Front Towards Gamer Radio

Podcast N Bullsh*t Episode 4: Five Finger Daft Punk

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:19:41 +0000

This is a humble little podcast started by Dylan (Phazon117), Kayla (Tokengirlstfu), and Travis (Turbobison). We are a video game podcast, but we talk about a whole lot more…like jugglaos, Chris Brown, Dragon Ball Z, and Quetzalcoatl Jesus. We are fun and lighthearted, and we like to have a good time. Trust me, you will enjoy …

Podcast N Bullsh*t Episode 3: Electric Juggalo

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:00:52 +0000

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 171: Train Phobia

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:30:16 +0000

Editor’s Note: Congratulations to 7-year old Billy Wilson from Milwaukee, WI for winning Front Towards Gamer’s “Write FTGR’s Intro Page” contest from last week! Below, you can see his rambling and poorly worded entry! Notice, he even writes it as if Quinn “Soulibon” Sullivan were the one writing it! So adorable!

Happy Wednesday Rebels! …

Podcast N Bullsh*t Episode 2: Stuck in a Rudden

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:12:05 +0000

Logan Decker, PC Gamer Editor-in-Chief: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 170

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:07 +0000

We are breaking from your regularly scheduled Wednesday Traffic Chopper because Quinn and Gigi are a pair of good-for-nothing layabouts who weren’t able to record the show this week (to be fair, Shanghai also forgot they were recording at the new time, so…). In place of this week’s “Chopper”, we’re moving up …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 169: Love is What I Got

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:00:08 +0000

This week’s episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper? It’s like a 69, but with a creepy “1″ watching it all go down! And QUINN KARAOKE! Well, kinda.

Okay, not really, just a smidge of it. Audio editor Dingledodie77 cuts out all the good parts to get the show to a managable …

Podcast N Bullsh*t Episode 1: We’re Back: A BioShock Story

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:10:55 +0000

PNB Special: Interview with Dan Amrich

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:03:57 +0000

As we get ready for our brand new reboot, we decide to sit down with the Community Manger of Acitivison, Dan Amrich. We talk about a range of different issues, including the console wars, the new Activison releases, and Critical Path.

Opening Song: The Goof …

Andrea Rene, Escapist News Now: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 168

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:00:23 +0000

From the great Arctic north of Fargo, North Dakota comes this week’s guest, Miss Andrea Rene! Celebrating her new position as “on-screen talent” (i.e. the hot girl host) for The Escapist’s news show, The Escapist News Now, Shanghai sits down and discusses her jump from the middle America fly over states to …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 167: If Only Quinn Were Here…

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:00:50 +0000

This week’s Front Towards Gamer Radio got so racy that audio editor Dingledodie77 had to delete giant chunks of conversations about same sex marriage, why Hitler wasn’t all that bad of a guy, proper use of the “N” word. However, what you’ve got left is yet another episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio’s “Wednesday” …

Spaceteam’s Henry Smith: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 166

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:00:18 +0000

This week on Front Towards Gamer Radio, Shanghai Six pulls some time with Henry Smith, the man behind the wicked fun iPhone 4-player co-op game, Spaceteam! Henry’s little truly free-to-play experiment on the iTunes app store set the games industry on fire; not only is the game free for now and always on your i-Devices and …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 165: Gigi Goes to Jail

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:30:58 +0000

In this week’s “Debtor Prison” episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Gamergirl continues to vex about in-game relationships with Persona 4 Golden on the PSP, Quinn and Shanghai banter about League of Legends woes, while Shanghai Six lauds praises on one of the last reasons to own …

Quadrilateral Cowboy’s Brendon Chung: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 164

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:30:18 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the master of universes inhabited by people with square heads, Blendo Games’ Brendon Chung! Blazing onto the indie scene after the death of Rebellion Games (The Saboteur, Star Wars: Battlefront), Brendon has charmed his way into the hearts and minds of gamers with such odd little titles as Thirty …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 163: Soda Bone

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:00:29 +0000

This week’s show, Gamergirl talk comes out of the gate swinging at Shanghai Six for allegedly spoiling Bioshock Infinite for her through game guide video titles. After calming her down, she gets back to deciding on how she wants to handle her digital marriage proposal in Harvest Moon, while Shanghai and Quinn try to …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 162: What Do You Think, Gigi?

