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Weekend Confirmed Episode 35
by Garnett Lee, Nov 19, 2010 8:20pm PSTThanksgiving might be a week away but the new release feast is in full swing. After a couple of quick follow ups to last week's Black Ops coverage, Garnett, Brian, and Jeff serve up Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, 007: Blood Stone, and Donkey Kong Country Returns as the main dishes in Whatcha' Been Playin? The reactionary commentary of ESPN's 1st and Ten cast in response to Kobe's appearance in the Black Ops ads starts off the Warning. Your thoughts on shooter fatigue, urgency without a ticking clock, and more take the conversation right up to the Front Page. October's NPD sales numbers and Bizarre Creation's uncertain future headline a full slate of news.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 35 - 11/19/2010
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Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here's the timing for this week's episode:
Whatcha' Been Playin: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:31:07
Whatcha' Been Playin and Cannata-ford a New Game: Start: 00:32:10 End: 01:03:58
The Warning: Start: 01:05:08 End: 01:37:16
Music Break featuring "Never Get 2 See U Again": 01:37:16 End: 01:40:30
The Front Page: Start: 01:40:30 End: 02:11:14
NFL 'Tailgate': Start: 02:12:15 End: 02:20:42
Music Break this week features "Never Get 2 See U Again" by Beta. Chris Contreras aka Beta is an emcee and aspiring filmmaker hailing from Southern California. The Hip Hop culture and movies have made a huge impact in his life, and to his work. Beta is also an avid gamer. "Never Get 2 See U Again" is a collaboration between Beta and his brother Brandon Menace (who is currently in the military stationed in Japan). He has known and worked with Tak/Ribkat from the acclaimed groups Fort Minor and Styles of Beyond, for many years. For more from Beta, keep up with him on Soundcloud, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes. Check out more, including the Super Mega Worm mix and other mash-ups on his ReverbNation page or Facebook page.
Jeff can also be seen on The Totally Rad Show. They've gone daily so there's a new segment to watch every day of the week!
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Comments
@Brian
Regarding your comment that Activision knows how to run a game business, I think their business is not doing as well as you think. Their stock price has stagnated and their recent earnings have been weak. And I think their earnings would be even worse if Blizzard's earnings were excluded.
Consider that their strategy of taking a property and exploiting it as quickly as possible may be a detriment to their medium term success as well as their long term success. For example, I think that it is possible that had they not flooded the market with Guitar Hero products that Guitar Hero might have still had some sales viability this holiday season. If that was the case, they would have two great properties in their catalog instead of just COD (again, I am excluding Blizzard since it seems to me that Blizzard it not really "managed" by the core Activision executive team).
Building a catalog of properties is more Nintendo-like thinking but I am not suggestion they should or even could become like Nintendo, but that direction could help their growth and staying power.
Slowing down the COD releases and finding ways to keep COD games at the forefront could very well help their business and not just their artistic street cred.
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