This week we touch on a few different things such as:

• What’cha Been Playing (Start - 52:03)
• Browser Games (52:19 - 59:35)
• BitCast Listener Feedback (59:35 - 1:12:14)
• One Last Thing (1:12:14 - End)

Next week we WILL be back on time, even if I have to do the show by myself! Until then if you’d like to leave us some feedback or ask us a question, drop one in the comments for this episode or email us at thebbps at gmail dot com. As always you can also drop me a voicemail on Skype at kevin-alexander so until next week, thanks for checking out the show!

Download Episode 68

Hey, what do ya know! It’s another BitCast with Dan, Ryan and me!

Guess what else? Dan and Ryan disagree on a couple of things! IMAGINE THAT!

This week we take a pretty long look into what we’ve been playing and then have a bit of a talk about Sony and the lacking sales of the PS3.

It’s been almost a month since we did a proper show so there’s a whole lot of stuff to catch up on. This week we concentrate on getting caught up with what we’ve been playing and running through some of the big demos that have dropped recently.

The Show:

• What’cha Been Playing? (A whole lot)
• Break (49:22)
• Demo Impressions - Halo Wars, Killzone 2, Resident Evil 5 (49:40)
• One Last Thing… (1:17:29)

The BitCast Music Was Created By Josh Chalofsky & Tim Hedden

It’s been a long time in the works, but KBBPS is back on the air!! And we have sponsors! Kinda. Not really. Just listen, you’ll figure it out.

The wait for episode 4 shouldn’t be nearly as long, so if you like what you hear stay tuned for more!

This week we take on a couple of topics that emerged from the Game Business Law Summit that was held on Wednesday of last week at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. First GameStop’s Chief Marketing Officer Mike Hogan defended his company’s practices during a Q&A and then Jason Holtman, Director Of Business Development and Legal Affairs for Valve talked about the company’s business model for Steam and tackled some of the negative PC gaming myths that loom over the platform.

It’s serious shit all up in this show.

This week we’re not kidding about:

• What’cha Been Playing? (Dan’s PC Rebuild, WoW, Crysis, Prince Of Persia Classic)
• Is Trading In Games Actually Good For The Industry? (28:10) Story Link
• Break (49:12)
• Valve vs. Negative PC Gaming Myths (49:30) Story Link
• One Last Thing… (1:08:58)

This Week’s BitCast Music Was Created By Josh Chalofsky & Tim Hedden

It’s a new day for the BitCast. We’re trying to re-focus the show to add some better content and more of it in roughly the same amount of time. This week was our first attempt at this and I have to say that I think it works out pretty darn well, but you’ll be the judge of that.

Dan, Ryan and I gather ’round this week, bust out our astronomy charts and crystal balls to see into the next twelve months and what’s going to happen in our beloved industry. Of course, we can’t see everything and we want to hear from you. What do you think is going to happen? Let us know in the comments below!

This week we’re pretty predictable:

• What’cha Been Playing? (GeoWars 2, Prince Of Persia, Mirror’s Edge, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Resistance 2 and a spoiler-rific discussion on the ending of MGS 4)
• Is Sony’s Home Really The Worst Idea Ever? (41:20)
• Break (51:25)
• Our 2009 Gaming Predictions (52:18)
• Welcome Noobs! (1:11:09)
• One Last Thing… (1:12:55)

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Intro:
Title: Days Of Elaine
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Always The Bridesmaid Vol. 2

Break:
Title: O New England
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Always The Bridesmaid Vol. 1

Outro:
Title: A Record Year For Rainfall
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Always The Bridesmaid Vol. 3

Look at that, it’s only six days into the new year and we already have a brand-spankin’ new episode of the BitCast ready to greet you!

When we were putting together our year-end lists we knew we were challenging ourselves by only naming our Top 5 games. Of course that means that there were a bunch of great games left in the dust, totally ignored. Thankfully the BitCast is here to save them, bring them forth from the ashes and help them rise above the flames of rejection.

So yeah, we talk about our other favorite games of the year. Also, listen closely for a tiny little giveaway that is somewhere in the show. I mention emailing me so you’ll need my address which is my Xbox Live gamertag (without the space) at gmail dot com. If you don’t know my gamertag you can easily find it here on the site…somewhere. Good luck!

This week we get all ‘Old Lang Syne’ about:

• What’cha Been Playing?
• Our Other Favorites of 2008 (Starts at 44:15)

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Title: The New Year
Artist: Death Cab For Cutie
Album: Transatlanticism

This is it, this is our last live-talkin’ show of the year and to help celebrate the occasion I trapped two of my best friends in my basement and made them talk about games and stuff. Good times.