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:00:06 +0000

Hey, it’s Wednesday, right? Well, close enough.

Bioshock Infinite is finally here, and the FTGR crew is here to dance around the storyline without spoiling anything! Meanwhile, Shanghai Six talks about his time at San Francisco’s Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) as well as a little free-to-try indie gem called Papers, Please, Quinn “mehs” his …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, PAX East 2013, Day Three!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:00:41 +0000

Well, all good things must come to an end, and PAX East is certainly no exception. The Front Towards Gamer crew, headed by Tony Wilson (ChaingunPope), Paul Neafsey (IrishVendetta84) and Dylan Tierney (Phazon117) tearfully bid farewell to the Boston Convention Center goodbye, but not before getting their last thoughts down in the form of a …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, PAX East 2013, Day Two!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:30:41 +0000

More Penny Arcade Expo fun here at Front Towards Gamer! Tony Wilson (ChaingunPope) and the rest of the staff who attended Penny Arcade Expo like Paul Neafsey (IrishVendetta84) and Dylan Tierney (Phazon117) delve deeper on the show floor to talk about the things they saw with the help of IGN Podacast Beyond and Up At Noon frontman, Greg …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, PAX East 2013, Day One!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:00:34 +0000

Better late than never, between PAX and GDC, the last two weeks have been insane here at Front Towards Gamer! Tony Wilson (ChaingunPope) and the rest of the staff who attended Penny Arcade Expo like Paul Neafsey (IrishVendetta84) and Dylan Tierney (Phazon117) rant and rave about what they saw on the show floor for the first day …

Joe Ybarra, Shackleton Crater: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 161

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:30:38 +0000

This week on the show, Shanghai Six talks with thirty year vet of the computer and game development industry and founder of JoeGotGame, Joe Ybarra! One of the co-founders of Electronic Arts with Trip Hawkins from back in the early 80s, Joe Ybarra has had a long and storied career with multiple major franchises …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, PAX East 2013, Pre-Show Feast!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:30:42 +0000

LOUD NOISES!

A gaggle of Front Towards Gamer rebels have descended onto Boston to attend this year’s Penny Arcade Expo East, and this audio snippet of them gathering is just a taste of some of the great podcast fun we’ve got in store for you over the course of the convention!

Joining the show …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 160: The Possibility of Rabbit Sleds

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:00:07 +0000

The Front Towards Gamer Radio Wednesday Traffic Chopper crew is all back together again, forever dashing the hopes of Quinn and Shanghai for their two man morning radio zoo crew style show. Gamergirl rejoins the show to discuss her unwanted wedding proposal from a horse in Harvest Moon, Quinn tries to explain just what …

Palmer Luckey, Oculus Rift Creator: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 159

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:36:39 +0000

It’s a rare treat that one gets to talk with someone so far ahead of the power curve that it physically hurts to think about. While most kids are out wrecking their parents’ cars or figuring out way to get people to buy them beer, Palmer Luckey was busy at home refurbishing iPhones to …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 158: The Morning Zoo Crew

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:00:26 +0000

This week, the Londoner sits this one out! Gamergirl is unable to join Front Towards Gamer Radio this week, so Quinn and Shanghai are forced to go back and forth. The two make due by turning the show into the League of Legends cast, then the conversation turns to Quinn’s discussion of Simcity and …

State of Decay’s Sanya Weathers: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 157

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:00:09 +0000

If I told you about an open world zombie apocalypse game called State of Decay, you might be interested. If I told you it had ridiculously deep role-playing and base building mechanics in it, it might grab your attention. Now if I told you it was all that and coming out this summer on Xbox Live …

