Recorded fresh this week!

So after a 2 month drought of new episodes due to crunch mode and E3, we are back with a show that was recorded this week.  Woot!

This show is John and Chris discussing what we’ve been up to (John shipped Crackdown 2, a Title Update, and a demo with achievements!) and Chris has been working on Rare’s Kinect Sports, both for its unveiling at E3 and now on the road to Kinect launch on November 4, 2010.

We then discuss some of the new games that we’ve been playing like Crackdown 2, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Alan Wake, and more. Chris also keeps his Michael Bay bashing to a minimum this time while discussing Transformers games of the past before we move into talking about Summer of Arcade, Destination Arcade, and answer a few new Twitter  and listener questions.

Bex and Porkfry were out of action for this episode (hugz from both), but we are hoping to be back in full force in 2 weeks.

Now Transform and Roll Out!

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Chris Chamberlain’s Pile of Shame™

• North Star Warriors (In Progress)
• Aliens vs. Predator (In Progress – Only Predator Campaign to finish)
• Resonance of Fate
• Death Smiles II X (In Progress)
• No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise (Just Started)
• Alpha Protocol
• Crackdown 2 (In Progress)
• Record of Agarest War
• Dragon Age Origins: The Awakening
• Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi Extra
• Super Street Fighter IV
• Bioshock 2
• Forza Motorsport 3
• Red Faction Guerrilla
• Nier
• Lost Planet 2
• Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
• Heroes Over Europe
• Bionic Commando
• Mass Effect (In Progress)
• Mass Effect 2
• Eternal Sonata (In Progress)
• Tales of Vesperia (In Progress)
• Borderlands (In Progress)
• Left 4 Dead (In Progress)
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Senko No Ronde Duo
• Street Fighter IV (In Progress)
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
• Battle Fantasia
• Infinite Undiscovery
• Modern Warfare 2
• Magna Carta 2
• Divinity II: Ego Draconis
• Halo 3: ODST (In Progress)
• Mushihime Futari 1.5 (In Progress)
• The Saboteur
• Espgaluda II (In Progress)
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope
• The Last Remnant
• Dead Space (In Progress)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (In Progress)
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition
• Tekken 6
• Ghostbusters
• Devil May Cry 4
• Ninja Gaiden II (In Progress)
• Blacksite: Area 51
• Lego Indiana Jones
• Lego Batman
• Do Don Pachi Daioujou: Black Label Extra (In Progress)
• Shikigami No Shiro III (In Progress)
• Rockband (In Progress)
• Rockband 2
• Rockband Classic Rock Track Pack
• Rockband Metal Track Pack
• Guitar Hero: Metallica
• Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
• Guitar Hero: World Tour (In Progress)
• Guitar Hero 5
• The Simpsons Game
• Project Sylpheed
• The Godfather
• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
• Soul Calibur IV
• Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection
• Raiden IV
• Prototype
• Virtua Fighter 5
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
• Saints Row
• Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2
• Golden Axe
• Saints Row 2
• Legendary
• King of Fighters XII
• Rock Revolution
• Spectral Force 3
• Sacred 2 Fallen Angel
• Zoids Assault
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
• Two Worlds
• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Looks like I better stop typing and start playing.  If anyone wants to help me get the multiplayer achievements, I’m down!  ;p

Sorry for the technical delays in posting shows and adding podcast value as of late.  We are all crunching for E3 and John is chained and shackled to his desk until Crackdown 2 ships.  We’ve also had a little problem with one of our shows going and getting all “corrupted” after we spent a few hours editing it….stupid show!  Note that we’ve got 2.5 shows recorded and “in the can” that we’ll work on editing and posting as time permits and we’ll be back to our regular bimonthly (or fortnightly for our friends in Europe!) podcasts soon.  Thanks for hanging on a little while, while we juggle our work and get caught up on the backlog!  Don’t worry…we aren’t dead or going anywhere…

Sincerely,

The games lovin’, MGS Test Crew of Platform Biased

Drink the elixir! Just John & Chris on the show this week, and they spend an inordinate amount of time talking about Final Fantasy Elixir, a not-so-delicious Lychee-flavored beverage.

-John

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We welcome Bex to the show! Bex is an SDET in the GTO, and an expert at music games — most recently having worked on the Lips franchise. Everybody say hi to Bex, and leave comments / questions which we’ll answer in a future show.

-John

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Hey there! While you’re waiting on our next show we thought you might like to hear us on some other podcasts.

Jessica & Matt from the Zune Insider podcast had Chris & Greg on to talk about Platform Biased.

