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Episode 47, Week of January 18th 2010

On Episode 47, the hosts discuss the NPD numbers for December, complete with spin, and the delay of several titles with our special guest, Cat, Community Director for N4G.com, Admin for the N4G Network and Review Editor for the ZTGD Network. Hold onto your headphones, folks. This episode runs an epic two hours.

PGL News

Peench’s Poll: Is Wii's lack of HD a limiting factor?
http://www.pregamelobby.com/forum/si...ng-factor.html

Movie Releases





January 20
- House of Numbers (Portland)

January 22
- Creation (limited)
- Drool (LA)
- Extraordinary Measures
- The Girl on the Train (NY; LA release: February 19)
- Legion
- The Paranoids (NY)
- Soundtrack for a Revolution (NY)
- To Save a Life (limited)
- Tooth Fairy

DVD Releases

January 19
- According to Greta (Drama, Romance)
- Across the Hall (Thriller)
- Artie Lange: Jack and Coke (Comedy)
- Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening (Comedy)
- Blood Creek (Drama, Horror, Thriller)
- Dallas: The Complete Twelfth Season (Drama, TV)
- Defying Gravity: The Complete First Season (Drama, Sci-Fi)
- Fraggle Rock: The Complete Animated Series (Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical)
- The Game: The Second Season (Comedy, Drama, Romance)
- Gamer (Action, Drama, Thriller)
- Girlfriends: The Complete Series Pack (Comedy, TV)
- Girlfriends: The Final Season (Comedy, TV)
- The Invention of Lying (Comedy, Romance)
- Jonathan Creek: Season 4 (Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV)
- The Keeper (Action)
- Kingdom of the Spiders (Special Edition) (Horror, Sci-Fi)
- Pandorum (Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller)
- Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics: Volume One (Comedy, Family, Mystery)
- Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball (Action, Comedy)
- Streamers (Drama, War)
- Waking the Dead: Season Four (Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV)
- Weeds: Season Five (Comedy, Crime, Drama, TV)
- Whiteout (Action, Thriller)

Blu-Ray Releases

January 19
- According to Greta (Drama, Romance)
- Across the Hall (Thriller)
- Artie Lange: Jack and Coke (Comedy)
- The Bourne Identity (Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller)
- The Bourne Supremacy (Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller)
- Che (The Criterion Collection) (Drama)
- Gamer (Action, Drama, Thriller)
- The Invention of Lying (Comedy, Romance)
- Magnolia (Drama)
- Pandorum (Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller)
- Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball (Action, Comedy)
- Weeds: Season Five (Comedy, Crime, Drama, TV)
- Whiteout (Action, Thriller)

Movie News

Avatar Watch

TV News

Rumor: New Deal in the Works for Conan O’Brien

Buy The Tonight Show on Craigslist

Video Game Releases

Dark Void (360, PS3, PC)

New Demos

Arcade
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Video Game News

NPD Report for December/2009 – Everybody Wins (with the proper spin)

Data

Nintendo Wii - 3.81M
Nintendo DS - 3.31M
PlayStation 3 - 1.36M
Xbox 360 - 1.31M
PSP - 654.7K
PlayStation 2 - 333.2K

01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo Wii) - 2.82M
02. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo Wii) - 2.41M
03. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo Wii) - 1.79M
04. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) - 1.63M
05. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Playstation 3) - 1.12M
06. Wii Play (Nintendo Wii) - 1.01M
07. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo Wii) - 936.1K
08. Assassin’s Creed II (Xbox 360) - 783.1K
09. Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) - 728.5K
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story (Nintendo DS) - 656.7K

December Was the Best Month Ever For Industry at $5.53B


360 - $4.8B in total consumer spending, with a 8.8 game attach rate, leading in 3rd party developer sales with 43%
Source 1
Source 2

PS3 – 22% growth in 2009, in striking distance of 360

Wii – Console sales up 1.66 million units over last year, leading in 1st party sales
Source 1
Source 2

Equal Treatment for FFXIII across both consoles

AC3 to Star Ezio
PGL Discussion

CoD: MW2 Tops $1B in Sales

EA: “We Pissed off a lot of people with Army of Two”

PGL Thread on the Army of Two sequel

Sony News

GT5 Delayed, now TBA

Only 90% Complete

Microsoft News

Forza 3 Adds DLC

Splinter Cell: Conviction Delayed for “Polish”

More Titles Added to the Platinum Hits Stable

Dragon Age DLC Delayed Again

Xbox and Dreamcast: The Early Years

Ubisoft to have 12 Natal enabled games ready for launch
This is a Google Translation. My translation of that is “Our strategy is that, whenever there is a new application, we want to be at the forefront and to get better with each implementation. MS announced at CES that Natal will be released by year end. We think it will be around the middle of November and we should have a dozen titles ready.”

Mass Effect 2 Won’t Be Charging for DLC on Launch Day

New Equipment Management Features for ME2

Nintendo News

Netflix on Wii, Lack of HD

Wii 2 adds more than just HD

PC News

Star Trek: Online Lifetime Subscription
$240 Lifetime or $120/yr being offered for pre-orders. Normal subscription rate of $15/mo should apply.

Weekly Whatchas

Whatcha Listening to?

Cat: N4G Podcast, Vampire Weekend, She & Him
Lou: Beastie Boys, Flight of the Conchords
Geoff: How Stuff Works.com, This American Life
Sam: BS Report

Whatcha Watching?