Fatal1ty (Johnathan Wendel): Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 156

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:00:18 +0000

This week on the show, Shanghai Six sits down with gaming legend and the man who helped make the professional gaming scene what it has become today, Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel! Fatal1ty talks about how he made his start fighting his way through the early days of pro gaming before pro gaming was actually …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 155: Infamous Conspiracy

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:00:31 +0000

The next salvo has been launched in the Microsoft/Sony console war with last week’s announcement of the Playstation 4 (and notice, we are neglecting Nintendo, because, well, if you’re listening, you should know why). Some would even say “shots fired”. Quinn takes us through the good, the bad and the ugly of the …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 154: Bringing the Energy

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:30:12 +0000

ZZZZzzzz…. Front Towards Gamer Radio….zzzzzzz……Aliens Colonial Marines blows…..Gamergirl loves baby games Ni No Kuni….Quinn plays some Black Mesa….and all three are BRINGING THE ENERGY!

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Hosts: Stephen “Shanghai Six” Machuga: (@ShanghaiSix) XXXXXXX “Gamergirl” XXXXXXXX: (@GamerGirlTalk) Quinn “Soulibon” Sullivan …

Card Hunter’s Jonathan Chey: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 153

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:30:45 +0000

Do you know Jonathan Chey? If not, you should. As one of the co-founders of Irrational Games, Jon and Ken Levine were some of the brains behind legendary games Bioshock and System Shock 2. Oh, are you sitting up and listening now? Yeah, you should be. Jon is now the co-founder for …

Mikel Reparaz from Vidja Game Apocalypse: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 152

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:30:46 +0000

Happy Valentine’s Day, you sad sacks! Lord knows that you’re not seeing anyone right now, so why not cuddle up with Front Towards Gamer Radio’s interview with ex-GamesRadar cuddle muffin, Mikel “Wikiparez” Reparaz? Who knows, you may get lucky! Shanghai Six chats up Mikel Reparaz about his transition from one side of …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 151: Give It Up for Socrates

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:02 +0000

The gang are back for another round of Ni No Kuni bashing in this week’s Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, and shockingly, Quinn changes his tune and sides with Shanghai in some of Shanghai’s complaints about the game’s child molester-y vibe, while Gamer Girl continues to defend her …

Jim Reilly, Jesse Divnich for EEDAR: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 150

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:00:28 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with veteran games newsman Jim Reilly (IGN, Game Informer) to chat about his recent transition from games media to the generally invisible-yet-critical guiding hand of metrics analysis organization known as EEDAR. Having only started at the organization a few weeks ago, Jim is accompanied by the Vice President of EEDAR’s “Insight” division, …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 149: Ni No Kuni is For Babies

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:22:42 +0000

The gang is back for another episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, and tempers run hot this week over the childish baby game, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. All three agree that the game is a childish baby game for babies, but just how childish and babish IS …

Frog Fractions Jim Crawford: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 148

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:30:37 +0000

The crazy creator of the “edu-tainment” game Frog Fractions, Mr. Jim Crawford, takes off the straightjacket and sits down to talk with us about the bizarre journey Twinbeard Studios and his friends and family went through to put out Frog Fractions. Be advised, for those of you not aware of what Frog Fractions is: …

Front Towards Gamer Radio “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper, Episode 147: Cwahsaaants

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:00:09 +0000

“Wednesday” Traffic Chopper is back, and we’ve added more ironic quotation marks to the name for your enjoyment! It’s almost like we’re now saying, “WILL it come out Wednesday? Maybe Thursday? Maybe not at all?” That’s the magic of the “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper. It can DO that.

