TVGP Episode 229: Jazz Controls
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 2:35:32
Music: Metroid
We’re a little light this week on the number of games we chat about, but we spend tons of time talking about SSX, Mass Effect 3, and Risk Factions.
- New SimCity announced for 2013
- Dead or Alive 5 release date announced along with its special character
- Street Fighter X Tekken infuriates us with its incredible amount of on-disc DLC
- SWERY working on a Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut for PS3
- Valve not really making a console, but kind of is right now
TVGP Episode 228: Symphonic Intervention
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:54:52
Music: Super Mario Sunshine
We all spent too much time playing a bunch of great games this week, like Syndicate, Asura’s Wrath, SSX, Lumines: Electric Symphony, Edge, Bubble Shoot, Wipeout 2048, KOA: Reckoning, and Final Fantasy XIII-2.
- Assassin’s Creed 3 has had a pretty long week
- Sim City 5 rumors are building (sorry)
- Zone Of the Enders HD Collection gets closer to a release date
- GAME has definitely seen better days
- Boondock Saints game is apparently going to be a thing
- Zynga launches their own site
TVGP Episode 227: Magic Maps
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 2:08:15
Music: Mega Man 6
The Ohio rain doesn’t damper our spirits or our desire to chat about Lumines: Electric Symphony, Shadows Of the Damned, Saint’s Row the Third, Syndicate, Asura’s Wrath, Bubble Shoot, Ilo Milo, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Fairway Solitare, and SSX (demo).
- Sega announces their next Dreamcast game for XBLA/PSN
- Sony gives two weak reasons for UMD Passport not coming to North America
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus coming to XLBA/PSN in Japan, hopefully in NA
- But we know that Persona 4: Arena will be coming out in the US
- Good news out of the recent Nintendo Direct conference
- #AnywaysBorderlands2 now has a release date
TVGP Episode 226: Hard Heavy Rain
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:54:31
Music: Jet Set Radio Future
Ryan is out this week, but we still have tons of games to chat about, like Crackdown 2, Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 (demo), Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, Shadows Of the Damned, Syndicate (demo), and Final Fantasy XIII-2.
- Assassin’s Creed 3 coming October 30th. This series has defeated my ability to make punchy headlines.
- Success! Australia’s R18+ rating coming next year
- TVGPSA: PS3 Skyrim players should make a new hard save
- Valve stays transparent, announces full details of their breach last year
TVGP Episode 225: Welcome To the EA Store, Traveler!
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 2:31:24
Music: Donkey Kong Country
In this surprisingly long episode, we chat about Battlefield 3, Transformers: War For Cybertron, Crackdown 2, Bubble Shot, Pokemon Snap, Afro Samurai, Kindoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Saints Row the Third, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Diablo III.
- GAME is in trouble, has a creative way to get out of it
- TVGPSA: Diablo III delayed again
- David Jaffe to leave Eat Sleep Game, focus on mobile and browser dev
- This story is moving too fast, but Double Fine is being awesome again
- UMD Passport program not coming to North America
- Say goodbye to PSN, say hello to SEN
TVGP Episode 224: Anachronism
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 1:58:48
Music: Lair
We’re all here to chat about Asura’s Wrath (demo), Bionic Commando, Afro Samurai, Red Faction Armageddon, Trials HD, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, and Final Fantasy XIII-2.
- Alan Wake PC details
- Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney movie getting localized, sounds totally awesome/weird
- Ace Attorney 5 announced! But without details.
- THQ faces stock market delisting, still has time to clean up their act
- Trials Evolution leaked, RedLynx didn’t do it this time
- Kaz Hirai will shortly be in charge of Sony
- Nintendo finally starts to catch up, announces the Nintendo Network
- Microsoft claims there’s no new Xbox at E3 or this year, we find that hard to believe
TVGP Episode 223: Obsessed With Mechs
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon, John “Knobs” Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt
Running Time: 2:11:48
Music: VVVVVV
The gang’s all here to chat about Battlefield 3, Bionic Commando, The Darkness 2 (demo), Game Dev Story, Halo Reach, Fable 3, Trials HD, Doritos Crash Course, Snoopy’s Flying Ace, Chime, Gears of War 3, Skyrim, Asura’s Wrath (demo), Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Saint’s Row the Third, and Quarrel.
- A collection of Next Xbox rumors
- Also, a bunch of WiiU rumors that I don’t have a link for. Sorry.
- Netflix drops game rental plans with little fanfare or explanation
- TVGPSA: AT&T 3G data price changes affect the Vita, too
- RUMOR: Microsoft to drop Microsoft Points across all services
TVGP Episode 222: Stone Jiggly Man
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:27:35
Music: Breath Of Fire IV
It’s a snowy week here in Ohio, which means we had plenty of time to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Ninja Gaiden 2, Bionic Commando, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Mortal Kombat, Saints Row the Third, Asura’s Wrath (demo), Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, Forza 4, and Gears of War 3.
TVGP Episode 221: Shackled Ankle
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:19:30
Music: F-Zero
It’s been a super weird week, but we chat about Saints Row the Third (twice), Renegade Ops, NFL Blitz, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield 3, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Skyrim.
- CES happened, we cover a few stories
- You can now buy certain Nintendo VC games with your dusty coins
- Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur demos unlock content in each other’s full games
- Kinect for Windows official announced, is more expensive
- OnLive will soon be in your Google TV
- RUMOR: One console maker to drop out of the race at E3
- New Tomb Raider game gets a super cool geocaching promotional tie-in
- Diablo 3 coming to consoles but probably not but maybe
- Razer goes insane, announces a chimera
- xbox Live House Party announced for Feb.
- I’m not making this up, EA is being sued for putting helicopters in BF3
- Mortal Kombat gets an edition with everything in it. It’s Komplete, if you will.
TVGP Episode 220: Sudden Helicopter Death Syndrome
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Featuring: Michael “Boston” Hannon and John “Knobs” Knoblach
Running Time: 1:28:54
Music: Aladdin (Genesis version)
We’re back! We start 2012 off with a recap of the games we played during the break, which are Game Dev Story, Sonic CD, The Williams Collection, Batman: Arkham City, Gears of War 3, Mortal Kombat, UFC Live, Fist Of the North Star, Puzzle Arcade, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield 3, Renegade Ops, Saints Row the Third, Dragon Age 2, Forza 4, Chrono Trigger, and Skyrim.
- Update on the Silicon Knights/UE3 court case
- RUMOR: Wii U to feature non-game apps
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