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Tekzilla | Episode 81

by Jonathan Downin in Tech1147 days ago

With all of the GDC craziness and the launch of OnLiveMedium we missed this one on Thursday. The Tekzilla duo have Vizio’s VSB210WS Sound Bar With Wireless Subwoofer on the show this week and they liked it.  Don’t be deterred by the wireless, Patrick calls it “shockingly good.”  In the vein of home theater they are also talking about HD media players from Western Digital and Seagate. Speaking of GDC, Jeff Cannata from The Totally Rad Show is on this week and he saw some cool stuff.  He gives a broad overview of what GDC...

Listen UP: 03/27/2009

by Jonathan Downin in Games1148 days ago

This one starts out with the BioWare doctors and they have a few things to say about the evolution of western RPG design.  They don’t say anything about Mass Effect 2, but they do talk a bit about Dragon Age. David Jaffe commands the second segment and never runs out of things to say.  He is always opinionated and that is no different here, but he has real views on things.  There are many issues he takes with games journalism and even admits he just looks at review scores.  He goes on to suggest that 1UP move to a 1 paragraph review system...

Game Scoop! Podcast, Episode 114

by Jonathan Downin in Games1148 days ago

The obligatory  topic of OnLive gets a mention and Peer thinks it is way ahead of its time.  Maybe so, we’ll see. Kojima’s talk at GDC get some coverage here and Greg Miller surprising is up on the whole fiction.  With a new Metal Gear Solid all but announced to be coming Peer is airing his grievances with the series.  He dares to call Kojima a not so great director. This is a short and tame version of the usual Game Scoop.  With many still at GDC and the guys that are back probably tired it is understandable.  Stay tuned for Listen...

Joystiq Podcast GDC ’09 Special 03

by Jonathan Downin in Games1148 days ago

Welcome to the 3rd and likely final (and somewhat slurred) GDC Joystiq Podcast. A lot of Kojima metaphors flying around.  His presentation at GDC was about the evolution of the Metal Gear Solid series and he confirmed that there would be another game in the series and it was hinted that it would star Raiden.  There will be more of a focus on melding Western and Eastern design philosophies with heavier use of software rather than hardware. OnLive gets a small mention and then the guys move on to talking about the apparent coup by Infinity Ward...

Joystiq Podcast GDC ’09 Special 02

by Jonathan Downin in Games1149 days ago

Justin played the Dexter game for iPhone and he seemed to like it quite a bit.  It sounds like the graphics are pretty and the gameplay uses iPhone specific motion stuff in an innovative way. This leads into a discussion about how the iPhone app store is getting bloated with content and could collapse in on itself in the same way the that Atari did back in the 80s. The guys then go on to talk about how they have heard nothing but mumbling of discontent about PS3 development. After yesterday’s chip-crunching debacle, Justin fired his own boss...

Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast, Episode 41

by Jonathan Downin in Games1152 days ago

The guys are talking a bit about the new Punch Out! game.  For those of us that grew up with the original on the NES this is pretty huge.  These are the kind of games that make it difficult for even the hardcore gamers not to buy a Wii.  Nintendo has the mass market and then releases just a enough nostalgia driven games to grab the rest of us. The fact that a DS game Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is getting ported to the Wii is a really telling thing about how developers are approaching Wii development.  The idea in itself...

Invisible Walls – Episode 49

by Jonathan Downin in Games1155 days ago

This is the pre-Game Developers Conference show and the guys are covering nothing but business stuff on this one.  Pete Wanat, Executive producer of the upcoming Wanted game, is sitting in and has a lot to say about the industry as a whole. There is a surprising amount of good things being said about Sony and PS3 here.  If Sony really can play out their 10-year plan with the PS3 they may be in pretty good shape right now.  There is a lot of straight talk about the Wii and the Xbox 360 seems to have a few big exclusive games on the horizon. ...

Command Prompt Podcast, Episode 40

by Jonathan Downin in Games1158 days ago

The guys are very excited about Mass Effect 2.  Bioware has now stated that it is slated for release in the early part of next year.  That is quite a way off and let’s just hope it’s not too long since the release of the first one so that people will have forgotten about the series. A big discussion about the recent outpouring of Bioshock 2 information.  There are a lot of weird things going on in this game including the new big sisters and playing as a big daddy, but the most distressing is the word that there will be multiplayer. ...

Podcast Beyond, Episode 83

by Jonathan Downin in Games1163 days ago

No Greg Miller this week and the cast just isn’t the same.  Hope he is enjoying his free chicken wings. A price drop for PS3 is unanimously predicted by the boys this week.  $299 anyone?  With GDC coming up there is a lot of excitement about announcements that may be waiting in the wings.  One thing this hasn’t really been rumored is a PS2 price drop, but that gets a mention here as well.  Does anyone really still want to by a PS2?  Hasn’t the Wii absorbed that crowd by now? One of the biggest things about the upcoming GDC...

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