KPBCast

A review of the inaugural Evo Awards held over President's Day weekend 2025.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Block! is an e-sports team from the New York City area that is dedicated to bringing...

Matt Luongo runs Shock's RetroGamingBytes. He specializes in streaming retro videogames using actual hardware instead of emulators.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Block! is an e-sports team f...

Wendell Franklin is a competitive fighting game player and content creator for Kick-Punch-Block. KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.Kick-Punch-Block! is an e-sports team from the New York City area that is ...

Rodimus Prime, Aphro Dynamek, Rage and Deezee Kujaku are members of Kick-Punch-Block's production group. They travelled all over the country in 2022 and give us insights into the processes of putting together fighting game community tournaments, events and other special side projects.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimu...

Steve Murray is a fighting games player and organizer from Paterson, New Jersey. He is the host of the podcast, RNS: Real Nerd S***.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Block! is an e-sports team f...

Devyn Ricks is a teacher for the kids learning platform OutSchool. She utilizes popular videogame titles such as Pokemon and Animal Crossing in her classes.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

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In this episode we sit down with Derrick "iDom"Ruffin, the 2019 Capcom Tour Champion, to chat about the current state of the Street Fighter 5 community.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

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State of the Power Rangers Battle for the Grid podcast with Ryan "Uchi" Rojas. Being a community leader for Battle for the Grid, Uchi provides us with great insight into the community's activities before, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down ...

In this episode we sit down commentator and competitor Romulus Booker to talk about the state of the SNK community in 2022 and its future.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Block! is an e-sports ...

We sit down and have a chat with Posy to chat about the state of the Dragonball Fighter Z community during the pandemic and post Combo Breaker 2022.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Block! is a...

Michael Dorsey is the lead voice and head writer for Kick-Punch-Block. He sits down with us to share his thoughts on the state of commentating within the fighting game community post Combo Breaker 2022.

Sorry for the choppy and sometimes loud audio.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit d...

Helst is an organizer, commentator and competitor from New York City. He sits down and shares his thoughts on the Tekken community post Combo Breaker 2022.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Bloc...

Miqel Orteza is a web designer from Spain. He is the creator of The Californication Game, a fan made game inspired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video for their hit song Californication. Follow his work and continuing developments of all his projects over on Twitter @comandogdev

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus...

Scott Naylor is the founder and former owner of the videogame website TestYourMight.com. He has also helped organize and run community events for the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that ...

Estaban Martinez is a videogame documentarian whose works include Fight On! The Killer Instinct Story. You can follow his work over on YouTube at Hold Back to Block!

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

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Rodney Reid, gamertag Rodimus Prime, is the co-founder of Kick-Punch-Block, an esports production team based out of New York City, NY.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and personalities that make up the scene.

Kick-Punch-Block! is an e-sports team...

Dr. Stephanie Orme is a Media Studies professor at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. Her scientific journal, Just Watching: A Qualitative Analysis of Non-players' Motivations for Videogame Spectatorship, dwells into the minds of people who prefer spectating over playing videogames.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Pr...

Lukus Allen is the owner and lead manager for the gaming division of LDA Inc., based out of Texas. He is also the organizer for Project Avengers, an upcoming global fighting game event that will debut in 2022.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many players, promoters and...

Jonathan Thompson is an arcade enthusiast, retro gaming hardware collector, director and fan of the FGC. He is also the owner of Scanline City, the company who will soon be launching the new iteration of the legendary MAS Sticks.

KPBCast is a podcast dedicated to bringing you into the culture and community that is known as The Fighting Game Community. Join your hosts KPB Rodimus Prime and KPB Rafael as they sit down with the many pl...