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jigsawhc - New Xbox Experience coming November 19

jigsawhc — Oct 9, 2008 10:01 AM

I'm glad they finally gave us a date.

jigsawhc - Married Gamers Review: Pirates vs. Ninja Dodgeball

jigsawhc — Sep 25, 2008 9:38 AM

I played the trial. but I just could not get into it. I like the concept, but the actual gameplay was just no for me.

Roger Green - TMG-067 Libraries: Rated E For Everyone

Roger Green — Sep 24, 2008 11:17 AM

plugged this podcast here: http://aplfriends.blogspot.com/2008/09/video-gami...

Roger Green - TMG-067 Libraries: Rated E For Everyone

Roger Green — Sep 22, 2008 2:37 PM

Kelly, You're afraid of librarians? I'm wounded to the quick! And I think Lefty's right; I think you are overgeneralizing about the crotchety librarian. As a librarian, here's the real reason a library might not want to carry video games: lack of awareness of the product line. They're not likely to get one or two video pieces. Our library carries music CDs, but it has a decent number of them; likewise, videos and DVDs. There are books and magazines and associations that give guidance as to what is "good" in books, magazines, music and videos. You should suggest ways o evaluate what is both "good" and popular in video games. They might be resistent to M-rated videos because they don't want to be in the position of policing them. But you're right that you need to lobby the library to give them reasons for starting the collection.

hamm3rofgod - TMG-066 Wii Music or Eating Paste...You Decide!

hamm3rofgod — Sep 9, 2008 7:53 AM

Hey Land Lubbers, Good episode and I loved the pirate talk. I was laughing out loud in the street. Kelly, it's "arggh" not "arrrr." You have to add a "g" in there.

SKirkham1967A - Join the Married Games LIVE Podcast on September 6th

SKirkham1967A — Sep 5, 2008 4:33 PM

Chris and Kelly, I'm going to try to join you tomorrow for the live podcast. Hope to possibly win some swag that you picked up at PAX. I am seriously thinking about going next year, myself.

Steven Artlip - Spiral's Soapbox: Second-hand sales are a "critical situation?"

Steven Artlip — Sep 1, 2008 6:48 PM

I don't mean to be come off as negative but most publishers and developers see 2nd hand sales just as bad as they see piracy, and the reason for this is because they make the same amount off of every resold game as they do off of a pirated game, nothing. Now who is to blame for this? Is anyone really to blame for buying 2nd hand games? I think not, when games are 60 dollars a pop and the dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. Not only do we not have the disposable income that we used to have but more and more games are coming out that seem to be must haves so most "average gamers" have to essentially "recycle" their games. This will continue to happen till something changes. Personally I see 2 things that can change this current issue. The first way I see (and my favorite) is drop the price of games. Yes I understand that the profit margin won't be as large as it currently is, yes there is a great chance you won't make as much but this most likely would actually open more doors for a couple reasons, first your game sells would be larger due to the fact your game would be more affordable and then because of the more copies of your game on the market you then would be able to compensate the lower price with DLC (not horse armor). If you make a great game and offer more of your great game through more characters, levels, maps, etc you can easily make up for the loss of profit from the lowered profit of your games. I would love to see all games cost 20 dollars. I know my library would be at least 3 times bigger and it wouldn't just make us buy more games but it would also kill the resale market (who is going to buy the game used for 15-17 dollars when they could get the game for 20). This idea of 20 dollar games would also help to combat piracy I believe. Take iTunes as an example, if you make the games affordable and with easy access (like songs off of iTunes) to get them most people would actually take the honest route. And the other thing that you can do is make all games downloadable (my hated option). Then there is NO physical media to have, there is nothing to trade in and nothing to sell on ebay. My only issue with this is when you run into issues like the RRoD and the drm off of XBLA games, currently it still doesn't work. Not the right way. In addition to that, while they might lower the price now to do not owning any physical media whats to say a few years down the road they don't once again charge a "next gen tax". Then we could be paying 60 dollars a game for games we don't even own, only licensing.

Rick - Spiral's Soapbox: Second-hand sales are a "critical situation?"

Rick — Sep 1, 2008 6:16 PM

If folks would read the licensing agreements printed in each manual with each and every game then folks would realize that you only purchase the rights to play the game. Not resell it. I have to agree on a business side of things that the used market is theft on the part of retailers.

Jonathan Maher - Summer of Arcade: Castle Crashers

Jonathan Maher — Aug 26, 2008 5:07 PM

I am buying this one for sure. I just need friends to play with... : - )

jigsawhc - Summer of Arcade: Castle Crashers

jigsawhc — Aug 26, 2008 9:56 AM

A long time coming, but I'm still looking forward to it.

leftybrown - One Step Forward, Two Steps back for Sony.

leftybrown — Aug 22, 2008 9:00 AM

I was going to pick up a Madden PSP this weekend, but now I'm going to wait for a white PSP-3000.

Erik Johnsen - Summer of Arcade: Galaga Legions

Erik Johnsen — Aug 21, 2008 11:39 AM

Yeah, I get smoked pretty fast in the 4th stage.

Jigsaw_hc - Summer of Arcade: Galaga Legions

Jigsaw_hc — Aug 21, 2008 10:34 AM

I like this updated Galaga, but man it is pretty hard after about the first 15 minutes. At least for me.

Goon360 - Married Gamers Review: Braid

Goon360 — Aug 19, 2008 5:39 PM

Nice review. Braid was indeed excellent. One of my current favorites this year...next to Geo Wars 2 of course ;)

Goon360 - TMG-059 Mrs Lefty Joins The Club

Goon360 — Aug 7, 2008 9:23 PM

Another good episode guys :)

charmedpower - TMG-058 Chris P. Not Burned

charmedpower — Aug 6, 2008 6:45 PM

Awesome show guys.

Goon360 - TMG-058 Chris P. Not Burned

Goon360 — Aug 5, 2008 11:55 PM

Great episode guys :) California Games ftw!!

DAVe - TMG-058 Chris P. Not Burned

DAVe — Aug 5, 2008 10:32 PM

What is the best way to polish the scratches out of a disc?

outrage - Win a Copy of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

outrage — Jul 30, 2008 9:54 PM

Train Kept A Rolling... because I can't get it out of my head. Cannot get anywhere close to beating it on expert for the achievement. Xbox 360

pandoya - Win a Copy of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

pandoya — Jul 30, 2008 9:46 PM

Walk this Way xbox 360