Once again, we are blessed with great Belgian Beer. The Trappiste Rochefort graced our glasses this podcast and we use it to power our discussion on the long awaited Ultiimate Shooting Collection and Savage Moon. We also talk the news and Moe provides us with all our Bible Adventure needs!

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Wii Review: Ultimate Shooting Collection
PSN Review: Savage Moon
Retro Review: M.U.S.H.A (Genesis)
News: DJ Hero
Premium iPhone Games
Boom Blox 2
Release List
The Last Shot
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DGR: 01.31.2009

No f-ing way. I realize you can find this news in every corner of the internet by now, but I feel obliged to post it here. Being that the long absence and always in motion “release date” have been a source of consternation for us on Drunken Gamers Radio, we’re happy to see that we’ll be part of the cool kids club as of Thursday, when HOME goes into it’s official open public Beta phase.

HOME, as a service, is something we’ve been looking forward to for some time. In fact, it’s one of the major reasons John folded up and bought a PS3 in the first place. Long time listeners of DGR/TFL will remember that we were no fan of the enormous price tag on Sony’s behemoth and as such, planned to wait until the inevitable price drop. We were so adamant about it that listeners like Jarrod Johnston decided it was time to send us reviews of the PS3 games we couldn’t cover. God bless him.

However, during a holiday excursion to Chicago, I received a call from John stating that the recent Sony press conference had done it’s dirty work and at the very sight of HOME, the wheels were set in motion. Shortly after…I followed. For much the same reasons. While Moe may be the last hold out, he is the most adamant of the three of us on taking Sony to task for the long wait and missed deadlines.

We had a chance to sit down and check out the Beta when Torgo was over this last weekend and I have to say, it’s impressive. While it was a rather empty experience on the day we were looking at it, I have to say that the scope and magnitude of the service looks to be impressive. If you thought the connectivity and social aspect of the NXE was something, be prepared to fall in love with this damn thing as the comparisons to Second Life are not that far off the mark. Of course, there’s no telling if you can actually cheat on your wife. I guess we’ll see about that.

According to a statement given by Kaz Hirai, it looks like the service will be launching with spaces dedicated to Warhawk, Resistance, Far Cry 2, Uncharted and Guitar Hero. Looks like it’s a good time to be a PS3 owner. I’ll see you all in my apartment. The party starts at 7:00 CST and I’ll be the naked guy in the corner. Hitting on your wife.

This week we welcome Glen Percival, aka Torgo, from the PSNation Podcast. We talk Soldner X, Prince of Persia and the news as we eagerly anticipate seeing Bruce Campbell! Join us on this week’s show!

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PSN Review: Soldner X: Himmelssturmer
360 Review: Prince of Persia
Retro Review: Hover Strike (Jaguar)
News: Mirror’s Edge Expansion
New Game from Q? Entertainment
Uncharted 2 Announced
God of War III at Spike TV
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DGR: 12.06.2008

Another day, another bit o’ zombie news. Today we’ve got news of a new title coming to PSN called Burn Zombie Burn from Doublesix, available in early 2009. Here’s a bit of info from the press release:

You play Bruce – an average every-day Joe who was looking forward to some ‘quality time’ with his girlfriend Daisy. In true B-movie style their Saturday night is ruined by an invasion of zombies. Set across six classic American horror movie inspired levels, Burn Zombie Burn is a third-person shoot-em-up in the classic coin-op tradition featuring next-gen game play mechanics, and possessing that ‘one-more-go’ addictiveness which define all of the great shooters.

The aim of the game couldn’t be simpler; shoot, burn and blow up as many brain munching zombies as possible using a variety of classic zombie killing weapons before they overwhelm you. Use fire to build up your multiplier and then destroy zombies en masse with explosives to increase that oh-so-important leaderboard high score. But beware! A burning zombie is a faster zombie – burn too many and they will burn you!

Burn Zombie Burn is frantic, arcade gaming at its best, delivering humour and bloody zombie violence in copious amounts!

The game looks to have a bit of Smash TV, which is cool by us. Check out the trailer…

You can find the official website here with screenshots, game footage, and more.

It seems that Fate or God is a cruel master. My recent editorial on the state of entertainment culture must have needed a dose of reality and irony has reared it’s ugly head to answer the call.

The messenger this time out is our friend Mark (ala Savory Cade) from the PSNation Podcast who says this:

Your favorite game keeps getting better! PAIN! is adding the one and
only David Hasselhoff! Now John/Buzz and the Hoff can act out their favorite Baywatch and Knight
Rider fantasies!

Both the star of the original Knight Rider and PAIN in the same story. It’s like the world is taking a dump on my head while I picnic in the rain. Or something to that effect.

You can find the whole, sordid story over at the Official PlayStation Blog, with pictures and full details of the Hoff’s grand entrance into the poster child for our world going to hell. Although, even I have to admit that it’s going to be fun to toss that guy’s crotch into a flagpole while playing one of his Top Ten hit’s from Germany. All the while shouting at the top of my lungs “Where’s K.I.T.T. NOW, BITCH!?!?!”

