The Fanboys http://thefanboys.com Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:18:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 It gets no more high concept than this: A trio of nerds escape the office, go to lunch, and talk dirty about their various geekdoms (primarily video games) over a chorus of annoying ambient noise. The Fanboys yes The Fanboys feedback@thefanboys.com feedback@thefanboys.com (The Fanboys) 2006-2010 video games, xbox 360, playstation, wii, nintendo, pc, ds, lunchcast The Fanboys http://thefanboys.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/fanboys-144.jpg http://thefanboys.com The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 135 http://thefanboys.com/2012/03/23/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-135/ http://thefanboys.com/2012/03/23/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-135/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:18:02 +0000 mik http://thefanboys.com/?p=1711

Episode 135: New Jersey Drive (1:23:00)
Featuring the iPad, Mass Effect 3, MORE Kickstarter, Journey, Giant Bomb, New York, and spoilers for The Walking Dead.
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Episode 134:  Welcome to the real world, Silver Spoons (1:02:22)
Featuring the PlayStation Vita, Kickstarter, kidney stones, speech jammers, and an uninvited ESPN broadcast.
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Episode 133:  I’ve got a friend and a truck—let’s do this (1:10:00)
Featuring buying new phones, giving away old televisions, and our favorite games from 2011.
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Episode 132: What’s a Jewish Person? (1:08:00)
Featuring Joe Schmo to Lambo, college football, Uncharted 3, insurance, Skyrim, Need for Speed: The Run, your chance to win a free game of your choice, and listener mail.
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Episode 131: CatDog (1:25:36)
Featuring the new Xbox dashboard, Christmas, World of Warcraft, Modern Warfare 3, Infinity Blade II, the Spike VGAs, and listener mail.
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Episode 130: Texting with Roni (1:00:00)
Featuring Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, Need for Speed: The Run, Leverett, sex OCD, and listener mail.
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Episode 129: Test Drive (1:00:00)
Featuring Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3, Riptide GP, and listener mail.
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Episode 128: Parallels (1:00:00)
Featuring television, Gears 3, Forza 4, Uncharted 3, the iPhone 4S, and listener mail.
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Episode 127: Lambent Zerkers—How do they work? (1:00:00)
Featuring ESPN on XBL, Go Kart Turismo, Gears of War 3, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Juggalos, and listener mail.
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Episode 126: Cell Phone Moses (1:00:00)
Featuring OnLive, Resistance 3, Monsters Ate My Condo, Windows Phone 7, the soothing hum of a distant chainsaw, and listener mail.
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Resistance 3 is a period shooter where it’s incredibly easy to forget about the era you are supposed to be in. You shuffle along between segments, all of which make you feel like you’re going on a tour of other people’s games, and you can almost hear the developers periodically saying “I hope that you enjoyed that very brief outdoor section that was oddly claustrophobic, because up next there’s a sewer/underground/cave/prison.” But it’s an Insomniac game, so the weapons are amazing.

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About our scale… the number of words in our review reflects the score of the game. In practical terms, you could assume that games reviewed in 49 words or fewer should be avoided, games reviewed in 50-75 words would make a decent rental, and games reviewed in 76 words or more would make a solid purchase.

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Episode 125: Goin’ Gordie Howe (1:10:00)
Featuring our last member of the 20s Club, bicycles, trucks, Windows Phone 7, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Elevator Action, arcades, maternal violence, Jetpack Joyride, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, and listener mail.
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Episode 124: Middle-age Malaise (1:00:00)
Featuring sour old men talking about auto detailing, Madden NFL 12, Toy Soldiers Cold War, Deus Ex OnLive, gratuity misunderstanding, and listener mail.
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Episode 123: Inception (1:05:00)
Featuring tawdry Las Vegas adventures, the 3DS price drop, Android/iOS/Google, Sword and Sworcery, Groove Coaster, the Summer of Arcade, LittleBigPlanet 2, Spotify, the new Spider-Man, and listener mail.
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Join flat foot officers Greg Sewart, Nick Kosareo, Jonathan Maher, and Mike Phillips as they unravel the mysteries and intrigue of Rockstar’s long-awaited period drama.

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Episode 122: @VaginaFight (1:00:00)
Featuring Android, Alice: Madness Returns, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, The Trip, Peter Molydeux, The Summer of Arcade, and listener mail.
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Episode 121: Prejudice (1:00:00)
Featuring StarFront Collision, Uncharted 3, the Steam Summer Sale, Frozen Synapse, Connectrode (and your chance to win it!), Tiny Tower, and listener mail.
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Episode 120: Brushes with Loggins (1:00:00)
Featuring the Journey beta, the Uncharted 3 beta, LA Noire, and listener mail.
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The Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta is going on right now—for PlayStation+ members and those who bought inFAMOUS 2. If neither of those describes you, don’t despair. We have a bushel of codes to give away to the first couple dozen people who email us at feedback@thefanboys.com with “Uncharted 3″ in the subject line. We’ll email you back a code and you can join us in the paincave!

