This is the last podcast of 2023, as the gang just talks about the year that was and the upcoming 2024 in a long, unscripted episode.
Episode 707: Goodbye 2023
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This week we’re giving away a free copy of BioShock Infinite for the Xbox 360! How do you win? Well, simply post a good comment! The contest winner will be announced two weeks from now.
In the meantime, the Gaming Flashback this time is the PlayStation One classic Chrono Cross, while Paul tries desperately to avoid listening to BioShock Infinite spoilers.
This week’s news includes:
- THQ’s UDraw failure “invalidated” Saints Row: The Third‘s success
- Levine: BioShock Infinite cost $100M to develop, and $100M to market
- American McGee doesn’t “see anything meaningful” in the PS4, SimCity players “need to relax”
- Schafer’s Double Fine Adventure project from Kickstarter is now Broken Age
- Capcom announces DuckTales Remastered, developed by WayForward
All this and some Reader Feedback.
Scrabulous Out, Scrabble InScrabulous Out, Scrabble In
For those that are Facebook junkies, playing their hearts out of Scrabulous, you’re going to be hit with some reality: it’s not real scrabble. Hasbro has attempted to pull the Scrabulous game off of Facebook because they’re not licensing it from the owner, but it’s still there. Is Hasbro’s “real” Scrabble going to sway addicted Scrabulous players?
Now, Hasbro is launching the real Scrabble game on pogo.com and on Facebook for social networking purposes. Our own Casual Gamer Chick, Jennifer, will be reviewing the upcoming Facebook app later this week (once we get her to sign up for Facebook!)
This will be Hasbro’s first go at social networking, given their trying to beat out Scrabulous, it’s going to be a tough battle, let’s see how they do!
Episode 452: Goodbye Princess Leia, Hello 2017Episode 452: Goodbye Princess Leia, Hello 2017
The year has ended, as the last podcast of 2016 was recorded last week, and released today. There’s much discussion that was cut out and saved for a future outtakes episode. Regardless, there’s plenty of show to go around, and the sound quality is also far better than ever thanks to Jonah getting a professional headset and mic.
This week’s news includes:
- Nintendo registers trademark that could point to a SNES Classic Edition
- Windows 10 may be getting a new “Game Mode” option
- The next game by That Dragon, Cancer‘s dev is not what you’d expect
This week’s Question of the Week is “What game in 2017 might you buy that you normally wouldn’t?”