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Episode 67, Week of June 7th 2010

Episode 67 finds the hosts mixing up the format a bit. The Weekly Whatchas start off the show, followed by new movie and game releases and news and rounding out the episode is The Indie Game Roundup. Sam, Jordan and Geoff are joined via Skype by Cat of N4G fame and Jon Liu of Ustream chatroom fame.

PGL News

Peench’s Poll: Stories in Games?
Last week: How Did You Get Started With Gaming

Peench Attending the E3 Conference!

Weekly Whatchas


Whatcha Listening to?

Cat: "Special Playlist", Nina Simone, PGL Lobbycast
Jon: Metallica, Tool, Classical, PGL Lobbycast
Jordan: Gorillaz, Dragonforce
Geoff: Hardcore History 4 Pt Series on WWII Eastern Front, SModcast, Evil Avatar Podcast
Sam: D&D Podcast, Penny Arcade D&D Podcast

Whatcha Watching?

Cat: Gavin and Stacey, Mythbusters, Merlin
Jon: True Blood S1, Saving Private Ryan, Elf
Jordan: Kill Bills, Funny People
Geoff: Burn Notice
Sam: Robot Chicken Vid Podcast, NBA Finals, Tosh.0, Stetlana, The Black Donnelys

Whatcha Playing?

Cat: Red Dead Redemption, Torchlight, Civ IV
Jon: Nada
Jordan: Red Dead Redemption, Final Fantasy III
Geoff: Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake
Sam: Civilization: Revolution, Splinter Cell: Conviction w/ Seahawks TD4, Uncharted

Movie Releases




June 11
- The A-Team
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (limited)
- Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (NY, LA, Houston)
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (limited)
- The Karate Kid
- Kings of the Evening (limited)
- Winter's Bone (NY, LA; expands: June 18)

DVD Releases

June 8
- The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (Comedy)
- The A-Team: The Complete Series (Limited Edition Box Set) (Action, Adventure, Comedy, TV)
- Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories Collection (Various)
- Cinema Pride Collection (Various)
- Coach (Romance)
- The Cry of the Owl (Drama, Thriller)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season (Comedy, TV)
- Family Matters: The Complete First Season (Comedy, TV)
- From Paris With Love (Action)
- iCarly: iSaved Your Life (Comedy, Family, TV)
- IMAX Horses: The Story of Equus (Documentary)
- Jackie Chan in Shinjuku Incident (Crime, Thriller)
- Jim Henson's Dog City: The Movie (Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery, TV)
- Nip/Tuck: The Sixth and Final Season (Drama, TV)
- Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy (Comedy, Drama, Music)
- Power Kids (Action, Comedy)
- Shaun the Sheep: One Giant Leap for Lambkind (Animation, Comedy)
- Shutter Island (Psychological Thriller)
- StarStruck (Extended Edition) (Musical, TV)
- Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series (Adventure, TV)
- TCM Spotlight: Charlie Chan Collection (Various)

Blu-Ray Releases

June 8
- Caddyshack (Comedy, Sports)
- From Paris With Love (Action)
- The Illusionist (Combo Pack) (Mystery, Romance)
- Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy (Comedy, Drama, Music)
- Power Kids (Action, Comedy)
- Shutter Island (Psychological Thriller)

TV/Movie News

Tom Cruise to Produce MTV Movie Awards as Les Grossman

NBC’s Heroes May Live Again

The Crow Reboot Moving Forward

Hobbit Director Quits

12 Blockbuster Films Recreated Using Legos

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Jeremy Renner Near Deal to Join Marvel’s Avengers

Video Game Releases




Green Day: Rock Band (360, PS3, Wii)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 (360, PS3, Wii)
Pure Football (360, PS3)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP)
Dungeon Fighter Online (PC)
Mortal Online (PC)

New Demos
Arcade
Snoopy: Flying Ace – 800

Video Game News





Vanquish Will Be “Fastest” Shooter Ever, No Multiplayer

PS3 to Receive “Definitive Edition” of Vanquish

Valve Cancels Portal 2 Event, Promises Surprise

“Dear Subject Name Here,

Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event certainly counts as a surprise, we are pleased to further announce that the cancellation of the event is not THE surprise. However, per International treaties regarding the definition of the word "surprise", of which both Aperture Science and Valve are signatories, the time, date and content of the actual surprise will only become available as you experience the surprise.

If you'd like to ask fruitless questions about the E3 Portal 2 surprise or, more fruitfully, schedule an appointment to attend a Portal 2 screening at the Valve booth during E3, please contact Valve's Special Envoy to Surprises, Doug Lombardi.

Thank you for <>

PS: The surprising record scratch is also not the surprise.”

Rockstar Games Pulls Out of E3 2010

Dev: Alpha Protocol “Should Have Been Cancelled”

Elder Scrolls V to be Announced at E3?

Related News: Bethesda Reveals (Partial?) 2010 Lineup

Sony News



Sony: PS Move Reaction Time is 22ms

Sony PS3 3D Update Coming June 10 (Possibly June 9)

Sony Brings HBO to PlayStation Store

Sony Including HDMI Cable In New Bundle
Additional Source

E3 2010: DC Universe Online Gets a Release Date

Microsoft News

United Airlines Offers Customers Zune Inflight Audio

Joy Ride Becomes Project Natal Launch Game

Natal is the Real Deal, No Lag

360 to be Rebranded as Xbox 360+?

