Wed, 29 October 2008 INTERVIEW: Our guest 'Messiac' is a games development lecturer. He talks to Someguy, a recruiter for the games industry, about games design courses, their relevance to the industry and what their graduates can realistically expect. With: Danjo, Someguy, Souldaddy Music: 'I like it like That (s.thaens)' by Stefsax 31 min. chat / 4 min. music 16.5 MB Emall Us Comments[0] |
Mon, 27 October 2008 We review FarCry2 for the Xbox 360, chat about it in relation to Halo 3's A.I. and its importance to the games industry in terms of user-created content. Guests: Danjo, Messiac, Someguy, Soul Music: 'Ophelia's Song (DNA Remix)' by DNA 24 min. chat / 4 min. music 12.9 MB Email Us Comments[1] |
Mon, 27 October 2008 We review Fable 2 and discuss whether it's the standard by which all other RPGs should now be measured. Guests: Danjo, Messiac, Someguy, Souldaddy Music: 'Shadow Games (Radio Mix)' by Loveshadow 23 min. chat / 5 min. music 11.6MB Email us Comments[1] |
Sun, 26 October 2008 We review Dead Space 2, hear about the Resistance 2 beta and chat about 'impact bias' and why your brain might trick you into getting overexcited about new games. (Find out more at http://tinyurl.com/6f4rlp) Guests: Games development lecturer Messiac, Soul, Danjo and SOmeguy. Music: The theme to 'Love' by Ian Dorsch 18 min. chat / 3 min. music 9.57 MB Email us Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 October 2008 We discuss - vigorously - Peter Molyneux's view of the game's industry internal divide between hardcore and casual gamers. Is this viewpoint damaging for the industry and for 'hardcore' games? (This show was inspired by a Kotaku article and a shot of Peter M. holding an invisible baby.) Guests: Danjo, Someguy, Soul Music: 'Short Fuses Burn Long Bridges (bill berry mix)' [sic] by William Berry 25 min. chat / 7 min. music. 14.9MB Email us Comments[0] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 We chat about playing the Call of Duty 5 beta, the Tom Clancy's End War demo and Saints Row 2. Guests: Danjo, Someguy, Soul. Music: Black is the Night remixed by Scott Altham 20 min. chat / 6 min. music 11.7 MB Email us Comments[0] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 Why do some gamers like to be part of the action and why do some prefer to stand back and direct the action? What differentiates an RTS and FPS player? Guests: Danjo Olivaw, Souldaddy. Music: '2025', DoKashiteru. 25 min. chat / 4 min. music 13.6MB Email us Comments[1] |
Wed, 15 October 2008 In this episode we discuss whether a game, in terms of its 3D setting, can progress a story better than a book or film. Unusually, we had audio problems with this episode so sometimes our voices cut out and there's a rather abrupt ending, which was highly annoying. Music is 'Certain Death (Still Alive Remix)' by Blackberry 18 mins. chat / 7 mins. music. 11MB Email us Comments[1] |
Sun, 12 October 2008 We chat about what we've been up to this week, including Rock Band 2, Sid Meier's Colonization, playing the joy that is Little Big Planet and being confused by contemporary dance. Music is 'Star Guide' by Tryad. 20 min. chat, 3 min. music. 10.5MB Email us Comments[1] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 I'm posting a Podcast Alley paragraph. <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/"> My Podcast Alley feed!</a> {pca-b84561e302379c9be9898ab1c1307fc2} The idea, readers, is that when Podcast Alley - a podcast directory - scans this post, they'll realise that I run the HatchetJob.com podcast and will list me on their site. At least I believe that's the case Questions or comments? Category: Games -- posted at: 12:25 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 9 October 2008 Do games need protagonists with undefined histories for players to immerse themselves? Guests: Souldaddy, Someguy Music: 'This is our music (Thruewiddit mix)' by Duckett 26 min. chat, 3 min. music. Some swearing. Email us Comments[0] |
Tue, 7 October 2008 Can the games industry learn something from people that collect Japanese dolls? Do gamers just play with virtual dolls? Music is 'Cherry' by Josh Woodward. Guests: Someguy, Souldaddy. 20 min. chat, 5 min. music. 11.4MB Email us Comments[0] |
Mon, 6 October 2008 Xbox 360 120GB HD, The National Theatre, Brothers in Arms, Rock Band 2 drums, FIFA, football and class war. 24 minutes' chat, 5 minutes' music. Swearing. Music: 'Chrysalide' by Wuzz. Email us Comments[1] |
Sat, 4 October 2008 Guests: Danjo Olivaw, Someguy, Souldaddy How games reward you for playing them. Music: 'Bust This Bust That', Professor Kliq www.professorkliq.com 38:39 / 9.97MB Email us Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 October 2008 Guests: Souldaddy, Danjo Olivaw, Someguy 00:00 - 22:00 Can games be distinctly British? 22:00 - 27:10 Music. ‘Between Light and Shadow (Feat. Moving Sand)’ by Triplexity. Show is a diminutive 6.21 MB Email usComments[0] |
Tue, 30 September 2008 Guests: Souldaddy, Danjo Olivaw, Someguy. We discuss what we thought of Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway on the 360, Pure and even nibble on a slice of Splinter Cell: Double Agent. 00:00 - 28:32, Brothers in Arms. 28:32 - 30:30 - Pure 30:30 - 34:40 - Splinter Cell: Double Agent 34:40 - 40:44 - Music. ‘Open Up’ by Gideon K.
A middling 40:44 and a skimpy less-than-ten megs. Swearing. Comments[0] |
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