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Now that I have some free time between finals and my summer course I can do a few more shows. Recording this Saturday is a show on the new campaign “The Passing” (lol). Send your stories and thoughts on the campaign to atr@podtacular.com or you can use the submission form under the contact tab above.
Oh, and we have some pretty nice guests in the lineup! Of course I’m gonna hang it over your heads as to who it is, but lets just say they’re from Rooster Teeth.
Get those submissions in now!
Some people would question releasing a DVD when the movie is still in the theater, but are you going to tell Cameron that? I dare you. He’ll buy your house, street, town, state, country, and possibly planet – then kick you the fuck off.Narcogen and Blackstar, together with Miguel Chavez, look forward to the Halo Reach Beta coming May 3, 2010; wrap up some final thoughts on Halo 3: ODST, and reminisce about the retirement of Halo 2 multiplayer on Xbox Live.
Show Highlights:
Look, Wendy, I Can Fly
What Is The Primary Main Objective
These Are Not Gilbert’s Arenas
The Promise Of Firefight
Should Bungie Listen To Fans?
For Every Arena There Is A Season
Have A Nice Trip (Mine)
Reach’s Rolling Rank Resets
3rd Party USB Sticks On Xbox 360
*Not By Bungie
DLC vs DRM
Halo Public Betas
Farewell To Halo 2
Politically Incorrect Custom Games
Conclusion
A deeper look at ODST– what worked and what didn’t in this small-team, short-cycle Bungie experiment that landed with the profile of a fat expansion and the pricetag of a discounted full title.
Show Highlights:
Keep On Truckin’
GamesRadar: 7/10
Was ODST a Good Idea?
Demise of Chronicles
Comes With Beta (or The Crackdown Factor)
Full Game vs Expansion
What Would 343 Do?
What’s Good in ODST?
Will it Rain on Reach?
Time Flies
Finding My Way
An Uplifting Preserve
NMPD HQ FTW
Playing Detective
Clues That Work…
…and Those That Don’t
Kikowani Station
Mission… Accomplished?
Allowing For Failure
Breaking the Finale
Blowing the Bridge (or not)
Carrots and Sticks
Death From Above
For those wondering, we ambushed Blackstar late at night on his birthday with a 3-hour recording session he wasn’t fully prepared for, and that accounts for him being quiet in this episode (that and the fact that I don’t know when to shut up). More of his contributions will be in the second half of this episode, which looks ahead to the Multiplayer Beta of Halo Reach.
This is the MP3 version of this podcast.
Hey guys, EA and Dr. Pepper are running a deal right now where you can get some “free” DLC for Battlefield Bad Company 2. Not usually a big deal, but each of the bottle-cap-DLC has an achievement attached. We figured you might want to know more about it, so we cut together this video! Enjoy.
