Good Game Season 8, Episode 1: Episode 01

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Episode 01

Bajo and Hex return from their summer of gaming to bring you two big reviews: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Star Wars: The Old Republic... Feature Story: Breaking Street Dates Just about every big release last year broke street date, but this isn't a worldwide phenomenon. Our field reporter Goose explores this Aussie case... My First Love: Sean Bean We asked Sean Bean, producer of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, about his first gaming love...

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Episode 02

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Catherine, The Darkness II and Uncharted: Golden Abyss... My First Hero We asked Seth Killian, Community Manager on Street Fighter X Tekken, about his first gaming hero... Backwards Compatible: Handheld Gaming Hand-held gaming has come a long way...but how exactly DID it get this good?

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Episode 03

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Resident Evil: Revelations, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Dear Esther. My Gaming Hero: Jonathan Lim We asked Jonathan Lim, Producer of Prototype 2, about his first gaming hero... Feature Story: Game Hacks There’s nothing like dominating a server and seeing your name high on a scoreboard, It’s a large part of what keeps us in the game! But some gamers don’t always play by the rules...

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Episode 04

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Alan Wake's American Nightmare and I Am Alive... Guest reviewer, Dave Callan checks out SoulCalibur V... and Goose gets his groove on at BlipFest... Feature Story: Blip Fest Blip Festival has been showcasing the talent of chipmusic artists around the world since 2006... But has recently been held in Australia for the first time....and Goose was there too...

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Episode 05

Bajo and Hex return with reviews of Twisted Metal and Mass Effect 3... My Gaming Hero: Gabe Amantangelo We asked Gabe Amantangelo, Lead PvP Designer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, about his gaming hero... Backwards Compatible: Game Save Files It’s easy to forget that not so very long ago, game save files didn’t exist...

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Episode 06

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Journey and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Backwards Compatible: Resident Evil Resident Evil is the granddaddy of survival horror games. And it’s been scaring our pants off for 16 years... Gratis Gaming: Draw Something Being a gamer isn't cheap, in fact it can be quite expensive. So with that in mind we'd thought we'd show you some of the latest games that are super rad but won't cost you a cent!

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Episode 07

Bajo and Hex return with reviews of Silent Hill: Downpour, The Last Story and the free to play Tribes Ascend... Feature Story: Cyber Bullying As gamers we're used to communicating with each other online... Sometimes though, tools that should be used to bring us closer together, do exactly the opposite...

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Episode 08

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Asura's Wrath and Ninja Gaiden 3. Also, to celebrate the 15th birthday of the Nintendo 64, Goosemangus goes backwards compatible... Gratis Gaming: Guild Wars 2 Beta Guild Wars 2 is one of the bigger MMO's coming out this year and the beta has been and gone, but we've had a play and it's doing some very interesting things... Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Follow Up A few weeks ago we reviewed Resident Evil Raccoon City but didn't want to score it without testing online. We've now done that...

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Episode 09

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Armoured Core 5 and Sine Mora. The team are also joined by guest reviewer, Dave Callan, who checks out Just Dance: Best Of... Gratis Gaming: Beneath a Steel Sky Beneath a Steel Sky is considered one of the greatest point and clicks ever made. It was officially made Freeware in 2003 by Revolution software... My First Gaming Gig: Seth Olshfski We spoke to Seth Olshfski of The Darkness II about his first gig in the video gaming industry...

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Episode 10 - Arcade Special

Welcome to a very special episode of Good Game, where we get a little bit retro with our tribute to the Video Game Arcade... Big Buck Hunter, Dead Heat, Air Hockey, Time Crisis 4, Basketball, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Guitar... Backwards Compatible: Arcades Arcade games have helped to define genres we still play to this day. Let’s go with Goose on a journey back to where it all began... Feature Story: Arcade Collector We met up with arcade collector and restorer, Joel Hopkins, who was kind enough to show us his astounding home arcade...

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Episode 11

Bajo Hex and Goose are back with reviews of Birds of Steel, Kinect Star Wars and Microsoft Flight... Preview: WoW: Mists of Pandaria and TERA... Gratis Gaming: Microsoft Flight Our Gratis pick for this week is Microsoft Flight for PC, prepare for nonstop action!

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Episode 12

Reviews of: Fez - Any 80s or 90s gamer will feel intense joy the moment they step into the retro world of mystery and puzzles that is Fez! Pandora's Tower - is the stuff of fantasy legend from days of yore; a hero’s quest, a terrible curse, a maiden in peril and monsters to slay. Risen 2: Dark Waters - You play a hero with no name who is faced with the unenviable task of defeating a bunch of otherworldly monsters called Titans... Gratis Gaming: Realm of the Mad God - calls itself "the first co-op, fantasy, MMO, shooter".

