It’s another Book Club discussion this week, which begins with everyone ripping Zeno Clash apart and ends with Norris being disbarred from making game decisions ever again. A spirited debate arises between Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Fez for next month’s game, and Vince and Norris decide to start up a “No Dark Souls” club. We also talk about...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 35: Tweet at us for Dating Advice
The Gamers start strong this week, with some hot tips on Bioshock Infinite, the endless monster that is Dark Souls, our love of Slenderman in all his video game incarnations, and a look into the hypothetical future wherein war is run entirely by gamers. PLUS, the HUG crew spend a full hour delving into the spoiler-ific details of Bioshock Infinite,...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 33: Animorphs was the “Metamorphisis” of our Generation
The Hopped-Up Gaming crew go long this week, with discussions on such topics as the craft brewery wars, The Sims: Vigilante Justice, internet archaeology, our adventures in Second Life, the Bechdel test, and a whole slew of Bioshock Infinite discussion. We also bring discussion of television and movies the only way we know how – a 20 minute discussion on...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 29: Everybody Get Into Your Gundam Suits We’re Taking Down Obamacare
The HUG boys get phat with a “ph” this week by rolling deep in such game-related topics as toilet brands, online Uno sex dens, adults earnestly complaining about children’s games, the Harkness Test, South Korean pornographic law, MMA movies, and 12th-century racism. We also talk about how all our zombocalypse plans involve either fixing helicopters or killing ourselves as quickly...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 26: Everything I Know About Economics I Learned From Duck Tales
Things get real in the Hopped-Up Gaming house this week, as our favourite podcast/reality show contestants discuss issues such as the ongoing war between sweat pants and pajama bottoms, the proper pronunciation of FIFA, and their new “Dead Space Reviewing System.” We also talk about Rock Smith groupies, Journey love (the game not the band), using Game Gears as a...
THQ – The Rise and Fall of the Headquarters for Toys
The final bell has tolled, the curtain’s been called, the…ending metaphor has been exhausted, and the once-great name in gaming that is THQ is no more. If you’ve been following the stories in the news for the past week you’ll likely know as much as I do as to how it all carved out, but I’ll give you all a...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 17: Please Feed Me A Cat
The boys of Hopped-Up Gaming don’t care how many 12′s are on the calendar, they’re bringing in the true holiday spirit this week with a barrage of heartwarming childhood Christmas stories, video game rage, and how all games are stealing from Norse mythology. We also determine that comparing Ulysses to an internet webcomic makes you a bad person, the shocking...
GB Visits: East Side Games
Family. One thing that is always lost in any transactions, of nearly any amount (be it employees, money, businesses), is family. I’ve never heard an employee at a major developer talk about solidarity within their walls. However, this has been something that indie developers have grown to be known for. Here in Vancouver, the “underground scene” has been rising from...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 16: You Can Kill Kids in Spec Ops
This week starts off with both a bang and a whimper, as we discuss our favourite Judea-themed beer and all the politically-incorrect pitfalls that it comes with, how The Village People killed disco, and if the moment where you’re shooting down helicopters on the back of a horse is the moment Call of Duty jumped the shark. There’s also talk...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 15: Nathan Drake is a Serial Killer
HUG and company take this week to get back to what’s really important, drinking weird liquors and waxing philosophical about video games, tv, and film, including the story-telling aspects of “The Walking Dead” game, a passionate defense for “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey”, and the inherent dangers of both basketball players and their dreaded “Chaos Dunk”. We also talk about...
Game of the Year 2012
It has been a monumental year for gaming and all of us so who take part in that world. So I bring you MY list of the best titles of 2012 and my game of the year, with a couple of runners-up thrown in. This year we’ve seen Assassins built on Vengeance, and the abduction of Little Girls. We’ve seen Galaxies...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 14: “Do You Think They Play-Tested Hitler’s Balls?”
This week the HUG boys try and fail to maintain their class and civility, while discussing topics such as the clusterfuck that is Halo 4 offline splitscreen, the relationship between screen-peeking and class warfare, and how the world desperately needs a return of “Battlebots”. We also discuss the insanity that is ARMA 2, Track IR, James Bond homo-eroticism, and our...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 13: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Four Loko
The top scientific minds behind Hopped-Up Gaming bring what may be their greatest advancement to date: the creation and live taste-testing of Faux Loko, our own off-brand Energy Drink Malt Liquor! While performing this service for you, the listener, we also dig deep into the heart of a number of other important topics, including Canadian hospital extortion rackets, Halo 4...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 12: Every Sentence We’re Saying is the Worst Sentence
The Hopped-Up Gamers with special guest and wrestling expert Chris Westaway go guerilla this week, discussing such video game topics as which first lady had the strongest arms, some intense Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson trivia, race politics in the WWE, who between history’s tank man and Bradley Manning would be a better Halo player, everyone’s favourite apocalypse scenario, checking our...
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 11: But I Don’t Want to Sell Lumber to Boston
The HUG boys are getting in the revolutionary spirit this week, with the discussion of such groundbreaking topics as the etymology behind the term “Whipits”, invoking the right of Prima Nocta in Crusader Kings 2, the deeper meaning behind Hotline Miami’s psychadelic grime, being eaten alive in Natural Selection 2, and building up your mercantile empire in Assassin’s Creed 3....
Hopped-Up Gaming Episode 10: Gamers Must Accept Death
With a cry of podcast free or die the full HUG team celebrate Halloween the only way they know how – good beer and scary video games. In this episode the crew talks about the relationship between Silent Hill characters and genitalia, how Die Hard’s the greatest Christmas film ever made, why RuPaul’s Drag Race is the best Reality show...