1. Easter break.
2. Aaron’s been busy.

We are sorry about the break and will be back as soon as possible. If you drop us an email at tpngamingshow(at)gmail.com. I will personally send you an email as soon as our next show is up. At this point im not sure when that will be.

Me? I’ve been playing games living the good life. Such as..
Command & Conquer 3 FTW
Def Jam : Icon
Virtua Tennis 3
God of War 2 (All hail Kratos)
Tony Hawk Downhill Jam (was also going retro with THPS4)
Elebits
and Excite Truck. (Good single player but not worth the cost.)

Hope you’ve been playing like crazy too.

Cya soon.
Michael

Shownotes:

Shownotes coming soon…

- PS3 Home

- GDC 07

- Xbox Live on Windows

- New Wii Games for Q2

- GTA IV Trailer

- Motorstorm (Or why do we make games only for sequals)

- Ricky Ponting Cricket

- Burnout Dominator

- PS3 Australian Launch details

- PS3 may not have full backward compatibility

- Virtual Console news

- Top games for the week for Australia

- Crackdown

Shownotes:

- New Xbox 360 Model

- Everybody Votes Channel Wii

- Blu-Ray only for JB HiFi

- Halo 3 Beta

- Manhunt 2 coming to Wii

- Top Selling games of 2006

- Sales Charts for Japan

- Rainbow Six Vegas

- Ratchet and Clank Size Matters

So yes we are still here, yes we should hopefully still have one this week although it will be a couple days late. The point i am trying to make is when you get mad we didnt do a show dont shoot the messenger (me). Shoot the culprit(Aaron)

Aaron lives at:

db_getLine(8,’Transmission Error’)

Michael

p.s since we’ve been gone i’ve played a ps3.

Shownotes:

- New Xbox 360 coming

- Bioshock June

- Crysis Gameplay Video

- PSP Custom Firmware 3.03 OE-A

- Rare founders leave company

- Wii Party

- Open Arena

- Pro Evo 6 PSP

Shownotes:

- PSP Firmware 3.02 OE-B released

- Opera Wii Browser

- Wii Component Cables

- Most anticipated games of 2007

Any Way…

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Shownotes:

- Wii Launches in Europe and Australia

- Sets new records

- Virtual Console details

- Some Games delayed due to demand

- Gamecube really sucked

- Our Midnight Story

- Wii Shop, Mii Plaza, Photo Channel, Virtual Console Rundown

- Super Monkey Ball

- Wii Sports

- Wii Play

- Zelda Twilight Princess

- And for some reason Trackmania United?

- There was no other news….

- Wii Belt Winner (Lamaur Joseph)

Shownotes:

- Firmware 3.00 and 3.01 for the PSP

- DS outsells PS3 and 360 combined

- Video Marketplace Launches

- Gears of War sells a Million

- Blue Dragon on 3 DVD’s for 360

- Sony could sell bricks

- Sell PS3 for $12500 worth of taco’s

- Competition

- New competition - Nintendo Wii Belt, email tpngamingshow@gmail.com if you want to win

Shownotes:
- New Show
- Elite Beat Agents for the DS
- Final Fantasy 12
- Competition
- Questions for Egames Expo
- New Competition
- Mario Kart DS or Fifa PSP

- New Show

- Elite Beat Agents for the DS

- Final Fantasy 12

- Competition

- Questions for Egames Expo

- New Competition

- Mario Kart DS or Fifa PSP

Shownotes:

- PS3 released in Japan

- PS3 is easy to install linux on

- PS3 allows 3rd Party software… Maybe

- PS3 bluetooth is pretty cool

- Xbox 360 HD-DVD released

- EA Doesn’t Understand Gears of War

- Xbox 360 Movie and TV show download service

- Harvey Norman owned by Nintendo

- Wii has custom soundtracks

- New Vidcast

- Competition Winner

- Playing the Wii

- Wii Preorder News and our own preorders

- Final Fantasy 12

- Elite Beat Agents

- EGamesExpo

- New Competition

Mario Kart DS or Fifa PSP

Email tpngamingshow@gmail.com with the name of the game you want to win.

