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Gamewank: Ragin’

Jim — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:40:36 +0000

Orks! Thousands of them!

In this edition we discuss Warhammer 40k: Space Marine, Orcs Must Die and the Ico/Shadow of Colossus HD remasters.

Batman’ll be Ragin’

Jim reviews id Soft’s technical marvel Rage while Krystal gets her Batarangs stuck into Rocksteady’s Arkham City.

Rump Traction

This month we’re played out by Glasgow based Pump Action, who can be found on facebook. Their track Creep in the Corner is from a forthcoming EP and it’s smashin’ mate.

Clips of copyrighted material used for review and discussion purposes include:

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (trailer) developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ

Orcs Must Die (clip) developed by Robot Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios

Shadow of the Colossus (soundtrack by Kow Otani) developed by Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment

Rage (clip, soundtrack by Rod Abernethy) developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks

Arkham City (clip, soundtrack by Ron Fish and Nick Arundel) developed by Rocksteady and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Uncharted 3 (advertisement) developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment

Gamewank: Eurogamer Expo 2011 (part two)

Jim — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:34:00 +0000

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Fattygoo

The monster recording session this comes from ended in the early hours and as such, we’re a bit croaky and even less coherent than usual. Some of our best work, I feel.

Games and that

Part two focuses on individual games more than hardware & services. We talked about some more of the future titles we sampled including:

Batman: Arkham City
Journey
The Witcher 2 (360 version)
Sonic Generations
Kid Icarus
Super Mario Land 3D
Mario Kart 7

MMOh La La

We interview Theo Nguyen, Content Designer at ArenaNet, about their subscription free MMO sequel and official Eurogamer “Game of the Show” Guild Wars 2.

Granny’s Garden

Special guest and dear friend Lindsay Robertson makes her long overdue debut to talk about arcades, 8-bit home computing memories and the good people behind the Replay Expo.

Eccles Cakes

Lurpack Shakur and Ecto Broon’s mental Livi-Hop tirade about World of Warcraft is called “Wee Black Nigel” and can’t be found anywhere on the internet except on this podcast. Lurpack’s alter ego Danny’s eclectic and kinda wonderful solo albums can be downloaded here, though.

Mass Effect 3 trailer clip property of EA and BioWare. Mario 3DS trailer property of Nintendo.

Gamewank: Eurogamer Expo 2011 (part one)

Jim — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:51:36 +0000

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We came. We saw. We came again.

Eurogamer 2011 was a triumph as far as we’re concerned – especially compared to previous years. This show felt like an important industry event, a far cry from the first one we attended in 2009 which felt like an HSBC conference with joypads.

Glands On

In this first part of a monster expo double episode, we give our hands on impressions of:

Id’s semi open-world shooter RAGE
Upcoming Wii adventure The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
And of course, Bethesda’s hotly anticipated RPG to end all RPGs, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

John Live

We interview Onlive’s VP of games and media, John Spinale, about the problems faced by the gaming industry and how cloud gaming is set to solve them.

Playstation Vita

We got our manky palms on Sony’s PSP successor, stroked its gorgeous touch screen and thumbed its filthy twin sticks until we were asked to leave.

The Plimptons

Playing us out this week, Glasgow DIY pop 6-piece The Plimptons with brand new track “Be Expected”. Check them out here!

Part two out soon!

Give me a few days to recover. This edit was a bastard.

Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim music written by Jeremy Soule for Bethesda Studios

Gamewank – Disgraceful

Jim — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:02:14 +0000

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Grace Under Fire

In this episode we discuss Deus Ex: Human Revolution (360/PS3/PC) and Cave Story (PC/WiiWare/3DS), the 3DS’ rumoured new 2nd analogue nub add-on and respond to a load of listener questions.

Goodness Gracious

Remember to enter our Photoshop Fitbaw competition – you can completely ignore the rules if you want. We just want some daft listener art to stick on a video. Winner gets a gimped tenner and a cock in biro!

Will & Grace

Playing us out this week – Durham based GeordieIrishScots prog outfit Zadok with “Unit of Judo part three”. Richie’s wee brother, Francis of “Halo fitbaw” fame, is the drummer. What is it with drummers?

Eurograce

Next episode will come right after the Eurogamer Expo at the end of September, in which we hope to give our hands-on impressions of Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, Skyward Sword and the Playstation Vita.

Thanks again for listening, and remember to update your podcatchers!

