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ShackCast 22: Activision Blizzard, GTA4 Trailer
by Chris Remo, Dec 07, 2007 10:57am PSTIn this week's ShackCast, we discussed the newly formed mega-publisher Activision Blizzard, the release of the latest Grand Theft Auto IV trailer, EVE Online's XP-killing bug, the inconclusive conclusion to Gerstmanngate, Garriott defending his Tabula Rasa, and Michael Bay's optical media conspiracy theories--and, at the last second, mention of FASA founder Jordan Weisman getting the game licenses to Shadowrun, MechWarrior, and Crimson Skies.
Plus, reader mail, as well as what we've been playing: Pirates of the Burning Sea (PC), Omega Five (X360), Draglade (NDS), Pain (PS3), and Half-Life 2: Episode Two (PC).
Don't forget to send in your questions and comments about video games, the Shack, or the ShackCast to shackcast@shacknews.com!Play or download the podcast now, or browse the episodes through iTunes, RSS, or Digg, or continue on for the full breakdown.
00:00: It's a song!
01:05: ACTIVISON BLIZZARD HOLY SHIT (Story)
11:55: Grand Theft Auto IV trailer HOLY SHIT (Trailer)
16:42: Texas vs. Games Radar, and Faylor makes some demon sound wtf (Story)
22:26: EVE Online has been killing Windows XP machines! (Story)
24:56: Michael Bay is a crazy tin foil hat guy. HD DVD and Blu-ray are involved. (Story)
32:42: GameSpot and Gerstmann reveal all don't reveal much. Oh well. (Story)
36:52: Garriot claims Tabula Rasa's performance on its huge beta. Whoops. (Story)
45:35: Faylor got ripped off by Pain on PS3.
48:10: He also played Draglade, a rhythm fighting game with no rhythm? (Review)
50:30: Nick played, and basically enjoyed, Pirates of the Burning Sea.
55:35: Steve on Half-Life: Episode Two: "I'm glad I finally suffered past the beginning"
56:36: XBLA shoot-em-up Omega Five is pretty rad. (Preview)
61:48: Reader mail! Useless console features and more!
72:13: FASA's Weisman gets game rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, Crimson Skies!
Comments
Yes, I'm posting this more than two months after it aired.
What's up with the water bubbling sound effect at 6:22? did you drown faylor?
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It's possible that MS says it doesn't work because two wireless jumps might be a little too much for streaming content.
It's also possible that your router may be doing some traffic blockin between the wireless and LAN side. This is unusual but not unheard of. Sometimes you can tweak this setting on the router's config page.
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If a game has a bad framerate, and you want to record a video of it running smooth, you just force it to render 30 frames a second, and spit those frames out. This will make it run slow and weird, but when you collect the frames and run it back it is fine. See the physics crysis movies, and is pretty common on consoles etc.
Also my understanding was that VU didn't really paty attention to what game studio was making all the money. While it was no secret to you and I, Blizzard, and other VU game studios, and probably to some people at VU, the higher up VU people from what I heard didn't really know what was going on, they probably just saw a report that VU games devision was up, and would reward all game studios under them when Blizzard boosted the numbers. Semi recently they figured it out though and calculate Blizzard separately and then all the other studios. The mysters of why their profits go up when ever Blizzard releases a game is solved. I know it sounds crazy, but, you never know.
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so have i been mispronouncing Meyer? i always assumed it was like the hot dog.
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The two high def DVD formats, to a great degree, actually cancel each other out. As long as the battle exists, there is obviously no real winner. If that battle can hold out until high def video content can be provided online, then people will likely turn away from both formats.
For Bay to give a nod or any sort of extra credit to blu-ray as being the superior format.. for fucks sake, as if the average consumer could ever understand the differences between them.
The first line where it says "ShackCast Ep. 22 - December 7, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS, Digg)" and you click play it doesn't work. But the PLAY button just below that one links to the full one.
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that is all.
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