That Video Game Podcast

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:19:14
Music: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS)

Pre-Show Video: YouTube

Even though the studio is full of people and the temperature is almost enough to melt all of us, we chat about the UFC Unleashed demo, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Art Style: Pictobits, Dead Space, Braid, the inFAMOUS demo, Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, SMT: Devil Summoner 1 and 2, Madworld, and the Tiger Woods 10 demo.

• FUEL wins an award for being the biggest game ever
• Gamestop lists Tony Hawk’s Ride‘s possible price and release date
• The director of Ju-On the Grudge making a “haunted house simulator”
• Metroid Prime Trilogy coming to the Wii for cheap!
• Giant Final Fantasy XIII reveal fuzzy release date
• Pixel-Junk 1-4 officially named
• More Bioshock 2 information
• Noby Noby Girl makes it to Mars!

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:12:35
Music: Final Fantasy V (SNES)

Thankfully the ice cream truck stayed away long enough for us to get through talking about Kindgom Hearts, Call of Duty: World at War, Dragon Quest VIII, Plants vs. Zombies, Dawn of War II, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, Fallout 3: Broken Steel, and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 (and 1).

• April NPDs!
• Tony Hawk: Ride announced
• The Sims 3 leaked early
• Tons of great Fallout 3 news

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Co-Host: John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:45:02
Music: Kingdom Hearts (PS2)

This week’s episode is our longest yet, since we couldn’t stop having fun and arguing about scurvy. Between all of that we find some time to talk about Left 4 Dead, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Crackdown, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Clive Barker’s Jericho, Castle Crashers, Forza 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, The Maw, Orange Box, Kingdom Hearts, Dawn of War II, Plants vs. Zombies, Fallout 3: Broken Steel, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, and Dragon Quest 5.

• 3DRealms closes up shop ;_;
• Pokemon silver and gold remakesannounced

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:24:22
Music: TMNT IV: Turtles In Time (SNES)

We manage to keep the zombie virus from claiming Brad long enough to talk about the Red Faction: Guerrilla demo, Alien Hominid (especially Super Soviet Missile Mastar), Mirror’s Edge, Rock Band 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Kingdom Hearts, Left 4 Dead, Dawn of War 2, Dragon Quest V, PGR4, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, and Plants Versus Zombies.

• Konami bringing Turtles In Time to XBLA!
• Capcom wants to bring lots of PSOne games to PSN
• Microsoft and Nintendo to make full body motion control sensors?
• Nintendo may be remaking Pokemon Gold/Silver

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Music: Prince of Persia (2008)

Trying to ignore the strange sounds coming from the parking lot outside the studio, we chat about Mirror’s Edge, Madden 2009, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Every Extend Extra Extreme, Peggle, The Maw, PGR4, Left 4 Dead, Final Fantasy VIII, and Dragon Quest V.

• The Konami Code unveiled a special secret on ESPN’s site
• Captivate ’09 covered:
  • Dead Rising 2
  • Lost Planet 2
  • Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgworth
  • Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicle
  • Resident Evil Archives
  • Marvel Vs. Capcom 2
• Uncharted 2 features both multiplayer and co-op
• Gamefly files an official complaint against the United States Postal Service
• New rumors of a new PSP continue to gain steam

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:13:45
Music: Mass Effect (360/PC)

A slow news week this week, but we find have plenty of games to talk about, starting with Left 4 Dead’s Survival Pack, Tetris Friends, Cogs, Raycatcher, Castle Crashers, Dragon Quest V, Shaun White Snowboarding, Rise of the Argonauts, and The Maw.

• March NPDs (the sky isn’t falling)

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:23:43
Music: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3

Though the pre-show video recording turned out pretty badly (sorry!), we did talk about PGR4, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Valkyria Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2, Pokemon Pearl, Penny Arcade Episode 2, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core+, Ikaruga, Puzzle Quest Galactrix, FLOCK!, and Dragon Quest V: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride.

• Netflix may be hiring to expand to other consoles
• First Assassin’s Creed 2 details!
• SquareEnix says that the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII is over for now
• Bioshock 2 gameplay trailer revealed
• Patapon 2 to be kind of download only

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Monthly Special Guest: John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:07:15
Music: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN)

With plenty of self-induced technical issues, it’s a wonder we got through talking about Left 4 Dead, Crackdown, Bikini Samurai, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2, Red Alert 3, Madworld, PGR4, Ninja Gaiden 2, Peggle (PC), Valkyria Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2, Saints Row 2, Penny Arcade: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 2, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure.

• Yu Suzuki “retires” from Sega
• The GameBoy celebrates its 20th birthday!
• Tales of Vesperia coming to the PS3
• More PSP2 rumors surface
• Rock Band Unplugged bundle and game details
• Will Wright leaves EA for his own company
• Amazon starts selling XBLA titles (and maybe PSN/WiiWare later)

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:16:21
Music: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

Even with the two of us in rare form, we manage to talk about Resident Evil 5, NCAA 09, Geometry Wars 2, Left 4 Dead, Thing Arena 3, Beyond Good and Evil, Far Cry, Rock Band: AC/DC, Fallout 3: The Pitt, Henry Hatsworth, and Professor Layton.

• Modern Warfare 2 announced at GDC
• Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time releasing this Fall
• A study reveals that video games might be good for your eyes
• The PS2 is a little cheaper now
• SquareEnix/Eidos buyout has been approved

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:35:34
Music: Katamari Damacy (PS2)

With Brad and I being under some rainy weather this week, we got into The Maw, PGR4, Ninja Gaiden 2, Left 4 Dead, MLB 2009 The Show, Peggle (XBLA), X-Blades, Retro Game Challenge, and Valkyira Chronicles.

• February NPDs
• GDC 2009: Wii SD Card Menu available now!
• GDC 2009: Nintendo bringing classic arcade games to the Wii
• GDC 2009: Four Final Fantasy games coming to Virtual Console and WiiWare
• GDC 2009: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks heading to DS