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4 Guys 1UP

4 Guys 1UP: 01/15/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games854 days ago

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 his history and his take on development. Amer has some interesting things to say about working conditions in relation to the recent Rockstar issues over working conditions. Amer also starts the game talk with his recent addiction to Modern Warfare 2. Sam hasn’t...

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4 Guys 1UP: 01/08/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games861 days ago

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 of an on-board processor and the implication this will have for developers. Lost Planet 2 continues to look like “Monster Hunter with guns,” and Matt is excited about another 8-bit Mega Man in Mega Man...

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4 Guys 1UP: 01/01/2010

by Jonathan Downin in Games867 days ago

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 way. Constantine starts out by covering his path through the industry and continues on to talk about problems with the structure of the development/publishing system. He also touches on some of the problems with past Sega projects...

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4 Guys 1UP: 12/25/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games875 days ago

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 is happening at GamePro and how the WhatThePlay situation played out. This leads into a review of the year in games. Bayonetta gets some time, and the guys move into talking about Q1 releases. Prediction for 2010 take up the last half of the show. The guys are...

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4 Guys 1UP: 12/18/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games880 days ago

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, and the tech is much improved. Heavy Rain also gets a ton of time since Matt has played a significant amount of the game. The games seems somewhat divisive, but it may just culminate into something truly fresh. With the 2 big games out of the way,...

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4 Guys 1UP: 12/11/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games888 days ago

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 also touches on more general industry topics like technology and how console generations affect developers. NPDs start the news and the guys spend a lot time talking about their impressions of the numbers. Mega Man 10 was announced, and it...

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4 Guys 1UP: 12/04/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games895 days ago

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 also had a hand in the stories of Duke Nuken Forever and Gears of War. He is an amazing guest, and David deserves a lot of credit for thinking of him. A new Medal of Honor game is in the works, and it is going to be a “modern combat”...

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4 Guys 1UP: 11/26/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games903 days ago

This week’s 4 Guys 1UP is a departure from the normal format and contains no game discussion. Instead, the whole podcast is devoted to the history of 1UP, from it’s inception up until now. While the group shares many personal here, it is not all just reminiscing about the old days. Sam gets pretty in-depth on some technical issues involved in getting the site off the ground, and what it has taken to continue improving and expanding on the site. When it came to naming the site, “1UP” almost didn’t make it. There are...

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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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4 Guys 1UP: 11/13/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games917 days ago

Seth Killian, of Capcom Unity, is on this week as the special guest and most of the discussion centers around Street Fighter. His story of landing at Capcom shows that being good at games can get your foot in the door, although his hand in creating one of the biggest fighting game tournaments of all-time probably had a lot to do with it as well. NPDs start the news this week and there are a few surprises. The PS3 bested the Xbox 360 again in October on the hardware side. This marks a continuing downward trend for Microsoft’s box. Xbox 360...

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4 Guys 1UP: 11/06/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games923 days ago

Episode 2 of 4 Guys 1UP is immediately high energy with newly appointed Editor-in-Chief of www.ea.com, Jeff Green, as the special guest this week. Things start off with Jeff hitting on a plethora of topics, all centered around his transition from press to development to PR/corporate online content master. A lot of this is treaded ground, but Jeff is entertaining as always. The solid game talk doesn’t start until the 1:20:00 minute mark though. Moving into games, Jeff talks about recent tent-pole PC releases Torchlight, Borderlands and Dragon...

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4 Guys 1UP: 10/23/09

by Jonathan Downin in Games937 days ago

It has begun, and it’s all downhill from here. 4 Guys 1UP is the name of 1UP’s new flagship podcast and it will have a special guest every week. This week’s special guest is Tim Schafer and there is no better person to start off with. The 1st segment is dedicated to news and the guys are discussing the NPDs. The PS3 is off to amazing start to the holidays and Microsoft must be paying close attention. The Modern Warfare 2 private server issue also gets some discussion and it seems like it is actually a good thing for most players. Tim...

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