Video Game Warzone

Rocket Lawyers To The Rescue

thebitbag — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:06:57 -0400

I received this because I got angry at someone using piss poor posting protocol:

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Bits Of Tech Episode 44 - WWDC 2012

dirtybirdphnx — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:46:00 -0400

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The Minority Show #14 - I Hate Tombs

earthbendercharlie — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:55:00 -0400

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Another year, another E3! Myself, Dirty, Chrome, Hated & Venom talk about E3 2012 in all it’s greatness and lack thereof.

Topics Covered:

- E3

- Conferences

- Last of Us

- Beyond

- Watch Dogs

- Dishounoured

- Metal Gear Rising

- Tomb Raider

+ much more

Intro Song: BADBADNOTGOOD - Title Theme - Song of Storms

Outro Song: Haruka Nakamura feat Uyama Hiroto - Faure

[ This is the Snoop Dogg Video we were laughing about towards the end of the Podcast. ]

The Minority Show #13 - Venomous Fatman's False Information

earthbendercharlie — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:53:48 -0400

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So E3 is around the corner… but we didn’t really go into it all that much. Guess we kind of didn’t bother to touch on it. But no worries! Myself, Dirty, Venom, Hated and Jess bring you a show full of good topics, laughs and jokes. Enjoy.

Topics Covered:

- Diablo III, in depth

- 38 Studios

- E3 (for a little bit)

- Dead or Alice 5

- Street Fighter Collection

- Amsterdam

- Venomous Fraudman

Intro - Tee Lopez - Spring Yard Zone (Sonic 1 remix of Spring Yard Zone)

Outro - Tee Lopez - Labyrinth Zone (Sonic 1 remix of Labyrinth Zone)

Pre-E3 2012 Warzone

thebitbag — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:03:31 -0400

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Nvidia 600 recall

Gravity Rush

Ghost Recon

Next Gen or not?

Bungie game leaked

CS:GO

Sony

Microsoft

Nintendo

Video Game Warzone #162

thebitbag — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:12:00 -0400

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38 Studios

Diablo III

EA and Activision settling

Starhawk

THQ shit

Bioshock and Tomb Raider delayed

Last Of Us

Manga Channel

Music:

MC Koob

“It’s A Part Of The Game”

RPG Raps - Asheron’s Call

The Minority Show #12 - Diablo, Korra and Avengers Spoilercast

earthbendercharlie — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:45:46 -0400

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In The last hour of the show we talk about the recent Avengers movie which contains SPOILERS!!. So if you have’t watched the movie, then don’t listen from 1:25:00 minutes onwards.

Enjoy the show!

Topics covered:

- Why Diablo III is online only

- Tactics Ogre

- Dead Space

- Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown

- Avatar: The Legend of Korra

- Anime

- The Avengers

Intro - Mass Effect: Virmire Assault Mix

Outro - Marvel vs Capcom 2: Swamp Stage

Olivia Munn Is Now A Babymaker

thebitbag — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:03:04 -0400

After trying everything to get his wife Audrey (Olivia Munn) pregnant, Tommy Macklin (Paul Schneider) realizes to his horror that he may be “shooting blanks.” Terrified that his marriage may fall apart, Tommy recruits his friends (and an Indian ex-mobster) to rob a sperm bank where he made a deposit years ago. As with any half-baked scheme, everything can and does go wrong, testing the limits of Tommy and Audrey’s relationship. THE BABYMAKERS is a hilarious twist on the heist film genre, a laugh-out loud comedy showing how far one couple will go in hopes of creating a new life.

Millennium Entertainment will release THE BABYMAKERS on VOD and in theaters on August 3rd.

Video Game Warzone #161

thebitbag — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:27:00 -0400

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Comic Warzone

Trials Evolution

Jagon

Bloodforge

Did MS steal games from Sony

Avengers Review

thebitbag — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:39:17 -0400

Every few years a perfect movie comes along. This has been going on all my life. You have movies that a REALLY GOOD, movies that are ok and movies that suck. My idea of a perfect film is one that is so good that you can’t get it out of your head. You walk out of the theatre feeling like you can take on the world. You go back and see the movie again and again and it never gets old. It so fucking good, that it almost brings you to tears. To name a few, Alien, Aliens, Star Wars 4-6, LOTR, Superman 1 and 2, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Spiderman, The Spy Who Loved Me, Casino Royale, etc. I could go on for days. If I had to list all the other movies I could go on for years. I think as movie goers, and especially geek movie goers, we want the perfect film every time but we don’t get always get it. For instance, what the fuck happened with Superman Returns?!!?!? WHAT THE FUCK!?!? What about all the shitty Alien films…well Alien 3 and 4? 3 wasn’t shitty but it had major issues. Anyways, I think you get my point. As an ex-comic head and geek, I’ve been waiting for the perfect movie for sometime. At least since Iron Man 1. My favorite super hero movie of all time WAS The Incredibles until today at approximately 11:15am. My perfect film of the year and also favorite all time superhero film is now The Avengers.

