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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.

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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.

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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

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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

]]> http://gamewank.com/2011/09/gamewank-disgraceful/feed/ 3 http://gamewank.com/2011/09/cap-busted-update-housekeeping/ http://gamewank.com/2011/09/cap-busted-update-housekeeping/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:33:30 +0000 Jim http://gamewank.com/?p=467 Gamewank has migrated and is operational again!

Right folks, the new Gamewank feed lives here:

“http://www.jamietrinca.co.uk/gamewank_eps/GW_feed.xml”

Please update your podcatchers!

iTunes instuctions here:

Go to Advanced>>Subscribe to Podcast

Paste “http://www.jamietrinca.co.uk/gamewank_eps/GW_feed.xml” (without the quotes, obviously) into the URL box and click OK.

A new show will appear in your podcast library called “Gamewank_New” – this is the proper feed from now on.

Unfortunately the iTunes store is a bit more complicated to update which requires manually editing our old feed, something which Jellycast keeps hidden from its users. I’m in contact with them hoping it can get sorted but for the time being we’re stuck with the iTunes store pointing to an inaccessible host.

If you guys know anyone who subscribes to Gamewank please let them know about the change. We will keep the old feed active for a while to give people a chance to update. We’ve built up quite a community and we’re pretty desperate not to shatter it during this process!

Thanks,

Jim n’ Prick

At Gamewank, we pride ourselves on our crap prizes, so we’re very proud to be offering a tenner that only works on the internet and one of Ric’s cock drawings. To be fair, it would look lovely framed. The cock drawing’s rubbish though.

What you have to do

As inspired by the response to our “Master Chief Fitbaw” ramble a few episodes ago, 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 or genre with football and send us your mock ups. Entries will feature in the second ever piece of Gamewank video content in which the winner will be decided by us.

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.

Have your entries in by the 30th of September and we’ll announce the winner shortly after!

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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.

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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.

“Nah, no way”

I have no idea how you managed it, but we’re finalists in the Games Broadcast/Podcast category of the 2011 Games Media Awards. Richie and I would like to express a heartfelt “cheers bawbags!” to all those who listen and took the time to nominate.

It’s really amazing to us, to think that people enjoy our show enough to respond to what was, let’s be honest, a half-joking call to punt our name forward. By that I mean we seriously decided to try and get nominated but we were never serious about entertaining the possibility.

So, when we found out via twitter this morning that somehow you guys had pulled it off, we could scarcely believe it. We’re absolutely shitting our pants with glee up here.

 Thank you, you guys are absolutely amazing. We might not be the most prolific podcast (anyone who follows us on twitter will probably know why) but we love making it and we know people really respond to that.

Controversy, really?

Unfortunately, though, it appears we’ve inadvertently stepped on some toes. I don’t want to name names or risk putting any more weight on said tootsies, but there was a bit of a backlash about us, and few others in the same category, on Twitter.

Generally the response was congratulatory and positive, but there was more than one suggestion this morning that we didn’t deserve to be on the list, because we’re unknowns, we haven’t put much content up in 2011 (a fair cop) and that the name of our show is childish, among other reasons. Some, representing established, professional outlets with huge followings, were miffed that they had perhaps been snubbed while people like us had managed to worm our way into the nominations. I can’t blame any of them for that reaction, but having a go at us in the process isn’t entirely fair, is it? These were open nominations, there isn’t a single entry on the list that doesn’t deserve to be there. You guys nominated us, presumably, because you like what we do. I thought that was the point?

We were doing this for a bit of fun. That’s all. There was no intention to annoy anyone or undermine the good work of people for whom games media is their livelihood.

I hope this small controversy – a storm in a teacup, really – fizzles out, and that people can just be happy for the finalists. We’d like to wish everyone the best of luck in October!

More Gamewank

We’ll get back to the monthly schedule in the next couple of weeks, which will include a show from the Eurogamer Expo in London. Well, maybe not from the actual show floor but we’ll certainly be attending with our podcast hats on.

Cheers again folks!

- Jim

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.

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.