Episode 46

This week on the Game Nutz Podcast, Boter and Claw give a rapid fire news report and continue on to product reviews. Consider the whole episode a review of a microphone... or just pretend that he was telecommuting into the podcast. Also reviewed are a wireless Xbox 360 microphone and a third-party Xbox 360 controller.

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Music is "Bodkin Point", ©2007 Masanobu Matsunaga (from Planet Puzzle League on Nintendo DS).

Episode 42

In order to celebrate one year of the Game Nutz Podcast, the hosts do... nothing special. Yay! Instead, it's a normal reporting of news: Activision PR, the further adventures of the Guitar Hero franchise, Rock Band 3, and others. They wrap up with a discussion of Mark Hamill and his thoughts on his role as the voice of the Joker.

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Music is "Gotham in Danger", ©1992 Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara, and Shinichi Seya (from Batman: Revenge of the Joker on SNES).

Episode 39

This week, the hosts try out a new microphone (hence the weird audio quality; we're working on it, really) and Claw takes over the news topics. He starts with Record of Agarest War, a nothing game with provocative cover art that seems to be its only chance to get publicity.

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Music is "Black Paint Rock 1 & 2", ©2008 8-bit Rocket, used under Creative Commons Attribution License.

Episode 38

With a less-than-ideal microphone (for once, Boter is louder than Claw!), Boter and Claw talk about Activision related-topics, with more leaving Infinity Ward, more suits against Activision, and a surprising announcement by Bungie of working with the world's biggest game publisher. They then talk a bit about Ubisoft, Nintendo, and Apple, and then discuss the hidden gem of a game called Beat Hazard.

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Music:
"Super Buck Jazz", Estradasphere
"Vegas", DJ Pretzel
"Waltz for Zora", Neskvartetten
"ControlJazz", Scott Peeples
"Yoshi's Rag", McVaffe
"The Shinra Shuffle", The Runaway Five
--With thanks to OverClocked ReMix

Episode 37

Boter reports live from STGC FragFest X to plug the LAN Party and give a quick update on some of the top stories that the Game Nutz Podcast has been following.

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Music is nothing. Hopefully mime musicians won't sue us.

Episode 33

Boter and FearTheClaw lead the podcast in follow up on Infinity Ward and talk about the PlayStation Move. They then move onto a discussion about the ESRB and how Jack Thompson and the Rhode Island legislature are trying to put their hand into how mature games are sold.

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Music is "Alt Rock 8 & 9", ©2008 8-bit Rocket, used under Creative Commons Attribution License.

Episode 32

Though there's some other news afterwards, the feature presentation this week is discussing the firing of the heads of Infinity Ward and what might lie in the future for that company and Activision in general. Follow up news mentions Tony Hawk: Ride, Final Fantasy XIII and how it stacks up cross-platform, and the updated Xbox Live policy.

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Music is "Tremolo Rock 1", ©2008 8-bit Rocket, used under Creative Commons Attribution License.

Fillercast 2

As Claw got this in about half a week late, and Boter was still recovering from his trip, last week's Fillercast makes the first part of a Game Nutz Podcast double header this weekend! Give a listen as FearTheClaw, Schnazzy and Orlan Drake talk about Modern Warfare Reflex Edition on the Wii, Facebook on the 360, and some creative uses for the PS3. They then talk about Nintendo news and rumors and spend the last few minutes raging about the decision of DS Lite over DSi for Which Sucks Less a few weeks back.

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Music is "Techno 3", ©2008 8-bit Rocket, used under Creative Commons Attribution License.

Episode 19 PS - Corporate Giant Hate

In what was originally going to be a small three-to-five minute rant, Boter (with a little bit of FearTheClaw thrown in) rages about Activision allowing GameStop to break street date on Modern Warfare 2 (which was later denied by Activision, as told in the PPS to this PS), making ample use of the new censor bleep for curses. It ran a bit long, but it's worth a listen for the point of view of an independent shop on unfair competition from national retailers.

Total number of bleeps: 13, just under one per minute. Direct link to Boter's comment (warning: language).

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"On Hold" music is "Elevator Music", © James Driscoll / Dane Petersen.

Episode 10

Microsoft has decided to celebrate the tenth episode of the Game Nutz Podcast by releasing the newest Xbox 360 update (hereby dubbed the Shiny Xbox Experience). They take a quick look at the slim PS3 rumor and discuss various impressive bits with music games. Jumping on the Activision Hate Bandwagon proves fun again, and Sticky loses track of what he talked about last week and talks about Fat Princess and 'Splosion Man. Meanwhile, Claw's been playing fighting games and has gotten re-addicted to Pokémon.

In the one concession to reaching double digits, the hosts each take a few minutes at the end to share their ideas about the idea of games eventually becoming accepted in the same fashion as movies, songs, and novels.

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Music is "Black Paint Rock (1 and 2)", ©2008 8-bit Rocket, used under Creative Commons Attribution License.

Episode 4

FearTheClaw joins StickyNugget and Boter for the podcast and fits right in, and the team talks about the possibility of a new Xbox 360, encourages Boter to keep talking about Fuel, and talks about the marriage proposal that was broadcast over Xbox Live with 1 vs. 100. The also discuss the possibility of Activision pulling support from the PlayStaion 3, Sticky talks about inFamous, and everybody discusses the ups and downs of moral choice systems and enemy artificial intelligence.

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Music is "Funk Rock 1", ©2008 8-bit Rocket, used under Creative Commons Attribution License.