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Episode 119: On Rails (1:13:00)
Featuring minimal E3 prattle, Duke Nukem, Child of Eden, Crysis 1 and 2, and listener mail.
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Join Aperture Science test subjects Greg Sewart, James Chilton, Davide Vigliotti, and Mike Phillips as they tunnel their way through the puzzles and plot points of Valve’s follow-up to their 2007 surprise classic.

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Episode 118: We’ve Been Doing this S**t for Five Years? (1:00:00)
Featuring LA Noire, Portal 2, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Game of Thrones, The Rapture, Decorah Eagles, and listener mail.
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Episode 117: A Tri-fold Frontal Assault (1:00:00)
Featuring Sword and Sworcery, Outland, Saxondale, Fleetwood Mac, Nintendo’s coming console, the PSN fiasco, and listener mail.
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Episode 116: Goin’ Magellan (1:00:00)
Featuring Camaro5-fest, Shift 2 Unleashed, Mortal Kombat, Tom Selleck, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Twisted Metal mini-controversy, listener mail, and 30 seconds of concentrated racism.
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Episode 115: Isaiah 36:12 (1:00:00)
Featuring Killzone 3, Crysis 2, the 3DS, RDR Undead Nightmare, SOCOM 4 beta, CSI: Fatal Conspiracy,  listener mail, and Parents Just Don’t Understand.
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All the latest and greatest from the exciting world of video games!

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There’s a point at which the act of polishing an object moves beyond the realm of disguising imperfections and into removing individuality, texture, and—character. Dragon Age II takes that notion to the latter extreme, and then some. The result is a game that comes off seemingly so small—geographically, technically, conceptually, and narratively—that its central conflict feels about as epic as Jets vs. Sharks… minus the snapping.

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About our scale… the number of words in our review reflects the score of the game. In practical terms, you could assume that games reviewed in 49 words or fewer should be avoided, games reviewed in 50-75 words would make a decent rental, and games reviewed in 76 words or more would make a solid purchase.

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Episode 114: Up Your Autorama (1:00:00)
Featuring sore losers, Killzone 3, focus group gaming, Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, science vs. humanities, and listener mail.
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Episode 113: Exploiting Gimmicks (59:11)
Featuring Mormons (again), iPad 2, Killzone 3, Infinity Blade, Battlefield Bad Company 2, and listener mail.
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Episode 112: Stunt Bollocks (1:00:00)
Featuring Karl Malone, casual vs. hardcore, guns, dogs, programming, anglophilia, Killzone 3, Nier, the Xperia Play phone, and listener mail.
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Episode 111: Throwing in the Towel(s) (1:07:30)
Featuring red rings, console hacking, girls basketball, Mormonism, the Dead Space universe, a very special episode of Dawson’s Creek, and listener mail.
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Episode 110: Chaz, Justin, Bob, and Stellan (1:05:41)
Featuring a heaping helping of smartphone chatter, Papa Sangre, LittleBigPlanet 2, Fighters Uncaged, Echochrome II, and listener mail.
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Episode 109: Bit O’ Ennui (1:17:13)
Featuring some light CES discussion, a bit of listener mail, and The Sassies—our top five games from 2010, auto-tuned.
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Another year, another eight-dozen hours of the big news sites debating and filibustering over their games of the year lists. Meanwhile, I’m once again more interested to hear the opinions on the year in gaming from the folks whose opinions I really trust (and who pay cash money for their own games).

While you eagerly await our Fifth Annual Sassy Awards (recording this week!), we’ve compiled a group of similar year-end awards from some of our indie-podcasting comrades. For those shows who do a list of 10 or more, they’re whittled down to the top five selections. You’ll also find handy links to their sites, in case you want to give a listen and hear their rationale. Have a podcast and a list of your own awards? Shoot us an email and we’ll add them below.

