesnet/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeBuddies-Network-548993775519049/?ref=your_pages Goobz's other podcast! The DeRailers Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDeRailers Toby's other podcast! Secret Transmission Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/secrettranspod ----------------------------------------------------------- Rage Meter Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuBO6aDLM_4 Super Mario Brothers - Bluegrass Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsrVEbpvU2USupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/badsecretmedia)

Happy Fourth of July and we're working Brah! This week we cover: NBA Free Agency, Lebron, Lakers, Nintendo Classic, The (kinda) Mount Rushmore of things guys should never do, Square Barrels Abyss Dinner, OHA, and the Main Event: Our coverage of Honolulu Magazine's "Hawaii's Best 2018" Awards. Its even more nuts than the Advertiser's awards! Please follow us on: Instagram: @sleeptimesover Facebook: Sleep Times Over You Tube Channel: Sleep Times Over Patreon Music Channel: Sleep Times Over Mahalo Sponsors: Square Barrels Earl Kaimuki Honolulu Club 7th Floor Honolulu Healthness Hawaii Music: Drake "Survival" Childish Gambino "This is America"

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Hey all, I'm Bill, I love to talk about video games. I've been playing games since my mother used to take me to visit my grandmother at the bar she worked at (I know) and there was a Donkey Kong game there. From minute one I was hooked. I talk about all types of games, from retro classics to brand new hotness. I'm happy you decided to come by,Each week I take a deep dive into my favorite stories about Nintendo, from the latest indie release to rumors about Smash. If you're looking for Nintendo news look no farther. I try to wrap up the news three times a week in a show that I try to keep under 30 minutes.Sponsored By:OPSeat: Head over to https://www.runjumpstomp.com/opseat to directly support the show, and get a fantastic gaming chair that can support you! I'm sitting in one right now, and its great.Support Nintendo Switch CraftLinks:Recorded Live Thank you Patrons — Switch Craft is brought to you Live 3 times a week on Tuesday and Thursday at 3pm US Eastern and on Saturday at whatever time I can get to it. Tune in live at https://www.twitch.tv/runjumpstomp - This episode of SwitchCraft is brought to you by Jason Parker — Support SwitchCraft and my other content for as little as a dollar at https://www.patreon.com/runjumpstompAmazon.com: Battle Chasers: Nightwar - Nintendo Switch: Video Games — $25 right now, out of stock, but will ship when available.Pokémon on Nintendo Switch — Register your interest Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System — You can pre-order the NES classic at Nintendo UKNintendo Switch Craft - Blog - Nintendo Download - Street Fighter, Bloodstained, and IkarugaCaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker Gameplay Trailer - Nintendo Switch - YouTubeJumpin Joe Nintendo Switch First Look - YouTubeDiscord Questions — Carlioto - Have you spend more time with A Robot Named Fight! I bought it finally, did around 20 seeds ans spend around 12 hours. Very good game. Thanks for this discovery. MStefano - Is your show on Spotify too? I don’t use it but I’ve been following the podcast trend closely and it’s quickly risen to the second most popular way people get their podcasts now JHockey17 - Just started listening, My choice for a switch port from old school. Not sure if its NIntendo or someone else buit I think I would be great with a switch multi player is RC Pro Am or OffroadEmail from Jeremy — Hi Bill, First ti --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Derek Graziano hosts The Sometimes Geek Podcast, a show that covers all of the major news from the gaming industry in a short and easy to listen format. He's also added a new series called Sometimes Geek Levels Up that goes a little deeper in specific gaming. You can find the podcast on any of your favorite podcast streaming apps including iTunes and Stitcher! The show kicks off with the guys talking about a new rum bar on Opera Alley in Tacoma, the Devils Reef that opened in January. Brogan explains the bar carries over 100 types of rum from all over the world and carries a Disney type restaurant feel tucked in the middle of Tacoma. Derek then dives into the topics that he covers on his podcast, Sometimes Geek, including his most recent series, Sometimes Geek Levels Up, a more deep dive conversational podcast that is put out every two weeks. Around the 12 minute mark Derek talks about trying to do streaming of YouTube videos before starting the podcast Conversation then goes to the games Derek has been playing lately, the latest being Celeste. Justin talks about getting the Nintendo Classic and not being able to get past level one on Super Ghost and Goblins and the beauty of being able to hit the reset button so you can save the game. At the midpoint of the show, Derek chats about how he got started in podcasting and games the guys have been playing including Fortnite (http://amzn.to/2FvTLhP). They discuss the background of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite's free version of the game. Talk then goes to bad video game movies and if there has ever been a good one made. Near the 35 minute mark, they talk about new games that are coming out that they're looking forward to playing and companies like Rockstar (http://amzn.to/2GJPkzv) and Blizzard Entertainment (http://amzn.to/2GJWCTz) that typically delay the release of their games. Brogan talks about the green light games in Steam, which has great priced indie games. They also discuss their favorite green light games and Derek's thoughts on old school gaming. As the show winds down, the guys talk about classic games like Sonic and Super Mario 3 and the first games they ever played, the most popular one being Contra. Brogan then suggests the team adopt a baby from North Korea and form a new group called “Three Men and a Nerd Baby”. They also discuss it being legal in the early 1900's to mail babies, for a small fee of $.45, people could ship their babies as long as they were under 50 pounds. Thanks Derek for joining the guys for a great conversation and the look at your podcast Sometimes Geek!!! Special Guest: Derek G.

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2x05 - Ben and Josh are back and start 2018 off with a discussion on the future of the Nintendo Classic line. Will there be a GameBoy Classic or a N64 Classic? ----- Intro & Outro Music by Bulby

