That Video Game Podcast

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:49:21 Music: FEZ We ask you to enjoy, sir, our chats about Draw Something, Dead Island, Tiger Woods 13, Bubbleshoot, Trials Evolution, FEZ, and Grand Prix Story. We marvel over the time delay of a sci-fi author suing Ubisoft over Assassin’s Creed And the technical marvel of recovering the source code for the original Prince of Persia

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:42:36 Music: Sonic Adventure 2 Then gang’s all here to chat about Heavy Rain, Ninja Gaiden 3, Bulletstorm, Tiger Woods 13, Mario Party 9, Bubbleshoot, Madden 13, Dungeon Siege 3, Spell Tower, and Draw Something. Sony to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide, re-focusing on games Bethesda to add over 200 Kinect commands to Skyrim And there’s a DBZ Kinect game coming out, too Crysis 3 leaked early, formally announced next week

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:45:05 Music: Sam and Max Hit the Road Between all sorts of planning, we chat about Tiger Woods 13, Brink, Dungeon Siege III, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Mass Effect 3: The Extended Cut coming for free this Summer But I’m far more excited about Rock Band Blitz

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 2:05:20 Music: Persona 3 The gang’s all back to chat about Left 4 Dead 2, Super Stardust Delta, WipeOut 2048, Dance Central, Tiger Woods 13, Bubbleshoot, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Madden 12, Mass Effect 3, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, and Final Fantasy VII. Fez finally has a release date! Bioshock movie loses yet another director, same reasons as the last RUMORS abound for the PlayStation Orbis Odd RUMORS are floating around for some sort of half intermediate next Xbox Battlefield 3 dedicated server rental prices announced Epic Mickey 2 3DS version sounds the most amazing Good Old Games now has a different name

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:32:38 Music: Little Nemo the Dream Master The two of us chat about the ending of Mass Effect 3 (spoiler free!), WipeOut 2048, Ninja Gaiden 3, Triple Town, Angry Birds Space, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations. GAME Group is dead, enters administration Shockingly, that fake NEOGEO phone thing is actually real Sega may do HD re-releases, this time for Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:53:44 Music: Mass Effect Honestly, we spent most of our time talking (spoiler-free) about Mass Effect 3 (along with ME: Datapad and ME: Infiltrator), but we also chat about Bubbleshoot, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, SSX, Plants vs. Zombies, and Madden 12. Giant Bomb purchased by CBS Interactive, Whiskey Media sites split up February NPDs! Put simply: Diablo III is coming out May 15th Ratchet and Clank Collection/Trilogy announced

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 2:35:32 Music: Metroid We’re a little light this week on the number of games we chat about, but we spend tons of time talking about SSX, Mass Effect 3, and Risk Factions. New SimCity announced for 2013 Dead or Alive 5 release date announced along with its special character Street Fighter X Tekken infuriates us with its incredible amount of on-disc DLC SWERY working on a Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut for PS3 Valve not really making a console, but kind of is right now

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:54:52 Music: Super Mario Sunshine We all spent too much time playing a bunch of great games this week, like Syndicate, Asura’s Wrath, SSX, Lumines: Electric Symphony, Edge, Bubble Shoot, Wipeout 2048, KOA: Reckoning, and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Assassin’s Creed 3 has had a pretty long week Sim City 5 rumors are building (sorry) Zone Of the Enders HD Collection gets closer to a release date GAME has definitely seen better days Boondock Saints game is apparently going to be a thing Zynga launches their own site

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 2:08:15 Music: Mega Man 6 The Ohio rain doesn’t damper our spirits or our desire to chat about Lumines: Electric Symphony, Shadows Of the Damned, Saint’s Row the Third, Syndicate, Asura’s Wrath, Bubble Shoot, Ilo Milo, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Fairway Solitare, and SSX (demo). Sega announces their next Dreamcast game for XBLA/PSN Sony gives two weak reasons for UMD Passport not coming to North America Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus coming to XLBA/PSN in Japan, hopefully in NA But we know that Persona 4: Arena will be coming out in the US Good news out of the recent Nintendo Direct conference #AnywaysBorderlands2 now has a release date

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:54:31 Music: Jet Set Radio Future Ryan is out this week, but we still have tons of games to chat about, like Crackdown 2, Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 (demo), Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, Shadows Of the Damned, Syndicate (demo), and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Assassin’s Creed 3 coming October 30th. This series has defeated my ability to make punchy headlines. Success! Australia’s R18+ rating coming next year TVGPSA: PS3 Skyrim players should make a new hard save Valve stays transparent, announces full details of their breach last year

