The Official Harmonix Podcast

This week we have special guest David Nguyen on the show. David is the acclaimed Dance Central 3 credits pixel artist, an exceptional cosplayer and a valued Dance Central community member. We rap with David on making his amazing Glitch costumes for PAX, hear the story of how he got the gig as pixel artist for DC3, and spend a chunk of time discussing the history of Pokémon. Today is also the first day of PAX EAST! Come visit us on the floor at the Microsoft booth and see some of the talks we are part of on Friday and Saturday.

One of our favorite people in gaming is Mr. Dan Amrich. Many may know him from his years on the journalism side of our industry, while others know him as OneOfSwords, Activision’s community management maestro. He’s been a friend of ours through the years, popping up at many of the same trade shows as us, sharing a genuine enthusiasm and positivity that’s often lacking dearly in the oft-cynical world of VIDEO GAMES. Sit back, won’t you, and let Dan tell us about his career in gaming, and impart some words of wisdom amidst some hilarious stories.

This week on the show, HMXHenry breaks the news that new weekly DLC for Rock Band is coming to an end in April. Listen to the discussion where we cover topics like: What’s the last song? What about RBN? and more… We also talk about our plans for PAX East and the future of the podcast and livestream.

This week on the show we’ve got a special guest, Justin McElroy. We chat about his latest hoax on the general gaming population of America, and discuss his other job as the Managing Editor at Polygon.com as well. Justin’s a rare creature, like if a snowflake were a panda, clad in corduroy. Strap in and sit back for the ride of your life, this podcast is going to take you to the limit.

This week on the show, we have an extra special guest: Gearbox Chief Creative Champion Mikey Neumann! Mikey’s a good friend of ours and is a modern renaissance man, writing books, comics, creating games, and dunking every basketball he comes in contact with. Listen up as we chat with Mikey about Borderlands, his books The Returners and The Ending, and his love of Cheez Ums.

This week on the show, we have an extra special guest: Gearbox Chief Creative Champion Mikey Neumann! Mikey’s a good friend of ours and is a modern renaissance man, writing books, comics, creating games, and dunking every basketball he comes in contact with. Listen up as we chat with Mikey about Borderlands, Aliens: Colonial Marines, his books The Returners and The Ending, and his love of Cheez Ums.

This week on the show, we have an extra special guest: Gearbox Chief Creative Champion Mikey Neumann! Mikey’s a good friend of ours and is a modern renaissance man, writing books, comics, creating games, and dunking every basketball he comes in contact with. Listen up as we chat with Mikey about Borderlands, his books The Returners and The Ending, and his love of Cheez Ums.

We’re mostly all back in the office now that 2013 has gotten underway, and boy do we all have opinions! We run down our personal favorite games of 2012, and also address some big bits of Rock Band news for the New Year.

Another podcast, another special guest! HMXHenry guest-hosts again as we chat with Playtest Coordinator Matty Studivan about our favorite holiday songs and movies. Spoiler alert: most holiday songs are total bummers. Listen in and then share your favorite holiday songs in the comments!

This episode we welcome a very special guest, the one and only Mr. Adam Cardoza. Adam is a game designer here at Harmonix and also a very knowledgeable wrestling fan. The team explores what they think their own personal wrestling theme songs would be if they are ever introduced into a squared circle.

With Thanksgiving and Black Friday behind them, the team share their holiday experiences with you, along with some great discussion of the WiiU. If you are a Rock Band Wii player and are wondering about WiiU compatibility, you’ll want to listen in! Also, if you are a fan of Texas swamps and shipwrecks, this is the podcast you’ve been waiting for.

In the spirit of our favorite holiday, this podcast is stuffed with Thanksgiving cheer, like so many turkeys, hams, and turduckens are stuffed with, well, stuffing. We discuss our different T-Day loadouts, and get down to brass tacks about Aaron’s disgusting meat gelatin addiction. It’s a fun one, best served with cylindrical cranberry sauce!

Halloween thrills and chills abound in this ghoulishly delightful episode. We talk to Dance Central 3’s Senior Producer, Naoko Takamoto, about what goes in to choreographing all those amazing dance sequences in the game. We also, in the spirit of the week, chat about our favorite horror movies and videogames! HOLD ONTO YA SOULS!

Dance Central 3 came out this week!!! As you’d expect, this podcast is heavy on the DC3 talk and details. But not to worry, fans of our more, let’s call it inane, talk - we've got that too. But what are you doing still reading this? LISTEN UP!

We’ve got a short episode this week, but that just means it is DENSE like a podcast black hole, with content and info and goofs and spoofs. This is our last podcast before Dance Central 3 hits store shelves, so we devote most of our time giving you all the info you could ask for. Enjoy!