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EP097 - Industry News Congratulations to friend of the show Billy May, on his new appointment as CEO of Sur La Table.  Billy was a guest on episode 23. Amazon News Amazon Instant Pickup, allows pickup 2 minutes after ordering popular items, on 5 college campus's. Amazon stock briefly went down after President Trump attacked them on Twitter. Amazon Treasure Truck expanding to 5 new cities (Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta). Amazon Private Exclusive Labels taking off according to 1010Data. Amazon is rumored to be entering the ticket sales business Rumor of Amazon "Anytime" messaging App Amazon was mentioned in 15% of the S&P500 earning calls this quarter Other News US Dept of Commerce reported that e-commerce grew 16.3% in Q2  - half of that was from amazon.  Fastest growth since early 2012 - 12.1% of total sales. TJX sales up 6% Gap earnings slightly up; they announce new BOPIS test. Dicks Sporting Goods, CEO, Ed Stack: "There's a lot of people right now ... in retail and in this industry in panic mode," Stack added. "They seem to be in panic mode with how they're pricing, and we think it's going to continue to be promotional, and at times irrational, going forward." Stack said he noticed heavier promotions and price cuts particularly on athletic apparel, electronics, and hunting, fishing and camping gear beginning around Father's Day this year. "And it continued to be very promotional — not only from retailers but also from some of the brands on a direct-to-consumer basis." Walmart Online grew 60% y/y Target acquired that same day delivery company Grand Junction Alibaba 56% y/y growth vs 49% projected- Adj EBITDA margins of 50%.  Jack Ma talks about New Retail concept (such as Hema Grocery store) Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 97 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Saturday August 19, 2017. Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. http://jasonandscot.com New beta feature - Google Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 97 being recorded on Saturday August 19th 2017 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scott show listeners we took a little break Jason was on vacation so I took podcast vacation. And what we found is over the summer it's harder to put gas so we we took some breaks from guest So today we're going to talking about news but before we jump into the news Jason what's new with you. Jason: [1:00] I am super excited cuz one of my good friends launched his business in a new sitting this this month I wait that you. Scot: [1:09] Yeah yeah we. Yep so the still involved the channel visor exec chairman but spending the bulk of my time at new company called spiffy which is on demand Car Wash and we launched in Dallas. Early August so we're excited about that and we've already added something like Fifty office parks in Dallas so the Dallas folks the people of Dallas really love having their car cleaned apparently. Jason: [1:35] I'm happy to hear that hopefully some of our dallas-based fans will get a chance to try it out and they can leave us some feedback on Facebook about whether you're going to go to for two on your entrepreneurship or not. Scot: [1:46] Yeah yeah I would love to hear how they enjoy the service. Jason: [1:51] Awesome other than that I'm a Jeanette's taking up a bunch of times have been a good summer. Scot: [1:56] It has been yeah yeah kind of deep into back-to-school catch all the kids back to school so that was have two in college and one in middle school so lot of lot of variety going on at the back to school this year. Jason: [2:11] I have heard a rumor that there's this increasing trend of parents fulfilling all their backed of consumer purchase needs with this newfangled e-commerce thing did you try any of that. Scot: [2:23] We did a lot of e-commerce around the back to school time yes absolutely. Jason: [2:27] I'm happy to hear it that's important dress rehearsal for all of us for for the big holiday season but did you try any of the like back-to-school specific Services by chance. Scot: [2:39] Did not in one of the things that kind of feels at colleges their mailrooms aren't open until like a week dip in there a week so you can't just kind like ship all this stuff there and pick it up I'm fortunately ship it to your house and then take it with you. Jason: [2:53] That is fascinating I would have thought that problem is addressed and I think we're going to have some news tonight that's Loosely related to that. Scot: [3:01] Absolutely. Jason: [3:02] Cool I'll leave that as a spoiler to keep people waiting until after the banter is over and we get into the news. Scot: [3:09] It's a tease if you tell it's a spoiler if you if you don't then it's a tease teaser. Jason: [3:14] That's a fair point thank you very much for correcting me. Scot: [3:17] How's your vacay. Jason: [3:18] It was great we my family is all from the Midwest from the Detroit area my in-laws so, the lady rent a beach house somewhere on the on the shores of Lake Michigan every summer so so we took the family up there, got to hang out with all my nieces and nephews which was a lot of fun and is a fun week in Chicago because it's the air show so the Blue Angels are in town and they they fly directly over my condo so I got the, here here and see some frightening Lee close together jets flying around. Scot: [3:55] And isn't that Michigan Beach week that week you don't have Starbucks and have you recovered from them. Jason: [4:01] You're going to have to give me more detail I I'm not aware there is a week when I don't have Starbucks. Scot: [4:06] I thought that's weak where you don't have access to start. Jason: [4:09] So there have been occasions where we were so remote that I was not able to have Starbucks and so I actually travel with my own Starbucks syrup, accoutrements and then an espresso machine tool my own shots but this summer we've tended to move around venues and so this summer wasn't remote enough so I was able to go to. A Starbucks in bedded in a Meyer that was only a few miles from our rental place so I got to spend some time and Meyer which is great Midwest Hypermarket the compete successfully with Walmart and then, I got my full fix of Starbucks. Scot: [4:50] Good I was worried about. Jason: [4:52] I appreciate the concern and thanks for yeah that's funny that you remember that. Scot: [4:57] What do you want to do is send a shout-out to one of the friends of the show Billy may he was at Abercrombie he was on Jason can you have one of the interns look up the episode that Billy was on one of our most popular episodes, and he has just recently been announced that he is the CEO of Sur La Table so congrats to Billy. I don't know the specifics of it but Jason I'm pretty sure being on the show can give him credit for that clear move so. Yeah I think once you're on the Jason Scott show your your career is on a meteoric. [5:33] Rocketship kind of a think Peter Cobb is now on the board of. Discount shoe warehouse so lot of Greg pulsifer is over at General Mills now so one of our Our Guest of moving up in the world Kevin or tell went to Nike. [5:50] Just do it. Jason: [5:51] I do I feel like there's a basically unbroken string of your career catching fire once once you get on the Jason and Scott show and of course the loyal listeners remember that Billy was on episode 23 he was one of our earliest, yes and wow this is statistically not true I've always promised Billy that I would say it was our most listened to episode. Scot: [6:13] Cool well let's jump into the e-commerce and Retail news with some Amazon news. Jason: [6:35] Yes a couple new interesting things on the Amazon blotter this this week or the last couple weeks that I think is per ticket interesting is that Amazon has announced a new. A delivery method that they're calling instant pick up and so the notion here is that you can pick up items 2 minutes after you place an e-commerce order for them. [7:02] And so when you first hear that you go wait a minute that's that's the Majestics of that are mind-boggling how would they ever do that. And what it really is it the moment is there's a handful of pickup locations that Amazon has and I think they might exclusively be on college campuses at the moment so you reference some of the mailroom problems on college campuses. E-commerce has been a huge disruption to college campus mailrooms and one of the remedies has been the Amazon his open their own pick up Depot in the number of college campuses which is this pretty fancy operation. And so reading between the lines of the instant pick up announcement. They're using those college campus pick up Depots and they're going to pre inventory in assortment of the most popular ordered items. Presumably over time those will be the items that are most needed with with no weed time and you know they'll have sort of a walker type thing and once you place an order to go have someone that pulls that out of inventory and puts it in the locker for you. Instantly so when you need a new. Lightning headphone for your iPhone or a new battery or something like that you'll be able to get it right away and I almost think of it as sort of a big version of the. The sort of Commerce vending machines that you see at some big businesses in airports that have like the you know the the most popular Best Buy items. Scot: [8:31] Yeah there's some food places that are kind of working this way now where you know there's a kitchen and they put the food into, the Walker system didn't you go to a noodle shop that if I remember that right. Jason: [8:41] And I'm not going to remember the name off the top my head but it's like a healthy Asian themed, Bowl restaurant that's a lot of like stir-fried stuff in the Bay Area and it's a completely, no human interaction you order on basically iPads and then your your food is delivered the food in a locker and you open that locker and you get the food shockingly quick and it's delicious and healthy and. They don't have to pay a person to talk to you other than when I was there it was early and they had a few concierge's out there that were trying to teach you how to use the iPads of you put them figure it out. Scot: [9:22] Yeah Regal when when quick when I saw Amazon stock was down like 5% one day and you $1,000 that's that's. Fifty bucks says a holy cow it's going on so couldn't find any couldn't find anything in that I looked and, president Trump tweeted that you know I'm pretty negative Amazon tweeten I think what happens is he gets pretty cheesed off by the depressed, and Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post in creates this kind of feedback cycle so his tweet was Amazon is doing great damage to tax-paying retailers, town cities and states throughout the US are being hurt many jobs being lost so you know wall Street's reaction to that is wow that increases the. [10:06] Chances of some kind of a. Monopoly kind of thing so not clear what's going to happen there's obviously a lot of weird things that happen to Twitter world and politics and what not but that was interesting that meal for no reason, that the stock was down pretty material amount and then it was ended up being kind of a tweet from from the White House. Jason: [10:25] Yeah I mean like regardless of how you feel that any of that there's at least one slight irony there a lot of people that deserve that that Amazon can basically drop, a press release and Wipeout you know a huge piece of the, the market cap of of any competitor and so it's at least somewhat humorous to think that there's at least a person that can drop the tweet and put a little dent in. In Amazon's networth listeners probably know this but the. Jeff Bezos does on the Washington Post Amazon doesn't write like that, fake only gets