That Video Game Podcast

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
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Music: Final Fantasy VI (SNES)

No snappy intro here, because Brad has a ton of games he’s played this week! We talked about Legendary, Wheelman Vin Diesel’s Wheelman, Chronicles of Riddick: The Assault On Dark Athena, LittleBigPlanet, Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, MLB 2K9, Don’t S**t Your Pants, PGR4, Rock Band 2, Groov, Ninja Gaiden 2, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Music Catch 2, Noby Noby Boy, Shopping Cart Hero, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, Prince of Persia: Epilogue, Retro Game Challenge, Rise of the Argonauts, and Fable 2. Whew!

• Amazon starts a game trade-in service, Gamestop upset

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:08:45
Music: Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (NDS)

We take a few minutes off from staring at my new gigantic TV to talk about Guitar Hero: World Tour, LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, Left4Dead, Mass Effect, Rise of the Argonauts, Portal, Half-Life 2, and Retro Game Challenge.

• Kaz Hirai says that the PS3 is intentionally hard to program for
• Netflix to offer streaming-only subscription in the future
• Midway possibly looking to sell off Mortal Kombat
• Jimmy Fallon wants to talk a little bit more about games

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Co-Host: John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:05:14
Music: Guilty Gear X Heavy Rock Track

Before the episode breaks down into giggling about innuendo, we managed to get through Afro Samurai, Left 4 Dead, H.A.W.X., Death Tank, Tiger Woods 07, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, James Bond: Quantum of Solace, LittleBigPlanet, F.E.A.R. 2, Rock Band 2, Noby Noby Boy, Burnout Paradise, and Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?. Also, we continue onto checkpoint 4 of Final Fantasy XII for the first TVGP Plays.

• Sony unveils a ton of new games at Destination Playstation 2009
• E3 2009 to bring back ‘glamor’ and ‘sizzle’, but do we need it?
• NPD analyst says that consumers prefer boxed copies over downloadable

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 1:08:12
Music: Einhander (PSX)

We’re a little tired and loopy this week, so we giggle our way through Halo 3, Flower, Fracture, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, and Left 4 Dead.

• January NPDs!
• Konami and Harmonix doing the lawsuit shuffle
• SquareEnix wants to buy Eidos?

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 55:11
Music: Final Fantasy Tactics (PSX)

We got a rare warm day here at the TVGP Studios, so we had to tear ourselves away from the sunshine to talk about some games. We chatted about the Halo Wars demo, the Original Halo, 3-on-3 NHL, Galax-E-Mail, The Maw, Burnout Paradise, Ben There, Dan That, and Tiger Woods 07. We also spend a bit more time talking about the second checkpoint in TVGP Plays…Final Fantasy XII

• Battlefield 1943 announced!
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 also announced
• And you’ll be smacking around zombies with giant, oversized cell phones in Dead Rising 2

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 53:06
Music: Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis)

Unlike last week, we actually played games this week! We talked about Gravity Bone, Virtua Fighter 5, Condemned 2, Fantastic Contraption, WoW, Wild Arms XF, The Maw, Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage, Puzzle Arcade, and Tiger Woods 07.

Also starting this week is the first installment of TVGP Plays…, which features Final Fantasy XII! Visit the forum thread (click that link) to check out the details and chat about the game.

• Amazon launches a casual games store
• EA focusing more on Wii, bringing Dead Space over
• Prince of Persia DLC not coming to PC
• Man arrested for threatening to blow up Hudson

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 39:15
Music: Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- (PSP)

Not even being buried under snow will stop TVGP this week (although it does result in a shorter episode than normal)! In-between snowball fights we talk about World of Warcraft (only a little, though), Resident Evil 5 Demo, F.E.A.R. 2 Demo, Gravity Bone, The Last Remnant, Tiger Woods 2007, Golden Axe: Beast Rider, and the Skate 2 Demo.

• Sony denies rumors of a PSP2 along with delivering an epic burn to IGN
• Ubisoft preparing for the next console cycle coming in 2012, or so they say
• Tons of new game announcements:
• Burnout Paradise Party Box (PC)
• Three new Spore games
• GTA4: The Lost and The Damned
• Killzone 2 has gone gold!
• Ubisoft announces too many games to list
• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (Wii, PS2, PSP)
• Hydro Thunder spiritual sequel coming to arcades!
• Ubisoft developing a cross-platform rhythm game

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 54:41
Music: Final Fantasy X (PS2)

Both Brad and I are under the weather this week, but we manage to muster up enough strength to defend our honor against installing Linux on the PS3. Once we warm up, we discuss quite a few games this week: World of Warcraft, Castle Crashers, Madden 2009, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Puzzle Arcade, Tiger Woods 2007, World of Goo, Mass Effect, and Pixel Junk Eden.

• Gears of War 2 patch releases and fixes a ton of issues./li>
• Sony releases PS3 firmware 2.60 and PSP firmware 5.03
• Child’s Play raises an astounding $1.4million (!) this year!
• Final Fantasy XIII countdown to…something
• 1UP Show crew returns with Area5
• Insane NPD numbers for December and 2008 overall

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 53:35
Music: Castle Crashers (XBLA)

We’re back to a normal episode this week, with a normal list of games, which includes: Castle Crashers, Gears of War 2, Alien Hominid, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Half-Life 2, Persona 4, Aquaria, Tiger Woods 07, and Puzzle Arcade.

• Nintendo files patent for in-game walkthroughs
• Neversoft hands over the Tony Hawk franchise
• There’s trouble at Croft Manor
• Titan Quest devs form brand new studio

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Hosts: Michael “Boston” Hannon and Brad Fellers
Running Time: 59:37
Music: Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)

After a two-week break, we’re back in the saddle! We took advantage of the break to play a ton of games, which include Prince of Persia, Fallout 3, Heavenly Sword, the entire MGS series (!), Condemned 2, Fable 2, Madden 09, World of Warcraft, Aquaria, Chrono Trigger, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Korg DS-10, Lumines Supernova, Spelunky, and Persona 4. Whew!

• UGO buys 1UP, closes EGM, fires over 30 people. They try to make it into a news story.