Elder-Speek: The Elder-Geek.com Podcast

This week in Elder-Speek we go into the darkness with nothing but a flashlight and static radio, its Halloween and we’ve compiled a list of our most recommended Halloween games. As usual there’s also news to report and games to be played, among which are Torchlight, Tekken 6 and The Club.

Eliot is back this week for our 28’th episode of Elder-Speek. In this episode we discuss news topics like the God of War 3 DLC, Assassin’s Creed Lineage and Modern Warfare 2 missing dedicated servers. For Our Week in Geek we feature Brutal Legend, DJ Hero and FATALE among others. As usual we have discussion topic to argue over, this week we tackle Peter Molyneux’s list of revolutionary games.

In this episode of ELDER-SPEEK Gavin, Patrick and Mats discuss the state of videogame movies and what could be done to improve them. In Our Week in Geek they go over Brutal Legend, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising. For news topics range from the Resistance 3 announcement and Captain Lou Albano’s death to ABC News’ comparison of Citizen Cane and Metroid.

This week the good old crew is gets back together to discuss the evolution of videogame storytelling. Left 4 Dead 2 is in the news along with Gun of War, Wal-Mart and Demoplay. Our week in geek is action filled and very wrong, with games including Beyonetta, Operation Flastpoint 2, Scribblenauts and Pixel Junk Monsters.

This week Mats, Kipp and Gavin take on the fall season complete with all the big name titles coming out. We talk about all the major news of the week and totally disrespect each other for Our Week in Geek. Major news topics include Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond, Earthworm Jim HD remake and the Funcom layoffs.

In this episode of Elder-Speek, Kristie joins Randy and Mats for a TGS special. In addition to all the spectacular and not so spectacular news coming out of TGS, we dig deep down in our cynical selves to come up with a few upcoming big name releases that we are NOT excited about. Lastly, we go of topic on a space adventure featuring joules, anti-matter and mysterious sound carrying space particles.

This week Jesse joins us for the first time to discuss video game marketing campaigns for the question of the week. In the news The Witcher 2 gets confirmed, Shane Kim leaves Microsoft and Sony attacks BBC. To top it all of Kipp reminds us to get out or swashbucklers for Saturday’s ‘talk like a pirate day’.

This week we introduce our most recent addition to the staff; Kristie Barber. With a plethora of news we dive right into it with Pax and the nerd-flu. We have of course also been playing a few games here and there so F.E.A.R not. Lastly we tackle the question of video games as catharsis, do we use them to release stress and anger and are us doing so healthy?

We leave it all in this episode, every hilarious mistake and technical difficulty. We also switch it up a bit in doing the news before our week in games, finishing with this week’s EPIC question of the week –centered around network gaming.

Better late than never eh? This week we celebrate episode 20 with a new and episode exclusive intro made by The Kippmaister. We talk about our week in gaming, the extensive list of noteworthy news and pit 2D versus 3D in our question of the week.

In this extraordinary episode of Elder-Speek: Kipp, Mats and Gavin wrestle with the humungus mountain of news that came out of last week’s GamesCom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany. Fear not though, we also go over our week in games and the regular news, though the question of the week as been left out in the cold.

After two weeks in a row of technical difficulties resulting in two lost episodes we’re finally back. This week we predict the Game of the Year contenders and winners of 2009. And of course as always we go over not so thrilling news. In a strange turn of events we completely forget to mention our week of gaming, but the wound is mended when Randy and Nate discuss their patented Geek Night in Gotham City.

This week Gavin tries his hand at hosting while Mats and Eliot argues semantics. As usual we go over our week in gaming and discuss the “massive” news bombs of the week. We also give sexuality in games a more then thorough work-around (ugh…) in this week’s question of the week.

Randy, Kipp and Mats sit down and discuss their week in games through the virtual tubes. The news is bombarded with artificial illumination and the casual question of the week gets a hardcore beating.

This week Kipp, Mats and Gavin get together to record podcast detailing their week in gaming, the week in news and most importantly the contrast between mature ratings and mature content in games. We also talk a bit about the upcoming Harry Potter movie and the book it’s based on.

Randy’s back for another episode of Elder-Speek, as usual we kick it off with the games we’ve been playing, including a rant on Empire: Total War. We go over a long but interesting news list and give the movie Public Enemy a thorough trashing. For the QOTW we discuss the effect HYPE as on us and gaming in general.

In this week’s episode Randy and Kipp interview Suttering Craig from Screwattack.com and chat about the upcoming Screwattack Gaming Convention. Eliot, Mats, Gavin and Dan discuss games that "touch them." Nuff said.

In this week’s episode Randy, Kipp, Eliot, and Gavin discuss log cabin gaming, whether or not games are "Art" and give details of the Uncharted 2 Beta contest.

This week Gavin joins us as he just got back from E3 and he has stories of magic and wonder to share. In addition Eliot has a revelation that leads to a Geek fight of massive proportions involving stars, wars and bad acting.

In this spectacular E3 predictions edition of the Elder-Speek podcast we dedicate the entire show to our personal predictions on what E3 2009 introduce. We go over what we think the big three will announce in their press conferences, we tackle the third party publishers and predict the "winner" of E3 2009.