In this weeks podcast, Arsen is back and catches up with his comments on Mass Effect 2's ending. We then have a lengthy "What you been playing?" section which includes demos, Heavy Rain, new internet sensation Chat Roulette, and more. We then end the show with the crazy news stories that came out of this week's headlines. The NSFW Chat Roulette related link that Arsen sent to Matt and I can be ... more.

When I was asked to review Risen, I actually had not even heard of the game before. It was made by Piranha Bytes, the developers responsible for the Gothic series, and had been released last year on the PC. While there are definitely some graphical hangups and some minor control issues, Risen ended up impressing me more than I thought it would. Though I can't recommend this game to just anyone, pe... more.

Nintendo has released a new trailer for Super Mario Galaxy 2, set to be released May 23rd. I loved the first one and I suppose this means May 23 is the date I need to get another Wii by. ... more.

iPhone game centric site Slide to Play has put up a video of some hands on time with Street Fighter IV on the iPhone. While things look great, it seems like it's going to be a huge pain to pull off the special moves.  According to Gamepro, it's scheduled to come out in March and will cost $9.99, featuring seven of the franchise's usual cast of characters: Ryu, Ken, Guile, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim... more.

This weeks episode is the next to last time we'll be talking about Mass Effect 2 (aside from future DLC of course). Arsen couldn't make it this time so we'll give him a chance to talk about his ME2 experience in a couple weeks. Matt and I spoil the last half of this epic game and finish things off with a short discussion on some of the other things I've been playing recently. Intro and outro... more.

In anticipation for the upcoming Starcraft II beta, my roommate and I decided to buy the first one again digitally off the Blizzard Store. After figuring out strange work arounds to get the game to display correctly in Windows 7, we were once again stuck playing this 11 year old game for hours. Yesterday marked when Blizzard finally let people in to the highly anticipated sequel to what appears... more.

Anyone who listened to last week's Mass Effect 2 filled podcast knows how much one of my podcast cohorts, Arsen Nazaryan, loves scanning and gathering minerals in the game. This mundane activity in Mass Effect 2 normally makes me feel a need to put the TV tuner card in my PC to good use, but YouTube user Kabuto the Python took it as inspiration for a song. A pretty good one at that. Definitely wor... more.

Fable 2's co-op was very disappointing to me. The few times I did actually play the mode introduced in this sequel just proved to be a waste of time for the player who was entering the other's world since you couldn't join with your custom made character nor could you bring back any experience. Peter Molyneux, head of Lionhead Studios, intends to change this in Fable 3. On last week's 4 Guys... more.

After the surprising success of the 1 vs. 100 game show experiment, Aaron Greenburg  over at Microsoft has mentioned that similar types of programs are indeed being thought of throughout the year.  With such a large install base (23 million people), it wasn't hard for them to convince advertisers to come on board. "It wasn't that hard for us to convince folks (advertisers)," Greenburg says. "... more.

In this episode of the AmpedGaming Podcast, we discuss the game that's currently taking up all of our free time, Mass Effect 2. There's definitely some spoilers inside about the first 15-20 hours or so that we've played, so beware. After Matt has to run, Arsen and I talk about random news bits and if we're going to be getting an iPad or not. We're shooting for the next podcast to be recorded next ... more.