GameHounds Episode 63: Leggo My Lego
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Hey! Guess what? We actually have a GameHounds episode, it’s on time, and it features Cooper Hawkes (with Edie Sellers). It’s the grand hat trick of podcasting.
This week, Hawkes and Edie discuss:
- What should happen to Hawkes now that Lego Rock Band is official.
- Kotaku finds a creative way to break the embargo on news that Uncharted 2 will have multiplayer and beta keys will be included in copies of inFamous.
- Wet finds a new home with Bethesda after being cast off from Vivendi.
- Gamefly files a formal complaint about disk damage, theft and second-class treatment by the United States Postal Service.
- American McGee says he’d love to put Grimm on PSN or XBLA, but both are flawed.
- Random Stuff: Champions Online, Gamestop deals, Virtual On to XBLA, Red Faction: Guerilla, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Battlestations Pacific, Bioshock movie news.
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Hawkes thanks for the kind words but I won’t lie to you, I did tell a few hosts. There were the ones that emailed me back and asked for the info, then I swore them to complete secrectcy and told them I would fly to them and kick their asses if I heard any hints of anything before the embargo because it was my ass on the line.
Also, I agree with Edie, yes they were under embargo but they side stepped it by not passing any info along under which they were under embargo for. Yes it sucks, but we all really should be pissed at Best Buy because really they are the ones that fucked up. I went my Best Buy yesterday and I saw the inFamous pre-order games sitting there with the sticker on them. That wasn’t suppose to be there till today or even tomorrow. But it still really sucks, they scooped like 30 different news outlets with this, most of them major news outlets.
As for netflix, I work at the post office, yes we do separate netflix and blockbuster, they have a special service with us so that is why they do it, they also account for billions of dollars of revenue every year. Sucks but that is the truth. I was actually annoyed with all the news outlets posting this without a shred of looking into the matter.