Patience, grasshoppers, it will all make sense in the end… or will it? This week involves a very detailed investigation into our future gambling ventures, and then when we aren’t busy plotting that, also some chatter about Bayonetta, Final Fantasy XIII, and a whole lot of Japanese stuff… also, stay tuned for an extra-special outtakes [...]
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We struggled with the title to this week’s episode; it was either this or “Ten Pounds of Ball,” but given that it’s our twenty-first, we thought that the cake should in fact be prominently featured. Sadly, we did fail to procure a Fudgie yet again, but the quest will continue! In the meantime, listen in [...]
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Hoo boy. It’s the close of E3 week, and after a somewhat “meh” performance last year, the show seems to have kicked it back up several notches to something that had us rapt for pretty much the whole thing. This week, then, we focus on the three big conferences of E3, summing up the high [...]
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After reflecting on yesterday’s revelations from Microsoft, the grades return today to focus on Nintendo’s yearly press conference. After crushing the souls of hardcore gamers everywhere with last year’s event, let’s see if the big ‘N’ managed to rebound this year.
In the most recent generation of gaming consoles, digital distribution became a reality on consoles for media content, game modifications and add-ons, and full titles. This development gave the three major platform holders (Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony) an opportunity to re-release some of the “classic” titles in their back catalogs for gamers that missed out [...]