Player One Podcast

This week: It's our longest episode ever by seven seconds, and with good reason -- special guest Trickman Terry Minnich joins the 'cast to talk about what he's been playing and share some old-school EGM memories. Some of the games we talk about this week: R-Type Command, GTA IV, Mario Kart Wii, Taiko no Tatsujin 2 DS, Iron Man, Battle of the Bands, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, SNK Ar...

For the ninth installment in our Game Club series we set our electromechanical limbs on one of the NES era's greatest action games: Capcom's Bionic Commando.  Join us in the second (well, third really) segment where we talk all about it. Also: GTA IV, Mario Kart, and a very special audio unboxing. It's powerful enough to make your head explode! Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail co...

When every other podcast is likely talking about Grand Theft Auto IV, we talk about...everything but. Games we talk about this week include Mario Kart Wii, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, GT5 Prologue, Sega Superstars Tennis, Lost Cities, Army of Two, NBA Ballers: Chosen One, Rock Band, FlatOut Ultimate Carnage and Sega Ages: Monster World Complete Collection. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voi...

Games discussed this week include: Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Bully, Battlezone, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fantasy Zone, Dream Pinball 3D, Samurai Warriors 2 Xtreme Legends and (of course, 'cuz when do we not?) Rock Band. **Special thanks to The Fanboys for the intro to this week's show. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to...

Last week, two bombshells came out of Ziff-Davis. First, the closing of the Games For Windows magazine--leaving EGM as the company's sole gaming magazine; and Dan Hsu's departure as Editorial Director. Not a good week for print, surely. We discuss that plus talk Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Ikaruga, Rock Band, Sam & Max, Mr. Driller Online, Donkey Kong Country 2 and Arm...

We hope this episode makes up for last week's little April Fools shenanigans. Almost two hours of show this week with an XL What'cha Been Playing and a discussion on Donkey Kong Country (our seventh Game Club title). Games we also get around to talking about in this episode include Rock Band, Blue Dragon, Crisis Core, Hot Shots Golf Out of Bounds, Mr. Driller Online, Opoona, Smash Bros. Brawl and...

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This week -- Soleil Moon Frye's breasts! Gate of Thunder! And a whole bunch of other things, I just wanted to start the description off in a titillating fashion. Other games we discuss: Ratchet & Clank Size Matters PS2, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Impossible Mission, Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection, Magical DoReMi, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates and NASCAR 08. Thanks fo...

This week we welcome back Ethan Einhorn, Associate Producer at Sega to talk about how he got into the industry, working at EGM/GameNow and his transition into PR and game production. Also -- we spend the first part of the show discussing just one of the games we played this past week, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you...

This week we're joined by another former co-worker of the crew, Ethan Einhorn--who's currently a producer at Sega and was in the news last week after the presentation of Super Monkey Ball for iPhone at Apple's iPhone SDK press conference. He joins us to talk a little Condemned 2 and Devil May Cry 4 in our What'cha Been Playing segment, which also includes discussion of Bully, Patapon, Burnout Para...

With Greg Sewart away this week, we welcome EGM's Managing Editor Greg Ford to the program to chat about games. Those we discuss this week include N+, Rock Band, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Burnout Paradise, Triggerheart Exelica, Lost Odyssey, Patapon and Chessmaster Live, among others. We also spend some time talking with Greg about how he got into the industry, his extremely powerful handshak...

You hear a lot of talk these days about games with open worlds, co-op gameplay, where exploration is key. Those three very buzz-worthy concepts of today also came into play in our fourth Game Club game, ToeJam & Earl for the Sega Genesis. One of the era's few co-op games, its emphasis was not on combat unlike so many of the other games it shared the shelf with. It was about avoiding enemies, manag...

It's a different kind of podcast this week. Greg is absent, CJ and Phil are LIVE from San Francisco. It's the first time we've recorded an episode where any of us were in the same room. We talk about the Game Developers Conference and seeing it from two angles (press and industry), as well as some of the bigger news of the week (NPD numbers, oh boy!). But we spend most of the show talking about th...