Big thanks to Rich and Mike for joining me and seeming to have a good time, we’ll do it again soon!

This week we get all chatty about:

• Who Are You?
• Rich & Mike’s Favorite Games of 2008

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Title: With A Little Help From My Friends
Artist: Joe Cocker
Album: The Best Of

It’s our last regular crew show of the year and we’re sending you out in style. All four of us regulars are on for the festivities so make sure you get settled in for the long haul, this show is almost twice as long as usual.

This week we get all talky on:

• What’cha Been Playing
• In The Year 2009: What Are We Looking Forward To?
• What Happened To Gaming In 2008?

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Title: Stay Positive
Artist: The Hold Steady
Album: Stay Positive

This week we were excited to invite a couple of loyal readers, friends and guild mates on to the show: Scott “Xerxes3rd” Rising and Tim “Swiftwulf” Conway! With the launch of the recent World Of Warcraft expansion we thought now would be a good time (ahem, tim) to bring them on and have a chat about our favorite MMO. Big thanks go out to them for taking the time to be on the show!

This week we geek out on:

• WoW
• World Of Warcraft
• a very popular MMO

A Couple Of Notes:

• We had some last minute technical difficulties and we had to record the show in a way that yielded a lower quality than we usually provide to everyone. Our apologies on that front.
• Check out the post that brought Scott to our site.
• Though we never actually mention it you can find our guild on the Lothar server and here on the web.

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Selections from the World Of Warcraft soundtrack by Jason Hayes.

Download Episode 60

We’re neck-deep in all the big AAA fall releases and decided to dedicate our entire show to the different ones that we’ve been spending time with. Luckily it works out that the three of us in the show this week have each spent a significant amount of time with different titles so there’s lots to talk about.

This week we ramble on about:

• What’cha been playing

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Ramble On
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin II

Today’s show comes to you from the topsy turvy world of Rand McNally, where they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people. What’s so strange about this week you might ask? Well for one, our show is co-hosted by our own Jim Squires and Mike “The Birdman” Dodd, of This Week in Geek fame. For another, the audio isn’t up to it’s normal stellar quality. Mike sounds awesome and Jim sound like he’s being recorded through Skype. Oddly enough, he was. Go figure.

Don’t forget to visit our special guest at his regular online homes; This Week in Geek, The Game Heroes, DailyGame.

• What’cha been playing
• Harmonix + Beatles = sweet sweet music?

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: I Saw Her Standing There
Artist: The Beatles
Album: Meet The Beatles

A proud moment for the site this week, we’ve officially been accused of hating on the 360. So it’s a complete trifecta, we’ve now been told we’re being fanboyish against all 3 consoles. So how do we try to alleviate the 360 hating rumors? We get Ryan “I don’t pay for Xbox Live” Hewson and Dan “Fuck Avatars” Zuccarelli together to talk about the Resistance 2 beta, LittleBigPlanet’s delay and even manage to work some NXE hating into the mix…. even carrying over a Skype dropout at the end. Ahh, hate….. you keep our insides warm.

• What’cha Been Playing
• WoW Patch 3.0.2 Talk With Two Feral Druids
• LittleBigPlanet Delay

We know you guys seem to trust us for some reason and we’ve never been able to understand why. We know the reasons you shouldn’t and since we love you so much we decide to share them with you. So get in, get buckled and hold on, you’re in for a bumpy ride!

This week we cough up:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Confessions Of A Gaming Blog Writer
• Game Over Rants

Listen and play along as Jimmy “Alex Quebec” Squires quizzes us about all things games. The categories and questions (or should I say answers?) are top notch all through out. We can’t tell you who wins or who we even play for so you’re gonna have to listen to find out.

We learn a lot about the crew on this one. Ryan’s complete and utter lack of how Jeopardy! works, Dan’s deep knowledge of the movie War Games, Kevin’s ability to pull answers right out of his ass and Jimmy’s unhealthy obsession with certain celebrities. Hopefully it’s as much fun to listen to as it was to record. Enjoy!

Thanks one more time to Jim for putting this together!

Let Dan and I tell you a secret, it’s so good we know you’ll want to hear it.

Do you want to know what it schwas?

This week we tell you what is schwas:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Fall Preview or Dan and Kevin Name A Bunch Of Games And Bitch About How Little Time There Is To Play Them

UPDATE: I raised the volume of this episode and made a vow to pay more attention to the overall levels from hence forth.

