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Some Other Castle, Episode 41: The Legend of BillyTimmy

Leah — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:01:55 +0000

We’re baaaaaaaaack! Did you miss us? We missed you! We’re back with a vengeance this week as we catch up with all the Persona that’s been played since last time. And other stuff too, just…. well, you know, Persona. Also, boobs. If you’ve sent us listener mail recently, tune in for the epic amount that we answer in our third segment!

Linktasia!

Persona 4

Bayonetta

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes

Persona 3 Portable releasing 7/6 in US; we prepare our poopsocks

Bioware says Mass Effect trilogy will not spell end of franchise

Splinter Cell: Conviction delayed until next fiscal year (April) “for more polish”

Majesco reports 6.6 million dollar loss for 2009; plans two Cooking Mama extensions for 2010

December NPDs

Netflix coming to Wii this year; Reggie says Wii users don’t care about HD streaming

NPD says only 10% of games are purchased digitally

Rockstar spouse alleges long hours, bad work environment

Bioware says Mass Effect 2 Day 1 DLC will be free

Crackdown 2 demo before launch

Listener mail makes us smile big happy smiles! Send us more at podcast@someothercastle.com and an angel will get its wings, or something.

Some Other Castle, Episode 32: IRPS

Leah — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:27:44 +0000

Welcome to our internet radio podcast show! We’ve been waiting for you. Have a cookie! Oh, and you should probably be prepared for some video game chat; this week it’s discussion on upsizing handheld systems, Netflix on the PS3, and the wrath of PC shooter aficionados.

Link? Link! LIIIIIIIIINK!

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

Batman: Arkham Asylum

iPhone has fastest hardware growth in consumer tech history according to Morgan Stanley analyst; beats out Wii, DS, and PSP

Uncharted 2 DLC to be released by end of year

PS3 getting Netflix

Excite Bike World Rally coming to WiiWare 11/9

Modern Warfare 2 featuring 3rd person mode for certain playlists

Brutal Legend DLC 11/3 will be free on PS3 for the first two weeks, paid on XBox Live from the beginning

DSi LL coming to Japan 11/21, US and Europe Q1 2010; features 4 inch screen and larger stylus, retailing for the equivalent of $221 US; also, is dumb as hell

Fairytale Fights has free DLC if you purchase game in first 90 days

Listener mail makes us smile! If you want to make us smile, send some to podcast@someothercastle.com.

Some Other Podcast, Episode 19: Not Enough Fun in Your Yun

Leah — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:25:55 +0000

Dear Internet: We’re sorry. Very sorry. This podcast goes off the rails in a hurry, in large part due to the movie we watched beforehand (this week, it’s Silent Hill), which we discuss as the first of this segment that hasn’t made us want to stab out our own eyes. If that’s not enough, we also lament delayed releases, confirm Square-Enix’s outright purchase of Japan, and discover Leah’s latent time-warping abilities. Now with extra Jack Thompson!

Bioshock 2 moved to Q1 2010

Dragon Quest IX sells 2.34 million copies in 2 days in Japan

Midway to change name following acquisition by WB Interactive

Blazblue sells more copies on PS3 than on 360

Jack Thompson facing federal disbarment

Fight Night to get 2 free patches

User-generated LBP content will hopefully be backwards-compatible with LBP2

Netflix coming to Sony Bravia TVs, but still not to PS3

XBLA Summer of Arcade schedule

Fallout 3 PS3 content delayed until end of September, starting with Broken Steel

Want to send us things on the internet?! Mail us at podcast@someothercastle.com with questions/comments/mp3s.

Some Other Hassle: Digital Rights Management

Samuel — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:21:57 +0000

Some Other Hassle will return to maligning your favorite games next week. Something far more annoying came up this week.

As Technology continues to improve, grow, change and permeate our lives, capitalist pig-dogs continue to do everything they can to squeeze every cent out of it. Seriously, though. Most of my gaming over the past three years has been spent doing so without any physical media of the games I’ve been playing. And it’s scary to think that I don’t actually own those games at all. It’s not just games, either. I never really minded DRM, realizing that it’s a necessary evil, until this week, when I came up against some serious barriers to using content because of DRM.

I have a subscription to Netflix, one that I greatly enjoy, because I don’t have cable television. When I went into this geek thing, I went full-bore. I game or spend my time on the internet, rather than watching TV. However, there are still some great things that I enjoy watching from time to time. Netflix is a great solution to that.

My wife and I have been enjoying watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus over Netflix for the past couple of weeks, streaming to our Xbox 360. Well, the Xbox 360 is a wholly unreliable piece of hardware, and I like to tinker, so I decided to replace it as our Netflix player with a Home Theater PC (and because I’m on my forth Xbox 360).

Forging together the awesome powers of Ubuntu and Boxee, I was very happy to see Hulu, running full frame upscaled to 1080p in less than two hours. Then I tried Netflix.

Netflix doesn’t run on Linux because Neflix doesn’t want Linux users to be able to use their service without the DRM that the Windows and Mac players are laden with. So, because I want to use the biggest feature of a service that I pay about $18/month for, I have to use Windows or Mac. Well, that’s an inconvenience to say the least. I’m not going to pirate anything. I just want my British Comedy!

Also this week, I bought an iPod Touch. This purchase will surely destroy me. It’s truly awesome to see all of these great applications and games available for so cheaply. The Wifi scanner app I bought for $2.99 alone was enough to justify the purchase for me. Sadly, at the end of the year, when I want to upgrade to an iPhone, I’ll lose all of my purchases, because they are tied to a single device.

I’m just starting to get a little sour on paying for things in this “Digital Age” without any sort of show of good faith from these large corporations. If I have trouble with a game on a disc, I can return it and get face-to-face customer service. If I have trouble with a game I bought from Microsoft, Apple, Sony or Nintendo, I get a call-center in India. Hell, Sony’s downloadable games all have End-User License Agreements that must be agreed to that claim that at any moment, without notice or reason, and with no refund, your purchases can be invalidated. As they say in the Cayman Isles, I have spent mad bank on XBLA, and I have no illusions that my vast Xbox purchases will be playable on future systems.

I just want to play games and watch TV without cluttering up my house and know that I won’t be stymied by Digital Rights Management. I have no problem with companies combating piracy, but it’s becoming clear that in their eyes, everybody is a pirate. They should really be concerned about ninjas.