Critical Strike

Kyle:
1. Mass Effect 2
2. Super Street Fighter IV
3. MAG
4. Minecraft
5. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Josh:
1. Super Street Fighter IV
2. Starcraft 2
3. Civilization V
4. White Knight Chronicles
5. 3D Dot Game Heroes

The Digital Cowboys

Alex: Rock Band 3
Tony: Bioshock 2

Drunken Monkey Tech

Winner: Gran Turismo 5
Runner-up: Halo: Reach

Gamer Dork

Xibxang: Heavy Rain
Ratso: Mass Effect 2

Player One Podcast

Greg Ford
1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Heavy Rain
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2
4. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
5. Donkey Kong Country Returns

CJ
1. Rock Band 3
2. Pac Man CE DX
3. Alan Wake
4. Hydro Thunder Hurricane
5. Split / Second

Greg Sewart
1. Split / Second
2. Gran Turismo 5
3. Bioshock 2
4. Heavy Rain
5. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Phil
1. Picross 3D
2. Pac Man CE DX
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Bit.Trip Runner
5. Super Mario Galaxy 2

PSNerds

Pete:
1. Gran Turismo 5
2. MAG
3. Super Street Fighter IV
4. Starcraft 2
5. Final Fantasy XIII

Billy:
1. Mass Effect 2
2. Minecraft
3. Battlefield Bad Company 2
4. Super Street Fighter IV
5. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

The Rumble Pack

Kaz:
1. Mass Effect 2
2. Battlefield Bad Company 2
3. Civilization V
4. Starcraft 2
5. Alan Wake

Tony:
1. Mass Effect 2
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Civilization V
4. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
5. Limbo

Nick:
1. Mass Effect 2
2. Super Street Fighter IV
3. 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors
4. Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker
5. Bayonetta

Justin:
1. Limbo
2. Super Mario Galaxy 2
3. Halo: Reach
4. Joe Danger
5. Heavy Rain

Tom:
1. Mass Effect 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Alan Wake
4. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
5. Deadly Premonition

Joypod

Michael: Dragon Quest IX
David: Red Dead Redemption

The Overseas Connection

Skullduggerer: Alan Wake
CP Matthew: Mass Effect 2
B1gBadDaddy: Red Dead Redemption
Murphys Law: Mass Effect 2

Big Red Potion

Winner (tie): Demon’s Souls / Mass Effect 2

4th String

Todd: NCAA 11
Greg: NBA 2K11
Mike: NHL 11

That Gamer Podcast

Ben: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Brandon: Mass Effect 2

The Uncanny Gamers

Phoenix:
1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Halo: Reach
3. Fable 3
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops
5. Monopoly

Gemini:
1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Split / Second
3. Blur
4. Halo: Reach
5. ilomilo

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Episode 108: The Two Unwise Men (55:17)
Mik and Sooch two-man up to close the year with Infinity Blade, Gran Turismo 5, Dead Space 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Mormons, Christmas memories, Tron, and the troubles of a middle-aged white (well, Mexican) man. Plus, your chance to win a game of your choice.
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Episode 107: Christmas Means Giving (1:18:34)
Featuring Infinity Blade, Zombies, Christmas, Red Dead Redemption, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Sackboy’s Prehistoric Moves, Peyronie’s disease, and… I Will Always Love You.
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Episode 106: You Wanna See a Headstand or Not? (58:42)
Featuring Reckless Racing, Civilization V, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Gran Turismo 5, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Dead Nation, The Walking Dead, and listener mail.
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Episode 105: Bifurcated (46:49)
Featuring Beast Boxing, The Great Land Grab, a very unusual Veterans’ Day discussion, Codblops, Kinect, and listener mail.
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Episode 104: Spooks (1:05:38)
Featuring Trainyard, Air Traffic Control, Alan Wake, The Force Unleashed II, Costume Quest, Halloween, Gamestop, and listener mail.
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Episode 103: Derelict Café (54:27)
Featuring Netflix and loads of other TV, Castlevania, Enslaved, Medal of Honor, Red Dead Redemption, and listener mail.
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Episode 102: S.T. Pie (1:04:35)
Featuring Halo Reach, An Idiot Abroad, NBA Jam, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and listener mail.
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Episode 101: For My Mommy (1:24:54)
Featuring Halo Reach, Just Desserts, PlayStation Move, contest winners, DoDonPachi, Space Invaders Infinity Gene, and listener mail.
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Episode 100: 9-11, In 3D! (1:27:08)
Live from the paincave, we do some reminiscing with our listeners, check out some hot 3D action, and even manage to talk a little bit about games *gasp*.
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Episode 99: afraid – anus (1:09:15)
Featuring Shank, The Impossible Game, a sudden rainstorm, Far Cry 2, Scott Pilgrim, Motorstorm 3D Rift, Chaos Rings, an easy chance to win a couple free games, and listener mail.
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Episode 98: R.I.P. m.i.k. (42:11)
Featuring birthdays across the decades, the Gut Whisperer, some 3D gaming, Toy Story 3, The Signal, an easy chance to win a couple free games, and listener mail.
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Episode 97: Limbotomy (1:08:35)
Featuring Sooch’s new BFF, Crackdown 2 for (mercifully) the last time, Hydro Thunder, insane Limbo hyperbole, Inception, Starcraft 2, Let’s Create! Pottery HD, and listener mail.
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Episode 96: F*** Me, Fidel (1:01:13)
Featuring reality TV, Crackdown 2, Inception, Robot Unicorn Attack, parental profanity, Deathspank, OnLive, and listener mail.
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Episode 95: Traumatic (1:06:04)
Featuring iPhone 4 performance anxiety, Toy Story 3, Twilight, The Road, Trauma Team, Deadly Premonition, rubbish sound quality (even for us), and listener mail.
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Episode 94: Heroes of E3 (1:06:00)
Featuring Alan Wake, listener mail, and a surly, sarcastic, and slightly drinky E3 recap. Very, very exercise!
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Want in on the Crackdown 2 demo early? Like… NOW? We have ten codes to give away to the first ten people to send us an email to feedback@thefanboys.com Aaaaaaaaand, they’re gone. But don’t despair–the other podcasts at Platform Nation have codes too. Go give them a shot!

