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Gaming Podcast 165: Static ElectricityGaming Podcast 165: Static Electricity

March 16, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 9:19 pm

This weeks gaming podcast, we’re flashing back to Bikini Karate Babes. We’re looking at the history of David Crane, or trying to get through it while getting distracted by a bunch of banter. The gaming news this week includes:

Sony’s Motion controller due out this fall
Pandemic and Ensemble Studios take blame for closures
Sony losing another exclusive developer, possibly (rumor)
More DS 2 rumors surface

This weeks question of the week is pretty simple: What game from your childhood do you recall loving the most–life changing. Don’t go watch any video’s, take it from your memory.

Gaming Podcast 162: Dramatic Pause FailGaming Podcast 162: Dramatic Pause Fail

February 23, 2010| schommer| 0 Comment| 7:57 pm

This weeks gaming podcast, Settlers of Catan developed by Teuber or Teubler or …whatever! We’re flashing back to mr. Teuber as well and covering some cool gaming news. The news covers a few hot topics of the week, we’ve included:

Pachter predicts project natal will retail for $50
Sony trying to make money off of used game sales, too
John Carmack getting life time achievement award
Rumor: Nintendo DS 2 may have a rumble feature
Sony thinks 3rd party publishers leaving Nintendo
Ubisoft tries their hand at DRM

The question of the week! What type of DRM is universally acceptable?

Gaming Podcast 154: 2010 PredictionsGaming Podcast 154: 2010 Predictions

December 29, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 3:26 pm

This gaming podcast closes out the year of 2009, we’re going to put in our predictions for the year, we’re going to hear a few comments from listeners and flash back to a game that has yet to be (but is old enough to flash back): Duke Nukem Forever. You’ll also, finally, get the first impressions of Assassin’s Creed 2 and some game news including:

Duke Nukem Not Done
PSP 4000 Advertisement was a mistake
Sony to combine international shipping and video game distribution
Square Enix Doesn’t separate gamers into categories

We’ll also ask for your predictions on next years gaming excitement. What are your predictions, in the game industry, for “twenty ten”?

Gaming Podcast 148: Games I Don’t Like PlayingGaming Podcast 148: Games I Don’t Like Playing

November 17, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 4:23 pm

This weeks gaming podcast covers a few top news stories that inspire tons of discussion, we tackle some user feedback and comments, answers of the week and flashback to Archon: The Light and the Dark. We’re also going to review Netflix for the PlayStation 3 for those thinking of ordering the disc from Netflix. This weeks news includes:

Home No Longer a priority
Activision looking for more ways to monetize Call of Duty
October Game sales were down and Casual gamers are to blame
Super Mario Galaxy 2 harder than the first

This week’s question of the week: what was the best game you played that after playing it, you thought to yourself, “That was good. I’m never playing it again”?

Gaming Podcast 143: Short and SweetGaming Podcast 143: Short and Sweet

October 14, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 1:40 am

This week is a hybrid of a “greatest hits” episode and a short news brief, we’ve got a couple stories, community comments and Don added a blooper “greatest hits” reel to the end of the episode, so enjoy! The news includes:

Sony adding two new Spaces to Home
Unreal engine the “unofficial engine” of Natal

This week, we’re still busting a question of the week as well and it’s a thinker… if you had one novel to implement into a game (which has never been done), what novel would it be?

Gaming Podcast 129: My WalkmanGaming Podcast 129: My Walkman

June 30, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 7:35 pm

This week is full of crazy energy. We seem to have gone 100% Sony on news chatter but we level that out with some great community feedback about our question of the week. We hit a little Burgertime action in our gaming flashback and bust through some Data East company history.

Analyst says Sony Motion Control beats MS Natal
Sony dropping the PS3 price?
EA heading for a takeover?
Sony backing Home
Sony making a PSP Phone?
Sony Exclusives not anything great

This week we’re asking the question, what is your favorite end-boss in a video game from todays games to the past classics?