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Episode 13

- Gamer News Hex brings us the latest from the gaming news desk... - The Walking Dead From the modern masters of point and click gaming, Telltale games, comes The Walking Dead; an episodic adventure set in the same universe as the comic book series... - Loading... Tomb Raider A mini BC on the Tomb Raider series... - Kid Icarus: Uprising Do you like the idea of flying though space shooting eyeballs? If the answer is yes then this is the game you have been waiting for. - Prototype 2 In Prototype 2 you take the role of James Heller; a former soldier looking to exact his revenge for the death of his family... - Retro Game Reveal and Goodbye Bajo and Hex say "farewell" for another week...

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Episode 14

- Gamer News Bajo brings us the latest from the gaming news desk... - Legend of Grimrock In Legend of Grimrock the thrill lies in delving deeper and deeper through the levels of a dungeon, dodging traps, solving riddles, and defeating monsters. - Tiny Power We follow the story of a man on a quest to create the greatest game that ever was, is, or will be... - Deep Black In Deep Black you play a kind of deep-sea diving spy character who is dressed remarkably similar to Isaac Clarke from Dead Space. - Backwards Compatible: Water We go backwards compatible on water in video games... - Sniper Elite V2 The sniper is the true ninja of the modern battlefield. He or she must be patient, methodical and most of all invisible! - Retro Game Reveal and Goodbye Bajo and Hex say "farewell" for another week...

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Episode 15

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Dragon's Dogma and Diablo III.... Dragon's Dogma When a Dragon attacks your small fishing village you bravely take on the beast all by yourself, but he swats you like a fly, plucks your heart from your chest and eats it. My Gaming Hero: Randy Pitchford We ask the delightful Randy Pitchford of Gearbox Software about his gaming hero... Diablo III When it comes to crawling dungeons, no one crawls better than Blizzard. It’s been a VERY long time between clicks, but Diablo 3 is here...

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Episode 16

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Max Payne and Starhawk and Goose goes Backwards Compatible on prestigious developers, Rockstar. Starhawk Starhawk, the spiritual successor to Warhawk has arrived, featuring new characters, vehicles, sky battles, cool Firefly-esque space western locations and Tower Defense? Backwards Compatible: Rockstar If somebody mentions Rockstar Games, the first thing you’re probably going to think of is the Grand Theft Auto. But looking at the big picture, it’s clear they’ve REALLY made a name; creating gritty, mature games that let us explore our world like never before! Max Payne 3 Max Payne 3 sets a high bar for the genre, in everything it does, and it's one of the most impressive shooters we have ever played.

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Episode 17

Preview - Counter Strike: Global Offensive Bajo gives a short preview of Counter Strike: Global Offensive from his experiences with the Beta... Feature Story: E3 Lead-Up Goose talks to some of the industry's big names to find out what E3 means to them... DiRT: Showdown The great host of cars and soundtracks we've come to expect from the Dirt series are still here in fine arcade form... DayZ DayZ is the closest you'll get to a zombie survival MMO, and it's as much a survival horror game as it is a social experiment.

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Episode 18

This week Hex is joined by special guest host, Andrew "Bindi" Hansen to review Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and the Half-Life one mod, Cry of Fear...

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Episode 19 - E3 Special 2012

In this special episode of Good Game, Bajo goes across the globe to bring us all the glitz and glam of one of the gaming industry's biggest events, the Electronic Entertainment Expo...

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Episode 20

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Game of Thrones and Lollipop Chainsaw and Goose checks out the latest updates in R18+ saga...

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Episode 21

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Quantum Conundrum and Gravity Rush. They also bring us all the info about the Australian Centre for the Moving Image's 'Game Masters' exhibition. Preview: The Secret World We jumped onto 'The Secret World' beta last weekend to find a zombie monster MMO in a modern setting...

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Episode 22

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of The Amazing Spider-Man and Spec Ops: The Line... The Amazing Spider-Man With The Amazing Spiderman getting a reboot in the cinemas he obviously has to have video game to go with it. But is this actually amazing, or not so spectacular? Spec Ops: The Line Spec Ops is now in the hands of German developer Yager, and it's time for us to walk the line. Feature Story: Tax Incentives Our home-grown gaming studios have been struggling in recent years, with many forced to close their doors. Goose investigates a new government funding scheme that could provide a lifeline for the industry we love.

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Episode 23

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Spelunky and the Skyrim and Arkham City DLC... Skyrim: Dawnguard and Harley Quinn's Revenge Skyrim and Batman Arkham City, two of our favourite games from last year have had their first bits of DLC so we thought we'd take a look... Heroes of Ruin People have been calling this a portable Diablo, which may build up your expectations a little. This is to Diablo what Aubrey Wodonga is to New York. Nowhere near as amazing but certainly a lot more convenient... Postcards from: The Death Star The Death Star...it’s huge, round, deadly, and can always be fired when ready. Spelunky Spelunky has arrived on XBLA and it distils decades of 2D platforming into one seriously punishing package. It could be this year's Super Meat Boy.

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Episode 24

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Inversion and The Secret World...they also serve their time for last week's noobish mistake... The latest game to put a spin on our perception of which way is up, is the 3rd person cover shooter, Inversion. Developer Interview: Dean Hall We asked Bohemia Interactive's Dean Hall about his amazingly successful ARMA II Mod, DayZ... The Secret World It's a tough time out there for MMOS, with little innovation. But Developer Funcom have made something very different from the norm...

