The massive week of news starts with discussion about the recent PS3 leap year issue. The guys then move on to a lengthy segment of speculation on details surrounding the issues between the former Infinity Ward heads and Activision. Portal 2 has been confirmed and the crew covered the ARG-like events leading up to the announcement and [...]
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David Ellis re-invents 1UP's premier podcast with 4 Guys 1UP. While the classic Listen UP/1UP Yours fomula of the crew talking about what they have been playing persists, David is also striving to have a guest from the development side on every week.
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4 Guys 1UP: 02/26/2010
February 26th, 2010
It’s another non-traditional show with David and Matt in Tokyo for undisclosed reasons. This does afford them the chance to sit down with 8-4’s John Riccardi and Mark MacDonald to discuss the recent Nintendo announcements. The discussion covers the gamut of release dates to a possible new handheld at E3, but there isn’t too much [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 02/19/2010
February 19th, 2010
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 [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 02/12/2010
February 13th, 2010
It is an all X10 show this week and Garnett Lee stops by his old stomping ground to discuss some of the games that were on-hand at the event. Fable III, Halo Reach and Crackdown are the big games this week with interviews the their respective developers before the guys dig into their own impressions.
Peter [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 02/05/2010
February 5th, 2010
Sonic 4 and the expectations surrounding the game start the podcast this week. The guys milk the fan reactions to recent Sonic title announcements to share their skepticism. The recent Fallout: New Vegas trailer spurs some conversation about what this new entry may be and what Obsidian may bring to the table with their take on the [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 01/29/2010
January 29th, 2010
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 [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 01/22/2010
January 23rd, 2010
David Hellman, artist most notably known for his work on Braid, is on this week in the developer chair, and he proves to be a fun and thought-provoking guest as always. With David as 1 of the premiere names in indie development, indie games take center stage and kick things off this week. The pureness of Canabalt gets some attention and [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 01/15/2010
January 15th, 2010
Finally, it’s back to the original vision for 4 Guys 1UP with a former developer in Amer Ajami as the special guest this week. Amer is a former editor for GameSpot, but was working as a producer on the EA’s Command & Conquer team since 2002. The 1st half of the show is spent on [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 01/08/2010
January 8th, 2010
It’s another shorter cast this week with not quite 4 guys. David and Matt Leone are joined by G4’s Patrick Klepek to discuss CES 2010. The announcement of Xbox Live Game Room peeked some interest here, but the pricing doesn’t seem right to the guys. There are also rumors flying around about Project Natal’s loss [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 01/01/2010
January 2nd, 2010
This is another non-traditional episode due to the holidays. 1UP friend, and Sega Producer, Constantine Hantzopoulos is back and the whole show is dedicated to allowing him to provide a bigger window into the development process. He is the perfect person to do this as he is clearly not inhibited by PR pressures in any [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 12/25/2009
December 26th, 2009
Christmas has come and gone, but David still managed to put out a show. It is a 2 man affair this week with the holidays making it difficult to bring in a special guest and the regulars out of the office, but GamePro’s John Davison is on.
John kicks things off with an update about what [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 12/18/2009
December 20th, 2009
There aren’t that many games covered this week, but the games that are, get a serious amount of time. Mass Effect 2 kicks things off, and the guys are not shying away from spoiler, but David does announce the time-stamps before the spoilers begin. It sounds like a lot has changed from the first one, [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 12/11/2009
December 12th, 2009
David is in LA this week for the VGAs, so the sound quality is markedly worse than usual. Billy Berghammer and former Pandemic producer Cory Lewis join-in this week and it makes for a fun cast. Cory answers some questions and offers some insight into Pandemic and what happened with the recent mass lay-offs. He [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 12/04/2009
December 5th, 2009
4 Guys 1UP is back to its regular format this week with special guest Gary Whitta. If you have been following the PC gaming scene for while, you may remember Gary as the Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer. He has gone onto screenwriting, and his latest is the Denzel Washington thriller, Book of Eli. Gary has [...]
4 Guys 1UP: 03/13/2010
March 14th, 2010
It’s a lengthy “last” episode with a full cast of old faces and whole metric ton of topics. The group starts with some discussion about PlayStation Move’s big GDC reveal. The impressions are somewhat muted with a general sense of anticipation about the execution on the software side. In light of GDC and an abundance [...]