Episode 20: The Orange Box
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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 20
This Week’s New Releases
All scores are from MetaCritic.
- Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis - Wii - 69% (5 Reviews)
- Folklore - PS3 - 75% (30 Reviews)
- Luminous Arc - DS - 69% (19 Reviews)
- Crash of the Titans - PSP, DS, PS2, Wii, Xbox 360 - 69% (5 Reviews)
- Fury - PC - No Reviews Available
- Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - PS2, Wii, PS3, DS, Xbox 360 - 74% (11 Reviews)
- Race Driver: Create & Race - DS - 77% (9 Reviews)
The following news articles were discussed on the show:
Yahtzee from The Escapist Reviews the Orange Box
For those of you who know who Yahtzee is (and his review style), you’ll definitely enjoy his latest review of Valve’s Orange Box. He reviews the box as a whole as well as Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal individually. Check it out, it’s quite funny.
Hellgate: London Demo Released
Those of you who don’t know what Hellgate: London is will probably not care about this demo release. Hellgate: London is a FPSMMORPG developed by the makers of Diablo.
Want Your Very Own Companion Cube? Get One Here!
Alright, so it might not be an “official” Portal Companion Cube, but it’s a Companion Cube nonetheless right? On a related note, numerous people who’ve sent Gabe Newell emails about wanting a Companion Cube available in the Valve Store have been told that it’s already been in production for two months and it will be here in time for the holidays.
A few of the Tom’s Hardware crew at the E For All expo, discussing various aspects of the former E3 Expo.
Doesn’t look that good at all.
I Played Through Episode Two Holding a Freaking Gnome
For those of you who have played Episode 2, you might remember seeing an achievement called “Little Rocket Man” where you need to send the garden gnome into space. Well, someone did it and documented his entire journey.
Soldier of Fortune: Payback – Banned From Australia
No description for this one guys. Ramzy’s on-air rant says it all.
The Portal Gun in Half-Life 2? Sure!
Some guys over at Primo Technology have figured out how to bring the Portal gun to Half-Life 2. Just use GCFScape to extract your maps and scenes folders from your HL2 GCF, then dump them in your Portal game directory. Load up portal and play one of the maps using the “map” command via the console. Once in the game, use sv_cheats 1 and impulse 101 to give yourself all weapons, including the Portal gun. Enjoy surprising those Combine soldiers!
Having sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and being the recipient of numerous awards, including GameSpot’s 2006 Game of the Year, Epic Games’ Gears of War isn’t a game that needs much of an introduction. Suffice it to say, Microsoft announced today that the PC version, announced during this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit.
Those of you itching to play the game will be happy to know it goes on sale November 6th. That’s less than 20 days away.
Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance Pick Up Their Copies of the Orange Box
These costumes are really, really well done. Check out the show notes for the pics.
AMD Still Can’t Get Its Act Together
AMD reported a net loss of $396 million, including $120 million in one-time charges, against revenues of $1.632 billion. Revenue increased sequentially by 18 percent and by 23 percent over a year ago, when AMD reported profits of $121 million.
Funny Videos
Wrap Up
Keep your fan mail, suggestions, and comments coming. The coolest email address on the net is still fans@steampodcast.com.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:22 am
Awesome.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Good podcast keep it up see you in TF2
p.s: thank you for mentioning me lol
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Great! Another podcast! Thanks for the shoutout as well. Can’t wait for the next one.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Make Your Own Companion Cube! >> http://greg.medding.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/1192158757394.jpg
^_^ this is awesome.
I already tried the portal gun exploit by extracting ep2 maps to the portal folders. I found I had to extract the ep2 scripts, materials, models etc aswell as maps to recreate ep2 in portal. Its fun tho, i suggest ppl try it out ^_^
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
great show… Definatly one of your best… Keep up the good work, cant for the next episode.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Why do we still have the “GET TO DA COPPA” baby?
October 24th, 2007 at 8:55 am
because its god ok
October 24th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Indeed.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Wait hold on guys.. is this podcast almost kinda on time??!?!?? Chill, you might hurt yourself, listening later.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Oh thank God, they didn’t get two on-time in a row. The world is safe for another week.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Would have, but I’ve been out of town a lot recently. Twice a week actually.
October 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Halloween Special?
October 30th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
lol no the world would not end but not much has been going down in the gaming world lately well at least stuff i care about
November 1st, 2007 at 7:42 am
No Halloween special…. :’(
November 6th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
It’s damn near impossible to get guitar hero 3 for the Wii. I called about 8 stores during the weekend. Most were sold out, some didn’t even got their first shipment. I tried again today, and same thing.
Wal-mart was the worst with phone calls. I waited on the phone for 10-15 minutes, only to get a hang-up. I called again, and waited another 5 minutes.
Everyone I called couldn’t give me an answer when I asked when is the next shipment. I got better answers when I actually went to the mall.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Okay guys… World’s safe… You can make the next podcast now…
November 13th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
We’ll try to get the next podcast recorded ASAP.
In the meantime, I’m certainly enjoying Super Mario Galaxy!
November 19th, 2007 at 8:13 am
No podcast? :’(
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Podcast where are you?
November 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
You better record a podcast this weekend! >:(
November 25th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Really sorry for the gap guys. Things have been pretty busy around these parts and Ramzy has been busy making some cold hard cash. Unfortunately our schedules just haven’t lined up. We’ll get one recorded as soon as we can.
Hang in there!
November 26th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Take your time. Jobs are much more important then a podcast.
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I’m back guys! My computer is just hanging in there. Overheating and everything. it started after the 18th episode. so i just started listening to episode 19. and i have now gone console because i have spent so much money on my computer trying to fix it. well, thank you for the great show. keep sending them out
-Paul
December 7th, 2007 at 8:30 am
This got to be the record for the longest wait between episodes. Curse you Valve time…
December 9th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
ya this sucks and btw orange box won two VGAs this year!
December 20th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Wow, Is this podcast even alive any more?
December 20th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
where are you!