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Created by Michael James Allen to ward off boredom.
 

 

 

DAVES WORLD

 
GAMING PODCASTS

 

 

Each week a few friends and myself will discuss the latest gaming and tech information and will be just a general chat between us, just like friends do.

WARNING.  THESES PODCASTS MAY CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGE AND REQUIRE THE LISTENER TO BE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE.  DO NOT PLAY ANY OF THE PODCASTS IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE LIMIT.   DAVES WORLD WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ACTION THAT ME BE TAKEN DUE TO NOT FOLLOWING THE ABOVE WARNING.

 

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Episode 43 is up for your listening pleasure.

28-11-08

Rock Band kick pedal sparks lawsuit

Halo Wars controls better than a PC RTS

The Adventure Continues With Three All-New FINAL FANTASY XI Expansion Chapters!

Jaffe blown away by God of War 3

NXE reportedly causes sound issues for HDMI users

Relic "definitely looking" at Homeworld 3

PSP piracy is "trending down", says Sony

Gearbox Shelves Aliens Title Amid Layoffs

Data shows Wii games discounted fastest

 

Quick mentions

Tabula Rasa will end live service on February 28, 2009

Dead Space demo debuts on XBOX Live and PSN yesterday

Megaman the movie trailer was posted this week.

There is a list of all the XBOX 360 games that can be installed to the hard drive and it tells you the size of install and the effect is has installing it to the hard drive.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3's demo is now available on PC at Gamershell

Pokimon cough syrup.  What next?  Maybe preparation Pokimon?  Pokimon plasters.  Pokimon Bear, where you look at an ugly person and after a few beers say.  “I choose you”

Columbia Pictures movies now back on XBOX Live, via Netflix

There is a new version of Freeciv, which is an open source version of Civilization and well worth playing, especially as it's free.

Star Ocean: Second Evolution is delayed until January the 20th

Halo 3: recon has changed its name to Halo 3: ODST

The Sega Dreamcast turns ten years old this week.

XBOX Live Market place, are having a sale on Black Friday.

Soon the Playstation 3's internet browser will be able to handle Flash.

Ubisoft are working on Assassin creed 2, with no release date yet.

Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon PS3 Cancelled.

Australia Ratings Board Blocks F.E.A.R. 2

Sony's Home will available this year to everyone, according to PlayStation Home director, Jack Buser. 

Grand Theft Auto VI on the PC, gets thirty two player online multiplayer modes.

One of the actors who does the voices in Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3, was shot in Mumbai  yesterday. 

Canadian actor Michael Rudder "took three bullets" during the Mumbai attacks, but is now stable and recovering in hospital, according to an organizer of the spiritual retreat the Montreal performer had enrolled in.

 

Episode 42

21-11-08

Second Life affair ends in divorce

The PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii Turns Two

PSN sees 14 million active accounts

OFFICIAL: Gears 2 Matchmaking Update

New Outrun Game Racing To Consoles?

King of Fighters XII Officially Confirmed for U.S. Release

Halo 3 & NXE

Xbox 360 storms past 7m sales in Europe

USB 3.0 demonstrations dazzle: uncompressed 1080p transfer proves simple

Square Enix: "one-console market is over"

 

Special mentions

Locoroco 2 flash game was posted this week

Street Fighter 4 will be released in Europe next February on the XBOX 36o and Playstation 3

The second Watchman trailer is available in HD on file planet.

There is a download pack on file plane for Fallout 3 and includes mods and other useful things.

There is a new website that is devoted to XNA games called xnplay.co.uk

Netflix looses Sony / Columbia pictures on the verge of NXE

Championship Gaming Series is no more

New Zombie Peggle coming out to coincide with the release of Left for Dead

EA and Gillette are joining up to offer prizes to winners of their sports competition

Half Life is officially ten years old and to celerbrate that fact, Valve are selling it on Steem for 98 Cents

Sony get the wallet out again for infringing some ones patents again.

ELSPA close down another modder and find £16,000 of counterfeit goods 

Chrono Trigger piracy checks already beaten

 

Episode 41 is up for your listening pleasure

14-11-08

New Class-Action Suits Target EA, SecuROM, The Sims & Spore Creature Creator

[SecuROM] cannot be completely uninstalled. Once installed it becomes a permanent part of the consumer's software portfolio...