- Sony Australia’s Michael Ephraim is kinda stupid

- Wii AiLive

- Red Steel “Sounds” cool

- Jack Thompson still sucks…. oh and Bully will go on sale

- PS3 Online

- Michael’s Bullshit

- Clubhouse Games Review

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- ACA pwds WoW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hfK3RQs2g&eurl=

- South Park does WoW

- Sony Exces are dumb

- Ethernet Kit for the Wii

- No PSP price drop this year

- Sequals

http://www.2old2play.com/News/Why_Do_We_Prefer_Sequels_

- Do you replay games?

- Battlefield 2142 Demo

- Determinace Q and A

- Company of Heroes - Single Player Review

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- Ubisoft loves the Wii

- XBLM

- E3

- GTA Vice City Stories

- Activate Asia 2006

- PS4 No Disc Media

- Narbacular Drop

Shownotes:

- PSP New firmware 2.80

- Stats, Stats and some more stats…

- Vice City Stories Info

- Nintendo Browser, not that great.

- XBLM DOA 4 demo, Table Tennis demo, Nighty Nine Nights demo, Galaga

- Xbox 360 Media Extender http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKUtxQRIMc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fxbox%2Dscene%2Ecom%2F

- Wii Release Date JUST WAIT FOR THE THING!!!

- ATI Merge with AMD

- Dell 24 inch review

- Nighty Nine Nights

- Mario Hoops: 3 on 3

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- Sony UMD are going, going, there outta here…

- Wii are getting some EA Love

- XBLA Wednesdays, or is that Thursdays?

- Toys’R'Us giving away free game with Wii and PS3, in Australia.

- Half Life 2 coming to 360/PS3, and Team Fortress 2 coming out with Episode 2

http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/07/team_fortress_2_group_photo.jpg

- MC360 on XBMC

http://blackbolt.x-scene.com/

- Halo 3 Video

- DS Cooking game…

http://slashinggames.org/archives/93-Down-home-cooking-with-the-DS.html

- The Warriors.

- Sony TGS Game list

http://palgn.com.au/article.php?title=RUMOUR%3A+Sony%27s+TGS+game+list+revealed%3F&id=4902

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Part of the reason we didnt replace the mic sooner was we were broke and even so we had an oppurtunity a week or so ago to pick one up anyway (albeit putting ourselves in debt and no its not really that expensive we are just that broke). We were about to do this when we couldnt get together on the weekend to do the show, one day i was working and the next day Aaron was busy with his family all day i had to study for exams on monday and tuesday anyway. Now the really bad news Aaron just left wednesday to go overseas for 2 weeks on a holiday with his gf(F**king Bastard). I have an exam next tuesday and have been working everyday inbetween to get myself out of debt and to get the new equipment. We also lost some motivation, i mean after talking all year about e3 to actually miscovering it was a huge blow. Not that we dont love you guys, but another podcast on the network that just started a gaming show to “The PSP Show” has gotten in it first 2 months about 20x the amount of downloads we get a show.

So when will we be back, in about 2 weeks with a slightly changed show, with a relaxed Aaron and a tired Michael. Yes vidcast as well.

So what games have we been playing all this time, what gaming stuff has changed for us.

Aaron got:
A DS - Light
new super mario bros
a flash kit to play ds homebrew
bought UNO on XBLA
Rockstar TableTennis (Before he left we had a 1500+ rally, we took pictures dont know if we still have em, if we do we will post em)
Probably some other crap i forgot about.

Me:
Well i finally managed to get a new (second hand) PS2 so look forward to some more ps2 coverage.
Still got my psp on 1.5, played some Tokobot, lemmings, Street Fighter 2 Alpha
Stopped playing Diablo II
Finished Star Wars Empire At War
Started playing some The Movies (Sidenote expansion was just released)
Getting back in to Counter Strike: Source (been playing the RPG mod mostly in the last 7 days)
playing flash games as always.
when i have the money ill be getting Valves Episode 1.

