GameHounds

What is H for? Well, it depends who you ask. With Holy Goalie on a rage against the Halo machine, it's probably gonna be something other than the obvious. You'll just have to listen. This week, Edie Sellers and Holy Goalie don't really have any notes — it was a long, weird week — so rather than stick to the "strictly news" format, they just chat together about what they've played and what's interesting them about the gaming world. No real "topics," per se. Let's just say they talk about everything, and yes, that includes Halo Reach. And of course, there's the emails and, now, texts they've received from you, the listeners. Enjoy.

Actually, at this point, it's not last weekend anymore. This week, Edie Sellers is joined by GameHounds staffers Nick Dinicola and Chris Salazar, who mull over what they touched and saw at PAX Prime. Games they discuss in gory, ear-splitting detail:

Halo: Reach

Dead Space 2

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Fable 3

Dragon Age 2

Gears of War 3

Fallout New Vegas

Brink

Hunted Demon Forge

Duke Nukem Forever

Portal 2

Kinect vs. Move

OnLive

Enjoy! Really... Enjoy it!

No number on this episode, lovies. Because no number is needed.

 

It's taken an inordanantly long time to get this up for you. There's a lot of love and editing that goes into compiling two hours' worth of interviews into one cohesive show.

 

But we suffer for you.

 

In this episode, you'll hear from developers at PAX Prime 2010 in Seattle. Games include:

Tron Evolution

Outland

Fallout New Vegas

Wakfu

Warren Spector and Epic Mickey

In addition, you'll hear our half-drunken impressions of what we saw after day one and you'll get a visit from Iruga, one of our listeners who joined in the imbibing.

 

Enjoy.

Good news. The regular gang is back in podcasting action.

 

Our servers are up. Our show is editing properly. Now if only we can get our mouths to do what we want.

 

What do we mean? Oh, just listen. You'll hear it.

 

This week, Edie Sellers and Holy Goalie make their last appearance together before PAX Prime, and they hit the news items of the day, including:

 

    * Playboy announces that it's getting into the online game business. Oh my!

    * Target stores in California are now buying used games in return for store credit. All of a sudden that silver lamé Merona jacket is so much cheaper!

    * Harmonix released its full Rock Band 3 setlist, and it doesn't upset anyone but it doesn't make anyone exactly happy, either.

    * Mobile developer Rovio is working with Hollywood advisers on a pitch for an Angry Birds movie. Lemme guess: 3D?

    * Meanwhile Angry Birds comes to the PS3.

    * Madden 10 trade-in prices are surprisingly bad!

    * New games releases announced.

    * Emails reveal a universal "meh" about Playstation Plus from Playstation Plus listeners.

    * We have a new feature: You can text the show from your mobile phone: 209-730-3818. Give it a try!

 

Enjoy.

Me and Mrs. Brown.

 

We got a thing... goin' oooon!

 

Okay, so we just lost about half of you young folk, didn't we?

 

It was a song, okay? An old song! A good song! About this guy and a married woman and... oh, nevermind.

 

Oh, I get it. You don't care about classic R&B, you are about games.

 

This week, Edie Sellers welcomes guest host Mrs. Lefty Brown from the Married Gamers for an afternoon of gaming talk, girlie-style.

 

Yes, there is mention of vagina. As if you needed to ask!

 

There's also a lot about games. Here's the rundown:

Despite earlier reports, Kinect won't be compatible for the hearing-impared who use American Sign Language.

Bioshock Infinite may have been the best-kept secret in gaming so far.

Call of Duty Black Ops' Ultimate Edition will include a working radio-controlled spy car.

Wait for it... Duke Nukem Forever may in fact *not* be dead. And who says the undead don't walk the Earth?

Fallout New Vegas will have a whole mess of famous people in it.

Kinect betas are going out.

Enjoy.

Yes, finally... Finally, we have a resolution to our podcast server issues and we are back in control of our destiny. Firstly, thank you for all your patience! It was a stressful week for me, as there was a constant drumbeat of "Gotta get the podcast out" going on in my head. Second, I'd like to welcome all our new listeners from the new Blackberry Podcasts — a new service that Research In Motion launched last week. We were informed recently that we are among the first 1,000 podcasts listed on the service, and we couldn't be prouder! Last, but certainly not least, I'd like to personally thank Rob Walch, our fairy godfather over at Libsyn, for quickly jumping on our migration problem and getting it solved nearly immediately. Just to give credit where it's due, were it not for me meeting Rob at MacWorld a few years back, I would not have started this podcast and GameHounds wouldn't even exist. So when I say "godfather," in many ways it's literal. And like a good godfather, he's been looking out for GameHounds ever since. So, without further ado, this week (or more accurately last week), Holy Goalie and I are joined by Justin Hemenway of The Rumble Pack to talk about loads of topics. To go through them would only take more time (especially since the notes on what we talked about are long gone due to the delay). So instead of me telling you what's there, why don't you go find out. Enjoy.

