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Episode 61 – Professor Biggs

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

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Special Guest, Professor Steven Biggs joins us on the couch for reviews of The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer, Replay by Ken Grimwood, The West Wing on DVD, Audiosurf for the PC and Guillotine card game by Wizards of the Coast. Also, Skwinkles.
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Episode 60 – Prince of Quirkiness

March 1, 2010 | No Comments

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Features reviews of Joe Schreiber’s Star Wars: Deathtroopers, Richard Wiseman’s Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things, John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness on DVD, Sunshine on DVD and Blu-ray, D3 Publisher’s Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, Dejobaan Games’ AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, ItBGames’ Kino One, Sandlot Games’ Tradewinds Odyssey, Hidden Path Entertainment’s Defense Grid: The Awakening and Talisman from Fantasy Flight Games.
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Episode 59 – Fraktastic Plane Hats

February 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

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Features reviews of Kalypso Media’s Tropico 3, Brüno on DVD and Blu-ray, 1C Company’s King’s Bounty: Armored Princess, Marvel Comics’ 1985, Fantasy Flight Games’ Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game and Good Old Games (www.gog.com) direct-download service.
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Celebrity Interview: Mike Sacks

February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments

The Famous Paul interviews Mike Sacks, author of And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft.

Mike Sacks has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, McSweeney’s, Radar, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women’s Health, and Salon. He has worked at The Washington Post, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair. Check out his website at www.mikesacks.com

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CouchCast 42: He-Man Walks Into a Bar…

March 10, 2010 | No Comments



Dave-erator joins the crew on the ugly couch as we discuss the week in geek: Lady Gaga track pack for Rock Band, Battlestar Galactica browser based MMO, Capcom Street Fighter IV for iPhone, In The Beginning by John Fusco and David Cunningham, Fright Night remake by Craig Gillespie and Marti Noxon, Marvel’s ultimate comic fan’s TV, a relaunched Police Academy movie, Reign of Fire, Pet Sematary remake, J. Michael Straczynski writing Superman and Wonder Woman, King Kong coming back to Universal Studios, new Futurama episodes on Comedy Central, Tron: Legacy, Tron animated series on Disney Channel, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, Felicia Day stars in Red on Syfy, Alice in Wonderland, Caprica, Rock Band 3, Chile earthquake moves the city of Concepcion 10 feet, Mcdonald’s McDelivery service in Singapore, Sophia Heesch identifies Lego Star Wars figures with her mouth, William Shatner’s myouterspace.com social network, LactoPharma’s Recharge ice cream, 600 million tons of ice found on the moon, and the Big List: Top 7 ways games can transform you into a superior human being.

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Fail: Star Trek Online

March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

“If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.”

I first heard those words when I complained of being bored in history class in middle school. Being a child of such fortunate circumstance to have been blessed with sharp wits at an early age, those words sunk in and I passed that class with an A. I have always tried to learn the easy way, allowing those that came before to learn through toil and trial and pass on their hard won knowledge to me so that I would not have to waste time and effort doing it. This is an obvious and effective means of education; the concept that we do not have to keep reinventing the wheel with every passing generation.

Yet it seems that some game developers cannot learn from the past. Games that are rushed have problems. Content that is rushed will be buggy and untested. And gamers, as a whole, are not stupid. I point to the brutally obvious example of Star Wars Galaxies to illustrate this point. Even developers of that game have come forward to admit mistakes were made on an epic scale. There are numerous blogs and news articles detailing why that game failed so miserably. Their words, apparently, have fallen on deaf ears.

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