Anyway, …

“Prod1gy X” Robert Paz, World Record Holding Pro Gamer: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 146

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:00:33 +0000

After months of wrangling and missed email connections, we were finally able to get world record holding pro gamer (and now movie star) Robert “Prod1gy X” Paz on for an interview. Shanghai Six talks with Prod1gy X about what it took to get where he’s at today, what his plans are for 2013 …

Chris Grant, Polygon: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 145

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:00:46 +0000

A special episode for Front Towards Gamer Radio! Field correspondent Tony “ChaingunPope” Wilson made the drive up to Philadelphia to interview Chris Grant, the ex-editor-in-chief for Joystiq and now editor-in-chief of upstart video game website Polygon!

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Front Towards Gamer Radio Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 144: Stupid Fat Baby!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:30:18 +0000

Ah, it wouldn’t be an episode of the Front Towards Gamer Radio‘s “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper if it didn’t come out on Thursday (or Friday if you’re in Europe!) Hey, what do you want for free?

Anyway, the crew is back in effect this week, Gigi gives us her take on Professor Layton and the …

Pwnophobia from GGChronicle, Trinity Force Podcast: Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 143

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:30:51 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with League of Legends grand master of ELO Hell, Adam “Pwnophobia” Cogswell, the co-host of the Trinity Force podcast and co-owner of League of Legends themed eSports website, GGChronicle. Thanks to Shanghai’s brand new crippling League of Legends addiction, Shanghai asks Pwnophobia about his odd non-gaming pass time, where in the …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 142: Porko Rosso?

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:00:49 +0000

Hey, folks, happy new year! Another year survived, good on ya!

Sure, other podcasts may be doing their game of the year shows or generic clip shows to get them through the holidays, but we’re here, banging out the same show you’ve become accustomed to…wait, that’s a good thing, right?

Anyway, the …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 141: Gigi Loves Robbaz

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:00:19 +0000

Like an old moldy fruitcake, Front Towards Gamer Radio comes out from under your Christmas tree with a smell like no other! A gift that no one asked for, and whoops, we don’t have a gift receipt! Anyway, enough of the Christmas one-liners, let’s get with the topics! Gamergirl and Shanghai Six talk about …

Richard Ryan from Revision 3′s Rated RR: Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 140

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:30:31 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with “blow-stuff-up” enthusiast, Revision3′s Richard Ryan to discuss his series of Youtube shows, RatedRR, Tech Assassin and his latest, SuRRvival Gear. Shanghai talks with ol’ Double R about making the jump from just being another jagoff blowing things up on the internet to Youtube stardom, what it’s like going …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 139: The Only Vagina in Smurf Village

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:00:37 +0000

Well, folks, we may have found our replacement for third podcast host! Quinn “Soulibon” Sullivan (known affectionately by men of the homosexual variety as “The Cinnabon for your Soul”) has really stepped in and cleaned up, getting the ‘Front Towards Gamer Radio’ seal of approval from gaming podcast queen and necrophiliac lush Gigi.

(PS: …

PNB: Wrestling with Anime

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:09:26 +0000

PNB! We are back….well..not all of us. We got Curtis from PCN-Gen and FTG to hop on with us.

So…here’s the thing, this is going to be a two-parter because we couldn’t shut the hell up. In our defense we haven’t podcasted in a week. Here the gang talk about anime, bitch about …

Marvel Heroes Stephen Reid: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 138

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:30:03 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Gazillion Entertainment’s Stephen Reid to talk about Gazillion’s upcoming free-to-play action role-playing game Marvel Heroes. Having played through the first area of the game at PAX Prime, given the world’s current Marvel madness over the Avengers and everyone’s love of games like Diablo and Torchlight, Marvel Heroes appears …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 137: Fapulous Apple

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:00:39 +0000

Another episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio’s “Wednesday” traffic chopper, another new challenger approaches to quest for the title of third chair while Gamergirl hides in a corner. This week joining the show is Quinn “Soulibon” Sullivan from Shifted2U stops by to try his hand at podcasting from Japan to tell us his early …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 136: Cranberry Bull

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:30:42 +0000

Happy Gobble Gobble Day, folks! Of course the show is late, because it’s Thanksgiving in the States, so there!

