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Required Listening: Bethesda Podcast Oblivion Special

by Jon Cole in Games313 days ago

Up until this point, The Bethesda Podcast has been fairly reigned in, with the longest episode featuring the conversational John Carmack. The latest episode changes this trend, bringing out all the stops for an Oblivion 5th Anniversary podcast. Similar to the format of some Irrational Podcasts, the first half of the show is dedicated to the most memorable moments of development as spoken from the mouths of the developers themselves. This gives a ton of insight into the thinking behind some of the most entertaining quests, including the origins of...

Idle Thumbs GDC 2011

by Jon Cole in Games329 days ago

It’s been made pretty clear over the last year that the CastMedium staff members are big fans of (The) Idle Thumbs (Podcast), despite the fact that their feed has remained dormant for almost six months. Fortunately, that fact has recently been dashed by a couple of “Conf Grenades” that the guys released during this year’s Game Developers Conference. Since these podcasts have managed to fly under some of our radars despite nearly rabid fandom, we thought it might be useful to bring them to the attention of both Idle Thumbs...

GWJ Conference Call Episode 226

by Jon Cole in Games364 days ago

This week’s Shawn/Sean show kicks things off with Shawn’s continuing experiences with Dead Space 2. He admires the pacing and narrative style of the game, giving you these areas to explore that flesh out the world in different ways but are also mostly optional. He also gives us a brief update on Magicka, which he’s continued to play despite the bugs due to a longer campaign than he expected and deep gameplay mechanics. Sean shares a couple stories about playing LittleBigPlanet 2 with his son, though his propensity to quit out for...

Behind the Screened Door 02-07-2011

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV365 days ago

This week’s Screened-cast starts things off with discussion about this year’s Super Bowl. The pre-show butchering of the National Anthem, Frank Caliendo, crazy sports commentator shenanigans, and a jingoistic America F-yeah! montage join the terrible Black Eyed Peas halftime show add up to a bizarre peripheral Super Bowl experience, but the game itself and a handful of solid commercials seemed to make the whole thing worthwhile to the guys. Rorie reviewed The Roommate this week, which seems to be a boiled down, college-age version of...

Giant Bombcast 02-08-2011

by Ross Adams in Games365 days ago

It takes almost a full 30 minutes before this weeks Bombcast gets on topic, the guys first discuss the superbowl or at least the parts surrounding the super bowl. Vinny manages to segway into the game talk as his brother was visiting and they played a bunch of games together. They played Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2, Jeff also played and neither of them are particularly high on the game. Vinny didn’t like that he was constantly running into parts of levels he couldn’t access until he had a new power-up or weapon. While Jeff praises the...

Engadget Podcast 231 – 02.05.2011

by Jon Cole in Tech366 days ago

Chris Ziegler joins the show this week to start off the conversation with his experience with the new Android Market, which allows you to buy apps via the web on your PC and push the purchases onto your phone over the air. While that’s certainly a welcome change, the guys talk about problems with app discovery that could have been better addressed with this service. Google also showed off the Motorola Xoom in a little more detail than at CES, highlighting apps that were designed specifically for Honeycomb in particular. The Motorola Atrix...

Game Scoop!: Two Worlds 2, Bionic Commando 2 Reviewed

by Jon Cole in Games367 days ago

Arthur Gies and greenhorn editor Colin Moriarty join the show this week, kicking off things with Arthur’s impressions of Two Worlds 2. The game’s most notable quality is the magic customization system, but the game as a whole doesn’t impress and will likely not appeal to anyone outside the normal fantasy RPG fanbase. Daemon reviewed Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, which was perfectly fine but didn’t really improve on the formula of the first game at all. Nintendo unveiled some sales numbers from 2010 and it’s no big surprise...

Player One Podcast – Episode 224 (02/07/11) – Chuckle Canucks

by Ross Adams in Games367 days ago

A Halo: Combat Evolved HD remake is the first thing discussed in this weeks episode, Ford is intrigued by it…if it’s a 10 dollar downloadable. The guys wonder how much they’ll actually change, while HD graphics are a certainty there’s no indication whether level design or anything in that vein will be touched. The Gregs and Phil tried the demo for Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2 and Sewart starts off pretty negatively, he found it to be fairly plodding and boring. Phil has some issues that aren’t strictly related to the...