Dolphins may be warm-blooded, but Sega's Genesis hit Ecco the Dolphin...cold-blooded. One of the company's most experimental and renowned releases from the 16-bit era is P1P Game Club game #3, so we spend the second half of the show discussing it. A breakthrough game at the time, its age exposes the cracks of its control and gameplay mechanics. But if fish talk isn't your speed we spend the first...

Step back in time nearly 15 years to a time when, if you believed the hype, the number of bits your system had mattered. And for Atari, it was the only card they had to play against industry bigwigs Sega, Sony and Nintendo. Certainly the software wasn't doing the talking... The worst "major" video game console ever made? We think so. Also this week: Rez HD, PixelJunk Monsters, Burnout Paradise (PS...

This week we spend most of our time talking about last week's release of Burnout Paradise. Plus Rock Band, Samurai Warriors Katana, Sonic & Mario at the Olympics, DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and more. And of course, Game Club #2: Ninja Gaiden for NES. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to our email address, playeronepodc...

Burnout Paradise hits the 360 and PS3 on Tuesday, so we spend some time talking about the series' history and its journey from being an Acclaim-published title that no one paid attention to to one of the biggest game franchises around. Also this week, we talk about some of the games we've been playing, including Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Rock Band, Boogie Bunnies...

In a clever scheme to tie the episode number into the content of the show, this week we spend some time talking about the Nintendo 64. From Project Reality to the limitations of the cartridge format to the system as a turning point for Nintendo's position in the industry, we talk about it all. Also, the first installment of a new segment where we pick a retro game and break it apart. We start with...

This week, we take a few moments to ponder the year ahead with some predictions and issues that the big three need to address. But not before we get Dan's Top 5 of '07, talk Dormerbot for a few, and catch up on the games everyone's been playing this week. Oh, and a CJ vs GJ gamerscore update, of course. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can s...

This week -- a look-back on the year that was 2007. A little rundown of the big headlines, a little discussion of our personal Top Fives for the year, and your calls on gaming highs and lows of the year. Oh, there's also a What'cha Been Playing segment in there, and the first appearance of a new fourth host. Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you...

This week, we talk Mega Man (whose 20th birthday was last week). A little about the highs, the lows, the undiscovered games in the MM canon. We spend a little time reminiscing about the blue bomber and his many adventures against nefarious robot oppressors. But before that we talk about the games we've been playin' this week, including: NiGHTS, Sonic the Hedgehog (360/iPod)Just Cause, Unreal Tourn...

This week Greg, Phil and Dan pick up CJ's slack. The boys suffer some early holiday blues as they realize most of the big game releases for '07 have come and gone. That doesn't shorten the Whatcha Been Playin' segment, however. Thrill to discussions about Super Mario Galaxy, The Orange Box, Zack & Wiki, Burnout Paradise, and the unlicensed version of Tengen's Gauntlet for the NES. After all that,...

This week, we dust off our FZ-1s and take 'em for a cruise down memory lane. That's right, we're talkin' the 3DO REAL Interactive Multiplayer. Way of the Warrior, Gex, Samurai Shodown, Twisted, Zhadnost, Total Eclipse, Crash N' Burn and more. Trade in your entire game collection, plunk down your $700 and join the club. Other games we talk about this week -- Rock Band, Halo 3, Catan, Avatar, Scene...

This week, we talk a little bit about the implications of Gamespot supposedly firing Jeff Gerstmann over his review of Kane & Lynch. Also: we talk about some of the games we've been spending time with in the last week. Rock Band, Avatar: The Burning Earth, Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe, Super Mario Galaxy, Shrek n' Roll, MLB Power Pros, Impossible Mission, Halo 3, Front Mission DS and Victorious Boxe...

You're not hearing things, the audio quality on three of the four hosts in the first 40 minutes of this week's podcast is messed up. But there is a reason for it, which you'll soon find out about. Nevertheless, we soldiered on and ended up with an hour-fifteen's worth of talk on the big games of the last few weeks. That includes discussion of Mass Effect, Rock Band, Assassin's Creed, Contra 4, Tra...