Joystiq Podcast 097 - Perfect Strangers edition

Huh, so this is a weird one. Through the magic of poor internet connections, we've got special guests Richard Mitchell and David Hinkle to replace Chris, continuing his self-imposed sabbatical from interacting with the little people.

We're also doing some NPD dissection and all kind of other good stuff. Much of the talking is coming out of heads that may be new or frightening to you, but please, just hang in there.

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Hosts: Ludwig Kietzmann, David Hinkle, Richard Mitchell 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:
Take-Two suing Apogee over unfinished Duke Nukem Forever
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Tony Hawk Ride goes to Wii, PS3, 360 ... with a skateboard peripheral
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Jerry Bruckheimer Games explodes onto scene, Halo 3 exec on board
Eidos Montreal confirms Thief 4, 'worst kept secret' in industry

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Reader Comments (56)

Yeah guys, stop being "meen" to each other.

Sometimes the world looks perfect
Nothin' to rearrange
Sometimes you just
Get a feelin' like you need some kind of change
Standin' tall
On the wings of my dream
Rise and fall
On the wings of my dream
Rain and thunder, the wind and haze
I'm bound for better days
It's my life
It's my dream
Nothin's gonna stop me now.

/dance of joy

Luddy really needs to get that brick wall up, no one in America knows how to keep a lion tame.

Please, dear sirs of the Joystiq Podcast, may I have a Brush with Fame?

cute drawing, but age 15? lol, ruined it

Just pretend it's in base 6.

Great photoshop.

I'm going to send a letter exactly like that to Nintendo asking them to make a Luigi game where he plays mini games with guns.

Not showing up on itunes yet.

Ho-lee sheeeeit.

I love Team Fort. Dirty spy bastards!

Did I hear an extended version of Gravity Don't Let Me Go?

Best photoshop yet!

Not showing up in iTunes for me on my iPod Touch just yet. Come on guys, I need to go to the gym in a few minutes!

HAND BANANA NO!

"Hey Carl...TONIGHT!"

"Hey we have a lot in common...I'm gonna rape you."

Photoshop of The Year 2009

not enough letters for the code?

Ugh, You're right - I'll check with ludwig/justin to see what they want to do, either post it here or give it out next week in full.

One of the best Photoshops ever.

Also the BEST letter/crayon drawing.

Thanks for another episode.

I don't see how the actual update could live up to the catalog page. Where do I order a copy of the Dapper Rogue?

Ludwig looks very handsome. photoshop of the year

Son of a bitch! I forgot to email again! Damn! And it's too late to post it in the comments 2 hrs later where no one will read it! Dang!

It is never too late Dark Wayne. You have me on pins and needles!

next week pal next week

it was chris related anyway

C-c-c-crossOVER!!!

wtf hinkle, or mitchell, i cant tell, Conquest sucked compared to battlefront

WHAT?! YOU HAVENT SEEN MY MOVIE?!

The Dark Wayne stream of consciousness is both candid, uncensored, and frightening.

That's both hilarious, snarky, and eloquent.

The "J" Team, huh?

i meant it be to J - Team as in Joystiq.

As long as the J-Man is on there, I'm game. HE'S FUCKING GOLDEN.

Not having Chris again can only mean that a certain 15 year old artist is going to be very sad.

That was the longest Joystiq Podcast ever. I love you guys, but wow...

no it wasnt, episode 90 was, it had an entire hour on this one

Pink Floyd synced to Wizard of Oz is nothing when compared to "Sabotage" by the Beastie boys synced to Star Wars

sabotage is only like 3 minutes long, and I hope to God you arent confusing Star Wars with Star Trek

The audio was horriable for this episode i couldnt even hear you guys that good. Volume must of been to low when recording

No seriously if you start the song when Vader first enters through that door within first few minutes of Star Wars it syncs up perfectly.

but sabotage isnt an album, and i cant imagine repeating the song over and over again

....

The Ludwig Kietzmann show was great! And by great I mean sorely lacking in Ludwig because his Internet sucks or something, good thing Justin showed up to save the day, kind of a reverse of his usual role.

Wow, I love you guys but that was pretty much un-listenable. Better to post no podcast and be thought a fool than post one and remove all doubt - Mark Twain (kinda').

Perhaps not your best episode. I did laugh at the fake Scrabble code Luddy read with B.M. and K.Y. in it.
Yeah, perhaps not your best...

Okay I love you guys, you know that right? Right?? So this is some tough love for you right now. Please please PLEASE edit at least one of those painfully long awkward silences of "oh crap we lost Ludwig again, now let's not talk about anything while we struggle to add him again".

Sometimes those show snafus are entertaining and I think they should be left in. Other times, I'd rather be listening to the sound of a pencil whirring through my ear canal on its way to my ear drum.

PS - Both guests were fantastic and I would love to hear them on the podcast again sometime.

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