
Heavy Rain, that’s pretty much how I would sum up this one. Perhaps a little MAG on the side, but lots of Heavy Rain. All spoiler free mind you.


It’s that time of the week, and by that I mean the time, that I finally work up the gumption to edit and post the pod. This week we talk a fair bit about Aliens vs Predator and how GaR has been playing some Army of Two 40th Day.
If the Spike Video Game Awards weren’t your thing, the Game Developer’s Choice Awards nominees for 2009 have been chosen by 500 leading game creators. It’s a prestigious invite-only affair; why shouldn’t we rival the golden globes?
Uncharted 2 and Flower have received 7 nominations and 5 nominations respectively (Interestingly, these are both PS3 titles). Gabe Newell will also receive the Pioneer award for co-creating Steam and helping make breakthrough games such as Half-Life & Portal. The full list of nominees is posted below but you’ll have to wait until March to see the results!
Another handheld Zelda, I was half interested, half apprehensive when I realised that Ahmad was too deep undercover on a ButtonMasher sponsored initiative to conquer Asia to send him the game. My main point of concern was something that might not faze the enamoured Zelda/Nintendo fan, but to me it was off putting, a locomotion powered dungeon crawl.

A new year, a new podcast. If you do only one thing this year make it something awesome and listen to this while you are doing it…… unless it involves something kinky, then we don’t really want to have the two things associated in your mind.

Sometimes when your fellow castinites don’t want to come record their monotonous voices onto a solid state drive you need to revert back to the old school way of doing things. This weeks podcast is powered by wooden wheels and a steam engine, that’s right, Wugga and I ate some Mango Chicken Curry and a Limoncello Creme Brulee and we done recorded ourselves a duet. Such a sweet sweet harmony you haven’t heard in many a pod.
There is also a competition with in. The spoils are copies of games, the challenge will evoke the child within, so get out your crayons and Etch A Sketch, no skill required, artists need not apply.
BRIAN’S BACK! In a way. A very strange way. I honestly don’t know whose idea it was to include a doped up recovering corrective eye surgery patient in what has already been described (by me) as a weekly podcast that meanders, wanders, and mostly fumbles its way over the topics of the past week. One thing I do know, however, is that this episode is your #1 stop if you want to create a compilation of wild and crazy things that Brian has said for personal use (and the enjoyment of others).