We welcome the awesome and talented Ali Hillis back to the podcast. She takes us through her origin story, how she got into acting and video games, and her love of animal rescue. Our chat concludes in a rapid fire session we call the Lightning round… get it?! Finally, Rated NA responds to a challenge of our PC gaming cred. It’s on.
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Writers Jan Van Meter and Greg Rucka are doing something incredibly creative to help out the folks in Oklahoma who are currently without homes, power, water, and just about everything else. Greg and Jan are participating in the #TwitterYardSaleOK drive to help raise some extra cash for the thousands of [...]
Posted in Comics on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Greg Rucka, Jan Van Meter, Lady Sabre, Queen and Country.
All of us here at NA are huge fans of Dave Filoni and the wonderful stuff he did with Star Wars: The Clone Wars. What started off as a juvenile show aimed squarely at children, soon became a rich action packed adventure series for people of all ages, even the salty old ones. When [...]
Posted in Television on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Dave Filoni, star wars, Star Wars Celebration, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Our old friends in Anamanaguchi haven’t been lounging around while not doing interviews with us. No not in the least, instead they’ve been releasing new music. I know because I’ve heard it and it’s awesome. The new album’s production value has gone way up. The sounds are cleaner and bigger [...]
Posted in Music, Uncategorized on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About anamanaguchi, kickstarter, new album.
If you’re looking to check out a fun, action packed, summer popcorn flick? This is one worth watching. One thing the franchise reboot does well is action and the sequel is no exception.
Posted in Movies, Review on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Abrams, Star Trek: Into Darkness, star wars.
On this episode we welcome the awesome Michael Biehn, whom you already know from such films as Terminator, Aliens, and Tombstone. We talk with Michael Biehn about movies, his directorial experience with The Victim, providing his voice to Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, and more. Also, Miellyn Barrows stops by to put up with Scott and Ash, while Matt and Hilary are out; and we told you so about ABC’s upcoming TV show, SHIELD. See the future.
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Posted in Rated NA on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About ABC, Aliens, Blood Dragon, EA, far cry 3, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Miellyn Barrows, planet terror, star wars, terminator, the victim, voice acting.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was our idea. Yep, that’s right, we thought of it way back in July of 2012. You want evidence? Fine! Check out episode 69 of Rated NA right around the 34 minute mark. Okay, we realize we’re probably not the only group of geeks on the planet that fantasized about a S.H.I.E.L.D. television series before it was announced last year, but we like to feel special on occasion.
Posted in Comics, Television on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Amy Acker, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clark Gregg, Firefly, Joss Whedon, Marvel Comics, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
A slow news week can’t keep the gang down on this May the Fourth / Free Comic Book Day celebration. We talk Shadow of the Eternals, High Heavens, Dragon Age: World of Thedas, The Elite, Star Command, and Far Cry: Blood Dragon. Ash regales us with takes of D&D, and you tell us your go-to fantasy RPG class. Utini!
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Posted in Rated NA on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Blood Dragon, d&d, dragon age: world of thedas, eternal darkness, Fantasy, far cry, High Heavens, mage, rogue, RPG, science, shadow of the eternals, star command, Stinky Footboard, the elite, warrior.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is essentially a re-release of Capcom’s Original Dragon’s Dogma with a number of fixes and DLC content available on disk. Many of the annoying issues from the original release of Dragon’s Dogma, such as incredibly expensive fast travel, have been addressed and repaired. Dark Arisen also ads [...]
Posted in Games on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Capcom, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Dragons Dogma, Pawn System, RPG.
Remember the days when you had all sorts of free time on your hands? When it wasn’t a big deal to say to a few friends, ‘Hey, let’s get together for a game night’? Now our lives are full of … well all sorts of stuff. (For me it’s a [...]
Posted in Fantasy, Games, Movies on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About carlos the dwarf, d&d, dungeons & dragons & bitches, Freaks and Geeks, kanye, key and peele, miellyn, penny arcade, role playing, RPG, suv, zero charisma.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was released by Ubisoft on May 1, 2013 and offers a nostalgic power slide through the best and worst clichés of action movies and video games from 80s and 90s. In a world where nothing is the same and everything is different, the wasteland of [...]
Posted in Comedy, DLC, Games, Review on Wednesday May 22, 2013. Read More About Blood Dragon, Cyber Commando, DLC, far cry 3, first-person shooter, Sergeant Rex Power Colt, video game.
