Well it was bound to happen. Paddy jumped ship (plane) and jetted across to the other side of the world leaving a geek with social problems in charge of the podcast… But what could go wrong?
It turns out a solo podcast is a tricky beast. Never again will I ridicule The DrunkenGamer’s monotone ramblings on the solo front, even if it does drone as much to put a caffeine fuelled, ADHD-suffering child to sleep. I hope you all enjoy, enough to make you want to come back next week when things will be back on track and the mighty duo will be back in full force. Note, by mighty duo, I mean myself and the DrunkenGamer – we’re not being replaced.
This week we’ve got a plethora of gaming news. So much more than we’d usually cover, purely for the fact that this podcast is waffle-free. It’s hard to waffle solo. Instead we have nothing but 58 (ish) news articles jammed into a little over an hour. Oh, and a song.
We’re still taking suggestions for the mid podcast songs. So if you have a suggestion for song to be included in the podcast then put it in the comments of this post or send them too @DrunkenGamer or @D_Gow . They will be put on the short-list and you will be mentioned in the podcast itself when played
Anyway enjoy this episode of the Drinky Talky Thing.
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Updates on stories from last week
Sony restores PlayStation Network in full • reghardware
Sony posts $3.17 billion loss, PlayStation division sees $434 million profit
It’s Official – Carmageddon: Reincarnation
This weeks stuff
Is Zelda about to hit the MMO space? | Massively
Tortured Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm MMO Gold
THQ publishing re-formed Turtle Rock Studios’ next FPS | Joystiq
Rumor: NGP Specs Downgraded, 2011 Release in Japan
Sony lets slip NGP name change • reghardware
EVO 2 console puts Android in a box | Joystiq
Kojima: something big planned for 25th Metal Gear anniversary next year | Joystiq
Here’s what you’ll be doing in the Uncharted 3 beta
Mad Catz launches ThunderHawk Studios, gets into flight sim development
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair to Get PS3 Port – Report
Broken Sword 2 Remastered now available for PC and iOS, on sale
Fallout Online’s future in jeopardy as Interplay’s finances suffer
FreeStyleGames saved from closure [updated]
Split/Second game director, producer form RoundCube Entertainment
Cryptic Now In A Perfect World
Level-5 trademarks ‘Professor Layton and the Last Specter’
‘Warhammer 40K: Kill Team’ rated in Australia
What About Bob? Deus Ex 3 Looks Backwards
Zergy: Heart Of The Swarm Game Footage
First Sight Of Metro: Last Light
Battlefield 3 footage, and Back to Karkand comparison, courtesy of EA PWNED
Futuremark Tease Three Games, Maybe
FIFA 12 trailer shows a slice of PIE
TrackMania 2 Canyon preview: The amazing race
FEAR 3 trailer has a lot of soul, survival / Fear 3 ‘Contractions’ co-op mode gives us the mega-creeps
Lawesome: Rage Shows Off The Authority
The Money Train: CoD Elite Explained
Brink DLC Has New Maps & “Sad Punk”
L.A. Noire DLC and Rockstar Pass pre-order scheme revealed
Moving day: LotRO EU players begin transfer to Turbine’s global service
World of Warcraft and video games blamed for divorce as men ‘prefer them to their wives’
iPhone MMO ‘makes $1m in 20 days’
PSA: Plants vs. Zombies free on Android today
Steam Says: You Can Pay £2.50 For Far Cry 2
Framerate Issues Prompt Witcher 2 DRM’s Removal
Trials HD motors past 2 million sales
Kojima Planning Something Big for Metal Gear’s 25-Year Anniversary
Sony executive to testify before Congress about PSN attack – Report
Microsoft treats kid hacker with kid gloves in wake of PSN debacle
PS3 Gets a Wireless Surround Sound Headset From Sony
VIDEO: Nvidia flaunts quad-core mobile chip
Before They Were Famous: Forgotten Franchises From Today’s Biggest Developers
Men outspend women on mobile social games
Mortal Kombat Episode 8
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQv-kYsclSM[/youtube]
Release News Roundup
Splinter Cell Trilogy HD due ‘sometime this summer’
Age of Empires Online begins August 16
Resistance 3’s chimeric pre-order options
Infamous 2 Takes Into Account Your Infamous 1 Trophies
Empires & Allies launches preemptive strike for Zynga against Civ World, arrives June 1
Blizzard Dota still on the way, has undergone ‘some massive overhauls’
Interesting reading but not recorded
Select 3DS and DS titles are buy one, get one half off on Amazon
SSX motion comic features Elise Riggs, typo
It’s a giant Master Chief and Mario made out of … balloons
Grand Theft Auto 4’s Liberty City mapped in Google Street View
Handheld Dreamcast systems go on sale in Japan
Gow’s Random Words
errrm – done.
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Songs used in this episode
Intro Remixed from WizWars – 8 Bit Raceway, which can be bought at http://wizwars.bandcamp.com/album/game-boy-rock-special-edition
“midway” Song from ZuneInc – Troll Dance which can be found here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/409673
DrunkenGamer
Well done Gow – you actually didn’t do to bad for a solo effort.
The only thing I have to comment on is the fact you didn’t realise that nVidea’s ‘Project Kal-el’ is a superman reference. Kal-el is his original kryptonian name.
But anyway nice work