Powered On – 015 – Playing an Insanely Twisted Shadow God.
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
Insanely twisted shadow planet, From Dust, Atom Zombie Smasher + Diablo3 news and more in this weeks episode of Powered On!
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Powered On – 014 – Austrailia, the new Canada
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
This week the gang makes a running joke that they run out of time to explain. Plus the news.
Powered On – 013 – Madden Vs Zombies
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
The guys get together this week to put to rest the rumor that EA was going to buy popcap, by stating the now confirmed reports that EA has bought popcap, this indepth investigating and more in this latest episode of Powered On.
Powered On – 009 – The Lost Episode.
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
From time to time technical issues or other concerns gets in the way of an episodes release. Episode 9 is one of those episodes. This week we take a look into the past to before E3 with the missing episode 9.
Powered On – 012 – The Tweet heard round the world.
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
Settle in and pull up your earphones another episode of Powered on is here, This week the gang cover what they have been playing , including Red Faction Armageddon, Tiny Tower, Army of Darkness (Ipad), and the Witcher two. Then in the news they hold a lively conversation about the “Tweet heard round the world” or at least around the gaming industry.
We apologize for the audio Quality on David MacDonald this week, but were happy to announce that it will be better next week as we move back to a weekly recording schedule. Thats more Powered On gaming news for all our great listeners.
Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale – Barrels of Mediocrity
By David MacDonald
Its been seven years since Dungeons and Dragons has been seen on the console. In that time, the pen and paper role-playing game has progressed significantly, going through two editions. Given the amount of changes the source material has undergone, one would hope that Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale would have made similar strides. Upon playing the game, my hopes and dreams were crushed utterly. (more…)
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge;
E3 came and left and the team gets together to talk about what happened and what it means for the industry as a whole.
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012: Card Sharks
By David MacDonald
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, or M:TG 2012, is a greatly revamped version of the successful online game released in late 2009. Each revision addressed a significant problem and has created a solid product with hours of play. Despite some holdover issues from the previous incarnation, I still enjoyed playing this title thoroughly. (more…)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Less Than Meets the Eye
By David MacDonald
In 2010, High Moon Studios released Transformers: War for Cybertron and single-handedly threw out any competition for “Best Transformers Game” in my mind. This year, High Moon Studios created Transformers: Dark of the Moon and lowered the bar. It may look like War for Cybertron, at times may even play like it, but this is not anywhere near that title. (more…)
Powered On – E3 2011 – The Press Conference Recap
Hosted By Brian Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
With E3 in full force and the major press conferences having come to a close the gang gets together and takes a hard look at what was really said in each conference and discuss all the games that were detailed.
E3 2011: Nintendo e3 Press Conference: So Were U Impressed?
By David MacDonald
Opening up with a full orchestra to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda over a montage of all the Zelda games over the past 25 years. A bit of new footage from Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Miyamoto pops out and speaks on the music of Zelda, then starts riffing with the orchestra. Does the getting an item sound with the orchestra while he acts it out. I truly hope he reveals something big doing this, otherwise its just wasted time… Turns out, he’s just wasting time. (more…)
E3 2011: The Sony Press Conference Recap
By Brian Perry
The Sony e3 presentation has come to an end and it’s time for another “Not Quite Live Blog”.
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E3 2011: EA Press Conference Recap
By David MacDonald
In 2012, EA is highlighting “Game Changers”, a system of using connectivity among different platforms and social media to further enhance your playing experience. While not really occurring on all their featured titles this year, EA still has an impressive lineup for the coming year.
E3 2011: Ubisoft E3 Keynote 25 years and still needing the laugh track.
By Brian Perry
Ubisoft’s E3 keynote has come and gone for 2011 bringing us some interesting surprises and a whole lot of awkward silences. Instead of lambasting the presenters however, here is the not so live blog for Ubisofts presentation. (more…)
Powered On – 010 – E3 Predictions
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for gamers and games journalists this week as the industry gathers round in Los Angeles California and prepares for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This episode the guys talk about what they have been playing including Brink, LA Noir, Singularity, and World of Warcraft Cataclysm. Then it’s some news and the guys predictions on what will happen this week at E3.
Lego: Pirates of the Caribbean – Drink Up Me ‘Earties, Yo Ho!
By David MacDonald
Lego: Pirates of the Caribbean is one of the best matches for the Lego brand of video games, and is recreated perfectly in blocks and studs. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies all feature an over-the-top main character, outlandish maritime folklore, and a unique visual perspective that lend themselves well in Lego form.
Powered On – 008 – Sucks to be You Sony
A day late and a Dollar Shorter the gang get together to take a hard look at Sony’s misfortunes, while managing to give the foghorn a much needed rest, for the most part. Tagging along is a spoiler free discussion on Portal 2, and some thoughts on Diablo 3 and it’s effects on World of Warcraft.
The Powered On team will not be attending E3 2011.
For our fans waiting to hear our attendance of the E3 2011 Trade expo this year, Unfortunately the team here at Life Inside the Box, and Powered On will not be attending. In the following email we were advised that due to the great interest in the gaming industry the folks running E3 have decided to limit the number of Media attendees this year.
Hi Brian -
E3 2011 has placed caps on this year’s media badge assignments in consideration of the high number of requests for media badges and to offer multiple types and sizes of media outlets the opportunity to attend the trade-only E3 event.
As part of the credentialing process, the Media Team uses a variety of measurement/ranking tools to determine media badge approvals for online-based applicants including Compete.com, Quantcast.com, Xinureturns.com and Alexa.com. This ensures we get a good sense of web traffic and unique visitors in addition to reviewing each outlet for content, publisher recognition, news and industry involvement. We also do not count YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace pages as editorial.
While we do consider outlets on an individual basis, we generally look for sites to be fully launched, operational for six months, feature ongoing games industry coverage, and that the web site receives a minimum of 8,000 monthly unique impressions as a baseline for each media badge issued.
Based on the above, we will not be able to issue you a media badge at this time, but we encourage you to try again next year.
Thank you for your interest,
The E3 Media Team
While the editorial staff here at Powered On feel that denying smaller outlets the same access as the larger more established outlets to the event hinders our ability to grow to meet the baseline guidelines they are measuring registrants against, we understand that the E3 Media team have the right to set the guidelines they choose and we respect their decision in this matter.
All that having been said we will still be covering E3 to the best of the great abilities of the Powered On Team, and we hope you will tune in for our continued in depth coverage of the games industry as a whole!
Powered On – 007 – They Fixed it in Post
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
They warned you over and over again, we’ll fix it in post, we’ll fix it in post. At long last it has finally happened the editing this week didnt seem to touch all the games they guys played this week including Mortal Combat, FIFA 2011, Zeit 2, Infinity Blade, and Minecraft. Then they take a look at the latest rumors about Nintendo’s next console.
Powered On – 006 – Seriously did I just break this thing?!
Hosted By Brian Perry, Grey Perry, David MacDonald, and Mike Thivierge
Its that time again boys and girls, the gang are all back together and talking about the video games you love. This week they take a closer look at Lego Clone wars, Kinect Joyride, Raskulls, and Mass Effect 2′s final DLC expansion The Arrival. Then they delve into a discussion about the latest generation of consoles, has the quality gone down so much since the good old days? Finally some Reader Mail.
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