Cat: Moon, How to Be, Chuck, Big Bang Theory, House, Bones, Community, BSG: The Plan, Caprica, Golden Globes
Lou: Dexter S3, Heroes, Golden Globes
Geoff: Star Trek: First Contact, Screener of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Dollhouse, Community, Parks and Rec, Lost S5 finale, Avatar
Sam: Cowboys vs Vikings, Jets vs Chargers, 24

Whatcha Playing?

Cat: Emberwind, Trenches for iPhone, Dragon Age
Lou: Dragon Age, Borderlands, Tactics Ogre
Geoff: Zune Sudoku, MW2, Borderlands, 1 vs 100, Star Trek: Online Beta
Sam: Borderlands, NCAA

ARC Viking Edition – 80 – R3dDr4g0n
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | ARC Viking Edition
Be the best racer in the Viking Edition of Antigrav Racing Championship. Choose any of the 8 high speed hovercrafts and rule on the 5 Viking race tracks. ARC Viking Edition features a top 50 online scoreboard for each track. Can you make it to the top ??!!

Bacterio – 240 – MayaAC
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | BACTERIO
Bacterio is 3D action puzzle game. You should avoid fallen blocks, eat and separate for making the road to the goal. Survive!

Blood on the Dance Floor – 80 – EpicCreations
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Blood On The Dance Floor
Zombie killing action! Survive as many rounds as you can! Up to four players on a local machine with multiple characters, a variety of weapons, two intriguing worlds and almost certain death. Grab your friends and fight your way through the zombie devastation in a fun cartoon world with plenty of zombie killing dance music to start a revolution!

Decimation X – 80 – Xona Games
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Decimation X
Features: Insane firepower, progressive defences, tons of power-ups. Smooth 60 frames per second, pure arcade action. Decimation X - Xona Games - Teaser

Dreams of Witchtown – 80 – Dip Slit
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Dreams of Witchtown
Dreams of Witchtown is a 2D side scrolling action RPG. Players join elderly witch Aurora, as she embarks on a quest to save her world from the sinister forces trying to destroy it. Defeat your enemies, increase your level, and save your progress; all with one foot in the grave!

Pan-Global Racing Syndicate 1910 – 80 – idle han
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Pan-Global Racing Syndicate
Whenever anyone has invented anything, people have gathered to see who's the fastest at it. Up to 4 player split-screen allows sweet old racing for modern gamers. Perfectly complimented by peppy piano music making this a fun pastime from past times.

SOS – 80 – GBCoder29
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | SOS
The paper pencil game of SOS. You and your opponent take turns placing either an S or an O on the grid. Score points by getting an SOS. Challenge the computer in single player mode, or take on up to 3 friends local, system link or on XBOX LIVE.

Space Pirates from Tomorrow – 240 – DrMistry
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/ga...0-000058550407
Struggle your way to the top - or bottom - of the pile as you blast your way around the galaxy in this HUGE, no-holds-barred 3D space romp! Thousands of star systems in which to fight, trade and race, and an infinite number of challenging missions. Can YOU compete?

ToyBorgs – 240 – addmoregames
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | ToyBorgs
ToyBorgs is a fast paced 2D party game, supporting local and online sessions through Xbox LIVE for up to 4 players. It offers 4 different robots, each with its own special ability and 15 different maps in several locations.

You Will Die – 80 – Derrick Hopkins
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | You Will Die
Fight against an unrelenting enemy that only grows more powerful each time you defeat it. 'Bullet Hell' style shootem-up.

Originally Posted by Cat

Thanks for having me on the show, guys! In gratitude, i defiled your logo:

That is freaking awesome!

I totally agree!! hahah

that's a major improvement. With three faces only the blind could love, assuming they never touch them, it's a breath of fresh air.

Thanks again Cat, you were awesome!

only about 1/2 though this week's cast, but good so far. Thanks for throwing in you views on the Leno-Conan situation. Also thanks for the special guest, nice to hear a new voice on the show.
Oh and the Conan Facebook Fans are known as " I'm with COCO", olittleone became of fan of it, so thats how i know.
And are any of the Lords gonna join in Halo for the Bungie Haiti Relief nights coming up this week ? Change you emblems and play a little, haven't gotten a chance to game with any of you guys.

I may be able to jump in on Thursday night. I still own Halo and I should be free after 7 MST.

Wow, Big Bang, Community and House? Cat can come back any time!

Great show this week all; one of my faves so far. Keep up the great work!

Great Lobby cast guys! It kept me company on the way out and back from the Desert on Friday. Cat was a great addition and totally fit right in. Man, I so wanted to be online while listening b/c there were so many comments I wanted to make! Cat made me laugh out loud w/ the comment about AI bots teabagging. Classic!

And really Geoff, you haven't read the Harry Potter books? I only started reading them with my son recently but they are really good. I recommend you get on em.

Thanks for joining in on the 'Cast Cat.

I read the first one. Jordan probably has them all around here somewhere...

LOL at Cat. I'll ask Dmiller to look for a "thanks thanks" button so we can add another layer to the site. Either that or you can jump into the Thank Me thread and get your thank on!! haha.

If we have to get a deal on Amazon and send him all of the Harry Potter books we'll get him reading them! I mean he DID say he liked the first one.

Another great cast Lords and a fine hello to the lady. It took me a long time to get through this one because I was at work. Listen to 2 minutes, pause for 20 and so on. And I still love you guys even if you're all Gears haters. Nice job again.

*sigh*

Okay, okay. I will see if my brother has the rest of the books and read them. I am assuming that he does have them, since he is a big ol' nerd. I don't have a snuggie, but maybe I can find one that looks like a wizard's robe. Then I can put on my wizard's hat and... nm.

Awesome! And yes, we DEFINITELY need pics of that one Geoff!! haha

Hmmm, that should be a site giveaway!!!