NINTENDO PREPS FOR ROOM-TO-ROOM VOICE CHATTING

Sacred 2 adopts unique PC DRM

New Dead Space weapons, skins coming Nov. 13

Nintendo Hit With Lawsuit Over Wii Motion Controls

inFamous will be "about quality", not length, says creative director

Rumor: Zune to double as additional Xbox storage

 

Special mentions

The warlord (jet Li)

Fallout 3 patch for the PC has been released

Fifa Soccer 09 and Pro Evolution Soccer 09 have had patches released for the PC

High resolution pack for Duke Nukem 3D on the PC

Dell will be selling this Friday, an XBOX 360 Arcade Holiday Bundle, with the Rock Band 2 Game for $199.00

Mitch Mitchel from the Jim Hendrix Experience sadly passed away this week.

 

Episode 40 is up for your listening pleasure

07-11-08

DSi to reach Europe by next autumn

PS3 "break apart" motion pad sighted

No Xbox 360 price drop for "many years"

New 360 hard drive bundle coming soon

EA CEO proclaims long-term support for Pandemic's franchise, says original IPs won't be sequelized on annual basis.

EA makes Red Alert 3 CD key blooper

Killzone 2 beta gets underway

 

Special mentions

 

World of Goo is now available on the Mac

Team fortress has been made for the PSP

Call of Duty: World at War beta now available on the PC

SquareEnix shop to open in Europe

 

Episode 39 is up for your listening pleasure

31-10-08

Fable 2: Monks Quest Issue - Unresponsive Oakfield Abbot

Woman in jail over virtual murder

Bethsoft asks Big Download and other sites to pull all Fallout 3 trailers

New Elder Scrolls "potentially" for 2010

Australia’s 18+ rating is indefinitely on Hold

 

Eurogamer Expo 2008

 

Street Fighter 4 arcade and on xbox 360

super street fighter 2 HD remix

Killzone 2

resident evil 5

little big planet

call of duty world at war

air combat 6

po evolution soccer 2009

 

indie

plain sight xbox 360 and pc

braid on pc

lead programmer of crackdown

alien the movie. creator of the armour.

Farcry 2 compition

Q&A

 

Episode 38 is up for your listening pleasure

24-10-08

EA at work on new Syndicate

Fable II online co-op for launch

Blizzard's next MMo won't be a World of Warcraft Sequel

Xbox 360 Growth in Japan Has Topped All Platforms from March to September

Help save videogames from extinction

SSFII Turbo HD Remix "very soon"

 

Episode 37 is up for your listening pleasure

17-10-08

Halo MMO would be "challenging" - Bungie

Windows 7 to be officially named... Windows 7

ESRB listing shows Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for the PS3

MGS4 on 360 Rumors Gain round

Microsoft Confirms Feature Cut from New Xbox 360 Dashboard

Rare working on Killer Instinct 3?

 

Episode 36 is up for you listening pleasure

10-10-08

Eidos confirms Deus Ex 3 is prequel

Thousands of COD X360 keys soon

Microsoft Preps External Blu-Ray Disc Optical Drive for Xbox 360.

New Xbox Dash Gets Release Date

More background revealed about made up piracy figures

Microsoft TGS Keynote Roundup

Area 51 is now available for free from Gamershell

Full Spectrum Warrior for the PC for free

Diablo III will be playable at Blizzcon

 

Episode 35 is up for your listening pleasure

03-10-08

Kojima already has ideas for MGS5

Pre-owned market had "big" effect on Halo, says Bungie dev

Man accused of stealing $180,000 in Xbox, PS3 scheme

Nintendo officially unveils Nintendo DSi and online store, coming Nov 1 in Japan for $180

New Wii due by 2011

A special section from the God of British Radio

 

Episode 34 is up for your listening pleasure

26-09-08

L.A. Noire: A Year Off and No Longer PS3 Exclusive?

Rare: No plans to revive more old franchises

SEGA's 7th Dragon Revealed

Quick mentions

Eurogamer Expo is next week

XBOX 360 HITS SIX MILLION IN EUROPE

Live scheduled downtime: September 29, 2008

Diablo 2

 

Episode 33 is up for your listening pleasure

19-09-08

Halo Studio gearing up for next-gen

Sony upset with third-party PSP support

The Microchip Turns 50 Today, Here's the Original

Team17 making more Alien Breed

Movie man buys Mass Effect rights

Far Cry 2 LiveText TODAY!

 

Episode 32 is up for your listening pleasure

12-09-08

Square Enix withdraws Tecmo offer

Overheated Xbox Blamed for Burning Down Home

Happy 9th Birthday Dreamcast!

