That Video Game Podcast

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:31:19
Music: Cave Story

We’re all terribly loopy this week, so what better time to chat about games? We cover LA Noire, Gears of War 2, Mortal Kombat, Blast Monkeys, Words With Friends, Dragon Fly, CoD Blops, LA Noire, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

• We try to cover the From Dust DRM issues
• Gamestop’s acting crappy, removing Deus Ex PC codes
• RUMOR: 3DS getting a complete redesign
• Sonic CD coming to XBLA! Yay!
• EA looking at reimagining old franchises
• SWERY may be making all sorts of Deadly Premonition games
• EA is the new Cartman, restricts the number of copies of The Old Republic
• Arc System Workds needs to take my money for a new BlazBlue game

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:35:11
Music: Bastion

For our 200th episode celebration, we chat about bad movies, bellbottoms, railguns, Wipeout HD, Split/Second, Ace Combat 6, Mortal Kombat, LA Noire, Duke Nukem Forever, Captain America (Android version), Alan Wake, Battlefield: Bad Company, Catherine, Deadly Premonition, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, and Bastion.

• So much Gamescom news I can’t fit it all into a single link!
• July NPDs
• Zelda Skyward Sword release date announced
• Along with a new Counter-Strike
• And Europe will be getting a New Look/Slim Wii soon

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:50:00
Music: Final Fantasy VI

Before we pas decisions about food-related tweets, we chat about MAG, Child of Eden, Castlevania: HD, Duke Nukem Forever, Left 4 Dead 2, Mortal Kombat, LA Noire, NBA 2K11, Super Mario World, The Lion King, Alan Wake, Battlefield: Bad Company, Catherine, Bastion, and Final Fantasy V.

• Tons of new (anyways) Borderlands 2 info!
• Sony starts their PSN Plays program
• Australia finally gets an R18+ rating!
• GameFly launching unlimited PC play program
• Google seems to be making the right choices with Google+ Games

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:10:02
Music: Super Meat Boy!

We’ve had a long few weeks, but we have plenty of time to sit down and chat about Ace Combat 6, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania: HD, Left 4 Dead 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Bastion, NBA 2K11, LA Noire, Chrono Trigger, Catherine, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, and the further wrench-related adventures in Deadly Premonition.

• EA announces their EA Sports Season Pass
• Very controversial new Diablo 3 features announced
• We spend some time trying to suss out the details behind the Euclidian Game Engine
• Square Enix snags “True Crime”
• Good news, everyone! You can use your Vita as a PS3 controller!
• Anyways…Borderlands 2 rumored, then announced the next day.

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:52:45
Music: Radiant Historia

It’s a classic TVGP this week, where Brad and I talk about Army of Two: The 40th Day, Bastion, NBA 2K11, Zenonia 3, Final Fantasy V, Dungeon Siege III, and Catherine.

• Unfortunately, Wolverine is not the new Mortal Kombat character
• Brad and I get a little too excited about the prospect of a Star Wars Xbox 360
• GamePro announces their new quarterly publishing plans
• No clever wordplay here: 3DS’ price gets slashed

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, Brad Fellers, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:25:23
Music: Crysis 2

The crew’s feisty this week with 90+ degree weather and the studio’s AC is broken. We manage to chat about Mortal Kombat, Child of Eden, Alice: Madness Within, Rez, Words With Friends, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Bastion, NBA 2K11, Angry Birds Seasons, Cod: Blops, Final Fantasy V, Deadly Premonition, Radiant Historia, Trenched, Frozen Synapse, and Dungeon Siege III before we melted.

• June NPDs!
• Uncharted movie getting Burgered, starting back over
• Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 unveiled, Boston hates it
• Valve makes Steam even better

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, Brad Fellers, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:23:21
Music: Persona 3: FES

The crew’s back together this week to chat about Wipeout HD, Child of Eden, NBA 2K11, NCAA 12, Angry Birds Seasons, Words With Friends, Madden 11, LA Noire, Uncharted 3 (beta), Catherine (demo), NBA 2K11, and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.

• EA purchases PopCap for $750 million
• Sony announces new PS3 SKU, changes BD playback a little

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:03:53
Music: Final Fantasy VII

This week we chat far longer than anticipated about Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Wipeout HD, Rez HD, Mortal Kombat, You Don’t Know Jack, Minecraft, Crysis 2, Pocket Academy, Tiny Tower, Dwarf Fortress, Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and Shift 2.

• Sony officially announces their Online Pass
• I’ll be honest with you, dear listeners, we talked about a few other stories in this incredibly slow news week. I have no links for you, sorry.

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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:35:59
Music: Einhander

We reconvene for a regular episode (minus a very busy Ryan) to chat about Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Child of Eden, Wipeout HD, Mortal Kombat, Dance Central, MAG, LA Noire, Shift 2, Team Fortress 2, NBA 2K11, Red Faction Armageddon, Chrono Trigger, Radiant Historia, Trenched, and the Sonic Generations demo.

• Brown v. EMA case concludes…
• …as the West and Zampella case goes to trial
• Star Wars Galaxies goes dark in December, surprisingly people are upset
• While Blizzard gives you your first 20 hits of WoW fof free

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Schedule weirdness happen this week, so here’s the audio from the first annual TVGP meetup!  Boston chats with a whole bunch of people that were there and we had a hell of a good time.  Enjoy and we’ll definitely do this again next year!