That Video Game Podcast

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 55:18
Music: Mario Kart Wii

From opposite coasts and opposite temperatures, we chat about Monday Night Game Night, Lumines, MAG, WoW, Tales Of the Abyss, Lego Harry Potter: 5-7, and Borderlands.

• WiiU Launch Details
• Obsidian Goes Solo
• TVGPSA: Borderlands 2 Gold Key Info

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:13:14
Music: Lumines

This week we chat about Monday Night Game Night, Lumines, Dragon’s Lair, The Williams Collection, Scramble With Friends, Minecraft, Dark Souls, Tales Of the Abyss, Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7, and Darksiders 2.

• Steam Big Picture beta test starts Monday
• New C&C will have single player after all
• Vita homebrew hack underway, won’t let you play pirated games
• G4 rebranding, becoming “more sophisticated”
• Gamestop CEO talks about vintage game sales
• Ace Attorney 5 coming to 3DS, starring Phoenix
• Borderlands 2 Mechromancer available 10/16
• Valve jumping into hardware space

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 50:01
Music: Final Fantasy XIII-2

We have a short but concentrated show this week, where we chat about Monday Night Game Night, Lumines, Syndicate, Halo: Reach, Rock Band Blitz, Unreal Tournament 2004, Hero Academy, Diablo 3, and Darksiders 2.

• Torchlight 2 finally gets a release date
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is the next FF13 game
• Zynga continues to lose more top staff
• Borderlands 2 season pass announced
• Steam Greenlight starts
• Three Metal Gear 25th anniversary announcements
• More OnLive shakeups happen
• Black Mesa: Source to actually come out soon

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:07:58
Music: SQ Chips

It’s the two of us this week, chatting about Monday Night Game Night, Persona 4 Arena, Symphony Of the Night, Darksiders 2, Tales Of the Abyss, Hero Academy, and Diablo 3.

• Nintendo Power to cease publication
• Crazy OnLive business that I can barely wrap my head around
• Sony closing SCE Studio Liverpool
• Plants vs. Zombies 2 announced
• Command and Conquer 2 won’t have single player modes

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:18:33
Music: Shinobi

We’re moving release times next week (listen to the beginning for more details), but there’s always time to chat about The Elitest Fight Club, Monday Night Game Night, Castlvania: Symphony Of the Night, Darksiders 2, Scramble With Friends, Plumber, 3D Bowling, The Binding Of Isaac, Tales Of the Abyss, Persona 4 Arena, Hero Academy, and Final Fantasy VII.

• Gamescom 2012!
• Team Fortress 2 gets robotic co-op
• Jet Set Radio HD gets a release date, finally

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:25:40
Music: Street Fighter X Tekken

It’s a two man show this week, with us chatting about Castlevania: Sympony Of the Night, Monday Night Game Night, Darksiders II, Frequency/Amplitude, Diablo 3, Tales Of the Abyss, 10000000, and Persona 4 Arena.

• Valve to start selling non-game software on Steam
• TVGPSA: Super Stardust HD is on sale, go buy it
• DayZ announced as a standalone game
• Iron Brigade coming to PC, you should buy that, too
• Jace Hall may be remaking Blood, I’m all for it
• The Scott Pilgrim game is getting some awesome DLC
• Amazon is doing the next natural thing and will be making games
• SSX 3.0 (it’s free!) has multiplayer
• TVGPSA: MGS4 install/trophy patch is out now
• Sony’s PS Collections announced
• New, insanely named BlazBlue announced
• TVGPSA: Wizorb is out on iOS
• EA suing Synga in one of the most interesting cases in a while

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:47:30
Music: Kingdom Hearts 3D

For our 250th episode, we kick it off by chatting about Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD, TVGP Monday Night Game Night, Frequency/Amplitude, Words With Friends, Plumber, Mario Party 9, Bulletstorm, The Binding Of Isaac, Left 4 Dead 2, Diablo 3, Tales Of the Abyss, Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7, and 1000000.

• Zynga hit by a lawsuit over alleged insider trading
• Star Wars: The Old Republic subscribers fall, will go F2P
• Square Enix promises Ouya support
• I can die happy man, there’s a new Rise Of the Triad game
• Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream update is out now!

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:27:21
Music: Diablo III

We spend time recovering after the Steam Summer Sale by chatting about TVGP Monday Night Game Night (9PM EST!), Syndicate, Tiger 13, Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD, Scramble With Friends, Plumber, Borderlands, Arma II / Day Z, The Binding Of Isaac, Botanicula, Oil Rush, Splice, Universe Sandbox, Bulletstorm, Dead Spaces, Jurassic Park: The Game, Civ V, Terraria, Diablo III, Final Fantasy V, Tales Of the Abyss, and Outernauts.

• Zynga stock plummets, some shady stuff may allegedly be going on
• More Puzzle Quest games may be coming, hopefully
• World of Warcraft: Mists Of Pandaria has a September 25th release date
• Serious Sam 3 coming to Linux Steam
• TVGPSA: Gamigo hacked, you know what to do by now
• Xbox Avatar Famestars (?) is a new thing, I guess
• TVGPSA: Rock Band iOS apps being delisted next week
• ToeJam & Earl may be coming to Sega Vintage Collections next, making me a very happy man

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Scott “Nintendork” Jeffries
Running Time: 1:33:06
Music: Super Mario 64

Nintendork joins us this week to chat about Lumines Symphony, Dracula X Chronicles…something, Left 4 Dead 2, Syndicate, Hitman 2, Dragon Quest IV, Skyward Sword, Diablo 3, Final Fantasy V, Amazing Alex, and Tales Of the Abyss.

• Double Dragon Neon coming in September
• Yakuza 1 & 2 also getting an HD remaster
• Torchlight 2 isn’t out yet, but it does get a cool update about what they’re doing
• Rock Band Blitz gets a release date and price
• TVGPSA: Update your Xbox Live account info
• Wizorb coming soon as a PlayStation Mini
• Game Genie for PS3 actually a thing, actually out
• Steam coming to Linux. Yay!
• Sonic Adventure 2 coming to XBLA and PSN. Sorry.

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:11:53
Music: Sonic CD

Thanks to the 2nd Annual TVGP Meetup, we have plenty of games to chat about: Tiger 13, Syndicate, Rambo, Daytona USA, Time Crisis 4, various ticket games, Need For Speed: Carbon (arcade), Pac-Man Battle, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, batting cages, Fruit Ninja (arcade), Ghost Squad, Jurassic Park (lightgun), Madden 12, Cod Blops, Scramble With Friends, Temple Run, Plumber, Binding Of Isaac, Diablo 3, Final Fantasy V, Theatrhythm, Dungeon Village, Spelunky, and Rez HD.

• All about the OUYA
• RUMOR: Next Batman game may be a Silver Age prequel
• RUMOR: Vivendi may sell off their games division
• Valve announces Steam Greenlight
• Michael Fassbender to star and produce an Assassin’s Creed movie
• TVGPSA: Steam Summer Sale has started