This week we take off on a topic that’s been desperately needing our attention. Luckily we have readers like Xerxes3rd who are around to remind us of this fact! If you have any ideas for topics you’d like to hear us discuss/argue/gush about then feel free to drop us a line whenever you want.

This week we kick out the jams on:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Rock Band 2 vs. Guitar Hero: World Tour

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Let There Be Rock
Artist: AC/DC
Album: Let There Be Rock

Feeling way too patriotic this week I decide to abandon Dan on the show and leave him to deal with our Canadian brethren. Besides, some dude killed my father so I must go hunt him down, deliver my well rehearsed speech and shove my sword into his testicle.

If anyone sees a dude with six fingers on one hand, let me know.

This week we taunt us with:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Ryan vs. Uncharted

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Spanish Castle Magic
Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Album: Axis: Bold As Love

Things have been busy around here these days but luckily Dan and Jimmy seem to care more about you guys than the rest of us. They care so much that they broke their normal Tuesday night routine of web cam chat dance-offs to sit down and record a new episode.

This week we catch up on:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• X08 Wrap Up

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Bittersweet Symphony
Artist: The Verve
Album: Urban Hymns

Back by unpopular demand, Jim breaks out the sexy sound of his voice and the slightly less sexier sound of his record collection and spins the hits of your favorite game soundtracks. This week we mellow things up a tad — but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a *little* tubthumping going on.

Ah, another BitCast and another lapse in recording. Never fret, dear listeners, we never forget! Hark! Gather ’round all ye fans and listen to the wisely compiled words and dare to keep up, for it is always an adventure when we embark on a quest to bring ye all the best in radio-like video game banter.

This week we get medieval on:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Download Games, in particular Braid and Pixel Junk Eden

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Bitches Brew
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Bitches Brew

Hope you’ve got a comfortable pair of pants on because this one is epic. But hey, it’s our 50th episode, we’re allowed to celebrate a little.

This week we talk about:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• E3…Ewha?
• BitCast Byte Back Response

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: No Surprises
Artist: Radiohead featuring a special guest.
Album: OK Computer

This is what happens when we skip a couple weeks. We all get constipation of the mouth that only gets relieved when we start talking to each other about what we’ve been playing. Next thing you know almost an hour has past and you’re severely off track. It comes back together and though some things fall apart you can at least rest assured that it all gets rushed in the end.

Be sure to include your comments on what Xerxes3rd would like us to ponder!

This week we talk about:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Halfie’s Review
• BitCast Byte Back

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Spoonman
Artist: Soundgarden
Album: Superunknown

SHOW NOTE: Click Here to check out the picture that Jimmy references when discussing Mega Man Powered Up.

This week we decided to change things up a little. Rather than hearing the smooth and sexy sounds of our voices we thought it might be fun to let you listen to the smooth and sexy sounds of gitboxes and piano-key neckties. KBBPS Radio is our first stab at putting together a music show for the gaming masses. Give it a listen and let us know what you think! If you like it, I’m sure we can bang out another episode soon.

Much like the series we discuss this week (and last!) we just don’t know when to stop!

I keed!

Really though, I wanted to give those on the site who are big Metal Gear fans a chance to throw in their two cents about the game and series as a whole. Between this week and last week I think we’ve got this whole MGS thing covered so things should be back to normal next time.

This week we get all Shadow Moses-y about:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Metal Gear (starts at 32:45)

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: The Choice Is Yours
Artist: Black Sheep
Album: A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

Despite what Jimmy said last week about wanting to cover more independent stuff in the gaming world we decided to dedicate almost our whole show to Kojima’s Metal Gear world. The exciting part? Mr. Xbox 360 Fanboy and Big Download Daddy Xav De Matos stops by to chat up his thoughts on MGS 4 and the Metal Gear franchise as a whole. Exciting stuff!

This week we get all old school about:

• What We’ve Been Playing
• Metal Gear (starts at 19:37)
• News Bits & Other Bytes (starts at 53:37)

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Dance With Me
Artist: Old 97’s
Album: Blame It On Gravity

Really fellas, how long could it possible take to check on what the next episode number is? I mean, you’re able to look up tornado warnings at the drop of the hat but you can’t take two seconds to figure out the episode number? I mean, c’mon!

This week our Canadian Compadres talk about:

• Two Canucks Meander Around What They’ve Been Playing and Other Gaming Topics
• News Bits & Other Bytes (39:30)

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Evil Urges
Artist: My Morning Jacket
Album: Evil Urges

Also, Jim and his wife got some bad news near the beginning of our recording and he splits near the first part of the show. Unfortunately there was a death in their family and our thoughts and well wishes are with them at this time.

