It’s the episode just before Thanksgiving, and both Jordan and Paul have new jobs, as the latter settles into his new Los Angeles home. This week’s Gaming Flashback is the Atari 2600 game Kaboom!
The guys also discuss the following news items:
* EA targeted for class action suit over Battlefield 3 PS3 bait and switch
* Modern Warfare 3 makes $775M in 5 days
* Square-Enix officially opens Montreal studio
* Blockbuster has “ramped up the rental” of games, getting an “awful lot of support”
* Rockstar eager to return to Bully IP
The question of the week: “How do you buy games most often these days: retail, online retailer, or digital distributor?”
Captain Price's fate at the end of 2011's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 could've been very different, as this new post-credits scene reveals.
From school politics to ping-pong, pistols to police procedurals, let’s dive into the best that Rockstar has to offer.
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
