The Show Note Show

This one is a bit shorter than our shows tend to be. That's what you wanted, right? We've got Uncharted, Infamous, 300 2, and midget wrestling.

It's always a special cast with DOUBLE the James. The lineup this week is Twitch, Jimmy, Michael, Ricky, and another James!

Not much talk on specific games this week. Instead, we address the game changing news on the Xbone and spend pretty much the rest of the show on viewer questions and debauchery!

We wind down from all the insane news from the last couple weeks with The Last of Us and Silent Hill! This week starts off strong with an interrupted introduction to Persona 4: Golden for the PS Vita. Interrupted how? Interrupted by our first fleshed out viewer question segment, and spearheaded by live, and unsanctioned, viewer questions! As an added bonus, the introduction of a new member: [BLEEP]

What better way to celebrate E3 than to give you all our pre-show predictions!

We travel back in time to discuss everything we thought would be at the press conferences, and I'm pleasantly surprised at how close some of these predictions are. If that isn't enough, Michael leads our end all, spoiler-filled discussion of Bioshock Infinite that touches on just about everything you might want touched. Pepper in a few game impressions and some news and you've yourself got a show!

The game industry has been working overtime in the past couple of weeks, which is why you all get 2 podcasts this week.

This one is a big one, so don't you dare try to skip it. Microsoft revealed their next generation console, The Xbox One. Twitch has taken to calling it the XBONE (pronounced ex-bone). In case you missed out on the reveal, the cast comes together and spends a solid hour talking about what we know and think about the XBONE. This includes everything from what the hardware specs of the machine actually mean, to the features announced and what it is implying about this machine's role in the living room. 

But that's not all! Ricky returns to Pokemon and we toss around a couple of ideas that we think could rejuvenate tired game formulas.

Welcome to another round of the Show Note Show!

This time we start out strong with Minecraft and work our way back in time to Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, and a few other older games. The back half of the show hold some hefty conversation about what we are excited to play in the coming weeks and other over debauchery!

SNS has finally made it to lucky number 7!

We celebrate such a momentous occasion with a brief tease at our first ever SNS tournament. We all played a couple of Xbox Indie games called They Came From The Ground and Hidden in Plain Sight. Ricky played Limbo and Journey, Twitch played some of the glorious Symphony of the Night, and Twitch and Ricky both played Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. 

Half-Life 3, Nintendo, and Star Wars? OH MY! What were our first games ever? And what could our longest and most personal discussion on videogames to date be about? You will have to listen to the entire show to find out.

The gang is all relatively here for another round of The Show Note Show!

We all go back to Injustice one more time, then transition to Playstation All-Stars: Battle Royale. Twitch professes his newly found love for a little game called Journey, Ricky played through Fallout 3's Mothership Zeta, Michael revisited the GameBoy Advance, and Jimmy joined the 3rd Street Saints. The back end of the show is more of a round-table discussion about several different topics. What developers are either pushing the industry forward or holding it back? What do we think of Pokemon X/Y? ASSASSIN'S CREED: BLOOD DRAGON?

P.S. I apologize for confusing Shinji Mikami and Keiji Inafune throughout the episode. They were both important people that used to work at Capcom, my bad

The regulars return to talk Injustice, which leads to a broader discussion on our personal interests in fighting games. Twitch plays Guacamelee, and you should buy that game. We also discuss what the bullet points of the next generation will be and how the current generation has reached a point where almost every game is trying to give you the exact same experience.

Ok, like, I think you'll, like, like this episode!

This episode starts out strong with half an introduction and about 5 minutes of our reactions to ridiculous science images from the internet. After that, Ricky leads a recap of the Bioshock series that ends in our spoiler-free impressions of Bioshock: Infinite. The rest of the show becomes an all-out spoilerfest of Spec-Ops: The Line, Batman and Robin #18, Drive, and Far Cry 3. All of which are really awesome, but don't worry because I actually removed most of the game-ruining spoilers on Spec-Ops. PLAY THAT GAME.