Joystiq Podcast 094 - Just Riffin' edition

It's the usual stuff. You know, just riffin'. We're doing our best to get away from the navel gazing, but it's SO HARD when there aren't any games to play. As a special treat to alleviate the boredom, we've invited the JPAG's Randall Smith to join us. Unsurprisingly, he's far more professional than us.

Oh, and thanks to the brilliant Conor O'Byrne whose photoshop for this week came in through the bathroom window. If you're cool enough to want a wallpaper sized version, you can find it at the JPAG.

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Hosts: Chris Grant, Ludwig Kietzmann and Justin McElroy

Music: "Gravity Don't Let Me Go" by Jon Black, "Red Eye" by Ben Kweller

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See all of this week's links after the jump.
NEWS:
Chris's interview with EPIC Games President Mike Capps
Microsoft Q309: Xbox division loses $31 million, 360 sales up 30%
Trion asks president and CCO to try on new career
Dante's Inferno set to burn up PSP next year
EA Sports MotionPlus bundles confirmed for North America and Europe
Broken Steel DLC makes Fallout 3 endless on May 5
Lego Rock Band real, coming Holiday 2009
Fallout: New Vegas coming to consoles next year
Brutal Legend rocks up on Oct. 13
Battlefield 1943 hits the trenches this June for $15

BIG THREE:
3. Fallout: New Vegas coming next year
2. Gamespot drops BioShock 2 deets, spoilers
1. Lego Rock Band confirmed for holiday 09

Reader Comments (43)

One more podcast for me to listen to I have listened to them all several times. Great job guys keep it up. Got to go listen to this one now. Later.

The best podcast on the interwebs.

The opening riffing is awesome!

Excuse me: "riffin'."

WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGGG!!!

That's the best podcast artwork for you show EVA !!

amen to that!

lol your post confused me because you have a Nerv logo and you said EVA so I thought you were talking about Evangelion.

The artwork is amazing.

We won't get the 100th podcast until AFTER E3! And the last podcast before it is the 99th. Clever planning, podcasters. Very clever.

Best photochop ever

agreed

love it!

Chris with the F-bomb! And BOOM goes the dynamite!

...and it's downloading via iTunes!!!
Awesome.
TGIF.

I wonder how George Harrison feels to be running with such kings of podcasting.

I think George was a good choice for a fourth member of the podcast. You already have a Ringo.

Me and My Panda: Just Riffin'.

"From an oil tanker in the mid-atlantic, it's the Joystiq podcast, distributed by Joystiq.com, I'm Chris Grant. Today's show in three acts: lasercombs, and the people who use them."

I respectfully request... nay demand, a Brush With Fame.

I've listened to the show religiously since episode 32, and would love to have my name broadcasted to millions of listeners. So, Justin, hook me up!

Or what about me, perhaps?

Maybe in the "what you've been playing" segment, Chris should say what he would be playing, if he could play. At least he can dream, that way. ;)

I'm suffering a severe case of poutrage at the lack of a Brush and a Killjoy this week.

I love this podcast!!!

I just got into your podcast about ten ago, and I really enjoy it. Not as structured or as long as some of 1ups podcasts, but you guys are FAr more entertaining to listen to on a regular basis. I wish there was one everyday.

I'm really sad you guys didn't bring it this week, you should have jumped on that Zeno Clash steam action. I got it first day pre-order was available at 1/2 price. The homies over at bigdownload got it, and ya'll missing out! You will soon realize the error of your ways.

RAGE, my computer froze when I was downloading the podcast and now I can't download it cause of a error. I hate apple and itunes.

Great show, in spite of the navel gazing. One thing - while discussing portmanteau words, Ludwig was searching for the metaphorical place where he stores his fancy words. He missed the obvious place, that is, in his portmanteau.

Ahh, that Jonathan character that had his email read at the end seems like an alright dude.

Another great show.I did not know there was any kind of JPAG drama .I love the JPAG ,and I am sure I speak for everyone when I say all are welcome.

This comment reminded me of one of my favorite This American Life shows, #371 "Scenes from a mall". Act Three was about the "Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas," with just about the standard internet drama, but you wouldn't think it could brew up from such a seemingly benevolent group.

Haha - that's a great episode!

14 minutes on why you didn't go to CAPtivate? Really?

Sorry but you can't compare the crunch time that developers face to you guys going to E3. As an engineer myself, I can tell you there's a big difference between finding a memory leak somewhere in thousand of lines of code and writing a blog about video games. You can write a crappy article, and you still have an article to work with. If I write crappy code, everything breaks.

I'm not sure how many more podcasts I can listen to. You guys talk about yourselves like you're the most important people in the industry, when you're really among the least important. The people that make the games are the ones who matter, not so much the people that sit around talking about them.

Anyone can try out a video game and talk about what they thought of it. Most people could probably articulate it better than Justin (and probably with a less annoying voice).

So please don't compare yourselves with developers. They work their asses off so that you can have games to talk about.

THA 'STIQ KEEPS YOU IN A JOB, SON

To be fair, it's a self-perpetuating cycle. Without news outlets (like Joystiq), your games wouldn't sell and you wouldn't have a job. Without developers, there'd be no need for outlets for games news. It's a snake-eating-its-own-tail kind of thing.

No, the buyer is the one that matters. Game journos/bloggers are your link to that person. If an amazing game gets made in the forest and no customer hears about it, did it happen?

One thing that does happen is that studio fails.

I've seen Count Chocula and Franken Berry, but never Yummy Mummy. I googled Yummy Mummy, only to find the top result is not quite was I was looking for. I thought you guys might like to know. (hint..MILF)

as ever, thank you for letting me pretend i actually know other people who care about videogames and can have videogame-based discussions things with.

Also I must say, Ludwig is the best, he always says something worthwhile.

I am a JPAG member and I just recently started posting here and there. My experience is, if you have something to say or something to respond to, people are willing to listen. Maybe you will feel overlooked, but I don't think it should be an issue of being too intimidated to post. I do like the new member welcome thread.

Holy crap! You guys finally decided to talk about Broken Sword for the DS! (Thanks, Ludwig) Well, at least you mentioned it. Hopefully one of you will go out and buy this game and talk about it in the upcoming weeks. Seriously, you guys were killing me with this nonsense about how there is nothing to play right now.

People need to buy this game if there is ever to be any hope of other adventure game classics (Sierra/LucasArts) being re-released in the future.

Screw the haters..I like the "inside baseball"-type discussion...keep it up!

I only hope to one day be as good a podcaster as you fellas. I'm already working on my Justin-caliber cackle.

I LOVE robot voice. The voice plus the music does over-promise on the classiness of the show.

Joystiq Podcast 094 - Just Riffin' edition

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