We’re back! And we return from our slumber with a barnstorming fistpunch of podcastery, as it is all about PAX East 2012!

yes, we were there. Yes we saw games. Yes Steve hung out with Felicia Day and made Kat jealous. Yes Steve went to a bunch of VIP after-parties with free bars and Kat stayed in her hotel room with her wife. Yes all of these things happened, and more.

Among other things, this week we cover Deadlight, Trials Evolution, Penny Arcade’s ‘On The Rainslick Precipice of Darkness III’, Gamebook Adventures, Shadow of the Ninja,  Assassin’s Creed III, XCOM Enemy Unknown, Spec Ops: The Line, Borderlands 2,and something I constantly refer to as (in)Human Condition — this was a monstrous gaffe, as the game I was talking about is actually called Natural Selection.

The music is completely overhauled this week. I’m just trying this out, so if you have any opinion on it either way, let us know in the show comments.

The intro music is Fuckin in the Bushes by Oasis
The outro music is Blood is Pumpin by Voodoo & Serano
(Sssh! I didn’t obtain their permission to use these tracks, so this might not last long).

One last thing: did you know you can subscribe to the GamePunchers Podcast from the comfort of your own face? Well now you do know, because we are available on iTunes!

Ancient Chinese proverb: When the Kat-shaped void appear, fill with Fish.

So it is, then, that filling Kat’s shoes this week is the spectacularly-vivacious Brendan Saricks, AKA The Jesus Fish, of Bullshot! Podcast fame. You know, that strange man on episode 10.

Did you hear that? That sound signals that it’s time to shout at the videogame industry, to make fun of Sony’s beleaguered face-man, Jack Tretton, and to do Tribes 2 impressions. Surely it’s only a matter of time before Tresspasser crops up in the conversation? Surely…

Games covered this week include Waking Mars for those iOS gadgets, Tribes Ascend, Tribes 2, Tribes, Starseige, Killzone 3, Twisted Metal, Battlefield 3, and, oh yes, Lumines for the PS Vita!

I leave you now with the wisest words I know: Informer, ya-know say daddy-me snow-me I gon’ blame. I licky boom-boom down. Detective man he said say daddy-me snow-me stabbed, somewhere down the lane. I licky boom-boom down.

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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 the GamePunchers Podcast from the comfort of your own face? Well now you do know, because we are available on iTunes!

CLICKETY CLAOWW!

This week Kat talks about hash-based table messenger client something or others, Steve bitches about writing, realizes he can’t talk about Twisted Metal anymore after writing the review for GameRant.com. He falls in love with Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and then both he and Kat get ‘gized about PAX East. It’s a bit of an Old Country Buffet jam this week. I was tempted to call this episode “Ginormous Ginanus” but in the end figured it was simply too classy to represent what is essentially The Nerdful Nerdcast of Nerds Talking About Nerd Stuff With a Couple of Games Thrown In.

Obligatory Footer Info which I will paste-in from a previous week:

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!

The title says it all, really. At around the 45 minute mark, Kat’s power went out, ending our recoded  Skype call. She did correct the error though, mere moments later, so once she got connected up again I fired up a second recording and spliced them shits together. The way I roll is thus.

It’s pretty obvious to hear because, at the 45-min mark there’s a jarring and unsubtle topic-switch, followed by lots of interesting talk about PAX East and Gamer’s Gone Wild before we get back on topic again. I really didn’t feel like editing around all that shit, though, so I left it in.

This week’s topics include Gotham City Impostors (boo!), Darksiders (yay!), and a little bit more Twisted Metal (rawr!), and then we talk about some sweet and old Xbox Live Arcade titles of yore, such as Marble Blast Ultra and Cloning Clyde.

Yes I know I incorrectly identified Darksiders’ protagonist as Wrath, and not War. Suck a big’un.

Enjoy again!

Obligatory Footer Info which I will paste-in from a previous week:

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!

Wow – what a strange edition of GamePunchers we have for you this week.

While Kat is away celebrating her friend’s homecoming, Steve invites national treasure and Bullshot! Podcast alumni, The Jesus Fish, onto the show to do what he does best – talk about video games and the industry with commanding authority and casual ease.

Topics this week include the utter pointlessness of Assassin’s Creed‘s Animus/Desmond storyline, what all zombie games are still getting wrong, the used video game sales debate, and how much/little of a self-centered twat John Romero is.

Games covered this week are the Assassin’s Creed series, the Mass Effect series, Doom 4, Dead Island and the Twisted Metal demo.

Hold on to your junk, folks, because this one feels different.

As always, if you enjoy the background music of the podcast, know now that it is Darren Korb’s electrifying Bastion soundtrack from SuperGiant Games. Get yourself a copy right here.

Subscribe to us in iTunes by going here.

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!

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!

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.

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

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