Weekend Confirmed 74 - NHL 12, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, El Shaddai

The power trio of Xav, Jeff, and Garnett come together for a midsummer's night podcast. Picking up on the excitement Shane left last week, El Shaddai gets a closer look after having played it--and fares well for the most part. Other games in Whatcha Been Playin? include NHL 12, Madden, Portal 2 co-op, and Toy Soldiers: Cold War. For the Warning, we talk about whether MMO design needs to better emphasize group play, and the recent assertion that few people finish games. Some of that discussion spills over to the news segment, which starts off with Mark Cerny's prediction that isolated single-player games will be gone in three years. Finishing Moves tops it all off.

Weekend Confirmed Ep. 74: 08/19/2011

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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: 00:29:01

• Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:29:35 End: 00:58:32

• The Warning: Start: 00:59:32 End: 01:31:15

• Featured music Mista Perkins "Pop Life" feat. Aaron G. West: 01:31:15 End: 01:34:50

• The Front Page news: Start: 01:34:50 End: 02:09:51

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