Date aired:
15 Jun 2012
Link to Recording:
Show Length:
03:24:54
Intro background: 00:03:26 Masato Nakamura - Chemical Plant Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 OST
Shoutouts:
- Housepets! crew
- Sir Skippy, who was in the studio
- _006
- Boris, Natasha, and their upcoming offspring
- James and Lisanne: Indie Game: The Movie producers
- Jim Guthrie: composer for Indie Game: The Movie
Community:
Positive:
- E3
- Kickstarters: Neal Stephenson's Clang (swordfighting); Two Guys from Andromeda's Spaceventure; cookoo(tm) watch, competitor to the Pebble e-Paper Watch; Chameleon adaptive homescreen for Android returns after brief hiatus
- Zelda Reorchestrated finally managed to record their live elements for Twilight Symphony
- Community dev previews iOS apps running on a BlackBerry PlayBook
Legal:
- 38 Studios founder (Curt Schilling) sued by bank for $2.5 million loan payments
- Possible XBox 360 US import ban (thanks to Motorola patent dispute)
- Court allows Apple and Motorola to fight each other with injunction hearing, after previously saying no
- HTC drops federal appeal of ITC complaint exonerating Apple
- ITC being told by FTC, congressmen, and others to not ban the Xbox 360 after it was ruled that it violated four Motorola patents
- MPAA "may" let MegaUpload users retrieve non-infringing files, does it for the Armed Forces
Housekeeping:
- Stream: actual VG music now! Better scheduling incoming.
- Site: new site! More content incoming.
- Show: new content / layout for Journey 2! Keeping some stuff the same.
What are we playing?
- Tormod:
- PC: Jamestown
- Console: Final Fantasy III
- Mobile: (nothing)
- Mr. Bond:
- PC: Jamestown
- Console: Gears of War, Bioshock
- Mobile: Cave Story 3D
Hardware news: 00:38:56
- Leap Motion - Kinect-like PC peripheral, much more accurate
- Cronus dongle - connect PS3 / XBox 360 / Wii controllers to other consoles / PC
- New Macs
- Wii U to allow 2 game pads, but not until "well after launch"; Iwata says second screen nearly scrapped due to price; gamepad confirmed by Reggie to not support multitouch
- Nintendo focusing on 3DS successor, not refresh
- 360 now top-selling console worldwide
- Microsoft applies to patent gesture-based MIDI interface
- Rascal Micro created at Artisan's Asylum is an ARM-based SOC that may be "25x faster and 1000x more storage" than Arduino; price supposedly between $110-150 in the end
- Sony kicks off back to school promotion with a free 160GB PS3 or WiFi Vita for VAIO PC buyers, similar to Microsoft offering a free 360
- VIA Technologies' $49 Android barebones PC available for pre-order, ships in July
Software news: 00:48:01
- Source engine powering feature-length film: Deep
- Humble Indie Bundle V - most popular/successful yet!
- Indie Royale Grad Bundle (done awhile ago)
- Indie Royale June Bug Bundle (still going)
- Indie Royale has "collection" page showing all previously purchased bundles
- Pikmin 2 ported to Wii
- Halo 4, Gears of War 4 announced at E3
- Thatgamecompany raises $5.5M to split from Sony
- Temple Run: Brave mobile game to launch ahead of movie
- Rage of Bahamut mobile game pulling near even earnings on iOS and Google Play
- JoyTunes interactive video games aim to teach you to play real instruments
- iOS 6 jailbreak progress already gaining momentum
- Minesweeper scratch cards created, let you play a classic Windows game anywhere you go
- Sony introduces Wonderbook, the AR Ebook for kids
- New Halo and Gears of War games demoed at E3
- Xbox 360 to offer tons of new media content, including NBA and NHL TV, WatchESPN, and more
- Microsoft announces Wreckateer casual game for 360/Kinect
- Internet Explorer landing on 360 this fall with Kinect control
- Xbox SmartGlass second screen feature debuted at E3
- Kinect now has additional voice commands
- Play Safe for Android locks down phone so kids can safely play games
- The Dark Knight Rises announced for iOS and Android for summer release
- Xbox 360 spring dashboard update coming soon
- Max Payne Mobile debuted on Android on 14 June
Music news: 01:00:43
- Game Music Bundle 3
- OCReMix: 10 new remixes since last show
- Dwelling of Duels: May 2012 (TMNT) finished, Jun 2012 (Town themes) started
- People's Remix Competition: 219 (Gunstar Heroes) and 220 (Portal 2) finished
- Portal 2 OST is free!
Song set 1: 01:06:59
- zyk0 - Rime of the Wandering Seafarer - Legend of Zelda Wind Waker
- Bryan Garris - Escape Route (Gestation) - Cave Story
- The University of Toronto 10 O'Clock Big Band - Big-Band Battlefield - Super Mario 64
Segment 1: 01:27:22 Deeper E3 coverage
Song set 2: 01:49:37
- zyk0 - This Place is Kept by Powerful Gods - Golden Axe
- Tepid - Joyful, Happy Docks - Super Mario 64
- Norrin Radd - Demon of Celestial Origin - Contra
Segment 2: 02:09:54 Discuss - better audience interaction (G+ hangouts a probable option)
Song set 3: 02:27:00
- Vurez - Odyssey Beyond the Falls - Megaman 6
- bLiNd - Snowbound - Earthbound
- Cubed777 - Solarium - Golden Sun
Segment 3: 02:40:21 Discuss - new site content additions (articles, discussions, other content produced by us) Indie Game: The Movie giveaway winner: Shifty
Song set 4: 02:47:49
- Diggi Dis - Battle Axe-Wielding Dwarf - Golden Axe 2
- B33J, Cerrax, Sixto Sounds, yodaisbetter - Wanderer on the Offensive - Shadow of the Colossus
- The Orichalcon - Elevator to Hell - Shadowrun
Segment 4: 02:59:37 Music scheduling (moods, times, etc)
Audience requests: 03:09:16
- McVaffe - McVaffe Quasi Ultimix - Tetris
- Daniel Alm - In Darkness Dwells - Batman
Outro background: 03:15:03 Masato Nakamura - Oil Ocean Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 OST
Comments
Explanation of _006
Submitted by _006 on
Lol - wanted to clarify on my new naming convention. It's still pronounced "Space 006", but I wanted to visualize the space since 006 doesn't really convey whether it's a space or a typo!