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The Geekbox: Episode 42

by Jon Cole in Games, TV799 days ago

Tryptophan talk opens up this week’s podcast, quickly (and gratefully) transitioning to some discussion of the Blu-Ray versions of Star Trek and Pixar’s UP.  Mike commits a grave offense by considering a standard Blu-Ray player over a PS3, but Higgins seems to empathize. Dragon Age: Origins seems to have captured Karen’s attention, despite the seemingly generic premise.  Mike is clearly continuing to have fun with the game, after the great start he mentioned on the last episode of CastMedium’s podcast.  Ryan Scott had...

The Geekbox: Episode 40

by Jon Cole in Games, Movies, TV812 days ago

The Geekbox treads familiar ground this week starting off with New Super Mario Bros. Wii.  Karen and Patrick have been playing the game co-op and have a couple stories to tell about Coin Battle mode.  Patrick has been playing Modern Warfare 2 and is a big fan of Infinity Ward.  Where Call of Duty 4 might have been described as a rollercoaster, Patrick describes the sequel as a theme park where there are concurrent rollercoasters with a shoestring narrative. Ryan Scott got a chance to check out Boondock Saints 2 and he enjoyed it about as much...

The Geekbox: Episode 39

by Jon Cole in Games, Misc, TV820 days ago

The EA acquisition of Playfish and the proliferation of casual games starts off The Geekbox after a brief callback to strip club discussion from last week.  They also talk about the EA layoffs, specifically at Mythic Entertainment which which were likely in response to the poor performance of Warhammer Online. Television continues to be a staple on The Geekbox, with a continuation of the Venture Bros talk from last week.  Venture Bros and Space Ghost are compared for their validity as “stoner” shows, with the bulk of the crew saying the latter...

The Geekbox: Episode 38

by Jon Cole in Games, Misc, Movies826 days ago

Halloween dominates the first part of this week’s episode of The Geekbox, which is ironic because none of the guys seem to really be interested in celebrating the holiday.  Brock Sager joins the podcast yet again in Mike Cruz’s absence and talks a bit about how high school students still use Halloween as a way to get free candy.  Ryan Scott discusses the Saw film franchise and dares to suggest that Christopher Nolan’s Riddler might be similar to the Jigsaw killer, fitting in that much darker Batman universe. Arkham Horror leads...

The Geekbox: Episode 37

by Jon Cole in Games, Misc, TV833 days ago

This week’s episode of The Geekbox comes in a little late and fortunately makes up for it with Brock, the stripper-guardian/podcast roadie extraordinaire.  Fitch reports in on his previous week of every-day-of-the-week dates, with plenty of the pseudo-modesty that you might come to expect from the “playa”. Tropico 3 gets discussed yet again, with Karen coming away from it dissatisfied with the fact that you have to actually build up an economy before you can torture innocent citizens.  Ryan Higgins has picked up Tales of Vesperia after a...

The Geekbox: Episode 36

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, TV842 days ago

Anthony Gallegos is on this week, and so continues the constant cross-pollination of fellow Hammersuit personalities. Ryan Higgins begins with his experience at Star Wars: In Concert. After a bit of movie talk, the group moves onto Borderlands where Anthony reveals that he will probably be giving it a 4/5 star review on GameSpy. This leads into a more general MMO discussion and Anthony sharing some EverQuest memories. TV talk starts with the lamenting of the death of wrestler and Mario TV show star, Lou Albano. Venture Borthers gets some love and...

The Geekbox: Episode 35

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc848 days ago

Karen is back on this week and she is following up last week’s discussion about Orson Scott Card with her own personal decision to boycott the Dragon Quest games after Fitch related that the original creator is a Japanese Nationalist. Ideologies of Japanese Nationalism include justification of Japan’s WWII actions and denial surrounding the Korean and Chinese occupations. Comics talk takes up a chunk of time before group the covers the topic of outlets receiving huge swag, and if that influences coverage. This is spawned out of the fact...

