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The Geekbox

The Geekbox: Episode 81

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, TV624 days ago

Karen is back this week and the cast starts with the story that explains her absence last week– prickly pears were involved. The game talk starts with a little Red Dead Redemption, but quickly moves on to Ryan S’s thoughts on Metroid after finishing it. He is with the consensus that the first person gameplay mechanic doesn’t quite fit, and that the story is decidedly “Japanese.” The price hike for Xbox Live Gold has the crew somewhat divided, but Alice is argues that it really isn’t that drastic of a change. Brock...

The Geekbox

The Geekbox: Episode 80

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, TV631 days ago

Jeff Green continues to make his round on the podcasts, and he offers the classic GFW Radio intro at the beginning of this week’s episode. Also, Alice Liang makes her Geekbox debut as the newest regular member of the show and she fits in perfectly. The group starts this episode with WoW, but everyone is still in hibernation mode waiting for Cataclysm. Jeff tells a story about the hiring of Ryan Scott, and how he won-out over Andrew Fitch, who eventually got a different job at 1UP causing a weird situation between the two. After some comic...

at1up

at1UP: 08/24/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, Movies, TV633 days ago

The shows starts with another candy tasting, and the two candies at play garner disparate opinions. After some discussion about Matt Leone’s currently in progress “road trip,” Mike mention the double Game Night events happening this week. Alice is filling the fourth chair this week and she talks about the current Xbox 360S contest, of which there will be at least a few more. Travis takes some time to talk about StarCraft 2 again since he finished the campaign. He has a lot of nice things to say, but can’t get over the adequate...

Active Time Babble

Active Time Babble XX: The Fall RPG Preview | 08/12/2010

by Ross Adams in Games643 days ago

It’s been a pretty big year for RPGs, heck the existence of this podcast can attest to that, but the year isn’t over quite yet! There are still plenty of RPGs to come over the last few months of this year and that is the subject for this weeks episode of ATB. First up though is some recent RPG news, starting with the announcement of Double Fine’s next game Costume Quest. After having a go at real time strategy with Brutal Legend the developer is now giving the RPG genre a try and a more old school approach to boot. This is going...

Retronauts

Retronauts Episode 97: 08/11/2010

by Ross Adams in Games, Movies645 days ago

Retronauts returns with a fairly short episode, there isn’t much in the way of retro news or releases as of late. Chris Kohler starts things off by talking about his recent experience at the Classic Gaming Expo, while there he saw Halo 2600 a 4k Atari 2600 game made by Ed Fries. Actual 2600 cartridges of the game were being sold at the expo. Other than that Kohler tells some tales about picking up some rare game boxes and such. The bulk of the show is dedicated to Scott Pilgrim, the idea seems to have been to talk about the game but the majority...

4 Guys 1UP

4 Guys 1UP: 04/02/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games777 days ago

It’s all about PAX East at the beginning of this week’s 4 Guys 1UP yet-to-be-re-named flagship 1UP podcast. The attempted theft of Breach code is the first PAX-related topic and then the group moves on to discuss their overall impressions of PAX. It’s safe to say that they were impressed by the show, and the attendance. APB, Limbo, Hydrophobia, Prince of Persia and many others get some discussion time. The middle section is all about the Nintendo 3DS and DS XL. Even after the exhaustive discussion about the forthcoming handeld...

The Geekbox

The Geekbox: Episode 55

by Jon Cole in Games, TV808 days ago

Alice Liang joins the Geekbox since Karen is out this week and kicks things off by asking Higgins about Nick Simmons’ (son of Gene Simmons) blatant plagiarism of manga like “Bleach” in his personal comic book series, “Incarnate”.  Things move on to the weekly discussion of Lost, covering last week’s Jack-centric episode “The Lighthouse”.  Again, if you have some catching up to do on the series, check out the spoiler timestamps at the bottom of this post. Video games come up next, with some discussion...

Active Time Babble

Active Time Babble VII: Final Fantasy XIII | 01/14/2010

by Ross Adams in Games855 days ago

It may not be out until March but that doesn’t stop Final Fantasy XIII taking up the first segment of the show, Jeremy, Kat and Christian have been playing the Japanese version. Jeremy and Christian soon came to the realisation that the game is so narrative heavy it really should be played in their native language. The second part of the show is devoted to RPG highlights on 2009 and upcoming RPGs of the year to come. Everyone has trouble thinking of many standout RPGs from last year, although Kat does give Demon’s Souls some more love....

4 Guys 1UP

4 Guys 1UP: 11/20/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games909 days ago

David was not able to procure a guest from the dev side this week, so Christian Nutt is sitting in to discuss the week’s news. The recent layoffs at EA start this one off with some analytical discussion about why this came about, and the state of developer’s comfortability with the current generation of hardware. Rumors have been swirling about forthcoming successors to the DS and PSP. Purportedly, Nvidia has been tapped as the supplier of the graphics chips with their Tegra chipset. Christian pontificates that an Apple-like approach...

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