Episode 20 – Auto Asphyxiation
Midlife Gamer Podcast
MidLifeGamer.net
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2008
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Matt finishes off Uncharted and Dead Space as well as calling Epic out for a poor show with Gears 2 online issues and another fun weekend with World of Warcraft. Daren hits up the latest XBLA games, more old school Banjo Kazooie fun, the good lady trying Uno online and a good few hours on Quantum of Solace.
News discussion – Sony Home is available now!!! What do we think of Home and the future of Sony, free Sackboy Santa outfits, this months “Simply Knitting” magazine with a Sackboy pattern, Echocrome getting 1000 user generated levels, Scrabble on the DS contains swearing, Microsoft planning on showing all at the next E3, cheaper Foo Fighters Rockband pack, Katamari coming to iPhone, Peggle Extreme for free on Steam and thoughts on the upcoming XBLA Peggle.
The retail round-up – RPG’s back in the charts, Rockband country pack coming this week and free bonus content and an early glance at next year with Skate 2 and Lord of the Rings Conquest.
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| 0:00.0 | Is it just me or does anyone else find pressing F5 refreshing? |
| 0:06.4 | See, it's shit like that which makes you a geek. Hello there and welcome to Midlife Gamer podcast episode 20. My name is Darren Baudock. I am here in Midlife Gamer Central with my very esteemed partner, Mr. Matthew Moore. |
| 0:41.3 | Opening a can of lager, I see there, young man. How are you? |
| 0:44.5 | Top of the pops. I always am when you're here. You know what? I was really tired today. |
| 0:49.7 | And I think I played too much. I played too much way out today. And I was getting a bit sort of, oh, God. And then five minutes of the UKO, man, I'm all excited, like a little puppy. Yeah, I have that effect on men. I do promise not to hump your leg. All right. Just ask me first. I'm prep. Okay, let's have a look at what we're going to be covering off today. as always, we're going to talk about what we've been playing, what we've been doing. |
| 1:13.5 | We're going to then get a load of news on board. |
| 1:15.9 | Love news. |
| 1:16.5 | Always good, love news. |
| 1:17.8 | Love news. |
| 1:18.1 | I've got some nice news for you this week, Matthew. |
| 1:20.2 | And then we'll wrap it up with charts and retail roundups, |
| 1:23.7 | which as it is, there's fuck a way out. |
| 1:26.1 | Nothing's coming out. But what will be released, shall we say. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, true of that. Have you got some PlayStation news this week? |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, I might have a little bit of PlayStation news. Looking forward to that. I think we might have a little bit of PlayStation stuff to talk about. Okay. Okay, mate. All right, so let's kick off with you, Matt. What have you been up to this week, game-wise? It's been another good week for the PlayStation. |
| 1:27.0 | I mean, the PlayStation are getting on like a house on fire. |
| 1:30.4 | And that Xbox... Game-wise. It's been another good week for the PlayStation. |
| 1:46.8 | I mean, the PlayStation are getting on like a house on fire. |
| 1:50.5 | And that Xbox of mine downstairs is just getting cold. |
| 1:53.4 | It's not a bad thing because you know what? That system's like you can't put it for too long without it dying on you. |
| 1:56.6 | I did jump onto a bit of Gears of War II. |
| 2:00.0 | Was it Friday night? Yeah. It was Friday night. And I did a bit of Gears of War II. Was it Friday night? |
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