This week is on the short side, though Jonah and Jordan discuss pop culture like Red Letter Media, The Venture Bros. and Cave Johnson’s lemon ranting. There’s no Gaming Podcast or Gaming History, but there’s plenty of Listener Feedback and news items.
The news includes:
- Source: RI governor Lincoln Chafee deliberately torpedoed Studio 38
- UK online retailer SimplyGames enforcing PS4 bundles
- Half-Life 3 removed from trademark registery – Portal 3 appears
- The Last Guardian developers “re-engineering” the game, never was on “hiatus”
- Grand Theft Auto Online microtransactions disabled while server issues persist
No “Question of the Week” – this week is Listener Questions – send ’em in!
Circuit City seems to have a problem paying their bills or so it seems, as Sony stopped their shipments mid-transit and returned them before hitting the distributors command center. In this unfavorable market climate, with the holidays around the corner, it seems bad for Circuit City to lose the trust of Sony.
I think I just vomited in my mouth a little bit and then almost had that vomit leave my mouth from laughing so hard; also, I really need to do some catching up on Venture Bros.
*God mode: typically a carry over from the days when developers would build tools into their games to facilitate testing and debugging. Nowadays most developers disable access to those tools before shipping a game, but removing them entirely is typically inefficient and may unintentionally break a game.
fun fact: The first movie tie-in Spiderman game for the ps2 had a cheat to actually bring up a panel showing debug information while playing.