mentioned in the in the Trump versus Bezos disputes, but it's also pretty factually untrue that Amazon doesn't pay taxes like we we assume when Trump is talking about that he's talking about collecting sales tax which. Again technically Merchants don't pay sales tax they collect sales tax that consumers pay. But as hopefully most listeners know by now Amazon collect sales tax, in the majority of markets that they're in so they cut deals with a bunch of states, you know their various timelines for Windows will kick in those will kick in but but many of them have already kicked in in the big States and so Amazon's collecting an awful lot of sales tax and I haven't seen a lot of this yet, but I would expect this year like based on some of this negative press, I would expect to start seeing some PR from Amazon I'll bet you they're one of the largest sales tax collectors. [12:00] In the country right so you know. If even the us we were just talking about this you know there's lots of estimates on the gmv if if they're selling 120 hundred fifty billion dollars worth of stuff and if they're collecting sales tax on 75% of that. That's going to put them in the top 20 sales tax collectors in the US. Scot: [12:25] Yeah what you could be talking about is corporate tax so you don't have his own doesn't have profits and then they have these very huge no else not operating losses from. From the past so you compare on them to a Macy's or something they also have a much lower tax rate from a corporate tax respective. Hard to know exactly which taxes being talked about. [12:51] Yes true. Jason: [12:57] And this is what I missed from a little while ago but the end of them, July Amazon announced the expansion of a program we talked about on the show few times the treasure truck so this is a truck that tends to stock one item it's based in Seattle and every day of your if you subscribe to this SMS list, they they send you an SMS saying hey the treasure at truck has, adeel 60 bucks for a Nintendo Classic this this today only and you can accept the deal on your phone and the truck will come to a location near you and you pick up the. The item so it's kind of them buy online pickup at truck. Experience so I don't know exactly how you pronounce that acronym bow pit Maybe. [13:46] And that was in Seattle only I had seen them specific to a couple special events like the, Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and now it looks like they're expanding into six other cities in one of the cities of Chicago, so I I have a signed up on the list and hopefully sometime this month I'll start getting getting a deal texts. Scot: [14:09] Hope there is some there's two kind of. Dust up surround Amazon private label a editor at Quartz magazine was digging through some of the trademark filings out there and found in about 20 kind of unannounced private labels. And. As you know I do that Amazon escapes so I went through all these and some of them I would say about half of them we're right in other half you know what happens is Amazon May file these trademarks but then never do anything with him a big corporations have. [14:39] If someone has an idea I'm sure that is far off an email the trade markets created and they may or may not use it. So some of the ones that were mentioned in there weren't really valid in that they're not actually being used for for that or and then if you go to Amazon it's a big you see the things being sold when you dig into it they're actually different brands not the ones. Believe me that was interesting and then more recently this week the. The data company 1010data came out with some pretty interesting data around the private labels and some the ones that I know our listeners have been really interested in or some of the apparel items so. The first time I've seen data on Lark and Ro button-down some of the newer ones Amazon Elements which is more cpg and. For example. The first half of 2017 this estimates and this is I think one of these companies that looks at the cash register receipts than in emails that people give them access to through some and. What they're saying is some of these. Like I lost pic on button down to about a million dollars in the first half of the Year seems low to me I just kind of surprised that low. But then saw the growth rates of these are pretty tremendous in. If some of the categories like batteries Amazon is really starting to get to be over half of of the sales of batteries online and things like that so, continuing to watch private label something that that you know we can courage Brands and retailers to really think about how that fits in with her strategy. Jason: [16:12] Yeah and it it it does seem to keep, expanding two things that kind of jumped in my mind when I saw that news number one there is this, kind of gray area about what is an Amazon private label so I think one example there was a article that went around talking about, how Amazon and launched a private label wine and then, Amazon dog doesn't own their own own Vineyards and they don't have their own wine label maker that's making this wine so they're obviously. Paying someone to produce this wine and wines getting sold on in some of their label and Amazon kind of denied it was one of their brands and that it's it's actually like a. You know a seller that created a new brand that they were selling on the 3p Marketplace on Amazon. [17:05] And so are the ones I as a one-piece seller to Amazon and so there it kind of is this interesting thing you know if Amazon encourages the manufacturer to make a product to fill a gap versus Amazon commissioning a manufacturer. There you know there's kind of this this gray area that's it's hard for a Observer that just sees that. That's some new new brand popped up on Amazon that that they're not familiar with is it a true. Amazon owns brand or is it a Amazon and courage brand I guess is the the distinction there. One of the things I was like to. Joke with client about is I'm trying to get people to stop saying private label particularly in context Amazon right like a private label had this original connotation that was. There's a national brand. And then there was a private label in the private label was intended to be on the Shelf in the store next to the National brand and have a large e the same value propositional brand. Without all the marketing at a lower cost and so you know the consumer had to decide am I getting. Bear branded aspirin or am I going to get a generic aspirin for a little less money. Many of the Amazon products are designed to have unique value propositions and so they're trying to not build private labels although some probably are fit the classic definition of private labels like amazonbasics. [18:36] Let me know these brands are intended to be a stand-alone brands that have their own value propositions, and you know have they have their own to me and then be, the national Brands not exclusively on price but based on features and and other aspects of the product and the the most glaring example is of course their most successful, in house brand which is Echo right or, and so I'm sure of your product manager at Sony that's responsible for Bluetooth speakers you don't think of echo is a private label you think of it is a national brand that's frankly kicking their butt. Scot: [19:16] Yeah yeah it is tricky maybe we'll do a deep dive on this and come up with a new framework for people to think about it. Jason: [19:23] Oh no I have to think of some new thoughts and Edition ones I just shared. Scot: [19:27] Yeah yeah you can do it just had vacation your brain is fresh. Jason: [19:32] Thanks for the vote of confidence. Scot: [19:34] One quick one Amazon should have closed the Whole Foods deal by now but the regulatory kind of review of it is still underway so they've extended that and, to my knowledge was pretty open-ended didn't kind of say a week or two weeks so that deal still has not closed. And then there was another rumor while you're on vacation that Amazon's getting into event tickets that they see that as a, an opportunity where the customer experience isn't very great and that they want to kind of get in there and compete with the ticket masters live Nations the world which I, as a guy that buys a fair number of tickets I would love to see more competition in that space. Jason: [20:14] Yeah and I thought I read a rumor that they maybe even tried to acquire or partner with Ticketmaster and when that didn't work out that they now seem to be moving in the direction of building their own service. Scot: [20:27] I didn't stuff. Jason: [20:28] Not what I that time time will tell it certainly would not surprise me it certainly seems like it it fits the Amazon Mo and you know they want to be the everything store. Scot: [20:41] Yes and we just got to the end of earning season and there's some some new kind of July comps that that came out as well and I thought it was interesting I sorry for that, there's a company that goes through all the different transcripts and looks for different indexes them all and they reported for the S&P 500. Over 15% of the conference calls with Wallstreet mentioned Amazon in some way that's high-water Mark in it it's interesting when you kind of go through the day actually will put in the show notes we don't have time to do it but they go through, if some of the highlights and you have the real estate companies all talking about it grocery cpg. All the brands that are out there and of course retailers and then specialty stores like Auto Parts and things that nature in, it's kind of interesting here that your point earlier that. I would have to have an Amazon story all the sudden in it used to be just kind of a retail thing but now they're very just like the last 3 years there, they're pretty spread so wide that a very large swath of that the public companies have to have kind of an answer to the Amazon question. Jason: [21:48] Yeah I wonder if UPS and FedEx were on that list of companies dimensioned of. Scot: [21:52] They have in the past I absolutely have heard that yet so I don't know if they were on the list or not. Jason: [21:59] Side note everytime our intern ask for a raise I remind him that his job could be to read all the S&P 500 earnings transcripts and count how many times Amazon was mentioned. [22:14] So believe it or not there is some. Digital Shopper marketing news outside of the world of Amazon in one of those is at the US Department of Commerce published their Q2 data. Which is a very useful data set that we we always like to follow and I think they came out and said 16.3% growth for e-commerce. [22:42] In Q2 this year. Scot: [22:44] Yeah yeah yeah tribute half of that to Amazon which is good so so when I kind of, back to the math as we talked on the show here for long time a lot of lot of folks didn't take into account the 3p part of Amazon but now it looks like the Department of Commerce is actually Factory that in so, yeah that's that's pretty good to see them kind of catch up to that. They come to a lot of the shows the guys the team that does this I think that she doesn't the podcast so shut up to them if they're listening I don't know if you've ever talked to them but they. Really nice group of folks and they are the come to all the shows and try to kind of tune the data based on what they're hearing and I have give them that feedback a lot so I don't know if it had any impact on them including that there but it's good to see. Jason: [23:30] Yeah yeah I'd be fascinated to hear how they sort of estimate 3p or what they're using is there 3p estimate to factor in there, we should definitely have them on the show I have met a few of them as well I will throw one Counterpoint out there there there are a fair number of detractors that don't, feel that the the methodology that they