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

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?

What a shit day yesterday was … and here’s an inFamous 2 video review

Well, to be honest, yesterday was just a shit day, thanks to the two big earthquakes that hit Christchurch – I see that they’ve now been upgraded from 5.5 and 6.0 to 5.7 and 6.3, respectively.

Frankly, my nerves – and those of my family – are frazzled and we seem constantly on edge for when the next one will come. It’s been a most stressful nine months, since September’s first quake, but at least I’ve still got my family and video games to keep me company. Video games could well be the rock that keeps my mind off the shifting ground.

Here’s the video review I did with Glenn “Wammo” Williams this morning on inFamous 2, the PlayStation 3 sequel to, well, inFamous. I’m liking it: McGrath, the dude who gained the ability to harness the power of electricity after the massive explosion in Empire City at the start of the first game, now has some upgraded powers but is facing off against armed guys called the militia and some rather nasty mutated creatures.

Check out the video review: I probably ramble a bit but that’s what I tend to do.  Feedback is always welcome so let me know what you think.

Hopefully today will be shake-free. Fingers crossed, eh?

On the wireless: Game Junkie talks E3 with Radio Wammo

… and the E3 onslaught continues, this time with my weekly radio segment with Glenn “Wammo” Williams on Kiwi FM. Here we discuss mainly the Xbox press conference from this morning, but some non-Xbox related E3 stuff near the end.

Oh, it may look at some point that I’ve actually lost interest in the sound of my own voice, and I drop my head, but I actually think what happened there was I was typing in a user name and password into a website account – and forgot that I was using the video option with Wammo. Yep, that’s exactly what happened.

Enjoy (I promise this is the last update for the night. Maybe. Although Private Practice is on TV in half an hour and I need something to keep me busy while that’s on …)

Where I discuss Portal 2 with Glenn “Wammo” Williams

Right, here’s the latest gaming segment with good guy Glenn “Wammo” Williams from the Radio Wammo Breakfast at Kiwi FM, which we recorded on Tuesday.

The eagle-eyed among you who regularly tune into the segment will notice that this week I’m restricted to audio only, not video as normal  – and pathetic audio via a landline phone at that too!

Ironically for a tech-related segment, my internet decided to shit itself a few moments before I was due to connect with Wammo over Skype, dropping our connection. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time to reboot my PC to restart Skype, so Wammo used old technology and his digits to phone me on the landline.

Hopefully things will settle down and my internet will behave itself for the next time I speak with Wammo. Hear that internet? Behave.