Joystiq Podcast 130 - March Into Positivity edition

After a week so chock-full of news and notable happenings, you had to be looking forward to this Joystiq Podcast, right? Well we don't disappoint (or at least, not as much as usual) with discussion of Infinity Ward, the ApocalyPS3, Portal 2 and a Spoiled Rotten on Heavy Rain at the end.

You'll also be able to get in on the ground floor of our brand new feature "Professional Voice Actor Bob Ball Reads Your Email." Seriously, you're just going to love it. A super special thanks to Ste Birks for the legitimately breathtaking art. Oh, you want a bigger version as well as more of Ste's work? We suppose we can manage that.

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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.
What are you playing?:

Chris: MAG, BioShock 2, AND THAT'S IT!
Justin: God of War III, Battlefield Bad Company 2
Ludwig: Heavy Rain: The Taxidermist, Aliens vs. Predator, Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape, Lego Rock Band

NEWS:
THE BIG STORY OF THE WEEK
Infinity Ward kerfuffle
ApocalyPS3
Valve teases Apple announcement of ... something [update]
Halo Reach Beta trailer shows jet packs, assassinations [update]
Media Molecule becomes a wholly-owned Sony first-party studio
SOCOM 4 announced for PS3, Zipper developing

Reader Comments (34)

Highest of fives, Ste. Highest of fives.

Is it just me or do those dudes in the pic have a camel toe?

I can't stop looking at it. I feel so dirty.

I believe that's called a moose knuckle. And, yes, I noticed it too. :S

That image is disturbing on many levels.

That is one extreme camel-toe.

My first thought was: for all their firepower, someone sneaked a massive kick in their neuwtz.

Awesome, a long one this week! The longer the better. Thanks guys, going to finish my work week strong.

That zipper area is... divisive.

That is some awesome art

Look everyone, that picture has balls.

Joyzirra!

Is DSG not in this one, or am I not trying hard enough?

I just want to say how touching it is that someone draws a picture of me, Chris and Ludwig as a three-headed monster and all of your eyes go STRAIGHT for our balls. Just right to them.

It is because your faces are ugly.

The 3 of you have incredibly attractive balls. Combined, they're like super testicles. We can't help but stare into the light of their magnificent glory.

With 3 heads and two legs, I think we all were just curious about the number of giblies you all shared.

Touching? No one is touching your balls, Justin.

Thanks for the RE5 codes guys. I just picked it up.

Much like the Anglerfish, I was lured in by the Blueberry Muffin Tops and that glorious belt buckle, only to find myself swallowed by the image of the denim abyss.

shorn

No idea what word is preventing me from quoting Dr. Evils line about being clean shaven...

My desktop is 300 times more awesome now.

I wonder how many nipples they have?

7, if you include Justin's secret nubbin.

Fire breath > Laser vision > ice breath

FACT!!!

I hadn't noticed the 'cameltoe' at all: you people disgust me.

Penny-Arcade did Visceral's Moby Dick, so you wouldn't be repeating yourself technically.

Its only fitting that Grant have the laserbeam eyes...

i hope that portal 2 does something to tie in the story to half life, like episode 2 did by what i really want is the portal gun in HL2 Episode 3. best game ever!

Do you say "in and out" over and over when having sex, Justin?

Yeah, it was real horrorshow.

Just finished the episode, and I have to say we need more book recommendations.

The Mac version of Half-Life 1 was never released--it was killed because they could they could not successfully resolve issues around networking and Windows specific apps like Direct-X.

They did release a PS2 version, with no online or network play. It included split screen co-op, but not of the the main story mode. A Dreamcast version was completed but not released and can be found on the interwebs.

I tried to pick up a copy of Deathstalker, but its out of print as far as I can tell in the UK. Any other recommendations from McElroy Snr?

Joystiq Podcast 130 - March Into Positivity edition

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