use for e-commerce is entirely accurate right and I think it would be impossible for it to be, perfect I find it to be a super valuable data set and one of the things that, in general is really valuable about it is they've been using this consistent methodology for a long time so you can kind of look at how things are trending in and shifting overtime, but that their definition of e-commerce and what's in and out of that let you know has a few things that you know you. You probably wouldn't agree make make perfect sense of you were inventing the categories from scratch. Scot: [24:27] Yeah and I've got a lot of arguments about this lately if not arguments with interesting discussions with people and you know so what what I also here and I don't know, I haven't had time to take into this but you know the other kind of doubles argument about this data set is it's a business survey it's a small number of businesses, the bulk of the businesses are kind of B2B kind of company so they're selling you no widgets and fasteners and cogs and gears and stuff. So So then my argument is while the come squirting is very highly correlated so it seems like it checks out their argument is no it goes other way comes grow actually use it as an input the Department of Commerce data so that their date is lined with it so, I don't know what to believe Mabel get someone on the show and do a little panel where we can kind of get someone to talk about the veracity of this data. Jason: [25:19] That that would be great so we can get some of the the panel guys like comscore 1010data and the US Department of Commerce so we could have a shootout. Scot: [25:26] Yeah Jason and Scott show data wrestling match. Jason: [25:31] I love it. Scot: [25:33] The sum of the cops are out and one of the big Winners is TJMaxx they, the cops are up 6% that's for July and so that's pretty interesting we will talk about this on the show where there's this kind of, password if you are a value oriented retailer you doing really well right now so, the dollar store bears are doing well all the TJ Max's Ross stores companies like that if your convenience oriented which tends to fall over towards the e-commerce side Amazon it's up to you doing well, and the folks that are kind of stuck in the middle of your not value or convenience right now you're going to pretty bad spot so the Macy's. The sports folks all those guys are really having tough comps right now. Jason: [26:19] Yeah and said that makes it all the more interesting like one of the categories you talk about is having a pretty tough time is apparel. And GAP announce their earnings and they actually eat doubt some slightly improve numbers this quarter so I want to say that their profits were up 1% this quarter, versus being down to the previous quarter so like that's certainly not letting the the world on fire but. The you know you certainly always like to be more profitable than you you were the previous quarter and in a category that's that's you know super distressed. That's an interesting data point I was I was joking around with one of the Forrester analyst on Twitter today. I would not take that news you know they're up against a really soft comp. And I would argue you know that a lot of the Peril in history and in gap is a perfectly good example of it. Have a lot of institutional headwinds I'm not sure I would take that that. [27:24] The nice up to get this quarter in and use that as a reason to invest in the in the category but never the less good news for the gap. And an interesting subtext in there they announced they were piloting a new customer experience for them which is buy online pickup in-store. [27:41] And for many listeners this show they might say wait a minute Gap wasn't offering buy online pickup in-store that seems like table sakes for an omni-channel retailer. Gap has been one of the largest proponents and one of the earliest adopters of Reserve online pickup in-store so they're normal experience was. We won't charge you till you get to the store I'm so you you'll reserve it will pull the product. I have it ready for you and you know when the mean reasons you'd want to do Reserve online instead of buy online is because you like that customer to come to the Gap Store discover a few other things that they didn't know they needed an add them to the transaction. And that's easier to do when you have a reserve online. It also is kind of a lower threshold to get the customer to reserve cuz they don't have to put any money down up front and so they've been one of the big proponents of reserved online and what's not said and. The earnings call that I'd be really interested in is. Are they throwing the towel in on Resort online are they if they decided that the pros and cons of of bopis versus reserver. I can tell you enough that they're now shifting to what is the much more common industry practice. I don't know but I'll I'll certainly be digging to see if we if we can learn any more about what that shifts about. Scot: [28:57] Yeah I don't have any data but my bed is when you survey customers like reserve reserve and pickup is like a. Like to wait in line which is not convenient so people want convenience and if you're if you're going to put your priority of go pick up more stuff we're not going to get convenient so you'll buy more stuff that that Jesus customers often today's world. Jason: [29:17] Yeah know I tend to agree and you know there's there's. Execution problems with both but you know I think one of the challenges in a store like Gap is executing on these thing so you know when you reserve online do you walk in the store and, and this product really have been pulled for you and it's the right products and they had in stock what they said they had in stock there there's a lot of things to go wrong and in some ways when it's reserved online there's a little less economic pressure on the, on the store to execute and so that can then a road customer confidence in the service. Scot: [29:54] Yeah Absol. When did I fall it really closely those pretty resting is so so we had the failure of Sports Authority and Dick's Sporting Goods, down pre substantially after their Crow the results and the CEO is needs Ed stack he had pretty interesting quote here I'll read a couple exits. This was in when he got into the Q&A with Wall Street there are they missed on the I think they kind of came in line on the top line but then their bottom line the profits weren't really there and gross margin seem to be under pressure and, the CEO kind of win a little bit or rant kind of a no therapy session he said there's there's a lot of people right now in retail and the sports industry that are in panic mode. In panic mode he said they they're freaked out about how their pricing how we're pricing. It's going to be it's going to continue to be Promotional and at times irrational going forward. Well you can imagine Wallstreet didn't like that word irrational so that that was not well-received and you know what I think I saw some notes that said it's going to be a structural change. These guys where they're going to have to you know there. The energy price matching with Amazon they're going to have to just kind of take much lower gross margins they had going forward so really big pressure there and then another little piece that listens would be interested in. Is he kind of finished up and said it's going to. It's continues to be very promotional not only from retailers but also from some of the brands on a direct consumer basis so. [31:26] She had this kind of like this crunch scenario where retailers are stuck in the middle you've got online guys like Amazon and. They are much more efficient and they can have a different model that that has lower gross margins lower prices passes amount of consumers and then you have Brands go Direct on the other side. You specifically asked about Amazon having Nike selling on there. He said you know I don't think you've seen anything we're watching it very closely we've talked tonight Nike a lot about it so pretty interesting going to. Another in a crunch there with with retailers. Jason: [32:00] Yeah and I wouldn't expect to see a lot of a, concerning behavior on Nikes part yet but what can definitely happen is you know all the all these other players win this when the retailer closes, if you were Under Armour Adidas or Puma, you are the forecast for the year and you built you you manufacture product based on that forecast and part of that forecast was that there be a bunch of Sports Authorities that would each have to buy a certain amount of inventory to put on their shelves, and so when they stop buying at inventory because they're out of business or there's been retail consolidation or whatever, and the market gets flooded with cheap product because some Liquidator buys the existing inventory that those things happen, you as the manufacturer are suddenly not going to make your numbers and so that likely is going to trigger a bunch of other you know bad behaviors that ultimately result in mr. Stax observation right like you could either, try to sell that stuff to direct a consumer and you could get more promotional to do it, you could get more promotional in incentives you offer your you're surviving wholesale Partners to get them to sell through more stuff there's you know like there is, second and third tier effects on all of this stuff that that create a negative spiral of momentum in the category. Scot: [33:21] Yeah two other quick ones in this kind of same bucket Foot Locker was asked about Amazon on their conference call and the CEO kind of pounded his chest that we don't worry about them we have you know the latest and greatest and sneakers come Dawson Amazon doesn't get them, as long history of people that have said that they're not worried about him son and or Amazon can't compete that they're either out of business are going out of business so. We should start a Jason Scott pool where you know people that foolishly. Poke the bear the Amazon bear end up paying for it down the line and another one I did read article wear under armour, to your point earlier they had some lines that were at a retailer they liquidated some of them to Kohl's and ended up really kind of craving this. Bad cycle between I forget who the other retailer was Maven Dick's Sporting Goods the created some bad blood and and ended up that you know that. The other retailer didn't want that product line anymore in the not all just going to have to go to Kohl's and more of a discount kind of a format so it's a lot a lot of. Gnashing of teeth out there and in the Sporting Goods got over. Jason: [34:26] Yep and then I haven't fought a closely but I I think we're waiting to hear for regulatory approval on Cabela's Bass Pro Shop so that's another. Like potential significant disruption in that space of those two guys merch. [34:48] So another retailer earnings that came out this month it's to me super interesting is the largest retailer in the world Walmart, they had another, slightly profitable quarter in the stores so I want to say they were up one or 2% or someplace between one and 2% so that if memory serves that's like the 12th consecutive quarter of. Brick-and-mortar growth for them and just to put that in perspective, not very many retailers have had a dunwell 12 quarters in a row so there's an obvious inference to make that Walmart is. [35:31] Benefiting from a lot of the hardships that other retailers are are experiencing and that there. Well well position weather the storm with a little bit more Elbow Room than then. A lot of other retailers but the super interesting thing is that they're online growth was up. 60% for the quarter from from this quarter last year and to put that in perspective. Last quarter they were up 62% so that's now two consecutive quarters