Sept. 6-12: Jean-Claude kickboxes, randos fight gladiators, there’s an actually good animated movie spinoff, the New Kids are rough, Diana Ross gets handsy, vampires keep diaries, Tyler Perry breaks bad all by himself, Kevin Bacon goes under, Aerosmith live it… Read more
Don’t like the way your generation or cause gets depicted by the mainstream media? Well, imagine being a hippie, perhaps the world’s safest target of ridicule throughout the last half-century. From the scorn of their late sixties heyday, to the… Read more
Aug. 29-Sept. 5: Nick’s first show is gone, Motley Crue feels good, Paula Abdul makes a video too hot for TV, Earl has to die, Cuba Gooding Jr. freezes out Oscar, Tony Hawk takes flight, Disney begins buying everything, Gerard… Read more
The Dreamcast, Sega’s beloved but short-lived final console, just turned 20 in North America this week! To celebrate, Heidi Kemps of gaming.moe joins us for a look at five games that made the best use of the VMU, Dreamcast’s memory… Read more
Matt and TL are here with their reviews of AEW All Out 2019 and NXT Takeover UK Cardiff, as well as their take on news from around the wrestling world, the top 3 things happening in professional wrestling today, and… Read more
Everyone loves hippies! Right? Or at least enough to put a few of them in videogames. This week, PNB Podcast’s TL Foster returns for a look at some of the ways games have depicted counterculture dropouts, after which we’ll dig… Read more
The Rock gets his own show, Rob Zombie takes his last crack at Halloween, Lou Bega evokes the 5th Mambo, the 16-bit game world has a new contender, Antonio Banderas is lucky number 13, Fred Savage’s Monsters Inc, SNL cast… Read more
Being a Disney animator used to mean you were among the world’s best creators of hand-drawn, 2D animation – an art form that’s lately fallen out of favor in Hollywood. Luckily, there have been a few times that Disney alums… Read more
Klasky Csupo brings its fourth ugly cartoon to Nickelodeon, Regis Philbin is out to ruin prime time, the world (and John Hughes) falls in love with Macaulay Culkin, Saved By the Bell kills cartoons, Michael J Fox gets serious, Tarantino… Read more
Localization can be a touchy subject these days, but there was a time when it often meant turning a game into something completely different for foreign audiences. This week, we grab Greg Moore to talk about five classic games that… Read more
On the latest episode of Cheap Popcast, we pay tribute to Harley Race, round up news from around the world of professional wrestling, see how we did with predicting Summerslam and NXT Takeover Toronto then rate the shows on an… Read more
This week, we grab Diana Goodman for a high-speed detour to explore five ’70s and ’80s movies that had a profound influence on the early years of gaming, helping shape the then-new medium’s aesthetics and defining its direction for decades… Read more
Video games have pioneered so very many things in the realm of pop culture. So… it’s a difficult question to ask: Is music NOT one of them? Grab the buds and/or phones, because we’re exploring a bit of a tough… Read more
Steve Martin’s last good film?! Eddie Murphy plays a great nerd/Scientologist, District 9 holds up great a decade later, it’s the beginning of the end for Nightmare on Elm Street, James Cameron and Hayao Miyazaki venture under the sea, and Rachel… Read more
New Cheap Popcast hosts Matty Allen and TL Foster are here to break down all of the matches at NXT Takeover and SummerSlam happening this weekend in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In this special teaser episode, you’ll get a taste of… Read more
Cheat codes may largely be a thing of the past, but this week, we’ll look at five cheat codes that became important and iconic enough to earn a place in gaming history – and even to influence its course. Things… Read more
SomeBODY once told me you’re really gonna like this episode! We’ve got a forgotten superhero movie with more stars than the original Avengers, the last great traditionally animated film, an adaptation of a blog, the world falls in love with… Read more
Kermit, Mario, Mickey. Throughout history, certain characters have become so popular, they become the default mascot spokes-things for their respective companies. This is not about those characters. This is about the once mighty icons who were relegated to the background… Read more
