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Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 96: Game With Longevity

Chad — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:00:14 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the Game Boy Advance Game "Final Fantasy Tactics Advance".

Hosts:

Chad
Ivan
Phil
Keith
Tom

Question: Name the game you would take to a deserted island, not necessarily your favorite game but the one that would give you the most longevity.

For the giveaway, tell me the games we chose.

You can guess up to 5 games since there were 5 hosts. The one who guesses the most games correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

UPDATE: Big stipulation on the question: not network connectivity, but you have power.

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 95: Favorite Gaming Snack

Chad — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:01:18 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the first volume of the Hellgate: London Manga from Tokyopop.

Hosts:

Chad
Ivan
Phil
Keith

Question: What is your favorite gaming snack?

For the giveaway, tell me the snacks we chose.

You can guess up to 4 snacks since there were 4 hosts. The one who guesses the most snacks correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 94: Favorite Gaming Memory with Dad

Chad — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:33:00 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the Nintendo DS Game "Battles of Prince of Persia".

Hosts:

Chad
Phil
Keith

NOTE: The show is going to be a bit shorter this week since most of the crew was occupied with Father's Day activities.

Question: In honor of Father's Day, what is your favorite gaming memory with your father?

I wasn't going to have a giveaway this week since we had a light show and our answers might be hard to guess. However if you've been paying attention to recent shows you might be able to guess one of the answers. For the giveaway, tell me the games we chose. And my answer was kind of a genre of games rather than one specific game.

You can guess up to 3 games since there were 3 hosts. The one who guesses the most games correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

Denis Dyack Answes Question From The Mighty Oot About Too Human

Chad — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:41:50 EDT

One of the questions Chris Paladino asked Denis Dyack at the XBox 360 Showcase in San Francisco was submitted by Keith aka The Mighty Oot.

Question: How Do You Balance Melee vs. Ranged Combat in Too Human?

Answer:

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 93: First Addicting Video Game

Chad — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:33:09 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the XBox 360 Game "Table Tennis".

Hosts:

Chad
Phil
Ivan
Keith

The next listener-submitted roll call question is from gamefreak.

Question: What is the first video game you got addicted to?

For the giveaway, tell me the games we chose. I'll give a hint, we started playing games a long time ago.

You can guess up to 4 games since there were 4 hosts. The one who guesses the most games correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 92: Favorite Song From A Game

Chad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:29:23 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the PC Game "The Ship".

Hosts:

Chad
Phil
Ivan
Keith

Guest: XBox Community Manager Chris Paladino

The next listener-submitted roll call question is from mics.

Question: What is your favorite song from a game?

For the giveaway, tell me the games we chose the themes from. I'll give a hint, for the most part we chose themes from older games.

You can guess up to 5 games since there were 5 hosts. The one who guesses the most games correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 91: First Game Girl Crush

Chad — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:15:05 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the PC Game: "Hitman: Blood Money".

Hosts:

Chad
Tom
Ivan
Keith

The next listener-submitted roll call question is via email from Tom (not our Tom, but another Tom).

Question: Who was your first game girl crush?

For the giveaway, tell me the girls from games we chose. You can guess up to 4 girls since there were 4 hosts. The one who guesses the most girls correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

PopCap's "Mystery P.I. The Vegas Heist"

Chad — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:23:53 EDT

I know we have some fans of casual and mystery games in the forums. I just got this announcement from PopCap for a new mystery game, "Mystery P.I. The Vegas Heist", it's available now.

Quote:

SpinTop Games, a division of leading casual game developer and publisher PopCap Games, today announced the immediate availability of Mystery P.I. The Vegas Heist, a new hidden object puzzle game with a Las Vegas storyline. A sequel to the popular Mystery P.I. The Lottery Ticket launched last year, Mystery P.I. The Vegas Heist challenges players to solve the crime of the century by exploring dozens of crime scenes and other locations for hidden clues. Mystery P.I. The Vegas Heist carries a retail price of US$19.95, and a free trial of the deluxe version is available now for download at www.popcap.com and www.spintop-games.com. The game will also be available on other leading game portals, including RealArcade.com, MSN Gaming Zone and Yahoo! Games, later this quarter.

