Retina Displays on iMacs (not likely), iPhone 5 with multitouch button (crap) and Apple’s location tracking brouhaha (feh.) Three cynical Mac gaming jackanapes prognosticated on all these matters and more, including Real Racing 2 HDMI kludges, the utter awesomeness of Portal 2, and the fact that One Single Life isn’t quite what it seems.
Rovio as a good and bad week, Hobo with a Shotgun brings the 80′s arcade goodness, GameLoft is cloning WoW, Nintendo does or doesn’t hate indie, and Bulletstorm is a redneck supermodel. All on this episode of the Fruitygamer podcast!
The ground shook, Hell froze over and Chip bought an iPad 2. He gives his impressions, including the overall zippiness of the device, the crapitude of the onboard cameras, and the awesomeness that is Flipboard.
We also covered new versions of Infinity Blade and Dead Space for iOS, the arty Sword and Sworcery (due in a week), and gave our impressions of iOS 4.3. A lengthy digression about Twitter and SXSW finally ended up with what we’ve been playing, which ranges from a running app to an over the top sociopathic killfest. Fun!
Technical difficulties nearly felled the podcast this week, but your favourite Mac gaming nerds soldiered on, discussing the new iPad, the potential of Airplay to usurp the console space, why the Sony NGP is “dead on arrival,” and why the iPad might be the best gaming system ever. At least according to one developer at GDC.
After a long absence due to work, moving, and other dull real-life nonsense, Fruitygamer is back in the saddle, now with added Chip from The Two Minute Time Lord. With a third person throwing around opinions and speculating on Apple mysteries the podcast is longer and better and will likely be coming out a whole lot more regularly. We’ve also decided to stick with audio only, as video is (at this point) too much work for too little payoff.
note: I refer to Dead Island as “Undead Island” throughout the podcast. I am dumb.
topics of discussion in this episode:
-New Macbook Pros!
-iPad 2!
-OS X Lion!
-Minecraft for iOS!
Dead (not Undead) Island’s awesome trailer!
Todd is playing Grimm
Chip is playing TG16 Emulator for iPhone
Warren just finished Dead Space 2
Holiday cheer and general merriment abound as the boys cover World of Goo on the iPad, EA’s iOS fire sale, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the iPhone, the confusing and pointless Playstation app, predictions for 2011, and Doctor Who: Mazes of Time. Neat!
No video this week, due to weak internet capabilities in China. Next week, quite possibly some video.
Aralon on the iPhone, Lego Harry Potter, developers, iOS 4.2, GTA, and a lengthy Scott Pilgrim discussion. It’s a grab bag of Fruitygaming, Fruitygamers!
Infinity Blade, Gears of War level games on iOS, Capcom Freemium games, Apple and the Kinect, and Super Mega Worm. That’s a lot of stuff, and it’s all here for your Apple game lovin’ pleasure.
Games are the main thing being downloaded on the iPad, but you won’t be able to grab iDOS and play old DOS classics anymore on your iPad. Movie games, Batman, Trainyard and Todd rides Bane (in his mind). And for the second week in a row, video!
New Macbook Airs? OS X 10.7? John Sculley taps out? EA in Tokyo? Yes!
BTW, we planned to do this episode on video as well as audio, but technology conspired against us. Next week for (maybe) sure!
