Got to hand it Kojima for going along with this sillyness.
Archive for March, 2009
The best sport in gaming…
Posted in Dumb Crap on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Prototype
Posted in Now That's Entertainment!, Video Games, tagged inFAMOUS, Prototype, Radical Entertainment, Sucker Punch on March 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the upcoming battle of Super-human, open world action games, I was pulling for the Sucker Punch developed inFAMOUS. And while I think ultimately it will be the better crafted game… Holy Shit, Radical Entertainment’s Prototype looks nuts! A definite guilty pleasure but I’m a sucker for multiple story powerbombs.
Untitled Geography Segment
Posted in Dumb Crap on March 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So as we all now our beloved infant podcast is a lot like Forrest Gump. He’s cute, dim witted and has malformed legs. But we still love him. Hopefully before next week we can come up with some sort of structure and buy him those corrective leg braces he needs so badly. And someday when [...]
The MaldenCast Episode 502
Posted in Dumb Crap, Podcast, Video Games on March 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This week while Peter’s preoccupied with his impending tour of ‘Nam, Steve and Chad talk RE:5 co-op.
Mike breathes into the mic a lot while talking about Killzone 2 and Madworld.
And Ian stops in to talk Nintendo in the wake of Iwata’s GDC Keynote and a bunch of other crap.
Music by Chris Kline, Sleepy Eyes of [...]
My dear friends…..
Posted in Dumb Crap on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Shit just got real…….
http://kotaku.com/5185952/ruse-cam+vid-gameplay-spectacular
….. in RTS land.
Gunbuster Symphony
Posted in Dumb Crap on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So you know exactly what I’m talking about for music recommendations…
http://www.imeem.com/kasharikun/music/mdbLch9R/gunbuster-symphony-gunbuster-theme/
Ok, off to Sea-Tac.
Iwata’s keynote GDC 2009
Posted in Dumb Crap on March 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Hmm…
the boring numbers:
100 DS/50 Wii units sold to date !!
20% of Wii owners are 1st time console purchases …
47% of 2009 DS buyers were female …?
” more third-party games were sold with Wii than any other platform, and the second-biggest was DS.” …
# of Balance Boards is approx the same as PS3 owners ouch…iwata is [...]
The Malden Book Club: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Posted in Books, Now That's Entertainment!, tagged Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao on March 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two things I like to look for in a novel: something familiar and something foreign.
The familiarity is the hook, common ground. It gives you a sense of ownership over the story that is about to unfold. In the case of this novel that familiarity is in the titular character’s extreme nerdiness. Not what passes for [...]
The Next Episode
Posted in Dumb Crap on March 23, 2009 | 15 Comments »
By popular demand, here’s where you can put suggestions for the next show.
We’ll record same time as last week if enough people are up for it.
I’ll have my thoughts on Killzone 2, The Red Alert 3 demo, and hopefully Madworld. Also, I read a book(!).
And Jeff we’d love it if you were available to put [...]
The MaldenCast Episode 501
Posted in Dumb Crap, Movies, Podcast, Video Games on March 20, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Well it’s in the bag, warts and all.
Click below to listen.
Direct Download.
It’s not on iTunes yet. As far as I can tell I’ll need to write an entire .xml script to get it on there. Yay! I made a deal with the Devil but it’s been submitted and under review (gulp!)
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There is a 7 second [...]