Gaming Podcast 127: I Like The Open Hand ActionGaming Podcast 127: I Like The Open Hand Action

June 16, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 6:07 pm

This weeks gaming podcast includes a lot of fun, we’re a bit silly and having a good time. We flash back to Maniac Mansion and cover some history on LucasFilm Games also known as LucusArts. We’re diving head-long into some great community submissions for the best and worst controllers of all time. This weeks news includes:

Rumor: Microsoft Making a New Xbox 360
Halo ODST will have a $60 price tag
Sony Making an app store??
Nintendo’s Walk Through System Debuting with New Super Mario Bros. Wii
ESRB wants to rate iPhone/iPod Touch games

This week Don has doubled up, first we’ve got a poll for you to answer! What’s do you prefer: Star Wars Games or Final Fantasy Games? Question of the Week: What is the best game you have ever played and, if you want to answer the next part you can also let us know why you believe it’s changed your life!

Gaming Podcast 119: Love StickGaming Podcast 119: Love Stick

April 21, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 2:03 pm

This week we’re learning a bit about Donkey Kong Junior as well as listening to Don convince Derrick that the second stage in Donkey Kong was in Donkey Kong Junior. We’re also looking back to Billy Mitchell, a Guinness Book World Record holder for video games. This week, news was a bit light but we managed to cover:

Xbox 360 Most Satisfying Console in Japan?
User Generated Content for City of Heroes MMO
Game Sales Different on the DS
Sony Responds to Crashing Sales with Management Shift
Retired NFL Players to sue EA and Madden

We also tackle the incoming comments answering our question of the week about TSR and Wizards of the Coast. This week, we’re asking people if Don is wierd for replaying video games right after he beats them. Does anyone else do that?

Sony Responds To Crashing Sales with Management ShiftSony Responds To Crashing Sales with Management Shift

April 19, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 11:04 am

ps3 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has made some leadership changes in response to their in-ability to get things going in the sales department of the PlayStation 3. Gamer’s continue to refuse to believe the PlayStation 3 is in a bad situation by explaining how badly Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is doing in Japan and Europe compared to the Sony console. And, of course, the Wii isn’t competition to Sony.

“Andrew House, Chief Marketing Officer and Group Executive of Sony Corporation, has been named President, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Chief Operating Officer (Co-COO) of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) as of May 1, 2009.” (smarthouse.au)

We’ve been told this is the year of the PS3, this is when they bring it all together. Nintendo’s losing some of their grip on the industry with slower sales, even in Japan. The economy isn’t playing nice with any of the consoles and sales continue to drop, reportedly 17% in March compared to last years numbers.

Australia isn’t proving to be any help to Sony, “for example in Australia a consumer can now buy the Xbox 360 for $299 and a separate Blu ray player and DVD upscale player for $199. Combined this is $200 under the recommended retail price for a Sony PS3.”

Here in the United States, we’ve bought more Wii balance boards than PlayStation 3 consoles. One can argue that the Wii is a novelty system but that really casts a dark shadow on the PlayStation 3. The PS3 is being beat out by a novelty item? Can the new SCEE management change the direction of Sony?

Does Sony Need M.A.G and God of War 3 This Year?Does Sony Need M.A.G and God of War 3 This Year?

February 25, 2009| schommer| 0 Comment| 1:29 pm

There is a bit of confusion regarding the release dates of both M.A.G and God of War 3 for the PlayStation 3. Initially people believed 2009 was the target drop for both titles after a Sony press release mentioned great games being “ushered in” this year following Killzone 2.

godofwar3 The “year” Sony may be talking about is fiscal year 2009… which rolls into March 2010. Although Sony hasn’t tagged either title with an ETA, it’s being assumed that we’re talking 2009 until spring 2010. Given most games launch in the September and October time for the holiday season that leads us to believe it will either arrive for the holiday or slide to 2010. If the title isn’t ready for prime time by the holiday season, can you wait a full year for these games?

More importantly, can Sony?

The best way to build up momentum for the console is to release some hot long awaited titles, M.A.G and God of War 3 seem to be just that product. We now have LittleBigPlanet, KillZone 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 which were three big hopefuls for the console it would be a huge smash in the face of Microsoft to follow that up with two more one-two punches.

A year seems a bit too far to deliver the blow to their competition. What game are you waiting for on the PS3 and believe will kick unit sales into high gear?

(Thanks, 1up)