Monday, August 15th, 2011
Platformer – Episode 7
by Warren Frey
Google buys Motorola Mobile, SETI gets Kickstartered, EA throws its weight around, and Cinemaware is going iOS. Whee!
Google buys Motorola Mobile, SETI gets Kickstartered, EA throws its weight around, and Cinemaware is going iOS. Whee!
Nintendo’s woes, Apple’s secret and subtle plans for social, GTA is the root cause of the London riots (or possibly not) iOS 5′s hidden voice controls, and high praise for the under appreciated Bioshock 2.
Even though we’re nominally a gaming podcast, the disastrous release of Final Cut Pro X deserved some attention…and Chip managed to wrangle things back to gaming with a comparison between the FCP X launch and Star Wars: Galaxies debacle of many moons ago. Also, Marathon is coming to iOS, the iPhone 5 is apparently Apple’s first step to world gaming domination, and the United States Supreme Court has just ruled games are a form of expression and thus subject to free speech protection. Heady stuff. Enjoy!
New iPhone in September? According to some telecom guy in the UAE, yes. According to us, no. Warren rescues his Boot Camp partition from BSOD hell, Todd makes a game, and Chip is victorious in getting publishers to charge us all more money. All in this week’s Fruitygamer!
WWDC and E3 on the same day means a ton of news about Lion, iOS5, the mysterious iCloud and plenty of semi-related but mostly just cool console news. LIsten as Warren, Todd and Chip wax eloquent about clouds, Kinect and a whole lot more!
No Chip this week, but Warren and Todd stared a short newslist right in the eye and digressed like the strapping gentlemen they are. WWDC speculation, Mac gamers as second class citizens (or are they?), an EA memorial day sale, and more!
Despite a dearth of interesting news this week, Warren, Todd and Chip all managed to ponder such important matters as the legacy of LCD Game n’ Watch systems, Amiga fanaticism, and Apple’s possible alliance with Square. They also delved into the quite serious matter of where our gadgets come from, given the recent explosion in a Foxconn factory in China. Also, Chip has reached near OCD levels of Infinity Blade.
Rumours of ARM processors in Mac laptops, new iMacs, Chinese riots, and one hell of a lot of talk about comic books, all in the latest episode of Fruitygamer!
iClouds, white iPhones, Nokia getting uppity…and games! Order and Chaos gets positive reviews, Portal 2 might be the last single player Valve game, and we both extoll and lament the one dollar game.
A Chip-less podcast this week, but Todd and Warren are in the same room at the same time. Will wonders never cease? Probably not. They covered the shrinking length of games, the abysmal Blackberry Playbook launch, Portal 2, Final Cut, an Apple television, and a surfeit of other exciting game related news. Excitement! Cats! Echoes!