Joystiq Podcast 125 - Sportsball Basketson edition

Is it possible to have a show just too crammed with greatness? We've got impressions of Mass Effect 2 and MAG, a Tip of the Week, Stump JC, a Spoiled Rotten for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, a mixed sports metaphor, an interview with GoG's Tom Ohle, and so, so, so much more. It's silly.

Thanks to Kyle Collis for his photoshopping use of functionalist nudity. Justin Russo's alternate European box art is after the break.

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Hosts: Christopher Grant (@chrisgrant), Justin McElroy (@justinmcelroy) and Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK)

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 (and what games we played) after the jump.
News:
iPad
GTA: Episodes From Liberty City on PS3, PC March 30
After Burner Climax coming to US
Xbox division down 12% but Windows 7 drives record Q2 revenue for Microsoft
Vanquish
Tecmo lolz

John's Music: www.myspace.com/musim

Interview: Tom Ohle of GoG

Spoiled Rotten: Silent Hill Shattered Memories

Reader Comments (43)

Creepy Grant is creepy. Augh.

I will not sleep tonight.

Dance for me baby....that's right.

Sportsball Basketon plays with Harvey Globetrotter for the Cleveland Cosmopolitans right? That's in the All-American Basketball Alliance right?

Zune is failing miserably

lmao the return of the Dead Space Extraction girl

or it is? :p

That picture is full of win.

itunes download isn't working :'(

Yeah, I'm getting a 404 error when attempting to download via iTunes

sweet it works now!

Not for me. Servers must be getting hammered I guess

I found the cover version for Heavy Rain I waaaannnt....

Kyle & I : FTW

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

this is easily the best Joystiq podcast image since "Eff off, Dad!"

I am honoured to even be mentioned in the same sentence as such a prestigious 'shop.

How long does it take for the podcast to show up in the marketplace? Looking at my zune software and the latest one is still last weeks.

Holy crap, the image just changed to even creepier Chris! I am very, very frightened.

Frightened? Don't you mean aroused? Damn, wish I had italics

Why can't Joystiq and DoggCatcher just kiss and make up? You're ruining lives here.

According to the DogCatcher forums, Justin@engadet was suppose to be looking into the issue.

DSG! MY LOVE!

Futurama reference within first 5 minutes? Win.

Now I cant decide between this game, or Dante's Inferno...

"I make overwhelmingly good decisions, but my Shepherd is very abrasive and not very fun to talk to." Whoa, is Ludwig playing Mass Effect 2, or is Mass Effect 2 role-playing the Ludwig in Real Life game?

I wish that cover was the real cover of the game. :P

I think Justin you might be comparing ME2 to a traditional table top rpg. When people talk about RPG computer games they are usually talking specifically about CRPGs which are stat and gear heavy.

What I mean is the people saying its not much of an RPG are probably thinking about it in a CRPG definition.

Here in Canadia, it's been a relaxing snow day of a bit of work before a lot of gaming, and now a podcast to top it off. Thanks for making great podcasts guys.

Lol i was surprised and amused to see DSG staring at me as i was scrolling through Joystiq today.

There's DSG.

Ludwig's looking exceptionally hot.

DSG has some nice tits this week.

My RSS downloader (beyondpod on Android) stopped being able to read the podcast RSS. Any clue why that would be? All my other RSS feeds still work fine, and this one was working a couple weeks ago, then all of a sudden it stopped.

I get an http: status code 404 error, by the way, which would make me think I entered the URL improperly, but I copy pasted the RSS link from above. http://podcasts.joystiq.com/rss.xml.

http://www.joystiq.com/rss.xml doesn't give beyondpod error messages, but it doesn't have any content.

http://www.joystiq.com/category/podcasts/rss.xml returns the 404 error.

Wouldn't the guy who scratched off his GoW3 demo code's phone number be in google voice with his message?

Wow Justin, i am almost speechless after your "polite criticism" of Thomas. I just wanted to say that I am glad you redacted your opinion on what he should do after unsubscribing, because that was definitely crossing a line.

Other then that, great show guys and I'm looking forward to next week.

ALL HAIL THE DSG

HATE GameStop's stickers on the box! Also, the fact that a GameStop employee called to defend himself by saying he only rents out USED games...

Are they the new Blockbuster? WTF are they doing 'renting' games that are for sale? So skeezy...

+2 points for richness of content for mentioning Derrida

Excellent podcAAst, guys! I kept giggling with my headphones on - totally freaking out my wife. And then I was like: "They just mentioned Derrida on the Joystiq podcast." And she was like - oh, ok, postmoderninsm =/= juvenile. Thanks, Chris.

anyone remember the alternate reality game justin mentioned playing several months ago?

It's pretty funny that Justin's response to a personal attack is to freak out and tell a guy to kill himself, when Justin seems to rip on people every episode lately. The guys on the cagcast rip on people a lot too, but they spend just as much time ripping on themselves... a sign of humility that's been lacking in this podcast.

A sign of humility? Seriously? I hope you choke on the irony of this comment.

Lol, nice Steve. I think you could use some humility too, or at least anger management.

Joystiq Podcast 125 - Sportsball Basketson edition

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