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It’s our 50th Podcast and it’s time to announce the winners of our Haiku contest! Plus we talk Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II, Killzone 2, more Fable 2, King’s Bounty: The Legend, and Mircosofts claim that games are healthy!
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Episode 50 is on it’s way, but until then we’ve got this special God of War 3 episode for you! Mark is back from Sony’s God of War 3 press event with his impressions of the game, an interview with Design Director Todd Papy (sorry about the sound quality!) and pink lemonade all over his shirt. We [...]
In this episode we’ve got some crazy chatter! We discuss EA’s recent announcement to release several new Spore titles including Spore Galactic Adventures. Additionally we talk about Mass Effect DLC, Mirror’s Edge DLC, our friend Greg Laabs joins us to give his impressions of Sacred 2, Elizabeth talks about Lumines and a few iPhone games like SimCity, Chris talks [...]
The crew is back with more tomfoolery and a new Haiku contest! We run through some listener comments and questions covering the likes of Fable 2, Diablo 3, iPhone gaming and Valve. Then we move on to some coop goodness with Left 4 Dead and first impressions of the new Prince of Persia.
Plus: There’s Beethoven, [...]
This time on Played, the crew notices that there’s a demo for Left 4 Dead–but none of them have actually played it yet. Mark and Chris have been playing Fable 2, Fallout 3 (4.7 million units sold shipped!), and Far Cry 2, however, and there’s plenty of discussion about those titles, while Liz shares her [...]
After a few weeks’ break and some technical difficulties, Played is back with a particularly bizarre episode. This week, the crew discusses Diablo III corpse runs, Wizard: The Movie: A Diablo III Tale, and the upcoming StarCraft II trilogy. Plus, we take a trip down memory lane with Prototype and the most pretentious developer video [...]
Played is back again, making up for lost time with a beefy episode. First up is discussion of Ensemble’s disassembly, leading into whether Rare is actually living up to its astronomical price tag and how honest Microsoft is being about its commitment to Games for Windows. We have a bit of a disagreement about Bethesda’s [...]
In the latest episode of Played, we kick off with discussion of Nintendo’s ban on designer Shigeru Miyamoto discussing his personal hobbies, then launch straight into what we’re playing.
Xbox Live Arcade is a big theme, with Chris and Mark playing Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (and making unsolicited comparisons to Everyday Shooter) and Chris taking [...]