Hulu on Xbox 360 Exists, But Tied Up By Rights Issues

Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure For Xbox 360 Outed by Ratings Board

Nintendo News

CoD: Black Ops: “Wii Version Will Blow You Away”

Indie Games Roundup

Fifteen – 80 – Ix Marcus Ix
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Fifteen
The classic Fifteen puzzle game in 3D with additional features such as a built-in Paint Studio and the possibility of importing your and your friends gamerpictures!

Good Sir, A Balloon Race! – 80 – Super Boise
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Good Sir, A Balloon Race!
Challenge the Automated Aeronaut or a fellow Gentleman to a sport of ballooning courtesy of Super Boise Games.

Blood Tempest – 80 – ZXB Games
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Blood Tempest
Take the wheel of a heavily armed speedboat as you take on enemy boats, frigates, and battleships with a multitude of weapons and upgrades including missiles, machine guns, mines, armor, engines, and more. After your first intense dog fight you won’t be able to put it down!

Light Bikes 360 – 80 – Angry Aardvark
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Light Bikes 360
Take on your friends in this 1 - 4 player fight to the death! Combining elements of many of your old, favourite classics into a single, modern, SUPERGAME OF TOTAL CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION!!

Aah Little Atlantis – 80 – Robert Swan
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Aah Little Atlantis
Don your thinking cap to save the Atlanteans from their sinking islands! Grab a life jacket in sympathy to those chucked in the sea! Put on climbing gear to help them to the highest mountains! Now take all those props off, as they just get in the way of the TV. Aah Little Atlantis is a quick-to-play strategy game made for a competition in 48 hours, and then spruced up for your console enjoyment.

Quickball – 240 – ShaolinStu
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Quickball
Quickball is a new lightning-fast, exciting and physical team sport. Teams of four race up and down the field, trying to score goals. The pace is fast and the rules are few. Compete with any of the 24 teams to win the North American Quickball League championship.

Ice Crush 10,000 B.C. – 240 – imagodespira
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Ice Crush 10.000 B.C.
Try as fast as possible to clean up the playfield, earn bonus time with speed combinations and discover all special items.

Chaos Node – 80 - Xalterax
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Chaos Node
Experience a game like nothing you've ever played. Work with or against up to 4 players in a frantic local multi-player experience. Compete with the world to hold the top online score! Infinite pulses of random physics driven game play, means no two matches will ever be the same! How long can you survive to defend, the Chaos Node?

Prismatic Solid – 80 – heloli
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Prismatic Solid
A forced rail shooter with a simple and stylish graphic spaces consistent of primitive and solid figures. Numerous amount of particles and tremendous amount of projectiles will thrill you. Impressive effects, expression and evolution. 　Battle across six different stages against various enemies. Each stage has an unique end-of-stage guardian.

Blast – 80 – Michael Dowd
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Blast
The object of Blast is to shoot the ball through a series of moving systems. Shoot the ball from the current green barrel to the yellow barrel using the barrels in between. The game speeds up each level so shoot carefully!

Rock a Block – 80 – diskyoz
Xbox LIVE Marketplace | Rock A Block
An original racing, puzzle, platform game. Rotate your colored block to match the roller coaster of primary colors as you race up to 5 opponents along a brain twisting track of twitch gameplay or go head to head in 2 player. Alternatively take on the championship mode. Nine unlockable maps, five unlockable opponents and 9 unlockable add ons that give your racer boosted attributes.

Botmann and Peench didn't make it into the show due to technical difficulties, but thank you so much for making the attempt! Everyone's participation means a great deal to us!

I tried the Ustream chatroom, biut I got a server error and said to try later. Had on both the old and beta Ustream pages. Maybe next week.

Oddly enough it wouldn't let me log in. Every time I tried it would tell me to create an account or login. Something funky there. Tried it on a different computer later on that evening and was able to log in fine! haha. Crazy interwebs.

Hey, does anyone else think it strange that in the Karate Kid movie, the kid is being taught Kung Fu?

Sam, is that D&D podcast as in Dungeons & Dragons? I listen to one also called "roll for initiative" which mainly focuses on the older editions of AD&D. Can you post a link to the one you listen to please?

Originally Posted by Cat

Thanks to Peench for offering to carry all my swag around at E3...

I aim to please.

Originally Posted by Twilight

Sam, is that D&D podcast as in Dungeons & Dragons? I listen to one also called "roll for initiative" which mainly focuses on the older editions of AD&D. Can you post a link to the one you listen to please?

Heck yes!

Here is a link to the ones with Penny Arcade, and then I couldn't find where they have all of the regular D&D podcasts, but here is the most recent one. You can also find them through iTunes or the Zune Marketplace.

I would too, but I just like being around attractive ladies. I'm typical guy like that, LOL.

As for the Lords, we need one person of reasonable logic if only occasionally, LOL. Next time, tell Jon Liu you love Vizio and the Pioneer Elites are overrated and overpriced, LOL.

It is such a blast to be a part of the Lobbycast! Cat, it a pleasure chatting with you! It's funny to go back and listen to the podcast and remember what Cat and/or I was saying at that point, and on a couple occasions hearing the guys chuckling after reading what we were saying. Too bad not all of it could be repeated on the recording for everyone to enjoy...

That was pretty funny stuff in the ustream chat room.