Forked Road Gamers

Forked Monkeys #8: Just stand under them.

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

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Forked Monkeys #7: Paper, notepad.exe, Fantasy Grounds and Google.

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

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Faked Monkeys #2: Broken Again?

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:18:00 -0500

Another comic from our anonymous reader with more than a modicum of photoshop skills!

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Forked Monkeys #6: Pew Pew Pew

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:35:00 -0400

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Faked Monkeys or thank you to you too.

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:18:00 -0400

So when I started Forked Monkeys I wanted to allow exactly this:

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Forked Monkeys #5: Achoo to you too.

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0400

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Foked Monkeys #4: Of course.

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0400

Forked Monkeys #3: Is that really a word?

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0400

Wanna see what all that is about? Head over here.

Forked Monkeys #2: Ooh look!

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:00:00 -0400

Wow is it interesting trying to make six pixels look like a fork!

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Forkerd Road Gamers Podcatst #6: Banhammin'

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:40:00 -0400

In this the sixth episode of our little podcast we talk about the dropping of the ban hammer.Several topics come up including a few that relate to people being banned, whether it be just taking away some extra content or even
banning a person for life. Many exciting topics are sprinkled throughout this podcast so please enjoy and send all your feed back to forkedroadgamers@gmail.com

PSPgo battery not removable for piracy protection
http://www.videogamenews.com/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ArticleView/mid/625/articleId/2036/PSPgo-battery-not-removable-for-piracy-protection.aspx

Independent Study Suggests 360 RRoD Problems Dwindling
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175877

IGN: Gears of War Gets 'Imulsion' Energy Drink
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/102/1021208p1.html

Nielsen: Casual Gamers Play Less, Come Back Often
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/digital-downloads/gaming/e3i7495acaf0e8bd0e4d84f9c70d99bb67c

Halo 3: ODST Banhammer Operational
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=22421

Weekly Analysis - PS3 Sales Double in America
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5039

VE3D Video for Serious Sam HD (PC) - Supermercial!
http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/54725/PC/Serious-Sam-HD/Trailer/Supermercial

OnLive goes OnBeta, wants you to help by playing games
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/

Valve removing items from idilers
http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2787

All points bulliten Customization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icR3LtEMvZI

ODST leaked in France
http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=27290

ODST Released early in France
http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=27220

Microsoft holding Champions back
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/2036239/Xbox-360-Version-of-emChampions-Onlineem-Being-Held-Back-By-MS?from=rss

Xbox 360 with 250GB HDD and Forza 3 spotted on Amazon Germany
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/xbox-360-with-250gb-hdd-and-forza-3-spotted-on-amazon-germany/

Headbang Hero http://hackedgadgets.com/2009/08/26/headbang-hero/

Nintendo football
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/nintendo-kirfs-nerf-with-soft-football-patent-attempt/

Free Realms
http://freerealms.com

Forked Monkeys #1

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:44:00 -0400

Welcome to the first of the Forked Monkey comic!

I have always liked the look of pixel art and after many different attempts at using it for various projects, and always wanting to do a comic, well, you get something that looks like this!

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Pod to the Cast for Gamers of the Forked Numero Five

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:00:00 -0400

Episode 5. Here it is. Please enjoy our ramblings on various different subjects, as we cover ps3 slim and 360 price cut. We also discuss subjects such as Fable, battle.net, and various demos. As always we offer up our opinions on things you know and maybe some you don't.

Links:
http://www.videogamenews.com/
www.ign.com
www.1up.com
http://www.gameinformer.com/default.htm

Additional notes from AB8WN:
Blizzard: No Diablo 3 Release for 2010
http://www.gossipgamers.com/blizzard-no-diablo-3-release-for-2010/

Why The PS3 Slim Has No Backwards Compatibility
http://www.gossipgamers.com/why-the-ps3-slim-has-no-backwards-compatibility/

CCP Games reveals new EVE Online console MMO: DUST 514
http://www.massively.com/2009/08/18/ccp-games-reveals-new-eve-online-console-mmo-dust-514/

Snes on an Xbox360
http://hackaday.com/2009/08/17/snes-on-an-xbox360/

Some info on Eve corporate espionage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online#Virtual_crime

I was wrong about the Gates:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed

Fable II is not on the new streaming. It's actually Fable I.

Never mentioned other Sony news. We'll bring up Free Realms on next cast.

I've had my xbox 4 months.

Asides
Aliens for the Commodore 64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wWRSMCYAyI

I like numbers

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (yamnoaki) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:10:00 -0400

Me is sad that we no longer have tickers for how many people listen to our casts or for visits to the site! : (

Deal with it!

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (yamnoaki) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:06:00 -0400

I can now post whenever i want!!!!!!!!!

Forked Road Gamers Podcast Four!

