We at it again!

This week Kat and Steve discuss the unwashed faces and monstrously-enlarged hands on display in Xbox live Arcade’s unendurable horror, AMY, while Steve discovers the how bad it can be to load a game-save from 2008, when said save was taken in the middle of a full-blown gunfight sequence in Bioshock. Additionally, Steve LOSES HIS SHIT over the new Xbox 360 dashboard, and then argues with Kat about other shit. So, it’s business as usual, then, in the latest thrilling episode of GamePunchers! Oh yeah, we also talk about Mass Effect 2 a bit, since Steve has been homosexually-remeniscing about Commander Shepherd recently.

Mortals! You defy the gods? I sentence you to travel among unknown stars. Until you buy the Bastion Soundtrack by Darren Korb of SuperGiant Games, your bodies shall remain as lifeless as stone…

One last thing, did you know you can subscribe to GamePunchers Podcast from the comfort of your own face? We are available on iTunes!

Aaaaammyyyyyyyy!

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The new year is finally here, so what better way to celebrate than by doing the same thing we do every week: recording a podcast about games?

Kat’s single-threaded gaming habits continue into 2012, by exclusively playing Rayman: Origins and not a single other fucking thing, whereas Steve got a bigass TV over the holidays and played as many games as possible on it, for science purposes and the likes.

Topics covered this week include (but are not limited to) Skyrim, Saints Row III, the Dead Spaces, the contemporary combats, and Renegade Ops. Listen, Subscribe, Enjoy and, most importantly, LANGUISH in-betwixt our voices as we drink coffee, smoke e-cigarettes, drink beer, and tea… and milk.

As is the usual custom, I will once again thank Darren Korb of SuperGiant Games for granting us permission to use the whole Bastion Soundtrack for our audio accompaniment. Please go here and buy yourself a copy of it for yourself and/or a loved one!

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Ho ho ho! It’s Christmas time here at GamePunch Palace, and so we get drunk and throw yuletidings at you in our latest podcast. In keeping with this traditional time of giving and thanks, Steve kicks things off with a story about the milk of human kindness he found within a Frenchman two weeks ago, which is nowhere near as debauched as it sounds.

Kat and Steve discuss whether Burnout: Crash is a good game in actuality, or if  it’s just a bundling fugue of addictive gaming tropes designed to tantalize one’s pleasure center? We’re not quite sure, but we do at least talk about what it does and why it does it. We talk about that cute little vampire dude in Rayman: Origins, and why playing Raam in Gears of War 3‘s latest DLC, RAAM’s Shadow, isn’t fun. Oh yeah, Kat totally slams her in-laws for misinterpreting the meaning of Christmas.

It’s all in here, folks, so by all means, settle into your favorite easy-chair, rest your slippered feet on the settle by the warm, glowing hearth, stuff that corncob pipe full of nirnroot, and listen to us, won’t you?

As is the usual custom, I will once again thank the divinely-talented Darren Korb of SuperGiant Games for granting us permission to use the whole Bastion Soundtrack for our audio accompaniment. Please go here and buy yourself a copy of it for yourself and/or a loved one!

Season’s Feastings,

Steve

Here’s another one!

Just a quick update this week, folks, as I really need to get back to fixing all the things I have broken on this website.

This week Steve deeply regrets opening the Pandora’s Box that is Premium WordPress themes, and Kat finally plays something other than Skyrim.

Games covered this week are Minecraft, TrialsHD and, as per fucking usual, Skyrim.

As per usual, if you dig on the music, please drop by SuperGiant Games’ Bandcamp page and by yourself a copy of Darren Korb‘s cowboy-odyssey, the Bastion Soundtrack.

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Kat is sickeningly in love with Skyrim, which of course is an abomination and a blight on all good, decent church-going folk. As I sit here in my assless, boiled greaves, blazed out of my mind on Nirnroot and cupping a Draugr’s balls, I can only imagine the kinds of disgusted looks she must get when whispering of her deviant, forbidden love in public.

This week’s podcastingu finds Kat and Steve discussing the difficulties involved in talking about Skyrim on a podcast without spoiling major plot developments. Steve bemoans Rage‘s inability to make sense or be engaging, and then throws open the drapes and sheds light on the formidably-tricky minefield that is letting your 6 year old son host a multiplayer Minecraft server.

So please to be listening, won’t you?

Hope you like it, and by all means, if you dig on the music, please drop by SuperGiant Games’ Bandcamp page and by yourself a copy of Darren Korb‘s Bastion Soundtrack.

Peace and Skeever Grease

Enjoy us by either clicking the download link below, using the embedded player, or subscribing to the podcast in iTunes

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As promised, the winter of our discontent is finally over. Kat finished her finals, and immediately turned her eye towards gaming, and the podcast, once more.

Given our lengthy sabbatical, we have a lot of games to cover in this week’s podcast. We cover Gears of War 3, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Asylum (again), Uncharted 3, 2 and the original, Battlefield 3 (and 2), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and, of absolute importance, a lengthy carry-on about Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Again, we’re sorry about the hiatus, but it had to be done. But know now that we honor our oaths and that our word is bond. I prmised we’d be back, and here we are.

Many thanks, as always, to the divinely-talented Darren Korb of SuperGiant Games for granting us permission to use the whole Bastion Soundtrack for our audio accompaniment. Please go here and buy yourself a copy of it for yourself!