So yeah, thats whats going on, we will be back as soon as possible.

Hope your all with us then.

Michael
The Gaming Show

Like the title says we have done 40 Podcasts and 10 Vidcasts and are about 8 weeks out from our year milestone. So nows the time to suggest changes, we dont think we have changed our style much and we think its time to just subtlely tweek a few things about the show. This is where you come in. We need your help on ideas and suggestions to help us improve both the podcast and the vidcast. Below are some examples of some suggestions if you agree with any or have any others drop a comment or email us at tpngamingshow(at)gmail.com .

PODCAST TWEAK IDEAS:
- Back to one 40-50 minute show
- one shorter show 20-30 minutes
- two shows one news based one indepth discussion on an issue. Length?
- New intro music?
- No intro music?
- No segment music.
- Segment music but only if we can do it seemlessly
- Weekly game reviews
- More PC stuff
- More handheld stuff
- More console stuff (Seriously you want more?)
- Guest’s if so who?
- More Australian based news
- Less Australian based news
- More background information on companies and people involved in news items. E.G Explaining what Blizzard or RARE have done if they appear in the news. Or Who Jack Thompson is and why do we care if he makes waves again.
- Stop explaining so much crap we already know. E.g The opposite of the above point
- Podcast Chapters (if you dont know what this is dont worry).
- More detailed show notes

VIDCAST TWEAK IDEAS:
- Shorter show 10 -15 minutes
- Longer show about 1 hr.
- Less Trailers
- More Trailers
- Less News
- More News
- One show with the news and trailers and one with a game demonstration of an upcoming game
- Handheld games
- Less xbox 360
- More xbox 360
- Different formats (It took a long time to set up the 3 feeds we have currently we are unlikely to be able to offer another)
- Larger Hires file (currently i keep it in the 200mb range for 30mins)
- Smaller Hires file
- Larger LowRes/ipod file (Currenlty i keep it about 90mb for 30mins)
- Smaler LowRes/ipod file
- Guests.
- more Retro
- NO MORE RETRO
- Occasional retro
- new Background
- Less Distracting credits (eg. not playing over the top the outgoing trailer)
- No magic background. (eg . instead of us appearing against a moving background or any background image we just appear in the house we shot it, drawbacks are we cant appear on top of a game we are playing, and other small noticable problems wiht overlaying images about current news items.
- Content is fine but needs a better order E.G All news first then 3 trailers then discussion then game demonstartion then end.

These are just some ideas. We would like yours, and feed back on these. I mean if you dont speak up nothing will change. So if you have an opnion
please leave a comment or email us at tpngamingshow(at)gmail.com

We are kicking ourselves because its E3 and we are unable to really cover it.

Have no fear we will get new equipment and be back greater than ever.

Shownotes:

- Nintendo Wii With Video

- Virtua Tennis 3 confirmed

- PGR 3 Demo

- God of War 2 Trailer

- Xbox Live Marketplace E3 Demo’s

- PSP Firmware 2.7

- Lumines Sequal

- Moto Gp 06

- Retro Gaming

- Real Life Super Mario

Shownotes:

- Nintendo Wii With Video

- Virtua Tennis 3 confirmed

- PGR 3 Demo

- God of War 2 Trailer

- Xbox Live Marketplace E3 Demo’s

- PSP Firmware 2.7

- Lumines Sequal

- Moto Gp 06

- Retro Gaming

- Real Life Super Mario

State of Play: Wii

My proof? Not much just the box art.

This is absoulutly amazing news. Whats more amazing? Blizzard and Nintendo have had all the major gaming press keep it a secret, they have actually known about it for a month. Expect to see this to be confirmed day 1 of E3.