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Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 90: Game Which Got You In Trouble

Chad — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:38:44 EDT

New week, new roll call question, new giveaway. The prize for guessing our answers is the PC Game: SimCity Societies.

Hosts:

Chad
Tom
Ivan
Keith
Phil

Kicking off the listener-submitted roll call questions is one from cobolisdead.

Question: What is the number one game that you got in trouble for playing with the wife or significant other?

In a couple cases we expanded it to include parents.

For the giveaway, tell me what games we chose. You can guess up to 5 games since there were 5 hosts. The one who guesses the most games correctly wins the game. In the case of a tie, I'll choose a winner randomly. You must post your guess to our answers before 11:59PM EST Monday Night.

By the way there were actually two repeated answers. If you've listened to VGS long enough, that's probably a hint.

"Aces of the Galaxy" (XBLA) Gameplay Trailer

Chad — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:44:50 EDT

When Ross Erickson from Sierra On-Line was on Episodes 84 & 85 of the Video Game Show he mentioned their upcoming space shooter, "Aces of the Galaxy" for XBLA. A new trailer was put out today:

Call for Roll Call Questions

Chad — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:54:10 EDT

Sunday was Mother's Day and apparently the VGS crew decided to spend their evening with their mother's rather than on the show. Can't really fault them, but we can give them a shattered dream pie. In any case the episode will be mostly the audio from the Video Game Show's contribution to the GamerCast Network Invasion of Liberty City. Most of the people who visit the Video Game Show front page or forums have already heard this audio, but a lot of iTunes and Zune subscribers haven't.

Also starting this week, I'm putting out a call for roll call questions. My roll call questions have been rather lame recently. So I'm turning to our listeners for questions to introduce the crew. These questions shouldn't require deep or thought out answers, just something simple and quick. If you've been listening to the show for awhile you know the type of question I generally use. Post them here or send them into the mailbag. If you're feeling adventurous, send us the question in an audio format. You could leave it at our voicemail (320-300-GAME, normal long distance call) or Skype account.

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Could COD4 alter the MMO landscape?

Chad — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:24:10 EDT

Over on Eurogamer, there is an interesting article by Rob Fahey on Call of Duty 4 and the MMO market. He talks about ways in which COD4 can be regarded as a MMO. He believes those similarities should be looked at by developers who are trying to find success in the MMO market. Fahey's conclusions are similar to things we've been saying on the Video Game Show recently about upcoming MMOs who's major competition is World of Warcraft.

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Space Siege Trailer

Chad — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:34:49 EDT

Space Siege is the upcoming PC action RPG by Chris Taylor. Chris Taylor is known for his work on Total Annihilation, Dungeon Siege, and Supreme Commander.

Space Siege has been dubbed the "spiritual successor" to Dungeon Siege. Think of it as Dungeon Siege set in a sci-fi universe. It's expected to be released later this year. Here's the latest trailer for it:

More Awesome Quake Wars Trailers

Chad — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:48:57 EDT

These aren't quite as good as this trailer, but they're still pretty good:

First Person Free Running: Mirror's Edge Gameplay Video

Chad — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:10:14 EDT

Mirror's Edge is an upcoming FPS from DICE for the PS3, PC, and 360. The devs felt in most FPS you are too physically disconnected from the game world. In Mirror's Edge they're trying to give the player a better sense of physical presence. To that end, the game is built around the concept of carrying out free-running like stunts all from the first person perspective. They just released the first gameplay video at the Sony's Gamer's Day Conference:

Roll Call Question for Episode 88: Favorite Racing Game

Chad — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:38:08 EDT

No giveaway this week since in Episode 88 we're finishing up the COD4 Map Pack Giveaway from Episode 86. However I'll still post the question. This is a special episode since the number 88 has some significance to sci-fi movie fans. Although my tie-in question to the significance was deemed "weak". You can judge for yourself in Episode 88.

