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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:13:24
Music: [Special Christmas gift at the end]

No pre-show video this week.

The TVGP crew looks back at 2009, our favorite games, our letdowns, and our favorite game of last year that we finally got around to playing.

I wanted to take a moment to thank the rest of the TVGP Crew (Knobs, Ryan, and AlmightyTooth), Matt Crane (for his awesome logo/album art), and all you guys/gals that listen to our little show. I’m not exaggerating when I say you’re the best community on the internet; we couldn’t do it without you!

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:20:28
Music: Quake II (PC)

We’re heading into TVGP Vacation Time (don’t worry, there will still be episodes during our break), but before we do that we chat our way through Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Left 4 Dead 2, Tales of Vesperia, Madden NFL 10, Spore, Bloons Tower Defense 4, Gyromancer, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, Mirror’s Edge, Borderlands: The Island of Dr. Ned, Dradon Age: Origins, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

• Epic Marathon: One team is tackling a ton of Zelda games over 72 hours to raise money for Cancer Research. They could use your support (and energy drinks)!
• Australians: make your voice heard in the discussions on a R 18+ rating
• November NPDs
• Nintendo Power unveils MegaMan 10, is full of sheep
• Spike VGAs unveiled quite a few great trailers,a confused Jack Black
• First Left 4 Dead 2 DLC pack, The Passing, may fall prey to Valve Time
• Boston mentioned his livestream, and it’s located here: www.livestream.com/bostontvgp

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time:
Music: XIII

Releases and news stories are starting to slow, but we’re ramping up the number of games we’re playing with Tornado Outbreak, Left 4 Dead 2, The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Trials HD, Madden NFL Arcade, Madden 10, Gyromancer, Torchlight, Dragon Age: Origins, MagnaCarta2, and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes.

• Games for Windows Live gets games on demand
• Travelers Tales boss claims PSP downloads will kill the PSPGo
• Dead Space 2 announced!
• The FTC releases their yearly Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children report

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:39:41
Music: Xenogears

Pre Show Video: YouTube

During one of our longer episodes, we chat about the Borderlands DLC, the Williams Collection, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Unreal Tournament (’99), Trials HD, MAdden NFL Arcade, Assassin’s Creed II, Gyromancer, Torchlight, Left 4 Dead 2, and Dragon Age Origins.

• Ubisoft has big plans for Natal
• Logisoft possibly making a UMD add-on for the PSPGo
• EA to cut packaged releases by 20%

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 50:49
Music: Assassin’s Creed 2

Pre-Show Video: YouTube

We were recording early and we all sort of checked out for the holiday, so it’s a bit of a shorter episode than usual (but plenty of laughs in the outtakes!). Before we stuffed ourselves with turkey, we chatted about Batman: Arkham Asylum, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, The Williams Collection, Borderlands: The Island of Dr. Zed, Madden 10, Left 4 Dead 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, Gyromancer, Peggle Nights, and the Bayonetta Demo.

• Stardock claims Steam holds 70% of digital distribution market
• World of Warcraft celebrates its 5th birthday
• IBM stops production of the Cell chip, but not for Sony
• If you have some extra cash this year, consider giving to the Child’s Play Charity

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:13:43
Music: Chiptuned Rockman

We only talk a little bit about Borderlands this week, with the rest of our time taken up with Left 4 Dead 2, the Williams Collection, WET, Forza 3, Katamari Forever, Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time, and a small snippet about Assassin’s Creed 2.

• October NPDs!
• Diablo III is never, ever coming out
• GameStop wants to sell you DLC a little bit differently
• Buy a DSi on Black Friday, get some free DSiWare games
• PSP adhocParty leaving Japan, wandering the world
• Australian Attorney General explains his whims and ways
• Trials developer put their own game on BitTorrent sites
• No More Heroes coming to Xbox 360 and PS3

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Special Guest: Shawn Isley
Running Time: 1:12:09
Music: Katamari Forever (PS3)

We kick this week off with some talk about Modern Warfare 2 (the night vision goggles get talked about a little later), Brutal Legend, Torchlight, Borderlands (just a little), WET, The Williams Collection, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: The Ultimate Sith Edition, the PS3 NetFlix disc, and Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time.

• Borderlands’ first DLC announced, has an island full of zombies
• EA buys social media game developer Playfish, spends a metric ton of money…
• …and announces layoffs and game cancellations

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Special Guest: Brad Fellers
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:07:45
Music: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble

We manage to have not only four people on the show this week, but all four of us have been playing Borderlands! We also chat about Fallout 3, Forza 2, Pure, Madden 10, Shadow Complex, Torchlight, and Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time.

• Nintendo announces a new DSi the DSi LL / XL
• Nintendo also interested in a Kindle-like 3G service for the DSi
• Nokia, sadly, kills the N-Gage
• Microsoft starts their pilot program for Xbox Live Rewards
• Warren Spector denied Deus Ex license

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:18:35
Music: Starfox (SNES)

You wanted to hear about Borderlands, so we deliver! Actually, it’s really sunk its teeth into both Knobs and I, so we only played Demon’s Souls, Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty, and Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time otherwise.

• NetFlix HD streaming coming to the PS3! Get your disc here.
• PS2 celebrates its 9th birthday
• Army of Two sequel to get a preorder multiplayer mode
• We talked about a rumor that Nintendo might release a new DSi that Nintendo actually did the next day
• Kojima talks more about Zone of the Enders 3 future plans

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:30:57
Music: Final Fantasy VIII

Other than plums, we talk about the Williams Collection, Rock Band, Borderlands, Demon’s Souls, Critter Crunch, and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves this week.

• September NPDs!
• RUMOR: Nvidia possibly gets deal to produce chips for a new DS
• Postal worker (with an awesome name) steals tons of Gamefly games
• Modern Warfare 2 PC doesn’t support dedicated servers, internet explodes
• Death Rally released for free
• Psychonauts clairvoyant database