Monthly Archives: December 2009

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by Ross Adams in Games769 days ago

With everyone out of the office for the holidays it’s left to Jeremy Parish to take on hosting duties alone for the last Active Time Babble of 09. He’s joined by Spiderweb Software‘s Jeff Vogel. Spiderweb is an independent developer, run by Jeff, who have been making RPGs for PC and Mac for over ten years. Jeff discusses the process he goes through when making the game, what influences the stories he tells in his games and various other tales about being a very small developer. The show closes out with some talk and plugging of...

MacBreak Weekly 173: Two Words: Dance Belt

by Jonathan Downin in Tech770 days ago

It is still unclear what exactly happened, but iPhones were temporarily unavailable for order for New York City residents via the AT&T website. The real discussion this week is centered around the forthcoming Android announcement, and rumored Apple announcement. It has been all-but confirmed that the January 5th Android announcement will be focused on the release of the Nexus One. The guys touch on this before discussing the rumored January 26th iSlate announcement. There is nothing to new here, but there is some discussion about Apple’s...

The Game Informer Show: Transformers: War for Cybertron Special

by Derek Lavigne in Games770 days ago

Another special feature this week from the GI team is hosted by Phil Kollar and features Andy Reiner, Dan Ryckert, and Matt Miller. It’s obvious right from the start that these four are legit Transformers fans with discussion of the various cartoon incarnations along with Phil needling the Michael Bay films and Hasboro for making everything canon. They also share an interesting fact that High Moon Studios, who is developing the game, studied a short clip of Cybertron from the animated movie over and over. After a minor spoiler around 10 minutes...

GWJ Conference Call Episode 168

by Jonathan Downin in Games771 days ago

It’s a special 2009 retrospective episode this week with the guys going over some of the personal picks for most notable games of the past year. The opinions here are diverse with everyone putting something different in their top spot. It is nice to see that some games that seem to have been forgotten in other game of the year discussions get mentioned here. The guys will be covering their 2009 predictions from earlier in the year, and their 2010 predictions next week. This week we discuss some of our favorite games of 2009. If we didn’t...

TWiT 228: The TWiT Of The Decade

by Jon Cole in Tech771 days ago

For This Week in Tech’s final episode of the decade, Leo brings in both Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble to talk about the big tech trends that colored the last ten years. The format is particularly interesting because Leo solicited ideas from former guests of the show, introducing a wide variety of topics for discussion. Kim Landwehr called in to bring up the ever essential presence of Apple in both the portable music player market (the iPod) and the mobile market (the iPhone), which the crew agrees introduced a complete paradigm shift in how we...

Drunken Gamers Radio 12.29.09

by Derek Lavigne in Games771 days ago

Closing out the year, the DGR crew bring us their version of the game of the years, which they call the Daryl Awards in honor of their old landlord who was able to squeeze money from them out of nothing. Simply replace ‘money’ with ‘fun’ and you have the criteria for the DGR top 3 games of the year. They also plan on reading listener top 3 lists and give a final award to the most voted for listener pick. Starting off with their number 3 picks Hilden chose the open-world playground Red Faction: Guerrilla, while Moe and John...

CO-OP – Episode 311: 10,000 Deaths by 1,000,000 Bullets

by Jonathan Downin in Games772 days ago

There are no new releases to be had until the new year begins, so the CO-OP guys take the opportunity to do a more topic-focused show this week. The topic centers around first person shooters and what keeps them coming back to certain titles in the genre. The usual suspects are represented here with Modern Warfare and Halo receiving a lot of nods, but the group does get into some of the finer points about different approaches developers take, and the importance of community. Valve gets a lot of appreciation here for how they have handles Team Fortress...

The Totally Rad Show – Episode 145: Quickie Dickie

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Movies772 days ago

This week’s episode starts off with the guys talking about Up in the Air. They all loved it, with Jeff pouring it on the thickest. Alex points out that George Cloony may be on the verge of becoming a parody of himself, but Dan and Jeff don’t quite see it. Dan saw Sherlock Holmes and enjoyed it a lot also. PixelJunk Shooter is the new release covered here, and the reception is lukewarm. Both Jeff and Dan felt let down after loving Eden. King’s Bounty gets another look with the latest installment, King’s Bounty: Armored Princess,...

