The Experience Points Podcast
A weekly show from the authors of ExperiencePoints.net. Each episode we will have an in depth conversation on a particular video game related topic.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 800
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
EXP Podcast #20: Resident Evil 5 Debriefing
Grab you shotgun and your thinking caps, because this week, we are devoting the podcast to a thorough discussion of Resident Evil 5!
We put in some marathon couch co-op sessions, analyzing everythin…
00:50:16 |
Wed 08 Apr 2009
EXP Podcast #19: The OnLive Myth
The gaming internet sites were
humming with excitement during the Game Developers Conference last week
in sunny San Francisco. Upon one particular announcement, a mix of
gleeful tittering and cries o…
00:28:14 |
Thu 02 Apr 2009
EXP Podcast #18: A Gamer's Best Friend?
Animals have a long history in video games, and continue to play
important parts in the most recent titles. This week, we happened upon
an article detailing the story of a high school student offen…
00:25:56 |
Wed 25 Mar 2009
EXP Podcast #17: The "B" All and End All
It seems like most people have their
favorite examples of the "so bad it's good" class of film. Low-budget,
occasionally self-aware, "B movies" often form strong followings of
people who love them fo…
00:27:18 |
Thu 19 Mar 2009
EXP Podcast #16: Corralling the Community
We all know by now that the stereotype of the solitary,
basement-dwelling video game nerd is the stuff of fiction. Gaming
communities have always existed, but the rise of the Internet has
allowed fo…
00:27:56 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
EXP Podcast #15: Noby Noby Men
Keita Takahashi of Namco Bandai, creator of Katamari Damacy, has once again dipped his nimble fingers into his mystical bucket of genius and pulled out Noby Noby Boy, one of the most bizarre games I …
00:27:04 |
Thu 05 Mar 2009
EXP Podcast #14: Controlling the Periphery
The video game world is buzzing with the release of Street Fighter IV.
It is a franchise that helped usher a generation of gamers into the
fighting genre, and arrives greeted by a wave of emotionall…
00:28:20 |
Thu 26 Feb 2009
EXP Podcast #13: At Game's End
Hello readers and listeners. This week Scott and I branch off of neat panel discussion Stephen Totilo held with Ken Levine of 2k Boston and Todd Howard of Bethesda Softworks. Each panelist was aske…
00:31:12 |
Thu 19 Feb 2009
EXP Podcast #12: The Therapy Game
This week will see the release of thatgamecompany's unique new title, Flower. In an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Jenova Chen, the co-creator of thatgamecompany, explained that he hoped that Flowe…
00:25:43 |
Thu 12 Feb 2009
EXP Podcast #11: Interactive Edutainment
Be they breaking a sweat playing a mean game of Wii Tennis or squeezing
their "mind grapes" learning a foreign language, students are incorporating videogames into their educational curriculum. This …
00:26:18 |
Wed 04 Feb 2009
EXP Podcast #10: The Art of Being Sony
Post recording note: We chose this story and recorded the podcast before we heard some unfortunate news.
It truly speaks to our economy's sad state of affairs when talented
people who produce though…
00:27:53 |
Wed 28 Jan 2009
EXP Podcast #9: A Bloody Mess
Some of those smart minds over at the
University of Rochester got together and published a little study for
us to talk about this week. Those psychologists, tinkerers of the brain
I call them, have l…
00:27:10 |
Thu 22 Jan 2009
EXP Podcast #8: Patent Pending
This week, an intrepid Internet explorer happened upon some mysterious patents filed by Nintendo.
The documents lay out a new system for delivering hints in a game, as
well as a mode of play in whic…
00:26:13 |
Wed 14 Jan 2009
EXP Podcast #7: Patch Notes
The first 2009 EXP Podcast is upon us. This week we were inspired by news about a patch coming out for PixelJunk Eden mid-January that will, among other things, lower the game's difficulty. The origi…
00:28:01 |
Thu 08 Jan 2009
EXP Podcast #6 - Year-end Roundup!
It's the end of the year, which means it's time to reflect on the
events of 2008. This week, we fill the podcast to the brim, discussing
our favorite games of the year, our favorite pieces of game w…
00:32:59 |
Wed 31 Dec 2008
EXP Podcast #5 - And the Award Goes to...
This week on the EXP Podcast, we discuss the "prestigious" Spike TV Video Game Award show. This glamorous extravaganza aired on December 14th complete with scantily clad ladies, crotch shotguns, and …
00:30:01 |
Thu 25 Dec 2008
EXP Podcast #4 - This Game is Sponsored By...
This week on the EXP Podcast, we wade in to the murky waters of
advertising in video games. Microsoft-owned company, Massive Inc. held
a conference in which several large publishers (such as EA, Acti…
00:29:26 |
Wed 17 Dec 2008
EXP Podcast #3 - Scribblenautics
This week we discuss an IGN preview of Scribllenauts from 5TH Cell and
an interview with creative director Jeremiah Slaczka. We theorize on
the limitations of a game that claims it can do anything an…
00:23:33 |
Thu 11 Dec 2008
EXP Podcast #2 - Aspirational and Inspirational Gaming
This week, we talk about a survey conducted by Guitar Center saying
that a huge number of people that buy Guitar Hero are subsequently
inspired to learn how to play a real guitar. We discuss the effe…
00:24:11 |
Wed 03 Dec 2008
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