Monthly Archives: July 2010

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by Jonathan Downin in Games, Movies563 days ago

Mike and Alan kick things off with some complaints about people’s fashion choices. The crew then starts the regular show with a reader email about a poor comic shop experience that pushed him to start buying from DCBS, which Mike also endorses. The DeathSpank Game Night also gets a quick mention. In the ‘Games Dammit” section Alan talks about his issue with NCAA 2011 and Jade talked about her frustration about Amazon’s sluggish delivery of Dragon Quest IX. The conversation then moves on to the topic of scary games and the...

Player One Podcast – Episode 194 (07/12/10) – Crackdown to the Future

by Ross Adams in Games563 days ago

This weeks episode starts off with a bit more focus than usual as CJ brings some news items to the table. Kicking off with Blizzards plan to make real names required for posting on their forums, despite the fact they will no longer be going through with the plan the guys discuss what it might mean. While the accountability factor is a major plus Sewart brings up the obvious security concerns with peoples real names being freely available. Telltale recently put out a fairly extensive poll asking fans what they might want to see in the Back to the...

CastMedium Podcast 043 – 07.13.10

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Movies, Tech564 days ago

We start things off with a bit of discussion about the Mobcast since the most recent episode carried the torch from Irrational Interviews in featuring a bit of developer commentary. As usual, Jon has been playing the new releases, and he shares his thoughts on Singularity and Crackdown 2. The onslaught of bad press surrounding the iPhone 4 continues with Consumer Reports retracting their recommendation of the handset, and we cover what this means. A few words about User Podcasts and submissions finish the show. Covered topics and games: Mobcast,...

Mobcast 61: Favorite Turn-Based Strategy Games, Kinect and Move Ideas for Hardcore Gamers, and More

by Alex Martin in Games564 days ago

Jake Kazdal (Haunted Temple Studios) brings a game designer’s perspective to this episode of the Mobcast with Dan Hsu, Demian Linn, and Matt Chandronait. Jake’s topic is favorite turn-based strategy games. His game Skulls of the Shogun is inspired by his pick — Advance Wars. Demian shares his love of the addictive hand-held strategy series. Shoe describes Heroes of Might and Magic 3 as a brightly-colored game that focuses on building, rather than combat. Someone had to mention Civilization, and Matt brings up Civ 4. To wrap up...

Game Scoop! Podcast: Bewb Flash

by Jon Cole in Games564 days ago

Dead Space: Ignition receives a little bit of confusion and a lot of criticism from the Game Scoop! crew, due to the fact that this paid downloadable game taking place between Dead Space and Dead Space 2 dodges the gameplay of the main series and instead plans to implement a “comic book action” style of play. Daemon grills this change the most, predicting that it’ll be little more than a series of quick-time events. Greg is a little more cautiously optimistic, though, as the first game earned this DLC episode a little bit of...

Rebel FM Episode 67 – 07/10/10

by Alex Martin in Games565 days ago

Civil unrest can slow Rebel FM down but can’t keep it off the air. Ignoring politics, Matt starts with one 99 cent iPhone game, and two free PC games: Bit Pilot, Moonbase Alpha, and Red Remover. He’s also enjoyed prolonging his time with Dragon Age with the Leliana’s Song DLC. Matt, Anthony, and Arthur sound like they had fun with Crackdown 2, but they have a long list of problems with it. At least it works well on-line, because it’s a lot more fun with friends. Tyler’s been playing another four-player co-op game —...

Filmspotting #307: Twilight Saga: Eclipse / Winter’s Bone / Top 5 Vampire Movies

by Jon Cole in Movies565 days ago

Steve Prokopy (or Capone of Ain’t It Cool News) stands in for Adam this week for Filmspotting’s review of Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Right off the bat, Steve and Matty both agree that the film is technically sound in most aspects, except for the lackluster special effects. Outside of that concise criticism, Matty mostly tries to contemplate the place that Twilight films occupy in the film world with Steve noting that the movies are getting progressively better. Afterwards, Louis Ozawa Chanchien joins Matty for an excellent edition of...

