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Gaming Podcast 202: Eggnog BathGaming Podcast 202: Eggnog Bath

December 21, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:57 pm

This week we’re creating our last gaming podcast before Christmas, no holiday break for us! We’re reading some of our community comments and taking a look back at both Pac-Land and the history of Atari post-2600 release. This weeks news includes:

Blizzard’s Next-Gen MMO Codenamed “Titan”
EA CEO John Riccitiello Blasts Activision, Treyarch
PS3 Price Cut Coming?
4 of 10 Internet Users Playing Casual Games

This week’s question of the week is really simply, have a good holiday. Unless you want to answer the question, “where do you roast your chestnuts for the holidays?”

Gaming Podcast 201: Just A Day EarlyGaming Podcast 201: Just A Day Early

December 13, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 12:36 pm

This episode starts with an MMO focus and ends with community feedback, we’re looking back at an MMO that never made it to life: Ultima X. We give a quick and dirty first-look at Cataclysm, the next World of Warcraft expansion. This episode arrives on day early as Derrick is flying off to Germany early this week on business. This weeks news includes:

Final Fantasy XIV PS3 Delayed
Minecraft Enters Beta On December 20
Carmack Loves Apple’s App Store
Sony: Kinect’s Problems are ”Quite Big’‘

This week’s question of the week, “as 2011 approaches, what game really surprised you this past year?”

Gaming Podcast 200: Farewell, DonGaming Podcast 200: Farewell, Don

December 8, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 11:47 am

This week we’ve got the community trivia questions for Don and Derrick along with plenty of commentary around the questions themselves. While we did spend a portion of the show on the trivia, we were able to hit some news and such as well. We were able to get Jonah on the show in his hotel to help out with some of the questions and news.

Thanks to all that have listened up through episode 200 and for all those comments we’ve received. We never thought we’d actually have people write in when we started, so this is awesome.

TD Gaming Podcast 199: Now In QuadTD Gaming Podcast 199: Now In Quad

November 30, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 8:58 pm

This week we’ve got four folks on the show, including Jonah Falcon who will soon take over the reins from Don as the third host of the gaming podcast. This week we’ve got a bit of user comments (a few didn’t make it as they were stuck in my queue, hopefully next week) and we’re flashing back to Food Fight while hitting up news:

Update: Kinect Sales Surpass 2.5M
Xbox Live TV?
Axl Rose Suing Activision for $20M
Music Games Down 75% since 2008
Sega Wipes Sonic 4 Leaderboards
Konami hates on Windows Phone 7 and Android

Question of the Week: What did you buy on Black Friday?

Gaming Podcast 198: Changing It UpGaming Podcast 198: Changing It Up

November 23, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 2:39 pm

This week’s gaming podcast covers a host of topics about Kinect, Diablo and more unknown news from Sony. We’re hitting up a bit of gaming history on Donkey Kong Country and getting the inside scoop on what we can expect from the latest Wii incarnation known as Donkey Kong Country Returns in a short game review from Jennifer.

This weeks news:

John Caramack interested in Kinect
Kinect sells 1 million units in 10 days
Diablo III coming to consoles?
Sony promising a secret reveal
Phrases now top app on Facebook

We’ve also got some listener comments and a small announcement about what the TD Gaming Podcast will look like after Episode 200.

Gaming Podcast 197: Analysts with Thumbs UpGaming Podcast 197: Analysts with Thumbs Up

November 17, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 3:07 am

Gaming Podcast 197 explores our inner child in terms of buying peer pressure, our thoughts on some analysts and, of course, reactions to user responses. Also, we’ve got news, as you may have guessed and it includes:

Game retailers hate Steam
Nintendo not feeling pressure for a Next Gen system
Viacom looking to sell Harmonix
Analyst thinks PS3 will pass the 360

This week’s question of the week, do you fall for game sequels, are you just drawn into them over and over again? Which ones?

Gaming Podcast 196: Lies!Gaming Podcast 196: Lies!

November 9, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 7:23 pm

This week we’ve got the Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect and we thought we’d do a quick review on a couple of the titles we picked up. We’ve dug up some history on the Game Com Handheld, comment on some community feedback and hit the news:

More MMORPGS using the free to play model
Microsoft convinced Kinect will sell better than awesome
Sony hopes Nintendo’s 3DS does well
Microsoft Kinect Selling out

This week’s question of the week, have you ever caved into the peer pressure, press and “sold out” signs to pickup a piece of hardware, software or other device?

Gaming Podcast 195: Opinions are Like Holes, Everybody Has OneGaming Podcast 195: Opinions are Like Holes, Everybody Has One

November 2, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 4:08 pm

We’re back from our one-week break, this weeks gaming podcast covers the history of the Atari Mindlink along with a flashback of Strider. We’ll be responding to some community feedback and hitting up the news, which includes:

Kinect games not playable until Nov. 4th
Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer urges MS to look towards a post-pc era
Sony’s PSP 2 will be more powerful than Xbox 360 (rumor)
Microsoft’s Fall update arrives today (November 1st)
Some 3DS have been announced

This week we’re asking the question, in your opinion, is the PSP and/or the PS3 a “failure.” Your opinion, may be backed up with any statistics or reasonable facts if you wish.

Gaming Podcast 194: Too Much Coffee Causes Genital HangnailsGaming Podcast 194: Too Much Coffee Causes Genital Hangnails

October 19, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 12:59 pm

The longest title recorded on the books, let’s hope it fits! 🙂 This week we covered the gaming history for Adventures of Lolo and a bit about HAL Labratory all in honor of a new game we recently purchased to play with our kids: Kirby’s Epic Yarn. So far so good, our son is enjoying 2-player mode with us. This week we did an on-the-spot mini-review breakdown of Kirby’s Epic Yarn while hitting up some gaming news including:

STEAM SURPASSES 30 MILLION ACCOUNTS
Epic thinks Nintendo 3ds is not on par with iPhone 3GS
Kinect Director puts foot in his mouth
Microsoft uses Angry Bird icon without permission
Blizzard is suing Starcraft hackers

Of course, a special thanks for Herr Alien and all his news posts this week, we got a bunch of them into the show. This week’s question o’ the week, what musician/group would you like to see featured in a video game and what genre would fit them?

Gaming Podcast 193: Hammer of RighteousnessGaming Podcast 193: Hammer of Righteousness

October 12, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 3:36 pm

This week’s gaming podcast is a bit short on news and lacks a gaming history segment but we still managed to bust out a 1-hour show, so who knows how we pulled that off. The news is light, perhaps because of the US semi-holiday known as Columbus Day or because no company wants to rattle the news waves while they’re working on finalizing holiday launch titles. In any case, we’ve got Chrono Trigger as our flash back and this as our news:

Microsoft closing Massive
McDonalds and Zenga team up
Ubisoft releases Project Legacy on Facebook

The question of the week, what actor do you want to see do a voice-acting role in a video game?