with astronomical growth. Obviously it's much easier to grow a small number then a big number so you know it's almost not worth comparing that to Amazon even though it is much faster growth than Amazon but I'll remind everyone. These guys are the second largest e-commerce site in the u.s. they're going to sell unipres north of 15 billion dollars this year, and so you know if you think about the e-commerce Industries growing in about 15 to 18% depending on which numbers you use, that Amazon is growing at like 25% and Walmart is growing it like 60% most of e-commerce isn't growing that fast, if the two biggest players out there our way outperforming the rest of the market like usually in a mature Market you see exactly the opposite you see everyone else growing faster than the the guys at the top of the echo system so, all super interesting and then I guess one other spin on that like. [37:06] Walmart has acquired a bunch of companies that have meaningful e-commerce Revenue so obviously I mean jets in these year-over-year numbers but Moose Jaw ModCloth bonobos, would all be new and so what the Senate could look at this and say oh will there. Their e-commerce growth is way up because they through acquisition but they're claiming they claimed last quarter and I think they claimed again this quarter that more than 50% of their growth is organic. Scot: [37:40] Yeah yeah saw a Goldman Sachs report where they actually kind of backed into it and their estimate was 30% organic growth 30% from Acquisitions so they they kind of put it right at that 50% so I don't. Jason: [37:53] Yeah so even if so that still has them growing faster than Amazon. One interesting contacts for this this is the the growth in the mark Glory when he took over for Neil and, there is sort of the big shift in philosophy at Walmart like they Walmart really used to focus, walmart.com used to focus on stuff you couldn't get in the store so I'll they, they had a you know a couple million skews there they're mostly trying to sell the stuff that people wouldn't traditionally buy from the store so barbecue swingset things things that were inconvenient to buy from a store. And the mark Lori era at Walmart is really about selling daily Essentials online and so that's a pretty big shift in philosophy you seen the skew can't go way up at Walmart and these these first two quarters tell me, did that strategies really working and the reason I point that out is that's a really interesting shift and philosophies you know tis. E-commerce best suited to to, fill in the gaps that are hard to do and brick-and-mortar stores and sort of rounded out or should your e-commerce offering really mirror your in-store offering and cater to the the same customer base and it seems like at least an Walmart's case, they're they're doing Best Buy by shifting to try to meet the same kind of needs online that they've traditionally men in store. Scot: [39:20] Yes a Star Wars toy collector I get to go to lots of Walmarts and one thing I've definitely notice in the last 6 months is a lot. One more integration with online in the store so you know just little things like they have these poles out front that keep, cars from driving into the Walmart I think now they have these kind of sleeves on them that talk about online, online pickup buy online pickup would be in the very back of the store and it was never staffed now it's moved back to the front of the store couple of my Walmarts are really pushing the, dedicate a lot of lanes for for grocery pick-up and, you know I saw I haven't used that but I saw this one person get it in like for Walmart employees came out and we're like, just yeah team loading the car with groceries it was pretty guitars like a priority that they had a lot of lot of Associates really working on it so it's definitely at the store level there doing a lot too. Jason: [40:13] Yep yep and that particular Zaza that pick up curbside experience and they they continue to greatly expand that so I know in California they added a ton of stores with curbside pickup. [40:29] Which only works well for groceries in this or two things. [40:34] And then when you talk about Walmart it's hard to not talk about Target and a couple interesting things have happened at Target lately they they've done a few interesting Partnerships we I think in the past I've talked about their Harry's partnership. I can't remember did we talk about the Casper partnership on the show yet we did. [40:54] Yeah and so you know they've been doing these these Partnerships with some of these digitally native brands. In this month they acquired Grand Junction which is a same-day delivery service. Which is interesting so they're there now offering same-day delivery for for a number a subset of their products. Yeah they used to have this partnership with curbside and they they abruptly canceled that partnership and then they've turned out and acquired a same-day delivery so that's. That's it interesting thing to think about it Target is it certainly seems like Target doesn't feel like. Curbside pickup is the the best solution for them and and same-day home delivery is going to be a good solution. And I forget what they caught but they also launched a new service with just kind of their version of Prime Pantry that sort of a a bulk replenishment service this month as well. Scot: [41:51] Yes starts with an R I can't remember the name either. Jason: [41:53] I'll go get our intern on it while we while we go on. Scot: [41:57] What are the last companies to report Q2 every year is Alibaba and it's because, they are a Chinese company that has is held by us entity in Hong Kong it's it's kind of a complicated way that you have to do things if you're Chinese company so they came out this week and, blew away expectations across the board so the stocks hitting new highs and there's a lot of really interesting things on that conference call. One of the things that was interesting is their growth is really reacceleration Alibaba so while she was expecting 49% growth night that was kind of stretching it came in at 56%. And they their adjusted ebitda margins are north of 50% so. [42:43] Yo if you if you look at kind of the pure Marketplace model there's there's almost no. Cost in there so so there's causes whatever it cost to push bits around on a computer and an over the wire and and then there's some sales and marketing and some R&D and that's about it so 50%. Emergency pretty pretty crazy there cloud computing platform that competes they to be us is doing really well and it was a big contributor to that. They also cited taobao which is their P2P Cana Marketplace they've changed the u.s. and Jason I thought you would find this interesting they did. Big personalization project at Alibaba that rolled out and they said that that's driving a lot of growth where there they're learning more and more about their customers that are dropped by buying from the marketplace and. What to recommend to them and get them to buy across the whole family of services and products. [43:34] Nothing that that's really nursing with Ali Baba is just like Amazon they are doing a lot more in physical retail they've been buying some physical retail opening stores. In a couple interesting things the CEO said he said imagine the store we can pick up items from the shelf and in the same time. Be there stuff that's not in the store of the you can scan with your phone and then you just tell the store you know look just have everything delivered to my house and it just goes there because you have stuff to do after you go shop. [44:02] Another example that used is a see you go to the grocery store and get something for dinner but then. You didn't know you wanted for the rest of the week so you just want to order a meal online so what they're seeing from the Chinese consumer in and sounds a lot like the US consumer is. [44:20] They're looking for a spot Navy convenience in speed and total flexibility that the favors the customer versus the retailer that's what they're really building towards they call that new retail. And here's the quote on that with new retail satisfying ever-increasing consumer expectations is no longer an incremental game it's disrupt. And in the same sense that we were going to have to. We have to disrupt e-commerce first and embrace the physical world in and kind of just tear down all the barriers between them so is very flexible is kind of like Beyond even kind of the normal things we think about in omni-channel. You seem us experiences between the on and offline world is what I Bob is trying to build in. [45:00] What's interesting is as they go into the more physical store if they're kind of merging the marketplace in there so just like we talked about on the show it's that concession type model is really kind of happening in the physical retail World Air in China. You haven't seen that the US but it is going to be interesting to watch that and see if that time makes its way over here. Jason: [45:19] Yeah for sure the the the new retail Mall of the Alibaba talks about it's not entirely hypothetical either they've actually opened a handful of these, Next Generation grocery stores they call Hema and said there is actually some video tours of them available online I'll try to put a. A link in the show notes but what's interesting is when you design a store from scratch for some of those experiences versus you know most of the stores were familiar with in u.s. was a traditional store. That they retrofitted a buy online pickup in-store or a Home Delivery Service or something to, it's pretty interesting to see how the store looks different when it's designed from scratch to do that so, one of the the utilities that I found interesting is they they literally have this conveyor belt in the. The store with these hooks that like pick up bags of groceries and lift on out of the store like into a Depot area for home delivery, and so the ends are Shoppers run around they they use you know mobile phone, get the list of items that they're going to ship home for a customer and then they like. You know super efficiently just just hang these bags on a hook scan a barcode and that bag gets shuttled off somewhere to. For a home delivery so couple interesting things like that they they heavily rely on barcodes in the store for product information so you can. Need to scan a QR code to get you know the product information about all the products in the store China doesn't have the same. [46:55] Labeling laws that we do in the US so there's even more need to learn about products for for Discerning Shoppers and in China so just some kind of interesting evolution of the store and for your first point. They're making so much money that they have significant resources to invest in figuring out the future of retail. And like almost everyone else they've kind of figured out that the long-term future of retail isn't exclusively online so they're they're putting some. Some real resources and figuring out what the. [47:27] Physical store of the future looks like in a digitally disrupted World them so you know I for one on and thrilled to see them trying to do that. [47:39] And I think that that is all the news we had for listeners this this. Week so as a special treat we have not wasted a perfectly good hours of our spare time, but we certainly would encourage listeners to give us feedback so as always we have a Facebook page if you have any questions or topics you'd like to talk about her, hope she like to hear from or just suggestions of what we're doing well or what we can improve we greatly appreciate it and of course of you love the show, shoot over to iTunes and give us that 5-star review that's super important and we greatly appreciate it. Scot: [48:17] Thanks everyone and. Jason: [48:19] Until next week happy commercing.

