Pinball: We talk about the LoserKid Pinball Podcast interview with American Pinball's David Fix, recap the year of 2024 for pinball, and play a game!Video Games: We answer listener questions, Tony gives his 2024 Steam statistics, we cover the 2024 Game Awards, and we talk about Secret Levels, the Amazon Prime series of short videos about various vi…

Pinball: We provide a Rumor Corner but spend most of our time discussing the interesting happenings in pinball during 2024.Video Games: We summarize Star Citizen's funding milestone, talk about early access for Path of Exile 2, the hit success of the Nintendo Alarmo, the death of Foamstars, a handheld PS5, Baldur's Gate still getting content, and N…

Pinball: We discuss some corrections regarding retired games at American Pinball but spend most of the segment going over Spooky Pinball's new game: Evil Dead Pinball.Video Games: We summarize some Steam news on how they are going to handle season passes, talk about a new sequence for Path of Exile 2, discuss mods with Baldur's Gate 3, talk Xbox an…

Pinball: We discuss Barrels of Fun hiring Butch Peel, American Pinball ceasing production of Houdini and Legends of Valhalla, a Rumor Corner on Spooky Pinball, and a discussion on Stern's catalog and what we'd like to see remastered.Video Games: We summarize some key activities for the upcoming Awesome Games Done Quick, talk about Amazon doing a Ma…

Pinball: We discuss Stern Pinball's Metallica Remastered, some hits from Pinball Expo, Ninja Eclipse expecting to sell its initial run, and a couple listener emails.Video Games: We summarize a big payday for Microsoft's Nadella, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, a new Super Nintendo theme park, co-op for Subnautica 2, Hitman meets James Bond,…

Pinball: We discuss DPX's reveal of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Video Games: We summarize what's going on with Bethesda, a microphone mode for A Quiet Place: The Road, a new Blizzard book, Ubisoft's future, Genshin Impact losing its voice, Steam's new labeling, and a huge Game Freak hack.Episode Links:Kineticist article on DPX's Alice pinball:…

Pinball: We discuss Stern Pinball's fallout from their first X-Men reveal stream, Christopher Franchi becoming the exclusive artist for Spooky Pinball, and a brief discussion on the state of pinball purchasing today.Video Games: We summarize what's going on with Square Enix, Nintendo suing Palworld and resisting A.I. (while EA embraces the technolo…

Pinball: We discuss Stern Pinball's reveal of The Uncanny X-Men and Jersey Jack Pinball's reveal of Avatar: Battle for Pandora. We close out the pinball section with a Patreon member's question about Stern and virtual pinball.Video Games: We summarize a big change at Annapurna Interactive, the Unity backpedal, the rise and fall of Concord, the disa…

Pinball: We go over the teases for Jersey Jack Pinball's Avatar game and Stern Pinball's The Uncanny X-Men, plus talk a bit about Stern trying home games again (this time in partnership with Costco) and then go over several listener emails.Video Games: We summarize problems with the physical edition of Outer Wilds: Archaeologists Edition, the end o…

Pinball: We go over DPX providing images relating to their Alice's Adventures in Wonderland pinball machine, answer a listener question relating to Haggis, talk about our hands-on experience with John Wick Pinball, and discuss what we'd like to see out of the industry over the next 12 months.Video Games: We summarize Square Enix and Embracer seeing…

Pinball: We go over some Haggis Pinball updates, note ABBA now shipping from Pinball Brothers, provide an update from Pinball Adventures, and dive into two discussion topics.Video Games: We summarize some union and layoff activity in the video game space, note the Olympics ending their partnership with Nintendo and Sega, discuss the downturn for Tw…

Pinball: We go over a listener email, talk briefly about a black and white version of Godzilla Pinball, and spend the rest of the time going over the liquidation and demise of Haggis Pinball.Video Games: We (or at least one of us!) defends V.A.T.S. from listener criticism and then we talk Dr. Disrespect, the downtrend in video game hardware sales, …

Pinball: We update regarding Stern bringing back Rush Pinball, JJP getting a new connected system, and we discuss the issues surrounding Haggis. Plus, we go over several listener emails.Video Games: We talk about the fall of Dr. Disrespect, Warthunder's creators apologizing for an image, a new Street Fighter live-action show coming up, the cancella…

