In: Podcasts by GamerEdie
28 Jun 2009
What a weird episode this is.
Other than being unusally long, it’s a GameHounds-record number of people on it.
Without Hawkes, Edie Sellers and Commander Tim decide to open up the Skype line to anyone who calls. The result is charming and sometimes hilarious.
In addition to meeting just a few of the GameHounds faithful, Tim and Edie discuss:
UPDATE: Sorry, we forgot to mention Alex the Deadite’s email address to send your $1 donation via Paypal. It’s alex.huneault@gmail.com.
Hey guys. Ever listened to a podcast of ours and thought: “I could do that”?
Or ever heard us talking about the gaming news and thought: “Why didn’t they talk about the story that I thought was important?”
Well, tonight’s your chance.
Stuff happened this week, and we had to call off our scheduled guest. And rather that just give you the same stuff we always do, we’ve decided to do something fun.
Between 6 and 7 p.m. tonight Pacific Time, you can use your Skype to call us (Skype name: GameHounds) and bring your best news topic. Or you can weigh in on whatever Tim and Edie are talking about (no Hawkes this week). We’ll cycle through callers.
If you call and we don’t answer, it’s because we’re on another line with someone else, so just call back in a few mintues.
We’ve never done this before, and it may fail miserably, but no matter what, you’ll hear the success (or fail) on this week’s show.
Has it really been almost a month since you’ve heard from the Humpdate?
Yes, yes, it has. But that didn’t keep the SportsHound, Maynard’s Minute, or the Digital Cowboys idle.
It’s the first Humpdate post-E3, so check in with them to find out what they’re thinking.
In: Podcasts by GamerEdie
22 Jun 2009
How is it that an episode with a number synonymous for an extreme act of lovemaking could have so much hate?
But then again, this is the GameHounds. Unfortunately, it’s a GameHounds without Cooper Hawkes this week, but in his stead we have Mr. Maynard of the Unknown Gamers of STL and the Humpdate!
This week, Maynard, Commander Tim and Edie discuss:
In: Reviews by GamerEdie
20 Jun 2009
My GameHounds co-host Commander Tim has it to me so many times in the past: “Adventure games can never be good on a console.”
He’s not the only person to believe so.
And who’s to blame him? The adventure game flourished in the days when only the PC could provide the graphics, interface and processing capacity to do the job. The whole genre was developed with the mouse in mind.
Today, it’s not only possible, but some consumers are practically demanding that classic adventure games come to the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii. I would be one of them.
Enter Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees from Xbox Live Arcade, a pure classic-style adventure game starring Aardman Animation’s famous cheese-eating tinkerer and his sidekick dog.
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In: Podcasts by GamerEdie
16 Jun 2009
Late.
Very late.
Incredibly tired.
Show.
Listen.
Notes? Not.
In: GH Exclusives| Podcasts by GamerEdie
10 Jun 2009
Want to know what Edie and some other Platform Nation hosts thought of Bethesda’s offerings this E3?
This is the first of several developer-focued podcasts recorded by the Platform Nation kids. In this episode, Steve519 of Platform Nation, Lefty Brown of the Married Gamers, and Edie discuss what Bethesda broght to the table.
In: Editorials| GH Exclusives by Cooper Hawkes
9 Jun 2009
When you’re a toddler, there’s nobody bigger than your dad. He towers above you, glowers in a scary way when he’s angry, but he can pick you up and toss you so high you feel like Superman. To you, he is immortal. To you, he is infallible. To you, he is the greatest human being ever created.
One of the first steps of growing up is realizing that he is really not any of those things because one of the tenets of life is: Nobody’s perfect.
It could be a bitter pill to swallow, but it is a necessary one, and if you’re lucky, you figure it out in your early teenage years rather than visiting your dying father in a hospital bed.
I’ve been gaming for nearly 30 years, my father is Ralph Baer. Unlike life, with gaming, you could wind up with a ton of stepdads, like Shigeru Miyamoto, Will Wright, Tim Schafer, Ken Levine, and of course, Bioware.
Bioware is the latest and to my mind greatest stepdad a gamer could ask for. Beautiful looking games, fun to play, well plotted, all around the greatest gaming developer ever created.
Until last night.
Bringing you the latest in news, GameHounds delivers an adult perspective on the video game business and culture.
This podcast is explicit and is intended for adults ages 18 and older.