Developed by Hello Games, Joe Danger is a game where you, as you might have already guessed, are Joe Danger, famous motorbike stunt man. We took a look at the recently released version on the Xbox Live Arcade but it is also available on the PlayStation Network.
The Ides of March (13:05 – 27:27)
Ryan Gosling plays a young, ambitious campaign manager for George Clooney, a Pennsylvania Governor making his way to the White House. The film was directed by George Clooney and also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Evan Rachel Wood. It was released in theaters back in October, and you still may find it there, but it will be released on DVD and BluRay on January 17.
In what has become an annual tradition around Verbal Brew HQ, we sit down to take a look back at the things we’ve played, read and watched over the last year. We nominate our favorites of the year and reflect back on some of the other things that were a little less favorable.
We look back at a number of games from the past year including Batman: Arkham City, Rochard, Sanctum, Minecraft, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Pixels, Portal 2 and L.A. Noire.
Television (24:56 – 35:41)
We also look back a number of TV shows from the past year including Sons of Anarchy, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Torchwood and Episodes.
Movies (35:55 – 54:47)
We wrap up our year in review by discussing some of the year’s films that we enjoyed (and some of those that we didn’t) including The Muppets, X-Men First Class, Drive, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Cowboys Vs Aliens, Thor and Captain America.
On this episode we take a look at a number of different games we’ve been playing recently both on the Xbox 360 and the PC. Games being discussed include Driver San Francisco, Minecraft, Escape Goat, Borderlands, Oblivion and Risk: Factions.
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Driver San Francisco (03:46 – 11:11)
Developed by Ubisoft, Driver: San Francisco is the latest in the long running Driver series. You play as John Tanner who in the real world in laying in a hospital bed while in his mind is still chasing down the person responsible for putting him there. And since everything you see is technically a dream, you’re able to randomly shift between all the cars on the road to meet your objective. The game was released back in Spetember for the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii and Windows.
Minecraft (13:22 – 17:18)
A number of episodes ago we devoted an entire show to our fixation with Minecraft. Now several updates later and with the game finally at the stage of removing the beta tag, we look back to see what has changed with the game.
Escape Goat (17:19 – 20:36)
Escape Goat is a 2D platformer available as an indie game on the Xbox Live Arcade. And in case you haven’t figured it out you’re a goat who’s trying to escape. What is he trying to escape from? I have no idea since I didn’t play it. But Kev did and he’ll tell us all about it.
Borderlands and Oblivion (20:52 – 32:27)
A couple of older games caught our attention due to some recent sales on Steam. We had originally looked at Borderlands on the Xbox 360 WAYYYYYYY back when it was first released but we’ve recently all had a chance to revisit the game on the PC. And with all the attention that Skyrim has been getting lately, we also took a look back at Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – some of us for the first time.
Risk: Factions (32:28 – 45:12)
Since the boys had a chance to try out the board game version of Risk recently, we decided to see what the PC counterpart was like. The game is availble as a downloadable game for the Xbox 360 and PS3 but we took a look at it on the PC.
On this week’s podcast we get our hands on Batman: Arkham City and follow up on some of this year’s new Fall TV shows. We even take some time to discuss the newly released Grand Theft Auto V trailer.
Arkham City is the highly anticipated follow up to 2009′s Arkham Asylum. A section of Arkham City has been closed off to house Gotham’s prisoners including such colorful characters as Joker, the Penguin and the Riddler. Bruce Wayne is arrested and dropped inside and tries to learn more about this new prison being overseen by Hugo Strange.
We also take some time at the end of this segment to give our thought on the new announcement of Grand Theft Auto V. Here’s the trailer if you haven’t seen it yet.
More new Fall TV (26:46 – 68:03)
We had taken a look at a number of new fall shows a few weeks ago and we wanted to come back and see what shows we had stuck with and what other new shows we’ve started watching. We take a look at a number of shows including The Walking Dead Season 2, Ringer, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, American Horror Story and Wilfred.