I dont have any information on if the Wii controller will be used in any special way, but sources do tell me the logical the revolution game will be 100% compatible with the PC/Mac version. Apparently Blizzard has wanted to port the popular MMORPG for ages but Sony and Microsoft want them to change the game to much (mostly improve the graphics) and intergrate with their online services in such a way that would have broken the desktop compatitablity. The absolute last detail i have is it will be a launch title. As to whether Blizzard will give us all Burning Wii (Burning Crusade) i dont know.
I have the leaked box art below

Introducing WoW-Wii …

Download show here

Shownotes:

- Nintendo Wii

- PS3 backwards compatibility software emulation

- EA not to just port games to Wii

- Virtua Tennis 3 confirmed

- Xbox Live Marketplace E3 Demo’s

- PSP Firmware 2.7

- Lumines Sequal

- Xbox 360 Camera Support for UNO

- Halo 3 and Forza 2

- Valve confirms 360 development

- LocoRoco

- Top Spin 2

Download show here

Shownotes:

- XBLA to get MAME and Sega games

- DS Outsells PSP 6 to 1

- HD-DVD addon only $100

- Command and Conquer 3

- Ridge Racer 7 on PS3

- Metroid Prime 3 to be playable.

- Blizzard to update WoW battlegrounds

- PS2 GTA Liberty City Stories delayed in till 6/6/06 in US and 49.95 AUD

- SOCOM PS2 and PSP to get new versions

- Xbox Waterballoon Challenege

- State of Play: PSP

No the 360 has not got into the world records, (yet) instead they want there fans to be in the book. The biggest water balloon throwing contest. Yes it does sound a little silly but look what you get if you register.

• An Xbox 360 Game
• A commemorative Xbox 360 T-Shirt
• Xbox 360 trucker cap and swimming goggles
• Xbox 360 canvas bag

The event will be held on 22 April at Coogee Beach in Sydney, so looks like the rest of Australia misses out again. A $20 registration fee is required and $5 from that fee will be donated to Coogee Surf Club. You also must be over 15 to register and the event is limited to 3600 participants.

Source (PALGN)

Someone on flickr has managed to get over 200 photos from the GDC Sony press conference. There are some interesting things to take note of:

• In one of the pictures of a F1 race, it clearly looks like the girl is using a 360 controller. (Of course this isn’t the case, but it looks nothing like the PS3 controller. So maybe this is the redesign we have been hearing about.)
• Graphics look sweet as :)
• One of the slides state that Games with launch from the HDD. Could be interesting.
• The Graphics look sweet as :)
• Everything will be ready for E3 including the Blu-Ray drive.
• Australia was mentioned on a silde for November launch. (YAH WE DO EXSIT.)
• The Graphics look sweet as :)
• Grand Theft Auto World? (Please god yes!)
• The menu system seems to be similar to the PSP. (Which is a good thing.)
• Did I mention the graphics.

You can check out the Flickr slide show here. (Warning, drooling may occur.)

We just got a press release from Microsoft confirming the Xbox 360 is the next big thing in Australia.

The report released today estimated 30,421 Xbox 360s had been sold in Australia during the four days between launch on Thursday, March 23 through to Sunday, March 26.

This is the highest recorded launch sales figure for consoles in Australia; against the Nintendo GameCube (9,190 in May 2002), original Xbox (6,672 in March 2002) and Sony PlayStation 2 (3,366 in November 2000). It also betters sales for the best selling handheld, Sony’s PSP (27,055 in September 2005).

30,421 may not seem like many but as you can, compared to other launches in Australia, it is well on the way to becoming a sucess down under.

PS: There could be something else to celebrate in the next month

To celebrate the successful introduction, Xbox will hold a special celebration next month. Further details of the event will be released soon.

Why?

10 Quick Reasons:

1. Mod/Admin Power Trips.

2. People afraid of the odd curse word.

3. Oversensitivity of veteran members (just becuase your post count is your most attractive personal quality doesnt mean you can act like a bitch!)

4. Flamewars Nintendo Vs Microsoft Vs Sony, this will never be “won”. The outcome only varies depending on which forum you are in because of their “insert company name” fanboyism.

