That Video Game Podcast

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Hosts: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:01:26
Music: Bioshock 2

Before we get to arguing about the Inception game we talk about NBA Jam, Dance Central, Deathsmiles, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Rock Band 3, Bit.Trip BEAT, Galcon Fusion, Shatter, Halo: Reach, and Asassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (again).

• Xbox Live Rewards program officially launches
• Uncharted movie talks about antiquities
• Xbox modding trial starts, then gets angry, we try to figure it all out
• EA, surprsingly, doesn’t want to catch the Harmonix falling knife
• Inception game’s being made, we have no idea what it’ll be about
• New Ghostbusters, top-down game bustin’ in 2011
• OnLive improves their pricing structure again

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 56:52
Music: Shatter

None of us had much time to play games this past week, but we chat our way through NBA Jam, Dance Central, Borderlands, Alpha Protocol, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Rock Band 3, Dirt 2, Halo: Reach, and Pac-Man CE DX.

• Double Fine announces their amazing-looking new game Stacking
• RUMOR: Mass Effect 3 showing up at the VGAs, possibly on PS3
• Mark Wahlberg is Nolan North Nathan Drake in the upcoming Uncharted movie

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Host: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:17:06
Music: Super Mario Galaxy 2

After dancing our hearts out, we talk about Dance Central, Gears of War 2, Lumines, NBA Jam, Dirt 2, Forza 3, Rock Band 3, Halo: Reach, Sonic Free Riders, Pac-Man CE DX, Force Unleashed 2, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game.

• Activision is possibly, maybe, kinda thinking about shutting down or selling Bizarre Creations
• TVGPSA: Spend $25 at Old Navy on Black Friday, get Dance Central for free
• APB gets another chance with APB: Reloaded
• Marvel vs. Capcom 3 gets a release date and a green eye with tentacles

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Hosts: Ryan Pratt and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:53:42
Music: Chrono Cross

We continue to race towards 2 billion points in The Williams Collection along with the real-life Pinball Magic table, Angry Birds, Euchre, Madden 11, Chime, Alpha Protocol, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Rock Band 3, Green Day: Rock Band, Dance Central, Super Meat Boy!, Halo: Reach, Yggdra Union, and Sonic Free Riders.

• Nintendo, in honor of a newDonkey Kong Country game, trademarks a popular phrase describing how much something is “on”
• Mass Effect 2 on PS3’s new features detailed (and they’re awesome)
• Darksiders 2 doesn’t feature additional apocolypses, but does feature a new main character
• Viacom looking to sell of Harmonix

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Co-Hosts: Ryan Pratt and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:17:41
Music: Comic Jumper

We’re 4/3 TVGP this week, so we catch up with Borderlands, Comic Jumper, Angry Birds, Force Unleashed 2, Split/Second, Modern Warfare 2, Geometry Wars 2, Madden 11, Halo: Reach, Rock Band 3, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Forza 3, Minecraft, Force Unleashed, Super Meat Boy!, Alpha Protocol, Bionic Commando, Dark Cloud 2, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Red Dead Redemption, and Pinball FX2. Whew!

• California video game law oral arguments has a surprising outcome
• NBA Elite 11 cancelled, handed off to EA Tiburon
• Rock Band 3 pro guitar priced, dated
• Inafune quits Capcom, craptalks the Japanese gaming industry
• PSP2 is apparently pretty real
• New Crackdown 2 Deluge DLC coming soon

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:41:07
Music: Super Meat Boy!

Even though Ryan’s not here, we celebrate his birthday in style by talking about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, The Williams Collection, Comic Jumper, Split/Second, Borderlands, Left 4 Dead 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage, Gave Dev Story, Costume Quest, Super Meat Boy!, and Rock Band 3.

• The PS2 turns 10
• Microsoft not interested in HD remakes right now
• Playstation phone appears online, looks kinda real…
• …while more PSP2 rumors surface
• Sony starts a Playstation Rewards loyalty program
• Work has started on a Van Helsing MMO. Wait, what?

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon
Co-Hosts: Ryan Pratt and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:23:04
Music: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Knobs couldn’t make it this week, but Brad re-joins the podcast to talk about Forza 2, World of Warcraft, Split/Second, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Borderlands, Madden 11, Plants vs. Zombies, Hydrophobia, Alpha Protocol, Super Meat Boy, Costume Quest, and Game Dev Story.

• Lara Croft gets XBLA multiplayer pack later this month
• XBLA also gets more Dreamcast games
• Someone at EA is making a new C&C game, whoever it is
• Facebook games discovered to be transmitting user data
• I’m old, the NES turns 25
• Gearbox is the best company ever, approves fan-made Duke 3D remake

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:06:34
Music: Dead or Alive 2

We’re 2/3s TVGP this week and we chat about Borderlands, Left 4 Dead 2: The Sacrifice, (a lot of) Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and Sonic 4 Episode 1.

• The next Starcraft 2 expansion might…take a while
• Four more Marvel vs. Capcom 3 characters announced
• Lord of the Rings Online doubles revenue after moving to free to play
• Classic X-Men arcade game coming to XBLA and PSN!
• A sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow may be in the works
• NPD regrettably not providing free sales numbers
• GT5 delayed…again….again
• Split/Second coming to PSP November 16th, has new stuff!

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Cameraman: Ryan Pratt
Special Guest: Brad Fellers
Running Time: 2:26:58
Music: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Brad joins us this week for a marathon episode, including Halo: Reach, World of Warcraft, FIFA 11, Minecraft, Forza 2, Borderlands, Left 4 Dead 2, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Plants vs. Zombies, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, PixelJunk Eden, Wii Sports Resort, Trials HD, Madden 11, Skate 2, Escape From Butcher Bay, Mass Effect 2, Nier, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game.

• Medal of Honor devs rename the Taliban
• Valve starts using the Steam Wallet, but not in the way we thought
• 3DS fights piracy with automatic firmware updates
• OnLive announces they’re doing alright, drops the monthly charge
• TVGPSA: Costume Quest releasing Oct. 20th
• NYCC: Sega announces Captain America: Super Soldier
• NYCC: X-Men Destiny Announced
• Borderlands GOTY gets early access to Duke Nukem Forever demo and other mysterious goodies
• Best Buy charging $30 to set up PS3s