Hart & Usagi Podcast #21: American Failures!

A host of fun stuff is talked about on the 21st episode of the Hart & Usagi Podcast. We start off with smug gloating of the crushing defeat the GOP received in the 2012 US election. Then we move onto making fun of “Uncle” Stan Lee in a trailer for the Avengers Kinect title among many other news items.

Get yourself strapped in for the amazing adventures of American Failures in this edition of the Hart & Usagi Podcast!

NOTE: The audio isn’t the best this time around. Sorry about that.

TOPICS/NEWS:
* Election/Politics
* Avengers: Battle for Earth
* Sensory Sweep
* Kickstarter
* Zynga
* 38 Studios
* Steam to Linux
* Gamestop
* Natural Selection II
* Skyfall
* Papa John’s

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New Releases 2012: Oct. 28-Nov. 17

WEEK of OCT. 28
007 Legends (PC)
Assassin’s Creed III (PS3, X360)
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation (PSV)
LEGO The Lord of the Rings (PC, PSV, DS)
Natural Selection II (PC)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (PS3, X360, PC, PSV)
Okami HD (PS3)
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation (PC)
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (3DS)
Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1 (PS3, X360)
Sports Champions 2 (PS3)
Thundercats (DS)
Transformers Prime: The Game (WII, DS, 3DS)
WWE ’13 (PS3, X360, WII)
Wreck-It Ralph (WII, DS, 3DS)
Zone of the Enders HD Collection (PS3, X360)

WEEK of NOV. 4
Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection (PS3, X360)
Halo 4 (X360)
Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning (3DS)
LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3)
Mass Effect Trilogy (X360, PC)
Midway Arcade Origins (PS3, X360)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 (WII)
Rayman Origins (3DS)

WEEK of NOV. 11
Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy (PS3)
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified (PSV)
Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3, X360, PC)
Karateka (X360)
LEGO The Lord of the Rings (PS3, X360, WII)
Madden NFL 13 (WU)
Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS)
Resistance Collection (PS3)
Scribblenauts Unlimited (PC)
Wonderbook: Book of Spells (PS3)

Hart & Usagi Podcast #18: Guppy Invasion of PAX

photo courtesy of madtyger

Fresh from the craziness of PAX, we welcome brand new guest Madtyger to the show. She runs the GPY gaming clan and is an enthusiastic Sony fan.

TOPICS:
* PAX
* Evil Guppy [GPY]
* PAX goodies
* Devil May Cry series
* …and other news topics.

NEWS FEATURED:
* Broken Sword: The Serpent’s Curse Kickstarter funded, curse still going strong
* Doubts over DMC’s Dante dissipating, Capcom says
* Sony patents method of turning TV ads into interactive mini-games
* Nintendo Power’s last issue will run in December
* Neo Geo sale has PS3 and PSP games at half-off
* Natural Selection 2 makes it to Steam, set for October release
* EA boss proudly refuses to publish single-player games
* Spec Ops: The Line dev brands game’s multiplayer a ‘waste of money’
* Sexism in Video Games (Study) – There Is Sexism in Gaming
* Candy Corn Oreo Cookies!

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Bottom 10 Owned Games

The following list is the ten games in my collection that have the lowest amount of total GameSpot members owning as well.

Raging Fighter (GB) – 16
NBA Action starring David Robinson (GG) – 31
Dragon’s Revenge (GEN) & Pong/Asteroids/Yar’s Revenge (GBA) – 33
Natural Selection (PC) – 36
VR Troopers (GEN) – 38
Raiden Trad (GEN) & Tomb Raider: Legend (GBA) – 39
The Combatribes (SNES) – 41
Fighter’s History (SNES) & Nanostray 2 (DS) – 47
Dragon’s Fury (GEN) – 49
Crue Ball (GEN) – 54

SOME INTERESTING GAME INFO
I’m sure that most of you have never heard of Raging Fighter. It’s a Konami fighting game and I think it was the first of that genre to be released for the Game Boy at the time. I was huge into fighting games at the time so it was great to have something on the go.

Natural Selection is actually a modification for the original Half-Life that was very unique in that one team played very different from the other. Another HL mod that was like that was Vampire Slayer.

Hard rock/heavy metal fans will probably be wondering about the Genesis title, Crue Ball. If it sounds like a pinball game with the Motley Crue license, then you’d be correct.

How’s the bottom of your collection list looking right now?