Tired of gaming podcasts being so pretentious and boring, some current and some former gaming industry folks have gotten together to form Tapezilla—a weekly dose of gaming updates, news and humor, including the now infamous Shenmue prank calls. Tapezilla finally drags the 'gaming podcast' out of the mundane, uninteresting and self-important quicksand it's been stuck in for far too long.
It’s a show about nothing. In the most tangential episode of Tapezilla yet, the guys briefly discuss Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Fable 2 Pub Games, Braid and Fallout, while also touching on baseball, the Jonas Brothers and the death of Sugar Ray Robinson.
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You heard about it on a previous episode of Tapezilla, now witness the imagery. This is a shot taken minutes after the controller was demolished during an unfortunate game of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. RIP Dual Shock 2, and damn you Tony Hawk. Damn you.
This may sound surprising, but we’ve actually received a few e-mails asking if we have any banners that listeners can use to promote Tapezilla — either on myspace/facebook pages or in sigs on forums that allow that kind of nonsense. Well ask no longer. I give you both an ad banner-sized well… banner, and the rectangular logo used on our more recent Youtube calls. Feel free to steal them and put them everywhere.
For anyone who couldn’t quite pull the trigger on Madden ‘09 CE at its $90 price point (and goodness why would you), you can now get the whole damn package for $45. To put it another way, until they sell out, you can get the CE for $15 less than the regular edition. And hey, if you really want to be a cheap bastard, flip the included copy Head Coach ‘09 on ebay for $35 and pay a grand total of $10 for this year’s Madden. Not too shabby.
Drac calls an old woman and tries to sell her video-game related insurance with surprisingly little success.
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Ah, the venerable Top 10 (or Top 5, 7, 11, or however many the list-maker could find/thought distinguished their list from the other “Top Whatever” shill) list. It’s been said that aside from tits, Ron Paul, and Digg itself, the Top Whatever list is probably the topic best suited to make Digg’s front page. I’m sure there’s some deep-seated psychological reason for humanity’s affinity for both the making of their own lists and curiosity toward lists made by others, but that’s not what we’re here to discuss. Here’s the very worst of the Top Whatever lists that made it to the front page of everyone’s favorite Internet echo chamber despite sucking so badly, presented in ascending order (that means “going up”) by the number of diggs received to maximize the guilt you should feel if you dugg any of this garbage.
Would you… you know? Hit it? Be honest.
I WOULD FUCKING WRECK THAT.
I check Joystiq and Kotaku once or twice during the day, and I’m not sure why I continually subject myself to the latter. It seems like every time I visit the site, there’s at least one story that actively pisses me off. This time around it was the story coyly titled “SEGA’s President Casually Mentions Resident Evil 5’s Wii Release”. Holy crap! The President of SEGA himself drops a bomb like that in an EXCLUSIVE interview with Kotaku at E3?! The video proudly embedded on the main Kotaku page certainly has Mr. Jeffery confirming the headline, and the teaser paragraph whets one’s appetite, promising to confer with other industry luminaries. That big pink “RUMOR” tag looks pretty juicy… I’d better click through to see what happens.
Currently a freelancer for 1up.com, Bob's spent the better part of the last 15 years writing about games and the gaming industry. Starting with his top tier spot on the Gaming Age roster back in the late 90s, and moving on to pen countless features and guides for various Ziff publications, Bob's now taken his expertise over to the world of "radio" by hosting the Tapezilla 'cast.
Former Gaming Age editor and Expert Gamer contributor, Zach (better known as "Drac") has been knee-deep in gaming since the age of 7. Now in his mid-20s, Drac lends his knowledge of the industry and injects a large dose of funny into the Tapezilla 'cast.
Another former gaming industry insider, Pete (aka Matt White) has a resume that includes both IGN and UGO, as well as the now famous Gun Baby webcomic. Pete's cynicism and opinionated rants keep Tapezilla from being just another lovefest podcast.
A self-proclaimed world champion Virtua Fighter player and Team Fortress 2 king, Stevie B is now a lumberjack with the power of Zeus on his side.