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  • Episode 102: Customs and Callins

    Download | Shownotes It’s the customs and callins show where we talk about the top few custom games people sent in, the top few jokes, some voice mails from the month from CapnKrunk, and some tales from the foxhole. Guest host this week is Dialpex, the community director at Podtacular. Art this week is an…

  • Send in stuff for episode 103: Halo 3 show!

    A storm is brewing on the horizon. Thunder rolls and the air smells of wet asphault and dust. It’s deathly calm and an eerie silence blankets the gaming landscape. Halo 3 is coming. It’s the calm before the storm. The latest with Halo 3 We haven’t done a Halo 3 show in a little while.…

  • Pod TV Episode 5: Catch Skull

    iPod Version | YouTube Version It’s time to find out about another hidden skull in the Halo 2 campaign: The catch skull. This skull makes the covenant throw a bunch of grenades at you. Cryptoflix, the new Pod TV lead, walks us through the process in this 10 minute video. Keep ’em coming, Crypto! ‹…

  • Farewell to Ju Blaine

    Back in the day we realized we would need a forum for our fledgeling podcast. Since we didn’t have the spiffy site you see here, we needed a quick fix. So we set up shop as a Bungie.net group. A guy named Ju Blaine approached me saying we should probably have a moderator on the…

  • The Godtacular Bible study returns!

    After a long hiatus and some soul searching, Godtacular is being revived. What is Godtacular? It’s a Bible study done in a Halo 2 lobby. ChuckieJ will be hosting it and I’ll be hangin’ there too. What does are we going to talk about? This time it’s a discussion-oriented study called “Setting you free to…

  • Weekly Porridge #50!

    The day has finally arrived! After 49 adventures with Quality Jeverage, Painkilla05, and the rest of the Porridge, WP reaches a landmark 50 comics. Let’s see how they celebrate… More partying in the forums

  • Submit stuff for Episode 102: Customs and Callins!

    We’re crankin’ out the episodes on the new schedule: around Thursday every week is the plan. I figured I’d give you guys plenty of time to get stuff in for next week’s show. I almost respect your mom! Got a decent Halo joke? Yo momma Halo jokes are my favorite. Send ’em in! We’re also…

  • Episode 101: Girls in Gaming Round Table

    Download | Shownotes This episode we talk all about girls in gaming: their reputation and stereotypes, how they deal with idiots on Xbox Live, the crazy messages they get, how they handle all-girl gaming clans and organizations, and JVB being banned from the “house of hotness.” This show was a lot of fun and has…

  • Submit stuff for Episode 101: Girls in Gaming!

    Wow, we’ve been news posting maniacs around here! Well we got another show coming up real soon, and as usual we would love it if you’d participate. How? Glad you asked. Cleanin’ up Xbox Live one chauvinist piglet at a time I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a Halo game with a girl…

  • Podtacular, Planet Xbox360, Uncle Gamer, and Gamertag Radio sound off on Crackdown

    Recently JVB, Vicious696, Godfree, and Nelson got together to do an audio review of Crackdown, the game that comes free when you buy the Halo 3 beta. Wanna hear from them whether it’s worth the cash? Check it out on Gamertag Radio or on Uncle Gamer. I heard it’s on Planet Xbox360 too but I…

  • Weekly Porridge #49: Killing Time

    Quality Jeverage returns with another Weekly Porridge, this time to just clown around with some community members at podtacular.com. Can’t wait to see what #50 has for us! More talk in the forums. ‹ Weekly Porridge #43: Gears of Warup

  • Podtacular Radio Episode 9

    Download Painkilla05 makes his triumphant return with another episode of songs to frag by: Podtacular Radio. This one focuses specifically on 8-bit songs: music that uses the audio palette of a NES. Check it out! It should be up on iTunes by now as well. More discussion in the forums here ‹ Podtacular Radio Episode…

  • A full review of Crackdown

    Crackdown puts you in the roll of a “Super-cop”. Who is genetically enhanced to fight crime. As an employee of the “Agency”, you are thrown into the fire. And It’s up to you to clean up the streets. You will have to exterminate such pest as Los Muertos, The Volk and the Shai-Gen Corporation. Lets…

  • Episode 100: Anniversary Special

    Download | Shownotes This is a very special 1:20 long 100th episode with a look back over the last 25 naarated by CapnKrunk, a look toward Podtacular’s future with JVB, Painkilla05, Algebra Cow and Gemini Ace, some special voice mails, and the Podtacular Awards assembled by LT Redteam. Be sure to hang in for the…

  • A tribute to Ciclonic

    Back in the day Freak in a Box volunteered to edit audio for Podtacular. Eventually he had to resign. So I ran a competition to see who the next volunteer editor would be. Ciclonic came out on top and started editing our shows every single week. He’s been doing this for quite a long time…

  • Be a part of history with episode 100!

    Wow I can’t believe we’re celebrating our 100th episode this week! We want to make it special and we need your help to do it. Future Sport: it’s the sport of the future We’ve taken a look back on our one year anniversary. This time we’re gonna look over the horizon at what the future…

  • Episode 99: Crackdown Event with special guests

    Download | Shownotes This show we first cover the crackdown event in Redmond, Washington. Liquilife from the uncle gamer podcast and I get JVB and Vicious696’s takes on the event and what they learned… straight from the secret lair of Chris Paladino, our buddy from the gamerscore blog. After that we chill with Godfree from…

  • Review Frenzy is living up to their name

    GLewis recently started Review Frenzy: the Podtacular game reviewing team. He and the Review Frenzy crew have already posted 4 game reviews! The most recent is for Battlestations: Midway and there are also reviews you can check out for Lost Planet, Rainbow Six: Vegas, by Killazilla and Heavy Weapon by OnlyUPS. Looks like they’ve got…

  • Weekly Porridge #48: The Great Banned North

    Painkilla05 is the occasionally overzealous moderator of our IRC chat room. Quality Jeverage tells us a true story of a crazy thing Painkilla did with his banhammer. More jabber in the forums.

  • Episode 98: Halo 3 beta special with Luke from 1up.com

    Download | Shownotes We broke the mold and went right back to a Halo 3 show since the beta is a hot topic right now. Better yet, we were fortunate enough to have a guest who’s more qualified then just about anyone to talk about it: Luke from the 1up Yours Podcast. Luke has played…