That Video Game Podcast

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:11:28
Music: Goldeneye

We’re one man down this week for a late night recording, but before I head out of town we chat about Mortal Kombat, Outland, Brink, the Gears of War 3 beta, Portal 2, Pokemon Black/White, NBA 2K11, Deadly Premonition, and Hector: Badge of Carnage.

• Namco Bandai announces a few new games
• Blizzard teases us with another update about Diablo 3
• Microsoft buys Skype
• Mysterious new Alan Wake game in development, isn’t Alan Wake 2

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:23:30
Music: Tetris

We’re two men and one beard down, but we still have plenty to chat about between Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Reverie, Outland, Mortal Kombat, Portal 2, Pokemon White, NBA 2K11, and Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes.

• Mass Effect 3 delayed until Q1 2012
• Wii price drop and Wii Select line confirmed
• Silicon Knights plans to finish the Too Human trilogy
• Blizzard claims Diablo 3 is in the home stretch, only about 10 more years of dev left
• Free Portal 2 DLC announced
• Is id ready to make another Wolfenstein and Quake game?
• Disney announces layoffs at Black Rock Studios
• The Smithsonian announces their Art of Games exhibit games

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, Brad Fellers, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:36:29
Music: Megaman X4

It’s beautiful weather to talk about dinosaurs, so we chat about Portal 2 (no spoilers!), Gears of War 3 beta, Mortal Kombat, NBA2K11, Angry Birds, Deadly Premonition, and Pokemon: White.

• There are way too many news stories about PSN being down and all of our information being stolen that I picked the original one
• Sony shows off the first Playstation Certified tablets
• New Nintendo console formally announced, not called the Wii 2
• Children of Eden on PS3 delayed to add Move support
• Bayonetta’s director starts a Bayonetta Director’s Commentary

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:33:39
Music: Final Fantasy Tactics

This rainy week has given us plenty of time to play Mortal Kombat, Portal 2 (no spoilers!), Gears of War 3 beta, Crysis 2, MAG, Angry Birds, NBA 2K11, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Madden 11, Snoopy’s Flying Ace, Braid, Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, Pokemon White, and Deadly Premonition.

• TVGPSA: vote for the Madden 12 cover
• March NPDs!
• R.I.P. PSPGo
• The Portal 2 ARG is over, people aren’t happy

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Hosts: Brad Fellers and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:41:55
Music: inFAMOUS

Ryan’s been sent to another room as punishment, so we chat about Crysis 2, MAG, NBA 2K11, Metal Gear Solid 2, Angry Birds, Crysis, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Madden 11, Peggy, the 3DS, Pokemon Black/White, Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, and Deadly Premonition.

• The Sony vs. George Hotz situation is over!
• Capcom Captivate 2011
• The Mortal Kombat Legacy web series has started
• Netflix gets an update on the 360 to kinda, sorta support Kinect
• RUMOR: Nintendo is announcing a new console at E3

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Hosts: Brad Fellers and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:39:55
Music: NHL ’94

Ryan returns this week to chat about Hardcorps: Uprising, Crysis 2, Mass Effect 2: Arrival, Dead or Alive 4, MAG, NBA 2K11, Pokemon Black/White, Fable 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Ilomilo, Angry Birds Rio, Peggy, Singularity, and The Williams Collection.

• PSN getting by Anonymous
• New NBA Jamdownloadable release announced
• Sonic’s 20th anniversary is coming up, something’s going to happen?
• Gamestop snags some companies, is making some plays with tablets
• The battle between West/Zampella and Activision continues to escalate
• XIII is available on GoG
• Spider-Man: Edge of Time announced, we contemplate time travel

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers
Special Guest: Shawn Isley
Running Time: 2:29:19
Music: F-Zero

We duke it out this week over Left 4 Dead 2, Peggle, Game Room, DOA 4, Super Street Fighter 4, Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, MAG, You Don’t Know Jack!, Lead and Gold, Pokemon: Black, NBA 2K11, Dragon Age: Origins, Super Meat Boy!, Crysis 2, CD Universe Online, Borderlands, Mortal Kombat, Dragon Age II, and Singularity.

• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow DLC delayed on 360
• Geohot claims he didn’t know about SCEA
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City announced
• GAME in the UK acts like jackasses again
• Microsoft prepping mysterious new disc format
• Silicon Knights’ ancient 2007 lawsuit may go to a federal court

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:18:06
Music: Crisis Core ~Final Fantasy VII~

We’re all feeling better this week, so we chat about PS3 and 360 headset adventures, MAG, Crysis 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Chime, Peggle, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (maybe?), NBA 2K11, Rock Band 3 pro modes, Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy, Dragon Age 2, Torchlight, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

• We talk about the complicated and hilarious GeoHot story from this week
• Runic announces there will be no subscription fees for the Torchlight MMO
• EA’s doing away with game manuals
• NGP digital releases are day-and-date with physical
• The final Mass Effect 2 DLC comes out next week. Lady Shepard is pleased.
• Duke Nukem Forever delayed again in a hilarious way
• Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica getting HD releases later this year

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:43:18
Music: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

Ohio takes a break from raining to let us chat about Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter 4, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Mortal Kombat demo, Tekken 5, Bulletstorm, Serious Sam HD 2, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Wipeout HD, Splatterhouse, NBA 2K11, Pokemon Black/White, Rock Band 3’s Pro modes, Torchlight (XBLA), and Dragon Age 2.

• February NPDs!
• Microsoft has more details about the stolen 360 codes
• Ubisoft announces Rocksmith
• More exciting release dates!
• PS3 hacker with an awesome name has details about the new PS3 firmware update
• And the PS3 injunction was lifted for the Netherlands
• most importantly, a new Tribes game was announced

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:29:23
Music: Castlevania Judgment

While we chat about obscure original Playstation games, we manage to chat about Lumines Supernova, WipeOut HD / Fury, Gears of War 2, Bulletstorm, Pokemon Black & White, NBA 2K11, Tiger Woods 12, Crysis 2, and Dwarf Fortress.

• Playstation Plus members get cloud save support. Yay cloud…
• Microsoft loses over a milllion dollars or 96 million Microsoft points
• We chat about the new Deux Ex game’s international release dates
• Two new movie reboots happening, one’s probably in 3D
• Actually, Sidewinder’s not dead anymore
• RUMOR: Activision developing Dance Hero
• Bungie’s upset we didn’t get their MMO joke
• Nintendo gets serious about 3DS piracy
• Blizzard turns 20 this year