Powetcast Episode 20: Be an Earthling First

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Games, Powetcast, TV on Oct.05, 2009

Episode 20 - Be and Earthling First

What you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Is that why the Japanese game industry has been slipping lately? Even prominent Japanese creators are seeing the writing on the wall, saying that they must innovate, “or die”. As if to prove their point, we talk about a mess of games we’ve been playing that were not made in the land of the rising sun.

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(Name your dream team comic merger! AT&T still doesn’t own a company. How about Dark Horse? Leave your comments below!)

Show notes after the jump!

Powet Panel

Sean "Dojo Master" Corse
Sindra "The One who lives by Rule #2"

Crazy "Sindra’s Janine" Jaco

Zac "Coupon for Sex" Shipley
aDam Gardner "1.0"
(Logan…?)

News

Michael Bay announces story for TF3 completed. (No Orci or Kurtzman?) Will release July 1st, 2011.
Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal – Video
Super Street Fighter 4 Announced. Why people shouldn’t bitch about buying a whole new game.
Tim Schafer Talks Brutal Legend on Jimmy Fallon
Good news, everyone! Heroes might get canceled if this keeps up!
(House and Big Bang Theory make great gains (14%, 28%))

Roundtable

Has the gaming supremacy of the Land of the Rising Sun fallen?

Capcom’s Inafune Says Japan’s Games Industry is ‘Finished’
Itagaki: Be an Earthling first and a Japanese second
Last Guardian dev: Japan must appeal to the West or DIE!
Tokyo Game Show Slump Casts Shadow Across Industry

Huge Hype for Modern Warfare 2 at TGS
(not really, booth is deserted! best selling game everywhere else in the world is flop in Japan!)

Cool Beans

Movies

Evangelion 1.0
Zombieland
Superman/Batman Public enemies
Invention Of Lying
Nerdcore Rising

Flash Forward
The Cleveland Show – Bad show or worst show?

Games

Scribblenauts
Guitar Hero 5
Halo 3 ODST

Pimpin’

PowetToys – Animated Activators Cliffjumper (this week)
Keep Playing: Halo 3 ODST (next week)
Powet Alphabet (O is for ? (Crazy), P is for ? (Jacknife))

Geek.Kon 2009, Oct 25-27 Madison, WI
NBA 2k10 Demo at Best Buy in DC (Zac) Oct. 10
Follow the Gargoyle on Twitter

Tags: Activision, Capcom, EA, Halo, Microsoft, Xbox 360

http://www.fightingreality.com/blog Crazy

Was that an old school Cylon voice?

I still need to pick up Scribblenauts.

P for Pro Am Racing? Pikmin? Pants?
BumblebeeZ3

Gesundheit.
I concur with Adam on SF voice options.
The Brutal Legend demo was fun.
The Rock on History? TV channels violating their premise bother me.
To be fair, the music games do take up a lot of space, so they need the space.
Fido was a good Zombedy too.

Scribblenauts to Guitar Hero 5 was one of the oddest transitions. The pause there paired with the shift caused me to go back and make sure I didn’t miss something.

O for Optimus?
P for Powerglove? Power Rangers? Powet itself? An explanation of its origins?

If The Gargoyle travels to different time zones, he could post at other times of night that would seem like day.
Nick

P for Punch-Out!
http://www.fightingreality.com/blog Crazy

Sounds like the History Channel is doing the same terrible shift that Cartoon Network is going through, who may be changing their name to The Network. It kind of makes me sick.

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