Pinball: We update regarding the Funhouse Remakes, ABBA, Spooky's big move, Stern's return of the Black Knight, JJP and Elton John production, and Stern's reveal of arguably the ugliest topper ever. Plus listener emails.Video Games: We talk about Valve getting sued, Sony allowing Discord integration, Sea of Thieves setting records, A Quiet Place be…

Pinball: There is no news so we spend our entire time answering listener emails, including a lot about podcasting in pinball and why content creators do what they do.Video Games: We talk about Summer Game Fest, Playstation's State of Play, and some Final Fantasy 14 fate-tempting!Episode Links:None!Show Links:EGP Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ecl…

Pinball: We discuss Pedretti Gaming's remake of Funhouse, talk about the Stern Pinball damage control tour, and answer some listener emails.Video Games: We talk about Helldivers 2 and its sales success, Atari buying Intellivision, video game industry layoffs, Microsoft adding AI to Minecraft, Playstation versus Xbox sales, and a Uvalde-related laws…

Pinball: We spend the entire time discussing the reveal of Stern Pinball's John Wick Pinball, the drama about the lack of guns in the art, and also the marketing campaign and what pinball currently faces in the market overall.Video Games: talk about Critical Role having its own membership service, Steam being blocked in Vietnam, Sony reversing cour…

Note: Light spoilers regarding vaults in the Fallout TV series (won't be spoilers to those familiar with the games).Pinball: We discuss Homepin's open-source Blues Brothers pinball reveal, that Dutch Pinball supposedly will reveal Back to the Future Pinball at Pinball Expo, and we discuss a variety of our ThemeDreams(tm).Video Games: We cover Doubl…

Pinball: We discuss Stern building more Black Knight: Sword of Rage machines, the now-revealed ABBA Pinball from Pinball Brothers, Multimorphic's production plans for The Princess Bride, and DPX filing trademarks for RAZA and Magic Girl.Video Games: We cover Twitch Mike Ybarra talking some nonsense, Yuji Naka throwing some shade, Ubisoft shutting d…

Pinball: We discuss several listener emails, talk about Pinball Brothers preparing a new game while losing a couple of founders, and Dutch Pinball launching sister company DPX and what we think of that idea.Video Games: We cover Twitch changing their rules, Larian moving away from D&D games, Xbox wanting to get into the handheld software space, and…

Pinball: Technically recorded the last day of TPF (so quasi-post TPF) on this episode we focus on the new games (or at least new to us) that Texas Pinball Festival had to offer.Episode Links:None!Show Links:EGP Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eclectic_gamersWebsite: http://eclecticgamers.comEGP T-shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/eclectic-gamer…

Pinball: We go over some listener emails but spend most of our time talking about The Princess Bride for the P3.Video Games: We go over the games Balatro and Pacific Drive, talk about more video game layoffs, talk about Rockstar returning employees to the office, discuss another Nintendo lawsuit, talk about a studio breaking away from Activision, a…

Pinball: We cover listener emails, note JJP's production of Elton John CEs, talk about the Jaws LE delay, talk about a Jaws Pro mod that can actually eat the ball, note the upcoming Princess Bride reveal, and spend a lot of time regarding the Haggis update on the state of production challenges they are facing.Video Games: We go over the delay of th…

Pinball: We talk about the 3rd Annual Pinball Degenerates Awards, Pulp Fictions finally being built, Labyrinth toppers now shipping, and a long discussion about American Pinball's investor situation and continued reliance on original themes.Video Games: We go over Nintendo shutting down some old online play services, Overwatch having a new competit…

Pinball: We go over Stern Pinball's Jaws and the No-Eat-BallGate that has manifested. We also spend a bit of time talking about Princess Bride and Little Shop of Horrors and use that as a springboard to talk about other 1980s themes that may work for pinball.Video Games: We go over a lot of industry layoffs, some Square Enix AI news, Ubisoft's subs…

