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 NBS Review EP17: Sony Kills, EA Spys and we all see Red. [53:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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 NBS Review EP16: Now Pee Oow Dee Free [41:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode Topics:

Apple tries to patent podcast, or pod, or something about Condoms?

Tokyo Gameshow fallout

More god damn Sony news, yeesh.

Symantec’s company relations program and professionalism

HP shenanigans

Episode Notes:

We have a fantabulous new Intro! WOO! I hope you enjoy it and have a laugh as well, any comments and suggestions are happily received. Unless they’re negative, then you can get to fuck.

I got this weeks phallic reference in early with the Durex = Tape versus Condom brand, even if it took 10 minutes to do it. And yes, my car was held together for a week or so with tape because some of the bolts had rusted through and broken off.

Brett manages to insult a huge proportion of the East Asian community in about two sentences, like the ignorant American he is. Publically, I’m naturally “shocked and ashamed”, but privately I’m proud of him for achieving the feat. Am I surprised? Hell no. We take the piss out of everyone equally so noone can complain about descrimination.

We do TRY NOT to talk about console hardware every-single-episode but it seems we just can’t help ourselves. We promise to NOT discuss anything console hardware related next episode. Perhaps.

Brett has a hardcore rant on Symantec. I know he’s been saving it for a while and I’m sure he feels happier now it’s off his chest.

I was famished by the end of this ep and a bacon butty really hits the spot on a Saturday afternoon. If you’re Moslem or Jewish, try… uhh… I’m really sorry but I’ve sat here thinking for like, five minutes stressing over a substitute but nothing really goes that well with Brown Sauce. It’s one of those things, every other meat I think of just doesn’t fit right. Send me an email or post a comment about alternative foods you recommend that hits juuuuust that hunger spot in the belly.

The Levelator is a fantastic piece of software for short bursts of audio. It really helped on the intro having cuts from a dozen different episodes all at different volumes. It’s use on the whole episode just isn’t viable since it makes everything louder and the static becomes unbearable.

The outro is a video game remix from here, apparently influenced from the classic Street Fighter 2. You can grab it there on mp3 for your portable music player of choice.

- Richard