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Episode 221: Fireworks

July 6th, 2011 · 7 Comments

It’s the Smurfiest post-Fourth of July podcast ever, as Jonah Falcon and Jordan Lund look back at the ColecoVision classic Smurfs: Rescue from Gargamel’s Castle, probably the easiest videogame ever Smurfed. If that weren’t Smurfy enough, Jonah and Jordan, working without Paul S. Nowak this week, also check out this week’s Smurfy news: Xbox 720 [...]

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Tags: Kinect · Microsoft · playstation 3 · Podcast · Retro · Show Notes · Xbox 360

50 Worst Voice Acting Clips Get a Face

May 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Some of the worst voice acting in videogame history can be bearable, when someone decides to supply a face for them. Check out YouTube user HansJamesMusicAOk’s hilarious “face acting” on the sound clips from 50 of the worst voice acting in games.

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Tags: Retro

Seven Games That Need to Be Remade

February 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments

With the strong rumor that Halo: Combat Evolved is going to be remade graphically from the ground up, it brings us to the question of why aren’t more games being remade?

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Tags: Editorial · Flashback · PC Gaming · Retro

Gaming Podcast 116: We Can’t Get To The Cloud!

March 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

This week’s gaming podcast covers a wide variety of news, we also argue a bit about the Wow restrictions on taking donations and cash (again) and touch on some gaming history involving The Sims and the history of Infocom. For news, we’ve tackled EA Leaves SecuRom out of Sims 3 Sony Enticing Independent Developers to [...]

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Gaming Podcast 111: Squeaky Wheel Gets The Kick

February 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This week we’re flashing back to Star Wars, an arcade classic from 1983. We’re looking back at the history and forward progress of ArenaNet, co-founded by some Blizzard folks. In the news, we’re looking at: John Riccitiello, EA’s CEO says the recession is a blessing Xbox Live Players Getting Attacked Video Games increase 13% In [...]

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Duke Nukem 3D Certified For XBLA

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Duke Nukem 3D has now been certified by Microsoft and is ready for the big time, let’s rock. It seems like “forever” since we’ve seen a Duke Nukem game, even if this is simply a flashback to 1996. There were plenty of gamers that have an Xbox 360 now that didn’t get to play Duke [...]

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Tags: Retro · Xbox 360

Castle Crashers: Ye Old School Gaming!

August 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a world of 3D worlds, dynamic lighting and intense shadows we see far too few old school retro style platformer titles. With the advent of Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare and the PlayStation Network we’re seeing a few new indy developers getting into the game. Castle Crashers, developed by The Behemoth, is an upcoming side [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Retro · Xbox 360

Retro FlashBack: DragonFire (Atari 2600)

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Now here is another interesting video game for the Atari 2600, the game Dragon Fire consisted of two game screens, one which you ran across a bridge while fireballs were shot at you, you had to duck or jump over the fireball. This screen was a side-scroller style screen (although it doesn’t actually scroll), at [...]

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We Need Another Ikari Warriors

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

In 1986 SNK released Ikari Warriors, it had all the makings of a classic title. Cool weapons, time strategies, two player action and a great challenge. We’re now seeing folks reproduce some of the essence of classic games by creating platformers like Little Big Planet and Mega Man 9, where is the love for the [...]

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Tags: Editorial · playstation 3 · Retro · Wii · Xbox 360

Gaming Flashback: Myst

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Myst was published by Brøderbund Software, developed by Cyan Worlds and created by two brothers that did the design and directed the game (it was, much like a movie). The original game was released on the Macintosh (in 1993) and then later ported to Microsoft Windows and Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Jaguar CD, AmigaOS, CD-i, 3DO, [...]

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