Halo Studio gearing up for next-gen

Games to trump music sales at HMV News

Game Drops on Concern Discounts May Cause `Price War' (Update1)

iPod Touch v2 Secretly Has Bluetooth, But Will Apple Enable It?

Quick mentions

The incredible hulk

Half Life

 

Episode 31 is up for your listening pleasure

05-09-08

No Gears of War 2 on PC, Says Epic

Gears 2 will not have a Halo 2-style ending

Everyday Shooter’ Coming To PSP

Street Fighter IV already broken?

Eurogamer Expo this October!

TT not going to "take the piss" out of LEGO-game fans

 

Episode 30 is up for you listening pleasure

29-08-08

Killzone 2 co-op to be patched after launch, bots confirmed

Taito responds to 'unauthorized' Space Invaders 9/11 exhibit

Xbox Live in youth voting drive

Perry: "Sony has no chance of making money on the PS3"

No PS3 price cut this year, says Reeves

Max Payne 3 and New PS3 Exclusive Coming From Rockstar?

 

 

Episode 29 is up for your listening pleasure

22-08-08

Sony won't cut PS3 price at Leipzig

Dragon Age: Origins coming to consoles

Remedy "working hard" on Alan Wake

The PS3 has already cost Sony over $3.3 billion, which is apparently more than the company made on its ubiquitous PS2 during the first five years, according to DFC.

 

 

Episode 28 is up for your listening pleasure

15-08-08

PSP extended life battery kit is discontinued

WWE star wants "more violence" in games

Fallout 3 Cleared For Australian Release

Microsoft Explains Why Final Fantasy XIII Is On Xbox 360

Jeffery: Yu Suzuki Still With Sega As 'Creative Officer'

Batman the dark knight

 

Episode 27 is up for your listening pleasure

08-08-08

"360's the better platform" for contemporary games - Carmack

Bethesda has plans for Fallout 4

"Loads of plans" for LittleBigPlanet

Old People? Ha! You Can Keep 'em! Sony Wants PS2 Owners...

‘Diablo III’ Designer Turns Tables, Judges Fans’ Screenshots

Balance Board Tetris for WiiWare

Bungie Says Halo Could Learn From Call of Duty 4

Area 88

Code Geass

 

Episode 26 is up for you listening pleasure

01-08-08

Sony promises Leipzig ‘blockbuster’

Too Human demo classes unlock over time, internal clock shift makes them all available

Wright: "Play Spore for your entire life and you'll never visit everywhere"

Gears film gets Legendary boost

Quick mentions

You won't get a Okami 2 until the original sells more

Live Silver for xbox allowing online play?

Firmware (v2.42) Now Available

 

Episode 25 is up for you listening pleasure

25-07-08

Top Execs Criticize Current State Of E3

Intel turns 40

Ubisoft Used Pirate Hack to Fix Rainbow Six Vegas 2

GFW Live Goes Free, DirectX 11 Unveiled

HMV to sell VAT-free games in-store

The Final Fantasy Info [Rumor]

WipEout HD delayed for failing epilepsy tests

 

Episode 24 is up for your listening pleasure

17-07-08

Final Fantasy 13 coming to the XBOX 360

Major nelson gives some new details on the new dash board

Apogee to be resurrected as publisher

Xbox Division FINALLY Reports Profitable Year

Quick mentions

Dungeon Hero

Gears of war 2 given a date

Fable 2 finished and given a date

Ubisoft announces I am alive

Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS

Sony unveils 256-player MAG: Massive Action Game

Sony announces its new download service

The PSN Video Store will be region locked

Neon Evangelion

11th of July 2008

 

Episode 23 is up for your listening pleasure

11-07-08

Hudson: PS3 development too expensive

PS3 firmware 2.41 out "midweek", says Sony

David Hayter Begged Konami To Change MGS4 Stuff

Introversion making game with Channel 4

A Decade Later, We Get New Thunder Force Game

Capcom 1942 remake out this month

People Who Sold Their iPhones May Not Be Eligible For Subsidized iPhone 3G Upgrade

Konami Sues Viacom Over `Rock Band' Music Video Game (Update2)

Neon Evangellion

 

04th of July 2008 ( Independance Day)

Episode 22 is up for your listening Pleasure

04-07-08

Nintendo Push Back Relase Of DVD-Playing Wii

Square Enix's free-to-play, item-based MMORPG Concerto Gate

Minority Report Designer Behind New, Motion-Controlled 360 GUI?