5. Stupid posts by people requesting information on or breaking the forums “Rules” or “Read Me Before Posting” thread. E.g not searching before posting a question or a request. Ten threads in a week asking “How do i beat such & such”
6. Stupid posts again, this time by people request crap that you can find in 2 seconds in goolge using their own thread title.

7. Stupid people. How do you even figure out where internet forums are? I guess thats why they dont leave when they reveal there stupidity, they cant figure out how to find another forum to harass.

8. Time-wasing, why the fuck would i bother wasting my time reading your opionion you should be spending your time watching our podcast/vidcast and promoting The Gaming Show.

9. Bad usability, emails about PM’s , PM’s about emails, PM’s and emails about thread changes, arcade games, money?(Fuck finally i can make my name gold and flash WOOT!!!)

10. The fact that i dont even participate in forums any more yet it still pisses me off and all these forum trolls. ( i swear to god some people bought WoW just to talk in the game forums.)

….
Well thats the gist of this post but lets look at an example. (Now its about to get real lengthy)

Now a couple of weeks ago, i was browsing a gaming website much like this one. I was reading an article about the Marc Ecko ban and i decided to look at the comments. The intresting thing about this website it the comments for its articles are actually in its forum which is how i related it back to joining forums.

Check it out here WARNING!!! Long Read.

For your reference

this guy who i refer to below as the guy i “fight with” is called Jibbs on the forum.

I am posting under the name modiika.

and the moderator who appears later is called David.

Anyway back on point this one guy comes out and said (im paraphrasing) that it is logical to ban Marc Ecko and not GTA in Australia because spraycans kids can buy and guns they cant. So i decided to respond to his ludicrious arguments (all focused around that issue). Now being the person i am i dont take many things seriously and certainly not forum debates. So as a half joke the first line of my post read “^ Fack You”. From then on i talked about everything he said and why i thought its was wrong, using sprinkling of sarcasm to not only highlight my point but also to just be a little humourous.

I guess i failed because the next reply was from the guy trying to rip me a new asshole. Now i dont like guys trying to touch my ass let alone rip it open but i am man enough to admit it when they succeed. He didnt. He posted about 300 words about me mostly personal attacks things like ‘your lack of secondary education’, ‘handbag full of cusswords’. Now i will point out when he did land a hit on me “like you i took into account your number of posts, whereby i completely disregard anything you say cause, by your reasoning, your not a gamer and you don’t know anything.” SNAP! OWWW THAT HAS GOT TO HURT! I mean damn he was packing 880+ posts and lowly me with just 5. True i did mention his post count first only so that i could deduce openly that he must be a gamer to have that many posts on a gaming forum seeing as i knew/know nothing else about this person.

So now you might be thinking about my reply. However that is still several hours away as i am not checking the post every 20 seconds for a reply. Later that day…
I read his post. Shocked. I read it again. “ Maybe if you first realised i wasn’t for nor against the banning of the game, raised some counterpoints to what i said, and generally composed yourself like a normal man(no, peking man doesn’t count) we could have had an assertive debate and maybe, JUST MAYBE, even learnt something.”

Hmm apparently i didnt raise any counterpoints. Strange seeing as i did remember doing just that. SoI replied to his insults against me, with a blow by blow break down of exactly what he said and when and where i countered him and all insults against my post and those against me personally(such as his claim that my post was censoring him. How the hell could i do that seeing as i cant edit his post or remove it nor requested it to be done, let alone with another post). Then asking him to look at all the points i raised and debate me like he truely wanted.
I then get an email alerting me to a PM (Why the fuck cant the email contain the PM, I mean its the exact same amount of email traffic)

“If you do one more personal attack on someone like that, you’ll be banned for a while.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you are attacking with personal remarks, and not very well at that.

This is a just a warning, but don’t do it again.” from some MOD.

