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 286: Free Indie GamesEpisode 286: Free Indie Games
This week, Gaming Podcast is giving away free indie games: Dungeon Defenders and the Zeboyd 2-Pack including Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VIII. The Gaming Flashback includes the original Splinter Cell from 2002.
There’s also plenty of news items including:
- Blizzard facing class action lawsuit over Battle.net security
- Former Square boss calls merger “a complete failure” between Square and Enix
- Nintendo details Wii U network ID system
- Molyneux skeptical about tablet/TV gaming
- Halo 4 makes $220M in first day, Forward Unto Reach garners 46M viewers
- Analyst: Grand Theft Auto V will sell 25M units
No Question of the Week – just let us know if you’d like to win either Dungeon Defenders or Cthulhu Saves the World/Breath Of Death VIII.
In addition, this is the final week of Kickstarter funding. Help the TD Gaming Podcast with its Kickstarter fundraising.
Episode 318: Do Androids Dream?Episode 318: Do Androids Dream?
This week’s podcast is full of Android-based console goodness – or badness, depending on your opinion of them. This week’s Gaming History looks at the Nintendo GameCube.
This week’s news includes:
- Ouya game developers sound off on disappointing sales numbers
- Nvidia plans July 31st launch of the Shield
- Telltale Games confirms Clementine returns to The Walking Dead
- Star Control now owned by Stardock
- Battlestar Galactica writer/producer collaborating with Sony Santa Monica
All this and Listener Feedback, as well as the Question of the Week: “What is your favorite first person shooter of all time?”
Konami Owns Musical Rhythm-Matching Game Patents?Konami Owns Musical Rhythm-Matching Game Patents?
Apparently Konami just realized Harmonix, MTV Networks and Viacom have made some game called Rock Band and want to take legal action. Konami has created some Japanese games involving karaoke called Karaoke Revolution. Why take legal action now?
Probably because Konami is working towards Rock Revolution, a title which puts together drums, vocals and guitar. How odd, don’t we have a game called Rock Band which has done that for awhile now? It’s much easier to be competitive in the market if you can squeeze your opponent out of the market by telling them you hold a patent on the entire concept…which you let slide for a year.
It seems a bit convenient to force a lawsuit, now, after Rock Band is proven successful and before you launch your own “clone.”
Its suit claims that Rock Band violates a series of US Patents registered in 2002 and 2003 relating to “simulated musical instruments” and “musical rhythm-matching game.” (gamespot)
Although the developers of Rock Band should have gone through some patents on the topic prior to make it (or maybe they did?), it seems a bit out of place to patent such a generic concept. As far as I know, Musical Chairs is also a musical rhythm-matching game but nobody put up any stink when Konami filed a patent for the same concept…