This week, Shanghai and ChaingunPope are graced by Gamergirl’s presence for a whole twenty minutes before she has to jet, but we ARE treated to Chaingun’s thoughts on how he believes Paper Mario- Sticker Star …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 135: Pay Me In Sex

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:00:48 +0000

By the time this goes up, Shanghai will be in Los Angeles for the Operation Supply Drop “8-Bit Salute to Veterans” event! Crazy that it’s finally here!

But a few days ago for this episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio, Shanghai and Chaingun give a good-natured thrashing to the problems with Assassin’s …

Firmware Update 0.15: Unlimited Time or Unlimited Money?

Malcolm Spinedi — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:00:50 +0000

It’s another week, and it’s time for another Firmware Update! This week the boys tackle a week of big news and big articles. Expect a jam-packed episode this time around.

This week on the Firmware Update, we discuss the new Portal in Motion DLC that’s exculsively for the PS3. Is it worth buying back …

The Geek Link Episode 38: Halloween Spooktacular

smikey1123 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:00:40 +0000

On this weeks episode of The Geek Link, we do things a bit differently. We go over some of our Halloween rituals, we talk about some of the movies we find particularly spooky, Smikey talks Resident Evil 6, and Cannonfodder scared the crap out us with a Korean comic strip. We …

Girl Gamer’s HB Duran: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 134

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:00:51 +0000

For this week’s Halloween interview (well, close enough, right?), Shanghai Six brings on the commander-in-chief over at Girl Gamer.com, Miss “HB” Duran, also known as Angel Thanatos in the gaming community. While the two of course go over the tried-and-true, “Is it hard being a ‘girl gamer’ hurrrr” conversation that’s been done …

Firmware Update 0.14: The Super Clean Edition

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:00:05 +0000

The PS3-Oh unite (for most of the show) with another episode of the Firmware Update. This week, the boys make due with a slow news week capped off with a lousy Playstation All-Stars announcement. I mean seriously; who in their right mind thought that announcement was a good idea? I mean you …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 133: Gigi’s Hip Flask

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:30:34 +0000

Another week, another “Wednesday” Traffic Chopper coming out on a Friday! Hey, what do you want for free?

Anyway, Shanghai and Gamergirl are back for another Friday version of the Wednesday Traffic Chopper and invite on “Podcast n BS” host Travis “TurboBison” Foster to fill in third chair duties for this week. Turbo and …

The Geek Link Episode 37: WTF Is A CannonFodder?

smikey1123 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:30:38 +0000

On this weeks episode we have a lively argument about the Wii U getting voice chat, we somewhat agree on why the 360 sales dropped in Q1, Bioshock Infinite gets a limited edition and it comes with a wingy dude that Xalaga must have, a redditor got outed for being …

Firmware Update 0.13: Peeing in the Streets

Malcolm Spinedi — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:00:25 +0000

The PS3-Oh has united again! Joe returns and tells us stories of El Salvador and the recovery progress of his G-Ma. Those expecting a joke here, sorry. We’re legit happy she’s okay, you sickos.

This week the PS-Three discuss the newly announced Collector’s Editions of Bioshock Infinite. A great game yes, but is …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper, Episode 132: Flo is Evil

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:30:46 +0000

God, can it be the weekend already? No? Then take a Front Towards Gamer Radio‘s Wednesday Traffic Chopper episode to soothe the pain of it NOT being Friday.

