TD Gaming Podcast 93: The M.I.T Gang

October 20, 2008| schommer| 0 Comment| 10:08 am

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This weeks Gaming Podcast comes out a bit early due to some travel plans and an upcoming trip to Popcap’s Bejeweled Twist launch party. This week in the news we took a look at:

Metal Gear Solid 4 may be coming to Xbox 360
Ubisoft taking a page out of EA’s book
Microsoft bringing the big name games to Xbox Live Arcade
Little Big Planet recalled

We also take a look back at Pitfall! and cover yet another DRM issue on our soapbox, asking the question, is online gaming the DRM of the future? Our history segment does a bit of history on Popcap games.

Our NFS: Carbon and Saints Row contest has ended, the gang names are in, and we’re giving away the games to the winner. Next, we’re going to give away Project Gotham Racing 4.

Gaming Flashback: DOOMGaming Flashback: DOOM

DOOM is a PC game titlat that wasn’t initially released in stores. It was uploaded to an FTP server in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and on the Software Creations BBS on the 10th of December; released as a shareware game, people were encouraged to download and spread the game around to all their friends.

In days before social networks and the wildfire of the Internet (or high speed networking) this game still managed to spread around to everyone in the gaming community. From1993 to 1995 the title had an estimated install base of 10 million computers. We were one of them.

Granted, ten million copies were installed but most were not registered and simply remained as shareware. However, over one million copies were sold for the registered version of DOOM and this brought momentum to their next non-shareware copy of the DOOM series. The Ultimate Doom (version 1.9, including episode IV) was released, making this the first time that Doom was sold commercially in stores.

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Episode 713: Short EpisodeEpisode 713: Short Episode

This episode is short, but only because there wasn’t much news to discuss.

The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers
Dead Cells’ designer livid at former studio
EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million

Let us know what you think.

Episode 766: Madden Gets 2030Episode 766: Madden Gets 2030

The news items include: EA and NFL extend Madden license til 2030 – NFLPA still far apart, former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024, Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word ‘layoffs,’ with a ‘voluntary career transition program’ offer that some employees won’t be able to refuse, ‘Pacifist Battlefield completed’, Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t handle games that use generative AI: ‘We don’t believe in it’, Two Point Museum gets Vampire Survivors content in free update.

In addition:

The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026
No Man’s Sky gets space wreck salvaging and expanded ship building (from Eurogamer)