After six months away from the host chair, Garnett Lee is clearly excited to be at the helm of a new show, and Weekend Confirmed starts strong out of the gate. Garnett borrows heavily from his time at 1up, bringing along the Whatcha’ Been Playin and the 4 Minute Warning segments, which only makes the show a better fit to fill the void left as 4Guys1Up figures itself out.
Garnett is joined by Totally Rad Show’s Jeff Cannata and Shacknews’ Brian Leahy who strike a good balance of being entertaining and informative while keeping up the momentum pretty well. Watcha’ Been Playin fills out the first hour as they over a range of games, including Just Cause 2, God of War 3, Starcraft 2,Final Fantasy XIII and the Playstation Move. They all seem to bring their own perspective to each game, so even though it’s only three guys, they have a some interesting things to say.
Though they do have a hard time filling out the 4 Minute Warning segments for the first few rounds, before a PSN vs. Xbox Live argument takes them over the time limit; and they close the segment on a long conversation about what modern game designers can learn from old school games.
Brian leads the end of the show with news, hitting on the Nintendo 3DS, his experience with the PSPGo, the Microsoft Game Room and its pricing, and then announcements on Blizzcon 2010, Mafia 2, F3AR and Kindgom Heart’s 3.
Weekend Confirmed isn’t bringing anything revolutionary to the podcast scene, relying on standard segments or old standbys, but Garnett is an experienced host and if you missed the mix of news and commentary from Listen1Up, it looks like it will be a solid replacement.
Covered Game and Topics: Just Cause 2, God of War 3, Starcraft 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Final Fantasy XIII, PS3 Move, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Yakuza 3, Heavy Rain, PSN vs. XBL, 3DS, PSPGo, Digital Distribution, Microsoft Game Room, Mafia 2, F3AR, Kingdom Hearts 3
After what seems like forever the wait is over. Weekend Confirmed debuts today. Anchored by Garnett, Brian, and Jeff Cannata from the Totally Rad Show (and his blog), they waste no time getting down to the business of confirming weekends. There’s months of backlog for Whatcha Been Playin and they make a strong effort digging into it with God of War 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Starcraft 2 beta, and a whole lot more. Even before the show’s started the listeners have come through strong with great starters for Four Minute Warning. And in Front Page the 3DS announcements leads off a full slate of news.The feed has been submitted for your subscribing pleasure to iTunes and as soon as it’s live there we’ll have a link here. We should also be live in the Zune marketplace shortly. There’s also the Weekend Confirmed RSS feed which you can use to subscribe in just about any platform you like.
Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here’s the timing for this week’s episode:
Whatcha’ Been Playin: Starts: 0:22 Ends: 25:43
Whatcha’ Been Playin Part 2: Starts: 25:54 Ends: 50:41
Four Minute Warning: Starts: 51:03 Ends: 1:18:04
The Front Page: Starts: 1:18:25 Ends: 1:45:40
Runtime – 1:45:40
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