Uncompressed Episode 61
I was supposed to do this last night since Tony was at a Metallica concert last night, but I had some random work to do then played video games. Imagine that. (In my defense, I finished COD5 to unlock zombie mode so in my mind it was time well spent.)
I’m going to keep this short; Sean “Shakka” Partridge was back and we harassed him mercilessly about his lack of appearance the last couple shows and even demoted him to “guest” for this episode. lol … Poor Sean.
Hope you enjoy the show. I’m throwing links after the jump, so be sure to check those out.
Please email us at uncompressedshow@gmail.com with your comments/questions/suggestions for the show; we’d love to hear them.
Video Games By The Numbers
Wii Sports : Most Successful Videogame of All Time - Wii Sports unseats Super Mario Brothers as the most successful video game of all time. Crazy.
Guitar Hero III : First TITLE to hit $1bil in sales - One title hitting a billion bucks is crazy. I’d love to see a breakdown of sales on various platforms to see how much of that was PS2 / Wii sales?
Nielsen Console Usage : October 2008 - It’s kind of amusing and sad that the old Xbox is beating the PS3 in minutes played according to Nielsen. How is that even possible?
EGM Closing - Not really huge news, or surprising, but EGM wasn’t a bad mag and it’s sad it came just shy of their 20th anniversary (it started in 1989). Ziff Davis sold 1UP to Hearst (UGO), and since EGM and 1UP wouldn’t share staff anymore, keeping the magazine wasn’t an option. I didn’t use 1UP at all, but I preferred that site over anything UGO ever did. Yuck.
Hardware
nVidia 3D Glasses - I want these, but the glasses and 120Hz monitor requirement makes this a pretty expensive toy.
Behind The Scenes
Left 4 Dead Blog : Stylized Darkness - I thought this article about the process behind how they came up with Left 4 Dead’s lighting was really interesting and worth reading. I love Valve’s attention to detail with this kind of stuff and their openness with discussing the process. Yay Valve. 
YouTube Of The Week
Validation … It’s a little different from the usual crap we post here, but sue me; I like it.
That’s it for this week! I hope you enjoy/enjoyed this week’s program.
