This week’s podcast features a Gaming Flashback of Halo: Combat Evolved, one of the longest such game segments in the podcast’s history, encompassing a third of the podcast. This week’s news items includes: Blizzard decides against rolling back Diablo III servers following gold exploit Defiance to get 5 major DLC packs in the next year […]
Episode 310: Halo Makes You Feel Old
May 14th, 2013 · 3 Comments
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Episode 309: Best Episode Ever?
May 7th, 2013 · 1 Comment
[This episode is unedited, so be prepared for some naughty language.] This week has some stunning news items, causing an overstuffed, long episode, so big even Jordan’s wife chimes in, and Jonah and Paul argue hotly over the last item. The Gaming Flashback for this episode is Super Star Wars. This week’s huge news: EA […]
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Episode 305: Duct Tape
April 9th, 2013 · 3 Comments
Paul and Jordan realize the brilliance of duct taping a flashlight to a gun barrel, while more Doctor Who fodder was recorded for a future outtakes episode. Jonah and Paul also express amazement there’s no Sugar Race racing based on the arcade title found in Wreck-It Ralph. Finally, the podcast eulogizes Roger Ebert. The news […]
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Episode 304: Heart of the Swarm Giveaway
April 3rd, 2013 · 6 Comments
Despite being recorded on April Fool’s Day, the podcast has no pranks, just a long political discussion and has Paul demanding no one say anything about BioShock Infinite. Speaking of that game, the crew announces the winner of the BioShock Infinite contest. This week has a Gaming History about the development of XCOM: UFO Defense. […]
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Episode 303: BioShock Infinite Giveaway Time
March 26th, 2013 · 8 Comments
This week we’re giving away a free copy of BioShock Infinite for the Xbox 360! How do you win? Well, simply post a good comment! The contest winner will be announced two weeks from now. In the meantime, the Gaming Flashback this time is the PlayStation One classic Chrono Cross, while Paul tries desperately to […]
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Episode 302: Just a Twosome
March 19th, 2013 · 2 Comments
This week Jonah and Jordan go it alone without Paul, which is unfortunately since the Gaming Flashback is the classic Nintendo 64 title Paper Mario. It might be just as well as the events of the last week made the crew ramble on about the industry at length, making the post much longer than usual. […]
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Episode 301: Dr. Who Special Episode
March 12th, 2013 · 3 Comments
You’ve been waiting for it – the special Dr. Who outtakes discussion that Paul, Dan and Jordan’s wife Jennifer had about the sci-fi series. It’s 30 minutes of BBC goodness. Check it out – a proper episode will be run next week.
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Episode 299: Here Comes the PS4
February 25th, 2013 · 7 Comments
This week is heavy on content on the PlayStation 4 unveiling as the next-generation approaches for both Sony and Microsoft – there’s no room for Nintendo in this episode. Nor is there a lot of Reader, er, Listener Feedback, nor any Gaming Flashback. This week’s major news includes: Sony unveils PS4 at “See the Future” […]
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Episode 298: Fireside Podcast
February 19th, 2013 · 2 Comments
This week’s podcast is rife with arguing between Jonah, Jordan and Paul regarding computer science in schools and have a long discussion about the future of the Wii U. In this episode, the earliest MMOFPS PlanetSide gets a Gaming Flashback. As far as the news items for the week: Obama: Games innovate technology, interest children […]
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Episode 297: Intendo With An I
February 11th, 2013 · 3 Comments
[Note: Due to a mic issue, some of the podcast is slightly distorted.] This week’s podcast was recorded a day early due to schedule conflicts, but we make up for it with an actual Gaming Flashback this week of one of the most famous recent RPGs, Knights of the Old Republic. In addition, there’s a […]
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