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The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 07/06/2010

by Alex Martin in Games682 days ago

There’s been drama in the 1UP offices this week, as employees have been illicitly making international calls and stealing Xboxes. Chris, Sam, Scott, and Tina try to act innocent as they get into weird news of the week. This includes news that APB will advertise over voice-chat, Dead or Alive for the 3DS will feature motion-controlled mammary glands, and NBC is to air a prime-time video games show. Roger Ebert has said that he regrets ever mentioning video games after not being able to define “art”. Chris and Tina are tired of...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 06/27/2010

by Alex Martin in Games690 days ago

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...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 05/06/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games742 days ago

Tina starts the cast with talk of her visit to Pixar and the recent user blog on 1UP that called for her to be fired. Halo Reach gets a little time before the group moves on to word that Gears of War will run at only 30fps. Word that total DS sales have already surpassed lifetime GameBoy sales in about a quarter of the time kicks-off the news. James Silva has “sold out,” with his next game going straight to XBLA– in 2012. And, there are even more updates to the Respawn/Activision situation. In Recession Gaming, the group talks...

4 Guys 1UP

Formerly 4 Guys 1UP: 04/30/2010

by Derek Lavigne in Games749 days ago

This week, the podcast former known as…will be known as 1UPchuck. Jeremy takes the helm again but announces this will be his last week and it sounds like we will finally get to see the future of the flagship next week. This week is shaping up to be the Activision episode. First up, the news that Bungie signed a 10 year publishing agreement with Activision sent the games world for a spin and Frank Cifaldi clarifies some of the details. The next Call of Duty game, Black Ops, was also just announced and is the next game from Treyarch and the...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 04/29/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games749 days ago

The group goes through the news first, as usual. Aside from more Infinity Ward leads leaving for Respawn Entertainment and more bad video game laws there isn’t too much going on, but it is pretty cool that some Halo 2 players are holding on to the last Original Xbox Live session. The Super Mario Crossover game is the star of Recession Gaming this week. It throws a lot of classic franchise’s characters into the original Mario Bros. Go check it out at Newgrounds. The are a ton of voicemails this week with some of them spurring some really...

4 Guys 1UP

Formerly 4 Guys 1UP: 04/24/2010

by Derek Lavigne in Games754 days ago

We finally hear a peep from the flagship 1up podcast, headed up again by Jeremy Parish and being called “The Ugly Babycast” for the week. The show starts off with Jeremy, Sam, Frank, Ray and Cameron Davis from Krome Studios discussing the exodus from Infinity Ward to Respawn Entertainment as they haven’t had a show since it started happening. The show then switches gears to a separate recorded segment which includes Tina and Nelson talking with Jeremy about seeing the Halo Reach beta. More somber talk of the recent Sega layoffs...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 04/23/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games756 days ago

This week’s show starts with Sam talking about the recent 1UP feature focusing on the creator of Marble Madness and long-time industry vet Mark Cerny. News starts with word of more leads are leaving Infinity Ward and moving over to Respawn Entertainment. Also, Sega is restructuring with a focus on downloadable games which resulted in a total of 73 layoffs. Sharkey has a few picks for Recession Gaming this week and finishing the rather depressing week of news is a story about bad factory conditions at a factory in China that produces Xbox...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 04/15/2010

by Alex Martin in Games763 days ago

The Oddcast continues its trend of getting longer with this feature length episode. The Infinity Ward implosion (or is that “explosion”?)  is the first gaming topic on the agenda before Odd News. In Odd News, the crew are doubtful about the story of a British woman who developed Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome after falling from a Wii Balance Board. X-Com being reimagined by 2K Marin provokes bemusement from all. A corruption scandal surrounding South Korea’s StarCraft scene, Microsoft rejecting Machinarium from XBLA, and Conan...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 04/01/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games777 days ago

Justin Bieber talk kick things off– wait, what? For some reason, Sam feels the need to inform the world of Justin Bieber. Tina explains some of the trouble people have encountered with the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package map pack. PAX East takes center stage with the Tina sharing some anecdotes from the show floor and the packed 1UP meetup. The news is up next and there were some illegal activities going on in the game space. Major Nelson’s Xbox live account was hacked, but in even bigger news, a guy tried to steal Breach code from...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 03/15/2010

by Ross Adams in Games793 days ago

This weeks show is mostly made up of an assortment of random stories from GDC last week. From games played to Sams failed attempts to lie to a woman demoing a game. There’s some discussion of the Playstation Move, which Sam thinks is interesting although agrees it doesn’t seem to offer too much more than the Wii. Tina thanks Sharkey for introducing her to alot of indie games through the recession gaming segement as it meant she knew alot of the games on display. This leads to some debate as to what makes an indie game “indie”...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 03/04/2010

by Ross Adams in Games805 days ago

Alot of this weeks show is taken up with news discussion, interspersed with the usual joking around the Oddcast crew partake in. Six days in Fallujah, the controversial title that Konami decided not to publish, has apparently been finished. The guys discuss how and if the game should be released. Sharkey thinks it depends on how the story is presented and dealt with. The reality of actual warfare is in stark contrast to videogame warfare. The guys discuss how this could an issue when translating a real event to the medium. The drama at Infinity...

at1UP

at1UP: 03/02/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games807 days ago

The cast starts with a special emergency segment this week with Sam, Tina and Alan discussing the recent news of a shake-up at Infinity Ward. The two studio heads/co-founders have been let go in what is assumed to be “difference in opinion” between them and Activision. The group gives an overview of the situation and discuss their takes. At1UP proper starts with some more Olympics/Canada talk before the group touches on a couple recent 1UP features including one about fanfiction with some great Kirk on Spock art by Travis. Lord of the...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 02/27/2010

by Ross Adams in Games810 days ago

The show kicks off with Sam talking about his time at DICE. The impression he got while there is that alot of the developers of more traditional games aren’t sure about the more casual platforms like Facebook. From developers reactions it seems they want to make the Facebook devs part of the conversation but also keep them at a distance. Some Sonic fans have planned a very interesting boycott. To protest of Sonic 4 which is apparently not what they want they will buy Sonic 1. This led to some pretty funny comments on the news article which...

4 Guys 1UP

4 Guys 1UP: 02/19/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games819 days ago

David is at DICE this week and this means that there are a lot of industry folk on to discuss industry stuff. David Jaffe is on with James Stevenson from Insomniac and they both have a lot to add to the conversation. The topics start with rather positive takes on OnLive and move onto to Jaffe talking about his past works and touching how he is approaching new projects, including 1 that involves cars, err vehicles. The conversation meanders through a myriad of development talk and ends on the evolving state of games journalism and the ever-existant...

4 Guys 1UP

4 Guys 1UP: 01/29/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games840 days ago

iPad, and the potential it holds for gaming, kicks off this week’s 4 Guys 1UP. John and David have a lot to say about it, and the prevailing opinion is mixed, but John is the most positive. He makes some good points about game developers needing to approach the device differently and that it may be targeting at a more casual audience. It’s easy to forget that not everyone uses computers in a multi-tasking, power user sort of way. John also touches on GamePro’s approach to capitalizing on these kinds of new devices for digital...

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