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Gaming Podcast 203: Super Meat PodcastGaming Podcast 203: Super Meat Podcast

December 28, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 6:03 pm

This week we’re enjoying our last 2010 gaming podcast, Jonah, Jennifer and Derrick are cracking through some of the latest news releases for this year and pondering what comes next. Our flashback includes Miner 2049er and the remaining history on the Atari console platforms. The news of the week includes:

Harmonix Sues Viacom, Goes Solo
Judge Allows “Price Fixing” Suit Vs. EA to Begin
Super Meat Boy Canceled for WiiWare
PlayStation Network Still Not Turning a Profit
3DS Preorders Begin at Gamestop

This week’s question of the week, pretty simple: What are you looking forward to in 2011 in terms of video games and the industry?

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 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 191: Puppy Mill of GamesGaming Podcast 191: Puppy Mill of Games

September 28, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 8:17 pm

This week we’ve got all three hosts back to get down to business. This was a full show with lots of content from news, to flashbacks and listener game ideas. We didn’t get a history segment this week, we just had two much information to cover. Here is the news for the week:

Activision CEO thinks EA is a failure
Another version of You Don’t Know Jack is coming
Atari creating the new Atari Go initiative
Direct 3D 10/11 support coming to Linux
Microsoft admits PC Gaming could use some attention

This weeks gaming podcast question of the week: What do you think will spur on PC game developers, is it Microsoft’s concept of “showing developers there is a market” or do they need more inspiration?

Gaming Podcast 190: Down With The SicknessGaming Podcast 190: Down With The Sickness

September 21, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 6:14 pm

We’re pretty beat up this week, sickness is running wild so Don and Derrick blow through some news items while Jennifer remains offline being ill. We’ve shortened the episode so that we can cover everything we have with enthusiasm before falling over in an ill stupor. The news includes three items:

Intel wants you to spend more money to get more power
Digital sales of pc games are outselling retail versions
THQ moves into social gaming

The gaming flashback this week is DuckTales for the NES. This weeks Question of the Week, put on your game designer hat and tell us what you think would be a great game design. Would it be more social network gaming, casual gaming or something more complex?

Gaming Podcast 187: Poor WalmartGaming Podcast 187: Poor Walmart

August 31, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 8:11 pm

This weeks podcast covers some news, as the usual, a gaming flashback about Mach Rider on the NES and the cassette loader from the old NES days (in Japan). Aside from community comments, we’ve also got this news lineup:

Nintendo Drops DSi and DSi XL prices
Acclaim has died
Sony changing their mobile target audience
Best Buy and Target getting into the used games business
Xbox Live subscription increasing

This weeks question of the week, are storylines important in video games (more so than graphics) and, what game do you believe will go down as the best storyline based game in your opinion.

Gaming Podcast 186: Fu DogsGaming Podcast 186: Fu Dogs

August 17, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 7:03 pm

Find out why you couldn’t shoot your sword again in Deadly Towers in this episode of the gaming podcast. This week we’re getting some community feedback on what they think should go in a collectors edition game pack. For news this week, we’re tackling:

ID software not convinced PC gaming is dying
Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) Will Support Move
Developers concerned about Valve DOTA patent filing
Sony takes a shot at Apple iPod/iPhone gaming

This weeks Question of the Week: Would a full destructible game environment effect the game industry, breed new experiences and create new genre’s of games? Or just be yet another feature.

Gaming Podcast 185: Eat, Drink and PlayGaming Podcast 185: Eat, Drink and Play

August 10, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 4:26 pm

This week we’re recording a gaming podcast! Oh wait, that’s like every week. We’re reading some comments, handling some history and news and busting through the news which includes:

Assassin’s Creed Collectors Edition (CE) to cost $40 more
Sony PlayStation Plus subscribers may get access to Killzone 3 beta (speculation)
Players may be able to create videos in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Gran Turismo 5 is still not complete

This weeks question of the week, what would you put in a collectors edition box set?