Pinball: We go over the Stern Pinball Jaws reveal and also touch on some other Stern information.Video Games: We go over someone "beating" Tetris, Twitch updating their nudity policy (again), Square Enix and their plans for AI, Baldur's Gate 3 and troubles with the Xbox version, and a $48,000 DLC pack of Star Citizen.Episode Links:Pinball News arti…

Pinball: We quickly go over some more pinball award stuff, talk about Planetary Pinball granting Pedretti the ability to make WMS remakes, and then do our year-end review of the manufacturers.Video Games: We go over E3's cancellation, several Activision-related topics, a couple major hacks of video game companies, changes to the Epic store, changes…

Pinball: We talk about Spooky Pinball's reveal of two new pinball machines: Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Looney Tunes. We also talk about changes to the TWIPY awards and why the toxic behavior around it is getting out of hand.Video Games: We go over The Game Awards (reveals and awards), GTA 6, Twitch leaving South Korea, Bethesda going back into pai…

Pinball: We talk about Dutch Pinball moving on past TBL, Stern Pinball releasing their Insider Connected app and more Black Knight toppers, and Kineticist acquiring TWIP.Video Games: We go over the Game Awards, Baldur's Gate getting a physical edition, a delay for Space Marine 2, Gabe Newell having to talk lawsuits, and the end of the Overwatch Lea…

Pinball: We talk about Stern's production line, the rumor Dutch Pinball has Back to the Future, a bit about The Princess Bride, and two listener emails that we discuss in depth.Video Games: We go over a Steam code recipient game review, talk about Baldur's Gate, cover the results of the Golden Joystick Awards, discuss Mortal Kombat 1 demanding too …

Pinball: We talk about the upcoming 2023 Kansas City Pinball Championship, JJP's new game Elton John, Stern loosing the price requirements on some older titles, and CGC finally completing an official Pulp Fiction machine.Video Games: We go over Embracer reducing staff at Zen Studios, Paradox releasing Harebrained Schemes, Ubisoft delaying Skull and…

Pinball: We talk about the new company Barrels of Fun and their new pinball machine Labyrinth, we discuss Stern Pinball basically re-releasing two games, we go over a new version of Pinball Brothers' Alien, we talk about the JJP reveal planned for Expo along with some other Expo expected happenings, and we go over why we love pinball and our curren…

Pinball: We talk about a recent interview with David Fix from American Pinball relating to homebrew games and GTF!, go over Homepin's plan to reveal a pinball machine at Expo not designed for pinheads, and cover a new P3 game called Dungeon Door Defender.Video Games: We talk about Epic's layoffs, the latest on the Microsoft-Activision merger, Kamiy…

Pinball: We talk about Haggis and Fathom Revisited, Stern's final run of Guardians of the Galaxy Pro games, and the fall of Circus Maximus and its attempts to make Pinball Circus and Kingpin.Video Games: We get a review from Dave P on Doom, talk about E3 limping along, Steam being around for 20 years, Charles Martinet as the Mario ambassador, some …

Pinball: We talk about recent hires by JJP and Stern Pinball, Multimorphic starting to ship Final Resistance, and play another game of Rank Random Pins.Video Games: We get a review from Robert G. on Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure, talk about the loss of the Volition game studio, discuss Sony renaming its handheld device, chat about Starfield revi…

We cover a lot about the podcast given this is the 200th episode. In pinball we talk about the new LE version of Jurassic Park by Stern, play a game, and do Rumor Corner. In video games we discuss Alan Wake 2, Starfield, Overwatch 2 review bombing, and some more details regarding issues at the Embracer Group.Episode Links:EGP Fursona merch: https:/…

Pinball: We hit some quick news topics (Stern last call on Avengers and Iron Maiden, Stern hiring Jeremy Packer, Nick Baldridge joining Multimorphc), discuss a listener email about Dennis needing to believe in himself to achieve great pinball victory, and we have a discussion on the current state of the pinball market.Video Games: We address Baldur…

Pinball: We discuss Stern Pinball's new Venom game.Video Games: We address the latest on the Microsoft effort to acquire Activision, the end of Gundam Evolution, Overwatch 2 joining Steam, and Xbox Gold changing to Game Pass Core.Episode Links:This Week in Pinball's deep dive on Venom: https://www.thisweekinpinball.com/stern-pinball-announces-venom…