This week’s show, Gamergirl comes back from a fun family emergency to talk about her “lethal hide and seek” time with Dishonored and her …

Mark of the Ninja’s Nels Anderson: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 131

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:30:33 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Klei Entertainment’s master ninja and creative director for Mark of the Ninja, Nels Anderson to discuss how his silly little 2d stealth action game is destroying Xbox Live records, throwing around things like “Highest average reviewed game on Xbox Live” and the like (yes, it IS that damn good). …

Firmware Update 0.12: Walking Dead is Ok

Malcolm Spinedi — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:00:21 +0000

Firmware Update is here again, and this time it’s personal. However, the PS3-Oh is a PS2-Oh. Joe Garcia is out visiting family in a foreign land who has yet to discover the awesomeness of Wifi. Curse El Salvador and their one road. No worries folks, the Man who Hates Everything will return next …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper 130: Seinfeld’s BBQ Sauce

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:00:16 +0000

The problem with naming your podcast the Front Towards Gamer Radio’s “Wednesday Traffic Chopper” is that when Shanghai Six gets too busy putting together Dishonored gameguides all week and the show doesn’t go live until Friday, we all look like unprofessional douches. Shanghai Six would like to respond to the haters out there by …

The Geek Link Episode 36: Cannon’s Oral Malfunction

smikey1123 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:00:30 +0000

On this weeks episode of The Geek Link, Cannonfodder fails miserably at speaking and Xalaga gets to exact her revenge by correcting him in nearly every story. Well, at least until she loses it and laughs uncontrollably for minutes. Smikey tried to maintain composure, but yeah, that didn’t happen either. There were actual …

Pamela Horton, Playboy’s Miss October 2012: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 129 (Safe For Work!)

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:30:03 +0000

Pamela Horton

The term “Playboy Bunny” and “hardcore gamer” typically aren’t within 10 nautical miles of one another…that is, until now! Miss Pamela Horton was extremely recently named Playboy’s “Miss October 2012″ for her voluptuous looks and stunning smile. But did you know Miss October 2012 is not only a Tauren Druid in World …

Firmware Update 0.11: Horses in El Salvador!

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:30:23 +0000

Its Friday, and its time for another edition of the Firmware Update! Unfortunately Samurai Zero has a headache and is away getting a hole drilled into his head to release the evil spirits. No worries because Coward Duck and Joe Garcia are here to continue on!

This week on the Firmware Update, we talk about …

Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn: Front Towards Gamer Radio AMBUSH, Episode 128

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:30:11 +0000

You didn’t expect it, it’s an ambush! Yes, Front Towards Gamer Radio every now and again gets an incredible opportunity to conduct an interview with a developer or a publisher that just needs to be put up in a timely fashion…and that’s what we’ve got here with the release of the Halo 4 …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper 127: Spot of the Big Piggies

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:00:39 +0000

Hail, hail, rock and roll! Another week, another Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper to get you over the humpday!

This week, Gamergirl and Shanghai welcome on host of FTG’s Gametwerp podcast and now tested stand-up comedian Tony “ChaingunPope” Wilson to cover down on third chair duties. ChaingunPope talks about his Borderlands 2 …

The Geek Link Episode 35: Mini, Mini, Mini…..Mini!

smikey1123 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:47:18 +0000

On this weeks The Geek Link we thoroughly decide to change up our format and go for an entire episode filled with reviews. Well, Xalaga and Smikey do as Cannonfodder was too busy in a League of Leagends tournament to stop playing for his review. Cannon reviewed the anime X’amd of the Lost Memories between turns. …

PNB 32: Slower Than Sound: STS

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:00:07 +0000

*Sorry for the sound issues. New Equipment, it will be better*

The gang is all back, this week on Podcast ‘n BS.

On this PNB, we talk about challenging ourselves. We play borderlands, discuss how Slenderman will take your soul, and we discover SPACE!!!!!!! Also Dylan talks about his love …

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.10 – Joe’s Brother’s Breasts

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:00:20 +0000

FTG’s Firmware Update Boys are Back in Town as Joe makes his return (again) to the show. Are he and his one and a half kidneys working? Stay tuned!

On this week’s FTG’s Firmware Update, We talk about trilogymania, as Assassin’s Creed and Mass Effect have collections coming out. Are …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper 126: Discharge?

