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Episode 201 (08/30/10) – Where’s That Run Button?

August 30th, 2010

This week! On this eve of the release of Metroid Other M we talk mostly about Super Metroid. But mixed in there there’s also Ufouria: The Saga, Shank, Mafia II and more!

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This week’s links:
Super Metroid Ending Run
Press Your Luck documentary
Ufouria The Saga

Running time: 1:38:13

Direct download: 08_30_10-Episode201.mp3

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Episode 200 (08/23/10) – Smell This Map

August 22nd, 2010

This week! It’s our 200th episode extravaganza, which means a slightly longer runtime than usual plus lots of tangential conversations. We talk about some of the game tapes we played this week which includes Ys Seven, Madden 11, NHL 11, Monster Dash, Monday Night Combat, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dragon Quest IX, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and oh so much more. Thanks to all our listeners for their amazing support over the past 200 shows, we wouldn’t be able to do this without you! Special thanks to mik @ The Fanboys Lunchcast for this week’s intro.

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This week’s links:
DeadMalls.com
Jarosh’s Wario DIY levels
“Baby” by Valpo Usta
“Always” by Kulor
“Working for the Weekend” by Dos

Running time: 2:23:49

Direct download: 08_23_10-Episode200.mp3

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Episode 199 (08/16/10) – Buttons

August 16th, 2010

This week! Games! We talk about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, Bioshock Infinite, Pixeljunk Racers 2nd Lap, The Incident, Shining Force iPhone, Monday Night Combat, and oh so much more in this, the one hundred and ninety-ninth episode of the Player One Podcast. Oh, and we announce the next Game Club game too.

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This week’s links:
Monday Night Combat Developer Diary #2

Running time: 1:25:25

Direct download: 08_16_10-Episode199.mp3

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Episode 198 (08/09/10) – Somewhere a Children is Crying

August 8th, 2010

This week! It’s four guys, a girl and a Dragon Quest – Dana joins the ‘cast to talk about Dragon Quest IX. We also talk about Castlevania Harmony of Despair, Summer of Arcade, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Zombrex Dead Rising Sun, Madden 11, and much, much more.

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This week’s links:
Player One blog post: 11 Things that would make Xbox Live Better

Running time: 1:23:59

Direct download: 08_09_10-Episode198.mp3

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11 Things That’d Make Xbox Live Better

August 3rd, 2010

I don’t think I’m alone in becoming increasingly frustrated with Xbox Live. I pay my 50 bucks (or rather, I watch the deals and buy discounted memberships off Amazon), but I don’t feel I’m getting enough out of it. I find myself actually gaming online less and less. In fact, having Netflix Instant Streaming has become one of the key reasons I’ve kept my Gold account. My frustration boils down to these:

1) I really don’t like to play with strangers because in general it’s not a great experience.

2) Sometimes my gaming taste and the tastes of people on my immediate friends list just don’t jive, so while I have 100 friends maybe only a small handful are playing the same game I am (Hydro Thunder Hurricane).

3) Unless I look at everyone on my friends list’s recent activity or are on when they’re on, I can’t easily see what everyone’s playing or what games we might share. I have to hunt that information, it’s not being fed to me.  It’s akin to Facebook being nothing more than a list of your friends and the only way you could find out what was going on with them was by clicking on their profiles or being online at the same time as they were. There’s just a feeling of minimal actual social interaction on XBL.

4) After the first week of a big game’s release, it’s tough to coordinate a time to play with friends. It’s just luck of the draw whether they’ll be on when you’re on so you can throw them an invite.

So I started thinking about features or things that could be added to the service that might change that for me. The list starts after the jump!

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Episode 197 (08/02/10) – They Call Him Doctor

August 1st, 2010

This week! The whole crew’s back together again to talk games and stuff. Including: Hydro Thunder Hurricane, LIMBO, Helsing’s Fire, plus Kinect pricing, PlayStation Plus, Destination Arcade and lots more.

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Running time: 1:24:47

Direct download: 08_02_10-Episode197.mp3

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Episode 196 (07/26/10) – Everybody Limbo

July 25th, 2010

This week! Gregs Ford and Sewart are joined by mik from The Fanboys Lunchcast. They talked a bit about Mega Man Universe, Dead Space, Halo Reach, Dead Rising 2 Case Zero, James Bond Blood Stone, Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, NBA 2K11, NCAA Football 11, and Limbo. They finish up the show with some tweets that can’t be beat.

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This week’s link:
The Fanboys Lunchcast

Running time: 1:17:44

Direct download: 07_26_10-Episode196.mp3

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Episode 195 (07/19/10) – Summer of Loots

July 18th, 2010

This week! We talk about the game tapes we played this week, which includes Dragon Quest IX, Death Spank, Crackdown 2, Summer of Arcade, 1 vs. 100, Mega Man Universe, Taiko no Tatsujin and oh so much more.

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Running time: 1:18:44

This week’s link:
Mega Man Universe trailer

Direct download: 07_19_10-Episode195.mp3

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Episode 194 (07/12/10) – Crackdown to the Future

July 12th, 2010

This week! Games! We talk about last week’s big release from Microsoft, Crackdown 2, as well as discuss Telltale Games’ Back to the Future survey, Microsoft’s Destination Arcade “app,” and Blizzard’s threat to list people’s real names on forums. All that, plus tweets, on this week’s Player One Podcast.

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Running time: 1:09:35

Direct download: 07_12_10-Episode194.mp3

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Episode 193 (07/05/10) – Gladys

July 5th, 2010

This week! Games! Such as…Transformers: War for Cybertron, Blur, LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4, Backyard Baseball Sandlot Sluggers and Alan Wake. Plus: Awkward moments!

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Running time: 1:16:55

Direct download: 07_05_10-Episode193.mp3

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