This is an absolutely epic episode of Listen UP. Everything from E3 is covered here with the usual skew towards the business side of the games industry.
Games the have been played this week fall into two main categories of good and bad this week with Red Faction and Infamous in the former and Indiana Jones off the deep end of the latter. Unfortunately, Prototype seems to fall into the later as well to some extent.
The whole middle section is taken up with they guys talking about the market strategies of the big companies and at this point it sounds like everyone thinks Microsoft will be treating Project Natal as a new console launch. This includes new hardware that will increase performance and will have an impact on the graphics of games coming out from this fall on out. This is exciting insight indeed.
Also, beware that there are Mass Effect 2 spoilers from the 47:00 – 50:00 marks.
Covered topics and games: GTA: Chinatown Stories, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Prototype, Infamous, Mass Effect 2, Munchables, Open GL 2.0 on Iphone 3Gs, Final Fantasy 7 PSP, Splinter Cell Conviction, Uncharted 2 beta, MAG, Tiger Wood Wii Motion Plus, PSP Go!, Project Natal, NPDs, EA Sports Active, Tony Hawk Ride, Left 4 Dead 2, Valve,Need for Speed Shift, Criterion doing Need for Speed,
John returns to join David and Garnett with Sam taking a turn in the fourth chair. Whatcha’ Been Playin? is packed with games including Red Faction: Guerrilla, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, Prototype, inFamous, the Uncharted 2 beta, and more. In the second segment John catches up on how E3 2009 looked from the outside and then there’s the May NPD sales figures and controversy over Left4Dead 2 to get to.
Runtime – 2:59:54
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