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Weekend Confirmed Episode 48
by Garnett Lee, Feb 18, 2011 12:00pm PSTBilly and Christian join Jeff and Garnett in the studio for this week's show. A look back at the Halo: Reach campaign as played solo as opposed to cooperatively gets things started in Whatcha Been Playin? GoldenEye also gets a brief reassessment before yielding to Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There's time to catch up on your comments during the Warning and the open question of how intimidating the competitive nature of some games can be to players who just want to have fun. The Front Page closes this week's show with a full slate of new game and DLC announcements from Double Fine's Sesame Street kinect game to a da Vinci-themed add-on for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 48 - 02/18/2011
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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: 00:30:21
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:31:10 End: 01:01:36
The Warning: 01:02:39 End: 01:34:24
Featured Music "Hangman" by Room 16 : 01:34:24 End: 01:38:03
The Front Page: Start: 01:38:03 End: 02:12:54
In the Featured Music break this week it's "Hangman" from Room 16. They are a straightforward rock band from Scotland who like playing music with guitars in it. Room 16 has been making music for better or worse for about 3 years now and has had the pleasure of gigging across the country. Their line up consists of singer Ewan McCall, guitarists Andrew Gordon and Adam Gatherer, bass player Kyle McLellan and drummer Ronan McLellan. Hangman was written by Andrew Gordon with additional lyrics from Ewan McCall.
If you're fortunate enough to be around Glasgow on Saturday, March 12 you can check them out at Barrowlands 2. They've also graciously offered to send a free track to Weekend Confirmed listeners just for the asking. Connect with Room 16 via Twitter, Facebook, the official Room 16 site, and their bandcamp page.
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
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I'd love for you feature a member of the community as a special guest on the podcast to fill a fifth chair so that you are getting some varied input from people outside of gaming journalism.
For example, have a middle-guy, a gamer dad, a female gamer, or other interesting gamer types who can add some flavor. Maybe they'd only sit in for a segment such as What Have You Been Playing? or a dedicated feature to examine their gaming life.
While it's cool to have industry guests, I'd love to see a common man or woman sit at the table to chime in on the day's topics.
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I was listing my gaming background to demonstrate that simply working in the gaming journalist community shouldn't be the only prerequisite for commenting on games and your earlier remark about uncomfortable pauses from the guests in response to Garnett's questions.
Even if they don't have community members guest, I'd love to see more variety in the guests than developers, journalists, or other show hosts. (The recent inclusion of a female gamer was fantastic and the best part of her appearance was that the conversations didn't focus on girls and gaming---even though that contradicts my community guest suggestion.) :)
I think there is some merit to having community guests---I don't know GAF members or what they do so i can't comment on their quality---and I'd love to see it tried and fail than simply discarded upfront.
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