Hey! It’s Platform Biased episode #030! We’re brand new, more frequent, and possibly even weirder.

And now, a word from our new member.

How often do you sit around with your friends and discuss what’s going on in the games industry? What games are you excited about? Why are you excited about them? Once you start talking about those games and you’ve devoured all the information on the web you can find on the specific topic what do you want to do then? Find more information, right?! That’s what we’re going to strive to provide you here at Platform Biased. The name says it all, we are going to be 360-centric. We like the 360 quite a bit, so much so that we happen to work on games for said system! On the flip side to that we’re all gamers, as you can see from the gamer scores…some more than others, but the big E on the eye chart is that we love talking about games, and the industry and all that stuff! So that’s just what we’re going to do.

We’re going to work SUPER hard (baring our current projects taking over a majority of our time) on giving you a look inside the industry from the 360 perspective. That’s going to cover thing like interviews with people we work with here to let you know what kind of stuff they do along with interviews with people who are working on other 360 titles. We’ll work on getting you some inside info…you know…like the stuff that only we know (disclaimer: that wont’ get us fired). All you have to do is Click on the “Listen” down there or subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and we will selflessly provide you with things to listen to.

Please leave feedback and ask questions and we’ll see what we can do about answering them!

We’re still working out the kinks and we’re planning on having some other changes but I can’t let all of the cats out of the collective bags so just sit tight. For now, here is the “SUPER AWESOME RELAUNCH” Episode of Platform Biased! Jam packed with things that we talk about! IN 3D!

(Note: Podcast is not actually in 3D.)

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Porkfry

P.S. Chris and John say “Hi!”

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The last of the older episodes (we have one more “other” episode though before we relaunch).

We welcome Dan Tunnell from Turn 10 to talk about his work on Forza Motorsport 3. Dan gives some great insight into the development of a world-class racing game.

-John & Chris

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Happy Holidays everyone.

A few notes on the shows/site over the holiday break:

We have a show that will go up today or tomorrow, and more that should continue over the holidays. We’re set baby!

We’re just putting together our re-launch show, and I have to say, it’s really awesome. John + Greg + Chris = silly.

Finally, we’ve updated the blogging software that runs the site to a new version, please leave a comment if you’re seeing anything wonky.

Thanks,
John

Throwback episode #2, the 3D Wonder Machine! The title of the show is a callback to a particularly ridiculous statement John made at the end of the show. We’re both in sort of a weird mood on this show, so expect us to get off the rails once or twice

On the Show:

Silent Hill Homecoming (wrapup)

Batman Demo (preview)

Shadow Complex

Discussion about 2D Game Nostalgia

Reader Questions:

What do we think of James Cameron’s Avatar (The Movie)?

Is Shadow Complex the best XBLA game yet?

-John & Chris

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We’ve taken down Episode 27 for a few minutes to try and flush iTunes because what it has is busted. Bear with us, show will be back shortly.

We have top men working on it. Top men.

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Update: I think we have it resolved. Just waiting on iTunes to pick the show back up. Thanks for bearing with us.

-John

As promised, from the vault we have an unaired episode from this past summer, packed with deleted scenes. More to come soon.

On the Show:

Saint’s Row 2

Fallout 3 & Oblivion

Trials HD

Batman Demo (and the movies)

TMNT Arcade

Silent Hill Homecoming

Summer Dash Update

-John

P.S. Porkfry & Chris say hi.

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We know it’s been forever since we posted a new show. But we’re not dead, we’re not finished, we’re relaunching. Part of the issue has been workload, part of it has been a reduced show cast (just John & Chris).

But we’re working on a relaunch. If you look to the right you’ll notice that our beloved Justin Robey has bid us farewell, but we’re welcoming Porkfry to the show. We’re very fortunate to have Greg aboard, and we’re going to be doing some new things with his help.

Watch this space over the next week for a couple of older shows to be posted that we never got edited properly. After that the relaunch will officially begin, with Pork joining the cast, and more regular shows after that.

Thanks for sticking with us, we’re just getting to the point where we should all be able to say more about the games we’re working on–we’re excited for everyone to hear more about Crackdown 2, [REDACTED] and of course, [REDACTED]

Thanks,
Platform Biased

We talk about plenty of stuff other than Splosion Man this week, but John goes on and on about it, so it’s the SPLOSION CAST! CAAAAKE!

On the Show:

Seattle Heat Wave!

Chris’ crazy collecting

‘Splosion Man

Gears of War 2 – All Fronts DLC

Mailbag!

“Are there too many multiplayer games?”

“Should developers push to get multiplayer into games that are primarily single player?”

“Is a one console future possible with fanboys, competition, and the Big 3?”

“Can the industry survive with so many AAA titles? Is there enough money for them all?”

A pattern of Holiday delays. We talk about stuff we’re still eager for, John mentions Dark Void, which was then delayed days later..

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Summer of Arcade is upon us! We chew the fat on the five great titles that are part of Summer of Arcade, as well as a bunch of other stuff:

On the Show:

Fighting games vs. Adventure games. LET’S GET IT ON!

King of Fighters XII

Two Monkey Island games?!

Wallace & Gromit

Chris is still playing Fallout 3, specifically Point Lookout, the new DLC

Half Life 2! No, we don’t actually talk about it… But Noonan finished it, and you should too.

Tower Defense games on the iPhone, much to Chris’ chagrin

Defender Chronicles

The Creeps!

Summer of Arcade!

Splosion Man

Marvel VS. Capcom 2

TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled

Trials HD

Shadow Complex

Battlefield 1943

Games John mentioned, but couldn’t remember the name of:

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People (from Homestar Runner)

GripShift

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Bunch of jibber jabber this show. Chris and John go over some news, talk about the games we’re playing, and answer a bunch of your questions about testing & game development, including: How much programming experience do you need to be a game tester, the best schools for game careers and more.