Pinball: We discuss Pinball Brothers reducing the price of Queen, Haggis Pinball revealing Centaur Revisited, and of course Rumor Corner.Video Games: We address Daedalic laying off staff in the wake of Gollum's failure, cover the Microsoft-FTC trial, provide a Twitch update, talk a bit about Starfield, go over Ubisoft and the blockchain, discuss Mi…

Pinball: We discuss the rumor of a Ghostbusters Vault, Homepin's recent interview and decision to add a center post to Spinal Tap, and of course have Rumor Corner (Potter rumors this time!).Video Games: We address two Nintendo-related emails, go over the Xbox direct, the Nintendo direct, talk about an EA split, give the latest on the Microsoft effo…

Pinball: We discuss the Stern Godzilla topper, talk about the recent reveal of HEXA Pinball and Space Hunt, and cover Rumor Corner.Video Games: We talk about the Mario movie getting a sequel, the buzz on Diablo 4, discuss a slew of Summer Gamefest announcements, talk about yet another Twitch blunder, cover Paradox refunds on a video game, give a sm…

Pinball: We discuss Jersey Jack Pinball reportedly securing the Harry Potter license, talk about how we would have done a Whirlwind 2.0 project, and cover Rumor Corner.Video Games: We read a listerner review of a Steam game, talk about Overwatch 2 abandoning PvE, the return of BlizzCon, no planned DLC for Final Fantasy 16, do an overview of the Pla…

Pinball: We discuss the Whirlwind 2.0 kit, Final Resistance's sales performance, a digression about Overwatch relating to the pinball homebrew, and an update on the enhanced code for Cactus Canyon Remake. We also provide Rumor Corner.Video Games: We read two listener reviews of Steam games, talk about the new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom game, discu…

Pinball: We discuss Pinball Adventures and their Punny Factory reveal, discuss the newly announced TiltBob Pinball company out of Florida, talk about the status of the expanded code for Cactus Canyon Remake, and chat a bit about an Overwatch homebrew project. We also provide Rumor Corner.Video Games: We read a listener review of the VR game Perfect…

Pinball: We give a few quick updates on Stern's Foo Fighters, Homepin's Spinal Tap trailer, American Pinball's work to resolve issues with GTF!, and Spooky's new code for Scooby. We also provide which pinball machine "won" TPF 2023 based off a poll of a Patreon members, and have a discussion about which companies we think might get a second game ou…

Pinball: We our thoughts on a bunch of the games we played at Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) 2023 and provide Rumor Corner.Video Games: We talk about E3 being cancelled and some updates on the Microsoft purchase of Activision.Episode Links:MechWarrior 5 Mercenary Pinball: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mechwarrior-5-mercenary-pinballShow Lin…

Pinball: We discuss Jersey Jack Pinball's Godfather Pinball, a little bit more about American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force, the reveal of Chicago Gaming Company's Pulp Fiction Pinball, Turner Pinball planning to be at TPF, and Rumor Corner.Video Games: We talk a bit more about the Microsoft effort to acquire Activision, a major Star Citizen issue,…

Pinball: We discuss the recently revealed Foo Fighters Pinball by Stern Pinball, another teaser for American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force, the upcoming reveal of Jersey Jack Pinball's Godfather, and of course Rumor Corner.Video Games: We talk a bit more about tabletop (at the start of the segment based off a listener question), and then go over ne…

Pinball: We discuss the teased module Project Carbon from Multimorphic, Spooky Pinball Scooby games shipping, American Pinball planning for a March 2023 reveal, we discuss a Patreon poll regarding possible remake companies PPS could turn to, and of course Rumor Corner.Video Games: Focus is on Activison-Blizzard's merger woes with Microsoft and some…

Tony was unable to participate on this episode, aside from a small blurb at the start. As such, Dennis just focuses on pinball and goes over the results for The Pinball Awards in 2022, talks about the upcoming 2nd annual Pinball Degenerate Awards, discusses his thoughts on Spooky's gameplay reveal of Scooby-Doo Pinball, covers the announcement of S…