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TD Gaming Podcast 90: Riddled With Fragmented PatchesTD Gaming Podcast 90: Riddled With Fragmented Patches
This weeks gaming podcast we’re doing a review of Rock Band 2 and it’s drum kit. We are also digging into some juicy news on:
- Fable II launches with no on-line co-op mode
- EA slapped with class action law suit over Spore DRM
- Warhammer Online hits 500K subscribers
- Sony PS3, not the most popular console in Japan
This weeks gaming flashback, we’re looking back to Act Raiser for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). We also discuss our thoughts of the upcoming Xbox 360 console user interface changes, avatars and the casual gamer look and feel.
Gaming Podcast 189: Fort GayGaming Podcast 189: Fort Gay
So this week we’re busting out a new flashback of an old game: Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors II. We’re covering a bit about some gaming history and a few key news articles of the week including:
- Microsoft bans user because of town name
- John Romero doing casual games consulting
- Sony fighting jailbreaking too
- Apple taking a leap into social gaming with iOS 4.1
This weeks question of the week, what do you think is the top selling video game genre of all time, not just the last few years.
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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