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The Forgotten Sands is Prince of Persia designed by committee. It certainly ticks all the boxes: handsome graphics—check, sweeping, epic soundtrack—check, clever, challenging platforming—check. Yet, despite having some of the most ingenious and fun mechanics of any Prince of Persia game (freezing and unfreezing water, in particular, is a concept that remains perpetually fresh and fun), it’s missing the one thing that has always made the series something special for me: heart.

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About our scale… the number of words in our review reflects the score of the game. In practical terms, you could assume that games reviewed in 49 words or fewer should be avoided, games reviewed in 50-75 words would make a decent rental, and games reviewed in 76 words or more would make a solid purchase.

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Who could have guessed that an American football game developed by a bunch of Europeans with the sole intention of showcasing their impressive physics engine would play like an American football game developed by a bunch of Europeans with the sole intention of showcasing their impressive physics engine?

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About our scale… the number of words in our review reflects the score of the game. In practical terms, you could assume that games reviewed in 49 words or fewer should be avoided, games reviewed in 50-75 words would make a decent rental, and games reviewed in 76 words or more would make a solid purchase.

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Join us for a spoiler-filled discussion of Microsoft’s long-awaited psychological thriller, Alan Wake. In this roundtable chat, Nick Kosareo, Davide Vigliotti, Jonathan Maher, and Mike Phillips try to shed some light on the confounding story, tumultuous history, and uncertain future of Remedy’s horror opus.

