Yes, Area 5 threw a Halloween party! It was awesome! We had the best costumes ever! There’s no way your party was better than ours! Is there any way exclamation points can denote sarcasm as opposed to genuine enthusiasm? Honestly, we’re better gamers than we are party-planners. And, it would seem, better party-planners than we are costume-makers. Oh the inhumanity!
Halloween is very special time of year — for everyone but Ryan. Still, he was convinced to dress up for this special occasion. However, he may have been better off avoiding the specialized Area 5 event altogether.
Rock Band iPhone just got released. It joins the Tap Tap games, which have graced the platform since the beginning, and the Guitar Hero clone Guitar Rock 2, now in its second iteration, in the iPhone music game genre. Jason and I are really into all of these games and this genre in general, so we figured it would be fun to talk about them all in one go and let you all in on the finer points of each.
JayFresh is the biggest R&C fan at Area 5, and Ryan can always be convinced to give them a go, even if he’s not the biggest fan of the series. Still, Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time grew on him enough to make sure it made it into this week’s show. It has plenty of charms to worm its way into even the most jaded gamer’s heart.
The MMO genre has generated far more than cash-cows and spectacular flops over the past few decades. It’s good to see some of the better ideas concerning game design take root in other genres. Borderlands happens to be both a fun and an interesting take on design choices that most would consider the exclusive domain of its massive cousins. Arthur Gies of Eat. Sleep. Game. and RebelFM comes by to share his thoughts with JayFresh, myself, and Cesar. Watch the show after the break!
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