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Episode 291: Monster PoopEpisode 291: Monster Poop
This week it’s Jordan Lund’s turn to be absent, while Jonah Falcon and Paul Nowak discuss just how bad The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is. This week’s Gaming Flashback is Peter Molyneux’s ambitious title Black & White.
In the news:
- Silicon Knights’ cancelled games revealed
- Gabe Newell: Valve planning console-like PC for living room
- Windows Store “begins accepting” 18-rated games
- Rockstar muses on “one big world containing all” GTA cities
- Defiance‘s TV show and game “stand up on their own,” don’t ‘need’ one another
There’s also some Reader Feedback, while the Question of the Week is, “How in tune with an MMO’s story are you while playing?”
Episode 681: Valve and the Number 3Episode 681: Valve and the Number 3
Lots of Resident Evil 4 remake and Cyberpunk 2077 discussion as well as the following news items:
- Report: Sony’s next PlayStation handheld is called the Q Lite, features 8-Inch touchscreen and requires constant internet connectivity
- Portal writer Erik Wolpaw still wants to make Portal 3
- ‘Gamers’ Lawsuit’ returns for another swing at Microsoft/Activision sale
Let us know what you think.
Gaming Flashback: DOOMGaming Flashback: DOOM
DOOM is a PC game titlat that wasn’t initially released in stores. It was uploaded to an FTP server in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and on the Software Creations BBS on the 10th of December; released as a shareware game, people were encouraged to download and spread the game around to all their friends.
In days before social networks and the wildfire of the Internet (or high speed networking) this game still managed to spread around to everyone in the gaming community. From1993 to 1995 the title had an estimated install base of 10 million computers. We were one of them.
Granted, ten million copies were installed but most were not registered and simply remained as shareware. However, over one million copies were sold for the registered version of DOOM and this brought momentum to their next non-shareware copy of the DOOM series. The Ultimate Doom (version 1.9, including episode IV) was released, making this the first time that Doom was sold commercially in stores.
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