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Episode 25

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Endless Space, Anna and Slender. Also, Goose takes us on a journey to City 17 and talks about the often frustrating scenario of having another person in the room when you're gaming...

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Episode 26

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Deadlight, Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers, Hero Academy and Blacklight: Retribution... Feature Story: Delayed Gratification Goose explores the game mechanic of delayed gratification...

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Episode 27

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Orcs Must Die! 2, Great Big War Game and Sleeping Dogs... Backwards Compatible: THQ Like many of the videogame heavyweights, THQ first dabbled in the toy business. But by the mid-90s what began as Toy Head Quarters, had evolved into videogame publisher we're familiar with...

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Episode 28

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Darksiders II, New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Thomas Was Alone... Feature Story: IT Pricing in Australia Goose takes a look at IT and video game pricing in Australia and how it compares to other nations...

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Episode 29

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Dust: An Elysian Tail and Zineth...

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Episode 30

The Expendables 2 The Expendables sounds like the perfect recipe for a coop video game shooter! And to tie in with the movie sequel, we now have just that... Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Counter Strike is one of the most important shooters out there but it has been long overdue for an update, which brings us to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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Episode 31

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Guild Wars 2, Papo and Yo and Nihilumbra... In Nihilumbra you play a little inky blob who's escaped from the void into a new world... Papo and Yo is an adventure platformer brought to us by new indie devs Minority... For the first time after 8 years of World of Warcraft dominating the MMOS fantasy genre, it finally has a serious competitor with Guild Wars 2...

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Episode 32

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Thirty Flights of Loving, Gravity Bone, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Borderlands 2... It's time to crack our knuckles again throw down some fisticuffs in Tekken Tag Tournament 2... We're back for more looting and shooting in Borderlands 2, and with it comes more diverse environments, even better guns and there's a even a half decent story to tie it all together... Feature Story: Storytelling in Games Once upon a time… There were videogames that didn’t even have stories, but over the decades we’ve seen the gaming medium really mature, and so too have the stories it’s able to tell... Thirty Flights of Loving is the latest indie title offering to catch our eye recently...

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Episode 33

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Dead or Alive 5, Diaspora: Shattered Armistice and Rocksmith... Dead or Alive 5 Ahh Dead or Alive, there are so many memorable characters. There's that ninja guy, and the wrestling guy... and don't forget girls with the big boobs, because they account for more than half the roster. Postcards from... The Ishimura Dead Space chooses mining station the USG Ishimura as its horror playground... Diaspora: Shattered Armistice is a community-built mod made by BSG fans, and it's the first Battlestar games we've come across that has felt truly, frakking authentic... Rocksmith There was a day when five-button plastic guitars were an impressive foray into the rhythm game genre. But now, Rocksmith has upped the ante by letting you play on a REAL guitar.

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Episode 34

Bajo and Hex are review Resident Evil 6, the Half-Life one remake, Black Mesa and pit FIFA against PES for their 2013 releases... Black Mesa Eight long years in the making, Black Mesa is finally here, well most of it. Hit & Miss: Need for Speed We take a look at the hits and misses of the Need for Speed franchise... Resident Evil 6 tries to freshen up the series with a more modern setting, some big ideas, and sadly that is also its downfall... FIFA 13 vs. PES 2013 When it comes down to the annual showdown of the virtual football giants, we're right there. Yes, it's FIFA versus Pro Evolution Soccer!

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Episode 35

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of NBA 2K13, Torchlight II and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria...

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Episode 36

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Dishonored, Tokyo Jungle and Carrier Command: Gaea Mission while Goose looks at Bad Piggies, the latest game from the creators of Angry Birds...

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Episode 37

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Fable: The Journey, Forza Horizon and War of the Roses while Goose checks out XCOM: Enemy Unknown...

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Episode 38

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Rugby League Live 2, Doom 3 BFG Edition and The Unfinished Swan while special guest Dave Callan delivers a dance review medley...

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Episode 39

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Halo 4, Assassin's Creed III and Medal of Honor: Warfighter...

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Episode 40

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of 007 Legends, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Meanwhile, Goose checks out Hotline Miami...

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Episode 41

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Hitman Absolution but also get a bit curious about Curiosity... Hitman: Absolution The Hitman games have always been quite good, but Hitman Absolution is excellent... Gratis Gaming: Punch Quest Endless running games are quickly becoming the go-to genre for smart phones. In spite of this bloated genre, Punch Quest has so much style I couldn't put it down... Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Call of duty Black Ops 2 is on a mission to stop that series fatigue from setting in, and shake things up a bit...

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Episode 42

Bajo and Hex are back with reviews of Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse, Natural Selection 2, and Far Cry 3.

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Episode 43

Bajo and Hex are back for the final episode of Good Game for 2012. In this hour long extravaganza they check out the Wii U, Nintendo Land, Super Mario Bros. U, PlanetSide 2, and LEGO The Lord of the Rings as well as reminiscing about the year gone by.