Question: What is your favorite racing game?

And for those who want to know, this week's hosts were:

Chad
Ivan
Phil
Keith

Special Guest: JVB from The Post Game Report

Fallen Empire: Legions Beta Signup

Chad — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:26:20 EDT

If you're in the beta for InstantAction, the upcoming browser based game service which I covered here, you can sign up for the upcoming open beta for Fallen Empire: Legions. Anyone can sign up for the InstantAction beta here.

Again, Legions is the spiritual successor to the PC Game Tribes.

How do you sign up for the Legion Beta? Go here and search the page for a hidden email address. Hint: just highlight all the text on the page.

Then send an email (blank subject and body) to the hidden email address from the account you used to sign up for the InstantAction beta. If all goes well you should get a reply back saying you're approved and the beta is starting in the near future.

Play Casually For A Good Cause: PopCap Mothers Day Fund-Raising Drive for Charity

Chad — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:08:11 EDT

PopCap Games announced that until May 11, 2008 (Mother's Day), they will be donating 30% of the price of every game purchased on its website to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the global leader in the fight to end breast cancer.

Their goal for the drive is to raise $100,000. If the goal is met, everyone who purchased a game during the drive will receive a free gift from PopCap.

To help out, all you have to do is head over to the PopCap site and buy some of their fun games. May I suggest Peggle?

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18 Wheels of Death: Sledgehammer

Chad — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:31:18 EDT

Ok this game won't please the graphics junkies of the world, but dammit I like the concept. It looks fun in a Interstate '76 kind of way.

Sledgehammer is a PC game made by the Russian developers, Targem. Here's the trailer:

And actually if you go to the game's website, they improved the graphics a bit.

There is a demo available however it's in Russian. Even though I don't speak a word of Russian, I might try it just because I like the idea of transforming trucks of death.

By the way this is the second trucks-of-death game by Targem. Their first foray into the "genre" was "Hard Truck: Apocalypse". The funny thing is before "Hard Truck: Apocalypse", "Hard Trucks" was a truck simulator series where you hauled cargo and raced. It wasn't a vehicular combat series.

(via Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

Roll Call Question for Episode 87: Favorite Way To Kill In A Game

Chad — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:30:26 EDT

No giveaway this week since we've got the COD4 Map Pack Giveaway going on from Episode 86. However I'll still post the question from Episode 87, even though it was again fairly lame. As with Episode 83, my roll call question muse wasn't inspiring. Although I've been fairly busy with an upcoming event (to be revealed soon).

Question: What is your favorite way to kill someone in a game?

And for those who want to know, this week's hosts were:

Chad
Tom
Ivan
Phil
Keith

GamerCast Network: Video Game Show - News

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 96: Game With Longevity

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 95: Favorite Gaming Snack

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 94: Favorite Gaming Memory with Dad

Denis Dyack Answes Question From The Mighty Oot About Too Human

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 93: First Addicting Video Game

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 92: Favorite Song From A Game

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 91: First Game Girl Crush

PopCap's "Mystery P.I.  The Vegas Heist"

Roll Call Question & Giveaway for Episode 90: Game Which Got You In Trouble

"Aces of the Galaxy" (XBLA) Gameplay Trailer

Call for Roll Call Questions

Could COD4 alter the MMO landscape?

Space Siege Trailer

More Awesome Quake Wars Trailers

First Person Free Running: Mirror's Edge Gameplay Video

Roll Call Question for Episode 88: Favorite Racing Game

Fallen Empire: Legions Beta Signup

Play Casually For A Good Cause: PopCap Mothers Day Fund-Raising Drive for Charity

18 Wheels of Death: Sledgehammer

Roll Call Question for Episode 87: Favorite Way To Kill In A Game

PopCap's "Mystery P.I. The Vegas Heist"

Play Casually For A Good Cause: PopCap Mothers Day Fund-Raising Drive for Charity