This week we go beta and demo crazy with Socom: Confrontation, Pure, and Motorstorm: Pacific Rift and CheapyD gives Castle Crashers some tough love. We also talk digital distribution, E3 rebirth, Spore bootlegging, new releases, the latest video game industry and shopping news, your CAGbag questions and much more!


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Intro: Castle Crashers Theme

GameStop Expo 2008 - The Essential Under-The-Radar Gaming Trade Show
Chicago! UPDATE! MEETUP INFO: Sat., Sept. 27-Father and Son Pizza-12pm

GameStop.com Edge Card

Target / CC / Best Buy Video Game Prices: September 14 - September 20, 2008
David Perry (Acclaim COO) taking, GameStop CEO, Dan DeMatteo to task over his comments over digital distribution

New Releases

Nintendo Rules U.S. Hardware Sales In August Amid Slowing Growth
Madden's Millions Rule August Software Sales

New Xbox Experience relaunch was lies, all lies
Rumor: Team ICO reveals The Queen, all bow down

Gamestop CEO: Wii shortages have no 'end in sight'
EB/GS: [USED] Link's Crossbow Training - $2.99

Castle Crashers
Rare says Avatars were in production before Wii even launched

PSN Thursday: Qore's Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo, Jeopardy!
Zone mode edited in final version of WipEout HD

First DJ Hero Details: Turntable Controller, Mash-Ups, Guitar Co-Op
Mortal Kombat vs DC Character List
Capcom enjoys money, dishing out multiplatform releases
Spore Piracy Controversy

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Bonus Tai Videos:
http://www.vimeo.com/album/30411

By popular request, bjwoodruff's CAGs On News Theme Song
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/podcast/cagsonews.mp3

Thanks for posting this now, I need this as I continue on to finish my work by the morning! Always glad to see a new one of these.

sweet. socom demo impressions? motorstorm pr demo impressions? digital dl and piracy?? tough love for castle crashers?!? I'm looking forward to hearing this...

Those videos with Tai are awesome, I was literally crackin' up at the faces he made in the video you linked and also the weird position he was in in the other video.

It's Dragon Quest 9, Cheapy and Wombat. You need to take roman numeral lessons.

Also, this is Captain Marvel and Wombat forgot to mention his alter ego is a child:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2BvSqqmidM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfFx_UZ5ZU

It looks like Tai doesn't like his food. Nice video, Cheapy. I was cracking up as Tai makes those faces.

Originally Posted by thorbahn3 It's Dragon Quest 9, Cheapy and Wombat. You need to take roman numeral lessons.

Actually it is a remake of the original Dragon Quest/Warrior 4 from the NES days.

IV= 4
IX= 9

Originally Posted by thorbahn3 It's Dragon Quest 9, Cheapy and Wombat. You need to take roman numeral lessons.

This be a 4.

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I may have misunderstood but FFXIII is exclusive to the ps3 in japan. Only in america does it come out on both consoles. Unless squeenix is changing its tune since the announcement.

How are Japanese people buying Xbox 360's for a game that's not coming out in Japan?

Oh, I remembered hearing 9 was coming to the DS and thought this was it. My mistake.
I shall never question your wisdom again... for three weeks

Wombat has to be on the cagcast show. Xbox 360 is still not getting Final Fantasy Versus XIII do the research on the net.

Just a note about Wombat saying Pure being Disney's first videogame IP or w/e...

I think they also worked on Spectrobes for the DS.

Already 10 minutes in and many unforgivable errors thus far by both Cheapy and Wombat.

Errors of Note:
- Tales of Vesperia is not a Square Enix game
- FFXIII PS3 exclusive in Japan, probably rest of Asia
- Wombat not acknowledging the awesomeness of Ninja Turtles
- Burnout Paradise is not on PSN yet

Originally Posted by vanilla_shakin_it I may have misunderstood but FFXIII is exclusive to the ps3 in japan. Only in america does it come out on both consoles. Unless squeenix is changing its tune since the announcement.

Interesting...I wasn't aware of that. It appears it is still up for grabs in the rest of Asia, which is probably why my Taiwanese friend was excited.
Let's wait and see what actually happens since the release is so damn far away. I wouldn't be suprised in the slightest if it does get a Japan release, no matter what these guys say now.

Pure should be that much of a surprise since it's being developed by the same guys that made the later ATV Offroad Fury games after Rainbow Studios was bought up by THQ, whether its published by Disney or not.

I like Cheapy's reason for being down on MotorStorm: Pacific Rift because you're only racing around in circles. I figured you wouldn't like it, but that just seemed like a funny complaint for a racing game.

The reason Castle Crashers isn't that hard is that the enemies don't level with you, so if you grind a bit, you can essentially bypass some difficulty early on until you unlock the hard mode after beating the game.

I agree about Viva Pinata, haven't tried the second yet, being a huge time sink, which is why I haven't played it at all after my first marathon because I factor in the likelihood of wasting the whole day playing it and skip it for something else that I felt deserved more priority over it for my playtime.

I never watch any of the videos on Inside Xbox because if I can't download the videos and watch on my own time, I don't bother wasting time to wait for them to load and buffer for a tiny video window.

You're impressed by some simple stuff with the PS3, Cheapy. The first thing I did with my PS3 was put my PSP's memory stick in and play videos off of it. The PS3 can play videos of any resolution. It'll just upscale or downscale it to the resolution of your TV.

Warhawk's much faster than SOCOM and definitely more arcadey than it, too. It's better to buy an unfinished game that you know will be getting patched and expanded that other broken online games definitely don't get.

From what I've heard about Jeopardy, the main issue with the multiple choice answers is that it doesn't offer other reasonable answers with the correct answer, so if the answer's T-Bone, you'll get other answers like L-Bone, M-Bone, and N-Bone that makes it so obvious. I imagine Buzz Quiz TV will be the better quiz game for the PS3.

Sony's 10 year cycle is mainly for their support of the system, not when it's their main or only system, so they don't lock themselves out of releasing a new system until 2016. I think they may be more content to stick with the PS3 for a bit longer than usual before putting out the PS4.

Originally Posted by CheapyD Interesting...I wasn't aware of that. It appears it is still up for grabs in the rest of Asia, which is probably why my Taiwanese friend was excited. Let's wait and see what actually happens since the release is so damn far away. I wouldn't be suprised in the slightest if it does get a Japan release, no matter what these guys say now.

Even if FFXIII got a release on the 360 in Japan, it would be much later than the PS3 version. At the time of the announcement, they hadn't even begun porting it to the 360. As far as Asia goes, nothing's been announced, but again, PS3 version is coming out first. Also, the PS3 version has a demo, which A LOT of people are going to import since the PS3 is region free.

I do love Nintendo, but over the past few months I have been playing a lot less of the Wii, only really playing Strong Bad Episode 1 and about an hour of Ys which I haven't gone back to. I plan on getting Animal Crossing, but it does wear thin after a while since you are limited in what you can do. I feel sometimes that Nintendo wants their base to move on so they can rid of their old franchise baggage except for Mario and Pokemon who they seem to love pimping out 5-6 times a piece every year.

can't wait to post a bullshit rumor and win a prize Muahahahahha

Actually, the original location for Acclaim was Glen Cove, NY not Great Neck

Also... if you manage to find a copy of mortal kombat for sega genesis the publisher of that title ARENA was based out of Oyster Bay, NY

so Long Island has actually had a few game publishers but, now it has none.

I'll stick for up Cheapy and say that maybe people in Japan and Taiwan are buying/importing US 360's for FF, as it may still be cheaper then a PS3.