Housekeeping

Hey folks, just a heads up that you may be seeing some additional programming appear in your RSS feeds or other ways you subscribe to us. 

Tom is forcing me to edit his aural reviews into individual shows which will be available here on our site and also on our YouTube channel (more on this later). 

The first one I have done is from Episode 21, which is where Tom aurally reviews

Max Payne 3.

We agreed that this would be an easier way to find old ones, or at the very least a good way to skim though the aural reviews Tom has done in our first 23 shows.

Thanks as always for listening.

- Phil Fogg

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Game Under Episode 23

We are back to our regular format this week with first impressions galore, news and some Final Thoughts.   We give our final verdict on Papers, Please and Left4Dead1 DLC for L4D2.  We also give first impressions on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Saints Row 4.

Thanks for listening.

- Phil Fogg

Tom "Interviews" Miami Heat Creator

Over at LaserLemming.com Tom "interviews" Denis Wedin, whom recently has been taking on more challenging interlocuters.  And there can be no more challenging interlocuter than our very own Tom Towers. 

If you are at work and your company monitors your traffic, be advised that some of the language and themes are NSFW.  

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Game Under Episode 21

Tom Towers and Phil Fogg go over all the new console and pricing news of the week.

Tom also finishes out the Max Payne franchise and gives an Aural Review of Max Payne 3 (in addition to outlining the plots for Max Payne, 4, 5 and 6.

Thanks for listening. 

- Phil

Max loves the night life.

Max loves the night life.

Game Under Episode 20

It's our fourth BIG SHOW, and so we go all out with first impressions of Wonderful 101, Pikmin 3, Papers Please, Earthbound and Game and Wario.  A feature on third-person shooters can be found as well as an Aural Review of Max Payne 2 from Tom Towers.

We cover the latest news from Gamescom and around the gaming world, thanks for listening. 

- Phil

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Game Under Episode 19

Phil Fogg returns to talk NPD's, Microsoft's latest reversal and some first and final impressions of games new and old, including Bastion, Max Payne, Thomas Was Alone and Vanquish.

This week we not only give our best and worst gaming experiences of the week, but also lengthy discourses on Microsoft's strategy, Nintendo's woes and the plight of the modern writer (and history of when writers had it good).

Thank you for listening and please, if you enjoy or hate our show, tell a friend. 

- Phil

Review Revival: Bastion

In the next show we'll be talking about Bastion, among other things, so I figured I'd pull out a review from Tom's past.  This was lost to the sands of time when robotgeek.co.uk went under, but I've brought it back to life for all the internet to read, right here.

The kid shoots up a convenience store. 

The kid shoots up a convenience store. 

Tom Reviews Zeno Clash II

First-Person Action RPG's.  There are not a lot of them, so far as I know there are two that have been published, Zeno Clash and Zeno Clash II which makes them the absolute best (and second best) in their category.

Now I think about it though, wouldn't Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls series also be described as First-Person Action RPG's?

Well, in any case, Tom Towers, my esteemed and long-suffering co-host has reviewed the newly released Zeno Clash II over at laserlemming.com.

While the characters might still be complete with their funky hair and primitive dispositions on the PS3, the world itself is only a shell of its true self. And any moments of intensity from the PC version that weren’t taken from you by a glitch, are taken from you here by the unreliable and at times unplayable frame rate. 
That is one pissed off crab. 

That is one pissed off crab.