BioWare Confirms PC Support, ‘Looking At’ iPhone Development

Fallout 3 Producer Disappointed With Diablo III And Starcraft II

Dizzy and the other side

Small review of Hasndcock and Wall-E

 

27th of June 2008

Episode 21 is up for your listening pleasure

27-06-08

No online host advantage in Gears 2

3DRealms are looking for staff; maybe to complete a certain game. 

Square Enix releases old games via PSN

Grand Theft Morals: Slossberg targets violent video games. The Ideats at New Haven Magazine snub a fringe festival.

Rumor: UGO-owned E3.net lists Kid Icarus, Alan Wake, HL2: Episode 3

Raiden IV to be released on the XBOX 360 this September in Japan

 

20th of June 2008

Episode 20 is up for your listening Pleasure

20-06-08

Darlings' of UK games honoured

Tecmo Employees Sue Tecmo

Die Hard director to do Gears film

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Database on the way!

5 LEGO Video Games That Will Never Happen

Scarygirl game

Jetset  Brontosaurus

Avalanche

Battlestar Galactica 04 10

 

13th of June 2008

Episode 19 is up for your listening pleasure

13-06-08

This weeks topics

2K Games Revives Sid Meier’s Colonization

Bach: no plans for Blu-ray on Xbox

DiCaprio to star in Atari biopic

More Rock Band 2 rumours emerge

system requirements for Spore have been released

Halo Wars co-op, multiplayer details revealed

Commando 3 and the slightly delayed Street Fighter 2 HD Remix release

O2 Offers Upgrades To Existing iPhone Owners

Street Fighter IV in London next month

Battlestar Galactica season 4 episode 9

 

06th of June 2008

Episode 18 is up for your listening pleasure

06-06-08

Self destructing DVD to come back

PC Huxley Officially Coming To North America

StillAliveDS: Portable 2D Portal for DS

Sony Set To Open Up To In-Game Advertisers

Toshiba to resume format wars

is Warner Brothers working on Potter MMORPG

Kojima Productions Says "No MGS4 90 Minute Cutscenes"

EA officially reveals Crysis Warhead

EA Kills Red Alert 3 for PlayStation 3

 

30th of May 2008

Episode 17 is up for your listening pleasure

30-05-08

Ubisoft gives Avatar a rough date

Sony's Stringer: PS3 No Longer 'On Life Support'

Metal Gear Solid Books It To Store Shelves

Apple planning solar-powered iPods

Microsoft explains XBLA delistings

 

23rd of May 2008

Episode 16 is up for your listening pleasure

23-05-08

Samsung unleashes ultra-sharp 2160p HDTV

Square Enix: Acquisitions Key to Growth Strategy

Rare Mated Viva Pinata DS And 360

Nintendo DS - Xbox 360 Connectivity Considered For 'Viva Pinata: Trouble In Paradise'

Ziff Davis Wraps Up Restructuring, Cuts Debt

Nintendo Fights “Shocking” Price Fixing Fine

Second generation XO laptop unveiled

battlestar galactica se04 ep07

3 kingdoms resurrection of the dragon

ironman

 

16th of May 2008

Episode 15 is up for your listening pleasure

16-05-08

Miyamoto say US developers are better than Japanese

So... Will There Be Another Metal Gear Solid?

Kojima: Western Devs "Have Surpassed Us"

Rumor: Gamerscores transferring to next Xbox console

Rumor: 360 dashboard update to support game installs, 'motion sensor devices'

Postal Opening On Four Screens (Yes, FOUR)

Retro review of the original Unreal

Battlestar Galactic episode 6

 

09th of May 2008

Episode 14 is up for your listening pleasure

09-05-08

News

Forbes: GTA IV poses threat to Wii

T-Mobile officially confirms 3G iPhone

Happy Birthday, Wolfenstein

Blizzard begins digital distribution

GTA IV sells 926,000 units first week in UK

MPAA awarded $110 million in TorrentSpy suit

Federal legislation proposes ID checks for video game retailers

PS3 will take the lead, says Hirai

 

movies

forbidden kingdom

treasure hunt 2

doomsday

 

02nd of May 2008

Episode 13 is up for your listening plearsure

02-05-08

Codemasters acquires Sega Racing Studio

PS2 to PS3 Guitar Hero Adapter Rescues Otherwise Non-Functional Guitars

Be Happy That You Aren't Buying GTA IV In Denmark (Sorry If You Are)

Take-Two Stock Trading Higher Than EA's Offer

Duke Nukem Forever still coming

Crytek drops PC exclusives

Xenogears

and Once upon a time in China series

 

25th of  April 2008

Episode 12 is up for your listening pleasure

25-04-08

Microsoft Staffing Up For Peter Jackson's Halo: Chronicles?