This week we talk about:

• What’Cha Been Playing
• XBLA De-Listing De-Bacle (starts at 13:50)
• News Bits & Other Bytes: (starts at 28:45)
• Beyond Good And Evil 2 On Its Way
• Brett Ratner Wants To Direct Video Game Movies
• Bioshock Officially Coming To PS3
• XMB In Next PS3 Firmware? Could Be!

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: I Smell A Rat
Artist: Buddy Guy
Album: Stone Crazy

And now, the exciting conclusion to our Grand Theft Auto IV show. It says something about the game that we could have probably kept going and done a three part show, but I think we cover a pretty good amount of territory. Be sure to hit up our forums or the comments below and chime in on your thoughts about what we had to say!

This week we talk about:

• Grand Theft Auto IV, Part 2

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Been Caught Stealing
Artist: Jane’s Addiction
Album: Ritual de lo Habitual

We’re finally back after a couple week break that we didn’t plan on taking, but that’s how it goes sometimes! In the midst of recording our return show we quickly realized that we were going to run WAY long and some of us didn’t have that time to give. The problem was that we were having a pretty good talk about GTA IV and didn’t want to rip off all our faithful listeners so now we’re presenting the first part of our very first two part show! Part 2 should be recorded this week and hopefully posted near the end of the week, if all goes well.

This week we talk about:

• What’cha Been Playing?
• Grand Theft Auto IV, Part 1

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Been Caught Stealing
Artist: Jane’s Addiction
Album: Ritual de lo Habitual

We’re gonna have to try that more often!

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing

(I promise it’s more interesting than that, since our conversation covers some weird territory).

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Run (I’m a Natural Disaster)
Artist: Gnarls Barkley
Album: The Odd Couple

Come with me and take a look behind the curtain won’t you? This week’s episode has a little behind the scenes chatter leading up to our “start” of the podcast, mostly because we thought it was funny and since we actually came in under and hour figured what the hell. Funny story, we thought this podcast as fucked cause of some audio glitch but closing and opening the files seemed to fix the problem… thank god we tried that.

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing
• News Bits:
  • Wireless Rock Band controllers for 360 & PS3 (Otto’s Guitar)
  • Def Leppard premiers new song in Guitar Hero
  • Mario Kart Wii drops in Japan, doesn’t work with Freeloader
  • Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive People
  • MGS4 bundle coming to North America

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Goin’ Berzerk
Artist: Buckner & Garcia
Album: Pac-Man Fever

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing
• News Bits:
  • Stormfront Studios shuts down
  • Dual Shock 3 ships; Sixaxis discontinued
  • Sam and Max hitting the Wii (fall)
  • Penny Arcade Digital Distribution Service
  • PC Madden cancelled
  • Live problems Friday night?

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: Four Winds
Artist: Bright Eyes
Album: Cassadega

It’s our 40th show! As Jimmy might say, les w00t! This special occasion is marked by having only our first lady staffer join the show as Faith sits in with the boys as Dan sits this one out. Ryan and Jimmy also join me to help create our most epic, David Lean-esque effort to date. Grab a comfy chair and a good set of headphones, this one’s a doozy!

This week we get all delighted about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• The Games Of 2008 That Make Us So Happy We Do The Dance Of Joy!
• News Bits & Other Bytes

Your Cast This Week: Kevin, Jimmy, Ryan and Faith

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: ??
Artist: ??
Album: ??
(It’s a surprise on both ends)

Late Friday night recordings might be the way to go for us. I think I can speak for Dan and Jim saying that I had a blast doing the show last night. It was very disgustingly enlightening. You’ll see.

This week we get all disgusted about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• Game Remakes Inspired By The Metroid II One
• News Bits & Other Bytes

Your Cast This Week: Kevin, Dan and Jimmy

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Mr. Blue Sky”
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Album: Out Of The Blue

There wasn’t a prevalent theme in the gaming world last week nor was there a super-duper major news happening so we decided to focus our show on a slightly expanded News Bits & Other Bytes this week to fill things out.

This week we get all mic’d-up on:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New Releases

Your Cast This Week: Kevin, Jimmy and Ryan

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Impossible Germany”
Artist: Wilco
Album: Sky Blue Sky

We add what might turn out to be a permanent fourth to the mix and have dazzling results! What’s not so dazzling this week? Listening to me for the first half hour or so before I realized that I had the wrong mic input selected and can’t say Ryan’s simple last name correctly. Good times.

