This week, indie gaming, brief discussion on Cabin in the Woods, and our book club entry: Alan Wake

Games:  Angry in Birds Space, Fez, Humble Indie Bundle, Alan Wake.

This week, our book club entry is an actual book, Ready Player One.  We also touch on the Mass Effect 3 controversy.

Games:  Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Shoot Many Robots, Draw Something, Journey, Angry Birds Space.

This week, our book club entry is Darksiders.

Games:  Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Rhythm Heaven: Fever, Hero Academy, Ready Player One, Alan Wake: American Nightmare, Darksiders.

This week, Square sequels, asynchronous play on iOS, and our book club entry: Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Games:  Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Final Fantasy XIII-2, iPhone: Hero Academy, Ticket to Ride, Book Club: Deus Ex: Human Revolution

This week, we discuss JRPGs vs Western RPGs. We are joined by our friend Scott and discuss The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Games:  Dragon Age 2, Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Deus Ex, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, iPhone: Scramble with Friends, Triple Town, Super Crossfire, Hero Academy, Secret of Mana.

This week, Chris and I talk about the games of the past year.

Games:  Binding of Isaac, Bastion, Infamous 2, Dead Island, Uncharted 3, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Batman: Arkham City, Dead Space 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Dungeons of Dredmor, Portal 2, Diablo 3, Darksiders 2, Bioshock: Infinite, Mass Effect 3, Kingdoms of Amalur, The Last of Us.

This week, I go solo and talk a little of Skyward Sword and dive right into Assassin’s Creed Revelations.

Games:  Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Assassin’s Creed Revelations

Intro Music:
Assassin’s Creed Revelations – Lorne Balfe

This week, I go solo and talk about my experience with Skyrim and go full spoiler on Uncharted 3.

Games:  Skyrim, Uncharted 3

Intro Music:
Uncharted 3 intro – Greg Edmunson

This week, the problem with Sonic games, the greatness of Uncharted 3, and our book club entry: Dead Island.

Games:  Blocks That Matter, Batman: Arkham City, Sonic Generations, Uncharted 3, Dead Island

Intro Music:
Who Do You Voodoo – C. Knight, J. Lord, H. Orkin

Interlude Music:
Dead Island Trailer – Giles Lamb

This week, we talk about the controversial Eurogamer review of Uncharted 3, experience vs. play,  and launch into our full spoilerific book club entry: Batman: Arkham City

Games:  Dead Island, Binding of Isaac, Batman: Arkham City

Intro Music:
Batman (Animated Series) – Danny Elfman

Interlude Music:
Dark Knight – I’m Not a Hero – Zimmerman & Howard

This week, I talk full spoilers on Bastion.

Games: Guardian Heroes, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Portal 2, Bastion

Intro Music:
Bastion – A Proper Story – Darren Korb

Solo, spoiler-filled episode for Gears of War 3 Comments welcome!

This week, we go in depth, spoilery with Portal 2.

Intro Music:
Want You Gone – Jonathan Coulton

This week, the craziness of Minecraft, what makes a Castlevania, loot games, beautiful indie games, the issues with Singularity, and our book club entry: Homefront.

Games: Minecraft, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, Torchlight, Island of Wakfu, Singularity, Homefront.

Intro Music:
Homefront – Stand Your Ground

Interlude
Homefront – Main Theme

This week, our book club entry: Beyond Good and Evil HD.

Intro Music:

Home Sweet Home (Beyond Good and Evil HD)

This week, Pokemon’s appeal, Kinect, PAX East, our 3DS impressions, and our book club entry: Borderlands.

Games: Pokemon Black/White, Kinectimals, Child of Eden, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Dragon Age 2, Duke Nukem Forever, Fez, iPhone: Tiny Wings, Book Club: Borderlands.

Intro Music:

Super Mario World

Interlude Music:

Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant

This week, we have a quick take on Dead Space 2 DLC and Borderlands, and our book club entry: Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Games: Dead Space 2: Severed, Borderlands, Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Intro Music:
Marvel vs Capcom 2

This week, JRPG’s, Contra series, Double Fine’s Stacking, another quick take on Dead Space 2, and our book club entry for this week: Vanquish.

Games: Dragon Quest IX, Bulletstorm, Hard Corps:  Rising, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Stacking, Dead Space 2, iPhone: Phoenix Wright, Street Fighter 4, Save Toshi!, Book Club: Vanquish

Intro Music:
Adventure Island
coded by Adam Nisula

This week, we do a brief what we’ve been playing, our thoughts on NGP and 3DS, mobile gaming in general, and our book club entry: Dead Space 2.

Games:  Picross 3D, Dead Space: Ignition, Deadly Premonition, DJ Hero 2, Bulletstorm, Red Dead Redemption, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Dead Space 2

Intro Music:
Duck Tales
coded by Michael Martin
recoded by DJ JJ

This week, we talk racing games, leaderboards and achievements, time manipulation gameplay mechanics, Kinect games, our quick picks for GOTY, and our book club entry, Indigo Prophecy.

Games:  OutRun Online Arcade, Zeit2, MicroBot, Kinect, Dance Central, Kinect Sports, Red Dead Redemption, Indigo Prophecy.

Intro Music:
Star Tropics
coded by kalrac@vgmusic.com (Kalrac)
recoded by DJ JJ

This week, we talk Game Dev Story, the awesomeness of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer, and dive right into Deadly Premonition for this week’s book club.

Games:  Game Dev Story, Splatterhouse, Assassin’s  Creed: Brotherhood, Dead Space 2, Street Fighter 4, Deadly Premonition.

Intro Music:
Mega Man 2
coded by Marc Marta.

This week, in our last show of 2010, Japanese shooters, Humble Indie Bundle, Tim Shaffer gamers, Assassin’s Creed multiplayer, our first edition of EG Book Club: Enslaved.

Games:  Vanquish, Brutal Legend, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Enslaved.

This week, Fable 2 and 3, decision making in games, commercialized games, violence in gaming, Major spoilers: Fable 3, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Fallout: New Vegas.

Games:  Fable 2, Fable 3, Dante’s Inferno, Crash Course, Harm’s Way, ilomilo, Marvel Pinball FX, Asteroids Do Concern Me, Techno Kitten Adventure, Prismatic Solid, Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time, Splinter Cell: Conviction, iPhone: Inception, Call of Duty: Black Ops

This week, I’m flying solo.  I talk about my feelings over 2010 so far and the challenges of podcasting/blogging.

Games: Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time, Splinter Cell: Conviction

This week, music games, refreshing old IP’s, Nintendo’s future, Sony’s future, motion control gimmicks, portable gaming future, 2D renaissance.

Games: Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, Fling Smash, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Apple Jack, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Guwanje, ilomilo, iPhone: Super Mega Worm, The Incident, Cut the Rope, Game Dev Story