That Video Game Podcast

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:27:33
Music: Megaman X4 (PSX)

Brad and I are all alone this week, so we keep ourselves company by talking about Red Faction: Guerrilla, Dead Space, Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield 1943, Madden 10 Demo, Gears of War 2, Tales of Vesperia, Little King’s Story, and Rock Band: Unplugged.

• Comic-Con 2009 Coverage
• The Darkness sequel announced, but Starbreeze won’t be involved
• The ESRB turns 15 this week
• Ubisoft CEO breaks down piracy rates and possible solutions

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Special Guest: Andrew Yoder, Programmer at Loose Cannon Studios
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:12:31
Music: Super Mario World (SNES)

Pre-Show Video: YouTube

Technical issues strike yet again, cutting off a part of the episode. The news stories that were cut out have links below. Worry not, though! We have our first interview with a developer, who was kind enough to take some time out to come chat with us. We also talk about a smattering of iPhone games, Crysis, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Super Mario Galaxy, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Tiger Woods 10, Tales of Vesperia, SMT: Devil Survivor, and Little King’s Story.

• June NPDs
• Bill Harris’ in-depth NPD break
• Portable Xbox a matter of ‘when’, not a matter of ‘if’
• Valve might be interested in “crowd-funding” games
• Harmonix opens up the Rock Band track creation network

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:20:10
Music: Secret of Mana (SNES)

Pre-Show Video: YouTube

It was muggy as hell during the recording, so we sweated through Tiger Woods 10, Red Faction: Guerrilla, the Bigs 2 demo, Ghostbusters: The Game, Street Fighter IV, Bionic Commando, BlazBlue, and Overlord II.

• The Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition comes with freaking night vision goggles
• UFC president declares war on EA
• Bioshock 2 delayed until the first half of 2010
• Concept for a new Tomb Raider prequel leaks
• Fallout3 PS3 DLC delayed until September
• Heavy Rain also delayed until sometime in 2010 to escape the heavy Christmas season
• Plants -vs- Zombies looks to steal your life and eat your brains on other platforms
• LittleBigPlanet gets a “Game of the Year” edition
• MechWarrior series gets a reboot after a long 7-year wait

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:05:07
Music: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

Pre-Show Video: YouTube (HD available)

Not only do we have a special voicemail from an awesome community member, we chat about the NCAA Football 10 demo, Halo Wars, Dead Space, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Overlord II, Brain Age, and Pokemon: Diamond.

• Harmonix thinks that future music games won’t use consoles

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:14:34
Music: Chrono Cross (PSX)

Pre-Show Video: YouTube (HD availalable)

We’re a little loopy from the allergy medicine, but we still manage to talk about Tiger Woods 10, Forza 2, Braid, Street Fighter IV, Battlefield: Bad Company, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Knights in the Nightmare, Overlord 2, Red Faction: Guerilla, and Dead Space.

• Rumor: Sony working on a PSP phoneagain?
• Blizzard won’t be including LAN play in Starcraft II
• The Pirate Bay goes legit
• Sony says the PS3 will get a price drop “when the time is right “
• Uncharted movie in development
• Sony patents Emotion Engine emulation technology for Cell processors

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 55:08
Music: Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

• GTA: Chinatown Wars to get a PSP release
• Activision claims they may have to stop supporting Sony
• Gamestop doesn’t think digital distribution will be an “adressable market” until 2014

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:07:00
Music: Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox)

Ryan returns this week and we chat about Final Fantasy 7, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Rock Band: Unplugged, Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel, SMT: Devil Summoner 2, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Fuel, Dead Space, Shiren the Wanderer, and Trash Panic.

• May NPDs
• A small team is working on Mirror’s Edge 2
• Rumor: Sony adding an app store for the PSPgo

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:27:56
Music: Final Fantasy IV (DS version)

No Ryan this week, so we didn’t shoot any pre-show video, but we did talk about Forza 2, Rock Band: Unplugged, The Sims 3, SMT: Devil Summoner 2, Lostwinds, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Dead Space, Shiren the Wanderer (DS), Overlord 2 demo, and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.

• Sony planning UMD to PSP transfer service
• Steam Community group boycotts Left 4 Dead 2. Valve responds.
• Microsoft discontinues “conffin” program

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:23:13

Pre-Show video: YouTube

No games we’ve been playing, no releases, nothing but E3 this week! It’s all about the big show and the huge surprises.

• Microsoft: Beatles Rock Band, Tony Hawk Ride, Modern Warfare 2, Final Fantasy XIII, Shadow Complex , Crackdown 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Forza 3, Halo 3: ODST / Halo: Reach , Alan Wake, Joyride, Splinter Cell: Conviction , Facebook/Twitter/last.fm integration,
  Live Video Updates, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Project Natal, Milo, Downloadable Xbox 360 games, New avatar stuff.
• Nintendo: New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Fit Plus, New Mario Bros DS RPG, Golden Sun DS, New DSiWare Games, Wii Vitality Sensor, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M.
• Sony: PSP Go!, Gran Turismo Portable, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Resident Evil PSP, Final Fantasy VII (PSN), Uncharted 2, Agent, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV, Motion-sensitive controllers, ModNation, The Last Guardian, God of War III.
• EA: Need for Speed: Shift, Mass Effect 2, The Saboteur, Dragon Age: Origins, Brutal Legend, Madden 10, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
• Ubisoft: Red Steel 2,Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage, Academy of Champions: Soccre, R.U.S.E., Your Shape, Rabbids Go Home, TMNT: Smash Up, Assassin’s Creed 2 gameplay.
• Random Other Games: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

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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!