- Gaming Podcast 139: Pirate or Privateer?

Gaming Podcast 139: Pirate or Privateer?Gaming Podcast 139: Pirate or Privateer?

September 14, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 3:09 pm

Welcome to the early edition of the gaming podcast, because I’m going to be in Germany this week we had to record a bit early and post the podcast for listening. Hopefully this won’t screw up too many people’s schedules with a day-early release! This week we’re flashing back to Sid Meier’s Pirates and learning about women’s rights (or lack of) in the life of a privateer. We’ll talk a bit about the history of the Amstrad CPC 464 and cover some news:

Nintendo Wii Rumor: Price Rollback
Wii Sales Down 50 Percent
Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License
Bungie Says Natal Won’t Be Implemented To Be Gimmicky

The community questions were great, gave us lots of nice ideas for a future gaming cave! This week we’re riding on the community listener, Onyersix who wrote a good question of the week: “What was the scariest moment you ever experienced playing video games? We’re talking the type of shock that makes you need to go and put on a new pair of pants!”

Hey, did you notice our new microphone quality, Jennifer and I have upgraded our studio setup (by about $1,000!), hopefully you’ll notice the more dynamic vocal qualities.

Win A Free Copy of Defense Grid (XBLA)Win A Free Copy of Defense Grid (XBLA)

September 9, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 2:49 pm

It’s contest time again! This time, we’re giving away the Xbox Live Arcade version of Defense Grid: The Awakening, a great tower defense title. You can read GameStooge’s review here, which has gameplay videos.

How can you win this addictive title? Very easy – tell us when you first started getting hooked on TD Gaming Podcast. That’s it. Let us know why you tune into Derrick, Jennifer and Don for your videogame podcast pleasure. One entry per IP. Entries must be before Wednesday, September 16 at 12noon EST.

However, there are more copies to win, as 2old2play and GameStooge will also be giving away a code for Defense Grid.

Gaming Podcast 138: BoomshakalakaGaming Podcast 138: Boomshakalaka

September 8, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 7:54 pm

This weeks gaming podcast covers the history of NBA Jam and takes a look back at The Bitmap Brothers. All while juggling some cool news stories and cooler community comments. This week’s comments talk a bit about what generations are the best, in the eyes of our listeners, and why. This weeks news includes:

Apple approves Commodore 64 emulator
Sony PS3 has Patch issues
Tales of Vesperia Coming to PS3
PlayStation 3 Slim off to a good start
Video Games Are Evil, Says Guy Who Made a Lot of Money Creating Video Games
OnLive Enters Beta

This weeks question of the week, what would you have in your ultimate gamer cave?

Gaming Podcast 137: BeateratorGaming Podcast 137: Beaterator

September 1, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 8:30 pm

This week’s gaming podcast covers a bunch of topics you’d expect to hear in a gaming podcast. What? Yeah, we’re flashing back to Master of Orion and taking a little look into the background of Stephen Barcia all while covering a bit of news and community comments. This weeks news includes:

Microsoft Having Trouble With Halo:ODST
FCC Wants Universal Game Rating System
Microsoft announces price drop on Xbox 360
More Big Name Games coming to the iPhone/iPod Touch
PlayStation 2 God of War games coming to PS3
Nintendo DSi Games to hit shelves this fall

This week’s question of the week is pretty simple: what, in your opinion, is the best generation of consoles from the earliest until today’s consoles?

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?