Listen Here

David Ellis from 4 Guys 1Up had John (& others) on the February 12th show to talk about Crackdown 2.

Listen Here

Hope you enjoy, we’ll be back on Thursday with the latest episode of Platform Biased.

#032 is the show where we talk about our favorite games of 2009. We should have another show up next week if you can believe it!

-John

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We’ll be back very soon with a standard show–in the meantime thanks to Greg for his time, insight, and strong support of this show.

-John

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And now, a word from our new member.

How often do you sit around with your friends and discuss what’s going on in the games industry? What games are you excited about? Why are you excited about them? Once you start talking about those games and you’ve devoured all the information on the web you can find on the specific topic what do you want to do then? Find more information, right?! That’s what we’re going to strive to provide you here at Platform Biased. The name says it all, we are going to be 360-centric. We like the 360 quite a bit, so much so that we happen to work on games for said system! On the flip side to that we’re all gamers, as you can see from the gamer scores…some more than others, but the big E on the eye chart is that we love talking about games, and the industry and all that stuff! So that’s just what we’re going to do.

We’re going to work SUPER hard (baring our current projects taking over a majority of our time) on giving you a look inside the industry from the 360 perspective. That’s going to cover thing like interviews with people we work with here to let you know what kind of stuff they do along with interviews with people who are working on other 360 titles. We’ll work on getting you some inside info…you know…like the stuff that only we know (disclaimer: that wont’ get us fired). All you have to do is Click on the “Listen” down there or subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and we will selflessly provide you with things to listen to.

Please leave feedback and ask questions and we’ll see what we can do about answering them!

We’re still working out the kinks and we’re planning on having some other changes but I can’t let all of the cats out of the collective bags so just sit tight. For now, here is the “SUPER AWESOME RELAUNCH” Episode of Platform Biased! Jam packed with things that we talk about! IN 3D!

(Note: Podcast is not actually in 3D.)

Word

Porkfry

P.S. Chris and John say “Hi!”

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The last of the older episodes (we have one more “other” episode though before we relaunch).

We welcome Dan Tunnell from Turn 10 to talk about his work on Forza Motorsport 3. Dan gives some great insight into the development of a world-class racing game.

-John & Chris

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A few notes on the shows/site over the holiday break:

We have a show that will go up today or tomorrow, and more that should continue over the holidays. We’re set baby!

We’re just putting together our re-launch show, and I have to say, it’s really awesome. John + Greg + Chris = silly.

Finally, we’ve updated the blogging software that runs the site to a new version, please leave a comment if you’re seeing anything wonky.

Thanks,
John

On the Show:

Silent Hill Homecoming (wrapup)

Batman Demo (preview)

Shadow Complex

Discussion about 2D Game Nostalgia

Reader Questions:

What do we think of James Cameron’s Avatar (The Movie)?

Is Shadow Complex the best XBLA game yet?

-John & Chris

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We have top men working on it. Top men.

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Update: I think we have it resolved. Just waiting on iTunes to pick the show back up. Thanks for bearing with us.

-John

On the Show:

Saint’s Row 2

Fallout 3 & Oblivion

Trials HD

Batman Demo (and the movies)

TMNT Arcade

Silent Hill Homecoming

Summer Dash Update

-John

P.S. Porkfry & Chris say hi.

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But we’re working on a relaunch. If you look to the right you’ll notice that our beloved Justin Robey has bid us farewell, but we’re welcoming Porkfry to the show. We’re very fortunate to have Greg aboard, and we’re going to be doing some new things with his help.

Watch this space over the next week for a couple of older shows to be posted that we never got edited properly. After that the relaunch will officially begin, with Pork joining the cast, and more regular shows after that.

Thanks for sticking with us, we’re just getting to the point where we should all be able to say more about the games we’re working on–we’re excited for everyone to hear more about Crackdown 2, [REDACTED] and of course, [REDACTED]

Thanks,
Platform Biased

We talk about plenty of stuff other than Splosion Man this week, but John goes on and on about it, so it’s the SPLOSION CAST! CAAAAKE!

On the Show:

Seattle Heat Wave!

Chris’ crazy collecting

‘Splosion Man

Gears of War 2 – All Fronts DLC

Mailbag!

“Are there too many multiplayer games?”

“Should developers push to get multiplayer into games that are primarily single player?”

“Is a one console future possible with fanboys, competition, and the Big 3?”

“Can the industry survive with so many AAA titles? Is there enough money for them all?”

A pattern of Holiday delays. We talk about stuff we’re still eager for, John mentions Dark Void, which was then delayed days later..

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