FrakIN Media Podcast

TV is back folks! We discuss the new shows we’re pumped for and the ones we love that are returning. Spore has come out this week and Christian gives his impressions of the game. Also, Zach had the chance to get in on the Wrath of the Lich King beta, and he lets us in on the first few levels of the Death Knight class. All that and more!

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TV

Spore Gets Two Documentaries

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1801

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1802

TV is Back!!

New Shows: http://tinyurl.com/frakin1803

Returning Shows: http://tinyurl.com/frakin1804

MOVIES

Veronica Mars Closer to a Movie Deal

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1805

GAMES

Resident Evil 5 to get “Gears” Control Scheme

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1806

Spore - It’s Finally Here and What it Means for New Media

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1807

Wrath of the Lich King Beta

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1808

A painfully slow two-week period for news in TV, movies, and games, but we still manage to find a few things to talk about. Unfortunately, nearly everything we found was about people or companies throwing around terrible ideas and making decisions that don’t benefit us as consumers. Thankfully XBox Live Arcade brought us a ray of light.

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TV

Stargate Atlantis gets end date, Stargate Universe gets Green Light

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1705

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1706

Fishburne Joins CSI

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1708

WB Launches Hulu Competitor

http://thewb.com

Movies

New Fast and Furious Movie - Original Cast is Back

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1701

Fox Sues Warner Bros. over Watchmen

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1710

Movie About Facebook Founders On the Way?

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38100

Cher as the next Catwoman?

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1707

Games

Bionic Commando: Rearmed - XBL Gets Another Good One

http://tinyurl.com/42q9u7

Castle Crashers - So Much XBL, So Little Time

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1711

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo thoughts (On PS3 and 360)

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1703

Mortal Kombat v. DC Universe Game. Totally Ridiculous?

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1702

Due to a lack of a lot of news and some scheduling conflicts, there will be a one week delay on Episode 17.

We finally had the chance to record together, jumped on it, and it was a ridiculous amount of fun. News this week was kind of sparse, but there was enough to generate some great conversation. A glint of hope for a Serenity sequel, Star Wars, Tropic Thunder, and the new Lara Croft. Pandora might have to shut down, and NHL goes all MMO on us. All that and more!

As always, contact us via email or the forums…we want to hear from you!!!

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TV

Eureka Season 3 Recap

Shepherd Book…Gets a Book

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1601

Movies

Star Wars Clone Wars thoughts

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1602

Tropic Thunder - Too Much or Just Right?

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1603

Warner Trying to Grab Nolan For Batman 3, but He May Not Want In?

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1604

New Lora Croft

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1605

Top 5 at the box office

http://www.imdb.com/chart/

Music

Pandora on the Edge of Closing

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1606

Games

NHL 09 - Sports goes all Online RPG on Us

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1607

Despite Pricing Woes, Braid Dominates XBL Charts

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1608

Fallout 3 gets AU approval

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1609

EA Chooses BitTorrent for Warhammer Online Beta Distro

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1610

Bernie Mac has passed, and we reflect a little. Morpheus might replace Grissom, and the Battlestar movie has been confirmed. Also more news about Inglorious Bastards, Depp as the Riddler. As far as games, Christian reviews Braid and the C&C Red Alert 3 beta, and we discuss gold farming and how developers should approach pirates.

As always, check out the forums and send us emails!!

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TV

Bernie Mac Dies

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1501

CBS looking for big name movie actor to replace Petersen. Morpheus??

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1502

BSG Gets More Movies - Cyclon-centric Even!

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1503

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1504

Movies

Inglorious Bastards Cast

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1505

Johnny Depp as the Riddler

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1506

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1511

Tarantino Rips Reporter Apart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2ukSJFgCM

Games

Braid - A Mind-Boggling Art Piece

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1507

World of Developmentcraft

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1508

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1509

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3 Beta: I’ve played it!

http://www.ea.com/redalert/

Developer wants to learn from pirates, asks “Why?”

http://tinyurl.com/frakin1510

I just had to post this because it’s totally epic. Here’s the picture and a link to the article on Engadget.

