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The Tuesday Usual: Game Junkie chews the fat with Radio Wammo

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Today’s Tuesday, so that mean, as it has done just about every Tuesday for the past two years (has it really been two years? Really?), I talk games and games-related stuff with Kiwi FM’s resident tech overlord and the most connected guy I know, Glenn “Wammo” Williams.

This week, though, rather than review a specific game we chatted about the hubbub surround the launch of Duke Nukem Forever where a PR guy handling public relations duties for 2K spouted off on Twitter a little too much. He got the sack from the 2K account as a result.

We also talked a little about whether DNF fitted into the modern generation of gaming anymore. but anyway, I couldn’t talk about the game as I still don’t have a copy yet – but interestingly,  there were developments on that today.

2K’s man in Australia emailed today asking if I’d received the copy of DNF he’d sent over. I said I hadn’t but had send the signed NDA back almost two weeks ago. I joked that I thought I’d been blacklisted because I hadn’t got a copy. He has replied to my email. Maybe that is a bad sign.

So enjoy the video. No doubt, as usual I’ll ramble something shocking and go off topic and sound like a blithering idiot. I’ve long said I have a gift for words but not a voice for radio. I’ll let you be the judge of that.

Me? I’m off to play some Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D on my 3DS tonight while the missus watches Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. I think OoT 3D sounds like the better proposition, don’t you?

UPDATE: After watching the video again, I’ve decided I need to make my background more gamey as it looks decidingly middle-income surburbia and very un-man cave and game room. Any suggestions?

First impressions of L.A. Noire with Radio Wammo

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Yep, it’s that time of the week again, where I discuss games with Glenn “Wammo” Williams at Kiwi FM.

This morning we chewed the fat about L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s latest game that uses a revolutionary head-scanning technique to give credible performances from the in-game actors. It’s pretty impressive, actually.

I’m only about an hour and a 1/4 into the game but I’m enjoying it so far, even if the first hour was a little formulaic and predictable. I think now that my character, cop Cole Phelps is now a detective, thinks will start to pick up and get interesting.

Enjoy. Oh, I saw Duke Nukem Forever and The Darkness 2 yesterday afternoon – I was in Auckland for a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 thing and an appointment with 2K came available. I’ll post on what I thought of those two games either tonight or tomorrow, but I think I like the look of The Darkness 2 more than Duke Nukem Forever.