Behind the Screened Door 02-01-2011

by Jon Cole in Movies371 days ago

This week’s Behind the Screened Door is back to normal after last week’s Oscar bonanza, starting things off with Alex’s impressions of The Mechanic. In typical Jason Statham movie fashion, the film doesn’t really have a substantive plot but manages to entertain with the good fight scenes and a fun assassination training montage with Ben Foster. They proceed to talk more about Statham’s career, which they heartily agree could just as easily fit into the same mold as Schwarzenegger’s. Rorie dives into The Rite,...

Giant Bombcast 02-01-2011

by Ross Adams in Games372 days ago

A slight worse for wear Ryan returns to the hosting chair this week. Vinny quickly starts the game talk with Dead Rising 2, which he has gone back to once again. This time he has purchased some of the DLC costumes and weapons which make things alot easier. He sounds like he’s going through the game more to check it off his list rather than out of enjoyment. There’s alot of Dead Space talk, with Ryan playing through Dead Space 1 while Jeff and Brad have just finished the sequel. With lots of media surrounding the Dead Space fiction, with...

GWJ Conference Call Episode 225

by Jon Cole in Games372 days ago

This week’s Gamers with Jobs starts off with some talk about Magicka, a PC game that seems to have come out of nowhere to capture a fair amount of attention. Magicka’s best attribute is its gameplay, which allows a user to combine different types of spells into diverse, impressive combinations that add a layer of unique layer of complexity. The only detractor of the experience is some bugginess that disrupts multiplayer connectivity and other parts of the game, which will likely be patched in the near future. Dead Space is definitely...

Game Scoop!: The Next-Generation Podcast

by Jon Cole in Games374 days ago

NGP talk opens up this week’s Game Scoop! and there’s clearly a lot of confusion about the bland codename. Dubbing it PSP2 for the sake of simplicity, the guys discuss the potential launch price and how it’ll likely come in second place to the 3DS due to Nintendo’s business sense and the PSP’s poor history. On the bright side, the hardware (dual analog sticks, new flash-based storage for games, 3G radio, back dual touchpads) seems quite impressive though dependent on strong execution to best take advantage of them. High...

Player One Podcast – Episode 223 (01/31/11) – Five in the Pocket

by Ross Adams in Games374 days ago

After a somewhat bitter start to the show Greg Sewart kicks off the game talk this week with the Bulletstorm demo, while he found the gameplay to be quite fun he isn’t too keen on the wrappings around it. The low brow, swear filled dialogue isn’t something that appeals to him and makes him not want to play the game in front of anyone because he finds it so dumb. Sony’s announcement of the not-PSP2 (NGP) gets discussed, with CJ dropping the bomb that he’ll buy one ever if it hits $400. Sewart and Phil don’t seem quite...

Active Time Babble XXX: Radiant Historia & DC Universe Online

by Ross Adams in Games377 days ago

Manager of PR and Sales for Atlus, Aram Jabbari of Atlus joins Kat and Jeremy for the first segment this week. He’s there to discuss Radiant Historia, a game which is very quickly compared to Chrono Trigger. There are similarities in terms of mechanics and the fact time travel is a central part of the game. Aside from discussing the various aspects of the game Kat also asks Aram some questions she fielded from twitter. There are also some questions about other Atlus properties. Jeremy is replaced by Travis Williams and Mike Nelson for the...

GWJ Conference Call Episode 224

by Jon Cole in Games378 days ago

The new game season is quickly boiling up and Rob is back on the show to join the conversation. LittleBigPlanet 2 kicks things off, acting as a platform for creating games with a much enhanced toolbox and offering a far more diverse campaign. Sean makes the argument that the game shines best in user-created levels made with those tools, but Rob and Rabbit strongly defend Media Molecule’s offerings. DC Universe Online was another big game to launch last week, with an excellent character creator and action-centric combat that differentiates...

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