This week we get all four-way on:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• Battlefield Heroes and The Future Of Free Games
• New Releases

You Cast This Week: Kevin, Dan, Jimmy and Ryan

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Son’s Gonna Rise”
Artist: Citizen Cope
Album: The Clarence Greenwood Recordings

Sony’s poised to have a pretty big year and yesterday some nice news came out of the Sony camp. To show our excitement for the recent announcements and to spread some love their way we decided to dedicate our entire show to the company and their product.

No money came our way, we swear.

That’s not to say we would be opposed to accepting some sort of paid promotion. *wink-wink, nudge-nudge*

This week we spread our Sony love all over:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• Phil Harrison Leaves Sony
• Dualshock 3 Dated and Priced
• MGS 4 Dated, Bundled
• God Of War PSP Bundled

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “I Want Love”
Artist: Akira Ymaoka
Album: Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtrack

Dan & Jimmy got together last night and talked. They recorded it. I edited it together. Now I’m posting it.

The End.

This week in between taking swipes at me the boys talk about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• HD-DVD / Blu Ray post mortem
• MSoft’s GDC keynote… other GDC tidbits

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Tamacun”
Artist: Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Album: Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Hey, you didn’t forget about this, didja?

We’re confident that we can jump back on the weekly podcast train and get these rolling out the door to enlighten all of you. It felt good to get back to this, honestly, it’s my favorite part of the site…then again, it sort of is my baby. Anyway, we like doing it, and we like podcasting (OH!), so here it is. Enjoy!

This week we jive about:

• Where Ya Been? / Whatcha Been Playing?
• The King Of Kong: A Mouthful Of Discussion
• News Bits & Other Bytes

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Intro:
Song: “Testify”
Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles

During The Break:
Song: “Guess Who I Saw In Paris”
Artist: Claudine Longet
Album: The Very Best Of 1967-72

Outro:
Song: “Jim Dandy”
Artist: Black Oak Arkansas
Album: Dazed & Confused Sountrack

Happy New Year Everyone!

With the dawn of a new year upon us we have a recharged staff, some new blood and some new features to roll out for you all. Of course, what would be a new year without a new BitCast? Jimmy and I hold down the fort this week and bring you, what we like to think, is our sexiest episode yet.

This week we talk out our ass about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• In The Year 2000…8: A Look Ahead
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New Releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Do Me!”
Artist: Bell Biv DeVoe
Album: Poison

And even though diplomacy isn’t part of the foreplay, it’s still very important.

This week we turn each other on about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• We talk NPD numbers
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New Releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “New Orleans is Sinking”
Artist: The Tragically Hip
Album: Yer Favourites

OK, so I’m stretching just a little bit with the name of this week’s show. Dan and I were at work on Sunday and he kept singing “Foreplay/Long Time” by Boston, managing to get it stuck in my head. When it came time to sit down and edit this one together I couldn’t think of anything else. Now the name of the show is “foreplay”…deal with it.

And even though the name of the picture isn’t part of the foreplay, it’s still very important.

This week we turn each other on about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• That Whole Jeff Gerstmann Thing
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New Releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Foreplay/Long Time”
Artist: Boston
Album: Boston

Ah yes.

A BitCast whose episode number is divisible by 5, must be time to celebrate! This time we party by getting the entire BBPS crew together to record (a feet in and of itself). The results? Well, length, for starters (’bout an hour and fifteen). Disagreements? Friendships broken? Lovers gained?

Guess you’ll have to listen for yourself.

This week talk over each other about:

• Whatcha Been Playing? (Mini Assassin’s Creed Discussion)
• A Year Removed From The Launch Of The Wii and PS3, A Status Report
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• Kevin Reads The List Of New Releases…Literally (NOT Figuratively)

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Get Myself Arrested”
Artist: Gomez
Album: Bring It On

AND WE’RE BACK!!!!

After much delay and boundary we have overcome, triumphed, succeeded and recorded and brand new, totally awesome BitCast! It’s so awesome that I actually had to go out and do some totally un-awesome just to balance the world back to normal, so I went out and kicked some stray kittens. In the head. With my foot.

While we weren’t kicking kittens we talked about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• Guitar Hero III
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Beast and the Harlot”
Artist: Avenged Sevenfold
Album: City of Evil

So a little behind the scenes talk, we do a little countdown amongst ourselves to make it easier to edit. Jimmy, however, has a difficult time counting to 5 tonight. Listen after the end of the ‘cast for all the drama to unfold in exclusive “bitcast outtakes” action! Maybe “The Count” can help him out!

