NeowinCAST Gaming - Episode #4

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Paul and Todd are back this week with the fourth installment of the Neocast gamers podcast. This week the guys take a look at a bunch of news from around the gaming world including:

Battlefield 2 1.2 Patch... and how EA has basically ruined the game
Rumors of yet another Playstation 3 Delay
ID says that the X360 will be its primary development platform
GalCiv II released to rave reviews
Rockstar details their next big game: Table Tennis?
More Stargate Worlds MMO details, and some Atlantis Season 3 rumors
Brothers In Arms 3 coming to the X360
GRAW Released for Console, PC version in May?

Todd talks a little bit about the AutoAssult beta and how much fun it is, and Paul touches on the Spore gameplay video from Maxis, which appeared on the internet after the GDC this year.

Neowin is planning to launch the first general technology Neocast this week! The podcast will feature a panel of staff members looking at the past week in technology as reported by Neowin!

Download: Neocast Gamers #4

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#1 LOC on 13 Mar 2006 - 17:46

Sorry it took so long to post this one up guys, we were having some uh, issues with posting it (as some of you might have seen briefly a few minutes ago

) but it's all good now!

#2 daPhoenix on 13 Mar 2006 - 21:22

You need some brainless ambient sounds in the background

Otherwise interesting to listen to - cheers guys.

#3 LOC on 13 Mar 2006 - 22:12

Well I could always put my phone's ringer back on while we record and let that go off every 13.88 seconds, or what about hearing my computer's fans better, I could put my head nearer to the case!

(2 replies) #4 Croquant on 13 Mar 2006 - 23:16

I wish they'd encode their MP3's to something better then 128Kbps. The auido isn't exactly broadcast quality.

#4.1 timdorr on 14 Mar 2006 - 06:33

It's VBR with Lame and that's the best you're going to get. The audio quality is limited by whatever stuff Paul and Todd record from their mics. I can't do much to spruce that up, so it's got nothing to do with the encoding.

#4.2 LOC on 14 Mar 2006 - 07:00

Yeah, we're kinda limited by Skype here (and Powergramo to some extent) but I'm on an expensive mic setup now, with an X-Fi, so I don't know what else I can do sound wise on my end.

(1 reply) #5 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#5.1 SwitchBlade on 14 Mar 2006 - 00:07

Nothing personal i just feel thats its more like a couple of mates talking about what they like rather than inform others. for example i dont know anything about dolphin diving so i was waiting for an explaination, but alas.

Its a gamers podcasti dont understand why stargate was mentioned. I know the game was im talking about the series. I respect some people might like it, but just because the people doing the podcast like the show doesnt mean they can talk about it. Im sure ill get flamed . Ah well

(2 replies) #6 LOC on 14 Mar 2006 - 00:14

Well I suppose since we do cater to gamers specifically, Paul and I thought most people listening to the podcast would know what dolphin diving (or any other subject really) would mean. In the future though we'll try to explain things more then.

And yes, we are informing others about what we bring up, but we also have our own opinions on the topics, which we have no problem discussing (my complete hatred for RTS for example). If we did a straight up gamers podcast with nothing but news, I think it would be very dull and dry personally.

As for Stargate, remember while this is a podcast, it is done by two people with opinions. And the Stargate series is very important to both myself and Paul. Thus we have very high hopes for the game, and are quite ticked off at the checkered past the past Stargate games have had. We know alot of people on the forums watch Stargate, so we went off on a tangent and discussed some of the upcoming seasons of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis.

#6.1 SwitchBlade on 14 Mar 2006 - 00:17

Again im not having a go. Im simply stating my opinion. As gaming podcasts go its way up there with the best of them, but since it is my first time listening ill try the older podcasts and the next one before i pass judgement.

#6.2 LOC on 14 Mar 2006 - 00:22

Hey, trust me, I'm glad you said what you said. The more people post about what they don't like, and like about the podcasts the more we can improve.

It's to bad we don't have a fancy smancy recording studio thingie to do these like the big guys do, all we got is Skype :|

#7 ninjakarl on 14 Mar 2006 - 12:08

I still haven't downloaded it yet Todd, sorry

My connection is being really weird so I'll try and download it asap.. Can't wait!

(2 replies) #8 daPhoenix on 14 Mar 2006 - 12:53

Btw, you guys both from the US? Accent sounds a little odd

#8.1 LOC on 14 Mar 2006 - 13:04

I'm from NYC, living in Florida now. Paul is from Canada.

#8.2 daPhoenix on 14 Mar 2006 - 15:10

Ahaa, that explains it - a canuck!

#9 cool_guy6_06 on 19 Mar 2006 - 03:08

Whats that song right at the end called?

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