Dedicated to games and the people who play them...
The ChatterBox Video Game Radio show airs weekly from KFNX 1100AM in Phoenix, Arizona. The show is also simulcast on the internet so anyone can listen in. Our goal is to educate and entertain the masses about video games, the interactive entertainment industry, and the issues surrounding it.
ChatterBox Video Game Radio is the one and only completely live and public forum available for people to discuss current events in the video game industry, and we want you to join in the discussion!
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Newsflash
Check those clocks, folks. Looks like you changed them again. Well, if you're in the US, you probably did. That means we go live an hour earlier than you're used to because we Arizonans do NOT change our clocks. If you listen live, you just got an extra hour of sleep!
Alon can also be found on Twitter from time to time. Why not go see what he's been thinking?
LittleBIGPlanet is still totally awesome, and you should be playing it right now. When you're not playing it, you can listen to our show. This week you'll hear us interview Jon Dean, Executive Producer at EA Salt Lake, who talks with us (and his Producer friend, Jeff) about the commonly negative stigma of licensed games.
Alon finally got to enjoy LittleBIGPlanet, although he's missing out on the all-important online universe. Why can't Sony get its act together? Of course, Rich also got Fallout 3, but he didn't get to talk about it because callers, instead, wanted to discuss making it in the business as an artist and that gaming press like to pretend they know it all.
Alon calls in while he's away on vacation. As usual, when Ara is left to run the show, it gets a lot better. This week, we question several things... if realism actually makes a game better, if Red Octane knows how to make gaming hardware, and if citizens have the right to be protected from being offended.
This show is all about LittleBigPlanet and how useless Sony's "recall" really is. If Walmart can sell it, what good does it do to make everyone else wait? Ara also practices his skills reciting the Koran. We kinda beat up Dave Halverson a little bit too... but he deserved it.
Ara somehow found Morrowind again, and Alon questions what a game like that does to reward the player and keep him interested in playing. We're also curious about video game marketing, given that we were supposed to have Tim Fitzrandolph on the show as part of his Radio Media Tour for Spectrobes: Beyond Portals. Finally, Ara wonders what DRM actually accomplishes in terms of protecting against piracy. Electrobes.
Video You Need To Watch
Found this cool level on YouTube tonight. Do you have an awesome LittleBIGPLanet level you want to show off? Send Alon an email and we can post the video of it here.
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Wow, I liked a game
Just a quick blog while I kill some time at E3...
After Sony's press briefing, they ushered everyone into a game arcade area where we could try out their new stuff. Believe it or not, there were a few things I wanted to play. In fact, I bet I could have stayed there the whole day, but appointments prevented that.
I was pleasantly surprised by one game in particular, though. I suspect this will be a surprise for anyone who knows me because there's a whole lot of potential to just complain about this game...