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (dev. Eidos Montreal pub. Square Enix) – menu music composed by Michael McCann/footsteps – gravel pavement.wav by soundmary/additional samples from Soundsnap

Gamewank – Biros Oot

Jim — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:30:06 +0000

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Games

In this edition we discuss Summer of Arcade titles From Dust and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Puzzle Quest 2 and, at the insistence of Richie who cried until I put it on the agenda, Solar Jetman.

Calendar

Gamescom has recently finished up, but it was barely half way during recording and we were just in time to discuss Steel Battalion and the newly announced budget priced PSP and slimmed down Wii. Also, after footage of the event leaked all over YouTube from QuakeCon, we discuss Bethesda’s Skyrim presentation in Texas.

Competiton – Photoshop Fitbaw

As detailed in the episode, we’re looking for people to come up with game boxes or screenshots for ridiculous “x Fitbaw” videogames. Imagine something like Final Fantasy Fitbaw or Left4Dead 5-a-side, some utterly incomprehensible marriage of any videogame/series/genre with football and send us your mock ups. Entries will feature in the second ever piece of Gamewank video content and the winner, as said, will receive a £10 Amazon voucher and a lovely piece of artwork by Richie.

You can send your images to us via the Facebook page, tweet them to @gamewank_jim, @laslo_panaflex or @KrystalSim with the hashtag #photofitbaw, or by good ol’ fashioned email to photofitbaw@gamewank.com.

Sick Kids Save Point

Xander has set up a web page for his own marathon here, and you also might want to visit the main blog for SKSP itself . Anyone donating to Xander between Monday 22nd and Sunday 28th of August could win a PC copy of the superb Limbo, which you can do on JustGiving or by texting ”XMAC55″ then the amount in £ to 70070.

Gamebit

Check them out here – they’re good guys and, unlike us, actually post regular content on their site.

Mentazm

Brap

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armour trailer is used under UK fair dealing laws and is owned by Capcom. Images representing From Dust and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are owned by Ubisoft and FuelCellGames respectively.

Gamewank – E3 Wee Wee

Jim — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:19:10 +0000

Three Es. Three eps. Three media briefings. Three empire biscuits consumed while recording.

Part 1: Micro & Soft

In part 1 we discuss Microsoft’s E3 briefing in full, and wonder if they’ve lost their god damn minds.

Part 2: Sony Jim

In part 2, we discuss Sony’s show, particularly Uncharted 3 and their impressive TBR handheld, the PS Vita.

This part is played out with “Black Sheep” by, as ever, the brilliant Barry “Epoch” Topping. Find more of his stuff here: http://soundcloud.com/barrytopping

Part 3: Ooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeooooooo

In this concluding part, we examine Nintendo’s next gen Wii successor, the clumsily named Wii U, and its troubled unveiling. Then we touch on the Mass Effect 3 & Gears 3 marketing, before finishing with a beautiful song by the wonderful Danny Eccles of spitty-dick fame. You can download an archive of his stuff here.

Vote Gamewank

“A pot in every garage. A car in every chicken.”

Would you like to hear the word “Gamewank” read out at a black tie event? As you heard in part 3, we’re currently trying to get people to nominate us for the 2011 Games Media Awards. Just don’t tell them we did fuck all for 6 months.

Please nominate Gamewank for Best Games Broadcast/Podcast via gma@intentmedia.co.uk and TELL YOUR FRIENDS! For further information go to: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/44634/Games-Media-Awards-step-up-in-2011

E3 conference clips/promotional audio sourced from Gametrailers and used in accordance with UK fair dealing laws. If you are a copyright holder and would like your material removed from any part of these programmes, please contact us using the form on this site. Doctor Who theme composed by Ron Grainer and arranged by Peter Howell for the BBC Radiophonic workshop, and is a property of the BBC.

Gamewank: Baubles Oot

Jim — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:58:56 +0000

Christmas/New Year

We hope yours is ACCEPTABLE.

This Episode Features

Shockingly bad timing – so I’ll have to wait until next year to broadcast my neckbeard meltdown at the COCK HARDENING announcement of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Panorama – peddlers of nonsense denounce nonsense peddled by people who should know better.

Videogames – in a shocking twist, we actually find the time to talk about some games. Fable, Fallout, Sonic & Donkey Kong all discussed.

Sleigh bells – sorry, couldn’t resist.