CastMedium Podcast 017 – 12.28.09

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Movies, Tech772 days ago

There is not much going on this week with many of the major podcasts taking a break for the holidays. We take this opportunity to discuss what we have been playing. I purchased Red Faction: Guerilla for $10 over Steam while it was on sale a few days ago, but the Games for Windows Live integration completely ruined the experience. After my rant, we move on into a lengthy discussion about Steam and the prospects of Valve being purchased in the future. Jon is a new PS3 owner and he is experiencing Uncharted and Infamous for the 1st time. Infamous sparks...

Player One Podcast: Episode 166 (12/28/09) – Live for the Holidays

by Ross Adams in Games772 days ago

With all the travelling for the holidays it’s a slightly different Player One Podcast this week. The show is “live” which in this case means all the participants are in the same room, which it should be noted is a restaurant so be prepared for background noise. Both Gregs are absent but in their place are CJ’s fiancé Adrienne and Phil’s wife Dana. The show starts off as always with listener tweets, alot of the questions are aimed at our host’s partners this week. There’s alot of interesting discussion about...

Filmspotting Revisited

by Jon Cole in Movies774 days ago

Since Adam and Matty are off taking a break for Christmas, Dave Chen of the /Filmcast takes the helm and drives the Filmspotting ship into the past with excerpts of the show’s best episodes. Since Dave Chen offers a bit of commentary on each segment, there’s not much to say about this episode but to confirm that the clips he chose are indeed some of the best and will inspire you to either go back and watch the featured films (in the case of There Will Be Blood) or avoid them at all costs (in the case of The Happening). December 25: Adam and...

The Geekbox: Episode 45

by Jon Cole in Games774 days ago

The Geekbox starts it off on a fairly “light” note this week, following up on the discussion of racism in Disney movies brought up last week. Luckily, they move away from this touchy subject to talk about the new Games on Demand service offered by Games for Windows Live on PC. Ryan Scott asks why someone would use the service with respect to the vastly superior Steam platform, but Karen rebuts with the somewhat obvious note that GFWL offers achievements and Microsoft is likely building the pipes for a later, expanded delivery system that’s...

4 Guys 1UP: 12/25/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games775 days ago

Christmas has come and gone, but David still managed to put out a show. It is a 2 man affair this week with the holidays making it difficult to bring in a special guest and the regulars out of the office, but GamePro‘s John Davison is on. John kicks things off with an update about what is happening at GamePro and how the WhatThePlay situation played out. This leads into a review of the year in games. Bayonetta gets some time, and the guys move into talking about Q1 releases. Prediction for 2010 take up the last half of the show. The guys are...

The Game Informer Show: Dead Space 2 Special

by Derek Lavigne in Games776 days ago

This week, Nick Ahrens, Ben Reeves, and Joe Juba take a special look at Dead Space 2 which was featured on the most recent cover of the Game Informer Magazine. They state up front that the majority of the show will be answering user questions about the game. It really looks like these guys are trying to get all they can out of any exclusive information they may have gotten. To start off the show, the trio discuss the new types of enemies they saw during their visit with the game and confirm that there will be a greater variety of enemies than were...

The Engadget Show – 004: The decade in gadgets, with special guest Peter Rojas!

by Jonathan Downin in Tech777 days ago

It’s the 4th episode of the Engadget Show, and since this is the last show of the year (and decade) the guys are talking about the last 10 years of gadgets. This is an interesting premise for a discussion, and it allows everyone a chance to talk about something they have used over the years. Peter Rojas, founder of Engadget, Gizmodo and gdgt is the special guest on this episode, and there is no one better to talk about such a myriad of gadgets. The usual suspects are represented here including the iPod, Asus EEE PC, Xbox 360 and the iPhone,...

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