On today’s podcast, Evan, Josh, Dan, and Erik recap the results of yesterday’s office StarCraft 2 tournament and offer their first thoughts on the launch of the game, the campaign (spoiler-free, of course), and Blizzard’s mostly issue-less worldwide launch of one of the biggest multiplayer games of all time. Yesterday’s SC2 tourney champ, Tyler Nagata, senior editor at GamesRadar, also joins us.
At the end of today’s episode we interview “HDStarcraft,” one of the prominent StarCraft 2 professional match broadcasters in the SC2 community. If we can encourage you to subscribe to one YouTube channel (after ours), let it be HD’s elegant, entertaining StarCraft commentary.
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StarCraft 2’s new trailer: analyzed. Valve’s surprise free game, Alien Swarm: talked. ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead’s incoming British DLC…sconed. Erik “Level 80″ Belsaas, Andy “Cat Murderer” Bauman and Evan “Caramel Nougat” Lahti talk about all this, plus our insight on the often unnecessarily-long lead times gaming publishers make between the announcement and release of a game.
Andy Salisbury, editor at World of Warcraft Official Magazine, also joins us. Listen to the WoW magazine’s new podcast, Editors of Azeroth, here.
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Intern Robert rallies the PC Gamer crew to chat about the Mass Effect-izing of Dragon Age 2, why League of Legends has our attention, our hopes for the next Batman: Arkham Asylum and the brand new talent trees of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Podcast producer Andy Bauman shares a rare gripe with Monkey Island 2, too.
Quote of the week, courtesy of Evan: “One time, I was The Hamburglar for Halloween.”
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Evan & Co. celebrate the return of some of their favorite games as the Starcraft II beta comes back online amidst Blizzard’s Real ID controversy, Dragon Age 2 is officially announced, Microsoft announces a new strategy game, and the Engineer marches back into our lives with all sorts of mechanical wizardry ain Team Fortress 2’s latest update. And if that isn’t enough podcast to keep you satisfied for another week, we answer all of your Cataclysm questions with the crazy minds behind Outlandish Podcast, the bluntest, funniest WoW podcast you’ll ever listen to.
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Dan bravely leads his crew of Josh, Evan, Erik, and Robert to the farm to steal copious amounts of cheese and talk about the Cataclysm beta, Heroes of Newerth, Portal 2, and lasing targets in Homefront. We also take your calls and see why Robert likes to be “passively entertained” by Modern Warfare 2.
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On this week’s show Evan, Josh, Eric, Robert, and waveform-oligist Andy talk about Portal 2’s new techniques, the upcoming summer game lineup (is Singularity worth playing?) and debate the sustainability of the tank, healer, DPS “trinity system” seen in most modern MMOs.
We recorded just before the Counter-Strike: Source update rolled out yesterday, so look forward to commentary on that next week. While you’re here, watch the incredible, feline-threatening ad Andy made for us. Our recent history of pointing weapons at cats continues.
Killer Jenga: E3! The biggest gaming convention on land or sea. We were there. We saw things. And we’re men enough to make an early podcast about it to disperse this elegant knowledge. Evan, Logan, Josh and the rest of the PC Gamer crew recount brave tales, including: Josh’s biggest MMO surprise, Logan’s love of OnLive (we’re just as surprised as you) and XCOM excellence.
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Dot Com Boom: This episode is jam packed with so much awesome it cannot be contained within a Rawgrglrglrgl stein, which I assume holds a good amount of awesome. We serve up the news, interview David Grossman from Telltale Games about their new crazy ambitious plans and field your burning questions. There is another thing I’m forgetting… what was that… oh ya. PCGAMER.COM. ’nuff said.
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The Kancho Technique: The best thing to hit public transportation since Kancho, the PC Gamer podcast will keep your mind occupied with info about free Company of Hero’s, Sony’s second crack at a Star Wars MMO and how you can rewrite history with a new Shogan: TW game.
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BGH Lite edition: It’s the PCGP Spicy roll – Take fresh raw news and wrap it around the most poignant PC gaming commentary there is, then, sprinkle our fine listener questions on top and you have the best in your hobby’s audio listening pleasure. Serve with a hot interview featuring the developers of the most PC Game of last year, Arma II, and you are living the good life.
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