Hey, it's a bit late, but it's here. And that's what's important.

 

This week, Holy Goalie and Edie Sellers do what they do best: Chatter aimlessly and make jokes... oh, no wait, we mean talk about the week's headlines in gaming news.

 

Topics include:

Bioware debuts Dragon Age 2 at Comic-Con.

Microsoft defends its price of the new Kinect. They say $150 is comparable to what you'd spend on a Playstation Move.

Rock Band 2 and Dance Central are both getting Tears for Fears, Marilyn Manson, the B-52s, and Def Leppard.

Metalocalypse: Dethgame is dead. Ironically.

Call of Duty: Black Ops will come to the DS. Ironically.

Resident Evil 5 Gold edition will be Move-upgradable, but regular old vanilla RE5 won't. Ironi... oh, wait, that joke's dead.

Netflix for the PS3 adds search feature, making it far superior to the Xbox 360. Yay!

Bioware announces Mass Effect 2 DLC "Lair of the Shadowbroker."

HAWX 2 coming September 7, Kane and Lynch 2 demo now available for PS3 (and has since become available for the 360 as well), LittleBigPlanet 2 coming November 16.

Curt Shilling's 38 Studios moves to Rhode Island and unveils Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, due fall 2011.

Enjoy.

If you ever had any doubt what game Holy Goalie wants to be playing right now, just think: Tetris 21112. What the hell does that mean? You'll just have to listen to this week's show to find out. Holy Goalie and Edie Sellers hit the top stories of the week in gaming, with topics like:

Holy Goalie has a guest appearance on . Check it out!

Netflix will be . Canada starts.

Coming update for Red Dead Redemption will put .

Goalie wets himself: Rush's 2112 will be coming, in its entirety, .

Borderland DLC on sale now.

Medal of Honor's beta has been extended to July 31.

Sony reportedly is working on a patent for — because 3D just isn't enough.

Microsoft confirms a new .

Eleven states have filed friends of the court briefs in support of California's anti-Video Game Legislation.

Dutch gamers set a new .

Xbox real-time gameshow has been cancelled.

Hey, and have you stopped by the forums lately? That's where we're all hanging out. You should too. .

We are delusional, and don't a single one of you point it out to us!

 

This week, Holy Goalie and Edie Sellers are joined by a very, very sane Tony of The Rumble Pack to review news of the week. On the other side of the table, Goalie and Edie are raving, barking mad. Want proof, just listen.

 

In their lucid moments, topics include:

Screenshots of the supposedly leaked new Xbox Dashboard appeared (titled the Berlin dashboard), and then disappeared, on the internet. How real are they? The world may never know.

Activistion Publishing (not Activision Blizzard) got a new CEO this week, and he's the brains behind the Kevin Butler campaign for Sony.

Sony updates its Terms of Service, which now includes a disclaimer for a host of symptoms attributable to extended exposure to 3D.

Microsoft releases Game Pack 007 for Game Room. Yawn.

A Lionhead producer says that there will be nearly a half million lines of dialogue in the new Fable 3.

Amazon Germany posts pre-orders for a new Xbox Arcade bundle, priced at 149 Euros.

Wal-Mart posts pre-orders for a Kinect bundle (with one game) for $200.

Driver San Francisco delayed to 2011.

Curt Shilling moves to Rhode Island and says he has a deal with Electronic Arts for a new game series.

Email, shout outs, and more.

Enjoy.

It's an end and a beginning. An alpha and an omega. It's the final show for Cooper Hawkes, but the first show after we've announced a new website. So it's a celebration and a sad goodbye. It's also a really, really good show. Edie Sellers and Holy Goalie are joined by Hawkes one last time to talk up news of the week in gaming. There's a lot to take in, and Hawkes is in unusually rare form — reminding us exactly why we'll miss him. Topics include:

Microsoft unveils a "family plan" for XBL Gold accounts. .

Hulu Plus will launch for the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360. For $9.99 a month, you'll ostensibly be able to drop your cable service. Maybe.

OnLive has debuted, and

Xbox is holding a Live-a-Palooza wherein more than 200 Rock Band/Guitar Hero songs are discounted up to 50 percent. Get on it.

Want to preorder a game? You might think about Amazon, since they're giving Amazon credit for such things.

Rumor: NBC is developing a television show about gaming. Meh.

Sega Saturn titles to be heading to the Xbox Live Arcade — just like their Dreamcast bretheren.

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