Other than that this is Ep. 28 redux since we had some problems over the weekend. Of course we had some problems tonight but we’re barreling through it.

This time you’ll hear us talk about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• The Orange Box
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Five Fingers”
Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: None Shall Pass

This time you WILL hear them talk about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• The Sony Press Event
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “The Moon and the Prince”
Artist: Kenji Ninuma
Album: Katamari Damacy OST

OK, so we’re not entirely petered-out on Halo…yet. Sure, we’re discussing Bungie…but what we’re NOT doing is devoting another hour-long show to nothing but Halo. That’s why this is the Not The Halo Edition of the BitCast.

With that said, see you in HaloHawk!

This time you WILL hear us talk about:

• Whatcha Been Playing?
• The Atari Turns 30
• Bungie Goes Indie
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Faraway You”
Artist: Marah
Album: Kids In Philly

When a game as big as Halo 3 comes out it changes everything, including our coverage. Instead of writing our thoughts on the Xbox 360 flagship title, we decided to spend extra time on it in the form of our first live review.

While other sites might simply play clips from the single and multiplayer portions of the game, we here at the BitCast know you’d enjoy an alternative — absolute carnage.

While we recorded our thoughts on Halo 3’s release, we decided to face-off against each other in a free-for-all bloodbath! Have fun and listen as Jim, Santos and myself review the game and attempt to survive.

FINAL REVIEW SCORES:
Santos Gonzalez 4.5 / 5
Jim Squires 4.0 / 5
Xav de Matos 5.0 / 5

Match Stats:
Xav de Matos (Snypz) — 62 kills
Santos Gonzalez (GrimSanto) — 42 kills
Jim Squires (Jimmycanuck) — 11 kills
Regular Bitcast 26 still on track for Monday!

Check out the complete stats for this match on BUNGIE.NET

Oh, and I meant this year (07) is the 25th anniv. of G.I. Joe, not like today or anything.

This week we talk about:

• What ‘cha Been Playing
• PC Gaming (a whole new world for Dan)(again)
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New releases

This Week’s BitCast Music:
Song: “Eye of the Tiger”
Artist: Kalocin as made famous by Survivor
Album: SA NESCovers

We might have missed out on supplying a show last week, but trust me, we make up for it in spades this week…or should I say “horns”? We must caution you to please keep in mind that the unicorns are NOT the victims in the following discussions.

• What ‘cha Been Playing
• The Double Dip
• News Bits & Other Bytes
• New releases

So you may be wondering to yourself, why in the hell is this episode called “White Rabbit?” Well, it’s cause we’re late! We’re late! For a very important date! (See this was supposed to be up yesterday) That and I was listening to the song while I edited so… there ya go.

• What ‘cha Been Playing
• New Bits & Other Bytes
• What bands could carry their own Guitar Hero game?
• Time magazine covers video games
• New releases
• FanExpo Contest Trivia Question

Don’t forget to listen for the Red Vs. Blue trivia question to win some really kick ass prizes!

It’s Labor Day here in the States (and supposedly in Canada too…whatever!)…fuck it, I’m not working. In fact, typing this is the most work I’ve done all day. That’s why I decided to leave Dan stuck with the Canadian Wonder Twins and let them blab on and on about how great it was at X07…not that I’m salty that I’m the only one who HASN’T played Rock Band yet or anything…sheesh.

• What ‘cha Been Playing
• New Bits & Other Bytes
• Xav and Jimmy talk about X07
• New releases
• FanExpo Contest Trivia Question

Don’t forget to listen for the Red Vs. Blue trivia question to win some really kick ass prizes!

You can’t deny that our own Xav De Matos did a great job at Fan Expo 07. He managed to nail down some great interviews and we decided to give all of them to you in one neat, little package. Enjoy!

Xav Spent Time Talking With:

• Dan Godwin
• Nicolas Audy-Rowland
• Kathleen Zuelch
• Gavin Blair
• Dave Pea

We’re a little Bioshock-obsessed around here as of late, so this week we dedicate virtually our entire BitCast to the game. There’s a couple other tidbits in there.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Bioshock Demo Impressions
• News Bits and Other Bytes + Jimmy Eats Crow
• Upcoming Releases

Oh, and yes, that’s the real Dan Godwin who plays Pvt. Franklin Delano Donut on Red vs. Blue doing the intro for us. Xav spent some time talking with him over the weekend (as well as a couple other folks from the series) so look out for that interview soon!

