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

Shownotes:

- PSP Firmware hacked

- God of War 2 the surprise packet for the PS3?

- Wii Modchip on its way CycloWiz

- 360 HD DVD drive March $250

- UT3 on 360

- Michael played a PS3

- Crackdown

- Mario Kart 64 VC

- Tony Hawk Project 8

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:

- Wii Launching right now… as we speak… yes it’s out!!!

- Some other console launched

- Oh and there was an Expo

- HD-DVD in Australia, early 2007 $250

- Command and Conquer 3 is coming to Xbox 360

- Wii Weather and Wii News delayed

- Gears of Wars for PC?

- Halo 3 Public Beta early next year

- PSP 2.80 Homebrew up and running

- Reviews

- Wiicade?

- Expo Run Down

- Competition Winner announced Next Week

- Gears of War

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

Check out the vidcast this came from which should be out later today, if you would to download both this and elite beat agents and a few other bits and pieces in either and ipod/low res format or a hires designed for computer playback format.

I’ll let my self kick it off.

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.

I’ll let Aaron take it from here with Elite Beat Agents

- Lik-Sang is no more

- Xbox 360 fastest selling console in Australia

- Halo 3 news

- Halo movie still on track

- No 100gb for the 360….. yet

- PSP Firmware 2.82

- Guitar Hero Wireless controller (WOOT!!)

- Vooks awesome Wii launch guide

http://www.vooks.net/modules.php?module=article&id=11102

- WoW Burning Crusade not till 2007

- Tony Hawk Project 8 (360)

- Moto GP (PSP)

- Loco Roco Halloween (PSP)

- Lumines Competition

- NEW COMPETITION for Nintendo DS: Yoshi Touch and Go or Nintendogs

Write the name of the game you want, and email it to tpngamingshow@gmail.com

Download Link.
Shownotes:

- Gamers Day (PS3 News)

- Launch List
- Price List
- Playstation Network

- 100Gb Hard Drive for the 360 in March 07

- Lumines Live! is out

- Battlefield 2142 ships with spyware

- Make the PS2 show 1080i

- Wii Virtual Lineup for Australia

- Nintendo Wii Party

- Halo Movie Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox have pulled all financial support

- Lumines Live! Review

- Win Lumines for PSP

Competition email address: tpngamingshow at gmail.com

Competition is Open Worldwide!!!

Shownotes:

- Gamers Day (PS3 News)

- Launch List
- Price List
- Playstation Network

- 100Gb Hard Drive for the 360 in March 07

- Lumines Live! is out

- Battlefield 2142 ships with spyware

- Make the PS2 show 1080i

- Wii Virtual Lineup for Australia

- Nintendo Wii Party

- Halo Movie Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox have pulled all financial support

- Lumines Live! Review

- Win Lumines for PSP

Competition email address: tpngamingshow at gmail.com

Competition is Open Worldwide!!!

- 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

- 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:

- Microsoft X06

- HD-DVD Drive
- Halo Wars
- GTA IV Episodes
- Splinter Cell Exclusive after Double Agent
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Doom XBLA
- Guitar Hero II
- Assassin’s Creed
- BioShock Exclusive for 360

- Opera Wii Browser Free till Jun 07

- LA. Noire

- PS3 is region free

- Gears of War Co-op

- Alan Wake running on Quad Core

- Australia may have Wii shortages

- Pokemon

- Determinance

- Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis

- PS3 Pricedrop in Japan

- HD-DVD Xbox 360 1080p

- Grand Theft Auto Wii

- Guitar Hero for All Consoles

- MTV buy Harmonix for $175 million

- Virtua Tennis 3 1080p

- Final Fantasy 12 next year DS Expansion

- Counter-Strike DYNAMIC WEAPON PRICING

- Good Game

- Defcon

Download Link.
Shownotes:

- Wii Launch, Price, Everything

- Joystiq the aftermath

- GTA Vice City Stories Trailer/Website

- Playstation 3 Australia website update

- Xbox 360 Laptop

http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_5.htm

- eGames Expo

http://www.egamesexpo.com.au/

- Lego Star Wars 2

- Wii Dicussion

- PS3 delayed

- 100,000 for Japan 400,000 for US

- Wii Chip Production has begun

- wii Steering Wheel

http://wii.ign.com/articles/731/731777p1.html

- Spore Wii DS link

- Wii DVD playback removed

- eLoader released for 2.0 to 2.6

- Xbox 360 HD DVD price?

- Top 100 PC Games

- Lego Batman

- StarFox DS

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- We will know about the Wii Sep 14/15

- Bully Renamed to Canis Camen Edit

- PSP 2.71 downgradger

- Assassin’s Creed for Xbox 360

- PS3 no HDMI cable

- PS3, Xbox 360 can’t handle Crysis… WE CALLED IT!

- PS3 “This is Living…”

- Sim City DS

- DS Rules Japan

- Burning Crusades WOW release date and price $39.95

- PSP GPS and Camera Release Date and Price

- XNA ready to download

- Xbox 360 backwards compatibilty update

- Gamespot Australia

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- Xbox 360 Peripherals

- No Online for 3rd Party’s on Wii till 2007

- UT 2007 Trailer

- Team Fortress 2 and Portals Videos

- 27 Playable Demos for PS3 at TGS

- Microsoft Get Fifa and Winning Eleven exclusive on Xbox 360

- PSP GPS and Camera Next Month

- Texas Poker

- Just Cause

- Guild Wars

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- Confirmed Free online play for Wii

- Download Texas Hold ‘Em For Free

- Dead Rising, you mean everyone hasn’t upgraded to HDTV yet?

- MS XNA Studio

- Project Offset look awasome

- PS3 not on production line

- Triggerfinger Software

Download Link.

Shownotes:

- Jack Thompson on Attack of the Show

- Bully to come out October

- Dead Rising Demo on XBLM

- F.E.A.R for Free

- Training Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9qIc4pGlk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fculture%2Ejoystiq%2Ecom%2F2006%2F08%2F07%2Fpsa%2Davoid%2Dthis%2Dgamecrazy%2Dtraining%2Dvideo%2F

- Xbox HD-DVD Drive

- EA Warns Sony about PSP

- Saints Row

- Defcon

- PS3 Games dropping off

- Super Mario War

http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/

- Dead Rising

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:

- Nintendo will fix your hinge for free

- EA Defends Sony

- Hidden WiFi Page for Wii

- Some new Game vids (Tony Hawk Project 8, Half Life 2 Episode 2, Portals, Dead Rising)

- Lumines II Will it suck now?

- Wii Virtual Console to have 20-30 titles

- Cloning Clyde

- Game Stats

- PS3 AU Website Launches

- The Ship

- Sin

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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- No the Wii isn’t coming out early :(

- Nintendo sends Bush a BDay present

- Prey Demo on XBLM (Luminess end of this month?)

- PSP Downgrader released for 2.50/2.60

- Sony and Apple?

- Is Sony racist or are we just all uptight?

- Games games and more games…

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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.