Play in, ass out

The stoner-prog-rock-tastic Jackie Treehorn can be found here: http://www.myspace.com/jackietreehornmusic

Copyright:

Sonic is a property of Sega, Donkey Kong is a property of Nintendo and Fallout: New Vegas is a property of Bethesda Softworks.

The BBC News 24 theme is a property of the BBC.

Gamewank S02E03 – “Slapdash”

Jim — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:28:11 +0000

Hello people!

In this ramshackle episode we discuss Mass Effect 2′s Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC and Scott Pilgrim the game. Richie concludes his 2-part metroid retrospective and I’ve reviewed Mafia II. We also touched on the most recent announcement that Duke Nukem forever is (definitely) coming (honest) courtesy of Borderlands devs Gearbox (no really), although to be honest, the subject barely held our attention for two minutes before the conversation descended into the usual irrelevant pish.

Melody Makers

Excellent Livi band Amid Concrete & Callousness supply the concluding tunage this month with “The Big Win”, a track from their new EP Sounds of a Starlit City. Remember Barry & Ged, our guests from way back? It’s their band, like. They’re good, so if you like them do buy their stuff here!

Once again, big thanks to Barry for our superb new theme tune. The man is unstoppable.

Next Month

The next episode will be a special Eurogamer Expo themed show with on location segments and co-hosting duties taken up by she who takes no shit, the amazing Krystal Sim (with a possible appearance from her bollock busting pal Ninja Lindsay). Just don’t mention… that song. Richie will still be on hand for review duties, providing a merciful conclusion to his Metroid-tastic 4 month wank-a-thon with a review of Other M.

You hear that, Ric? Shut the fuck up about Metroid now, yeah? That’s your lot, son.

That’s it from us for another loosely defined “month”, thanks for listening and we’ll be back soon. Ish.

- Jim

Fair Dealing Stuff

The Metroid franchise is a property of Nintendo. Mafia II was developed by 2K Czech and published by 2K Games. Duke Nukem Forever is now owned by Gearbox, previously 3D Realms. Mass Effect 2 was developed by Bioware and published by EA.Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft/Universal Studios.

Gamewank S02E02 – “Fundee”

Jim — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:41:07 +0000

We went to a party

It was in Dundee. There was a free bar on Microsoft’s tab, and it was in celebration of Crackdown 2′s launch. It was good. Big thanks to Dean and Sean for letting me and Alex tag along, we had a great night!

We have pals

They kindly took on review duties for us this month. Mentazm gets his thumbs into PS3 exclusive Demons Souls while Krystal play 360 exclusive Alan Wake with the lights off.

We’ll be back

Hopefully within a reasonable length of time, sorry this one has taken so long folks, we’ve just been busy.

We want your feedback

Get a comment to us via any of the means provided, giving your take on anything we’ve discussed, even if you just want to call us out for being wrong – we want to read your emails & comments and respond to them on the show. Don’t be shy!

We got tunes

Check out 100 Philistine Foreskins over on their myspace – http://www.myspace.com/100philistineforeskins

Also, once again (bloomin’ eck!) Danny Ec graces us with his take on a classic Gamewank tune. His stuff can be found here – http://www.myspace.com/dannyecclessneeze

Copyright Stuff

Mario Galaxy 2 soundtrack copyright Nintendo/Crackdown 2 is property of Microsoft Game Studios developed by Ruffian Games/Alan Wake was developed by Remedy for Microsoft Game Studios/Demons Souls was developed by From Software and published by Namco Bandai

Gamewank S02E01 – “It’s shite now”

Jim — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:36:16 +0000

We’re back!

Season 2 opens with a FEATURE PACKED show with HORRENDOUSLY OUT OF DATE NEWS, REVIEWS, and a FANTASTIC MUSICIAN called PHIL GABRIEL who may be a parody or something, I’m not sure what, but it makes for a wonderful NOISE. Speaking of a wonderful noise, we have a spiffing new THEME by the utterly brilliant KAGUTSUCHI.

Features

Jim reviews Red Dead Redemption while Richie embarks on an epic retrospective of Nintendo’s Metroid franchise ahead of upcoming title Other M. Meanwhile, Perrin from Stage Clear tells everyone off for getting worked up about the glitz and sweaty glamour of E3 like a big crabbit bawbag.

More

Follow the adventures of DI Tam McGleish, time travelling Glesga copper, as he shags his way across the Old West!

Attribution:

Red Dead Redemption was developed by Rockstar and published by Take Two Interactive

The Metroid franchise is a property of Nintendo

Lost Planet 2 was developed and published by Capcom