Paul is not in the podcast, and will be out for the next couple of weeks as he recovers from major surgery. In the meantime, the podcast chugs on with three podcasters, as Jordan relays what he thought of the Sony Gamescom 2012 press conference. In the meantime, the news items include: Diablo III‘s Wilson […]
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Episode 276: Covered in Concrete
August 22nd, 2012 · 5 Comments
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Episode 223: Snake Flinging
July 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments
This week is a strange one, as snakes are flung at horses to turn them into unicorns, and Paul keeps finding videogame soulmates from the reader feedback. This week’s Gaming Flashback is the Amiga classic Shadow of the Beast, while the Gaming History takes a look back at the Apple Pippin. This week’s news items […]
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Episode 222: Gorilla Love
July 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments
This week is a big episode, as it is chock full of surprising news this week, as well as some long, long reader mail. If that weren’t enough, we take a look back at the IntelliVision game Maze-a-Tron, deal with too much love for Paul, and the mystery that is the popularity of gorillas. This […]
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Rumor: EA Buying Popcap?
June 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Tech Cruch is reporting that Electronic Arts is about to acquire casual games giant Popcap Games for a cool $1 billion, which would exceed EA’s market cap by over 13%. If true, this would be EA’s definitive entry into the casual games market, a field they broke into 7 years ago. Despite consuming a significant […]
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TD Gaming Podcast 121: Plants vs. Zombies
May 5th, 2009 · 5 Comments
This week’s gaming podcast we’re looking back at Elevator Action and we give our audio review of Plants v.s. Zombies, which you can find on CasualGamerChick as well.We tackle the question of the week, lots of great game points on games you just couldn’t finish but wanted to and, game news: No New Game Consoles […]
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Gaming Podcast 117: Grinding My Neighbors Pug?
April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This week we’re taking a stroll down memory lane of Deus Ex, hitting up some information about Warren Spector and crashing through some good game news including: New Guitar Hero Game a “best of” compilation. Latest DLC for Fallout 3, not working so well. New Linux based gaming console. PS3 Outsells Nintendo Wii in Japan. […]
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Gaming Podcast 115: Poo Poo’ed It
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This week we’re working with our skeleton crew, Don was stuck at work so we’re flying duelies. Speaking of duelies, we’re flashing back to Rise of the Triad and covering some gaming history on Ralph Baer, a very important person in the gaming industry. This week, in the news, we’re a bit Wii centric with: […]
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TD Gaming Podcast 96: Nobody Wants To Give Me Their Skin
November 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
This week we’re looking at some crazy news articles, looking back at Jungle Hunt and covering our review of the casual game, Bejeweled Twist from Popcap. This weeks news includes: Activision considering charging for user-generated songs Little, BigPlanet Content being “moderated” Grand Theft Auto DLC probably won’t be released this month Epic weighs in on […]
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TD Gaming Podcast 94: Chicken and Subscription Fee
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Lots of great news in this weeks gaming podcast thanks to the holiday season approaching. We also take a retro style flashback to Space Invaders and talk about our attendance at the popcap launch party for Bejeweled Twist and a very light preview of our initial Guitar Hero World Tour impressions.This weeks news includes: EA […]
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Bejeweled Twist Launched, Casualites Rejoice
October 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
After four years of development, Popcap lit up Seattle Monday night with the launch of Bejeweled Twist sparing no expense to show off their new casual game. It took four years to complete but Popcap isn’t going to release a game until it’s perfect. You won’t play it until they believe it is a game […]
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