If it seems like most of the time the titles of the BitCast don’t have anything to do with the actual content, you’re damn right. This week especially. I’ve had “Bowie’s In Space” going through my head ever since that Flight Of The Conchords episode aired and since the news dropped last week of the show getting picked up for a second season…well, one thing leads to another.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Bioshock Demo Impressions
• Dan’s New Xbox 360 Elite
• Forum Fodder: How Important is a Title of a game or name of a system
• News Bits and Other Bytes
• Upcoming Releases

Former Regional Developer Adviser for Microsoft Middle East and Africa, and responsible for 85 countries spanning 4 continents and crossing 10 time zones, Chad Z. Hower is infamously known to the gaming populace by presenting how Microsoft’s XNA software can interact with Nintendo’s Wii Remote.

We had the oppurtunity to sit down with the independent programer between seminars across the globe in this exclusive interview, topics covered include:

• How XNA and the WiiMote can work together in harmony
• The open ended nature of the .NET platform
• The truth behind the Half-Life 2 and Halo 2 YouTube WiiMote Videos
• Programming as a form of art
• What Microsoft thinks of the XNA/WiiMote presentation

For more information on Mr. Hower and his work be sure to check his official Tech Blog online at KudzuWorld.com and his personal biography and history at Woo-Hoo.net.

Sorry about last week. Scheduling shit happens…life happens, you know the drill.

Anyways.

We’re back this week and I’m bringing the Canucks with me. Jimmy and Xav join me leaving Dan in Florida to relax in the sun…oh, who am I kidding? He’s staying out of the sun and only going out at night. You have any idea how hot it is there this time of year? Like, Africa hot.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Halo 3’s Co-op and We Heart Co-op Games
• News Bits and Other Bytes
• Forum Fodder: Great Moments in Gaming
• Upcoming Releases

(Seems like we’re having that weird Chipmunks problem again. Download only this week.)

It’s late.

I just finished editing the BitCast and I’m too tired to come up with a catchy name for this week’s show so I named it after the sweet ass Joe Strummer song used this time.

Also, in the beginning I made the mistake of saying that we could now gamble. I’m an idiot…ignore the fact that I said that. That’s what I get for trying to be witty.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Forum Fodder: What Gaming Habits Do You Have?
• David Jaffe’s Eat, Sleep, Play
• 2K Getting Into EA’s Head, and fucking with it
• Upcoming Releases

Canada suffered some kind of national “Can’t Participate In Podcast Recording” disaster so you all are stuck with the American side of the site this week.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Silicon Knights Battling Epic Games
• What E3 Should Become
• Upcoming Releases

Dan’s back from E3, yet still sick so we make him do most of the talking this week telling us grand tales of hotel-hopping and rubbin’ shoulders with some of the elite gaming journalists.

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Dan at E3
• Our Favorite E3 News
• Upcoming Releases

Schedules worked out, recordings were good and the stars aligned in such a way that all four of us were able to get together and bring you our Pre-E3 super-duper special edition. Well, it’s really just our last BitCast before E3…

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• 360’s Suck At Being Good Hardware
• E3 Hopes, Wishes and Predictions

This week we celebrate Canada Day the only way we know how…. by poking fun. All kidding aside we love our lovely neighbors to the north, even if we’re no-so-secretly envious of their free health care.

Sadly I didn’t come up with the whole “America’s Hat” thing on my own, and if you’d like to buy the inspiration click here.

Against all odds we soldier on and discuss the following lovely topics:

• A shout-out for our brother-in-arms
• What we’ve been playing
• Guitar Hero 80’s (the last you’ll hear about it for awhile… promise)
• What we hope we see at next week’s E3
• New Releases

This week was another tough one for scheduling and we only managed to get Dan and I in on the action, but it’s my triumphant return after a shit-hole week off and to mark the occasion this is, by far, our best sounding episode yet. (We learned a new trick biatch!)

This week we talk about:

• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• Something Happened With Manhunt 2
• Rock Band Rocks Your Nuts Off
• New Releases For Next Week

• Guitar Hero song pack d/l ripoffs
• Pretty Woman: The Video Game
• The Halo 3 live blog
• Guitar Hero 80’s edition sux
• Jim & Hailea talk about women gamers
• Sony’s press party and Kevin’s confusion about goat cooking
• Larping and where it should and shouldn’t be done

We get most of our technical issues ironed out, get Xav in on the mix and bring forth the most exhilarating, entertaining and epic BitCast yet. Think you can handle it?

This week we talk about:

• Intros / Who’s The New Guy?
• Whatcha’ Been Playin?
• 3 in 5: Boobie Physics Round Up
• Summer Releases, What are we looking forward to?
• WoW Gold Farmers: SUED!!
• Halo 2 Vista
• New Releases For Next Week

Though the normal crew is back we’re still a man down as we tried to add Xav to the mix. Vista was his downfall, maybe next week.

