This is The Idle Thumbs Podcast Episode 2, and I’m Jonathan Downin, writing the post for this episode a little later than I should have.
Civilization V gets some attention up front here, but there is little to go on at this point so the excitement level can only be so high. StarCraft 2 is striking [...]
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Idle Thumbs is made up of long-time industry people from both the development and journalism sides of games. The group is well versed in game design and have opinions a-plenty. It's not all hard-hitting discussion though, these guys are genuinely funny, even if you are new to the podcast.
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- October 10th, 2008
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Nick Breckon
The Idle Thumbs Podcast Episode 2: Scoops Horn
February 27th, 2010
The Idle Thumbs Podcast 1: THE GREAT GATLING-GUNSBY
February 12th, 2010
If you’ve somehow missed the word on the virtual street, Idle Thumbs is back, reanimated in the form of the “Idle Thumbs Podcast” starring Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, and Steve “Hot Scoops” Gaynor. With Steve’s work on Bioshock 2 dominating the last few months of his life, Jake talks very briefly about his recent playthrough [...]
Idle Thumbs 50: “Farewell, Video Games” or “The Shitty Wizard”
November 6th, 2009
Dragon Age starts-off this epic last episode of Idle Thumbs. All 3 of the guys have torn themselves away from Torchlight to get some time in with the game, and they are enjoying it. There are some quirks to it, but the dialog has the guys interested and they taut the PC version as the [...]
Idle Thumbs 49: Bargo Busters
October 29th, 2009
It’s a Torchlight extravaganza. After their special “podblast” interview with Runic Games’s Max Schaefer, the Diablo successor is again the center of attention. Chris is loving the game and it shows, with a full 30+ minutes spent discussing the game. It sounds like the Runic crew have put together a worthy update of the dungeon-crawler [...]
Idle Thumbs 48: In Space
October 21st, 2009
Infinity Ward has announced that the multiplayer in the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will not have dedicated servers support. The guys speculate that this is a way for them to stave off piracy. This decision has the Call of Duty PC fanbase up-in-arms. Our own Jon Cole wrote an article on this very [...]
Idle Thumbs 47: “The Lord of the Donk” or “And That’s Who the Lord of the Donk Was”
October 14th, 2009
Chris quickly touches on Risen at the beginning this week and then the group moves onto Brutal Legend. They point out the polarizing effect that it has had in the press with the wide range of scores which it has been receiving. The games seems to fall into the good to great category with the [...]
Idle Thumbs 46: First Annual Year
October 7th, 2009
Chris finally got around to firing up Red Faction and he is loving it. The guys are talking about the game here in a context that hasn’t been touched on too much in the games press. They point out how ridiculous the story is, yet the game doesn’t acknowledge it. This is the norm for [...]
Idle Thumbs 45: Episode Forty-Five
October 1st, 2009
Nick Breckon returns to video games this week and tells some tales of going home and gaming with the family. The conversation quickly turns to the latest Mass Effect 2 trailer, which highlights the character “Subject Zero” and the airborne contagion that the Dragon Age’s “Violence” Trailer brought to Bioware with symptoms of terrible hard [...]
Idle Thumbs 44: Salacious Thumb
September 25th, 2009
The quirky humor of Idle Thumbs continues to entertain with Chris being inspired by ODST to noir-up the edit this week.
The Halo ODST discussion starting out the cast leaves an impression that is equal parts positive and negative. While Chris praises the Halo series as being one of the tightest FPS experiences around, Nick and [...]
Idle Thumbs 43: Jeff “Gone” Goldblum
September 18th, 2009
Activision CEO, Bobby Kotick, has stirred up a storm with his recent comments during a conference call about using “skepticism, pessimism, and fear” to increase the productivity of developers. He also stated that his goal is to “take all the fun out of making video games.” This has obviously not gone over well in the [...]
Idle Thumbs 42: The Dreamcast
September 10th, 2009
Get ready for a whole show dedicated to Sega’s opus, the Dreamcast– or so the Idle Thumb guys would have us think. Nope, not here. The title actually refers to the final segment that has the guys reading emails about game-related dreams sent in by listeners. Those silly wizards.
PAX game impressions start out the game [...]
The Idle Thumbs Podcast Episode 3: “Your Buddy, Space Marine” or “The Capper”
March 3rd, 2010
Are the guys going weekly again? We can only hope. The recent situation at Infinity Ward is the obvious big topic this week and it starts the podcast. The guys then move on to talk about the recently formed Indie Fund, an angel investment group put together by indie developers for indie developers.
As Chris was [...]