Three months have passed since our favourite Marbula E vehicles have taken to the track, and they’re itching to burn some rubber. Today they’ll be racing in New York City, also known as the “Big Apple.” The moniker is appropriate, … Continue reading Marbula E Race 5 “New York”
Happy Halloween! It’s time for the GamesCast’s annual spooky episode. This one’s about our most horrifying software and hardware failures. Join me, Lovely Bones, dw, Ben, and Science is Bad in gaming hell! (The Kappa was already there, having had … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #70: Diapers Recommended
Hey folks! This episode is a sequel episode to our first episode about crossovers. In this episode, we dream up ridiculous video game crossovers and speculate about what they’d look like. We also discuss Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax. You can … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #69: Friend Juice
Hey folks! We’re planning on recording the annual Halloween episode of the GamesCast this Saturday, October 17th (Eastern time). We’re going to be discussing our gaming horror stories — console crashes, erased save files, fried graphics cards, and the like. … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #70
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Nice! Okay, now that we’ve taken care of that, we’re planning to record the next episode of the GamesCast this coming weekend (26th and 27th of September), and we’d love for you … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #69
Today at 4 PM Eastern, Sony will be presenting a livestream about its upcoming PlayStation 5 console. Will we finally receive a price and release date for the binder-shaped box? Let’s find out. Continue reading PlayStation 5 Showcase Live-Chat
Hey Gameocados! In this episode of the podcast, we discuss streaming, conventions, the weird side of YouTube, and the highs and lows of the short-lived streaming platform Mixer, with the inside scoop from Admirax. You can listen to the podcast … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #68: The Streamer Zoo
Hey Gameocados! In this episode of the GamesCast, we chat about what we’ve been playing lately, open-world games, Ubisoft’s and Microsoft’s July press conferences, and the Nintendo Gigaleak. You can listen to the podcast with the embedded player above, or … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #67: Slender Yoshi
This is it. It’s down to the final event of the 2020 Marble League. The Savage Speeders lead the pack with 195 points, followed by the O’rangers at 190 points, and the Midnight Wisps at 179 points. The Marble Marathon … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E 16 Marble Marathon + Closing Ceremonies
Annual weeklong charity speedrunning marathon Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) is back, raising money for Doctors Without Borders. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year the event is being held online. You watch the marathon in the embedded Twitch … Continue reading Summer Games Done Quick 2020
The Marble League Showdown is a chance at redemption. 12 teams that didn’t qualify for this year’s Marble League will compete in four events: the relay race; the halfpipe; the black hole funnel; and the sand mogul race. The top … Continue reading Marble League Showdown 2020
The marbles have been playing nice for most of the tournament, but now it’s time for them to unleash their pent-up aggression and just go apeshit. Welcome to Collision. This year, the collision arena has been upgraded with catapults that … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E15 Collision
The aquathlon is a hybrid event consisting of a regular sprint followed by an aquatic race. The twist is that all four marbles from each team race at once, with the third-place marble marking a team’s completion of the race. … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E14 Team Aquathlon
A great philosopher once asked, “How high can a marble jump?” I don’t know. How high can a marble jump? Today, we’ll find out. Like in the inferior human high jump, marbles get a running start before attempting to launch … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E13 High Jump
The full title of this episode is “Japanese Games Released in 2019 about Murder Victims with Their Eyes Gouged Out and Protagonists Voiced by Greg Chun in the English Dub.” But don’t worry, we don’t just talk about Judgment and AI: … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #66: … Greg Chun …
After a two-month hiatus, Marbula E is back! This time we’re off to the streets of Berlin for some exciting German auto racing. Can anyone catch up with Mercedes-Benz on their home turf? Let’s see if two solid months of … Continue reading Marbula E Race 4 “Berlin”
Greg Woods describes the relay run as an event that combines speed and teamwork. This is an accurate description: marbles have to go fast and perform proper handoffs. That’s really the core of it. Nothing else to worry about, I … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E12 Relay Run
This year, the JMRC has developed a new event for the Marble League: the Black Hole Funnel. It’s a test of endurance, rather than speed or finesse. Like an actual black hole, the funnel draws marbles toward its core, from … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E11 Black Hole Funnel
there is no joy. only marble. marble go fast in straight line. vroom vroom. Some, like whoever wrote the preceding paragraph, might consider the 5M sprint a boring event. But the joy of watching a come-from-behind victory is undeniable. Let’s … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E10 5M Sprint
Heya AvoGamers! Sorry for the short notice, but we’re planning to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this Sunday, the 2nd of August, in the late afternoon/early evening Eastern time. Here’s what we’ll definitely discuss: Recent summer gaming … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #67
The sand mogul race is as much a test of strategy as it is a test of speed. It isn’t simply a matter of rolling down the hill as fast as you can; selecting the optimal route across the sand … Continue reading Marble League 2020 E9 Sand Mogul Race
