For a Xbox Live Arcade release, Battlefield 1943 has dominated game podcasts since its release. Maybe the issues it had actually plays out well for the game in the long run since it is getting so much coverage.
We’re are in the doldrums of summer and the releases are few and far in-between. The Summer of Arcade is a good initiative by Microsoft to combat the slow release schedule even if only a couple of the games are going to be really good. As the guys point out, it is weird that The Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition isn’t included in this group even though it releases this week.
Technical difficulties plague the show, but it wouldn’t really be a Fancast if everything went smoothly. Also, Xav is actually on this one.
Covered games and topics: Battlefield 1943, Summer of XBLA, Alan Wake, 3 million played Dead Space, CoD: Modern Warfare 2, Nathan Fillion in Halo, new NXE feature images, Crackdown 2
We’re going to be as frank as possible here: This episode was fraught with technical issues. For the most part, they will be undetectable to the listener, for they have been deftly edited out. One … interesting issue, however, remains. Richard (that’s me) comes out sounding like a cyborg. Other than that, it’s just a typically awesome episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast. Enjoy.
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