1up.com - The Oddcast

Behold! Chris has escaped his well and is now in?a bathroom? Yep! This week we talk about Halloween, One billion XBL hours, Keiji Inafune, EA Tiberon, PS3 fans rejoice, Sam and Max, and Sam's new favorite game: schoolgirl shooter Gun Gal. And we take your tweets, call-ins and letters as usual.

We're finally back after a two week hiatus. And we're back for good! Tina, Sam, Chris and special guest Alice discuss the latest with EA buying the Angry Birds developers, Fallout New Vegas bugs, Medal of Honor, and uh, Oprah. We share our love for Costume Quest and Super Meat Boy, and then go into a WTF segment with Alice. And we finish everything off with questions and call-ins as always.

This week, the gang talks about scary stuff like the Taliban and Cthulu and God's toothpick, it must be huge! We talk confirmed delays (Gears 3), rumored cancelations (Ninjatown 2) and save the dates (the NY Comic-Con meetup). Minecraft is our reccession game and new favorite thing. Lastly, we respond to your letters and voice mails. Listening to this podcast will not give you bed bugs, promise.

Chris, missing? Boo! But Matt Leone gladly fills in on this week's show! We make fun of the TGS gallery, Halo Reach sales in Japan, Batman Arkham City, Medal of Honor being banned on military bases, and we take call-in questions!

This week, we're calling our show the atOdds cast. Why? We get Mike and Travis from at1UP to join us in Sam's absence. This week Chris rags on PlayStation Move, Tina complains about Halo Reach, we all discover what impact KFC has in Japan, wonder what you all think of Medal of Honor being banned by the military, and Sharkey loves Lord of the Rings online. As always, we take some pretty damn good call-in questions and letters.

We discuss where we've all been: LA, PAX, and where we're going: TGS. Sam talks about what he's looking forward to seeing, like The Last Guardian, and an empty Black Ops booth. The group is missing Chris' presence, but Alice is kind enough to join us.

The gang reunites after too long apart. We celebrate with good discussion. Capcom's cutting out the racism! Valve made a fairy game! Acclaim died, again! And for Recession Gaming: Robot wants fishy! All those exclamation points plus community questions in this week?s Oddcast. It's good to be back.

Sharkey is back from his vacation, but Sam is off in Germany. Matt sits in and is kind of an old grump about it all while we talk about Italians threatening to kneecap Mafia II for sterotyping them, play Icarus Proudbottom and the Curse of the Chocolate Fountain, and take questions, and chatter about what games we've had stolen from us. Also, some guy in Malawi claims to have grown lady parts but we're more blown away that Tina has apparently been reading Perez Hilton.

Sex! We "tee hee" a lot when it comes up. On this week's OddNews, we talk about Ratchet and Clank, Blizzard removing inappropriate maps in StarCraft II, and Activision making a move on hindering used game sales. Recession gaming involves the shooter in your pants, a.k.a. Privates. And we tangent off into a talk about cyber sex in World of Warcraft. With Scott Sharkey gone this week, we fill his place with another Scott from the office.

The whole crew is reunited after a short absence from Chris. Battlefield 3 is announced in a shitty way, the Gears of War movie adaptation is delayed, the Crayon Physics guy has another food game, and we talk about our Games to Play Before You Die feature. And we close off with our q and a segment.

Matt subs in for Chris this week as we rap about women apparently spending more than guys on imaginary videogame items, the awesome freebie game Alien Swarm, the Medal of Honor beta is fun, and we hate on the eleven states that support the California anti-videogame law. Also, more calls calls calls, calls from the public.

Tina, Sharkey, Sam and Chris jam on such topics as GameStop's whining that they don't like being in the used games biz and the Joe Danger guy ripping on XBL. Also, Ballsrog and Tolecover both sent in some hilarious music. We need to set them up for a rap battle.

This week, we talk about Space! Specifically, the MMO Nasa created. Also, Bobby Kotick says something to piss off gamers (again) and Tina wants Spain to win the World Cup (nobody cares). We have a great chat with developers of Shank, Prince hates the internet, and we close off with our call-in questions.

This week, we make an attempt to have a serious discussion about games as art—no, not really. Sam brings up Ebert's recent comments while everyone else falls asleep, Miyamoto makes a comment about needing new game characters, and uh, Dead or Alive will just be as perverted on the 3DS. Sharkey suggests Transformice for Recession gaming and we have our usual email and voicemail segment.

What's that noise? It's our world cup edition! The crew gets settled in after E3. Although, we can't figure out how to get Chris to stop sounding like a robot. We discuss Odd news of the week, like Kinect's pricing, children can't play 3DS, and Iwata's comment on the industry. We make fun of the comments in our E3 award feature and answer more call-in questions. Vuvuzela!

We're barely alive, our voices are nearly gone and Sharkey has a hangover; yay E3! Sam, Tina, Chris and Sharkey get on the mics to ramble about the WTF moments of the event. And special guest Cliff Bleszinski stops by to talk about Gears 3 and Bulletstorm.

Valve delays Portal 2; surprise! Everyone is eager to talk about E3, and how CNN investigates why videogame movies suck-- Chris Plante elaborates. Tina makes fun of Alan Wake's wife, Sharkey shares his favorite Left 4 Dead mod, and Sam still doesn't play games.

Oh crap! Chris is back, and Sharkey finally sheds a tear of happiness. This week we talk about that little convention that's right around the corner, show some love for Wii Fit (no, not really), and we take more beloved call-in questions.

Hope this episode doesn't harm your ear drums; Tina edited it. We share our thoughts on cocaine and how it relates to games, Sam discusses a PlayStation 3 rumor, Frank tells us about PopCap's beginnings and Sharkey is himself again. And we wonder if children can thoroughly enjoy Super Mario Galaxy 2.

This week the Oddcast goes into Space! Well, not really. Frank joins us again as we discuss the finer moments of this week, such as the lingerie based off of No More Heroes 2. We try to understand the real meaning of Square Enix's "History-Making" game, and we go into Recession gaming as always. We close off with a healthy amount of audio and email questions.