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Another week another almost on time podcast, as always this one is worth the wait however. We’ve got over an hour of XBLA discussion for you guys.

John and Andrew are joined by Steve Melton and Damon Fillman this week and there’s a ton of things to talk about. Forgive Damon’s quietness during the first part of the show, due to technical difficulties we unfortunately lost his audio for that portion. As usual news is up first, this past week we broke another big story this time about Alan Wake. John has to be careful what he says but the rest of the guys chime in on what they think of the idea and talk a little about retail vs XBLA in general. There’s a lot of other stuff discussed but too much to summarise, you should just listen to the show yourself. Go on, it’s right down there.

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Bit of an odd show this week, John and Andrew have a two man show for the usual segments. While Steve is joined by special guest Robb Rinard Creative Director at 2XL Games, who just announced they’re working on a new Jeremy McGrath game.

John and Andrew discuss the quite substantial list of recently announced XBLA games that will be heading our way in the near future. They also talk a bit about bad voice acting in games while also hitting on some of the recent releases.

Once that’s out of the way it’s onto Steve’s interview with Rob. Apologies for the spotty audio, those are just the pitfalls of recording things over the internet.

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We broke the story a while back that there was a Batman game in the works for XBLA. Warner Brothers has today confirmed that Gotham City Impostors is indeed …
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This podcast is meant to come out on Tuesdays, we promise.

Anyway we had another delay this week due to illness and scheduling issues, but we have two special guests to make up for it. John Laster is joined by John Carson and Damon Fillman to talk about the latest XBLA news and catch up on the new releases they didn’t have the chance to cover last week.

Small correction, the guys referred to the XBLA Dead Space game as “Extraction”. The game in question is in fact called Dead Space Ignition, Extraction which is an on-rails shooter has yet to be released on XBLA.

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Another late episode, we promise we aren’t planning on making a habit of this. We’ve got a pretty special episode to make up for it though! John, Andrew and Tyler are joined by very special guest Matt Davis of Barkers Crest Studio. Matt is responsible for one of the most popular games on the Xbox Live Indie games marketplace, Avatar Golf.

The guys don’t waste the opportunity to pick the brains of an Indie Game developer so we’ve got a whole hour of in depth discussion of just what it’s like to develop an Indie Game. A ton of stuff is discussed, from what Microsoft can do to help elevate the games to Matt’s upcoming game Avatar Legends.

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A day late due to technical issues but we’ve got a jam packed show so let’s get to it!

Stephen Haberman joins John, Tyler and Andrew this week and kicks things off by talking a bit about Bastion which is now code complete. Andrew chimes in on Gatling Gears, which now has a date and price, while he’s a big fan of the game he’s not too keen on that price tag. What looked to be a Hydrophobia sequel was discovered (we now know it’s another revamp) and the guys discuss whether they think the original deserves one.

Fancy Pants Adventures and Section 8: Prejudice came out last week and the guys have been playing both, they share their fairly positive thoughts on both. Tangents into discussions of other games and even a little about reviewing games are also interspersed. Don’t forget to join us for our playdate on the 29th, details are here.

We’re back on iTunes! Please subscribe and leave us a review, we’ll be your bestest friends if you do.

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Yar’s Revenge was developed by Killspace Entertainment, published by Atari and was released on April 13th, 2011 for 800MSP. A copy of the game was provided to us for review purposes.The original Yars’ Revenge was one of the best selling games on the Atari 2600, making it somewhat of a puzzle why it has taken so long to come back. There have been a couple of remakes and re-releases but this is the first original game based on the license since that first Atari release.

We now have Yar’s Revenge on XBLA, and that apostrophe wasn’t accidentally misplaced. While the original game referred to a race this games title refers to a single Yar, the character players control. Although to confuse matters further she is often referred to as Yar. The game is no longer a single screen shooter but has been transformed into an on-rails affair akin to Sin & Punishment or Rez.

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We previously reported on a tip from an industry source that Warner Bros was working on a Batman game for XBLA, titled Batman: Impostors possibly …
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Cave has announced a release date for their upcoming crazy platformer Nin2-Jump will be released on April 27th. We don’t actually have too many details on the game …
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This week John, Tyler and Andrew are joined by very special guest Mark Yetter from TimeGate Studios to talk about Section 8 Prejudice. A downloadable follow-up to the original Section 8, which was a full priced retail release.

The guys pump Mark for as much info as they can, from how the game went from retail to download to many aspects of gameplay. At almost an hour it’s a fairly extensive interview so get listening!

Apologies for this spotty audio, the perils of having to record a podcast via Skype. Thankfully the issues are very few and pretty minimal so hopefully it doesn’t hurt your listening experience too much.

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