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:40:00 -0400

Well it may have taken a little while but you finally get to listen to the fourth installment of our little pod cast. Yeah you know who you are, all both of you who have been kind enough to stick with us! This time around we do some chatting out the xbox live update, the Batman Arkham Asylum demo, and various other interesting subject matters. So please enjoy and check out these links for more information.

http://www.1up.com/do/news?ct=NEWS&pageNum=3
http://www.ign.com/index/news.html
http://www.videogamenews.com/

Forked Road Gamers Podcast #3

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:34:00 -0400

Three times the complaining, three times the profanity, three times the professionalism??? In our third episode we start finding our identity as we realize that I can't not swear. Also we stumble upon our formula of, well, mainly just complaining. Our shift from family oriented to explicit is going to make it easier on everyone. In this show we talk a variety of subjects from streaming games, to left 4 dead 2 and the controversy that is still, for some reason, raging over it. This time around we are going to give links in our show notes, and sense there are so many I figure I will skip most of the intro and just let you listen to the cast and surf the sites. So have fun and please be responsible.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/20/israeli-cable-tv-provider-tries-its-hand-at-streaming-games-on-d/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/20/xbox-live-update-preview-program-now-accepting-applicants/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/xbox-live-dashboard-update-coming-august-11th/

l4d level previews http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/popular/~3/6j5Gy3F99Bw/Left_4_Dead_2_Exclusive_Preview
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9387n/valve_does_it_again_the_original_creator_of_the/ http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/93wa0/l4d2s_spitter_is_the_most_horrifying_thing_ive/

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yOfZgxkucjg/Publishers-Pressuring-MS-To-Push-Indies-From-Xbox-Live

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/microsoft-acknowledges-the-mobile-xbox-question-live-anywhere-d/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/22/psp-video-downloads-direct-from-psn-go-live-in-japan/

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/93ej9/in_the_arcade_version_of_duck_hunt_you_could/

http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/popular/~3/ibFPO8pVdm8/Natal_Xbox_360_in_2010_rumor_is_back_on

http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/popular/~3/zOnc0qLtzTI/IGN_Video_Iron_Man_2_Xbox_360_Trailer_Reveal_Trailer

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/93tek/the_secret_of_monkey_island_released_for_the/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/wii-sports-resort-impressions-and-video-motionplus-killer-ap/

And here is the company that does game streaming: http://www.onlive.com/service.html

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/wii-remote-enrolled-in-student-developed-cpr-training-program/ http://hackaday.com/2009/07/08/15-ton-robotic-arm-wiimote/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/johnny-chung-lee-joins-project-natal-team-puts-wii-hacking-expe/

Forked Road Gamers Podcast Two

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:33:00 -0400

In the highly anticipated sequel to the first Forked Road Gamers podcast the guys sit back and enjoy a game of baseball as they chat about there gaming past.

Feel free to post questions, comments or anything else you can think of here as comments to this post or email us at: forkedroadgamers@gmail.com.

Forked Road Gamers Podcast One

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:21:00 -0400

In this, the first episode of the Forked Road Gamers pod cast, our intrepid heroes give there opinions on several different game related topics. Starting off with a little banter over a demo for the Bigs 2, followed by a few words on the games Serious Sam and Mario Galaxy 2. As we progress further into our lengthy speech, our dynamic duo slips a little further into the insanity of the moment, there is discussion over id software being bought, and finally a little complaining about advertising.

With this being our first cast we ask you, the amazingly awesome, intelligent, hard working and beautiful people, to give us some feedback if you would, ya know, want to. Also, feel free to post some questions here as comments to this post or email us at: forkedroadgamers@gmail.com.

Welcome to our little podcast

forkedroadgamers@gmail.com (ab8wn) — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:15:00 -0400

Hello to everyone who has graciously stumbled on, ran to and otherwise made it to the FRG Podcast page extravaganza! Well, truth be told, not so extravagant and more like some words we wrote to put up that may or may not be interesting.

To give a little bit of intro I will now pirate some words directly from our description:

We are a couple gamers that, for one forgotten reason or another, decided to share our brilliantly insightful insight into the world of gaming. We will mainly be discussing things that tickle our fancy or any other bright shiny game that catches our eye.

We will mainly be focusing on xbox 360, wii and pc games (because well, no ps3s for us). We may seem to wander at times to the ol’ 8-bit Nintendo to the SNES, original Xbox and may even hit some of those wonderfully old dos games and maybe even some Atari 2600 games! It’s possible, though unlikely, that we’ll go back even further to cave man days when games were done with rocks.

So there ya have it. What it is, though, is still up for debate. Maybe it's a kitten or even some used silly putty.

Now you may be thinking to yourself, "So where is the audio to this supposed podcast?" Well, the voices in my head have reported to me that the first episode has been recorded, quickly thrown in the garbage, taken out, cleaned off, edited a bit and is currently waiting on some final edits and something about notes getting written up. To summarize, it's a comin' really soon*. So thanks for stopping by and check back often (if you signed up for the rss feed your probably checking every five minutes which nicely pads our stats) for (imagine an announcer voice for an action cartoon saying this next part) the first episode of Forked Road Gamers podcast episode one!

*This podcast is not responsible for any damages occurred for the misrepresentation or misinformed use of the word soon to include anything up to and including a few days and possibly a ten to eighty day waiting period inside a ten foot by ten foot guarded room.