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As we stated on last week’s show – as long as you listened you should know we were either going to delay the show or just take the week off.  Since our normal recording day is only a few days from now (thursday usually) we are just going to keep it scheduled for that day and release episode 6 next monday

…So NO show for today, but you can go back to hearing our antics and thoughs about gaming next week.  On a side note hopefully I dont jynx it by saying this but… ITUNES IS WORKING WITH THE SHOW AGAIN!

If you are bored and need to get a little input on what we were up to (at least what i was up to) you can head over and read about my run in with the Gay Pride Parade, Burning Subway trains, rock band so loud i really think we should have been arrested, awesome grilling, and random adventures in Boston this weekend over on my blog

I got a new hard drive, new RAM, and rebuilt my laptop from scratch with all the programs, updates….etc. HOPEFULLY everything was configured correctly *fingers crossed*

Show Notes

• Ymiris took a week off (due to surgery to fix the mishap his wood created)
• Star / Ophilye / Tiffany / Ymiris’ wife – stops in to take his place
• Squid plays Kung Fu Panda to get his Martial Arts fix
• Recent Release Thoughts Retail & Arcade
• Ymiris gets busted for using his wife as a gamerscore slave
• Rock band Versus Guitar Hero 3 DLC pricing / thoughts
• Star movie tips
• NEXT week’s show will either be delayed or a week off (more details when we officially decide)
• Don’t forget to sign up for a free t-shirt, compliments of Aces of the Galaxy and Sierra Online

Link Dump

• Star suggestion Two Hot Girls in the Shower
• Star suggestion Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show
• Sierra Games Contest, two choices for entry:
  - leave a reply (forum account required)
  - leave a comment (no account required)
  * only one entry per person duplicate entries will be ignored.

Last Week Winners
last week we had 2 xbox live arcades to give away to you loyal listeners (i forgot to mention you on the podcast but the winners are…

• geoholyhart : Boogie Bunnies
• Tallboy2005: Commanders: Attack of the Genos

keep an eye on your xbox live messages for the game codes. If you all ready have the game feel free to pass it onto a friend, or do your own contest, or whatever!

Friendcast #5 [ 35:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hitting you with another episode of the friendcast.

Show Notes

• ymiris gives us more info then needed about the birds and bees of pinatas
• a chat about Age of Conan and will it / should it be cross platform
• squid is a fool, and couldn’t figure out the rock band mic
• guitar hero ripping off rock band
• marketplace ramblings
• army of two discussion – impressions of the game (pre-free add on)
• Gears of War 2 – we should be able to use useless players as meat sheilds, not just enemies!
• Ant rant – Ninja Gaiden 2 Demo (rumor is it really is coming, and those lucky japanese all ready have it!)
• Ant goes silver (that’s right he went no halo, completely cold turkey)
• No out takes this week – I was kind of lazy on the edits this week

We have 2 xbox live arcade games to give away (thank you Sierra Games)  simply leave a comment before June 10th on this entry to be entered in the random drawing.  It was originally supposed to be a contest based on the game playing in the background by Ymiris’ wife, but I didn’t think you could hear it well – good luck!

Friendcast Episode #3 - Squid's Lazy Edit [ 32:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well it is finally here!  After quite a few hours of battling with a laptop that is in love with the wonderful Blue screen of death, I have finally gotten the show posted.  For those of you that care it seems my laptop drive went bad, why?  wonderful question.  In any event I actually JUST ordered a replacement with overnight shipping so I can get up and running on a stable system again.  Enough of my random brain dump in the form of text- onto the show!

Show Notes:

Another week another show, just some friends getting together to talk about games.  This week we have our favorite boy who is tall on the show to help us learn the ways of the Wii.  We show off our n00b skills with some akward transitions (at times) and finally I show off my n00b editing skills by leaving a bit of a hum on tallboys voice (no clue how to get rid of that).  I swear ymiris is smacking two sticks towards the end of the show to make me go crazy trying to figure out where the noise is coming from

• Tallboy comes out to play this week
• Ymiris tries to surf with driftwood….
• Penny Arcade FTW?
• Ymiris brings back the potty mouth (and it is spreading…)
• Tallboy brings on the brawl – and tells us how to get fit.
• exclusive titles – who cares? who doesn’t? 
• a bit of a random discussion about console versus pc gaming
• thoughts on Grid Demo
• thoughts on Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit Demo
• where is the ninja gaiden demo?

Friendcast Episode #3 - Tallboy stops in for a visit [ 25:39 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I know, I know, right after saying we were going to have a release every monday and here it is tuesday and no show!  I have a list of excuses long enough to wall paper a small room in my house, but I won’t bore you with them all.  The biggest issue is that I am having hard drive issues with my laptop making things a bit complicated to work with – so far its not to a point where everything is on fire and exploding or anything – but it did take some time to troubleshoot what was going wrong with the thing.  Add the fact that it was a holiday weekend, and I had a little get together on monday where I was running 2 grills almost all day – and I hit a bit of a time crunch.

The recording is safe (and backed up to a secondary machine just in case) and MOST of the edit is done – so look for the show tonight, or tomorrow at the very latest….

Another episode of the friendcast coming at you on this wonderful Monday morning. Squidpunch & Ymiris brought an old friend of the site onto the show with them. We recorded the show Thursday night (5/15/08).

Show Notes

• Antediluvia Joins the Friend Club
• Ymiris’ wife drives like a driver instructor in GTA IV
• Assault Heroes 2 Deja Vue (though after replaying the levels have similar aspects but not as identical as my mind originally thought)
• We love Pinatas
• Bayonetta – a better version of bullet witch?
• Ninja Gaiden II anticipating rising
• Too much Wii Speak!

PS Antediluvia Loves Halo.

FriendCast Episode #2 [ 27:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

First episode, a pilot if you will, where Ymiris and Squidpunch get together to talk about gaming in general, some of the recent releases and gaming news. This is the first time I was actually running the recorder, doing the editing, etc – so hopefully it came out all right for you guys.

If you want to send us some feedback or be on the show email us at podcast@360friendspot.com.

FriendCast Episode #1 [ 26:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download