Low Score Episode 47 "Expo of Entertainment Electronic"

In this episode: Much discussion of E3 and an appropriately themed THE LIST.

What more can we say than this is going to be a podcast about the Electronic Entertainment Expo in the Los Angeles of California? We discuss the first five major press conferences and some other stuff that showed up on the show floor and then trickled into little brains courtesy Internet.

We've got an E3 THE LIST for ya too: Five Announcements You Wish Were at E3.

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Low Score's E3 Predictions

Bobby made the following predictions for E3 and Jimmy commented on them in the parentheses. J and Kevin's takes are audio only.

Microsoft

Project Natal

gets a name that's not Wave (agreed)

$119 price point (agree on price announced, but not certain on exact dollar figure)

peripheral only

NXE

Updating coming this Fall (agreed)

"Natal" Support (agreed)

Hulu (agreed)

New channels on the dashboard for small content producers

Redoing Indie Games Hub

Games

Fable III Demoed, (agreed, and PM says many many lies)

Gears 3 Teaser

Additional Halo: Reach modes

Sony
Kevin Butler! (agreed in video, not live-action)

Move

Priced at $129, comes with legit game

Pack-in PS3 Bundle announced

Big developer (not publisher) announces Move game

Probably EA Sports

Parade of Move games

3D

Headlined by Killzone 3D

Will feature 4-player drop-in-drop-out co-op

Ratchet and Clank 3D

Gran Turismo 5 3D compatible, dated (Nope.)

Parade of 3D Games

Previously announced

The Last Guardian gameplay trailer

New exclusives

Bungie Third-Person Action Game

Square Enix exclusive new IP (won’t be a true exclusive)

From Software new IP

PSP

PSP Go Price Drop

Appeal to PSP Go now that it's cheaper

Major IP getting a PSP version. Resident Evil, perhaps? (Uncharted?)

Nintendo

Wii

"Look at what Wii can already do!"

New games: Okami 2, (doubt it - Wii Okami not very successful, focus is on Okamiden for DS) Kirby, Nintendogs (no way), Legend of Zelda

Wii Fit + Vitality Sensor

3DS

Games: Mario puzzle-platformer (maybe paper mario?), Advance Wars, Pokemon

New Play Control DS? (Nintendogs?)

playable on the show floor (this is confirmed, per NYT quoting Ken Toyoda, Nintendo spokesman)

Stores

New Wii Ware and DSi store architectures including something to compete with the Apple Apps Store for submissions

Low Score Episode 46 "Mime School"

In this episode: Bioshock 2, Titan Quest, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Picross 3D, and more. Mortal Kombat "trailer" talk. E3 predictions. THE LIST.

Big episode 46 features two GFOTS Kevin and Jimmy. We've been playing a whole mess of games new and old, including Bioshock 2, Titan Quest, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Picross 3D, and Fallout 2.

Did you see that new Mortal Kombat trailer that's not actually a trailer at all but rather a pitch for a movie that probably won't be produced? Listen in as Bobby details the kind of Mortal Kombat fighting/beat-em-up hybrid game he'd love to see.

We've got E3 predictions galore which will be detailed in a subsequent post.

And of course, we have THE LIST. We wanted to know five games you haven't spent a whole lot of time with but got a lot of value out of anyway.

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THE LIST: Five Rewarding Games You Spent Only a Little Time With

This week's THE LIST comes in from Kevin:

Wording isn't perfect, but something like "Five games that you put very little time into, but got a lot out of." Since we normally qualify our enjoyment of games with having put a lot (time, energy, problem-solving acumen) into them, how about the opposite. What are some games that left you perfectly content with one quick play-through, games which were memorable even though you only ever spent 5 hours total playing them, or games that stuck with you despite only playing with friends a few times?

Keep up the work!

Kevin

Thanks, Kevin. Keep doing the work for us!

Low Score Episode 45 "Not In the Show Notes"

In this episode: Super Street Fighter IV, Bad Company 2, Final Fantasy XIII, Picross 3D; News of Bungie, Steam on Mac, paying for online; THE LIST.

We're happy to be back to doing the great ol' podcasting thing. Jimmy joins us to discuss the games we've been playing—a list that's grown exponentially since Bobby finished his semester and has been able to play games again.

Then we've got news! And for once, we'll share all our links: Bungie publishing deal with Activision?, the Humble Indie Bundle (and piracy), Steam to Mac, finally, the Black Wii you won’t buy, could Nintendo charge for online?, and EA to Charge Sports Game Used-Buyers For Online Access.

This week's THE LIST (good morning, captain!) is the five mechanics you'd like to see abolished from games. Be gone with you, antiquated design choices!

Spread the WORD and DON'T BE SHY NOW!

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Opening music by virt and featuring the new OneUps' Super Mario Kart album which you desperately need to buy.

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THE LIST: Five Game Mechanics That Should Be Abolished

Games have come a long way in the past four decades. But even as we've developed more sophisticated methods of gameplay and interface, we'd be kidding ourselves to say that it's all for good. So, then, what are those mechanics that cause you to groan? We're using the term "mechanic" a little loosely here, so we'll accept answers ranging from block-pushing puzzles to capture-the-flag modes.

Hit us with your answers and we'll read them on the podcast Sunday night.

Low Score Episode 44 "Makes Me Feel So Fine"

In this episode: Discussions of game music and soundtracks. And that's it!

This Big Episode was particularly big in file size—twice what we normally end up with! So that means it's something special.

It took a month... but we're finally back with a new podcast to amuse and entertain. This week we discussed videogame music. We look at game music's history, examine what makes game music special, and talk about our favorite soundtracks and scores.

And this week's THE LIST gives us the cream of the crop of music tracks from games. We received a ton of submissions and play snippets on the air. You don't want to miss it!

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