Wasteland Kings Gameplay Footage

Posted February 27, 2013 by James Fudge
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I played a little bit of Wasteland Kings for the first time, and it was fun even though I kept getting murdered at every turn. In case you don’t Wasteland Kings was developer Vlambeer’s contribution to the recent 72-hour Mojam game jam. The games made during the jam were part of the Humble Bundle’s Mojam 2 Bundle, with the proceeds going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Block by Block.

If you didn’t buy the bundle yest (which includes games from other developers including Mojang and Wolfire) you can get in on the action until March 2 at www.humblebundle.com. So far they have raised almost $500,000 for the two charities.

Anyway, enjoy me dying…

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Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 42

Posted February 25, 2013 by James Fudge
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We (Andrew Eisen, E. Zachary Knight and James Fudge) try a live episode of the show via Google + with mostly good results. We talk about the Sony PlayStation 4 two-hour long press conference and the sad news that several IGN employees have been laid off and that the web sites it bought – GameSpy, UGO, and 1UP would be shut down. We hope you enjoy listening to us rant and ramble as much as we love ranting and rambling!

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Just One Thing: Backwards Compatibility on the PS4 is Very Important

Posted February 20, 2013 by James Fudge
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Well, Sony revealed that the PlayStation 4 is actually called the PlayStation 4 and that it will be released during “Holiday 2013.” Price-point and other facts to be determined at a later date (you can find some deeper details on the press event here). The secondary chip to handle uploads and downloads is one of the best ideas yet because it will hopefully make those frequent updates to the system and games go more quickly.

 

While I mostly like some of the ideas that Sony was pushing for – like a system that is more instantaneous in its operations than the PS3 currently is, on-the-fly downloads, various social features, and the ability to play games while you are downloading them – there was one fact that bothered me a lot. The PS4 is not backwards compatible with any previous PlayStation Games because it does not use the Cell processor. This means that you will not be able to play those PS3, PS2, and PS One games on your spiffy new console.

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Just One More Thing: ‘Jake and Finn’s Movie Club’ Lie

Posted February 18, 2013 by James Fudge
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Don’t get me wrong – I love Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time. It is one of my top three favorite cartoons, right behind Bob’s Burger and Regular Show. But every time I see the Adventure Time episode “Finn and Jake Movie Club,” I get irritated by the secret message put in there by (I assume) the writers of the show about copyright infringement…

 

In the episode, Jake and Finn host another movie night with all their friends. Usually they show a movie that they dig up from the dungeons to the gang, but skip by the legal notice that is apparently on all the intros. At the suggestion of Princess Bubblegum, Finn has Bemo pause the film to read the notice and learns that he is “breaking the law” by allowing everyone to watch the movie in a group. So they decide to respect the authority of the message, even though it is clearly old and the film was made in ancient times before the horrific event often referred to on the show as the “Great Mushroom War.” This effectively ends the Movie Club – i.e. watching these old movies – because they are somehow doing something wrong. If this were a record, this would be the part where you hear the needle screeching across the vinyl.

 

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Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 41

Posted February 18, 2013 by James Fudge
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Super Podcast Action Committee  On this week’s podcast hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about the file-sharing case headed to the Supreme Court, the President’s executive order on cybersecurity (and the re-introduction of the horrible house bill that started it all, and muchmore. Download it now: SuperPAC Episode 41 (1 hour) 55.5 MB.

As always, you can subscribe to the show on iTunes, use our RSS Feed to add the show to your favorite news reader, “like us” on Facebook, and follows us on Twitter @SuperPACPodcast. You can send us feedback to superpacpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

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Anodyne Review

Posted February 18, 2013 by James Fudge
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Anodyne is Link’s nightmare realized; born in a borrowed bed, crying out its first time into a world that is eerily familiar and yet drastically off kilter. Anodyne feels like a rag doll effigy of our old pal Link, a doppelganger left in a crib where a real child once laid its beautiful innocent little head. Link’s not here of course, but the spirit of your poor relationship with your mother and your poor social skills are rattling their ghost bones around some dark corner of this world.

This 8-bit homage to Hyrule’s little hero is really about you, the player. But though Anodyne is strangely dark, it is also genuinely charming, and its humor smooths out the sharp edges of its bizarre storytelling and psycho-analysis.

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Super Podcast Action Committee – Episode 32

Posted December 12, 2012 by James Fudge
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Super Podcast Action Committee

While I haven’t talked a lot about it here in these pages, I am really proud of the hard work that my friends Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight have put into the Super Podcast Action Committee. We’ve just finished our 32nd episode, which you can listen to here.

Like most podcasts we are working with an “out of my pocket” budget, substandard equipment, and recording and editing time that might be better spent with family, sleeping or doing something productive. But I think we all do it because we love games, we like to have decent conversations about the scene, and we want to give our listeners and informed opinion about important topics that may affect them. It also helps that Andrew and EZK are pretty entertaining to listen to.

So If you haven’t listened to the podcast yet, you should check it out on Libsyn. I think it’s a pretty decent show.

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