Real quick I just wanted to point out that the levels seem a little off this week, and have been a bit uneven for the past couple. Please remember that we’re still new at doing this and we’re taking steps to ensure that you all receive the highest quality production that we can obtain.

Oh, and I still have that sniffling thing going on in this one.

This week we talk about:

• What’cha Been Playin’?
• 3 in 5: PC Shooter Essentials Round Up and some of our favorites
• WSVG being aired on CBS
• The Dirty Dancing PC Game and what are some other awful movies that would make awful (or awesome) games?
• MGS 4: 360 bound?
• Upcoming Releases

Our Super Canuck is unable to attend this week’s meeting of the video game minds but Dan and I are somehow able to come up with a show anyway.

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing.
• Sony’s bringing Rumbleback?
• Guitar Hero 80’s Edition’s going down the toilet…
• but that’s OK though because Guitar Hero III is going to melt our faces off.
• That whole WoW report mess and the crazy online gamers anonymous lady.
• New and Upcoming Releases

This week we celebrate our 1 year anniversary with our 8th podcast episode. As a special treat you’ll get to hear three different cell phones ring (mine, Dan’s and my wife’s) as well as hear what I sound like with a cold.

Good…..wait for it…..times.

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing.
• Halo 3 Beta Launch and Impressions
• Ponderables: How Much Is Too Much?
• Sony’s Gamer’s Day
• New and Upcoming Releases

This week the gang’s all back together and one Elvis Costello sighting later they’re up to the usual tricks.

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing (What’s wrong with Double Dragon and Calling All Cars)
• The Xbox 360 Spring Update (MSN Messenger for all)
• Crackdown’s new content (AKA Harpoon gun, not Harpua gun)
• Guitar Hero 80’s Edition and why bands like Asia and Flock Of Seagulls should roll over and die (according to Kevin)
• New Releases

Just ignore this My Odeo Channel (odeo/59a844b17810568d)

Kev’s leaving for Chicago for a week of R&R but we managed to find a little time to get together to bang out another home run podcast (at least our mothers think so).

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing/World of Warcraft
• Xbox Elite is released into the wild
• Wii sales up, VC sales down
• David Jaffe Attacks
• Sony throws a helluva party
• New Releases
• What’s Cinco de Mayo and Kev gets confused about how to cook a goat.
• Miyamoto on Time’s 100 most influencial list

Stay tuned after the music. It’s like that little bonus after the credits of a movie! Dan signs up for the WoW Visa card and we talk about the highs and lows (mostly lows) of LARPing.

Technical issues are solved, the crew is all together and the BitCast is back on track. Welcome to Episode 5.

This week we talk about:

• What we’ve been playing
• Jim & Hailea back on the WoW Train
• Demolishing Star Wars Galaxies
• Starcraft 2 is finally official
• 2K All Pro Football and the Canadian Sports Scene
• New Releases For The Week

This week we were plagued with a number of technical and scheduling issues that prevented us from doing this the way it was intended but it was a blessing in disguise as this week we get a special treat: Jim and his wife Hailea take the issues to task and come out on the other side a better couple for it. Well, they were pretty much the same at the beginning, but I like to think that they are even closer now after having shared the wonderful experience of recording theBBPS BitCast.

They lovingly discuss such things as:

• What they’ve been playing
• Girl Gamiers?
• Black Guys Not Included
• Pokemon…really?
• Upcoming Releases

• What have we been playing?
• Guitar Hero II Song Packs
• Boom Boom Rocket Review
• Xbox Dashboard Spring Update + QWERTY Keyboard Attachment
• Wii Want Improvements & Why You Can’t Say Anything Bad About Nintendo Without Fanboys Loosing Their Shit
• Upcoming Releases For The Week

• GTA IV: Life out of Balance (the trailer and it’s movie references)
• Plus NYC not too happy about it
• 120gb 360 HDD and it’s crazy pricing
• Mario & Sonic together at last
• Dan finally takes the leap in World of Warcraft (noob discussion follows)
• This weeks upcoming releases

In this episode you’ll hear myself, our fearless leader (and today’s 30th BIRTHDAY BOY!!!) Dan and our friend from the great white north Jimmy have a jaw session about last week’s happenings in our video game world. You’ll hear us discuss the new Xbox 360 Elite Edition, Reign Over Me, The Logic Of High Scores, The Capcom Boycott and the Shadowrun Beta.