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This week has been a big week for us at QuarterSave/ShogunGamer. Earlier in the week came the confirmation that we will be heading down to this year’s big show: E3. Not only was there the promise of conventions to come, but this week heralded GDC 2010! There was plenty to talk about out of GDC, most notably a whole slew of new information from Sony regarding the “Playstation Move.” This brought a trend to mind for this week’s topic of discussion: motion controls.

Welcome to the QuarterSave Podcast for Monday March the 8th! This week’s podcast sees the return of the new hosting duo of Casey and Corey who sit down to discuss a little of the drama that has been going on throughout the whole of the last week. Included within this week’s podcast is some talk of Halo Reach, a rage-induced tirade from Corey about the PS3 shutdown, talk of the shake-up over at Infinity War, and recap of the events from Friday regarding the Illfonic Team being taking out of their building in cuffs at gun-point!

Welcome one and all to the return of QuarterSave! Now that the Olympics have finished up, it’s back to business as usual (or close to it anyways). The podcast has undergone a bit of a shift and features the hosting talents of one Mr Corey Rollins of ShogunGamer fame, affectionately referred to as BP*. The format has shifted a little bit as well as you’ll notice by the show notes provided for you below. What we’re aiming to do is get a bit of a discussion going on some hot topics that we notice from week to week in the gaming culture.

This week’s episode features a change of hands in terms of show host. Robert takes the lead in the discuss giving me a much needed break from trying to harness the madness that formulates from a group of drunk geeks getting together to rant about video games (while allowing me drink far more than usual). The show features talk on some of the big announcements from this week, including but not limited to: Sonic 4, The Prison Break Game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, and Hamlet.

As we promised Rob and I got together this week to discuss, in-depth, our feelings for the Mass Effect sequel. This episode takes a break from the regular weekly format, and we basically just wing a discussion about everything we liked, or didn’t, about Mass Effect 2.

This week’s episode showcases great restraint on the part of Robert and I as we do our best to hold back out opinions of Mass Effect 2 until the QS Mass Effect show. This seems like a good week for a game-specific cast once again, as we find outselves in a little lull between the huge releases of: Mass Effect 2 and MAG, on our way on towards Bioshock 2 and Dante’s Inferno.

Apologies for the show going up a little bit late this week, but it is up now! I appreciate all of you who waited patiently for our posting of this week’s episode. To those of you who were waiting impatiently: Here you go! Jeez! Nah, I’m only kidding, we love the fact that we’re developing a solid listener-ship, and excited to present this weeks episode.

Welcome to QuarterSave’s first official podcast of the New Year! That’s right; the whole crew is back again this week. Evil Casey, Good Casey, and Neutral Robert have all returned. This week’s podcast features our thoughts on the New Year’s rush. With the amount of games that have been pushed back, and now the backlog that it has created, is the new standard of having a bunch of big titles in Q1 a good or a bad thing?

Due to the hectic schedule that Corey and I have been doing our best to maintain it’s been impossible to get together to do a podcast over the last couple of nights like we originally planned. I don’t think either of us knew just how much we were biting off when we signed up to cover this convention. Even as a couple of writers only covering the gaming portion of the show we were blown away by the amount of things we’ve seen this week. Now you can get a summary of our entire CES experience, which ranges from everything from photos with Dr. Evil to meeting up with the Frag Dolls.

As promised QuarterSave wraps up the end of 2009 with a look forwards to the games were the most excited in for 2010. There’s a large list of titles that we’re excited for in the new year, so we push through them rather quickly, but it’s a great starting point for those of you who want to know what you should keep and eye open for next year.

Intro

Xbox 360:

Crackdown 2

Mass Effect 2

Splinter Cell Conviction

PS3:

God of War 3

Gran Turismo 5

Agent

MAG

Now that the whole of the crew has wrapped up their first (and in some cases second) play through of Borderlands we decided to discuss a bit about the ending of the game. For those of you that have yet to play through Borderlands I would recommend caution as we do spend a bit of time on it seeing as the Caseys have been itching to talk about it for a while and finally had an opportunity to discuss what happened.

We’re getting into a slightly more regular swing of things now which is good… right before the holidays which is horrible timing if you think of things. This week’s episode is short a member as Good Casey was unable to join in with the merriment but Evil and Neutral carry on with Good in spirit. The show this week spends time discussing how surprisingly good 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live is, as well as a bit of a debate on which sides we’ll be taking in the impending Human/8-foot-blue-thing war when Avatar: The Game launches.

Intro

This week’s show works its way around a rather barren looking release list. With not much to look forward to the crew looks back on the releases from last week and what we’ve been playing. Everyone in hooked on Borderlands so we get to spend a little bit of time this week catching up on what we’ve been doing in Pandora, as well as some discussion about Assassin’s Creed 2.

QuarterSave back again after the launch of Modern Warfare 2 which all of us have been spending the majority of our time with. But we bring more than that this week with open discussion about co-operative gaming and the remainder of the holiday launch titles. As a secondary special treat our good friend of the show Jeramy aka Madincraft has sexed up the podcast with some professional quality editing and some backing music to give the podcast some soul!