We review our experiences of PAX East in this podcast and the second half is full of gaming news and community comments. Derrick reflects at his fun experience of Orcs Must Die while Jonah spent some time with LA Noire and Star Wars: The Old Republic. The news highlights include:
- PSP Go Price Goes Back to $200 After 3 Days
- Phil Harrison Sez Industry Struggling With Casual and Mobile Game Market
- Angry Birds Hits 100 Million Downloads
- Bioware Talks Jade Empire Again
- Gamer Loses $1800 In Games from Steam
This week’s question of the week: Which convention would you want to attend most: E3, PAX or Comic Con?
Now here is another interesting video game for the Atari 2600, the game Dragon Fire consisted of two game screens, one which you ran across a bridge while fireballs were shot at you, you had to duck or jump over the fireball. This screen was a side-scroller style screen (although it doesn’t actually scroll), at the other end of the bridge was a castle door which you’d enter to get to the next screen.
When you finished collecting all the treasure an exit would pop up in the corner and you had to run to it without being burned by the fireballs, that dragon would turn from left to right nearly instantly too! Then, you’d jump into the exit and be back on the bridge again, but this time it was harder. You could die up to 7 times before the game was over (just to show you how hard it is, they gave you a bunch of lives).
For those that haven’t posted on the
@PSP Go Price Goes Back to $200 After 3 Days
I honestly don’t know what to believe. Looks like a mistake. Good point from Jonah, now every person (that cares about it) will wait for the price to go down :).
@Industry Struggling With Casual and Mobile Game Market:
All industries that sell information or information services (be it music records, movies, games, communication services) get affected by how the information technology evolves.
There’s also a need to follow the social trends, not only the technology, and this is where some industries lack behind. I don’t see record companies doing what Nine Inch Nails did:
https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11947
@Gamer Loses $1800 In Games from Steam:
… that’s dumb. If you were caught once, why the heck would you try it again?
Now, another question: did Valve just take preemptive actions? Because if they did, that can turn bad for them.
Now, if you really want to sell a game you own on Steam, make one Steam account for each game. Then sell only THAT account.
@Netflix vs. Facebook: Jennifer, very good point there, with the interests of the said bank 😀
And no, Jonah, it was not the ‘Tom Cruise Mission Impossible’, it was the TV series Mission Impossible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMDthmydL1c
Carmack is more interested in the game engine rather than the game itself. Tim Willits is the ‘game’ guy from Id, along with John Romero.
@Question of the week: I’d go for GDC as well, because I’m more interested in how games are made, and because I’m not Average Joe 😛
@PSP Go Price Goes Back to $200 After 3 Days
I honestly don’t know what to believe. Looks like a mistake. Good point from Jonah, now every person (that cares about it) will wait for the price to go down :).
@Industry Struggling With Casual and Mobile Game Market:
All industries that sell information or information services (be it music records, movies, games, communication services) get affected by how the information technology evolves.
There’s also a need to follow the social trends, not only the technology, and this is where some industries lack behind. I don’t see record companies doing what Nine Inch Nails did:
https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11947
@Gamer Loses $1800 In Games from Steam:
… that’s dumb. If you were caught once, why the heck would you try it again?
Now, another question: did Valve just take preemptive actions? Because if they did, that can turn bad for them.
Now, if you really want to sell a game you own on Steam, make one Steam account for each game. Then sell only THAT account.
@Netflix vs. Facebook: Jennifer, very good point there, with the interests of the said bank 😀
And no, Jonah, it was not the ‘Tom Cruise Mission Impossible’, it was the TV series Mission Impossible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMDthmydL1c
Carmack is more interested in the game engine rather than the game itself. Tim Willits is the ‘game’ guy from Id, along with John Romero.
@Question of the week: I’d go for GDC as well, because I’m more interested in how games are made, and because I’m not Average Joe 😛
@qotw
i would totally attend comic con to see monster hunter armors and stuff
@qotw
i would totally attend comic con to see monster hunter armors and stuff
I was searching for a good gamming podcast for mounths and finally found it, tks guys, really great show
I was searching for a good gamming podcast for mounths and finally found it, tks guys, really great show
@PSP Go – I am ashamed to admit that I have owned not just one, but three PSP’s. At this point Sony seems to be cranking out system after system without putting enough in it. It seems like the only thing they do it make it slimmer.
@Gamer Losing 1800 – If he wants to sell his account he should find someone privately not announce it. I think that people will never read the ULA no matter how short it gets. Its just that part of the registration where you click the check box and hit next.
@PSP Go – I am ashamed to admit that I have owned not just one, but three PSP’s. At this point Sony seems to be cranking out system after system without putting enough in it. It seems like the only thing they do it make it slimmer.
@Gamer Losing 1800 – If he wants to sell his account he should find someone privately not announce it. I think that people will never read the ULA no matter how short it gets. Its just that part of the registration where you click the check box and hit next.
cmon derrick record the podcast already i cant live without your podcast
cmon derrick record the podcast already i cant live without your podcast
It’s not going to happen for about a month, will explain in an episode will post this week with outtakes.
It’s not going to happen for about a month, will explain in an episode will post this week with outtakes.
A month is fine, as long as nothing bad happened to you guys.
A month is fine, as long as nothing bad happened to you guys.
Unfortunately it wasn’t good news at all. My son was diagnosed with Leukemia a week or so ago and we’re working to get him better. Spending a lot of time in the hospital with him and we’ve not got time to record anything until he’s able to come home.
Unfortunately it wasn’t good news at all. My son was diagnosed with Leukemia a week or so ago and we’re working to get him better. Spending a lot of time in the hospital with him and we’ve not got time to record anything until he’s able to come home.
Fuuu …
Sorry about the news, I was hoping for something “we won a one month trip to Hawaii” kind of thing …
Anyway, family comes first.
Fuuu …
Sorry about the news, I was hoping for something “we won a one month trip to Hawaii” kind of thing …
Anyway, family comes first.