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This weeks gaming podcast covers a few top news stories that inspire tons of discussion, we tackle some user feedback and comments, answers of the week and flashback to Archon: The Light and the Dark. We’re also going to review Netflix for the PlayStation 3 for those thinking of ordering the disc from Netflix. This weeks news includes:

• Home No Longer a priority
• Activision looking for more ways to monetize Call of Duty
• October Game sales were down and Casual gamers are to blame
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 harder than the first

This week’s question of the week: what was the best game you played that after playing it, you thought to yourself, “That was good. I’m never playing it again”?

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This week we’re talking about some gaming news, TV and media, flashing back to Marble Madness and looking at the historical development career of one Mark Cerny. Here are this weeks news links:

• Gearbox Mad at Valve
• Iphone developer accused of Stealing
• Little Big Planet sequel would be counterproductive
• EA buys Playfish
• EA posts $391 Million in losses

Not only do we hate Halloween, but we’re asking another question of the week: what game are you looking forward to for the holidays?

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We’re looking back at Bubble Bobble and the history of Valve Corporation. In gaming podcast news, we’re kicking in a few hot stories with some great opinionated comments. Unfortunately, we had no community comments this week. This weeks news includes:

• Nintendo’s Profits are dropping
• 3G Coming to Next Nintendo Handheld?
• Assassin’s Creed II Preorders better than original Assassin’s Creed
• Final Fantasy XIII Experience System Explained
• Konami Plans to Report Big Losses, Financially
• PSPGo’s Day-1 Sales Mediocre

This week’s question of the week: How do you consume your television or movie media? Netflix, streaming, tiro, buy, theatre, hulu, etc.

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This week we’re flashing back to Metroid II for the Game Boy, something new and different from the normal arcade/console/pc flashbacks. We’re also tackling a good deal of community comments and hitting up the news wire:

• Netflix coming to PS3.
• Analysts think DJ Hero demand is below expectations
• iPhone developers next victims of piracy
• Nintendo releasing new bigger DSi in Japan
• Players of Chinese MMO must play character of the same gender

We didn’t get to cover history this week because we had lots of back-and-forth arguing about Netflix and the PS3 and rants upon DJ Hero and its “obvious” low-demand. This weeks question of the week, are there any good sim games left that are simple?

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This week we’re delving into the news with focused specificity. Okay, we just wanted to use the word. We’re traveling back to the days of Might and Magic and covering the history of New World Computing. For news, we’re tackling a couple top stories including:

• Microsoft Locking out unauthorized memory units
• Next Gen consoles not actually consoles
• Rumor: New Mario Game
• Rock Band now on iPhone/iPod Touch
• PS3 top selling console for September

We’ve got some great community questions, great suggestions for board games converted to video games and have a new question, will you buy into Project Natal and Sony’s PS3 solution to console transitions with the “wand?”

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This week is a hybrid of a “greatest hits” episode and a short news brief, we’ve got a couple stories, community comments and Don added a blooper “greatest hits” reel to the end of the episode, so enjoy! The news includes:

• Sony adding two new Spaces to Home
• Unreal engine the “unofficial engine” of Natal

This week, we’re still busting a question of the week as well and it’s a thinker… if you had one novel to implement into a game (which has never been done), what novel would it be?

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This episode brings the hate, sarcasm and skepticism in all that is gaming news. We’re also super charged with a gaming flashback on Autoduel and the history of Origin Systems, Inc. But, what really brings it all together is the news of the week:

• Nintendo Wii getting exclusive titles
• Microsoft implementing video capture on the 360?
• Rockstar challenging MySpace Music artists
• Ars Technica hates on the PSP Go
• Valve Spending $25 million on Ads

This week’s question of the week is quite simple: any board games that need to be re-created as a video game?

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This week, we’re looking at Unreal Tournament and looking back at Digital Extremes. We’re hitting up a few of this weeks top news articles including:

• Apple cutting into console sales?
• Tokyo Game Show Attendance down
• Xbox 360 hardware not maxed out
• Project Natal will configure virtual play area

Oddly enough, there wasn’t too much exciting news to talk about even given TGS. Slow week, but we had some great community comments and a new question of the week: what game do you recall playing that you felt maxed out the platform it released on?

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This week we’re pulling a 2-person shift while Don is away being sick and tired. We substituted his astute comments with extra epic insight… okay, we just did as best as we could without him. We flash back to Venture, we do an audio review of Zuma’s Revenge and we kicked it free style with some news:

• Halo: ODST Reviews are in
• Turbine working on an MMO for the console
• Price Cuts boost sales, initially, but not over the long term
• Infinity Ward Responds to Gearbox … sort of
• Red Octane considering Natal controls

This week’s question of the week, can big companies still innovate with new games?

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Welcome to the early edition of the gaming podcast, because I’m going to be in Germany this week we had to record a bit early and post the podcast for listening. Hopefully this won’t screw up too many people’s schedules with a day-early release! This week we’re flashing back to Sid Meier’s Pirates and learning about women’s rights (or lack of) in the life of a privateer. We’ll talk a bit about the history of the Amstrad CPC 464 and cover some news:

• Nintendo Wii Rumor: Price Rollback
• Wii Sales Down 50 Percent
• Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License
• Bungie Says Natal Won’t Be Implemented To Be Gimmicky

The community questions were great, gave us lots of nice ideas for a future gaming cave! This week we’re riding on the community listener, Onyersix who wrote a good question of the week: “What was the scariest moment you ever experienced playing video games?  We’re talking the type of shock that makes you need to go and put on a new pair of pants!”

Hey, did you notice our new microphone quality, Jennifer and I have upgraded our studio setup (by about $1,000!), hopefully you’ll notice the more dynamic vocal qualities.