Xbox 360 Fancast 051 -- Use the Force

After last week's monster episode, it feels a little strange returning to the simple shows of yore. And yet, it is also a welcome change, as putting together episode 50 is a task we are not eager to repeat. So, this week you get your standard show, complete with commentary on the latest and greatest360 news. We've also got the triumphant return of Fantalk, in which we discuss the impact of downloadable games on the future of our beloved industry. Oh, and Yoda pops in to say hello as well. Download the show in your flavor of choice below.

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Hosts: Richard Mitchell (SenseiRAM), Dustin Burg (SuperDunners), Alexander Sliwinski (Sli Xander)

Produced by Richard Mitchell

Music: Intro/Outro: "Electromooq" by Uma Floresta. Break: "Keep On" by MC Statistics
Interested in contributing music? Let us know.

News:
CES: ABC, Disney and MGM bring content to XBLM
Alan Wake, Fable 2 and Halo Wars to release in '08
Xbox Diamond Card now requires subscription fee
Peggle, Bliss Island and Ultra Bust-A-Move are XBLA bound
Halo 3 Championship Tournament on Xbox Live
Rumor: Microsoft to acquire Logitech
The end of back compat updates may be nigh
SCIV: See Darth Vader and Yoda in action
Burnout 3 burns onto Xbox Originals next week

Break

Fanmail: boring CES, Dustin's travel plans, favorite fruits.

Fantalk: Downloadable games and what they mean for the future.

Reader Comments (20)

the RSS feeds dont seem to show the latest episode for me, anyone else have the same problem?

RSS and iTunes feeds seem to work fine for me.

It works for me now, must have just taken a few minutes to update

Is Sli going to be a permanant host. I hope so. I think he works well with you guys.

OH no... Yoda again? I'm not a huge fan of the Yoda voices or Elmo for that matter. I can only imagine what is in store.

Oh, and the show last week... just great. You really outdid yourselves. :)

w00t w00t! Downloading at the minute, thank god you guys posted this, I'm bored to tears right now/

Great show, guys. As far as the shortage is concerned, I went to bestbuy and they were completely out. Really strange, huh?

Not on my ITunes yet... Annoying..

no biggie but you guys should update your file names to show that we're in 2008 now...just saying...anyhow, thanks for a new podcast!

6 string samaurai is a great movie. and the lead character is supposed to be buddy holly taking over the music industry.

Good fancast! I'm glad the Yoda was kept to a minimum, but I've got to say pervert, force juggling boob Yoda is much better than regular Yoda. I fully support it.

Dustin should get a few of his friends together on Halo and change the language to boost that last achievement!

Oh, and when Dustin started describing the game he would make I thought, "He's ripping off Schizoid!!!". However, that idea with changing the colors with the buttons, and the combo of buttons to create new colors is actually a pretty awesome idea. Seems original to me anyway, and I'm sure it's going to be promptly stolen. Richard's game... um... yeah... at least he HAD AND IDEA, unlike other more negative cast memebers *cough* ALEX *cough*

Dude, lay off on Alexander. He's a friend of mine and •I• approve of his co-hosting abilities.

Haha, I wasn't exactly trashing him! Just giving him a hard time, ALEX is great.

While I like the idea of games on XBLA, the problem for someone like me is keeping track of the releases. If the games are smaller you get so many more which makes choosing one that much harder. Thats where sites like Gamespot(not any more of course!!) used to help me giving me detailed features of games helping me choose. I dont see a lot of that when it comes to XBLA games making it that much harder. Demos unfortunately dont help cause some of the demos just plain suck or some just have the best part of the game.
However Portal is something I would buy in an instant if it was online.

Anyways meaningless long post from me.

"IT'S NOT GTAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

lol, there is a hidden demonic anger inside Dustin that will come out some day, and many will die. Sadly, I live near him, so I may have the honor of having him kill me in some kind of satanic ritual.

I just wanted to comment on the idea of downloadable games and what you discussed. I think that Alexander is partially correct but too dismissive of the idea. I'm personally psyched at the potential bonuses something like this could bring, but I'm also wary they may try and pull something foolish and charge us full price for these games despite their savings on shipping and pressing the actual disk.

DLG will need to be phased in, but potential bonuses like lowered price, getting the game before someone who buys it in the store (this could even be significantly earlier), and softer DRM could all encourage even average consumers to dive in.

While I agree and hope that downloadable games will be cheaper, ultimately the cost of the disc/packaging won't lower their costs that much as most of it is spent on advertising and marketing. One advantages is no scratched discs.

I do agree with Alexander though in that the next generation for consoles will still include some disc form of media in addition to downloadable games.

Does anyone else think that Richard was really quiet during this podcast; meaning his voice level was low. Dustin and Alexander were great. Keep up the great work.

Yeah, I agree. You've really gotta work on those levels guys - especially because Rich does most of the talking (keeping things moving) so I'll adjust the volume during a rather large speil only to be blasted by Dustin's follow up response.

I had the same problem with Puzzle Quest. I switched from a 20 gig to the 120 gig and a the xbla problem came up...I got it to work though. Start the game go to the bottom where it says unlock full game, wait the second for the game to redownload itself and then hit continue. The game will be unlocked like it was the first time you bought the game. Hope this works for you Alexander.

Xbox 360 Fancast 051 -- Use the Force

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