Monthly Archives: August 2007

This week it’s BioShock, BioShock, BioShock…and some Space Giraffe. And some other games. But mostly, BioShock. We suppose we should say before you listen that if you don’t want to hear minor BioShock gameplay spoilers, you may want to skip from around the 28-minute mark to around the one-hour-and-20-second area. The spoilers are fairly minor, and if you’ve played up to Arcadia Hills (think “trees”) they’re nothing big.

Running time: 1:33:55

This week’s links:
NASCAR 08
Heroes of Mana
Stuntman Ignition
Dead Head Fred
Space Giraffe
BioShock
Llamasoft

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Madden last week, BioShock this week. The evidence is all around us — we’ve started into the fall gaming season where players will part with exorbitant amounts of cash to play the games they’ve been waiting all year for. And we’re gonna like it, damnit! In this episode, we run down the releases month by month and discuss what we’ll buy, what we’ll skip, and what we’ll wait till it’s half-off to pick up sometime next year. To wrap it up, we limit ourselves to just five games — the ones we absolutely have to pick up this fall and list them for you. What’s your list look like?

But of course we begin the show by talking about the games we played this week, including plenty of Madden and BioShock talk with a couple other things thrown in there as well. Possible spoiler warning: CJ talks about the retail version of BioShock during his segment. It’s not particularly spoilery but if you want to remain completely untainted you may want to skip ahead.

Running time: 1:29:02

This week’s links:
Formula One Championship Edition
Mega Man Star Force
Madden NFL 08
BioShock
Hexic 2
Ecco the Dolphin
Beautiful Katamari (demo)
Stranglehold (demo)
Picture: Using BioShock as a coaster

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Are Public Relations representatives really the secret evil behind all that is wrong with videogame journalism? Or are they just another necessary evil in the giant game of game media? The boys discuss a recent article over at Gamasutra regarding this very subject, as well as wax nostalgic about some of their run-ins with over-zealous PR folks and publishing CEOs.

But first they talk about what’s been gracing the disc-trays of their various consoles this past week. Games ranging from the original Tomb Raider to Picross DS to Persona 3 and more are all included. Numan Athletics even gets a mention! Finally, the boys listen to (and mock) your feedback. There were some great calls this week.

This week’s link:
Gamasutra: PR and the Game Media

Running time: 1:25:12

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Twenty years ago, gaming began and ended with the Nintendo Entertainment System. To call yourself a gamer you either owned one or desperately wanted to. It’s been nearly 20 years since that time for most of us, and we spend a portion of this episode telling tales of the NES — reminiscing about our first experiences with the system, our favorite games, and the highs and lows of relying solely on allowances and birthdays for new games.

That’s not all though. Thanks in part to a little blow-up on 1UP.com, we also spend a little time talking about what effect price should or should not have on review scores. And we discuss the GTA IV delay, Halo 3 online co-op and the games we played this week.

BONUS AUDIO: Phil’s NES Collection Reading.

* Special thanks to mik @ thefanboys for the post-zinger audio.

This week’s links:
Picross DS
Marathon Durandal
Spyglass Board Games
Parappa the Rapper PSP
1UP.com: How Will Sony Price Warhawk?
Sam Kennedy blog: Price Does Matter
PlayStation.blog: Warhawk Goes Gold
Cover art of Anticipation

Running time: 1:36:16

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