This week: Professor Elemental, DC’s treatment of female characters, Fables videogame and more!

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Professor Elemental (no Cookie this week) as they discuss:

• DC giving the women of DC two pages in an anthology highlighting the graphic novels of DC’s main characters
• How Patrice Desilets’ (the creator of Assassin’s Creed) run at THQ Montreal ended
• Iron Man 4 and Avengers sequels rumours
• Fables videogame revealed as The Wolf Among Us
• And EA snubbing Nintendo and the Wii U

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, we only managed to have Professor Elemental on this episode for the first 15 minutes. We’ll be bringing him back in the future.

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This week: Shadows of the Eternals,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, could the end of Wolverine be on the horizon and more!

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Paul as they discuss:

• The launch of a funding campaign for Eternal Darkness “spiritual successor” Shadow of the Eternals
• The Turtles remaining as mutants, and not being aliens, in the upcoming Michael Bay film
• Warner Bros. and 5th Cell being sued over the use of memes in Scribblenauts
• Tor Books is doing fine without DRM in its e-books

Plus we spend the final part of the show discussing the suggestion that Wolverine could be killed off in the near future. This includes our cynical views surrounding the deaths of comic book characters being used as a marketing tool by publishers - from the death of Superman to The Phoenix.

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This week: E3 speculations, THQ, Daredevil and more!

Emily, Paul and Paul (Cookie’s away) are joined by Peter Cooper and Oh No! Video Games!’ Martin Falder to discuss:

• The THQ BBQ as their final IPs are sold off
• Mavel finally getting back the film rights to Daredevil
• TV series of Scream and Johnny Mnemonic are in development

And the final part of the show examines whether E3 is coming to the end of its life, in light of announcements from Nintendo, 2K and Valve in relation to the trade show. How long will it remain relevant to the industry and consumers as a source of news and previews?

We also murder the theme tune to Blockbusters. Twice.

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This week: Futurama, Doctor Who, Capcom, Star Wars, Dalek impressions and more!

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Paul as they discuss:

• The end of Futurama (again)
• Meanwhile, Heroes could be brought back from the dead
• Latest trailer for Man of Steel
• The latest troubles at Capcom
• The trailer for The Evil Within
• Thoughts on the latest Doctor Who

And the last part of the show is spent discussing Disney’s recent announcement for its release plans regarding future Star Wars films. We’re not so sure they can ensure quality in the face of such quantity.

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This week: Batman: Arkham Origins, Doctor Who, free-to-play games and more!

Join Paul and Emily (Retroid and Cookie were kidnapped by Liam Neeson this week) as they discuss:

• The end of DLC for Skyrim and what this could mean for the ES franchise and Fallout
• Fox pissing off Firefly fans… again - this time over Jayne hats
• The saga of Saga issue 12
• Batman: Arkham Origins and plenty of speculation
• A few quick thoughts on BioShock Infinite and last week’s Doctor Who - “Cold War” including plot speculations

And finally: we have a discussion about the OFT’s investigation into free-to-play games and whether we agree with this type of pricing model.

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This week: lots of sad news, from LucasArts to Misfits to Aliens: Colonial Marines and more…

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Peter Cooper (Cookie’s away this week) as they digest some of the most negative news imaginable, with only a few good bits dropped in:

• The end of LucasArts
• The end of The Darkness comics
• Misfits series 5 will be the last, plus some scowling at Being Human
• J. August Richards might be coming to S.H.I.E.L.D. (that’s the good news)
• A lamentation or two about new TV series Revolution
• Brief thoughts on last week’s Doctor Who

AND…

A look at the downfall of Aliens: Colonial Marines - from the recent ASA ruling and SEGA’s announcement that the Wii U version will not be released.

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P.S. We apologise for the sound quality on Peter’s line dropping very briefly.

This week: trouble at Square Enix, initial thoughts about Bioshock Infinite, The Wolverine, sex in films and more…

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Paul as they wrestle with sugar comas while discussing:

• Retroid and Emily’s current feelings towards Bioshock Infinite
• What’s happening at Square Enix as Yoichi Wada resigns from top spot?
• The latest international trailer for The Wolverine
• What Netflix, J. Straczynski and Wachowskis are doing with Sense8

Finally: is there less sex in mainstream, Hollywood films these days? Do we care? Because apparently, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (above) was the only film in 2012’s top 25 grossing films to have a sex scene.

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This week: Left 4 Dead 2 invading Resident Evil 6, Snake, Liam Neeson references, female protagonists in videogames and more…

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Peter Cooper as they delve into the week’s news:

• The future “re-telling” of Escape from New York a.k.a. remake
• Left 4 Dead 2 characters coming to PC Resident Evil 6 and vice versa
• DC announcing Batman ‘66 and what that may entail for our sanity

The latter half of the show takes us on a journey in discussing why there’s few female only protagonist videogames and issues surrounding gender identification and norms, plus racial representations in games to boot. It’s all pretty heavy stuff.

Main discussion links:

The PA Report | Eurogamer | Destructoid

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(The videogame character featured at the top of this post is Alex Roivas, who we mention during our main discussion. She’s the lead female protagonist of Silicon Knights’ 2002 GameCube game: Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Hint: you should probably play it sometime.)

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P.S. Cookie will be back soon.

This week: book banning in America, more Wii U woes and we’re joined by a special guest…

Join Emily, Paul, Paul, Paul and our guest James McLean (illustrator and Back to Frank Black campaigner) as they pick apart the week’s news:

• Timey wimey reasons from Steven Moffat about why Amy and Rory will not be returning to Doctor Who
• How Persepolis was almost banned from Chicago schools (check out the ALA’s records on challenged books here)
• The deal with the download version of LEGO City: Undercover for the Wii U and the console’s continuing woes

The rest of the show is dedicated to grilling James about:

• Back to Frank Black’s campaign to return Chris Carter’s  Millennium to our screens
• Why the campaign won’t be emulating the Veronica Mars Kickstarter any time soon (here’s a link to the KS article James mentions)
• A quick pitch for Back to Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium (an awesome book, with proceeds going to a charity close to Lance Henriksen’s heart)
• … and much, much more!

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This week: Carrie Fisher gets a foot into the new Star Wars, SimCity and Dead Space 4 shenanigans… AND Tropes vs Women in Video Games.

Join Emily, Paul, Paul and Paul as they pick apart the week’s news, including:

• Carrie Fisher confirmed for new Star Wars
• Shizzle goes down (in more ways than one) with Dead Space 4 and SimCity
• Artist Chris Sprouse leaves Orson Scott Card’s Superman comic

The final part of the episode is dedicated to discussing Anita Sarkeesian’s first Tropes vs Women in Video Games vid, which takes a look at the damsel in distress trope. Have the Kickstarter funds been well spent? What do we think of the content of the first video? And what happened to the counter video - Tropes vs Men?

All this and more in episode 30.

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NEXT WEEK: We’ll be joined by James McLean - artist and tireless campaigner in the Back to Frank Black campaign that aims to bring Millennium back to our screens.

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