Peace

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Steve Staring At Moose Head Wearing An Afro Wig As Is Per Usual In That Situation

You might have noticed that our last 3 weeks have been podcast-free. Yeah, sorry about that. It has become apparent that my irreverent co-host, Kat, has so much college work going on right now that playing games with a critical eye, and with discussion in-mind, is practically a non-option.

This is a real shame, not only for Kat herself — not being game-active during this time of year is like a death sentence, but also because we have a lot of games to talk about.

Gears of War 3 was top of our lists, as you will know if you listened to the last podcast. We did get to play about an hour’s worth of Horde 2.0 on Sandbar shortly after the game’s release, and I’ve finished the campaign, but I know Kat needs many more hours of Gears’ing under her belt before she feels comfortable discussing it at length.

I have also played a bunch of the new ICO\Shadow of the Colossus HD pa — which is something we both hold dear and we acknowledge needs a good talking-about. Most recently I’ve been shooting a lot of things in id Software’s Rage. The most beautifully-fucked up-looking game I’ve played in years. This requires discussion also.

So, yes, this hiatus sucks big time, but I don’t see a way around it… unless I enlisted a temporary co-host to fill the specifically-Kat-shaped boots for a couple of weeks… something I’m not sure is even doable.

Oh well… again, apologies. We are only just getting off the ground here, and I know that a stall in weekly content this early in the game is a slight setback, but what can I do? Zip-dicky. Regardless, we will return from our slumber on the week of November 22nd, triumphant, refreshed, a little wiser, and with more games to talk about than can  feasibly fit in a 90 minute podcast.

So, come on back around in late November, when we wise fwom our gwaves. Remain RSS’ing us and you won’t even need to set a reminder in your calendar.

Oh! By way of apology, I’ve linked our first 3 “trial-run” podcasts. We have mentioend them several times on each released podcast, referring to them as “Episode Zero”. Every one of these that we recorded was intended to be the real episode 1, which explains why I introduce them all as such at the beginning, but due to sound issues and basic content quality reasons, we just decided to keep these on the down low. Here they are in all their shitty glory:
Episode Zero
Episode Zero 2
Episode Zero 3

Peace,

Steve

Guess what – we done made another one. In the 3rd episode of GamePunchers Kat and Steve compensate for having very little to discuss during the “What have you been playing?” segment, by waxing rhapsodic about the various games and gaming memories they have collected and cherished throughout their lives as gamers.

That said,. Steve did manage to get his Red Faction: Guerrilla on… so, that;’s something.

Overall, the games we discuss in any kind of detail this week are: Red Faction: Guerrilla, Catherine, Minecraft, Elite, Gallop Racer 2003, California Games, StarFox/StarWing, and Space Quest.

Here are the two ways you can currently enjoy us:

You can subscribe to GamePunchers Podcast on iTunes.
You can download the mp3 directly by clicking here.

As always, a billion thanks to Darren Korb of SuperGiant Games for kindly granting us permission to use the entire Bastion Soundtrack for our humble broadcast. You can buy yourself a copy of the album right here, and I recommend you do so now, with gusto.

Cheers!

Bow before it's majesty

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In the words of Queen, ‘Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars’. But, even though it’s as true today as it ever was, it is completely unrelated to this next fact: We recorded episode 2 of GamePunchers for your absolute entertainment this eveing.

A LOT of games got covered tonight. I’m talking Warhammer 40K: Space Marine, Super Scribblenauts, Crimson Alliance… you name it, it’s in there.

Kat tries to explain why Super Scribblenauts‘ lack of a coherent ruleset is a good thing, and Steve cries like a baby about how deperessing Fallout 3 is.

This week’s topic is our listing-off our must-have games of the Fall/Winter. We all know from September onward to the end of the year, we shift our gaming behaviors from a more sedentary ‘catching-up on unfinished games’ mode to an all-out ‘MUST PLAY ALL NEW GAMES NOW’ mode, as the store shelves become overstuffed with new quality-prime rib titles week after week. It seems only right that we should get this stuff out in the open the week before Gears of War 3 comes out on Sept 20th!

As always, much groceries to Darren Korb over at SuperGiant Games for granting us permission to use the whole Bastion Soundtrack for the musical accompaniment. You are the wind beneath our hotwings. You can buy the album here.

Anyway, we hope you enjoy this. Also, if you have the time, leave us a comment and let us know you’re listening.

Cheers!

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After five weeks of preparation, test-recordings, hurricanes and earthquakes, Episode 1 of the GamePunchers podcast is finally available for listening-to’s.

For our very first (official) outing, Kat shares her accidentally-perfect playthrough of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Steve does a really, REALLY bad job of explaining what Minecraft is, and then, although they both want to talk about really scary games, they just end up talking about Silent Hill 2.

Hope you enjoy it – Remember, this is our first one, so if you think it sounds amateur, that’ll be because it is, so I guess my advice to you would be to just deal.

Major thanks and appreciation to Darren Korb of SuperGiant Games for giving us permission to use not just one track, but the whole damn album, of the Bastion Soundtrack. It’s like a Firefly festival from beginning to end, and is just the bees knees.
If you like the music — and I can’t see anyone hating it — please head on over to their BandCamp page and buy yourself a copy of the album.

Now, although I secretly told myself prior to recording that I should at least attempt to keep the swearing quotient to a low growl, unfortunately episode 1 is just rife with dirtymouth. So, I’m sorry?

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