We start this podcast on a very sad day with local development studio, Blue Tongue, being given their marching orders by THQ. However we have a small amount of joy on this down occasion by officially welcoming our newest Taco ingredient Anna “MythiC” Tito to the tasty tasty shell.

Mmmmmmm, taco shell.

In this exciting episode we manage to talk about a slew of XBLA games, because lets face it there was nothing else released during the period, some more Mass Effect 2 (because we’ve never spoken about that before have we), and a new barrel making economy that just could be the answer to the financial ills of the world.

We also spend some time discussing the closure of the two THQ studios in Australia, what state the Australian game development industry is in, and where it could go from here. But you know that all pales in comparison to that monkey riding a pig backwards and our mid podcast break music.

You know the drill, click the link below to see the contents in detail.

00:01:21 – Welcome to official new recruit Anna

00:01:51 – D&D Daggerdale and the new barrel making economy

00:11:16 – Fancy Pants Adventures. So fancy.

00:13:16 – Mark is disgusted by the lack of customisable pants in the Mass Effect series

00:14:14 – DexX talks about Mass Effect 2 compared to Mass Effect 1 and references to historical literature

00:27:20 – Bastion, ITSP, From Dust, micro transactions and Rick Rolling. It will make sense when you listen.

00:39:00 – Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars and French being Japanese

00:40:35 – Half Minute Hero, not in 30 second increments

00:44:46 – Kane & Lynch 2. Mark likes to punish himself.

00:47:50 – Inotia 3, the great smartphone games argument, and Mark is easily suggestable

00:54:30 – Batman: AA and punching dudes. In the game, not in real life.

00:59:55 – Alien vs Predator, the old school version. Not this shoddy new fandangled one.

01:03:39 – Break time, with the best break music we’ve ever had

01:04:08 – We’re back and we talk Blue Tongue closure and the state of the Australian games development industry

01:38:41 – It’s over, let the shenanigans begin

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