That Video Game Podcast

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:53:44
Music: Mass Effect

Honestly, we spent most of our time talking (spoiler-free) about Mass Effect 3 (along with ME: Datapad and ME: Infiltrator), but we also chat about Bubbleshoot, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, SSX, Plants vs. Zombies, and Madden 12.

• Giant Bomb purchased by CBS Interactive, Whiskey Media sites split up
• February NPDs!
• Put simply: Diablo III is coming out May 15th
• Ratchet and Clank Collection/Trilogy announced

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 2:35:32
Music: Metroid

We’re a little light this week on the number of games we chat about, but we spend tons of time talking about SSX, Mass Effect 3, and Risk Factions.

• New SimCity announced for 2013
• Dead or Alive 5 release date announced along with its special character
• Street Fighter X Tekken infuriates us with its incredible amount of on-disc DLC
• SWERY working on a Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut for PS3
• Valve not really making a console, but kind of is right now

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:54:52
Music: Super Mario Sunshine

We all spent too much time playing a bunch of great games this week, like Syndicate, Asura’s Wrath, SSX, Lumines: Electric Symphony, Edge, Bubble Shoot, Wipeout 2048, KOA: Reckoning, and Final Fantasy XIII-2.

• Assassin’s Creed 3 has had a pretty long week
• Sim City 5 rumors are building (sorry)
• Zone Of the Enders HD Collection gets closer to a release date
• GAME has definitely seen better days
• Boondock Saints game is apparently going to be a thing
• Zynga launches their own site

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 2:08:15
Music: Mega Man 6

The Ohio rain doesn’t damper our spirits or our desire to chat about Lumines: Electric Symphony, Shadows Of the Damned, Saint’s Row the Third, Syndicate, Asura’s Wrath, Bubble Shoot, Ilo Milo, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Fairway Solitare, and SSX (demo).

• Sega announces their next Dreamcast game for XBLA/PSN
• Sony gives two weak reasons for UMD Passport not coming to North America
• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus coming to XLBA/PSN in Japan, hopefully in NA
• But we know that Persona 4: Arena will be coming out in the US
• Good news out of the recent Nintendo Direct conference
• #AnywaysBorderlands2 now has a release date

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:54:31
Music: Jet Set Radio Future

Ryan is out this week, but we still have tons of games to chat about, like Crackdown 2, Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 (demo), Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, Shadows Of the Damned, Syndicate (demo), and Final Fantasy XIII-2.

• Assassin’s Creed 3 coming October 30th. This series has defeated my ability to make punchy headlines.
• Success! Australia’s R18+ rating coming next year
• TVGPSA: PS3 Skyrim players should make a new hard save
• Valve stays transparent, announces full details of their breach last year

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 2:31:24
Music: Donkey Kong Country

In this surprisingly long episode, we chat about Battlefield 3, Transformers: War For Cybertron, Crackdown 2, Bubble Shot, Pokemon Snap, Afro Samurai, Kindoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Saints Row the Third, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Diablo III.

• GAME is in trouble, has a creative way to get out of it
• TVGPSA: Diablo III delayed again
• David Jaffe to leave Eat Sleep Game, focus on mobile and browser dev
• This story is moving too fast, but Double Fine is being awesome again
• UMD Passport program not coming to North America
• Say goodbye to PSN, say hello to SEN

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:58:48
Music: Lair

We’re all here to chat about Asura’s Wrath (demo), Bionic Commando, Afro Samurai, Red Faction Armageddon, Trials HD, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, and Final Fantasy XIII-2.

• Alan Wake PC details
• Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney movie getting localized, sounds totally awesome/weird
• Ace Attorney 5 announced! But without details.
• THQ faces stock market delisting, still has time to clean up their act
• Trials Evolution leaked, RedLynx didn’t do it this time
• Kaz Hirai will shortly be in charge of Sony
• Nintendo finally starts to catch up, announces the Nintendo Network
• Microsoft claims there’s no new Xbox at E3 or this year, we find that hard to believe

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 2:11:48
Music: VVVVVV

The gang’s all here to chat about Battlefield 3, Bionic Commando, The Darkness 2 (demo), Game Dev Story, Halo Reach, Fable 3, Trials HD, Doritos Crash Course, Snoopy’s Flying Ace, Chime, Gears of War 3, Skyrim, Asura’s Wrath (demo), Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Saint’s Row the Third, and Quarrel.

• A collection of Next Xbox rumors
• Also, a bunch of WiiU rumors that I don’t have a link for. Sorry.
• Netflix drops game rental plans with little fanfare or explanation
• TVGPSA: AT&T 3G data price changes affect the Vita, too
• RUMOR: Microsoft to drop Microsoft Points across all services

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:27:35
Music: Breath Of Fire IV

It’s a snowy week here in Ohio, which means we had plenty of time to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Ninja Gaiden 2, Bionic Commando, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Mortal Kombat, Saints Row the Third, Asura’s Wrath (demo), Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, Forza 4, and Gears of War 3.

• December NPDs!

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:19:30
Music: F-Zero

It’s been a super weird week, but we chat about Saints Row the Third (twice), Renegade Ops, NFL Blitz, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield 3, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Skyrim.

• CES happened, we cover a few stories
• You can now buy certain Nintendo VC games with your dusty coins
• Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur demos unlock content in each other’s full games
• Kinect for Windows official announced, is more expensive
• OnLive will soon be in your Google TV
• RUMOR: One console maker to drop out of the race at E3
• New Tomb Raider game gets a super cool geocaching promotional tie-in
• Diablo 3 coming to consoles but probably not but maybe
• Razer goes insane, announces a chimera
• xbox Live House Party announced for Feb.
• I’m not making this up, EA is being sued for putting helicopters in BF3
• Mortal Kombat gets an edition with everything in it. It’s Komplete, if you will.