Hello! This week we discuss a little trend that might start up given the success and fandom over the NES Classic and the anticipation of the SNES Classic. What if a Genesis Class released? Yes there is a Genesis Classic but we are discussing a make and model LIKE the Nintendo Classic boxes. HDMI output, high quality emulation, etc. So what are the best Sega Games to put out on the Genesis Classic? Check it out!

Danniel, Marcus, and Jonathan discuss all things Nintendo. From the discontinuation of the Nintendo Classic to the Nintendo Switch, this episode has a lot of Big N talk.  Enjoy the episode The post Nintenday! All About Nintendo appeared first on Temple of Geek.

For the second half of this episode, we cover the game Everything, Pronunciation in Persona 5 (english), Code Vein (before it was announced), Battle Chef Brigade, topics surrounding Nintendo, the Switch, and the Nintendo Classic, as well as Bethesda.

Casey and Chris had to catch up on a ton of Geekly news along with share their thoughts about Star Wars Celebration: Day One. Listen to the highs, the lows, the tears, and the adrenaline rushes of all the news from the pop culture world and beyond! Show Notes  Marvel Josh Brolin Cable Shameik Moore Voice of Miles Morales/Liev Shriever Villain Thor Ragnarok trailer Defenders release date 8.18 First look at Punisher DC dolph lundgren in aquaman -Watchmen R rated animated movie - Melissa Rauch voicing harley Other Transformers - newest trailer The Mist tv show trailer Valiant summit Jude Law as young dumbledore Fede alvarez attached to Labyrinth sequel Nintendo Classic cxl Break Star Wars Battlefront 2 tease Forces of destiny tv cartoon and toy line 2-3 minutes in length Daisy, lupita, felicity, Feloni Coming this summer Dave Filoni/Pablo Hidalgo Panel Rex in the ROTJ outfit Doubtful any real ‘news’ is gonna come from celebration 40th anniversary panel Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram. We also have a donation page 

