Brendan and I are back on the scene with Crunch Time Episode 32 after a two week hiatus!  Now that the move is pretty much complete, and my internet is online, we were able to record this doozy of a show, with 38 news stories and a fantastically sick El Juego De Palabras segment involving Skippy the 3 Legged Korean Dog.  Take a look below at the show notes to get a taste for the news we have served up for you this week!

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Show Notes:

Hosts: Jack Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jackbogdan & Brendan Kelly- www.twitter.com/brendandk

News Discussed:

Community:

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Music:

Music by Steadman

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AWESOME SHOW.  That sums up this week.  If you insist on a little more info however, we finalize our plans (sort of) to sing something each episode from here on out.  You can get a preview of our vocal talent at the end of the podcast, so stay tuned (or skip ahead if you must).  

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[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/jeremybogdan/Crunch_Time-_Proactively_Off_Topic.mp3[/podcast]

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Show Notes:

Hosts: Jeremy Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jeremybogdan & Brendan Kelly- www.twitter.com/brendandk

News Discussed:

Kotaku – Is This New Beyond Good & Evil 2 Footage? – Beyond Good & Evil 2

Kotaku – DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero Hit This Fall – dj hero

Kotaku – Why Richard Garriott Is Suing NCsoft – richard garriott

Kotaku – GameStop’s Exclusive Brütal Legend Tenacious D Axe – brutal legend

Kotaku – Richard Garriott Suing NCsoft For $24,000,000 – richard garriott

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Kotaku – The Beatles: Rock Band Gets The Beatles Guitars – The beatles: rock band

Kotaku – First Red Steel 2 Trailer – red steel 2

Kotaku – Fallout 3 Broken Steel Trailer – War Changes A Little – Fallout 3

Rumor: Beyond Good & Evil 2 footage leaked and lovely

Community:

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Music:

Music by Steadman

Next week is our transition to a live Video, and downloadable Video & Audio podcast, so take a listen this week to get more information on that, in addition to, of course, getting the weeks worth of news (including unfortunate insights into future Game->Movie projects), along with our talk this week on morality in games, and some shootin of the shit there at the end.  Looking forward to next week’s show!

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[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/jeremybogdan/Crunch_Time-_Motha_Duckas.mp3[/podcast]

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Show Notes:

Hosts: Jeremy Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jeremybogdan & Brendan Kelly- www.twitter.com/brendandk

News Discussed:

GameStop Sells Played Games As New, Sources Say, Practice Could Be Illegal – Legal

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Deployed – Halo 3

Wii Sports Resort, MotionPlus Out In July – Wii sports resort

Nielsen corrects console usage chart: Wii beats 360 in January

Amazon selling Xbox Live Arcade game codes

Being cheap made easier with CAG’s new price tracking

Borderlands decides on new ‘pretty impressive, even shocking’ art style [update]

Sony: Killzone 2 Sales Have “Exceeded Our Expectations” – Playstation 3

Rock Band Unplugged Trailer Shows How Easy Love Can Be – Rock band unplugged

Close Range: A game about shooting people in the face

Imagine: A year without Ubidays

Will Wright Leaves EA, Does Something Stupid – Ea

Halo Encyclopedia Shoots For Bookshelves This Fall – Halo

Media Molecule – we make games. » Blog Archive » Jammin’

Shadow of the Colossus Getting Big Screen Adaptation, All Hope Lost – Shadow Of The Colossus

Arr! Director Chooses BioShock Over Pirates – Gore Verbinski

Community:

E-Mail us text or MP3 responses to crunchtime@jeremybogdan.com . If it’s an MP3, try to keep it short and sweet! so we can play it on the podcast! Thanks!

Music:

Music by Steadman

Hey guys!  Big news! As I’m sure you’ve heard over the last 2 weeks, we’ve been unofficially promoting the MacHeist bundle, leading up to the unlock of some very special software.  Earlier today the $400k for charity threshold was passed, unlocking the tool we’re going to use to put out a new video podcast edition of Crunch Time, Boinx TV!

It didn’t take much customization to come up with something that looked good enough for us to put up on the web.  You can see an artist’s rendition of the scene below.  Who is imitating who?

Our goal is to share visually, through pretty pictures and video, what you often hear about in the audio version (which we will still offer).  This new format will also allow us to share video of our guests if they have a camera connected.   As you can see, a nifty scrolling ticker of news as it comes in is displayed above our heads, so if we ever get boring, feel free to read the latest in the gaming world.

So you may be asking yourself, “Hey Jeremy, how will we get this news fresh if we’re downloading a recording?”.  Good question reader/listener/soon-to-be-watcher!  WE’LL DO IT LIVE! That’s right!  We’ll be live streaming all our episodes on UStream.tv at the following page: Crunch Time Live , so follow us there and stay tuned to our Twitter pages (Brendan & I) as we do dry runs of this thing before a full fledged launch.  With us being live, we’ll be able to take your feedback and questions live during the show, which I’m really excited about!

All of this is going to be uncharted territory for us, so bear with us as we work out the kinks!  Trust me, having to work through 6 applications is going to be tricky.

We’re looking to do the first full video show in 2 weeks.