Alan is back, and that means that there is more than a bit of Telltale Games talk. He shares some details about his new workspace, including the joys of getting to work with the Back to the Future and Jurassic Park franchises.
Mike and Jade touch on For the Love of Game, 1UP’s latest blog that focuses on fan-made, game-inspired goods. The crew also shares some details about their plans for PAX Prime, including community meet-up details.
Jade’s movie recommendation, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, was passed-on by CM’s very...
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...
The show starts with word that Alan is leaving for a community position with TellTale games, so congrats to him on that. He also starts the game talk by addressing some of the responses to his extremely positive Madden 11 review.
With not many big game releases, or much notable movie or TV news, the conversation is pretty varied this week. The emails section does produce a well thought-out StarCraft Movie Pitch which the crew seems to approve of. This week is full of comic talk and hypothetic character match-ups, so if you like the episodes where...
After a short hiatus due to Mike’s Vacation and Comic-con craziness, the at1UP group is back. First up this week is some discussion about the $150 Kinect pricing. No one is too interested in the forthcoming motion control solutions, and the $150 price point makes it even harder for them to get excited.
The bulk of time is spent on comic-related topics this week, and rightfully so with Comic-con having just finished. Travis also pops in for a bit and talks about his initial impressions of the StarCraft 2 single player campaign. Jade and Alan...
Mike and Alan kick things off with some complaints about people’s fashion choices. The crew then starts the regular show with a reader email about a poor comic shop experience that pushed him to start buying from DCBS, which Mike also endorses. The DeathSpank Game Night also gets a quick mention.
In the ‘Games Dammit” section Alan talks about his issue with NCAA 2011 and Jade talked about her frustration about Amazon’s sluggish delivery of Dragon Quest IX. The conversation then moves on to the topic of scary games and the...
A day late due to the holiday, but a bit of Transformers talk starts the pre-show. After the opening theme Alan addresses the response to the call for MyCheats freelances, and it sounds like most of them were garbage. Kids these days…
The crew touches on Red Dead Redemption and Game Night with Crackdown 2, and then moves on to Tournament of Legends, which involves gladiators. He wasn’t able to give it a try due to the Wii’s inability to connect to wifi, but is intent on getting it to work. The crew then moves on to voicemails where...
This week’s show starts with a quick Enemies of Candy segment, and guess what, Alan likes it. The regular show begins with Alan covering some MyCheats stuff and details how to become a cheats freelancer. The guys then get into the news that a key visual representation of Mickey in Epic Mickey has been changed since focus groups weren’t into it.
After touching on this week’s NBA Jam 1UP Cover Story and Game Night with Skulls of the Shogun, Mike and Alan recap their time with the new Red Dead Redemption DLC. It sounds like there...
It’s a 3-part frankenstein episode this week. The first two segments consist of a regular episode followed by an extended Toy Story 3 episode. The third segment is a full episode that was recorded during E3.
The show starts with some discussion of the big news of E3. This leads into talk of the forthcoming PSN Top Gun game, but quickly moves into a full-on Top Gun discussion. Star Wars bounty hunters are back with Mike talking about his successful Twitter campaign to get people to draw bounty hunters in their baby forms. The Movie Pitch has...
1UP has launched a new video show, Best Foes Forever, which pits Justin Haywald vs. Ray Barnholt against each other in a multitude of different games. It is light-hearted fare, with ridiculous rules, so check out the first episode featuring Tetris Attack.
Alan and Mike had a chance to check out Transformers: War for Cybertron and it sounds like they had a lot of fun with the multiplayer portion of the game. They do take issue with the liberties taken with some of the most beloved characters’ backstories though. The guys also get into a...
A discussion about Dengar, a random bounty hunter from Star Wars, starts the show this week. Talk of the Modern Warfare 2 Game Night leads into an update on everyone’s Red Dead Redemption experiences. Stories of bugs and chance animal encounters set the tone.
The Ghostbusters make it back into the conversation again this week with a video showing a crazy Ghostbusters pachinko machine in Japan. Voicemails and emails yield some fun topics including a potential “Owl Man” indie film, whether using guides is acceptable or not, and...
We get an early episode of at1UP this week due to Mike’s vacation schedule. It’s game talk from the beginning with the boys talking Red Dead Redemption and Alan points to some of the crazy bugs that pop up due to the game’s complex and open structure.
Mike gives the 1UP E3 blogger contest another mention before he talks about 1UP’s alternate take on Game Night, Shame Night. With a name like that it shouldn’t be surprising that Sharkey is involved.
This week’s movie pitch has the guys recasting Ghostbusters and...
Get ready for a full 15 minute prologue about comic stores. Alan starts the regular show with a bit of insight into what’s going on with 1UP SuperGuides recently, and the discussion moves on to impressions and stories aout Red Dead Redemption. This is one of the few mainstream games that all of the at1UP crew seems to be into, so it must be good.
There is a Zombie Action News segment this week with Travis talking about the BBC reality/zombie show, Dead Set. It sounds like an interesting mashup of genres, and it is free on Youtube. Jade recommends a...
Mike starts the show with an attempt to add the Rocky Road candybar in to the Enemies of Candy category, but to everyone’s chagrin, Alan likes it. The regular show starts with the group discussing this week’s APB 1UP Cover Story. 1UP’s E3 blogger contest is in full swing, so if you have a creative idea and think blogging at E3 for 1UP sounds fun, head over to the contest page.
The forthcoming DSiWare game, Photo Dojo, gets some time before the group gets into Iron Man 2 (the game and movie). Spoilers abound, so skip the 14:45...
It’s clearly to many that at1UP is the flagship podcast of 1UP.com however what is considered to many as the flagship show, 4 Guys 1UP, is currently in an odd limbo. Jeremy Parish has stepped down as host, Mike and the gang fill us in on the details of what to expect on that feed for the next few weeks. It sounds like there will be alot of testing the waters with 3 distinct hosts and formats.
1UPs game night will feature Halo: Reach this week, the guys briefly hit on their thoughts of the beta so far. Mike also briefly talks about his experience...
Things kick off this week with the guys discussing whether Gordon Ramsay should be added to their list of enemies of food. Following on from the bad CGW covers feature is an upcoming bad EGM covers feature, Mike shares some stories about why he personally isn’t a fan of some of the covers.
Checking in for some gaming updates immediately gets sidetracked by Mike wondering why Pikachu never evolved into Raichu on the Pokemon anime. Jade surprisingly knows the answer and informs everyone about an episode which focused on the very question. Movies...
