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Your tidal wave of blah blah blah. EDIT: The site's posting functionality continues to lay the hate, so you can get the raw MP3 file here . Two former community podcasts merge together and try to get back into the podcasting game! I can't really say much for the quality since it's been a while, but we had fun recording this madness and hope you'll have just as much fun listening to it. To give...

As a child, it was easy for me to keep my gaming backlog virtually nonexistent. Games were somewhat rare items, since my parents only bought them for my siblings and I when it was either our birthday or when our report cards were in top form. Otherwise, rentals at the local Blockbuster were there to satisfy minor cravings. One such rental was Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life , the Gamecube 's fir...

I hate segmenting this thing into two parts, but I need to relinquish my internet connection soon and I've reached a good stopping point. :) The Bread Basket (i.e. Not the main course. Get it!?) Eternal Sonata is so far from my mind right now. Come on, I can make it through! It'll be a while. After an entire week I could’ve spent playing Eternal Sonata , I came away from these past seven days o...

TL;DR: Fuck you, just read it. It’s not you, it’s me. Yo, this game has flowers. I will not say this game is better than Eternal Sonata but... Yeah, I'll just leave it at that. We cool? Out of all the JRPGs I’ve ever played, none of them have been more hotly contested than Eternal Sonata —and it’s because I make my seething hatred known whenever it’s brought up in conversation. Ever since its o...

In the span of four days, we managed to pull our shit together and get right back on schedule by consistently posting these things inconsistently. But hey, we're putting this up on a Monday and, if it frees up the anguish of editing for the rest of week, I'm all for it. As the name of episode implies, we get ever closer to actually having a thought-provoking discussion about naked cartoons. How...

Apologies for the late podcast and lack of detailed show notes! Corrupted audio and a stubborn HEX editor results in such delays! We'll be back to our normal schedule as soon as possible. VinceNotVance rejoins the normal NCP Crew after a few weeks of hiatus! This week's discussion revolve around Vince's drunken adventures in England while Wendy's, internet privacy, Crispy M&Ms and 3D movies mak...

Powered by Podbean.com It's another episode of the Naked Cartoon Podcast! We're once again stricken by the plague of yet another lost member, this time being AjayRaz. But aurahack stepped up and filled the void nicely. As per usual, the show notes are underneath the spoiler tag; 56K people (do you still exist?) be warned though, this show is long and the show notes reflect that. Links to the po...

I’ve never really talked to vidiot , and only recognized him by his NES cartridge user icon on GB; nevertheless, he was courageous enough to take the reins as the controller in our recent session of Sleep is Death . Courageous, for the interface was absolutely daunting despite the game being only 3 MB of data. All I had to do was sit back, relax and play the game he set before me. Since vidiot...

Over the long Labor Day weekend a general theme has been circulating around my head and it's been stuck there ever since listening to GFW Radio's August 27th, 2008 podcast. That theme is girls and their participation in the gaming community. To start off, this isn't an entire post dedicated to immature rants and generalizations about how girls suck at gaming and whatnot. Instead this is a caref...

Which do I play the least? About 99.9% of you will guess it right. There was a day when I actively defended Nintendo's stance and while I understand their position is good for the future of the industry, it's hard to take an "I told you so" from Sony and Microsoft fanboys. I mean, I skipped school to reserve the damn thing; I remember hopping over the fence around my high school gleefully grinn...

The cover alone tells you they know their stuff. I’m hardly a music connoisseur, but when it comes to video game music, be it remixes or orchestrations, I’d like to say I know what I’m talking about. That being said, I think the video game rock group Entertainment System 's latest foray, Super Entertainment System , is definitely something worth checking out if you're into retro songs and don't...

The only thing on the customer's mind. First, this is definitely the greatest Soul Calibur experience to date. If you are at all a fan or a fan that fell of the horse after Soul Calibur III, you should be quick to jump on this one. Yes, the Star Wars might be a turn-off, but they fit quite well in terms of gameplay and balance (NOTE: I am playing the PlayStation 3 version so my impressions are...

Chronicles of the Sword mode... Ugh. Since church starts in approximately three hours, I figured that I’ve put another all-nighter of Crosswords DS and Soul Calibur III behind me. Seeing as how I haven’t written a blog post yet, I decided to write one in the spur of the moment if only to appease the few people who will read it. This isn’t exactly the hard-hitting editorial content I want to put...