Three more host face the Platform Nation community with three questions. The video game industry’s circuit of shows begins in six weeks with E3. With all of the recent changes to this beloved event (restriction of non-media into the show, developers...
Threeeeemix! Now a trio of nerds escape the office, go to lunch, and talk about their various geekdoms (primarily video games) over a chorus of annoying ambient noise. Episode 4: The Olympian (21:57) Featuring office bathroom etiquette and the best...
Microsoft has been threatening, ever since J Allard plopped down on the stage at E3 2005 in his fashionable hoodie/blazer combo, to give Xbox 360 users the chance—nay, the power—to create their own content and unleash it on an unsuspecting cyberpublic....
It gets no more high concept than this, folks: two nerds escape the office, go to lunch, and talk about their various geekdoms (primarily video games) over a chorus of annoying ambient noise. Episode 3: Hash Browns (23:47) Featuring Half-Life 2:...
Surreptitious (and brief) recordings of random interactions with video game store clerks. Episode 3: Jack Thompson May Be Right (2:59) Featuring Sooch getting schooled on violent video games—and menstrual phenomena—by the Marquis de Sade. Read More →
With the average age of a video game player on the rise, and with Microsoft’s pending plan for pushing Live Anywhere to every digital device from your cell phone to your UltraVibe Pleasure 2000™, the corporate board room is about to get a whole...
With each new game promoted in EA’s current ad campaign, my partially digested vittles creep ever closer to the ole uvula. Surely I’m not the only one cynical enough to give this approach to advertising a huge eyeroll. You’ve likely...
It gets no more high concept than this, folks: two nerds escape the office, go to lunch, and talk about their various geekdoms (primarily video games) over a chorus of annoying ambient noise. Episode 2: Funnel Cakes (24:11) Featuring the funnelenema,...
Surreptitious (and brief) recordings of random interactions with video game store clerks. Episode 2: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Geek Scorned (2:45) Featuring Sooch seeking curious marital advice from an entirely too earnest game store staff. Read More →
Let me begin. The internets are rife with rumors that Nintendo plans to sweeten the Wii pot by reverting to a time-honored console tradition: the pack-in. Those of you old enough to remember the 8-bit era (or frankly, even the 16-bit era) surely recall...
It gets no more high concept than this, folks: two nerds escape the office, go to lunch, and talk about their various geekdoms (primarily video games) over a chorus of annoying ambient noise. Episode 1: Pancake Sandwich (29:06) Featuring the official...
Surreptitious (and brief) recordings of random interactions with video game store clerks. Episode 1: A Fiver Saved is a Fiver Earned (3:49) Featuring the most savvy financial advice this side of Jim Cramer. Read More →
There are two things you must know before we begin: I hate baseball. I hate almost everything about baseball. Scratch that–I hate everything about baseball. I won’t watch it. I won’t play it. My contempt for America’s...
An executive sits at the head of a rich mahogany table, his bald pate softly reflecting fluorescent light from above. His eyes twitch back and forth across the bright young faces before him–each one so eager to make a difference. His mouth slowly...
Platform Nation is a collaboration of several gaming podcasts who decided it would be best for our gamers, the podcasters and the rest of the gaming community if they came together to share efforts. Together we have a larger voice in the community for the gamers that we strive to speak for. We share the same forums and for the most part, share the same listeners. After all, we are a community, not a network.
