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Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

With Resident Evil 9 Requiem on the precipice of release, I thought it would be the right time to present my personal ranking of all the mainline Resident Evil games in the franchise. I have been a Resident Evil...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

In my next entry of the Pages Through the Ages sub-series Overlooked Monsters, I wanted to take a look at the Rot Grub. At...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

Sony just had a huge State of Play show, that ran 70+ minutes. This was all just game trailer after trailer after trailer. They did not focus a block of time on any one particular game like I thought...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

I came across 2 very interesting and rather insightful articles at Polygon.com, that detail out the design goals and thinking that went into designing...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

Report Card is a new segment for Pining for Pixels where I will be grading the platform holder/publisher direct presentations as they come up. I am launching this segment with the most recent Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

This week I wanted to do a Roll for Initiate episode where I compare many different TTRPG elements and outline my own gaming preferences...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

For the next entry in my top 100 list, I'm heading back to 2003 to revisit this amazing entry in a legendary franchise. The Sands of Time has left a lasting impact to this day, from the flowing combat style...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

This week I decided to start a new segment that is pretty self explanatory - providing DM advice! Now this isn't just random tidbits...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

I want to look back at all the games I played as part of my video game book club series during 2025. I played a total of 5 games to completion, and as is becoming a tradition for this show...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

This week I wanted to find everyone's list of TTRPGs that are highly anticipated for release this year, but most online publications have yet...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

This week I am doing my annual new batch of resolutions for the new year. Let's see if I can do a better job at keeping them this time! I also have some fresh new predictions to share...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

2025 is now firmly behind us, so now it is time to look forward. This week I am talking about my next round of new...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

2025 was a good year for quality games. Although we had a high concentration of remakes and remasters, we also had a high output of new original games. This year I have another 10 nominees to discuss, but as usual...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

With 2025 now a bit behind us, it is time to do the annual tradition of recognizing the best TTRPG games and supplements that came...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

With the new year I want to revisit my predictions and resolutions I made at the beginning of 2025 to see how successful I was with the resolutions and how accurate my predictions were! I can say that the...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

Happy New Year! As this episode goes live on New Year's Day, I find myself feeling like time is flying! I can't believe another...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

The Legend of Zelda franchise is one of my most favourite and cherished series in video games ever. I have been a regular player of this series since the original Legend of Zelda released on the NES. So...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

Merry Christmas! If you are downloading this episode the day it goes live, then Merry Christmas indeed, as it is Christmas Day! This episode...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

Merry Christmas everyone! This year I decided to share what I have on my Christmas wish list. This is a list I share with my family that is a safe list, meaning that they can get me stuff...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

This week I decided to take the time to read through Mausritter and see if this game lives up to all of the hype...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

I can't believe it has already been 20 years since the Xbox 360 came out. This was Microsoft's most successful platform to date. It is the platform many fans wish Microsoft would go back to when it comes to guiding...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

If your home game is anything like mine, at this time of year, with Christmas rapidly approaching, your groups availability for gaming starts to...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

It's that time of year again, Geoff Keighley's Game Awards are just around the corner, happening later this week. I like to do an episode of predictions on who the big winners will be and also to put...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

I've seen a number of D&D You Tube content creators doing videos asking the question "What if I owned D&D". At first...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

This week I am going over one of the newer and certainly more exciting releases for the Evercade. When Blaze announced the first Neo Geo collection, it definitely got a lot of people's attention. As a result, when...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

I felt pretty inspired to do this episode as my home game is currently going through an AD&D 2e campaign (Vecna Lives!). This...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

Better late than never! Although the 25th anniversary of the PS2 came and went at the end of October this year, I wanted to make sure that I dedicated an episode talking about this monumental platform and how...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

I recently came across an article online that was quite critical about some of the older and forgotten rules from D&D's history. This...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

Last week's surprise announcement of Steam Machine has sent the video game community into a spin. Although not really all that surprising when you really consider it, nonetheless, it was still the kind of news that creates buzz...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

With the new Forgotten Realms books that came out recently (and that ones that I did my first impressions of in last week's episode...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

This episode is going live on November 11, 2025. I thought this was the best time to do an episode in honour of Remembrance Day. There was a time where talking about war video games would have been considered disrespectful...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

Both Heroes of Faerûn and Adventures in Faerûn have been released, and together they comprise the newest iteration of the Wizards of th...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

It has been a while since Sonic the Hedgehog has been an opponent for Mario. Ever since Sega withdrew from hardware and transformed into a publisher, Sonic and Mario became friends. Sure we had them competing in the...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

Halloween is now here, so I am finally going to do the spotlight on Call of Cthulhu I have long wanted to do! While...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

Halloween is here once again, and it is time for another spooky themed episode. What better way than to talk about the next entry in my top 100 video games of all time list: the original Silent Hill. This...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

Halloween is approaching fast, and it is this time of year many people will want to get into the spirit and run a spooky...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

This week I was feeling nostalgic, thinking about some of my earliest gaming memories with the NES. It got me thinking about how I had defined the NES era in my mind as a child, and this shared...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

It is a Starter Set showdown this week! With 2 different boxed starter sets coming out for D&D revised 5e within a few weeks...

Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games!

The Top 100 returns just in time for a mid-October Halloween treat. The original Diablo was a revelation when it first arrived. This was the first Blizzard game to explore fantasy outside of the WarCraft universe, and a true...

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

With such a great week for sports in Toronto, I decided to do an episode where I brainstorm how to incorporate sports into your...