Glen Percival communes with the gods of the PlayStation in a holy ritual that includes the burning of a 360 every Sunday and forty virgins doing something naughty with all the leftover SIXAXIS controllers they have lying around. Of course, it’s easy to sacrifice a 360 when all you have to do is turn it on and try to play Castle Crashers online.

**BaDum CHA!!!**

I have no joke for the forty virgins part. That’s just me dreaming out loud.

But it all seriousness, our good friend of PSNation Podcast fame has clued us into something that we’re really damn excited about and gives us all another fine reason to be playing our PS3′s. We’ve heard rumors this summer that one of our favorite board games, Zombies!!! may be coming to XBLA and Twilight Creations confirmed not only Microsoft’s machine but Sony’s monster as well.

A perpetual Drunken Gamers Radio favorite and one of my regular gifts to John, the Zombies!!! board game consists of a randomized game board full of zombies trying to kill players on their way to an escape helicopter. It’s simple, fun and perfect for a downloadable game. Here’s hoping we get some of the awesome expansion packs that feature Zombie Chicks and Zombie Dogs. For those unfamiliar with the board game and the subsequent spin offs and expansions, hit up the link to the Twilight Creations web site and see the glory that is Zombies!!! for yourself.

Looks like Big Rooster is the one handling the publishing duties and the game is set to hit in the nebulous “sometime in 2009″. While it would be nice to have a firm release date, it’s good to know the rumors are more than just fanboy desire.

A link to the full story over at PS3 Fanboy can be found here.

Thanks again to Glen and PS3 Fanboy for the heads up!

Our good friend, Savory Cade (or Mark for all you PSNation fans out there) sent us this information. If for no other reason than to twist the knife in John’s side when it comes to this most subtle of PSN games.

Savory Cade writes:

Good news!

Your favorite PSN game, Pain!, is getting another expansion pack and guess what character is included in it? John’s quiz game doppelganger, Buzz! Now we can mock him and play as him all at the same time. ^__^

You can find all kinds of information about this fantastic innovation over at the US Playstation Blog.

Enjoy flinging John’s crotch into a flag pole everybody! Again and again and again and again and agai……

Article by: Tyler Durden84

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed unleashed its demo on Thursday and all I have to say is “Most Impressive”.

Being a HUGE Star Wars fan, I have clocked Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, or for the sake of saving me time, SW:TFU, on my most wanted games list for this year, and as of the day of the demo release, it seems warranted.

Checking in at fairly hefty near 1 GB of size, 905 Mb to be exact, SW:TFU truly lets you feel like a Jedi, and a seemingly evil Jedi to boot. After sampling the demo’s Force Grip tutorial, where I learned how to pick up movie stock cargo boxes and hurl them into the backs of hapless Stormtroopers, I felt more than qualified to approach the demo’s story option. Thrust into a cut scene that foreshadows the hero or antihero’s background, a quick audio flashback of what seems to be the player’s family screaming and dying, the man himself, Darth Vader, appears and requests that I help dismantle an imperial fleet station in hopes of tracking down an elusive Jedi and then murdering him or her.

(Quick nerd trivia, Darth Vader, after Episode 3, soon started to hunt down all the remaining Jedi in the galaxy, and it seems that you, the Apprentice, are there to help him with his goal.)

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With all the hoopla regarding Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty hitting the PlayStation Network, you might be forgiven for not noticing that there’s a demo for *The Last Guy sitting in the Hong Kong store. [UPDATE: The demo is now up in the U.S. store as well.] You might be, but you’re not.

*The Last Guy is an interesting little title in that all of the levels are actually satellite photographs of actual locations, such as Tokyo, London, Washington D.C. and others. According to the Official PlayStation Blog:

As the player, you are the last remaining hope in each of these cities to rescue mankind from the zombies roaming the streets. As you navigate the city, you gather survivors hidden throughout buildings and other nooks and crannies in the city. Once rescued, the nervous survivors will form a line behind you. The objective is to lead them back to the Escape Zone so the United Rescue Force can pick them up and whisk them off to safety.

Set some time in the 21st century, a mysterious purple ray hits Earth, turning anyone touched by the light into a monster or zombie. With zombies roaming the streets, unaffected people lucky enough to have been inside a building when the ray hit are anxiously holding their collective breath, waiting for someone to rescue them. As The Last Guy, you are the survivors’ last hope to survive this global crisis. Actually, the hero of the game is himself a zombie from the Himalayan mountains, on a quest to save the remaining humans from the zombies that have infested it.

So how does it play?

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El Bobo reviews this quirky PSN puzzler. Hilarity ensues.

EchoChrome
Format: PSN/PS3
Publisher: SCEE/SCEA
Developer: Japan Studio

DGTV rating: 8/10

Thanks to Chris (El-Bobo) Nelson of Drunken Gamers UK for the awesome review!