It’s time once again for the HD Wars! In this amazing new podcast we discuss the recent happening with Blu-Ray and Warner Brothers, plus compare both formats as-is at this point in time. Sure not all of my predictions have been correct, but I do recall saying “Blu-Ray FTW” nearly 2 years ago… I guess we know what people have been buying PS3’s for now.

But that’s not all! Call now and we’ll also discuss the Xbox Live service outage, how much online website-based consumer support sucks (for most companies), why Googling about tech problems is far better, and finally “Movie Story Cliches” in which we discuss how the slavish devotion to the “Hero’s Journey” template causes every movie to have the same plot and predictable twists.

Enjoy…

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It’s that time of the year again for Holiday Special podcast!

Santa Claus, in a mad delusional rage over Wii Vouchers, turns to drinking in this newswire photo

First, pour yourself some eggnog, sit by the fire and listen to our heartwarming intro “Video Pirates Save Christmas”. If you’re wondering what happened to the promised “It’s a Wonderful Half-Life”, well, once again I couldn’t get that script to work. Oh well, it gave us a reason to bring the video pirates back.

Next, indulge yourself in our amazing topics. First up is”Long Delayed Games”, in honor of the Duke Nukem Forever teaser coming out this week. Then we discuss “Is CGI Destroying the Movies?”, a commentary on the overuse and cost of special effects and how they still don’t look as real as Cecille B. DeMille actually lining up 10,000 people behind Charlton Heston.

Finally we hand out our “Game of the Year” awards. Beyond the normal and boring categories such as “Best Game” and “Graphics” we also give out nods for “Most Obvious Betrayal Scene”, “Least Crappy Ending” and other interesting acheivements. Enjoy and have a happy New Year…

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Being friends with me can be annoying at times, but there’s always a chance I might show up at your place like this.

Topics this episode include a large Rock Band discussion, Jones and his PS3 experiences, Ben’s brief red-ring-of-not-death, the lack of Anti-Aliasing in newer games and a few other random ramblings of nonsense. Sorry it was a few days late…

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It finally happened – Jones’ Xbox bought the farm! So in light of this tragic event we came up with the following spoof intro:

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Ironically my sister’s boyfriend’s Xbox just returned from Texas as well. Guess I’m next…

Anyway topics this week include retail customer service, why does it suck so / stories of the Fabled Chip Smashers, Assasin’s Creed: The Sci-Fi game and other musings and postulations. We also plead for Robert Zemeckis to pick up a film camera again, though according to Jones Beowulf turned out to be pretty cool. Perhaps I shall check it out this weekend…

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Enjoy…