The show kicks off with Sam talking about his time at DICE. The impression he got while there is that alot of the developers of more traditional games aren’t sure about the more casual platforms like Facebook. From developers reactions it seems they want to make the Facebook devs part of the conversation but also [...]
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The Oddcast: 02/22/2010
February 23rd, 2010
Epic Mickey could potentially come to PS3 and 360, this is the subject that kicks off this weeks episode. There is some debate about whether is looks like the N64 game Glover, Sharkey maintains it doesn’t but the others aren’t so sure.
Blizzard finally got the Starcraft II beta underway so alot of the 1UP crew [...]
The Oddcast: 01/29/2010
January 29th, 2010
After hitting some news stories from the past week the Oddcast crew tackle the Apple iPad. Everybody but Sam is very skeptical of it, Sam thinks it’s a great bit of tech with alot of potential. The others think it is far too limited when you can get something similar for the same price or [...]
The Oddcast: 01/21/2010
January 25th, 2010
Tina starts the show off with a rant about Wii Sports Resort getting 1UPs Sports game of 09, she thinks that award should have gone to a “proper” sports game. The crew then run down some of the news stories from the past week, including Bungies efforts to get their community involved in helping the [...]
The Oddcast: 01/15/2010
January 16th, 2010
A recently unearthed Super Mario Galaxy rip-off is one of the first things up for discussion this week. The crew wonder what the point of it is and who it’s really for, Sharkey however is somewhat impressed that they managed to copy the style so well if nothing else.
To hype up Final Fantasy XIII Square-Enix [...]
The Oddcast: 01/07/2010
January 8th, 2010
The Oddcast is back with holiday stories to start off the cast this week. There were a lot of features over at 1UP.com over the holidays and the group is touching on some of them here.
After touching on notable trailers of ‘09 Tina talks about a community feature she is putting together about why people [...]
The Oddcast: 12/03/2009
December 4th, 2009
Tales of thanksgiving trips start off the show this week. Not much besides Assassins Creed 2 got played over the break it would seem. A surprisingly spirited debate about the potential non-gaming applications of Natal is up next. There are certainly some interesting ideas, but whether they become reality remains to be seen.
The crew move [...]
The Oddcast: 11/25/2009
November 25th, 2009
1UP, along with every other big gaming outlet, is in the midst of working through their game of the year awards, and the crew provides some insight into the process here. Sharkey talks about getting Left 4 Dead content into your Left 4 Dead 2, and Ken Kutaragi gets the brunt of more than a [...]
The Oddcast: 11/12/2009
November 12th, 2009
Well, that was quick. Good Grief is back in its new form, The Oddcast. This first episode is somewhat anomalous in that it has 2 guests, developer James Silva and Q Entertainment producer James Mielke. Sam mentions that they hope to have a guest every week though, so maybe it is going the 4 Guys [...]
The Oddcast: 03/04/2010
March 5th, 2010
Alot of this weeks show is taken up with news discussion, interspersed with the usual joking around the Oddcast crew partake in. Six days in Fallujah, the controversial title that Konami decided not to publish, has apparently been finished. The guys discuss how and if the game should be released. Sharkey thinks it depends on [...]