Very lately or very punctually — depending on your viewpoint — it’s the Oddcast. (With profanity and eating noises from the start.)
Sam is back from Germany and Holland, where he visited Cologne’s Gamescom and Amsterdam’s Amsterdam. He briefly reports on Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One before telling of the results of drinking at conventions. The Least Popular Character Tournament rages on, and they commentate on the results.
In odd news, Valve talked about their cancelled fairy game and what was so bad about it. Microsoft...
Matt Leone is in for Sam Kennedy to discuss this week’s odd news with the rest of the regular crew.
Rare is to update Xbox Avatars to more human-like proportions, so people playing Kinect will be less confused. Italian advocacy group Unico National has asked Take-Two to not to release Mafia II. Realtime Worlds is facing financial difficulties, but has rehired some staff. The National Youth Rights Association is preparing to fight for the future of video games with a dossier of socially, artistically, and politically valuable games. Halo Reach...
This week, the Oddcast substitutes one Scott for another — Weber is in for Sharkey.
In odd news, Activision will be combating the used-games market… somehow. EA are fighting internal competition (and the used-games market) by releasing both their NBA games — Elite and Jam — together on PS3 and 360. Blizzard are battling obscenity by deleting StarCraft 2 maps.
Just as I run out of synonyms for “fight”, they touch upon Privates — the free sex-ed shooter. Tina also mentions Five Minutes to Kill Yourself Wedding...
The crew start this Oddcast lamenting the strange way Battlefield 3 was announced this week (although it was actually announced previously). Metalocalypse: Dethgame, based on the cult cartoon series, has been cancelled. APB developer, Realtime Worlds, has unveiled Project: MyWorld, their answer to Google Earth. New Line Cinema have shifted gears on their Gears of War movie, lowering its budget and fitting in a love interest.
After the news, they talk about Cut It and Redder — two free games. The former is Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho’s...
Matt Leone steps in for Chris Grant to read the week’s weird news, talk about free games, and answer bizarre emails.
In the news, the Wall Street Journal made unfounded claims about StarCraft 2′s development costs. Women (might) buy more virtual goods than men. 11 states will support California’s anti-first amendment policies, which Sharkey has a quick, coherent rant against. The UK government cancelled proposed tax breaks for developers (last month), and Epic are letting gamers choose whether a character lives or dies in...
Oddly, Namco-Bandai are ushering in the 2012 apocalypse with a 3D Pac Man cartoon. The ESRB inadvertently shared pro-privacy campaigners’ email addresses. GameStop have admitted they don’t like selling used games. Warner Bros. have registered more Batman URLs than Giant Bomb ever will. Sean Murray (Hello Games) said he released his game Joe Danger on PSN because XBLA is “a slaughterhouse” for indies. They fantasize about what the cancelled Shaolin Monks sequel could have been and discuss Japanese 360 sales and Call...
The regular crew are back to discuss some of the week’s weird happenings. First of these is the backlash to Frank Cifaldi’s dispassionate review of the Monkey Island 2 Special Edition, which made it clear that the original game was a classic but the remake did it a disservice.
NASA has released Moonbase Alpha, a free MMO, in preparation for a bigger project it hopes will get young people excited about space exploration. Monster Hunter Frontier has got Japanese people excited about the Xbox 360 slim, which saw an 800% increase in sales...
There’s been drama in the 1UP offices this week, as employees have been illicitly making international calls and stealing Xboxes. Chris, Sam, Scott, and Tina try to act innocent as they get into weird news of the week.
This includes news that APB will advertise over voice-chat, Dead or Alive for the 3DS will feature motion-controlled mammary glands, and NBC is to air a prime-time video games show.
Roger Ebert has said that he regrets ever mentioning video games after not being able to define “art”. Chris and Tina are tired of...
Brought to you by the vuvuzela and audio malfunctions, it’s the E3 Oddcast! Their approach to wrapping up the year’s biggest press conference is a little unorthodox, but after chatting about G4′s strange interview with David Jaffe, free Xboxes, and practical jokes they get to the weirder news from the show.
PSN+ introduces some extra features to Sony’s online service. For a fee. And you’ll lose any “free” games you acquire if you unsubscribe. Even more strangely, the 3DS is not for children: Nintendo have...
Tina starts the cast with talk of her visit to Pixar and the recent user blog on 1UP that called for her to be fired. Halo Reach gets a little time before the group moves on to word that Gears of War will run at only 30fps.
Word that total DS sales have already surpassed lifetime GameBoy sales in about a quarter of the time kicks-off the news. James Silva has “sold out,” with his next game going straight to XBLA– in 2012. And, there are even more updates to the Respawn/Activision situation.
In Recession Gaming, the group talks...
The group goes through the news first, as usual. Aside from more Infinity Ward leads leaving for Respawn Entertainment and more bad video game laws there isn’t too much going on, but it is pretty cool that some Halo 2 players are holding on to the last Original Xbox Live session.
The Super Mario Crossover game is the star of Recession Gaming this week. It throws a lot of classic franchise’s characters into the original Mario Bros. Go check it out at Newgrounds.
The are a ton of voicemails this week with some of them spurring some really...
This week’s show starts with Sam talking about the recent 1UP feature focusing on the creator of Marble Madness and long-time industry vet Mark Cerny. News starts with word of more leads are leaving Infinity Ward and moving over to Respawn Entertainment. Also, Sega is restructuring with a focus on downloadable games which resulted in a total of 73 layoffs.
Sharkey has a few picks for Recession Gaming this week and finishing the rather depressing week of news is a story about bad factory conditions at a factory in China that produces Xbox...
The Oddcast continues its trend of getting longer with this feature length episode. The Infinity Ward implosion (or is that “explosion”?) is the first gaming topic on the agenda before Odd News.
In Odd News, the crew are doubtful about the story of a British woman who developed Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome after falling from a Wii Balance Board. X-Com being reimagined by 2K Marin provokes bemusement from all. A corruption scandal surrounding South Korea’s StarCraft scene, Microsoft rejecting Machinarium from XBLA, and Conan...
This week’s Oddcast is super-sized and starts off much like many other podcasts, which quick talk about the iPad. Talk then turns to rapid-fire discussions of games like 3D Dot Game Heroes, the new Call of Duty, and Def Jam Rapstar. Justin Beiber remains a topic of conversation before moving on to a story about UK schools using Grand Theft Auto IV as a tool to teach students right and wrong. A recent one-sided CNN article on RapeLay somehow leads to a minor argument with Tina defending the public’s right to know, while Chris goes as...
Justin Bieber talk kick things off– wait, what? For some reason, Sam feels the need to inform the world of Justin Bieber. Tina explains some of the trouble people have encountered with the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package map pack. PAX East takes center stage with the Tina sharing some anecdotes from the show floor and the packed 1UP meetup.
The news is up next and there were some illegal activities going on in the game space. Major Nelson’s Xbox live account was hacked, but in even bigger news, a guy tried to steal Breach code from...
