Adios, sayonara, adieu, aloha, lebewohl and goodbye Joe. Well, not really. Joe, being an actual adult, has moved onto getting high-paying and successful jobs with amazing and pleasurable glittering opportunities opening to him at every turn, like a erotic theme park fun-house with a vagina-shaped house of mirrors. And he’s getting paid. So he doesn’t have time for us, more specifically he doesn’t have time for the game of the week. If we can get him on, we will, because we love him. If we can’t, we’ll bury our sorrows in convoluted metaphors based in genitalia-roller coasters. Ahem…
This week’s news is all about the little guys like Twisted Pixel, the XBLA and Microsoft. Ok, it’s mostly about the little guy. We also talk awesome dudes (and 2 dudettes), that we’d love to share a metaphorical cigarette with on a rooftop and why GTA:SA will always be the most broken/addictive game of 2002-2005. The game of the week is Rayman, which we all felt the need to cheat on, and is admired at length. A lot of fun had by all.
Show notes, as well as at least 3 sexy ladies, after the break.
Direct download, maybe? Ok then.
GameSpot has started dumping huge piles of end of the year best of 2008 content. Most readers go for the console and genre specific awards, or even the coveted game of the year, first, but I was most intrigued with the “Special Achievement” awards than anything else. I was not disappointed.
The moniker “special” refers to the awards themselves, in the juvenile way that a middle-schooler might use the word to make fun of something. They’re the special awards. While Best Soundtrack and Best Game Mechanic were there, so was Most Violent Game to make it past the Aussie Censors. Protip- If the category has Metal Gear Solid 4 or Little Big Planet in it, they won.
I have a break down of all the dubiously named winners after the break. The video is 29 minutes long. Trust me, just read it below.
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