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Gaming Podcast 174: A Helmet of Killer BeesGaming Podcast 174: A Helmet of Killer Bees

May 25, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 12:00 pm

This week we’re rolling dualies, Jennifer and Derrick are busting through the top news of the week and reading some gaming podcast community comments while flashing back to 720º. We also managed to do our Gaming History segment this week!

WoW Remote Auction house
Fallout New Vegas getting big changes
Senior vice president of public relations at SCEA weighs in on used game sales
Sony unveiling a premium PlayStation Network?

This week’s question of the week, what would you expect to get out of a USD $70 subscription to a console network like the PSN?

July NPD Unit Sales: Wii On Top… AgainJuly NPD Unit Sales: Wii On Top… Again

August 16, 2008| schommer| 0 Comment| 10:05 am

Believe this, Nintendo and their Wii console takes another month as top seller. The only product that moves more hardware than the Wii is the DS. As a gamer, it’s hard to understand how the Wii product continues to sell like this with the least supported game library on the planet.

The DS is completely understandable as it has a huge library of games, is more cost effective, comes in pretty colors and can save you tons of arguments and fighting from your kids on a long trip. In many ways the DS is synonymous with peace and quiet. What does the Wii offer us? Wii Sports and a new control scheme along with a few hit titles from Nintendo but little else for now.

I’ll be the first to admit, I thought this would be Nintendo’s chance to turn it all around and get the third parties involved. They have everything going for them in terms of sales, third party developers should be pushing out games each month considering the craze factor of the hardware. This just isn’t true.

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TD Gaming Podcast 82: Standing Cows and BovinesTD Gaming Podcast 82: Standing Cows and Bovines

August 5, 2008| schommer| 0 Comment| 10:00 pm

This week we’re talking about pre-owned video games and ask the question, do you buy new or do you buy used? Do you sell your games? We answer some listener comments and hit on a few hot topics:

Another Call of Duty set for release in 2009 (1up)
Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII isn’t even started yet!
Blizzcon Pay-Per-View, OMG.
PlayStation Game, Fat Princess, is the new focus of game haters

We’ve also got a bit of history on The Golden Age of Arcade Games and we take a gaming flashback to Mario Brothers, the original non-super version.

Firmware 2.40, Epic Failure?Firmware 2.40, Epic Failure?

July 3, 2008| schommer| 0 Comment| 1:14 pm

After finally catching a break and making some strides in the sales of PlayStation 3 consoles, Sony stumbles over a major firmware update, v2.40, causing customers minor to extreme pain across the board. Some PlayStation 3 consoles are having small issues while others are simply locking up.

In the end, Sony has decided to pull the update from their site “temporarily” while they fix the glitches:

“UPDATE: 7/2/2008, the PlayStation 3 system software version 2.40 has been temporarily taken offline and will not be available for download as our engineers examine any possible issues with this update. The Knowledge Center will be updated with information as it becomes available; please check back here for further details.”

Sony’s only response is “we’re looking into it” while the only way a consumer of a fried box is to get back online is to format and start over (saving their content to some other media device first of course). Or, they can ship it back for a minor charge of $150.00. Or, they can do as others have been, light up the sony forums.

(Thanks, 1up)