Infectedpb503 and I had a chance to sit down with Aaron Kraus, Product Marketing Manager for Mirror’s Edge, while we were at the Penny Arcade Expo. Before we go too far into my thoughts of the game, let’s go over the basics first. Mirror’s Edge is being developed by DICE, and published by EA. This title falls under the First-Person Action Adventure genre. and will be released on the PS3, Xbox360, and PC. Read the rest of this entry »
As the saying goes, “Everything that has an beginning as an end” or some BS like that.
Anyways as some know, and rest will now, I am no longer with the crew of XBLRadio here. Reach certain points in life that you know its just time to try something different. And if you didn’t like listening to my voice just watch till where you “see” this ugly mug show up. Yes its still with Platform Nation!, as it is the greatest community I have found!
I wish all the current hosts of XBLRadio a Good Luck and hope all you listeners will continue to give the great feedback you have been to xblradio@platformnation.com.
Thanks for the great times!
Now if you thought that announcement was shocking… you might want to lay down!
As many of you know I happen to be a little-bit of a “360 Fanboy”. Can’t really blame me. Once your able to get past the RRoD it is the better “gaming” console and that’s why I wanted it. Therefore I think some of you may go into a state of shock, straight pass out or go mentally insane the moment you read the rest of this story!
So this is the Official Platform Nation Public Service Warning! Please have 911 dialed into your cell phone, have your thumb on the send key and click the link “for the rest of the story”! Be ready to hit send…
Penny Arcade Expo is one of the few gamer shows that seems too short.
Platform Nation was there at the final day of PAX 2008 to witness the final wind-down of this huge event.
GamerEdie Sellers was joined by a host of other Platform Nation hosts, including Chiahippo (Platform Nation), Mrs. LeftyBrown (The Married Gamers), X3R0 9 (XBLRadio), InfectedPB503 (XBLRadio), BDazzler (Gamers Pub) and Platform Nation’s fearless leader, Steve519.
This panel discussion of the final day’s events also includes an impressive array of guests. Todd Howard, creative director of Bethesda’s Fallout 3, reveals a bunch of details about the game and fearlessly answers a half-hour of constant questions from the panel and the live chat-room audience.
Shawn Smith of Ninjatown also gets peppered with tons of questions about the upcoming DS game and what it’s like to go from being a game journalist to a game developer.
Finally Jeff Pobst, CEO of Hidden Path, talks about their upcoming tower-defense game, Defense Grid: The Awakening. He also gets very candid about Microsoft’s certification process and offers up insight about the development industry from a CEO’s viewpoint.
Penny Arcade Expo was in full swing, and Platform Nation was there to bring you live coverage. On day two, Edie Sellers, BDazzler (of Gamers Pub), Cephiros (writer for Platform Nation), InfectedPB503, and X3r0 9 made the day special with interviews and impressions of games they’d seen… and those they didn’t see. Guests include Hudson Games and Trixie360 of Gamerscore Blog.
Check it out!
By the way, the recording jumps in about five minutes into the show, as the engineer forgot to start recording at the beginning of the show.
Hey what is up people, B4 here to bring you some sad news, there will be no .5 show this week. After everything that happenned during pax, and how screwed up all of our schedules got, it just seemed better to wait until everybody was back together to get things back on track.
I promise to you that we at XBL Radio are not forgetting about you, our loyal listeners, in any way shape or form. A 73.5 show will be recorded, and posted out to you as soon as possible. More posts will be up from the hosts also, but you have to understand that with the brick walls that life throws our way sometimes, that it is not always a guaranteed thing each and every day of the week.
You, the listeners and readers, are our top priority on this site, and this time we left you hanging, and we apologize for that.
Well its hard to believe that another summer is almost over. With younger gamers on there way back to school next week its good news for the older gamers. Either young or old if you’ve been participating in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade you have been playing some of the greatest games, available in retail or digital download, that have been released in a very, very long time.
Starting with Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 it was clear XBLA was going to be firing on all cylinders. You still here stories of people trying to be “top 6 of my all friends” or “trying to get the wax-off achievement in an act in insanity” and will for a long time.
Round 2 was, arguable, a bigger hit then Geo Wars 2. Braid sparked a lot of controversy with its high price but in the end it seems the gameplay is going to win out and make this platformer a must own.
Round 3, The Greatest Day in Gaming History, was not just a remake of a NES classic, but a complete redo with huge improvements. Bionic Commando: Rearmed turned into an instant classic that if you have not bought, do so NOW! Yes we could use the better d-pad but practice in the more then 60 challenge rooms will have you swinging like it was 1988 all over again.
Round 4… Well they could not all be stellar games and we all knew that one out of the five would be on the bottom. Its the nature of gaming and Galaga Legions was feed to the meat grinder. While it will find its niche will previous Galaga gamers it is by far the least anticipated game in the Summer of Arcade.
Then we get to this week. The final week in the Summer of Arcade (although summer still has 3+ weeks left) sees another highly anticipated title released. Having been played at the last two PAX’s, by our own Steve519, it appears Castle Crashers may be the best of all. Why? Impressions below!
Just got done playing a little Too Human (please, don’t ask, you don’t want to know) and was taken back to the dashboard as usual. In the little advertising box was a banner for Rock The Vote.
The very successful campaign to get people registered to vote and excited about participating in the upcoming elections.
Well the last three rounds of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade were heavyweights the likes of which we will never see again!
With Geomtry Wars Retro Evolved 2, Braid and Bionic Commando: Rearmed, released respecativly over the past three weeks, straight knock out buys; and with Castle Crashers looming next week (for 1200 MS Points) is the developers who made “Gaming History” with Pac-Man Championship Edition enough to revive, yet another, classic ’80s coin-op arcade shooter?
As you can see Bionic Commando: Rearmed is almost here! I’m getting as “giddy as a school gir” in anticipation of this title! Over the last couple weeks Capcom has been releasing the making of videos to show us how they redesigned and made BCR! Yesterday the third and final “making of” video was released and is below. Please check out all three videos (links below) and lets us know if you are planning on picking up this, soon to be, classic XBLA Title.
XBLRadio will be giving away a copy of Bionic Commando: Rearmed on Wednesday as part of our continued support of the “Summer of Arcade”. Look for the BCR post to be up VERY early in the morning, leave a comment in that post, and be entered to win you own copy of Bionic Command: Rearmed!
The Fable 2 Pub Games are also announced for release on Wednesday and XBLRadio will be giving away a free copy of those as well on Wednesday!
So keep checking back for you chance to win BCR and/or Fable 2 Pub Games!
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