Engadget Podcast 204: Q&A Bonanza – 07.09.2010

by Jon Cole in Tech566 days ago

This week’s Engadget Podcast is a Q&A focused episode, so many of the topics are touched on fairly briefly. To keep up with all of them, see the short list at the end of this post. One of the bigger questions broadly asks what the guys are looking most forward to for the rest of the year. Josh starts things off with a primarily mobile-centric list, highlighting the possibilities of HP/Palm and Windows Phone 7. Nilay’s anticipating Google’s possibly catalog, which might bring Chrome OS to relevance or put a wholehearted...

The Oddcast: 07/09/2010

by Alex Martin in Games566 days ago

The regular crew are back to discuss some of the week’s weird happenings. First of these is the backlash to Frank Cifaldi’s dispassionate review of the Monkey Island 2 Special Edition, which made it clear that the original game was a classic but the remake did it a disservice. NASA has released Moonbase Alpha, a free MMO, in preparation for a bigger project it hopes will get young people excited about space exploration. Monster Hunter Frontier has got Japanese people excited about the Xbox 360 slim, which saw an 800% increase in sales...

Podcast Beyond: Move vs. Kinect

by Jon Cole in Games567 days ago

Ryan is out yet again, Jim returns after many fan requests, and Nicole Tanner of IGN Girlfight joins the show for her first time. After cast introductions, Greg transitions straight into the Roper Report and the announcement of Dragon Age II. While not everyone is so hot about the console implementation of the first Dragon Age, news that the combat system will be overhauled has inspired a little bit of optimism. In other news, a slight hardware revision of the PS3 in the form of a white console has piqued the curiosity of some of the guys,...

Weekend Confirmed Episode 16

by Jonathan Downin in Games567 days ago

Crackdown 2 kicks off another podcast and the guys aren’t pulling any punches. If you have heard any of the criticism piled on this game from other podcasts, it is almost all represented here as well. Jeff also got into Deadly Premonition after receiving it from Shane last week and he goes on an absolute tear about the problems with the game– incredibly fun stuff. Brian talks about his time with Arma 2, and it sounds like it is for a very specific audience. If you will like this game, you probably already know about it. Deathspank get...

This is Only a Test – Episode 18 – We’ve Got New Digs Baby! – 7/8/2010

by Alex Martin in Games567 days ago

The first news Will and Norm get into is of the death of Microsoft’s Kin. They sold anything between 500 and 8000 of the feature-phones. Will liked the smaller form factor of the Kin One, but ultimately a lack of smart-phone features and a high price killed it. The Nexus One gets an OS update to Android 2.2 this week. It’s a good iteration over 2.1, but Will doesn’t expect any big changes until Gingerbread — Android 3.0. John Lewis (they weren’t sure but yes, it is the UK’s Macy’s) has said the next iPod...

/Filmcast Ep. 107 – The Last Airbender

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV568 days ago

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has recently hit Blu-Ray, DVD, and Netflix Instant Streaming and everyone got a chance to check it out, with Adam opening things up by praising the strength of a believable female lead character. Dave comments on the length of the film, which admirably follows the story through a full plot arc. Devindra gets a chance to speak on the faithfulness of the conversion from writing to film, which he feels David Fincher may do better in his upcoming remake. News that Andrew Garfield is going to play Spider-Man in the...

Interactive Distractions

by InDisTravis in Games568 days ago

(Editor’s note: This post was written by the podcast provider and is part of our user submitted podcasts feature) Hello Everyone! We, here at InDis, were recently turned on to CastMedium after we bought Android phones and were looking for a decent substitute for iTunes. One of our listeners recommended CastMedium and we have to say this has been the optimum choice for anything to do with podcasts on our Droid. That being said, we always discuss what can provide our podcast with more listeners and I brought up CastMedium. We feel there is a...

TWiT 255: You’re Holding It Wrong

by Jon Cole in Tech569 days ago

On this week’s edition of TWiT, Leo Laporte welcomes some of the old folks onto the show, including Jerry Pournelle and Steve Gibson. To be frank, this results in a somewhat aimless show that hits on very few big topics but covers a lot of small ones. So, as a word of warning, avoid this episode if you’re looking for discussion of the bleeding edge tech news of the week. The iPhone antenna “crisis” has swept the tech world by storm and of course opens up the conversation this episode. Leo brought in an industry expert...

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