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BREAKING NEWS PODCAST: Wii 2 Announcement – Reaction and Speculation
BREAKING NEWS PODCAST – Wii 2 Announcement – Reaction and Speculation
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Nintendo has finally made it official and announced the successor to the Wii; something that the industry analysts have been predicting since 2008. Chris Karpyszyn and I discuss what this means for Nintendo and whether or not they can stop losing market share to the other companies. We also talk about the Playstation Network outage that doesn’t appear to be ending anytime soon.
Chris and I will be back again on Thursday to discuss this further as more news leaks as well as other items in the world of gaming including Portal 2 and the first month of the Nintendo 3DS. The Weekly Movie Podcast will also be released sometime tomorrow.
These breaking news podcasts are going to be a new feature of the site when major news goes down in the subject areas that are covered in this site (for example, Montreal and Canadian news, film, and gaming). If you have any questions or comments about the podcast, send them to jgore@madnessbrewing.com. I know there was an issue with my audio side as it sounds more like AM quality than FM quality but I think it’s because I deleted my master by mistake and had to take the audio from the Skype conversation between me and Chris instead.
Tetris (PSP Mini) (Video Game Review)
Video Game Review
Tetris
Sony Playstation Portable (PSP Mini)
2009
Developed by: EA Mobile
Published by: Electronic Arts
Tetris, in theory, would seem like a hard game to screw up but every year we are witness to a few horrible versions of the game. However, EA did an incredible job with their PSP Mini version of Tetris. The game plays extremely well. In fact, this is the best handheld version of Tetris since Tetris DX came out for the Game Boy Color in 1997.
Weekly Video Game Post–September 15, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – September 15, 2010 <85 mins (77.2 MB)>
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- Jamie Gore and Steve Wood (and featuring Chris Karpyszyn)
- Due to too many issues, this podcast is actually two weeks of recorded material rolled into one
- I think we may have talked more about Duke Nukem: Forever than Halo: Reach
- At least video game sales are beginning to pick up (Metroid’s sales are surprisingly high)
- Continue reading for sales figures from the week of August 21 and other stuff (all sales figures come from www.vgchartz.com)
Weekly Video Game Post–August 30, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – August 30, 2010 <53 mins (48.4 MB)>
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- Jamie Gore and Steve Wood
- Not much to talk about so I talk about why there was nothing happening on the site last week
- At least this week looks to be better as this podcast is out on time (for a change).
- Kane & Lynch 2 didn’t do so well. Only one person that I know of is surprised.
- I’m not expecting big things for Metroid: Other M either.
- Continue reading for sales figures from the week of August 21 and other stuff (all sales figures come from www.vgchartz.com)
Weekly Video Game Post–August 24, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – August 23, 2010 <61 mins (57.7 MB)>
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- Jamie Gore and Chris Karpyszyn
- Apparently, people like football games.
- I really don’t think go-karting will sell a single copy of Gran Turismo 5
- Likewise, I don’t think the Corvette license would sell any extra copies of Mario Kart
- I apologize for the audio issues. I’ve been having problems with my recording software. The podcast is still plenty listenable but instead of sort-of FM quality this week, the podcast is really-like AM quality.
- Continue reading for sales figures from the week of July 31 and other stuff (all sales figures come from www.vgchartz.com)
Weekly Video Game Newsletter– August 20, 2010–Issue #4
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Here’s the latest issue of the Weekly Video Game Newsletter. It’s actually been several weeks since the last one was published so I included a bunch of sales figures and release dates from the weeks missing on top of all the info about the stuff that came out this week and how well (or horribly) stuff sold the week of August 7th (courtesy of VGChartz.com).
Weekly Video Game Post–August 16, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – August 16, 2010 <45 mins (41.5 MB)>
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- Jamie Gore and Chris Karpyszyn
- A quarter of this podcast is me hating on Ubisoft…this is either because it really is a slow news week for games or I loathe the recent business direction of the company (probably a little of both)
- Hopefully there will be some interesting stuff to talk about when Gamescom hits this week.
- When I read that Bioshock Infinite was in the works, I was so underwhelmed that I felt that I needed to take a nap.
- Continue reading for sales figures from the week of July 31 and other stuff (all sales figures come from www.vgchartz.com)
Weekly Video Game Post–August 9, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – August 9, 2010 <47 mins (43.3 MB)>
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- Jamie Gore and Chris Karpyszyn
- Finally a podcast that’s out on time
- Unfortunately there’s nothing much to talk about other than TORCHLIGHT 2!!!
- I’m not saying people shouldn’t buy the Xbox Live version of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light but people just shouldn’t spend their money supporting half-finished software…I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t buy the game. Buy something better instead.
- Continue reading for sales figures from the week of July 31 and other stuff (all sales figures come from www.vgchartz.com)
Weekly Video Game Post–August 3, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – August 2, 2010 <61 mins (55.8 MB)>
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- Jamie Gore and Chris Karpyszyn
- I almost had this podcast out on time
- Shorter than normal because there’s not much to talk about
- Remember all those Nintendo printing money jokes? Well, maybe they should have printed more and stuffed it under a mattress because they seemed to have lost their printing press
- We talk pirates and not the parrot-loving kind
- Continue reading for sales figures from the week of July 24 and other stuff (all sales figures come from www.vgchartz.com)
Weekly Video Game Post–July 26, 2010
Weekly Video Game Podcast – The Missing One <110 mins (91.5 MB)>
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Things have been very crazy for me the last couple of weeks. It seems like I haven’t been able to put much time into the site since E3 (although admittedly, I was so burned out with dealing with so much stupidity around the event that I was burned out on the whole Internet thing). In the last two weeks, I’ve written quite a bit of stuff on my way to and from work but haven’t had time to sit down and edit it. Likewise, Chris and I have gotten together to record several podcasts but I just haven’t had the time to work on the post-production stuff. So, not wanting our work to go to waste, I decided to post a “weekly” video game podcast so that people know that the site isn’t dead and that we have been working on some stuff. It’s basically two podcasts spliced into one as I removed some of the less interesting stuff and other stuff that we had talked about twice during both recordings.
There will be a podcast on Monday (we’re recording it in a couple of hours and I plan on editing it so that it’s available Monday evening). I also have a massive amount of reviews (both video game and film) that are coming up in the next couple of days. When I mean tons, I mean close to a dozen reviews up on the site by Wednesday. I’ll also begin the daily rants tomorrow (I’m putting the finishing touches up on one right now). For those that enjoy coming to my site but have been annoyed by the lack of posts, I apologize. However, I’m not going to post stuff because I feel I have to post stuff. I want to make sure that the work I’m putting into this site is a labour of love rather than just hard labour. I’m working on some projects for the site that will hopefully mean bigger and better things around this corner of cyberspace.
Two last quick notes: the video game newsletter will now be published on Wednesdays now (which makes things much easier for me if post-production of the podcast or editing of the newsletter goes awry) and Madness Brewing Live has moved to 8:30 eastern on Wednesdays but remains on the air at WRGT Radio
Continue reading for the game sales charts for the last two weeks (all sales figures comes from www.vgchartz.com) as well as the release lists for games at retail for the last two weeks.
