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This week’s podcast features the following on-air personalities:

• Bob Somers - SteamPodcast.com
• Ramzy Bekheet - SteamPodcast.com

1337 C4T of Episode 11

This Week’s New Releases in 15 Seconds or Less
All scores are from GameSpot.

• Ghost Rider - PS2, PSP, GBA - 4/10
• Okami - PS2 - 9/10
• Battlestations: Midway - PC, Xbox 360 - 7.9/10
• TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge - PSP
• MTX Mototrax - PSP - 7.6/10
• Ice Age2: The Meltdown - PC, PS2, Xbox, GC, DS, GBA, Wii - 7/10

The following news articles were discussed on the show:

Left For Dead - More Zombie-Slashing Fun!

IGN has a full preview of Left For Dead, a new zombie-based title from Turtlerock Studios, the same guys who brought you Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. So far your list of weaponry includes auto-shotguns, M16s, hunting rifles, dual pistols, pump shotguns, SMGs, Molotov cocktails, and pipe bombs. The zombie horde locations are completely randomized, so you’ll have to watch for new enemies every time you play. For all the juicy details, check out the full IGN article.

Slimmer PS3 On The Way

Sony’s already working on the next gen PS3, but rumor has it that the new PS3 will have a dramatically different design from its current incarnation, shedding loads of that initial baby fat for a nice svelte profile.

Nice… Tatoo… I Guess?

One of the forumites over the Steam User Forums posted a pic of his new Half-Life inspired tat. Ridiculously awesome or insanely stupid? We’ll let you make the final call on this one.

US company called Zink Imaging creates world’s first first ‘Inkless’ Printer

The company, a spin-off of Polaroid, says it will use the technology to make hand-held printers that can be integrated into mobile phones and digital cameras.

Zink paper is made from a white plastic sheet covered with micro-thin layers containing three types of colour-forming dye crystals – yellow on top, magenta in the middle and cyan on the bottom. The paper is initially colourless, looks and feels like ordinary white photograph paper and is not light sensitive.

Ridiculous Handheld Accessories

Who could forget all those must-have accessories for your portable gaming device? How great were those light magnifiers? What about those snake lights for your GBA? Break out our your Game Boy grips and PSP-to-TV adapters for this list of incredibly useless handheld accessories.

First look at Spider-Man 3

Not much I can say about this. Just watch it.

Gears of War Coming to the PC?

Mark Rein of Epic Games has hinted that they’re interested in releasing Gears of War for the PC. However, at the moment they still have an Xbox 360 exclusive deal, so while he says Epic would like to pursue it, they can’t right now.

Eventually we’ll get around to a PC version. I just don’t know when.

Wii Modchips Finally Surfacing

The first Wii modchips are now available for purchase, and I must say some of them are pretty impressive. My personal favorite so far is CycloWiz, which let’s you play Wii and Game Cube backups (that you have presumably dumped out from your original disks). CycloWiz also has support for Game Cube homebrew and import games and is completely invisible to the Wii system, making it theoretically impossible to disable with a Wii system update. As the icing on the cake, it’s ridiculously easy to install with a quick solder pad.

Bungie releases Halo 3 FAQ for Beta Testers

In preparation for the test that every gamer wants to take, Bungie has released a FAQ guide for the beta on its Web site. While not everything is out of the bag just yet, the FAQ does give gamers an idea of what to expect.

Bionic Eye Invented

The concept of how this thing works is really mind boggling. Without going too far into detail, this is how it works:

The user wears a pair of glasses that contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a cellphone-sized computer in the wearer’s pocket. This computer processes the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic receiver implanted in the wearer’s head.

And apparently, that electronic reciever in the users head is actually physically attached to the users eye… that’s pretty amazing.

Funny Videos

• Coke Bomb Prank in Action
• I’m Burnin For You

Wrap Up
Keep your fan mail, suggestions, and comments coming. The coolest email address on the net is still fans@steampodcast.com, and the coolest IRC channel is #steampodcast.

    

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