This week features a long podcast, as there’s a ton of news to report. Jonah tries air quotes on a pure audio podcast, while Paul refuses to believe The Legend of Zelda: Skyword Sword failed to hit the top 10 in software sales. In addition, the Gaming Flashback checks out the JRPG Ys. This week’s […]
Episode 241: Air Quotes
November 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments
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Episode 238: No Free Porn
November 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments
This week’s episode is also abbreviated, as Jordan is somewhere in Pennsylvania looking for a gingerbread house while Paul is still trying to pack his entire NES library into a single suitcase. Jonah and Paul still got in enough time to do a Gaming Flashback on Thief: The Dark Project, and the following news items: […]
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Episode 232: Remember Pong?
September 21st, 2011 · 5 Comments
This week, there’s no Gaming Flashback or Gaming History, but there is a ton of news and Reader Feedback as Paul is finally present to react to some hate mail. The news includes some huge items, like: No PSN unless you waive lawsuit Netflix adds game rentals to Qwikster DC Universe Online goes free-to-play Xbox […]
Tags: Industry News · MMO · Nintendo · PC Gaming · playstation 3 · Podcast · Show Notes · Sony · Xbox 360
Bethesda’s Hines: Don’t Shoehorn Multiplayer
July 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Bethesda Softworks vice president of marketing Pete Hines is critzing publishers and developers who shoehorn multiplayer into their games that doing such a thing is “a waste of time” and advises, “Just drop it, don’t bother…it’ll make for a worse game.” In an interview with Next Gen BIZ, Hines states that using online multiplayer as […]
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Episode 221: Fireworks
July 6th, 2011 · 7 Comments
It’s the Smurfiest post-Fourth of July podcast ever, as Jonah Falcon and Jordan Lund look back at the ColecoVision classic Smurfs: Rescue from Gargamel’s Castle, probably the easiest videogame ever Smurfed. If that weren’t Smurfy enough, Jonah and Jordan, working without Paul S. Nowak this week, also check out this week’s Smurfy news: Xbox 720 […]
Tags: Kinect · Microsoft · playstation 3 · Podcast · Retro · Show Notes · Xbox 360
E3 2011 Preview Summaries
June 19th, 2011 · No Comments
You might notice that I’ve been pretty silent on E3 2011 previews, despite hustling around the entire time. That is because I’ve been writing almost all of them for Strategy Informer. So, those of you who are regulars at Gaming Podcast – and judging by hits, there are tons of you – here are excerpts […]
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Gaming Podcast Episode 218: Introducing Paul
June 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments
The listeners of Gaming Podcast finally get introduced to the third member of the Videogame Roundtable podcast team, Paul S. Nowak, who only desires hate mail and more time playing Dungeon Overlord on Facebook. This week, the Gaming Flashback looks back at the Gamecube title mentioned by Jordan Lund last week, Eternal Darkness, and the […]
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2M Users Sign Up for COD: Elite Beta
June 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Activision’s Dan Amrich posted in his One of Swords blog that two million users have signed up Call of Duty: Elite‘s beta, who said the number “blew his mind” when “they hit that number in less than two weeks. That should give the dev team at Beachhead plenty to work with to kick off the beta, which officially starts […]
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Gaming Podcast 141: iPhone vs. Consoles?
September 29th, 2009 · 20 Comments
This week, we’re looking at Unreal Tournament and looking back at Digital Extremes. We’re hitting up a few of this weeks top news articles including: Apple cutting into console sales? Tokyo Game Show Attendance down Xbox 360 hardware not maxed out Project Natal will configure virtual play area Oddly enough, there wasn’t too much exciting […]
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Gaming Podcast 131: An Inner Ear Problem
July 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments
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 […]
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