]]> http://thefanboys.com/2010/06/07/alan-wake-spoiled-in-60-minutes/feed/ 0 Join us for a spoiler-filled discussion of Microsoft's long-awaited psychological thriller, Alan Wake. In this roundtable chat, Nick Kosareo, Davide Vigliotti, Jonathan Maher, and Mike Phillips try to shed some light on the confounding story, Join us for a spoiler-filled discussion of Microsoft's long-awaited psychological thriller, Alan Wake. In this roundtable chat, Nick Kosareo, Davide Vigliotti, Jonathan Maher, and Mike Phillips try to shed some light on the confounding story, tumultuous history, and uncertain future of Remedy's horror opus. The Fanboys yes 1:07:40 The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 93 http://thefanboys.com/2010/05/29/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-93/ http://thefanboys.com/2010/05/29/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-93/#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 03:20:53 +0000 mik http://thefanboys.com/?p=1139 .
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Episode 93: ModNation Biebers (1:01:10)
Featuring webbed feet, 24, Lost, The Thick of It, Alan Wake, Blue Velvet, Red Dead Redemption, ModNation Racers, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, listener mail, and a musical tribute to J Allard.
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Episode 92: Señor Manos, Federale (1:18:56)
Featuring color blindness, Halo: Reach, God of War III, the LittleBigPlanet 2 announcement, Kick-Ass, the juvenile charms of Sketch Nation Shooter, and listener mail.
]]> http://thefanboys.com/2010/05/15/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-92/feed/ 0 . . Episode 92: Señor Manos, Federale (1:18:56) Featuring color blindness, Halo: Reach, God of War III, the LittleBigPlanet 2 announcement, Kick-Ass, the juvenile charms of Sketch Nation Shooter, and listener mail. . . Episode 92: Señor Manos, Federale (1:18:56) Featuring color blindness, Halo: Reach, God of War III, the LittleBigPlanet 2 announcement, Kick-Ass, the juvenile charms of Sketch Nation Shooter, and listener mail. The Fanboys yes 1:18:56 The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 91 http://thefanboys.com/2010/05/03/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-91/ http://thefanboys.com/2010/05/03/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-91/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 00:43:36 +0000 mik http://thefanboys.com/?p=1123
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Episode 91: It’s-a Sooch-a! (1:10:00)
Featuring thoughts on Flash, buying stolen goods, Super Street Fighter IV, After Burner Climax, and a steaming pile of listener mail.
]]> http://thefanboys.com/2010/05/03/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-91/feed/ 0 . Episode 91: It's-a Sooch-a! (1:10:00) Featuring thoughts on Flash, buying stolen goods, Super Street Fighter IV, After Burner Climax, and a steaming pile of listener mail. . Episode 91: It's-a Sooch-a! (1:10:00) Featuring thoughts on Flash, buying stolen goods, Super Street Fighter IV, After Burner Climax, and a steaming pile of listener mail. The Fanboys yes 1:10:00 The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 90 http://thefanboys.com/2010/04/17/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-90/ http://thefanboys.com/2010/04/17/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-90/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:12:33 +0000 mik http://thefanboys.com/?p=1113
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Episode 90: One Sandwich to Kill Us All (58:37)
Featuring the KFC Double Down, the iPad launch “event,” and listener mail (yeah, that description doesn’t contain any games… neither does the show, frankly).
]]> http://thefanboys.com/2010/04/17/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-90/feed/ 0 . Episode 90: One Sandwich to Kill Us All (58:37) Featuring the KFC Double Down, the iPad launch "event," and listener mail (yeah, that description doesn't contain any games... neither does the show, frankly). . Episode 90: One Sandwich to Kill Us All (58:37) Featuring the KFC Double Down, the iPad launch "event," and listener mail (yeah, that description doesn't contain any games... neither does the show, frankly). The Fanboys yes 58:37 Mirror’s Edge (iPad) Reviewed, in so Many Words http://thefanboys.com/2010/04/11/mirrors-edge-ipad-reviewed-in-so-many-words/ http://thefanboys.com/2010/04/11/mirrors-edge-ipad-reviewed-in-so-many-words/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:09:51 +0000 mik http://thefanboys.com/?p=1103

On one hand, Mirror’s Edge is a smart repackaging of the console game—with intuitive touch controls and graphics that showcase the beauty of the iPad’s screen. On the other hand, the actual gameplay is pretty minuscule—both in terms of what you get to do, and the time you get to do it (the “story” levels will take you around an hour). At $12.99, this one begs “price drop.”

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About our scale… the number of words in our review reflects the score of the game. In practical terms, you could assume that games reviewed in 49 words or fewer should be avoided, games reviewed in 50-75 words would make a decent rental, and games reviewed in 76 words or more would make a solid purchase.

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Episode 89: Deflowered (1:03:51)
Featuring BFBC2, nitpicking the GoW3 and FFXIII nitpickers, Resonance of Fate, Microsoft Game Room, listener mail, and, well, a discussion of modern art (yeah).
]]> http://thefanboys.com/2010/04/05/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-89/feed/ 3 . Episode 89: Deflowered (1:03:51) Featuring BFBC2, nitpicking the GoW3 and FFXIII nitpickers, Resonance of Fate, Microsoft Game Room, listener mail, and, well, a discussion of modern art (yeah). . Episode 89: Deflowered (1:03:51) Featuring BFBC2, nitpicking the GoW3 and FFXIII nitpickers, Resonance of Fate, Microsoft Game Room, listener mail, and, well, a discussion of modern art (yeah). The Fanboys yes 1:03:51 The Fanboys Lunchcast: Episode 88 http://thefanboys.com/2010/03/21/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-88/ http://thefanboys.com/2010/03/21/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-88/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:59:48 +0000 mik http://thefanboys.com/?p=1079
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Episode 88: WWJD? BFBC! (51:56)
Featuring the cult of Apple, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, BFBC2, Final Fantasy XIII, and listener mail.
]]> http://thefanboys.com/2010/03/21/the-fanboys-lunchcast-episode-88/feed/ 0 . Episode 88: WWJD? BFBC! (51:56) Featuring the cult of Apple, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, BFBC2, Final Fantasy XIII, and listener mail. . Episode 88: WWJD? BFBC! (51:56) Featuring the cult of Apple, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, BFBC2, Final Fantasy XIII, and listener mail. The Fanboys yes 51:56