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Gaming Podcast 136: The Wumpus EpisodeGaming Podcast 136: The Wumpus Episode

August 25, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 8:22 pm

This week’s gaming podcast is all about energy, excitement and enough Warcraft news to make you want to throw up in your own mouth. However, we sugar coat it with lots of other news, great community comments and we’re flashing back to Age of Empires while taking a little time to remember the man behind the Wumpus. This weeks news includes:

38 Studios Appoints New CEO
Blizzard Working on LAN support for StarCraft 2
Guitar Hero 5 DLC not compatible with World Tour
Most World of Warcraft Rumors were true
Nintendo and Sony battling it out in the handheld space
Sony Announces PS3 Slim

This week we’re asking the question, what key selling points are needed to sell someone on an Xbox 360 considering the fact that they’d love exclusive FPS titles for the console.

Gaming Podcast 135: Raging On World of WarcraftGaming Podcast 135: Raging On World of Warcraft

August 18, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:48 pm

This week we’re reporting some news but we’re really raging on some World of Warcraft expansion rumors that raise the heat in the studio. Is it going to be worth it? Does it matter if you finished the last expansion? What exactly do you consider an expansion? So many questions. The news includes:

Quake Live Getting Subscription Option
More WoW Expansion Rumors
Xbox 360 has a 54.2 percent failure rate
Blizzard Not Gouging For Star Craft 2 Expansions
Chromehounds Losing Online Play
Earthworm Jim Coming to Everything

This weeks gaming flashback is a little adventure game known as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartridge and our question of the week is simple: Will the World of Warcraft expansion get you to re-buy into the WoW experience?

Gaming Podcast 134: Do You Want Me To Feel It?Gaming Podcast 134: Do You Want Me To Feel It?

August 11, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:21 pm

This weeks gaming flashback? Scorched Earth, a great artillery style title. We’re also taking a historic look back at the game innovations developed by Don Daglow. Of course it’s not a full news week without some actual news! This weeks news includes:

Walmart Pushing New Madden Game
Bestbuy takes on Gamestop
Halo 2 and Halo 3: ODST possibly coming to Games on Demand
Nintendo not happy with E3 briefing
Nintendo Even baffled by Vitality Sensor
WoW Rumor: Two new playable classes in next expansion

This weeks community feedback was epically cool, we’re continuing the questions this week by asking: What game would you invent using the Wii balance board and vitality sensor? Do you have some ideas to solve Nintendo’s problem?

Gaming Podcast 133: Some People Have Tiny SwordsGaming Podcast 133: Some People Have Tiny Swords

August 4, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 8:37 pm

This weeks episode covers a lot of cool community comments including some new writers. We’re also covering a little flashback on the game Faxanadu and, eventually, learning how to pronounce it. We’ll hit up some gaming history on Jordan Weisman and hit on some cool game news including:

Pearl Jam to release album in stores and on Rock Band
Microsoft Says Next generation is defined by software and services, not hardware
TellTale Games Developer says iPhone more powerful than Wii
The Skies may be crimson all over again
The SIMS 3 gets its first expansion
Turbine delays Free-to-play update until Sept

This weeks question of the week is easy, is there a genre of game that you believe hasn’t been invented yet? If you don’t know…get creative!

Gaming Podcast 132: I Like To Hit You With My SackGaming Podcast 132: I Like To Hit You With My Sack

July 28, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:14 pm

This week we’ve got Doug aboard with the cast as well, he’s a regular on the Everyday Drinkers Podcast. We’re chatting about some of the recent game news, hitting the community comments hard and tackling some of lifes meaningful questions. This week’s gaming flashback includes Baseball Stars for the Nintendo Entertainment system and, in our gaming history… who is Jane Jensen?

DJ Jazzy Jeff in DJ Hero
Dexter Coming to iPhone
German Gamers Stand Up For Their Killer Gaming Rights
Amazon blames sales loss on video games
Little Big Planet gets Marvel Comic DLC

This week’s question of the week is simple: Do video game delays effect your buying decisions?

Gaming Podcast 131: An Inner Ear ProblemGaming Podcast 131: An Inner Ear Problem

July 21, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:08 pm

We’re back! This week we’re hitting some fun news articles and kicking it back with a little gaming flashback about Columns. We also break the news about our brand new console that we purchased last week before vacation and touch on KOEI in our gaming history. This weeks news includes:

Portable Xbox Device Coming?
Summer Xbox Live Update features
Microsoft Limiting Indie Games on Xbox Live
The Best selling Wii games of 2009 are not from 2009
Dante’s Inferno not coming to the PC

This weeks question, we’re wondering what your break point is for purchasing a console or a video game, is there a magic number where you finally break down to buy it?

Gaming Podcast: Monster MashGaming Podcast: Monster Mash

July 14, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 11:52 pm

podcast-200x200 This week we’re on vacation but Don is not, so he took the time to build out a cool mashup of some of the podcasts most memorable “moments.” Of course, most of them are the strangest bloopers and oddities that we had a couple lol’s re-listening to them. Consider this the greatest moments in the last sixty episodes wrapped up in a 4-minute time period. Holy crap.

Gaming Podcast 130: ProselytizingGaming Podcast 130: Proselytizing

July 7, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:03 pm

This week’s gaming podcast covers some news, history and a classic gaming flashback. We’ll be taking next week off, so this week is extra packed with content… okay, well, it’s normal. We’re looking at Breakout as our flashback and the MB Microvision in our gaming history. This weeks news includes:

Twittercraft – Twitter while in World of Warcraft
iPhone Gaming Prices
Starcraft 2 will have no LAN multi-player support
Tecmo Koei Concerned with Motion Control Technology
Rumor: Rockstar confirms two new GTA IV Episodes
Violence and Combat is old, time for acting

This week we’ve got two questions for ya, what console/hand-held system do you bring on vacations and do you go out and buy any games before you head on vacation?

Gaming Podcast 129: My WalkmanGaming Podcast 129: My Walkman

June 30, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 7:35 pm

This week is full of crazy energy. We seem to have gone 100% Sony on news chatter but we level that out with some great community feedback about our question of the week. We hit a little Burgertime action in our gaming flashback and bust through some Data East company history.

Analyst says Sony Motion Control beats MS Natal
Sony dropping the PS3 price?
EA heading for a takeover?
Sony backing Home
Sony making a PSP Phone?
Sony Exclusives not anything great

This week we’re asking the question, what is your favorite end-boss in a video game from todays games to the past classics?

Gaming Podcast 128: ProducaGaming Podcast 128: Produca

June 23, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 5:24 pm

This weeks gaming podcast tackles the history of Full Throttle and the history of the SCUMM script system created for Maniac Mansion. We’re also hitting up some game news, talking a bit more about games that have changed our lives and taking to heart some great user comments.

Activision and Sony battling it out
Lord of the Rings Online, Userbase Growing
Bad Wording by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes People Think New 360 Coming
Konami Women Demoted For Being a Mother
Licensed iPhone Commadore 64 Emulated Rejected by Apple

This weeks question of the week is of the user-submitted style! Krud asks, “If you could only play four games (w/o new DLC for the foreseeable future), what four would you choose?”