Podcast 35 – SuicideBoys

The ground shakes. The sky begins to cloud over. Somewhere in the distance, a baby cries out for its mother.

This can only mean one thing – Sean has opened FileZilla, and he’s uploading episode 35 of the DarkZero podcast.

Everything’s completely back to normal this week – the roster has returned to the traditional Sean/Andi/Ian/Seth arrangement and, 35 episodes in, we still don’t have a clue what we’re doing. This week, Ian and Andi talk for ages about how bloody good Uncharted 2 is. Sean, on the other hand, is poor, and could only afford some rubbish iPhone game and Axel & Pixel on Xbox Live Arcade. Seth has spent his sabbatical playing on his new PS3, and is yet to be overhwhelmed with joy about his recent purchase, but we’ve all vowed to try Killzone 2’s multiplayer soon in order to fathom why it’s supposedly so great.

We’ve got a special interlude this week, as Andi talks us through the incredible experience of playing Seduce A SuicideGirl on the iPhone. This is a real game, and we have not made it up. So, check that out to see if he gets lucky or not. [SPOILER: He gets kicked to the curb and hates the game.]

In the second half, we completely fail to find any real news to talk about, but there’s some stuff about Mr Pachter’s recent predictions that have been dragged kicking and screaming around the blog circuit, and we later move on to a discussion about how the role of videogame demos seems to have shifted in recent years, with publishers seeming more keen to restrict access to what should be, essentially, advertising for their games. Are we really so desperate for early access to our beloved games that the publishers are now the ones wearing the trousers, when it should be them desperately trying to convince us that we should buy their stuff?

Join us next week for a Hallowe’en special, where Sean tries to play the opening sections of Dead Space without shitting himself inside out. Unless the recording turns out to not be all that funny and we decide not to use it. We’ll see.

Cheerio!

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