Casey and Chris had to catch up on a ton of Geekly news along with share their thoughts about Star Wars Celebration: Day One. Listen to the highs, the lows, the tears, and the adrenaline rushes of all the news from the pop culture world and beyond! Show Notes  Marvel Josh Brolin Cable Shameik Moore Voice of Miles Morales/Liev Shriever Villain Thor Ragnarok trailer Defenders release date 8.18 First look at Punisher DC dolph lundgren in aquaman -Watchmen R rated animated movie - Melissa Rauch voicing harley Other Transformers - newest trailer The Mist tv show trailer Valiant summit Jude Law as young dumbledore Fede alvarez attached to Labyrinth sequel Nintendo Classic cxl Break Star Wars Battlefront 2 tease Forces of destiny tv cartoon and toy line 2-3 minutes in length Daisy, lupita, felicity, Feloni Coming this summer Dave Filoni/Pablo Hidalgo Panel Rex in the ROTJ outfit Doubtful any real ‘news’ is gonna come from celebration 40th anniversary panel Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram. We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

My kink origin story: how I realized I was kinky and what that means for me now. Also includes a brief rant about the Nintendo Classic debacle and some info about the Geeky Kink Event.

The Nintendo Classic mini is here and it's how much?! Plus, Jared and Nathan discuss a topic very close to them....the dad bod.

We are back and discussing West World, Nintendo Classic and the Mt. Rushmore of Star Wars Movie Characters (not named or married into Skywalker). Also, the podcast now has MERCH MERCH MERCH available at this link: GEEKMORE MERCH Or you can search GeekBro on Amazon.            The podcast now has DONATE button and an AMAZON banner that you can click on to support the show. CLICK HERE   Follow Mt.GEEKmore on INSTAGRAM   Be sure to follow Mt. GEEKmore on Twitter: @MtGEEKmore Mt. GEEKmore is on Facebook: Facebook.com/MtGeekMore Mt. GEEKmore is: @NerySaenz / @Remyfication / @GeoffMerc  Email us at MtGeekmore@gmail.com

Retour vers le futur, de 1985 à 2016, la NES mini Alors que nous attendons tous la Nintendo Switch remplaçante de la Wii U et de la 3DS, le constructeur a lancé une autre console … vieille de 30 ans ! Enfin pas tout à fait. Déjà si on veut chipoter, elle n’est sortie que […] L’article Le Revo-Rama teste la Nintendo Classic mini (vidéo) est apparu en premier sur Rêves Connectés - Le Revo-Rama.

Hosts: Matt, Scott, and Ash review Headlander (Xbox One), Doctor Strange, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Plus we talk to Nick Pettit about Neptune Flux, and all of the work that goes into launching an indie VR game. Here's how you can help the show... Save 10% on LootCrate and support Nerd Appropriate with code: RATEDNA Try Audible and get a free audio book download And join us on Twitch!

Come join the Dungeon Crawlers team this holiday season as they sit down to talk about Nintendo’s latest addition to the video game world, The Nintendo Classic. Remember if you haven’t already to like us on Facebook or tweet us on Twitter. Join the conversation as we want to hear from you as we value our listener’s opinions and if your download our show on iTunes, please give us a review.

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Ep 216 - Bernie Mac and a Nintendo Classic! We have a little fun this week navigating through the remaining BYEs, a bonus Pop quiz and a satisfying Flea Flicker.  Andy and Brian navigate every matchup and let you know the players of fantasy relevancy.  Whether it was the injury bug or the bye weeks, WE have the players to fill your roster.  By using our confidence grading system and our Bargain Bin additions this show has the information you need to succeed and win your league.  515 Fantasy Football is our name and championships re our game.  

