Ready for this year’s E3? We’re here to help, with a look at the Big Three.
What we know: Halo 4, out November 6, is clearly the company’s fall anchor, and will likely get a lot of promotional time. There’s no bigger franchise in the company’s portfolio. Also, Microsoft has said this year’s presentation will largely focus on multimedia capabilities, meaning more announcements of streaming services and dashboard tweaks and fewer ones of new games. READ MORE
Big releases, big podcast! The crew talks about Diablo III and Max Payne 3, and discusses the best of the Wii’s lineup as the console fades into the sunset (like Punch-Out!!, Zack & Wiki and Sakura Wars). We also talk about Kingdoms of Amalur Presented by Beautiful Rhode Island, BioShock Infinite, Grand Theft Auto V and more.
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Hosts: Jeff DeSolla, Chris Ingersoll, Andrew Passafiume, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette.
Music: Podcast theme by Tom Casper.
We’re back after a longer-than-usual break! In this episode, we discuss gray moral choice in games and how games like The Walking Dead do it so well. We discuss the world of MOBAs and MMOs more than we ever have before with talk of Awesomenauts and TERA, and we review the latest announcements and see that we’re finally getting all those multiplayer modes in our games. We’re not tired of that at all. We don’t know what you’re talking about.
Check out the show here, check us out on iTunes or use the RSS feed in your favorite podcast aggregator. Let us know what you think!
Hosts: Jeff DeSolla, Andrew Passafiume, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette.
Music: Podcast theme by Tom Casper.
Don’t like sports? There’s a whole segment of games you can immediately write off, as far as you’re concerned. Or can you? You don’t have to be a comics fan to like Batman: Arkham City, and the appeal of Mario isn’t just limited to plumbing aficionados. Brad Woodling and Graham Russell are here to help with a list of games you should check out even if they have sports in them, because you’re missing out on a lot of fun.
Punch-Out!! (NES/Wii VC/3DS VC)
Brad Woodling: More puzzle and pattern recognition than sports game, Punch-Out!! (known in its earlier incarnations as Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!) had you relying more on memory and timing than boxing strategy. It has a famous password system allowing you to re-battle any of the tougher adversaries, and is also unique in that the game utilizes the Start button as an input for star punches. The colorful opponents of Punch-Out!! are memorable and still a part of pop culture today. While there is no multiplayer, the single-player strategic experience is what is most appealing to non-sports gamers. Punch-Out!! would see future releases on the SNES and Wii (both retaining the original’s charm). READ MORE
While the industry divides the year into quarters, we realize that there are really three parts to the year: the barren early months, the gimmicky, convention-filled summer and the action-packed holiday season. This time, we look at January through April.
Biggest Surprise: If you had told me last year that I would love a game about parkour garbage men cleaning up a dilapidated forest, mansion and Tron-inspired game grid, then I would have called you crazy, but here we are, and I loves me some Dustforce. In each level, your goal is to clean the whole place up by running, jumping, and chaining your way forward. You’re scored on two factors: how much dust you get rid of and your longest chain. If you manage to clean all of the dust in one long chain. you’ll get an SS ranking. I’ve managed it only once, but the prospect keeps me coming back for more, and I enjoy myself every time. READ MORE