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:00:28 +0000

In this week’s Front Towards Gamer Radio’s ”Wednesday Traffic Chopper”, Gamergirl and Shanghai Six are joined by Podcast N BS host Travis “TurboBison” Foster to surprisingly talk as little about Borderlands 2 as possible. Strangely enough, Turbo and Shanghai fawn over indie heartthrob roguelike FTL, while all three of them give a little taste of a …

The Geek Link Episode 34: More Borderlands

smikey1123 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:08:50 +0000

Welcome back to another fantastic episode of The Geek Link. This week the gang talks about the rather odd trailer for the game Denpamen, the return of the original Kindom Hearts in HD, the Borderlands 2 comic and what the future may hold for Borderlands 2 according to Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Software. All this and the kickstarter …

Raychul Moore: Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 125

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:30:24 +0000

Shanghai Six invites on blonde bombshell and long time industry independent journalist Miss Raychul Moore on to the podcast for this week’s show! Raychul surprises Shanghai by complaining about the double-edged sword of being type-cast as just a pair of breasts, how despite almost a decade in the industry, why she can’t manage to …

Firmware Update 0.09: Cross Buy Talk

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Join us for a two man show with Coward Duck and Samurai Zero as Joe Garcia is recovering from a (fake) kidney operation. No worries, there is plenty of news to discuss in the world of Sony. A new PS3 Slim model has been shown off at TGA. Is it worth the money or …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper: Episode 124: PLAY MARK OF THE NINJA ALREADY

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:00:05 +0000

Taking a breather from Borderlands 2? Well, come take a listen to this week’s Wednesday podcast as the crew welcomes on special guest host on this week, ex-Trophy Whore/Proven Gamer alum now Reset Gamer, Mr. Carlos “HardRocknGuy” Rivera to talk about…PC gaming? The dyed-in-the-wool PS3 trophy hunter talks with Shanghai Six about Team Fortress …

The Geek Link Episode 33: Sarcasm Means Correct

smikey1123 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:00:39 +0000

This week the whole gang is back together and we talk about Steam: Big Picture, PopCap giving Plants Vs Zombies out like candy, has Blizzard been helping hackers all these years, WiiU models and pricing announced, nerd porn from Apple’s press conference, and the Kickstarter of the Week. Oh, and did I mention there is a giveaway …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 123, Torchlight 2′s Max Schaefer from Runic Games

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The pre-launch developer interview: the independent interviewer’s holiest-of-holies, and this is no exception. This week, Shanghai Six sits down with friend of the show, CEO of Runic Games, Max Schaefer, and their $20 indie darling hack-and-slash click-and-loot fest Torchlight 2. Shanghai asks him what the thought was releasing right on top of …

Firmware Update 0.08: Joe Garcia Defends Square Enix

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:00:55 +0000

This week on FTG’s Firmware Update, we discuss Resident Evil 6′s three new modes. Find out what Chris Hansen has to do with it. Keiji Inafune has is making another game called Yaiba. Can you collect powers from bosses? Plus Playstation Plus gives us two more reasons to be happy.

Also Joe …

Front Towards Gamer Radio’s Wednesday Traffic Chopper: Episode 122: PULL UP! PULL UP!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:30:17 +0000

Shanghai Six attempting to get the show back on track after a few weeks of oddly timed shows and disappearing hosts, staffers Fir3truck and IrishVendetta join him on the show to sling the latest slang about post-PAX impressions, poorly chosen internet handles like IrishSoapVendettaAssassin has, and make sure to give Gamergirl talk a seriously …

The Geek Link Episode 32: When Xalaga is Away…

smikey1123 — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:00:12 +0000

This week the guys (yes it will be all testosterone) discuss Black Mesa finally getting a release day, stolen copies of Resident Evil 6 being sold a month early, PAX going international, Square Enix announcing Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and our Kickstarter of the week, Leaving Megalopolis.

