TD Gaming Podcast 107: It’s All About Thrusting

January 27, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 6:44 pm

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This weeks episode is a bit unique, we’ve changed up a bit of our format to see what people think of the fresh new style. If you like it or dislike it, please let us know. This week we flashback to the 1986 title Thrust on the BBC Micro and cover the history of Solid Snake. News for the week:

Voice Actor ‘Michael Hollick’ won’t be the focus of GTA IV DLC
PS3 Not Getting Fallout 3 update
GameStop putting people in fat suits to prove a point
Guitar Hero World Tour Kicks Rock Bands Butt In Sales
Electronic Arts gives “Safe” signal to Casual Games and Burnout Developers
Halo Wars Goes Gold
Mortal Kombat Game In The Works
Windows 7 – Performs pretty sweet in gaming

Please let us know what you thought of this weeks episode shake-up and, while you’re here, why don’t you take our survey?

The video’s from the show, from Dan:

Episode 703: Shadow of WarEpisode 703: Shadow of War

This week, TJ finally decides to play Middle Earth: Shadow of War, and there is a debate on whether he should play Shadow of Mordor or just watch a Let’s Play of the game first.

The news includes:

Cities: Skylines 2 DLC has been delayed and weekly patches have come to an end
Warner Bros says Wonder Woman won’t be a live-service game
Knights of the Old Republic remake reportedly not in active development
Insomniac’s Wolverine reportedly due 2025

Let us know what you think.

Gaming Podcast 194: Too Much Coffee Causes Genital HangnailsGaming Podcast 194: Too Much Coffee Causes Genital Hangnails

The longest title recorded on the books, let’s hope it fits! 🙂 This week we covered the gaming history for Adventures of Lolo and a bit about HAL Labratory all in honor of a new game we recently purchased to play with our kids: Kirby’s Epic Yarn. So far so good, our son is enjoying 2-player mode with us. This week we did an on-the-spot mini-review breakdown of Kirby’s Epic Yarn while hitting up some gaming news including:

STEAM SURPASSES 30 MILLION ACCOUNTS
Epic thinks Nintendo 3ds is not on par with iPhone 3GS
Kinect Director puts foot in his mouth
Microsoft uses Angry Bird icon without permission
Blizzard is suing Starcraft hackers

Of course, a special thanks for Herr Alien and all his news posts this week, we got a bunch of them into the show. This week’s question o’ the week, what musician/group would you like to see featured in a video game and what genre would fit them?

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In this episode, the guys discuss Riot Games reportedly canceled an unannounced platform fighter, Fallout getting nominated for 16 Emmy Awards, and a player coming back after a 11 year, 5 month ban to continue the same argument from 2013.