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Episode 44: Star Wars Games
Thumbstick Athletes
English - May 25, 2012 02:50 - 2 hours - 160 MB - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsVideo Games Leisure gamers games gaming nintendo playstation video videogames xbox Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We do a somewhat brief (we had to skip over quite a few games) rundown of Star Wars videogames, and stop to further discuss more notable games and ones we've played.
Nibble Bits
0:02:00 Will
-New Mass Effect 3 multiplayer DLC called Rebellion Pack
-New Minecraft update adding Creative Mode
-Bioware Austin branch is letting go of developers from the SWTOR team
0:03:28 Eric
- Minecraft sold over 400,000 copies on its first week on XBLA
0:05:01 Corey
-Leaked game from the Bungie, named Destiny
-Tony Hawk Pro Skater music is announced
-David Shaw recommend the Xbox 360 be banned in America
-6.3 Million own Diablo 3.
-Dead Island Game Of the Year Edition all DLC packs for 30 Dollars
-Kinect competitor supposedly 100 times more accurate than Kinect
0:13:19 Dan
-Friaxis XCOM Enemy Unknown comes out October 9th for PC
-Comcast raises monthly data cap from 250 GBs to 300 GBs
-World of War Planes enters closed beta
-Skyrim update 1.6 adds horse combat for PC players.
Everyone’s Weeks
0:14:58 Corey
-Went to a restaurant and saw Elvis Impersonator
0:16:55 Will
-Intense Baseball games, finished up baseball season
0:18:44 Eric
-Poor Tyler
-Annemarie graduated from college
0:21:41 Dan
-At a wedding
- Finished up Diablo3
-Went to midnight release for Ghost Recon, but bought Dragons Dogma
Main Segment
0:26:30
Star Wars video games!
1:22:35
Feedback
1:24:05
-We get our super powers
1:37:22
News
1:37:23 Corey
-Corey’s article discusses why Diablo 3 being an online all the time game makes it a better game
-The athletes agree and disagree with the points in the article
1:44:43 Will & Eric
-Will’s article is about the shutdown of 38 Studios and Big Huge Games
-Eric also talks about the studio shut downs
1:55:10 Dan
-Dan’s article talks about how the Lakers losing help out E3
1:58:57
What We’ve Played
2:00:27
2:00:53 Eric
-Eric starts the Uncharted series
-Fifa
2:03:52 Corey
-Corey beats Tower of Fortune
-Corey tried out DC Universe Online, and talks about how the MMO works on a console
2:13:22 Dan
-Dan beat Diablo 3 and starts Nightmare difficulty
-Dan buys Dragons Dogma and discusses the game
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