Joystiq Podcast 178 - Victory lap edition

Have you heard of a little title called Portal 2? The latest from up-and-comer Valve Software gets the special treatment this week. All three of the guys solved it and are letting the spoilers fly in Spoiled Rotten, so stick around after Bob Ball wraps the regular show.

Also, these stories aren't big deals or anything, but all PSN users' personal information has been compromised, and the next Nintendo console will be officially unveiled and playable at E3. Y'know, it's been a totally normal news week.

[Thanks to Alan Black for the photoshop of the boys going blue]

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Hosts: Justin McElroy (@justinmcelroy), Chris Grant (@chrisgrant), and Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK)
Producer: Jonathan Downin (@jonathandownin - Game Thing Daily)
Voice Talent: Bob Ball (@BobBallVO - BobBallVO.com)
Music: "Bassoforte" by Diego Stocco
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See all of this week's links after the break.

What are you playing?

Chris: Portal 2
Hoops: Portal 2
Luddy: Outland, The Fancy Pants Adventures, Mortal Kombat

News

PSN died
Nintendo's making a new console

Reader Comments (32)

Looks at photoshop, laughs.
Looks again for DSG, cries softly.

@Brian333
LoL She should be in the next depiction of Smurfette for this game.

@Brian333 Oh she's there. I couldn't find a usable picture with Smurfette so she's just a watermark behind the guys. She'll be more prominent next time.

@ActionAlan Oh God, I see her now

@ActionAlan
I still can't find her. I was never very good at those dumb Waldo books either.

I'm smurfing this right now!

man, that's weird. like, I see it when I close my eyes weird

As big as that wedding was in England, I half-expected a picture there to be here. DSG would be my princess.

I'm right there with Chris with Dragon Age 2.

Looks like 4/20 was good to those Smurfs.

I'll be glad when the Webbys are over and I don't have to hear every damn site I go to beg for a vote. Why is it such a big deal?

@Gaddes

so what you're trying to say is that you want this podcast to die.

@rTwelve This site is hardly going to die just because they didn't win some silly fake web award.

In regards to the whole PSN credit card issue, I called my credit card company attempting to change my card number or get a new card or whatever I needed to do. And I was told that I'm covered for fraud or any purchases that I haven't made.

Basically they told me to wait it out, if nothing happens then problem solved. If something was to happen then they can just fix it and then problem solved...

@liquidsoap89

And in regards to the whole next gen console deal. There was definitely a lot of negative talk about Sony this week (which I guess is justified), but one thing that they seem to be moving towards in the next few years is being more of an open platform.

Talking about Apple TV and thinking how awesome it could be as a console with different apps and stuff (Chris' thinking, not mine) had me thinking about how that sounds a lot like the NGP. As far as I know this seems to be the first time Sony ISN'T making their own hardware parts and stuff for the product. And it also seems like the NGP will be running on Android software (or some form of it). Sony was talking about Playstation Suite running on the NGP and Android products, they were talking about lots of the features on the NGP and the one thing that I gathered was that it seems very open. As opposed to how a company like Apple or Microsoft usually handle products like this.

I don't really know where I was going with this... Maybe I was just shining some light on "future Sony" or something, or maybe I just really want an NGP/PS4...

Man I was so worried when there was no live podcast yesterday. Don't ever leave me!

@TheDarkWayne Man you guys can't go! I know you didn't win the webby's, but I voted like 30 times! You still won my heart!

There were a few too many references to this being the last podcast at Joystiq...anyone think they're hinting at jumping ship to join Topolsky, Patel, Miller?

Funny story, every time I hear the ALRIGHT at the end of "bone zone" I think its Justin every time getting exciting over the audio sample.

Also, I'm on Chris' side of the Portal 2 debate although truth be told if I were using the Joystiq star system to rate the game, I'd have to go 5.5. No that's not a typo. I believe this game is so good it breaks any and all rating systems.

Been reading the site since before Justin and Chris and I finally do a voicemail and no voicemails are played :(

I still love you guys.

So this may be the last podcast?

Please make the Bob Ball stop! His sense of humor and comedic timing are terrible. His bit at the end of the show makes me cringe every time before I can turn it off.

DA2 wasn't a very good game, it may have been good but it was utterly dull and uninspired and rushed. If you thought it was anything but I might have to say you haven't played many video games in your short life.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out of the last podcast thing was a joke or not. Some help, guys?

@Jawbone54

I just thinking the same thing.

Listened a little late, but you were right, Ludwig. It was I that made the liner. Good memory. I am now inspired to make you new ones. I'll get cracking.

So, uh, was there no podcast this week as punishment for the Webby failure?

I'm re-listening to episodes 40-80, just trying to remember the good times past.

@leemahi I have to agree. Porthole to the future? Really? They admitted they came up with this segment right before the show started. That shows me that the only time they think of the podcast is right before they do it. Think about the things you are passionate in life. Is the only time you think of these things right before you do them?
How about a new segment called Phoning it In? It will include all the parts not produced by Bob Ball(who still clearly cares).

Guess they weren't joking :(

Hmmm... I wonder why these guys didn't win a Webby. ; )

What happened to the last 10 day's comments?

Joystiq Podcast 178 - Victory lap edition

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