Once again, there’s no set list of topics; the guys just discuss the news of the week off the cuff and what they’ve been playing.
Let us know what you think.
Episode 721: More Random Chatter
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This week, the guys discuss Madden NFL 24 being a buggy mess, the Xbox 360 Store closure in 2024, Ubisoft still trying to make Skull & Bones work, and Starfield going gold.
The news includes:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s big reveal brings campaign and multiplayer details, gameplay trailer
- EA won’t contest £9k FIFA Ultimate Team fine in Austria
- Nightdive Studios lead reaffirms that they’d love tackle an Unreal remaster
- Creator of AI-Powered GTA 5 Story Mode mod unlikely to fight back against Take-Two after shutdown
Let us know what you think.
New Castlevania Title For 360 and PS3: 2D or 3D?New Castlevania Title For 360 and PS3: 2D or 3D?
The Castlevania series was born in Japan on September 26th back in 1986. That knowledge in hand, you can imagine the demographic of 30+ year old gamers who would kill to get an old school franchise title on a new graphic intensive console.
We’ve had many new Castlevania releases since 1986 including releases on the Nintendo DS in 2006 with more titles arriving with the Castlevania branding. However, we’ve not seen a true “full blown” Castlevania title in some time. As a retro style gamer, I’d love to hear news that this would be a 2D game with “next generation” graphics.
There are far too few really great 2D side scrolling platformers for this generation of consoles. Outside of Nintendo, most side scroller systems become “arcade” titles in XBLA or PSN. Over the last fifteen years we’ve had plenty of 3D games with jumping and crazy camera work. Lately, we’ve had some new titles arriving that are 2D platformers like Little Big Planet and the recently released Mega Man 9.
More than likely, Konami will follow the flow and design yet another old franchise with new 3D graphics. Given the demographic for this franchise it would almost seem like a selling point to jump back to a 2D world view.
What would you like? A 3D or 2D Castlevania title on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3?
Episode 240: ThanksgamingEpisode 240: Thanksgaming
It’s the episode just before Thanksgiving, and both Jordan and Paul have new jobs, as the latter settles into his new Los Angeles home. This week’s Gaming Flashback is the Atari 2600 game Kaboom!
The guys also discuss the following news items:
- EA targeted for class action suit over Battlefield 3 PS3 bait and switch
- Modern Warfare 3 makes $775M in 5 days
- Square-Enix officially opens Montreal studio
- Blockbuster has “ramped up the rental” of games, getting an “awful lot of support”
- Rockstar eager to return to Bully IP
The question of the week: “How do you buy games most often these days: retail, online retailer, or digital distributor?”