Did this mod ever think i wasnt trying to attack him personally but attack his point of view. Maybe he did, i guess he would have been fine with my odd personal remarks if they had been harder hitting. Good Work Moderating. I mean damn was that PM desitined to keep me in order. I mean there was no way i could show my face again in there with lame comebacks. (i replied once more but not agaisnt the guy who i had been having this argument with but this mod, see below)
Now truth be told, i did have a few more odd remarks aimed at the guy in my post such as “shame on you for calling yourself a gamer” because of the point he was advicating. However i did not post soley attacking him my post was about 1000 words as you can probably tell i can take a long time to explain things. Yet he responded not discussing a single question i asked of him and with pure personal attacks. Yet i was being threated with being banned? So i asked the mod did you warn the other guy (his name is Jibbs) and i got this reply.

“No, he did not get a warning, he didn’t insult anyone for no reason.’ - mod

Oh he had a reason! Sorry my bad. Obivously being wrong and being called on it, is a licence to attack someone Gratis.

I just ignored this.

The mod then posted a brag in the thread how he had stepped in and “PM’d me”.

I replied

“What is the point of you PMing me and then coming on here to gloat about it. I may have this wrong, so feel free to correct me but isn’t a PM a ‘Personal Message’.

Not that i particularly care if you tell everyone how great you are for PMing me.

It’s like the first time anyone has figured out how to use a PM”

And thus i wrap it up here. I no longer bothered responding with these crazy lunatics they just cemented my view that forums are crap.

If you missed it earlier the link to the thread is here.

There wasnt.

I did find a whole host of fan made clones.

I now give to you the clone that most closely resembles the xbox 360 version, like the other clones it allows you to use a whole host of gamepads for the most realistic experince next to owning a 360. Now i play with my keyboard and mouse called hybrid mode closest non-gamepad control mode.

So get it here its called GridWars.

Dont worry as the title says there is a PC and a MAC version however i have only tested the PC version atm the MAC one is 1 version behind.

UPDATE: Seem it is having some problems on my Mac, ohwell I’ll just go play my 360 then.

- Xbox 360 Launch Xtravaga-NOT

- Xbox Marketplace Arcade games

- Zelda DS PHantom Hourglass Trailer

- NIntendo Sega Virtual Console news

-PS3 Region FREEEEEE

-PS3 controller redesigned confirmed

- Burnout Live

- Top Spin Trailer

- Battlefield 2142 confirmed and trailer

iPod Video Version
Shownotes:

- Xbox 360 Launch Xtravaga-NOT

- Xbox Marketplace Arcade games

- Zelda DS PHantom Hourglass Trailer

- NIntendo Sega Virtual Console news

-PS3 Region FREEEEEE

-PS3 controller redesigned confirmed

- Burnout Live

- Top Spin Trailer

- Battlefield 2142 confirmed and trailer

Microsoft was a few months behind with theres,  Sony has confirmed the worldwide launch and Nintendo. Well they are just being Nintendo. Looks like Japan will be the first  country to see the Revolution  launch.  I think Nintendo have missed the ball a little bit, saying that the worldwide launch doesn’t matter. But ohwell, guess I’ll just have to import this baby.

Source (Gameindustry)

Nintendo Australia is at it again, they are holding Nintendo events all across Australia, and want you to bring man’s best friend with you. Yes there is a Nintendog get together. There will prizes and lots of fun to be had.

Dates and Locations

QLD
Westfield Chermside (Centre Court)
Saturday 8 April, 11am - 1pm

NSW
Westfield Paramatta (Level 2, opposite Camera House)
Saturday 29 April, 11am - 1pm

VIC
Intencity
The Jam Factory, 500 Chapel Street
Saturday 29 April, 11am - 1pm

Have to see if I can get down there, although I feel my dog may be dead from lack of attention :) (Wait that should be sad face ) :(

Source (Nintendo)

PALGN has updated there Australian Release dates for all console. Not much for the 360, but ohwell theres enough games out for a long time.
Games worth noting:

8th June 2006 New Super Mario Bros - Nintendo DS

11th May 2006 Me and My Katamari - PSP

28th April 2006 Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Sto