Home-built Batman Tumbler invades the suburbs — Engadget

This week served us up so much news to talk about. Grissom leaving CSI and the Dr. Horrible DVD and possible series expansion. Also Zach gives us his review of the new Mummy film, and we discuss how Tarantino would pull off a war film, and the possible success of a big screen version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. And we can’t forget about games! The Star Trek MMO is announced and we discuss what we would like to see from the game, and Christian gives us the low down on Soul Caliber IV. All that in more!

As always, feel free to contact us via email [host name] @ frakinmedia [dot] com. But more exciting, we’ve added the forums! Come in and talk to us about whatever is on your mind. We want to know!

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This week saw the release of Soul Calibur IV and for hours and hours after I got my hands on my pre-ordered copy, my room was filled with nothing but the clashing of swords, moaning of my enemies, and countless cliche and overly dramatic lines of dialogue. Crawling into bed that night, my thumbs literally ached despite a lifetime of “endurance training” meant to avoid such an occurrence.

First things first: this game is good, real good. Second things second: This isn’t a review, but more a commentary on why this series has stayed so strong through the generations while maintaining its core game play mechanics.

Soul Calibur first saw its release on the Sega Dreamcast, not such a good first move for the series, but love for the initial release was widespread through Dreamcast owners. It was, undeniably, a hit. The gameplay was much the same as it is today, less unlockables and character creation, but the same control scheme, timing, skills required, and even some of the moves have been kept the same throughout the entire series. So what makes Soul Calibur good the fourth time around… now two generations later?

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So, I finally got around to it and did it.  This is Episode 1 - Vendeety! of my new show that I’m going to try to do semi-regularly called Lose the Cape.  In it, I basically review and talk about a lot of the trends, series, and story lines that get left behind in the mass of spandex and cowls that is the stereotypical comic book scene. I try to get into the nitty-gritty of everything that makes the medium so delicious and shy away from what makes it feel, at times, so stale. This episode covers a zombie comic: The Walking Dead, a post-apocalpytic comic: Y - The Last Man, and an MMO-centric graphic novel: The Surrogates.

I love everything we cover here at FrakIN Media and I also love graphic novels and comic books; therefore, I figured that maybe some of you would too. Enjoy.

Send any thoughts on the items covered, recommendations for future episodes, or other comments my way at:

christian@frakinmedia.com

Brooks is out, nasty paper to take care of. But we march on with some great discussion on Dr. Horrible for the serious crowd, Cloverfield and Tr2n, Games for Windows Live gets the free treatment, and PlayXpert feeds our in-game browsing needs. All that and more!

P.S. Our apologies for the missing Techgage episode. Some unforseen audio issues reared their nasty heads during post-production and we didn’t feel comfortable pushing the episode with them. We do plan on having our friend, Rory Buszka, on in the future to get seriously tech with us.

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TV

Project Abraham - Giving the serious treatment to the Dr. Horrible

idea with a twist of Katee Sackoff!

http://www.projectabraham.com/

Caprica Teaser Released? Is this the summer BSG film?

http://tinyurl.com/5ahlky

Heroes Season 3 Villians Trailer Released

http://tinyurl.com/3je7dg

Gossip Girls TV spots have people upset

http://tinyurl.com/6mawv5

MOVIES

Cloverfield 2 - “Not a Literal Sequel”?

http://tinyurl.com/5qog7s

Tr2n - Yea, it happening and it looks sweet!

http://tinyurl.com/5scpr9

Fanboys gets a release!

http://tinyurl.com/6kafmy

Iron Man to DVD

http://tinyurl.com/57on96

Quarantine (Cloverfield clone?)

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi720044313/

Cowboy Bebop Live Action

http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=6571

New Resident Evil: Degeneration Trailer at Comic Con

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8oKqpnjPo0

GAMES

Watchmen Game Coming: It’s going to be episodic

http://tinyurl.com/5gghos

Games for Windows Live Now Free

http://tinyurl.com/6c5ddp

PlayXpert - Open Beta: Jump on in!

http://www.playxpert.com/web/guest/splash