Brought to you by the vuvuzela and audio malfunctions, it’s the E3 Oddcast! Their approach to wrapping up the year’s biggest press conference is a little unorthodox, but after chatting about G4′s strange interview with David Jaffe, free Xboxes, and practical jokes they get to the weirder news from the show.
PSN+ introduces some extra features to Sony’s online service. For a fee. And you’ll lose any “free” games you acquire if you unsubscribe. Even more strangely, the 3DS is not for children: Nintendo have warned against anyone with developing eyes using the 3D screen. Microsoft have sort of decided on a price for Kinect and Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata says games are recession-proof. Finally, they discuss the old topic of violence in video games, apropos of Jeremy Parish’s recent blog.
Sharkey recommends Crush the Castle 2, if you have no money, then they get into the community segment. Unsurprisingly, people on the internet had issues with their Best of E3 list. Plenty of readers sent in emails and voicemails, giving them a chance to talk about programming languages, carrying vans, and Mortal Kombat’s promising return.
Covered topics: E3 2010, Nintendo 3DS, Kinect, financial difficulties in games, violence in games, Mortal Kombat.
What’s that noise? It’s our world cup edition! The crew gets settled in after E3. Although, we can’t figure out how to get Chris to stop sounding like a robot. We discuss Odd news of the week, like Kinect’s pricing, children can’t play 3DS, and Iwata’s comment on the industry. We make fun of the comments in our E3 award feature and answer more call-in questions. Vuvuzela!
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