Time Readers: Kiefer Sutherland More Influential Than Miyamoto

Not Planning DS or Wii Price Cuts This Year

Review of season 4, episode 3 of Battlestar Galactica

What have I been playing: Xenogears

 

19th of April 2008

19-04-08

Capcom exec expects western acquisition in next 2 years

The campaign for TimeSplitters 2 HD

DualShock 3 gets Oz release date

Hudson confirms WiiWare shooter Star Soldier R for North America

Sign Up For The Quake Live Beta

What have I been playing: Xenogears

 

11th of April  2008

Episode 10 is up for your listening pleasure

11-04-08

Wii Gets A Pretty New GameCube Controller

SEGA confirms Racing Studio closure

Xbox 360 HD-DVD player gets patch

Earthworm Jim, MDK and co. to return

Europe Totally Fucked Over On Rock Band Pricing

I do a retro review of Final Fantasy 6

I also review this first episode of the final season of Battlestar Galactica

 

04th of April 2008

Episode 9 is up for you listening pleasure

04-04-08

Ex-Xbox man predicts death of consoles

Supreme Commander 2 Waiting For PCs Of The Distant Future

Sonic Unleashed confirmed

Kojima talks about the future of MGS

GTA IV cleared by BBFC, 'no cuts made'

Science says: Game violence makes players relaxMad people forge actual WOW Epics

A retro review of AH MY Goddes the anime series

 

28th of March 2008

Episode 8 is up for your listening pleasure

28-03-2008

The real reason Microsoft won't bring Blu-ray to the Xbox: HDi

WiiWare Final Fantasy to charge for downloadable races

Wonder Boy, Fantasy Zone coming to North American VC

How To Get Around Microsoft's Shitty DRM

Epic patches UT3 on PS3

Master Chief Makes PS3 Appearance

In the retro corner is a retro-review of Super Mario World

 

21st of March 2008

Episode 7 is up for your listening pleasure.

21-03-2008

This weeks topics;.

Japan to get steel-coloured PS3

UK Xbox 360 sales up 40%

Digimon MMO in the works

Haze PS3 exclusivity clouds over ... again

Fable 2 will 'talk to' three XBLA games

Acer planning 'open standard' gaming PC

Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

Last but not least; I review Final Fantasy 7 in the retro corner.

 

Episode 6 is now uploaded for your listening pleasure.

14-03-08

Rockstar consider making an MMORPG GTA?

Mass Effect has extra content.

Grand Turismo 5 is to be released in the UK before the US.

BioShock 2 due in fiscal Q4 2009 from 2K Marin.

Square Enix commits to simultaneous worldwide releases.

Mass Effect 2 will be a "richer" experience

 

Episode 5 of davesworld podcast, is up for your listening pleasure

07-03-2008

news discussed this week

Kojima Says Blu-Ray Disc Doesn't Have Enough Space

Ecko picks up Dexter licence

Phil Harrison named president of Infogrames

"Atari is gaming's best opportunity" - Phil Harrison

Rock Band earns Harmonix possible $208.7 million bonus

 

Episode 4 is up for your listening pleasure.

29-02-2008

News articles this week:

Japanese MGS4 Won't Have English Subtitles

Finnish researchers: Video games don't desensitize to violence

Rumor: Lost Odyssey sequels on the way

$1 billion investment needed to take on World of Warcraft - Kotick

Retro: Sensible World of Soccer

 

Episode 3 of the Davesworld podcast is up and ready for your listening pleasure.

22-02-08

Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

Blu-ray Xbox 360 Planned By Microsoft

Red Rings claim display 360 at GDC

Ps3 out sells the xbox 360 for the first time ever

Cliffie b say that the pc market is in disarray

 

Episode 2 is up for your listening pleasure

15-02-2008

news of the week

Governerment in action

EA says sorry

Microsoft not a true believer

Guiness records gamers edition

Street Fighter IV playable at GDC

Mass Effect confirmed for PC

PlayStation 3 sells one million in UK

 

Episode 1 is up for your listening pleasure.

11-02-2008

The first episode of davesworld is now up and hopefully will be bi-weekly and maybe weekly depending on who I can drag in to do it with me.

This week I am on my own, but that's cool.

subjects reviewed

Movies

1: Cloverfield
2: Hitman
3: There will be blood

Games

4: Crysis

5: Portal

Anime

12: fist of the north star

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