This week’s episode covers a wide variety of topics, with no set news list save talking about Nintendo Direct’s oddly uninspiring conference. There’s no news list, so feel free to discuss what you found interesting or frustrating about Nintendo’s stream or anything else mentioned in the podcast.
Episode 602: Nintendo Directionless
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Episode 569: Red Dead MemoriesEpisode 569: Red Dead Memories
The guys talk about Resident Evil 3 (and by extension Evolve), but most of the episode delves into the Gaming Flashback, Red Dead Redemption and its sequel Red Dead Redemption 2, focusing on where the original succeeded and where the sequel failed.
The news items this week include:
- Valorant closed beta rushes to 1.6M viewers on Twitch
- Rumor: Resident Evil 8 is first-person, takes “serious departures”, and will be out next year
- E3 2020 won’t hold an “online experience” after all
Let us know what you think!
Final Fantasy XIII Demo For PS3 AnnouncedFinal Fantasy XIII Demo For PS3 Announced
The first demo for Final Fantasy XIII has been announced, but, it will only be available (right now) on the PlayStation 3. It will arrive as “bonus material” when you purchase Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete because the game arrives on Blu-Ray and there is plenty of room for this additional content.
The game is scheduled to be released in March of 2009 in Japan, so the United States and other territories may not get an early demo of FFXIII. Does this give everyone a reason to purchase a PlayStation 3? Nothing says it won’t be available as a downloadable Demo on Xbox Live… because nobody’s really talked to that topic at all yet.
Square Enix has publically stated they’ll start the Final Fantasy XIII port to the Xbox 360 once it’s finished on the PlayStation 3, so presumably we won’t see a demo (or a final game) for some time to come. The end result, demo or no demo, is the same: a dual release on two of the big colorful platforms in the way of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
Episode 289: Princess PodcastEpisode 289: Princess Podcast
In this episode of Gaming Podcast, Jonah states he got to see Wreck It Ralph, while Paul still can’t find a black Wii U. This week’s Gaming Flashback is the 2002 Gamecube launch title Super Mario Sunshine.
This week’s news includes:
- The Lund Report: Black Friday 2012 NPD
- Nintendo Power’s last issue released
- Blizzard acquired ‘Project Blackstone‘ domain November 26th
- Rumor: Next gen Xbox coming Holiday 2013
- Dead Island: Riptide banned in Germany
All this and Reader Feedback, and the Question of the Week is, “Did you read many issues of Nintendo Power?”
