The Drinky Talky Thing Podcast, Episode #7

Painkillers — I've taken so many of these now I'm starting to rattle

Well here we are again – another Podcast where we have to apologise for the delay.

Despite the fact that we all live so close together, finding those moments where all of our schedules have a gap has proved difficult.

As if to prove that fact, this Podcast is missing Craig Albeck is missing, being that he was on his way back from a micro-payment convention in London.

What you will also notice is different in this episode is that I am considerably more drunk than normal. This is a result of the fact that I have been on painkillers for back problems, and this is the first time in 2 weeks I have had anything to drink.

On that note I’ll let you listen to Me & Gow, Try and stay on topic.

As a bit of a warning as this was another catchup episode, it is once again over 2hrs long, but this time it seems like it would be better not to split it.

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Oh and if you make it through the whole two hours and happen to be ginger, I apologise in advance 🙂

This Episode is Sponsored by this Child’s Play Charity – which has started taking donations for this year. For more information or to get involved head over to the site http://www.childsplaycharity.org/

For links to any of the stories, they can be found after the jump.

TimeSplitters could make a return

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-01-timesplitters-crytek-uk-talking-to-pubs

Infinity blade the game that Epic are making for the iPhone

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/02/infinity-blade-announced/

Apple apparently blew thier shot at owning bungie

http://www.1up.com/news/apple-reportedly-almost-bought-bungie

Playstation Phone

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/26/playstation-phone-leak-reveals-prototype-device-platform-detail/

Playstation Move ships 1 Million

http://www.1up.com/news/playstation-move-sells-1-million

Kinect IR DOTs in nightvision goggles

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/05/kinect-night-vision-goggles-video

Kirbys Epic Yarn delayed in Europe

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/21/this-sucks-no-kirby-for-europe-or-australia-until-2011/

Tribes to make a return

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/24/hi-rez-studios-acquires-tribes-franchise-turning-it-into-an-mmo/

Champions Online going free to play

http://www.1up.com/news/champions-online-latest-mmo-free-to-play

Jack Emmert says subscription MMOs have to prepare to beat WoW

http://www.massively.com/2010/11/02/jack-emmert-says-subscription-mmos-have-to-prepare-to-beat-wow/

Steam passes 30 Million Accounts

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/18/steam-passes-30-million-accounts-maintains-strong-growth/

Valve Killing the Game market apprently

http://kotaku.com/5687187/valve-is-killing-the-pc-market-apparently

Blitz Games Developer creates a game in 24hrs

Just for the sheer hell of the challenge Mike Bithell (http://twitter.com/mikebithell) designed and created an excdingly simple yet addictive puzzlegame, Thomas was Alone where you help a block called thomas (and eventually his friends) get to the goal in each and overcome the challenges

http://www.blitz1up .com/articles/full_article/137
http://thomaswasalone.wordpress.com/

EA buys Chillingo

for apparently $20million EA have bought Chillingo, publishers of angry birds http://kotaku.com/5668910/angry-birds-is-now-from-the-makers-of-madden – however in a nice twist they do not get Angry Birds. It seems that its massive success have led to a situation where Rovio (the developers) no longer need the publisher and the deal only included the first iPhone version.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/21/ea -gets-chillingo -but-not-angry-birds/

Zynga Estimated to be wroth more than EA

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/27/zynga-estimated-to-be-worth-more-than-ea/

Project Gotham Racing Reboot

http://www.1up.com/news/microsoft-planning-project-gotham-reboot

Kinect Hacked

http://www.1up.com/news/microsoft-kinect-hacked

The Avenger controller add-on

http://kotaku.com/5687525/this-is-apparently-the-ultimate-gaming-advantage

The Superguide to return in DK returns

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/08/super-guide-returns-in-donkey-kong-country-returns/

Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 will come with all the DLC and an interactive comic