Married Gamers at PAX: Ninjatown

Show Notes: Chris and Kelly interview Shawn Smith creator of Ninjatown coming to the Nintendo DS. Listen to the Show!    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download  Read More →

Putting the F.E.A.R. back into Project Origin

by Erik Johnsen The F.E.A.R. name was purchased from Activision Blizzard by Monolith Productions and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The F.E.A.R. name was previously owned by Sierra Games, who was acquired by Activision Blizzard earlier this year. Sierra... 

Married Gamers at PAX: ECA President Hal Halpin

Show Notes: Chris Brown interviews ECA President Hal Halpin. Listen to the Show!    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download  Read More →

Married Gamers at PAX: Pirates of the Burning Seas

Show Notes: Chris Brown interviews Theresa Pundenz of FLying Lab Software about the MMO, Pirates of the Burning Seas Listen to the Show!    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download  Read More →

Talk Like A Pirate & Win Free Booty

by Chris "Lefty" Brown Ahoy me mateys!  The Married Gamers are going to make The Target Demographic walk the plank and hopefully burn up the iTunes featured podcast charts.  We have two copies of Pirates of the Burning Sea we are... 

Xbox 360 Defects: An Inside History of Microsoft’s Conso

Dean Takahashi, formerly of the San Jose Mercury News, recently published a fairly lengthy article at  VentureBeat.com that goes into the history of the 360’s development and why Microsoft ended up with egg on its face as a result. Even if you’re... 

TMG-066 Wii Music or Eating Paste…You Decide!

Show notes: It’s our Penny Arcade Expo 2008 Roundup. Find out what games were hits and misses with us. Also this episode we review the iTunes app from 1337pwn for the iPhone and iTouch. As is our habit we also review what we have currently been... 

Married Gamers PAX ‘08 Harmonix Interview

Show notes: Chris (Leftybrown) Brown speaks with Harmonix PR Coordinator, John Drake about Rock Band 2 and future DLC. Listen to the Show!    Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download  Read More →

Join the Married Games LIVE Podcast on September 6th

Come join Chris & Kelly Brown (gamertags: Leftybrown & Mrs Leftybrown) for our live Married Gamers Podcast broadcast. Just head over to The Married Gamers Ustream channel which features a fun community chat section to discuss and entertain each... 

Price cut!

by Erik Johnsen Well, it didn’t take too long for the cuts to come. Xbox Live’s Major Nelson posted just a few moments ago on his blog. It’s official: We’ve got an Xbox 360 price cut coming to the US. Our friends in Japan announced... 

PN @ PAX ‘08 - Saturday’s Live Show Recap

Our official hosts on today’s show include GamerEdie from Gamehounds.net, InfectedPB503 from XBLRadio.com, BDazzler from TheGamersPub.com and Cephiros from PlatformNation.com. Huge apology to Mike Pepe and our listeners because the first 10 minutes... 

Platform Nation @ PAX08: Day One

If you missed Platform Nation’s live stream from Penny Arcade Expo on Friday, fret not. GamerEdie Sellers, who moderated the panel discussion, offers up to you the official replay of the show, originally broadcast on UStream. In addition, to KRockXP... 

Rock Band 2 and LIFEbeat team up to fight AIDS

by Erik Johnsen Rock Band 2 and LIFEbeat are promoting HIV/AIDS prevention on Sept 6 at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees will rock out with a sneak peek and chance to play Rock Band 2 before it hits retail, as well as enjoy musical appearances... 

Spiral’s Soapbox: Second-hand sales are a “critical si

An interview with Jens Uwe Intat, senior VP and general manager for European publishing at EA, was recently published on gamesindustry.biz. In the interview, Intat made some comments that annoyed me a bit as a consumer of the product his company produces... 

A sign? Xbox 360 gets price cut in Japan.

by Erik Johnsen The Xbox 360 will get a price cut of almost 30% in Japan. The Xbox 360 Arcade SKU will drop its price to ¥19,800 ($183) which puts it well under the cost of the Wii, ¥25,000 ($231), and the Playstation 3, ¥39,800 ($368). Additionally,...