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 2:31:24 Music: Donkey Kong Country In this surprisingly long episode, we chat about Battlefield 3, Transformers: War For Cybertron, Crackdown 2, Bubble Shot, Pokemon Snap, Afro Samurai, Kindoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Saints Row the Third, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Diablo III. GAME is in trouble, has a creative way to get out of it TVGPSA: Diablo III delayed again David Jaffe to leave Eat Sleep Game, focus on mobile and browser dev This story is moving too fast, but Double Fine is being awesome again UMD Passport program not coming to North America Say goodbye to PSN, say hello to SEN

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:58:48 Music: Lair We’re all here to chat about Asura’s Wrath (demo), Bionic Commando, Afro Samurai, Red Faction Armageddon, Trials HD, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Alan Wake PC details Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney movie getting localized, sounds totally awesome/weird Ace Attorney 5 announced! But without details. THQ faces stock market delisting, still has time to clean up their act Trials Evolution leaked, RedLynx didn’t do it this time Kaz Hirai will shortly be in charge of Sony Nintendo finally starts to catch up, announces the Nintendo Network Microsoft claims there’s no new Xbox at E3 or this year, we find that hard to believe

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 2:11:48 Music: VVVVVV The gang’s all here to chat about Battlefield 3, Bionic Commando, The Darkness 2 (demo), Game Dev Story, Halo Reach, Fable 3, Trials HD, Doritos Crash Course, Snoopy’s Flying Ace, Chime, Gears of War 3, Skyrim, Asura’s Wrath (demo), Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Saint’s Row the Third, and Quarrel. A collection of Next Xbox rumors Also, a bunch of WiiU rumors that I don’t have a link for. Sorry. Netflix drops game rental plans with little fanfare or explanation TVGPSA: AT&T 3G data price changes affect the Vita, too RUMOR: Microsoft to drop Microsoft Points across all services

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:27:35 Music: Breath Of Fire IV It’s a snowy week here in Ohio, which means we had plenty of time to play Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (demo), Ninja Gaiden 2, Bionic Commando, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Mortal Kombat, Saints Row the Third, Asura’s Wrath (demo), Skyrim, Saints Row the Third, Forza 4, and Gears of War 3. December NPDs!

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:19:30 Music: F-Zero It’s been a super weird week, but we chat about Saints Row the Third (twice), Renegade Ops, NFL Blitz, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield 3, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Skyrim. CES happened, we cover a few stories You can now buy certain Nintendo VC games with your dusty coins Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur demos unlock content in each other’s full games Kinect for Windows official announced, is more expensive OnLive will soon be in your Google TV RUMOR: One console maker to drop out of the race at E3 New Tomb Raider game gets a super cool geocaching promotional tie-in Diablo 3 coming to consoles but probably not but maybe Razer goes insane, announces a chimera xbox Live House Party announced for Feb. I’m not making this up, EA is being sued for putting helicopters in BF3 Mortal Kombat gets an edition with everything in it. It’s Komplete, if you will.

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:28:54 Music: Aladdin (Genesis version) We’re back! We start 2012 off with a recap of the games we played during the break, which are Game Dev Story, Sonic CD, The Williams Collection, Batman: Arkham City, Gears of War 3, Mortal Kombat, UFC Live, Fist Of the North Star, Puzzle Arcade, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield 3, Renegade Ops, Saints Row the Third, Dragon Age 2, Forza 4, Chrono Trigger, and Skyrim. Update on the Silicon Knights/UE3 court case RUMOR: Wii U to feature non-game apps

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:18:58 We recap our predictions for this past year (and crown a winner!) along with our hilarious predictions for 2012.

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:07:17 We cover our favorite games from 2011 and pick another TVGP Game of the Year! We do get a little spoilery with LA Noire and Dead Space 2.

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:29:25 Music: Final Fantasy IV In our last episode before vacation (don’t worry, more episodes are on the way while we’re on break), we chat about Battlefield 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Gears of War 3, Halo Reach, Game Dev Story, Words With Friends, Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Mario Party 3, Tiny Tower, and Gears of War 3 (again). We chat a bit about the disastrous Spike VGA Awards Bastion gets new DLC and released on a new platform We revisit the forgotten PS3 Other OS removal class action lawsuit Alan Wake finally coming to PC

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:18:22 Music: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 We’re almost on vacation, but we still get loopy and chat about X-Men Arcade, RAGE, Final Fight: Double Impact, Shadows of the Damned, Gears of War 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Sonic 2, Ghostbusters, Halo Reach, Words With Friends, Dead Space 2, MGS: Peace Walker, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Infinity Blade. Xenoblade Chronicles coming to the US! EA Passes expiring for new games, but kind of not?