Game Addict Hotline

With Penny Arcade Expo over and so many new faces there, I thought I would do a XPlatform show to help everyone get a feel from what the journalists saw at the event. With discussions of the Expo floor, the location of PAX, and great stories, I think you will enjoy this show

On the show, we had:

• Michael Zenke, editor of Slashdot Games and writer for MMOG Nation.
• Nicholas Puleo, aka bapenguin, Editor-in-Cheif at Evil Avatar.
• Flynn De Marco, Editor-in-Chief at Gay Gamer and writer for Kotaku.

I commented on Desteneer and the post at Destructoid in the podcast. Thankfully I still have the link.

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

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No Game Addict Hotline episode because of school. Instead, we have an episode of XPlatform. This episode is all about a recent email battle between two of my guests and the state of game journalism. Let me introduce you to the guests:

• N’Gai Croal: Editor for Newsweek and a Video Game blogger for Newsweek.
• Dean Takahashi: Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and one part of the podcast “Dean and Nooch on Gaming”
• Kyle Orland: Freelance writer for Joystiq, GameDaily, and writer for The Video Game Style Guide and Reference Manual

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

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The Game Developers Conference ended earlier this month and I thought I get some people to come on and give us their impressions of the conference, parties, and other crazy things that happened. We also go off on some tangents but all of this one hour show is filled with quality stuff. The guests I had for this show are:

• Tom Kim – Podcaster for Gamasutra’s podcast site GDC Radio.
• Jimmy Blocksom (AKA DJTyrant) – Live Broadcaster for Orange Lounge Radio and contributor for DDRFreak.com.
• Michael Zenke (AKA Zonk) – Editor from Slashdot.org and contributing writer for Game Set Watch.

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

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I first want to thank the panelists on this episode for coming together to talk gaming. I know that many of them are busy this time of the year and it was awesome to get them all. This show is all about last generation gaming and what things came out of it that and what we will see coming in this generation of gaming with the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 now all finally out. (Though not all easy to find and buy) The guests I had for this show are:

• Brian Crecente: Games and Technology writer for the Rocky Mountain News and the editor for Kotaku.com
• Dean Takahashi: Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and the writer of the book The Xbox 360 Uncloaked:: The Real Story Behind Microsoft’s Next-Generation Video Game Console
• Clive Thompson: Writer for the New York Times magazine and contributer to Wired, Discover, and the New York magazine.
• Steven L. Kent: Writer of the book The History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon, a few other gaming books and articles in magazines and now writing a Sci-fi series starting with and now working on the third book of the series.

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

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So this week I got it on time but I had a lot of spots that screwed up because of stupid Adobe Audition not keeping up with the audio. If some game maker is tossing out a computer with 1 gig of memory and a 2 GHZ processor, please send it over my way. I’ll give you a free plug cause I really need to upgrade. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the show.

• Rob Roberts from the Orange Lounge Radio podcast
• Adam Levine of the Gamer Andy podcast
• Tom Fronczak from the Destructoid.com blog
• Nick Notas from the YouNewb.com blog.

Topics discussed were:

• Playstation Pornable?
• Discussions on Game Journalism
• Is Fanboyism a challenge to the growth of the industry?
• Will the Wii win over the hardcore gamer?

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

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This week is late again but that’s my fault. My guests this week were awesome and we had some great talk about gaming and other stuff. I also have a logo for the podcast. If anyone would like to make it look 10X better, please email me. Still looking for European guests so email me if you want in on this to gameadddicthotline@gmail.com . My guests for this show were:

• Rob Roberts of Orange Lounge Radio
• Phillip Kolar from Evil Avatar Radio
• Dan Amrich from the Official Xbox Magazine and OXM podcast
• Jason Dobson from Game Developers Magazine, Gamasutra, and eToychest

Topics discussed were:

• EB Games and Gamestop are firing employees who sell PS3/Wii on Ebay?
• How are game developers looking at the new systems?
• Buying systems at release. Who has done this?
• Microtransactions. Are we ready for it?

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Apologize about the audio quality of some parts of the show but it looks great. I am also looking for European game podcasters and journalists. I would love to get the American people here to see how gaming is in other areas of the world. My guests for this show were:

• Tom Kim from the Gamasutra Podcast
• Philip Kollar from Evil Avatar Radio
• Christopher Grant from Joystiq.com
• Alon Waisman from Chatterbox Video Game Radio Show

Topics discussed were:

• The PS3/Wii preorder fallout.
• Xbox 360 Camera butt pictures.
• Do Parents understand the ESRB?
• “We all agree that Jack Thompson is Bat-*bleep* crazy.”

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So this week we have more guests and also apologize for the audio problems. I am trying out this new “Two Soundcard in one Computer” idea and have it almost figured out. I’ll do a write up for the Seattle Podcast Network. Anyway, Here were the guests for the show.

• Tom Kim from the Gamasutra Podcast
• Philip Kollar from Evil Avatar Radio
• M.C. Wilson from BroadcastGamer
• Bobby Blackwolf from The Bobby Blackwolf show

Topics discussed were:

• Sony price drop and added support of HDMI
• Wii exclusive to Gamestop
• Burger King video games

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I’m starting a new show (pronounced “Cross Platfom”) that should be a interesting roundtable with game podcasters and game journalists about the things that some gamers may not know or have not been discussed in greater detail.

My Guests this week were:

• Tom Kim from the Gamasutra Podcast
• M.C. Wilson from the BroadcastGamer Podcast
• Omaha Sternberg from the iGame Radio

The Topics we discussed were:

• The Apple “Gaming” Machine
• DS’s Wide Appeal
• Satoru Iwata on trying to sell the Wii concept
• What about game violence?

Music for the show compliments of Nullsleep

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gameaddicthotline@gmail.com or call at (206)202-4367.