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Shipwreck joins us live from Wombat's studio as we discuss the uphill battle facing some Xbox 360 exclusives, the music game explosion, new releases, the latest video game industry and shopping news, your CAGbag questions and much more!

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Past CAGcasts


Show Linkage/Notes (click the button below to expand):

Intro: Jet Baby (Parappa the Rapper)

CAG 5 Year Anniversary - NY Party Saturday, May 17th

New Releases
Xbox Originals: Stubbs the Zombie, Gauntlet

Tomonobu Itagaki is STILL a Hypocrite and can STILL Kiss My A$$
Warhawk Tournament

Wii Fanboy reviews the WiiWare launch lineup
Wired's WiiWare Launch Guide
One third of Japanese Wii owners have Wii Fit

Watch Kojima play the first ten minutes of Metal Gear Solid
Assassin's Solid is real
Firmware 2.35 now available to download at your convenience
MGS4 'Gun Metal Gray' PS3 bundle exclusive to Konami website
Microsoft's Greenberg Slams Sony's Promises

I Love You Curb Stomp
GOW2 details: multiplayer, vehicles, Carmine's back!
CliffyB: No party system in GOW2 would be "a pretty big f*ckup"
X3F Impressions - Too Human
X3F Impressions - Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
X3F Impressions - Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Rumor: Spring update adds game installs, DRM fixes, "motion sensor" features
MS: Xbox 360 Sales Hit 10 mln in US
Microsoft: Oops, We Forgot About The Wii In Worldwide Sales

Target / CC / Best Buy Video Game Prices: May 18 - May 24, 2008

GTA IV Whacks The April Competition, Mario Kart Grabs Second
Game Informer reveals Guitar Hero IV drum kit
Konami's Back In Music Game With Rock Revolution
CBS to Buy GameSpot Parent
Acquisitions Cause $454 Million In Losses For EA In Fiscal 08

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Outro:

Intellivision II System Changer

Bonus Pictures:


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

Seems like a busy, busy Cagcast

can't wait to listen to it guys. mostly about your thoughts on the gh4/Konami drums.

Woot... can't wait to give it a listen!! I've been having CAGcast withdrawal symptoms

CheapyD was right to call this show the "Wombat's Bad Fact Day." I think that perhaps Shipwreck's presence made Wombat want to "shine" more with his video game knowledge, but he sadly flopped. I love Wombat, but he's best at making us laugh and pointing out the often overlooked details. I'm glad he was better near the end.

hooray a CAG Cast release! Now I have something to do other than GTA4!

Yay! Hope you had a good trip cheapy.

Edit: that bobble head cut out of Tai is hilarious.

The PS3 has outsold the 360 since winning the Hi-Def format war on a worldwide front. They are slightly ahead in the US since the beginning of the year, but worldwide they are ahead in Japan and have just pulled ahead of te 360 in Europe.

As far as the Nintendo Channels Cheapy, try CLICKING ON THE VIDEO, it makes them full screen.

YEAH! Finally

Good to have it back

Sweet! What a great surprise after checking a crappy Amazon DOTD! Woooo


EDIT- Now I understand the title of this weeks show.

Oh finally the gods have answered my prayers

a cagcast!

YEAH! CAGcast is back baby!

ZOMG, Cheapy is a XBox fanboy while Wombat is a PS3 fanboy. I want to see an epic battle. Please don't kill me.

They may just like to offer up contrasting opinions for the good of the show, it would be pretty boring if every time one of them said something the other would just agree all the time.

Although giving a lot of time to the Microsoft exec's stats and opinions was pretty worthless.

Hey guys I wanted to comment about the fact that your talking about the XMB. I believe the XMB is a issue of available RAM. The original footprint *how much RAM the console took just to exist* was, and I'm not bothering to look it up, 96 MB. The current footprint for the XMB is 72. It's an issue of shrinking down how much RAM the system uses in the background of everything so that the XMB can exist on top of the game and the software being used. I think the target is 64 to have the XMB run smoothly.

Peace.

Just started listening. What is Tai's Jewish name?

Originally Posted by CouRageouS Just started listening. What is Tai's Jewish name?

Jacob (Ya'akov)

Originally Posted by CheapyD Bonus Pictures:

Heh. The chubby 'un on the left in the red onesie is "Mario."

You *hafta* draw a moustache on that picture.

Originally Posted by CheapyD Jacob (Ya'akov)

Nice. One of my old co-workers was named Jacob/Yakov. We used to call him the Yak.

So how does this work for Tai now? Is it inserted into his current name or is it going to be something that the Jewish relatives call him?

In high school I knew a lot of Vietnamese people with Viet names and some of them lliterally made up their own American names. Oddly enough most of them start with J and had Viet names that started with H.