Gadgets and Video Games

Filed under: Podcasts Though this is a short version of the show that lacks Chris Grant and Ludwig Kietzmann, we’ve made up for it with Joystiq’s Ben Gilbert and Jem Alexander and super special guest Wombat of Cheap Ass Gamer fame. We’re talking The Conduit , Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood and a load of other stuff. Enjoy it and have a happy 4th! Oh, and thanks to TV’s Alan Black for the photoshop. Get the podcast: [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Joystiq Podcast in iTunes [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Joystiq Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace [ RSS ] Add the Joystiq Podcast feed to your RSS aggregator [ MP3 ] Download the MP3 directly Hosts: Jem Alexander, Ben Gilbert, Wombat of CAG Fame and Justin McElroy Music: ” Gravity (Don’t Let Me Go) ” by Jon Black , “The Problem With America” by The Vitamen For fans: Joystiq Podcast Facebook group See all of this week’s links after the jump.

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Joystiq Podcast 01776 – Sorry, England edition

Swag Saturdays continue on this 4th of July with Atlus’ first downloadable XBLA game, Droplitz . Don’t know much about the game? Well, watch the video to find out how to play this puzzler. Leave a comment telling us what XBLA game is your favorite game so far. Note : If you say Yaris , you are automatically disqualified from this contest.

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Swag Saturday: Droplitz (XBLA)

In the celebration of all things great and American, we’re proud to present the characters of inFamous and Prototype cross-dressing. YAY! (See inFamous ‘ Cole after the break.) Okay, so you’re probably wondering where these images came from . Yahtzee presented a challenge to the development teams of these two games after he couldn’t decide which game was better in a recent episode of Zero Punctuation . So, he jokingly said the “winner” would be whichever team sends in an image of the other game’s protagonist cross-dressing. And now the world is a much better place.

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Happy 4th of July! Here’s Alex Mercer with boobs, Cole McGrath in a bikini

Concept and execution are two totally different worlds. Although the concept and initial presentation of Lionhead Studios’ Milo blew everyone away at E3 2009 , what does fate have in store for the little digital boy’s longterm execution? IGN attempts to answer that question in a little sketch they put together

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IGN shows us Milo’s future

What’s that, Chris Cashman, host of Xbox Live’s 1 vs 100 ? Oh yeah, “skill-based prizes” start next week (July 10 specifically)? Great! Unfortunately though, what we heard from Mr. Cashman during tonight’s game of 1 vs 100 wasn’t all good news.

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1 vs 100 ’skill-based’ prizes start July 10 ‘for the mob,’ stays in beta

So this is kinda confusing, try to roll with us. Developer Reality Pump announced that it’s working on Two Worlds II , due this winter. Only … it had already announced a sequel to Oblivion -esque FPS RPG called Two Worlds: The Temptation . We’re pretty sure the team just decided to go with the number instead of the subtitle, but we guess we’ll never know .

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Hey, someone’s making Two Worlds II

Video Games Live continues touring with a few special shows during the month of July. On July 10, the National Symphony Orchestra (which did two sold-out shows at the Kennedy Center in DC ) will perform at the WolfTrap Feline Center in Virginia. Sid Meier, Civilization IV vocalist Ron Ragin and game composer Grant Kirkhope ( Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie, Viva Pinata ) will all be in attendance. For Texans, Halo composer Mike Salvatori will make a “special guest appearance” at the Ft. Worth show on July 14.

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Video Games Live to have several special shows in July

In other news, Joystiq Publishing trademarked “Just STOP.” Ubisoft trademarks ‘Just Dance’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read

We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly, and Blu-ray each week. Recommendation of the Week: Sunshine (Blu-ray: $29.99): We all know about Danny Boyle and Slumdog Millionaire; winning a few Oscars will do that to your movie, particularly if it’s great. However, his sci-fi masterpiece Sunshine is severely underrated and underwatched.

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JBO: Joystiq Box Office, June 29 – July 3

The founding of a nation is pretty significant and well worth getting excited about. The best way to display said excitement is, of course, with massive, colorful airborne explosions, a.k.a. fireworks

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Three games to light up your 4th