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Weekend Confirmed Episode 55
by Garnett Lee, Apr 08, 2011 11:00am PDTScheduling challenges make it a three-chair show this week. On the upside, that means there's plenty of room to spread out for Jeff, Garnett, and this week's guest Andrea Rene, host of Mahalo Video Games Today. They get right in to Whatcha Been Playin? with The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Ratchet and Clank All 4 One, and more. An unexpected debate on whether survival horror games must be scary spills into the Warning before taking up the question of "narrative dissonance" raised by the Sword and Sorcery developers Superbrothers, who also drop a tune from the game's soundtrack on us for this week's featured music. We wrap it all up with videogame news in the Front Page and Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 55: 04/08/2011
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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 Part 1: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:27:15
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:28:061 End: 00:58:40
- The Warning: Start: 00:59:50 End: 01:31:40
- Featured Music "COM-64" by Jim Guthrie: 01:31:40 End: 01:32:58
- Front Page news: Start: 01:32:58 End: 02:14:44
This week's featured music is the track "COM-64" by Jim Guthrie from the iPad (and soon iPhone) game, Sword and Sworcery. Guthrie (jampants on Twitter) is a composer/singer/songwriter in Toronto with a legendary solo discography, he's a veteran of bands like Royal City & Islands and an acknowledged influence on other Canadian success stories like Broken Social Scene, Feist, Arcade Fire, and Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy).
The Sword and Sworcery EP is available in digital form through iTunes and Bandcamp or as a 12" vinyl. Get all the details from the game's music page. And of course, the game is also out now on iPad and should be soon for iPhone/iPod Touch.
Big thanks go out to Craig (the1console on Twitter), artist, animator, and writer on Sword and Sworcery, for connecting with us.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest Album, The Wait is Over on iTunes. Check out more, including the Super Mega Worm mix and other mash-ups on his ReverbNation page or Facebook page, and follow him on twitter delriomusic.
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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Look as most of us know men and women have different tastes. My girlfriend and I usually have a debate over what movie or TV show we should see together. She typically likes to watch Rom coms, heartfelt dramas, and those awful Twilight movies among other things. I like Action movies, comedies, and weirdly musicals. Anyway those differences carry over to games. She has bought a couple of fitness games for my PS3 while I will buy the usual stuff. We like different things. I honestly don't think she would be interested in an Unchartedesk experience geared toward her. She likes watching me play those games sometimes and she might even give it a try but that's as far as it goes. Obviously I'm not saying my girlfriend speaks for all women but most women are more in line with her tastes when it comes to games.
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I think this is another one of those arguments that boils down to 'do you want games to be inclusive or exclusive.' I think most gamers claim they want games to be accepted by the population at large, but the steps needed to do so often repel many gamers.
Just look at the quotes coming from Sony's Jack Trentton bashing the Nintendo brand of handheld gaming. He is trying to create a line between "real" gamers and those content to play "kiddie" games. I think that kind of attitude stinks.
Let the girls get some games, or at least include their desires in your game design docs. Who will it really hurt?
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