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The Oddcast: 10/04/2010

by Alex Martin in Games492 days ago

1UP’s Oddcast starts with news of Gears of War 3′s delay. It’s coming out next fall for business reasons. The 3DS also got a later-than-expected release date in Japan — February 2011. Ninjatown 2 might be as absent from games devices as the Taliban from Medal of Honor multiplayer. Sharkey’s not happy EA placated people taken in by a journalist’s manufactured controversy. Chris joins the shenanigans-calling fun as Microsoft have denied Kinect needs an internal processor. God’s Toothpick is the subject of...

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The Oddcast: 09/27/2010

by Alex Martin in Games500 days ago

Chris has been eaten by bedbugs, so Matt Leone steps in. He, Sam, Sharkey, and Tina start with the surprising news of a Michael Jackson MMO coming in 2011. Meanwhile, in Chinatown, PS3 controllers are exploding. Less surprisingly, Halo: Reach didn’t sell well in Japan. THQ CEO Brian Farrell thinks smaller, cheaper games are the future, and EA Sports Head Peter Moore doesn’t think 3D is the future. Netlfix has made it to Canadian consoles. Lastly, Batman: Arkham City may feature vehicles and co-operative play. Next, they recommend a...

The Oddcast

The Oddcast: 09/20/2010

by Alex Martin in Games507 days ago

Sam’s missing this week, but Chris, Sharkey, and Tina start with their highlights of the Tokyo Game Show. Chris is looking forward to Fire Pro Wrestling, and Tina is confused but excited by Atlus’s action RPG Catherine. A lowlight was Team Ico’s questionable reasoning behind changing the Last Guardian’s hero’s gender. If Fumito Ueda’s reasoning that girls can’t wear pants or grip things wasn’t sexist, some of the comments on1UP’s story were. The PlayStation Move is out, to nobody’s excitement,...

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The Oddcast: 09/13/2010

by Alex Martin in Games515 days ago

Alice Liang steps in for Chris Plante for the first Oddcast since the Penny Arcade Expo. Naturally, the show starts with their experience of kilts, capes, and cosplay in Seattle, and the STDs their Nintendo DSes caught there. The Tokyo Game Show starts this Thursday, and they specualte about its attractions and reminisce about TGSes and Tokyo whiskey-bars past. After twenty minutes, they get to the odd news of the week. This include’s Walmart accidentally announcing MAG 2, the survival of Kinect’s object-scanning capability, and Microsoft...

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The Oddcast: 09/01/2010

by Alex Martin in Games526 days ago

Very lately or very punctually — depending on your viewpoint — it’s the Oddcast. (With profanity and eating noises from the start.) Sam is back from Germany and Holland, where he visited Cologne’s Gamescom and Amsterdam’s Amsterdam. He briefly reports on Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One before telling of the results of drinking at conventions. The Least Popular Character Tournament rages on, and they commentate on the results. In odd news, Valve talked about their cancelled fairy game and what was so bad about it. Microsoft...

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Active Time Babble XXI: Ys Seven & Tactical RPGs | 08/26/2010

by Ross Adams in Games533 days ago

Scott Sharkey and Travis Williams join Kat for the first segment of this weeks show to discuss the announcement that Cryptic is working on some kind of reboot of Neverwinter. Travis is a big D&D nerd and really enjoyed the Neverwinter Nights game so he’s excited but there’s alot of skepticism about whether Cryptic can make a good game, let alone a non-MMO game. Ray Barnholt, Jeremy Parish and special guest Christian Nutt join Kat for the rest of the episode, starting with the second segment in which they discuss Ys Seven. The guys...

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The Oddcast: 08/20/2010

by Alex Martin in Games537 days ago

Matt Leone is in for Sam Kennedy to discuss this week’s odd news with the rest of the regular crew. Rare is to update Xbox Avatars to more human-like proportions, so people playing Kinect will be less confused. Italian advocacy group Unico National has asked Take-Two to not to release Mafia II. Realtime Worlds is facing financial difficulties, but has rehired some staff. The National Youth Rights Association is preparing to fight for the future of video games with a dossier of socially, artistically, and politically valuable games. Halo Reach...

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The Oddcast: 08/04/2010

by Alex Martin in Games555 days ago

The crew start this Oddcast lamenting the strange way Battlefield 3 was announced this week (although it was actually announced previously). Metalocalypse: Dethgame, based on the cult cartoon series, has been cancelled. APB developer, Realtime Worlds, has unveiled Project: MyWorld, their answer to Google Earth. New Line Cinema have shifted gears on their Gears of War movie, lowering its budget and fitting in a love interest. After the news, they talk about Cut It and Redder — two free games. The former is Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho’s...

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The Oddcast: 07/26/2010

by Alex Martin in Games564 days ago

Matt Leone steps in for Chris Grant to read the week’s weird news, talk about free games, and answer bizarre emails. In the news, the Wall Street Journal made unfounded claims about StarCraft 2′s development costs. Women (might) buy more virtual goods than men. 11 states will support California’s anti-first amendment policies, which Sharkey has a quick, coherent rant against. The UK government cancelled proposed tax breaks for developers (last month), and Epic are letting gamers choose whether a character lives or dies in...

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1UP.com – The Oddcast – 07/16/2010

by Alex Martin in Games572 days ago

Oddly, Namco-Bandai are ushering in the 2012 apocalypse with a 3D Pac Man cartoon. The ESRB inadvertently shared pro-privacy campaigners’ email addresses. GameStop have admitted they don’t like selling used games.  Warner Bros. have registered more Batman URLs than Giant Bomb ever will. Sean Murray (Hello Games) said he released his game Joe Danger on PSN because XBLA is “a slaughterhouse” for indies. They fantasize about what the cancelled Shaolin Monks sequel could have been and discuss Japanese 360 sales and Call...

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The Oddcast: 07/09/2010

by Alex Martin in Games580 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...

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The Oddcast: 07/06/2010

by Alex Martin in Games584 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...

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The Oddcast: 06/27/2010

by Alex Martin in Games592 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...

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4 Guys 1UP: 05/28/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games623 days ago

Ray is back in the hosting seat. Even though last week was supposed to be the last of the experiments, this episode still seems to be in that zone. Ray does seem to handle it better than anyone else though. Quick Killzone 3 impressions start the cast and then the group moves on to Call of Duty: Black Ops, which everyone seems pretty hopeful for. Even though Alpha Protocol has been almost universally receiving middling reviews, Sharkey gave it a surprising B+ in his review and the whole group is pretty high on the game. Word of Insomiac going to...

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The Oddcast: 05/06/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games645 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...

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