The Geekbox: Episode 33

by Jon Cole in Games862 days ago

The Geekbox seemingly starts off as a mirror to this week’s at1UP, with Andrew Fitch returning from Japan to talk about his experiences there.  He went with Justin Haywald and Jade Kraus to Disneyland Tokyo, so there’s a bit of familiar dialogue.  Karen talks about Japanese versions of Subway and TGI Fridays, leaving her convinced that east Asians do American food best.  They delve a little bit into the more seedy elements of Japan, so if you’re interested in hearing about Nigerian pimps, make sure you to listen in. Ryan Scott...

The Geekbox: Episode 32

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, Movies870 days ago

It is almost a full crew this week with Fitch being only being not sitting in since he is out at the Tokyo Game Show. This episode starts out with some TV talk about how Lost’s Michael Emerson Emmy win for playing the character on the show. Apparently he comes off as just being Ben in real life which is somewhat disconcerting if you know the character. Mike has been getting deep into Dexter which our own Jon Cole is a big fan of. X-men and Syfy talk lead into a discussion about Batman: Arkham Asylum. Spoilers start at the 36:00 mark so be...

The Geekbox: Episode 31

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc877 days ago

Almost all of the regular crew is back this week with the exception of Mike Cruz and the addition of Olly Quinn.  Talk of last week’s PAX GFW reuinion panel starts of the cast with Karen sharing that it was hard for her not to get a little misty as Jeff remarked that he would love to go back into games journalism, but only with the Brodeo guys.  This leads into a discussion about how journalism is now the go-to way to gain entrance into game development as QA once was. The crew then goes on to discuss the state of media in general and why...

The Geekbox: Episode 29

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc897 days ago

As you would probably expect, a big chunk of this week’s Geekbox is all about Blizzcon.  With the crew usually spending a lot of time on movies and comics, it’s nice to hear a lot of game-centric talk every once in a while. Ryan Higgins starts this one out talking about his lees than ideal DirectTV PPV Blizzcon experience.  Fortunately, Karen and Ryan were actually at the event so they share their first-hand takes.  It sounds like everyone enjoyed the StarCraft tournaments with the sportscast-style live play-by-play commentary. ...

The Geekbox: Episode 27

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc, Movies911 days ago

G.I. Joe starts this one out with a luke-warm reception.  This leads into a discussion on ’80s cartoons and Mike flexes some serious ’80s nerd knowledge by recalling TigerSharks and SilverHawks. The topic of internet advertisements come up with Ryan mentioning the Evony ads that have been appearing on geekbox.net.  You may have seen them on CastMedium as well and they are egregiously sexualized for no apparent reason.  PopCap recently did a parody of these ads that features a “sexy” zombie lady. After Karen gives Civilization...

The Geekbox: Episode 26

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc919 days ago

First up this week is a welcome to Mike Cruz as the new regular “special guest” of the podcast and an introduction to Ryan Higgin’s friends who have a band called “God of Shamisen.”  They are a rock group with a member who plays the traditional Japanese instrument, the shamisen, as the core of the group. MMOs get a whole lot of discussion time with Ryan Higgins talking about the new World of Warcraft patch that came out yesterday.  They then move onto the Matrix Online, which nobody played, and Karen shares some of...

The Geekbox: Episode 25

by Jonathan Downin in Games, Misc925 days ago

The whole first part of this week’s Geekbox is interspersed with Karen’s fascination with a rather racy take on Alice in Wonderland extended fiction in comic form.  The world of comics is a crazy one, and this illustrates exactly why. Comic-Con gets the crew interested, but there is less actual comic book news coming out of the show every year.  The conversation quickly moves onto TV and then movies.  It sounds like Bruno entertained and Fitch has the best story to tell about his experience taking dates to both Bruno and Borat a few...

The Geekbox: Episode 23

by Jonathan Downin in Games940 days ago

All episodes of The Geekbox should start out with Fitch spilling details about a date, just as he does here.  It sounds like we may be in for a string a somewhat successful Fitch Hitch stories.  His first dinner date was successful and he is getting ready for date #2 in which he will be going to the girl’s house.  The anticipation is thick. Comic book and movie news is a big topic this week.  The casting of Ryan Renolds as Green Lantern has comic book fans excited, but generally not in a good way. Karen and Ryan Scott gave the first Tales...

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