NBS Review EP17: Sony Kills, EA Spys and we all see Red.

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Epsiode Topics:

Sony Kills Lik Sang and Grey Imports of its products in the UK;

Red products that give to charty;

EA spyware and game micropayments;

The Goldern Joystick Game Awards.

Episode Notes:

This is the rant edition where we seem to enjoy letting out some pent up aggression towards those who aggravate us. I have to admit that it felt better afterwards to get it all off my chest. Ahhhhhhhh.

Yes, I know, we’ve done micropayments for episodic content before but this is different. So Shush.

I just realised we participate in a fuck load of willy pulling in this episode as we freely admit to giving generously to AIDS charities in Africa without resorting to consumerism by proxy. The truth is we probably just drop our change into pots at McDonalds, so that will get fat kids a off their arses for 30 minutes or some shit, rather than reaching those in third world countries with terminal diseases. Yeah! We rock!

Brett got in the phallic reference with deciding that buying a gold Wii means you’ll be getting a Gold Member. He did it funnier than I can describe, or, at least I thought so with my juvenile sense of humour.

We have no actual idea what hand EA has with regards to Crysis and Crytek, we hope it’s just a publishing company and that Crytek have got a better deal with EA than Ubisoft, or they might have just been bought out like so many others. Our ideas have no actual factual basis, other than suggesting what might happen given the recent history and market trends towards such a business model. We sincerely hope they don’t package Crysis with a tub of lube.

Listen past the end for out-takes and screwups.

I hope you can’t wait for our NBS-Review awards for 2006 in December. It’ll be so awesome!.. Well, ok, it’ll be better than the Goldern Joysticks.

In hindsight, that isn’t a huge achievement.

EDIT: This will be the last week we use that intro because it’s crap and I hate it. We’ll go back to generic game music from next week.
- Richard