That Video Game Podcast

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?

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:35:06 Music: End of Eternity Despite crippling technical difficulties, we chat about Contract Killers: Zombies, Shadowgun, Batman: Arkham City, Left 4 Dead 2, AC: Revelations, X-Men Arcade, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, Voltron: Defenders of the Universe, Words With Friends, Blops, Skyrim, Deadly Premonition, Infinity Blade, Uncharted 3, and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. Microsoft and Nintendo make piles of money during Black Friday. Vita memory card prices unveiled. Put simply, they suck. GamePro is dead Obsidian’s new RPG has been announced

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:07:16 Music: Jet Set Radio Future We’re all loopy, but we manage to chat about Battlefield 3, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Gears of War 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Frequency, Words With Friends, Dragon Fly, Gears of War 3, DCUO, Blops, Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. There may be a Rampage movie happening... MGS 5 talk was a bit premature. Maybe ZOE3 can still be a thing? New Xbox 360 dashboard coming December 6th. Allegedly it’s pretty good.

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:44:39 Music: Sonic Generations In this incredibly cold Ohio week we chat about DCUO, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Left 4 Dead 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Williams Collection, Battlefield 3, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Gears of War 3, MGS HD Collection, and Sonic Generations. The original Xbox is 10 years old! Jak and Daxter Collection confirmed UMD Passport Program officially announced for Japan Steam and Steam Forums suffered an attack Xbox.com finally lets you turn off auto renew

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 2:07:36 Music: Bulletstorm In an episode that goes off the rails in the best way possible very quickly, we chat about Rage, Battlefield 3, Gears of War 3, DC Universe Online, Words With Friends, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Battlefield 3, X-Men Destiny, Torchlight, Uncharted 3, and the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. Yet another Assassin’s Creed game coming next year Mass Effect 3’s three different single player modes have leaked RUMOR: Simpsons Arcade Game to see a release on XBLA/PSN/iOS Donate to the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital or your local hospital via Child’s Play

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:55:37 Music: inFAMOUS We’re both a little under the weather this week, but that doesn’t stop us from chatting about Spider-Man: Edge of Time, Battlefield 3, RAGE, Gears of War 3, Dragon Age 2, Batman: Arkham City, and Uncharted 3. Rumors about serious layoffs at Silicon Knights Wizorb releases on PC on November 7th. You should buy it. A bunch of VGA announcements have been...announced You may have missed the GTA 5 trailer

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon and John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:33:45 Music: Enslaved: Odyssey To the West In a lopsided episode, we chat about Batman: Arkham City, Spider-Man: Edge of Time, Gears of War 3, Dead or Alive 4, Crysis 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Battlefield 3, Shatter, Dance Central 2, and Tiny Tower. All of our interest in the XIII game has vanished We forgot that Doom 4 is still a thing Blizzcon: WoW Season Pass announced Blizzcon: WoW’s fourth expansion announced Blizzcon: Blizzard DOTA formally announced GTA 5 announced