In this episode discuss all sorts of fun topics. We talk about Movie trailers and movie remakes and robots that will be happening. We talk about Dr. Strange and its AWESOMENESS! Andrew finds out Universal Studios offers season passes for the price of reg admission. We touch on the controversial "White Washing" of Hollywood in a few recent movies. Ruben runs down UFC 205's EPIC card! Nintendo Classic Mini Pisses us off due to shortages. We find out that Face Book is doubling down on gaming and developing a huge online project for online game hub called Face Book Game Room.

We got Patrons?! Listener email, Jarron and the iPhone 7 plus, New Overwatch character, Nvidia 1080 ti, Nvidia and Nintendo, 4k on consoles, Jarron reviews PS4 Pro, GoPro Karma, Offline Vudu movies, Earthlink is lingering, Wireless VR in your house, Nintendo Classic and alternatives.

This weeks Weekend BANG! Is going to give you a glimpse into the future as we go over a few titles of 2017. Sir Aaron Carter,  Cory Vincent, The Real David Webb, and Steven G are all in attendance, and the inner critics are ready to come out.   The BANG GANG! starts out with a some life news from our very own David Webb, and where he's gonna lay his hat. Then we get right into banging around the web, and show how great the gaming community can when we all stand together. From there we take a peek into the future and go over some of 2017’s most anticipated games. Will Webb be late now that he has a new place? Can we make is a whole show without talking politics? Will Nintendo ever resupply their new NES classic? Find out all that and more on this week's Weekend BANG!   Topics Include: Gaming, Sacramento, Video Games, NRG, Esports, Rocket League, Overwatch, Star Citizen, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legend of Zelda, NES, Nintendo Classic, Mass Effect, Natomas, moving, podcast, David Webb, Aaron Carter, Cory Vincent, Steven Gutierrez, 2017, Game of the Year, Hearthstone, Cosplay, Kiss, Twitch, Live, Youtube, Facebook, Trump, president, Clinton

In this episode we discuss America's big decision this past week, the release of the Nintendo Classic and problems with old games on newer, more powerful hardware. We also talk about how the new generation of gamers is coming up faster than we could have imagined and how PB&J goes hard!Also be sure to like, share, subscribe and follow us everywhere!https://www.instagram.com/playboxcast/https://www.facebook.com/PlayBoxCast/https://www.twitter.com/PlayBoxCast/https://www.twitch.tv/playboxcasthttp://www.playboxone.comMusic Credit: Intro and interlude music created by Waterflame. You can check out his stuff at waterflame.negrounds.com. Our closing music was provided by TeknoAxe. He can be found over at teknoaxe.com and on youtube.com/teknoaxe. Thanks to the two of them for their talent and great work.

This week, we come together to try to make sense of the recent Presidential Election. The Nintendo Classic sells out in one minute; Marvel releases its first book ever written by a black woman; and BioWare keeps teasing us with 'Dragon Age' and 'Mass Effect' footage. Finally, we play the world's smallest violin for Omarosa as we give her a #Westie.

Hey Game Moosers, it’s episode 59! This week, Drew gives his review of Titanfall 2, and Ryan talks Battlefield 1 some more. Mass Effect and Blizzcon are in the news, as is The Nintendo Classic. In honour of the tiny, sold out all over the planet, NES, Ryan and Drew come up with the 30... The post Game Moose Episode 59 appeared first on Game Moose.

In this episode we discuss America's big decision this past week, the release of the Nintendo Classic and problems with old games on newer, more powerful hardware. We also talk about how the new generation of gamers is coming up faster than we could have imagined and how PB&J goes hard!Also be sure to like, share, subscribe and follow us everywhere!https://www.instagram.com/playboxcast/https://www.facebook.com/PlayBoxCast/https://www.twitter.com/PlayBoxCast/https://www.twitch.tv/playboxcasthttp://www.playboxone.comMusic Credit: Intro and interlude music created by Waterflame. You can check out his stuff at waterflame.negrounds.com. Our closing music was provided by TeknoAxe. He can be found over at teknoaxe.com and on youtube.com/teknoaxe. Thanks to the two of them for their talent and great work.

We’re back! Luego de un mini-receso, Manuel Perez de CyberboxPR nos acompaña regresando a la carga hablando lo que nos gusta; la tercera temporada de Young Justice, Nintendo y su farsa con el Nintendo Classic, la película de Birds of Prey, Johnny Depp como Gellert Grindewald, Deadpool, 3,l o que es dice de la película de Batman, y los rumores más recientes de Samsung y iPhone para el 2017.

Skungy's Pick of the Week is Dishonored 2 which released today. Game looks fantastic! We also talked about the Nintendo Classic console that's being released with 30 pre-loaded games.Book of the Month is Starcraft Evolution by Timothy Zahn. Get your copy at Tubby and Coo's for a 10% discount. Our phone in guests are Brandon Gary & Jason Bienvenu creators of the Dusk Comic and The Kingdom comic. Find more info at http://duskcomic.com/ and www.sperotoys.comWe touch on a bit of Top Nerd News when we're joined by Joe Thordarson, Head Honcho of Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention about all of the wonderful things they'll have going on at their event November 18-20. http://memphiscfc.com/We finish up a bit of Top Nerd News and then Close out the show as always with This Week in Geek History and Celebrity Birthdays.

Topics in the episode include the real estate murderer, Julian Assange on alleged Russian hacks, Nintendo Classic, other games, Electoral College and final words before the election.   Caldwell Madison Review is a discussion and analysis of news media, politics and current events.   Music Credits: SUPERPREDATORS by placeboing https://www.youtube.com/user/placeboing/

In episode 14 we go deep inside HBO's Newsroom. We also touch on Survivor's Remorse, Kei's experience in front of the camera and the new Nintendo Classic mini.

We're finally here! Episode 100! Kind of. Mostly. Half, at least. But still a full episode. You'll find out when you listen. Week in Geek: Andrew went back to Watch the Skies megagame with a new, interesting twist, and relays his experiences this time around while D. Bethel starts watching the now-cancelled show, Penny Dreadful. Also, bonus outtakes! Limited Classic: Nintendo dropped an out-of-nowhere announcement recently with the reveal of the Nintendo Classic, an 30-in-one plug-and-play NES that ignited a lot of people's interest and nostalgia. What's Old is New: Dan and Andrew address the rise of audio dramas from their apparent graves with the rise of nerd culture and podcasting and discuss why they are actually adapting to new media and digital consumer habits. Check out regular articles and old episodes and leave your thoughts at forallintents.net. Be sure to join the official Facebook and Google+ pages to get regular updates and for links and meeting up with other listeners. Also, be sure to leave a review of the show on the iTunes store. For all intents and purposes, that was the recap of the first part of episode 100! Featured Music: -"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio -"Save Music" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy) -"Radio/Video" by System of a Down -"The Final Countdown" by Europe *also features game over music from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty  

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EVO 2016 hype, Nintendo Classic, Knee to face = cave-in, and a little bit more! Episode 1. Monday, July 18th, 2016.