I made sure to catch up with Captain America, the only film I didn’t see on the big screen, before watching Avengers. I’d say they are all required viewing, even both Hulks, which I love. From the opening scene to the very short end, The Avengers will have you grinning from ear to ear. It is absolutely a beast of a film. It is truly a comic book brought to life and in the literal sense. I smiled and grinned and laughed my ass off. Most of the smiling and grinning kept me from crying like a star struck groupie. It was a whirlwind of ‘OMFG could this get any better?!’.

Every character had ample screen time in both dialogue and special f/x jizzery. Might I add, and I think this is a first, that both ILM and WETA Digital worked on the effects for this one film? Is that nutz? They had to assemble the Avengers team of F/X just for this one film! Imagine that? With a cast so great and characters so deep what could go wrong? Nothing. It was perfect. Robert Downey was at his best as Tony Stark, Chris Hemsworth was Shakespear on roids, Chris Evans fell right back into his role as Captain America perfectly and Mark Ruffalo stole the show for me. Him and his Mr. Hyde were absolutely perfect and he was the best damn Bruce Banner to ever grace the big screen. You can’t go wrong with Scarlet Johansson as Black Widow. She’s hawt as fuck and delivers realistic fighting scenes and a believably badass heroine. Jeremy Renner continues to grow on me as an actor and was excellent as Hawkeye. Even though I had my reservations about Samuel Jackson taking on a role I felt was better suited for Tom Selleck, he’s always great no matter what role you throw at him. Even Tom Hiddleston was a venerable heavy as Loki. Much more so than he was in Thor and I’m grateful that Whedon took these characters to the limits.

This would be much easier to write if only a few of the characters performed well, but they all kicked ass. I’ve tried as hard as I can to find something wrong with this film and I can’t. Just like the years of dreams about Alien, I’m sure I’ll be dreaming about The Avengers for sometime to come. It will have that affect on you. The greatest thing about this film is it’s not campy, not filled with Hollywood fluff and shows once again that Joss Whedon is beast! This movie is the watershed for superhero films. If Hollywood doesn’t wake the fuck up after witnessing this epic film, nothing will change it. It’s comics brought to life! Simple as that.

It’s Friday and the movie is out. Run now…run to the movie theater and watch it. Do not pass Go, do not go clubbing, do not watch tv, do not work late and do not fuck your partner until after you have seen this film! Drop everything you are doing and get to the theater as soon as possible. I will be back to see this film 4 more times. Any comic-head or geek with an ounce of respect for good writing absolutely must see The Avengers. It’s the comic book film we’ve all been waiting for since we were born. It’s the perfect film. It’s the reason why it’s ok to forget about real life for 2hrs and 22minutes. One last word of advice, don’t you leave that theatre until the lights come on! There are 2 sequences in the credits, one early and one at the very end that you MUST SEE! Check your reality at the door, grab a bag of popcorn and wear loose pants because you’ll need the extra room.

The Minority Show #11 - Have You Seen a Black Car?

earthbendercharlie — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:09:37 -0400

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After a short random break the crew is back! Join myself, DirtyBirdFizzle, Hizzle Grizzle, Venomous Fatmizzle and special guest HartJess as we talk up some juicy topics. Yo, video games!

Topics covered:

- Playstation Smash Brothers

- Adam Sessler leaving G4

- God of War: Ascension

- Diablo III

- Fez

- Archaic Game Design

- No place for Shenmue

- Defining Innovation in Games

Intro: The Seatbelts - Too Good, Too Bad (Cowboy Bebop OST)

Outro: Sweet Tea - It’s Like That Ya’ll

Don’t forget we have an RSS feed which is available here for quick access to both past and future shows!

Sumioni: Demon Art

thebitbag — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:31:01 -0400

SUMIONI: DEMON ART - By: Jorge Murphy

Sumioni: Demon Arts could of been that great game that makes perfect use if the Playstation Vita’s unique functionality, but sadly doesn’t achieve the level of entertainment that I was hoping for. Let me explain why game developer Acquire missed out on making Sumioni: Demon Arts a must have title for your shiny new Playstation Vita.

Acquire is probably known more for it’s other titles like the Tenchu or Shinobido franchises. Sumioni isn’t all doom and gloom, but with the cumbersome controls the game made me feel like I was working instead of having fun with a game. Sumioni’s game play is at it’s core a classic 2D old school platformer but like I just mentioned felt like the controls were made more difficult than needed to be. You do have the option to play with the the D-Pad and face button which is when the game controls great.

