One Of Swords

One Of Swords


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One of Swords Podcast 196: Personal Apocalypse
October 23, 2013

After months of searching/procrastination, we finally have a new segment that makes both Hugh and Dan sound really dumb and Kat sound really smart! Better still, the person who suggested it wins mad loot. We also talk about the new Cabela's game, the new

One of Swords Podcast 195: Saddest Artistic Vegetable
October 16, 2013

Skylanders SWAP Force is a hit, and I've got Vicarious Visions co-founder Guha Bala live from Times Square in honor of the game's release. Kat and Hugh and I also chat about the already-hard-to-find Dark Edition, new Spider-Man games, how Activision celeb

One of Swords Podcast 194: What Are Bamps?
October 10, 2013

This week we've got not just one but two interviews with Call of Duty bigwigs -- John Linden, Studio Head of Beachhead Studio, and Tina Palacios, Senior Community Manager at Infinity Ward. They're both on the show to discuss today's announcements about Cl

One of Swords Podcast 193: Congested, Crowded & Unclear
October 02, 2013

It's a big week for your letters, some of which were unearthed from the spring! Kat, Hugh, and I talk about Destiny's beta, semantics over Season Passes, how our taste in games is based on our upbringing, the dream of next-gen backwards compatibility, som

One of Swords Podcast 192: Awkward Sideways Ballet
September 25, 2013

Kat's away, but Activision's own Jason Ades sits in and we tackle some listener letters. Conversation covers such topics as new Skylanders, the disappearance of cheat codes, Hockey Smurf, the new Steam TV box, Mass Effect 2, Toys R Us, HDMI to component c

One of Swords Podcast 191: Rabbit Lunatics
September 18, 2013

What happens when you mix a regular SWAP Force Skylander with a SWAP Force Dark Skylander? How many Skylanders can you fit in the 3DS version? How do you politely say you need to visit the restroom? Why did you get a piglet? Production coordinator Lou Stu

One of Swords Podcast 190: It’s Crazy, Man
September 11, 2013

John Dennis from The Blast Furnace drop by to discuss Call of Duty: Strike Team, the new iOS game that you can play either as a first-person shooter or a third-personal tactical game. I try to make him boast but I fail because he is British and too polite

One of Swords Podcast Special: Three Old Guys Play Zork at PAX Prime 2013
September 05, 2013

Jeff Green, Eric Neustadter and I are old guys — at least, old enough to remember games before graphics existed. They were called text adventures (or interactive fiction, if you prefer the fancier term) and they were novels you read while deciding what

One of Swords Podcast 189: Voracious Monstrous Friend
September 04, 2013

Kat's away this week on business, so Hugh and I get to spend some quality time together, and he tells me a story from the It Sucks To Be Hugh archive. Our discussion includes Xbox One's release date, how the consoles stack up and what we think matters whe

One of Swords Podcast 188: Broke and Optimistic
August 28, 2013

I've got one foot out the door to head to PAX, so this show's a little loopy -- but your questions grounded us. This week we discuss TMNT on XBLA, games in the classroom, Destiny's big win at Gamescom, Guitar Hero, awkward voice-overs, Hugh's metaphorical