I’m struggling to get the shows out due to school and work, once again. I was out of school last week and should be in my last semester. This is a lot of awesomeness right now. I’m going to get a degree and now have to fight for my money and pay off my debts. Hopefully I’ll do that with no problem. Anywho, I accidentally made the show in Mono. It’s ok, my voice is mono anyway. I’ll be adding PC sales next show.

Game Trivia:

• Gaming League Acronyms
• Sega Master System Games
• WiiWare Games
• Gaming news
• Games From Yester-years

Top Games in USA
Top Games in Japan
Top Games in UK

Game Addictions:

• GDC Recap

You can read our show notes here.

The promo played was for the The Director Podcast

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So, I got hit with a virus on the website. Don’t worry, it’s gone. I have placed the better business bureau on the case and they are going to find out who did it and shut down the owner of the virus. It’s hopefully the last of it. The thing I hated the most was that Google places my site as harmful and makes it hard to access. Luckily it was taken care of.

Anyway. Here is a story about the cut throat fight of the Commodore 64 in the UK.

It’s interesting to see how the market was and how it is today. It’s also super interesting to see the piracy issues of the past and how stupid easy it was to copy a floppy. (well, tape.) Anyway. I have been against piracy of still selling games where the game are still easily accesable in your area and the copywrite owner is hard to find. I think I changed my tune when I started working at Microsoft and saw how much time and effort is placed on each game. If money is still being paid to the creators, I still agree with it. I think that’s how some in the music piracy feel about the issue of music. But I’m a game journalist, not a music journalist.

The Scottish developers of Crackdown, Realtime Worlds, don’t have a new version of crackdown in their future. The company has decided to go back to its roots with a MMO game. The game is Grand Theft Auto MMO and have their CEO, David Jones, one of the original GTA developers, on hand to help in its creation according to John Duthie, Head of HR at Realtime Worlds.

So why no Crackdown 2? Seems according to Duthie, Microsoft waited too long to renew their contract with Realtime Worlds. I guess if you have a score of game makers with no game deal and you needed to start a new game so that you can pay your team, I would do the same. I’m trying to get some official confirmation from the games development team or public relations at GDC.

UPDATE: The game is named APB and Realtime Worlds will be having a session about it Thursday at 5:30. I also added a picture from the employment hall.

UPDATE2: Okay. Seems everyone knew they were making the APB game but me. I guess that’s not the news. Seems no crackdown on Realtimes Worlds’ minds is the big story. You can check out info on the game now here

With 1 month already flying by on this new year of gaming, what will happen to the gaming landscape for the rest of 2008? This show is all about who will be the winners and losers of gaming and what games you should expect from your favorite system.

On the show, we had:

• Glenn Percival, podcaster for Playstation 3 Nation
• Dan Amrich, writer for Official Xbox Magazine and podcaster for the OXM Podcast
• Brett Elston, writer for GamesRadar

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

If you like to comment on the show please click on the show title link above or the comments link on the bottom of the page or you can email me at gameaddicthotline@gmail.com.

I just updated the site for Wordpress 2.3.2 and updated the theme and the plugins. Everything should be working great and I will be working on the new XPlatform show this weekend. So watch it and my other work at casual connect.

Thanks for all the support and help.

Yes, Yes, Yes. I’m late by a full week. I’m sorry but school and the new gig is going to push the podcast farther and farther back. I have been busy as a bee and this week is no different even with a day off. I’m going to continue to work hard and keep making it go. (Don’t even ask me about XPlatform.) Anyway, things are well and if you are interested in the new gig, it’s live and at CasualConnect.org. Check it out and email me what you think. I’m totally happy with it and what it will acomplish.

Game Trivia:

• Top Systems for Japan in 2007
• Games EGM won’t be reviewing soon
• Soul Caliber 2 characters
• Games From Yester-years
• Gaming news

Top Games in USA
Top Games in Japan
Top Games in UK

Game Addictions:

• “Joy of Game Journalism”

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The promo played was for the KnitWitch’s SciFi/Fantasy podcast

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I’m back for another big year of gaming. This is a big year for me. I’m ending college and starting to get a real job, hopefully making a bigger name for myself in the gaming world, and hopefully I will date a girl. We’ll have a XPlatform show being recorded and so I’m hoping I can keep the podcast rolling. *Sorry about it being late. Got sick and been super tired this week.*

Game Trivia:

• Top Lifetime selling Xbox 360 Games in Japan
• Movie Stars playing game characters
• 2007’s most controversal games
• Games From Yester-years
• Gaming news

Top Games in USA
Top Games in Japan
Top Games in UK

Game Addictions:

• “Gaming is my dirty little secret.”

You can read our show notes here.

The promo played was for the Reset Radio podcast

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So I’m back for now and praying that I can keep this up. Only problem I’ve been having is trying to get this out before Mondays. Today: Friday. Family is here for the holidays meaning Wii tournaments and tons of Wii Sports. I love this time as I get all the family here and I enjoy the excitement in the house between my siblings and their loved ones and kids. Hope you are having a great holiday season. Hope you get better Tom.

Game Trivia:

• Festive GBA/DS Games
• Biggest Games of November
• Games Released onto the Ipod this week
• Gaming News
• This Week in Gaming

Top Games in USA
Top Games in Japan
Top Games in UK

Game Addictions:

• My first gaming gift for christmas

You can read our show notes here.

The promo played was for Pod 5’s New Year’s Eve show

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Blades of Steel (Wii Virtual Console)

This is probably the roughest post I’ll ever write. I am really sad to say that I will have to put the show on hold. Not only because of personal problems, but because of problems with the amount of class work I have in school and completing it. I will still try to put out the podcasts I did at the Casual Connect conference for those who listen to me on All Games Radio. I also will continue to do my Asian Hits! show that I do at KUGS FM. I will be back hopefully sooner than later. I really would rather be doing the podcast then taking some classes that I have no care for, but I need to get a good grade so that I can have a better future and give you the listener a better value for the time you take to listen and download the show. Thanks for the support and hope to talk to you again sooner than later.

Addiction is an interesting thing that people ask me about a lot because of the name of the show. It’s something I will have to write on someday and have some information about it. The thing about addiction is that it usually is second to video game violence in worries people have about it. Too bad no one says the same about other forms of entertainment. Cause I know a few model boat in a bottle addicts that really need to get some help.

Game Trivia:

• Gaming News
• This Week in Games link link link
• Yearly NPD Numbers
• Systems going dead
• Capcom games made in 1988

Top Games in USA
Top Games in Japan
Top Games in UK

Game Addictions:

• Tom Kim of the Gamasutra Podcast.

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