The cast starts out with some stories from Germany as Daemon shares his experiences at and around Gamescom. Though extra-curricular activities occupy a good deal of the conversation, they bring it back around to what was great about the con itself. BioShock Infinite appears to have been the real gem, with a demo that seemed too good to be true.
After briefly discussing live action trailers for video games, Mafia II gets a look. The group sees this game pretty clearly as good, but not amazing (less enthusiastic than some other sites and reviewers).
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Game Scoop! kicks off with a bit of excitement about Bioshock Infinite, quickly proceeding into the monthly NPD numbers. The most notable news is the reemergence of the Xbox 360 as best-selling console, beating out both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS for the first time in about three years. On the software side, NCAA Football took the top two spots with Crackdown 2 following them up. Arc Rise Fantasia also managed to squeeze in, giving Anthony a chance to talk about his score (6.5), praise the battle system, and promote it as a serious JRPG on...
This week’s Scoop! starts off with a brief breakdown of the IGN office’s favorite games of the year so far. While everyone on the podcast voted for different games, the rest of the IGN staff is clearly in favor of Mass Effect 2. Charles voted for Starcraft 2 and shares his experience with it, highlighting the well balanced gameplay, traditional systems, and level of polish.
Being the resident comic book fan, Greg talks a little about the announcement of Batman: Arkham City. The Game Informer cover raises the question of whether or not the game...
Game Scoop! dodges a typical episode and picks back up this week with a special, Comic-Con Wrap-Up with Daemon, Hilary, and Greg. Starting things off, Hilary tosses out the disclaimer that most of what they saw at the conference was actually also shown long before their first public appearance, so their enthusiasm is a little deflated.
Daemon got a chance to check out Dead Rising: Case Zero and isn’t quite impressed with the whole thing. Luckily, Greg reports in that the downloadable prequel will cost 400 MSP and will contribute to your...
It’s Game Scoop!’s fourth birthday and a loving listener compiled some fascinating data regarding the history of this podcast, namely the amount of times each person has been on the show and what their debut episodes were. After wistfully delving into those numbers, Greg talks a little bit about his experience with Hulu Plus, which he’s been more impressed with than the janky, disc-required PS3 Netflix experience. The guys somehow talk about Buffy, Angel, and Lost before Greg talks about his Comic-Con plans.
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Dead Space: Ignition receives a little bit of confusion and a lot of criticism from the Game Scoop! crew, due to the fact that this paid downloadable game taking place between Dead Space and Dead Space 2 dodges the gameplay of the main series and instead plans to implement a “comic book action” style of play. Daemon grills this change the most, predicting that it’ll be little more than a series of quick-time events. Greg is a little more cautiously optimistic, though, as the first game earned this DLC episode a little bit of...
Game Scoop! reports in with a short show this week, welcoming a rare appearance of Anthony Gallegos as well. NPDs start things off and Red Dead Redemption unsurprisingly leads the charge. Anthony makes a point that the performance of RDR is exemplary because it doesn’t have a number in the title, thus making a direct comparison to its Rockstar peer Grand Theft Auto 4 a little useless.
The latest PS3 firmware update has introduced several news features to the console, including new photo display features and Move support. Most importantly...
Game Scoop! returns after an E3 hiatus with a retrospective episode tackling the past week’s events. Many of the topics they hit on were previously discussed on several other podcasts, such as the odd Kinect/Cirque du Soleil announcement and Playstation Move party.
Knockin’ Boots returns with some flair, welcoming special guest Jimmy Fallon over the phone to talk about the ladies. He also gets a chance to weigh in on the Shark vs Octopus debate of the ages, hopefully leading to a clear end to the warring states era of IGN.
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It’s a packed episode this week. Greg kicks things off with a crazy dream story. Daemon then gets into Rock Band 3 before Greg shares his love for the latest Metal Gear. He gave it a 9.5 and this leads in an argument with Nate about the state of PSP and its purpose for existence.
The embargo is up and the guys share about what they saw of Deus Ex: Human Revolution a few weeks ago. A funny story comes out of it about an over-the-phone explanation of how the game’s use of black and gold results in a game that looks like nothing else out...
This one kicks-off with Greg’s displeasure with concept art that has come out for Infamous 2. He has some serious issues with the leads characters outfit. After a bit of Guitar Hero bashing, Daemon gets into his love for Joe Danger. Alpha Protocol also gets its requisite harsh words.
In email the guys touch on a multitude of topics, but this one is especially notable because Greg has another classic story. This one revolves around him trying to deal with a non-existent burglar and almost stabbing a cat. Plenty of dating advice and Knockin’...
After a one week hiatus, Game Scoop! is back with a pre-E3 episode of epic proportions. Some of the biggest news this week has been the rumored price of Microsoft’s soon-to-be renamed Project Natal, namely a $150 price point for Natal alone and $300 for a Natal/Xbox Arcade bundle. This news isn’t met with much enthusiasm among the scoop crew, most of them commenting that the sweet spot would definitely be $100 or less.
Sony’s premium PSN service has stirred up the press, with some people praising Sony for promising to keep...
Game Scoop! starts off covering the NPD’s, which are quite uninteresting on multiple levels. News that the PS2 will no longer continue to be tracked by the NPD group isn’t particularly surprising for anyone and the predictability continues with the newfound success of Splinter Cell: Conviction.
EA’s new Online Pass program has been faced with lots of controversy, which is reflected by the complete divergence between Daemon and Greg in favor and Charles and Hilary in opposition. Daemon makes the apt comparison to the Cerberus...
This week’s Game Scoop! starts off with impressions of some recently released games, namely Alan Wake and Lost Planet 2. The former has garnered a lot of attention from the games press and Daemon says that it’s his second favorite game of the year thus far, after Mass Effect 2. Lost Planet 2, unfortunately, hasn’t enjoyed similar praises; Arthur Gies’s review of the game was hardly complementary, saying that it improves on the graphics but doesn’t learn many other lessons from the mistakes of the first game.
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Game Scoop is back this week, starting off the conversation with news that Activision has received the publishing rights to Bungie’s next big franchise for ten years. On a similar note, the guys share their opinions of Halo: Reach, with Nate clearly having played the most out of the bunch. He’s not totally sure about many of the new features, like the Sprint ability, but ultimately comes off as optimistic.
Sony’s in a little bit of trouble for taking Linux support out of their PS3′s, under assault from a class-action...
Devon Snethon joins the Scoop crew this week, showing that the IGN guys are always receptive to inviting fans onto the show. At the top of the show, Ryan talks a little bit about the Reach beta. The game seems to be an amalgamation of the more classic Halo gameplay and most recent games, bringing back fall damage and the powerful pistol as well as introducing new elements like advanced character customization.
Listener mail takes up the bulk of show, starting off with each of the guys offering what they got their college degrees in. Inevitably,...
