ShackCast Ep. 6 - August 24, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS, Digg)

This week's slightly briefer than usual ShackCast features Chris Remo, Steve Gibson, Chris Faylor, Nick Breckon, and--with a stunning contribution of approximately three words--Carlos Bergfeld. The Shack editors discuss a variety of games they've been playing, including Call of Duty 4, The Witcher, Space Giraffe, Beautiful Katamari, Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection online, Ace Combat 6, Medal of Honor: Airborne and, of course, the sublime and controversial BioShock.

Other topics of discussion include Rock Band versus Guitar Hero III, Skate versus Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, A2M's just-announced WET, The Creative Assembly's also just-announced VIKING: Battle for Asgard, derivative characters, the role of moral choice in games, and more. All this in just over an hour!

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ShackCast Ep. 5 - August 15, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS, Digg)

For this week's ShackCast, we're trying out a new format. A rotating cast of Shacknews editors discusses this week's news and impressions in a series of segments. Tell us what you think!

We've got hands-on time with the recently announced PSP Slim, its exclusive Star Wars Battlefront game, and Tony Hawk's Proving Ground on consoles. There's also discussion of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and its new marketing campaign, a trio of My Chemical Romance tracks being made available for Guitar Hero II on Xbox 360, and an unorthodox EverQuest II marriage.

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ShackCast Ep. 4.5 - August 9, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS, Digg)

In this brief appended ShackCast--to which one might very well refer as the BlizzCast, to complement yesterday's QuakeCast!--Nick Breckon talks in detail about StarCraft 2 and a bit about World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, both of which he played at Blizzard's wondrous BlizzCon event. Carlos Bergfeld also speaks on BioShock, which he may or may not have completed (hint: he did).

Apologies for the occasional brief audio issue, and for acting as if this podcast actually came before Episode 4--originally, it did, but we started playing around with the fabric of space and time and, well, you know how that goes.

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ShackCast Ep. 4 - August 8, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS, Digg) Shacknews went to QuakeCon! And now, with the auditory experience of what some have called Chris Faylor has called the QuakeCast, you can feel like you went there too!

Chris Remo, Chris Faylor, and Shack owner Steve Gibson (pictured above) chat about id's Rage, the Wolfenstein movie, Quake Arena on PC and Mac (and probably Nintendo DS!), Counter-Strike's popularity, id Tech 5, id games on Steam, Wolfenstein 3D (it is better than Commander Keen), and Left 4 Dead.

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ShackCast Ep. 3 - August 1, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS)
On this week's ShackCast, we discuss Rockstar's mysterious PlayStation 3 exclusive (and somehow manage to get off on a tangent into creative control in video games), David Jaffe's new development studio, and Rare bringing Viva Pinata to Nintendo DS.

We've also got hands-on impressions of Sony's The Eye of Judgment on PS3, Harmonix's Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s on PS2, Richard Garriott and Destination Games' new MMO Tabula Rasa, the upcoming Xbox 360 Messenger Kit (you know, that keyboard the plugs into the controller), Slant Six's SOCOM: U.S. Navy Seals Tactical Strike on PSP, and more.

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ShackCast Ep. 2 - July 25, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS)
In our second ShackCast, we discuss Silicon Knights' recent lawsuit against Epic Games regarding Unreal Engine 3, and provide even more behind-the-scenes details on the situation from developer sources.

We also discuss this week's Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3) gameplay video, Chris Faylor gives some impressions of Atlus's Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (PS2) and Mistwalker's Lost Odyssey (X360). We've got discussion of the roleplaying game genre as well as video game trailers and marketing in games such as Irrational's BioShock (PC, X360) and BioWare's Mass Effect (X360). Finally, we mention some of the games out this week and next, accompanied by our opinions of several of them.

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ShackCast Ep. 1 - July 18, 2007 (Play, Download, iTunes, RSS)
In the inaugural ShackCast (that's like a podcast, but on Shacknews), we've got Chris Remo, Chris Faylor, Nick Breckon, and Carlos Bergfeld on Peter Moore's departure from Microsoft and upcoming role as head of EA Sports and this year's new E3 as held last week in Santa Monica.

In the wake of E3, we also give impressions of a whole bunch of games including, but not limited to, Rock Band (PS3, X360), Metroid Prime 3 (Wii), Mass Effect (X360), Unreal Tournament 3 (PS3, X360, PC), LittleBigPlanet (PS3), and StarCraft II (PC). Look at all those games! Video games!

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