The whole thing starts to breakdown when you start having to rub the back touch pad and swiping the front panel with boss battles this becomes a true strain and stretch of your fingers. You need to continuously rub the back touch pad to refill your inkwell all while using the D-Pad to jump on lines you have to draw on the front screen and hitting the face buttons to slice and dice your enemies. So you see, this crippled the game for me to the point where I wanted to throw my Vita across the room in frustration.

That’s my worst complaint I have with Sumioni: Demon Arts. As part of my duty in presenting a complete review of Sumioni I’ll talk on what I do like about the game. The story is simple there are ink masters in Japan and like all games there will be a battle between good and evil so an Ink master summoned an evil Ink demon which spread chaos in the world bringing it into the dark ages. So of course you come into the picture as a good ink demon by the name Agura to make things right again.

Visually the game doesn’t disappoint. I really love the art direction, rich colors, vibrant special effects and smoothly animated characters. The graphics make the game’s art style a truly visceral experience for the eyes. I’d call the stylized look as a hand drawn painting. The front touchscreen is really responsive which is a must because you’ll definitely need to draw symbols and platforms to jump on fairly quickly when the screen is filled with enemies.

Some final highlights I’d like to point out about this title would be the level and boss design. Levels are fun and challenging to traverse while the end level bosses can fill the entire screen and makes me wonder where all of the development went when it came to the control scheme.

For gamers that love graphics Sumioni doesn’t disappoint but when you want solid and intuitive game play? I’m sorry but this is where the game fails royally.

Final thoughts:

Unfortunately for the team that developed Sumioni: Demon Art, the games clumsy game play design failed to make this game a must have for Playstation Vita owners. I truly wanted to love this game, even hard and challenging games can have great game play mechanics but this game’s complex and finger breaking control scheme is hard to recommend. Visuals alone can never make up for bad game design.

I give Sumioni: Demon Art a 3/5 to bad the game didn’t have a better control scheme or I would’ve given the game a 4/5 because the visuals are so unique and really is a showpiece for the platform.

Video Game Warzone #160

thebitbag — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:27:00 -0400

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Super Playstation Brothers
Nintendo starting the DD revolution
Wii is back!
Adam Sessler G4
Ice hacked
Portal 2

Video Game Warzone #159

thebitbag — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:58:00 -0400

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Ghost Recon Beta

Diablo III beta

Skullgirls

Total War for iOS

Sniper ELITE

Buy my new book, ‘Night Watch’ on Amazon here:

Night Watch

Games I purchased day or week 1 in the last 6 months:

Armored Core V
Twisted Metal
Mass Effect 3
Metal Gear Solid HD
BF3
Uncharted 3
Journey

Only ONE first person shooter in that list.

Video Game Warzone #158

thebitbag — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:33:00 -0400

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Jessica Nigri, Tits and Eye Shadow

PAX East

Crimson Dragon

Steel Battalion

Air Mechs

Ghost Recon Future Warrior

Sleeping Dogs

Hitman Absolution

Bloodforge

DUST

Sony

Blur competition

Games with Ice in the Arcade

Lollipop Chainsaw

Novus Aeterno

PAX East Davis Daily special

thebitbag — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:11:00 -0400

PAX East Davis Daily special

We take a look at Mosatsu on the Android platform. This game...

thebitbag — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:28:52 -0400

We take a look at Mosatsu on the Android platform. This game was previously banned on the iTunes app store.

We take a look at Ghost Recon Network for Android. Make your...

thebitbag — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:05:52 -0400

We take a look at Ghost Recon Network for Android. Make your guns before Ghost Recon Future Soldier comes out!

Here at the Made In Mass indy dev party. Some of the pics from...

thebitbag — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:24:00 -0400

Smile Major Nelson!

Yer boy Nick McCandless

Kissy Britney

The wrap around

Me and Jon posing

Here at the Made In Mass indy dev party. Some of the pics from tonight!

The Minority Show #10 - Yo, Video Games!

earthbendercharlie — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:51:32 -0400

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The usual crew gathers together once more. Listen in as we talk about games and stuff. Also, we have an RSS feed, so punch this link into your podcast download software (iTunes, winamp, etc) and keep up to date with past and future episodes.

Topics Covered:

- Ninja Gaiden 3

- Online Game Communities

- Reviews

- Random Anime stuff

- Maxim Gamer Girl Contest

- Uganda is not Nigeria

Intro: Tiger Stripes feat Hannah Hais - Concentration

Outro: Skillz - Rap Up 2011