Starring Cannonfodder, Xalaga and Smikey1123

Music credit:

Crya:

Crya

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 121: The PAX Prime Interviewpocalypse!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:00:40 +0000

It has been a crazy week since PAX, but have no fear, Front Towards Gamer is continuing to bang out all the PAX Prime focused content you could ever want, including this week’s interview! Or in this case, interviewS plural! Instead of just posting all of these wonderful interview on Youtube (which they are …

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.07: It’s Not Solid Snake!

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:00:24 +0000

Joe Garcia has thrown his back out adding the upcoming Final Fantasy Collector’s set to his Shelf of Hate. Fortunately, Coward Duck (Malcolm) and Samurai Zero (Tyler) are still here to give you this week’s Firmware Update.

This week, we talk about the extended demos that came from PAX Prime 2012 with Metal …

The Geek Link Episode 31: PAX Prime Day 3 All Good Things Must Come To An End

smikey1123 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:00:46 +0000

Once again the gang talks about what they saw during the third day of the Penny Arcade Expo. We also go over what impressed us most and a best of show are discussed.

Starring Cannonfodder, Xalaga and Smikey1123

Music credit:

Crya

Crya
crya—gecko

Samurai Champloo:

Ironclad
Nujabes—samurai-champloo—aruarian-dance

The Geek Link Episode 30: PAX Prime Day 2

smikey1123 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:00:16 +0000

Xalaga and Cannonfodder are on the floor at Penny Arcade Expo. Come see what the highs and lows of day 2 were and see what breaking news and stories come from the show floor. How are the con goers holding up after 2 days of wandering and partying? Stay …

The Geek Link Episode 29: PAX Prime Day 1

smikey1123 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:00:31 +0000

Xalaga and Cannonfodder are at Penny Arcade Expo. Come see what they thought of Borderlands 2, Neverwinter, Razer’s new laptop along with the highs and lows of day 1 were and if there were any good parties.

Starring Cannonfodder, Xalaga and Smikey1123

Music credit:

Crya

Crya
crya—gecko

Samurai Champloo:

Ironclad
Nujabes—samurai-champloo—aruarian-dance

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.06: The Basketball Avengers

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:00:51 +0000

Ladies and germs, it’s time once again for another Firmware Update.

This week, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes has been announced. Can Snake tackle his latest challenge: an open world game on a next gen system? Evil Cole was recently announced for Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, and ChaingunPope wasn’t happy. Do we agree? Finally, we …

PNB 31: FTG’S Expendables

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:08:55 +0000

Well, this week is like a mixture of all the Front Towards Gamer Podcasts….if you don’t count FTG Radio or The GameTwerp.

Holy hell, who let the cats in? This week, the gang is joined by The Geek Link’s Xalaga, and FTG’s Firmware Update’s Joe Garcia. The group talks about gaming news, comics newest …

The Geek Link Episode 28: Will Post Guides For Food

smikey1123 — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:04:11 +0000

Hi Geeks. On this weeks episode we are joined by Robert “The DCD”. We discuss the closing of Nintendo Power, PopCap Games lays off 50 workers and announces Plants Vs. Zombies 2, Peter Molyneux’s new game has some surprising DLC, Sony shuts down Studio Liverpool, A deconstructed Borderlands 2 game and the weekly kickstarter is Pinball Arcade: Star Trek …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 120: Quarter Million European Geeks Edition

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:00:30 +0000

Shanghai Six and company mourns the loss of their comrade Batman5273, but the show must go on with Swiss/Italian correspondent Francesco “Impossible” Ramazzotti giving his take on this year’s Gamescom in Cologne, Germany! Gamergirl is nice enough to join the podcast and sit there quietly as Shanghai peppers Impossible with questions about the …

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.05: Get Yer Twittah Machines!

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:00:49 +0000

Your weekly Firmware Update is here as the Coward Duck, Samurai Zero…. and Joe Garcia will take on another week in the world of Sony. How this somehow includes Superman doing the wild thing with Wonder Woman we don’t know, but stay tuned!

Sony has shutdown Studio Liverpool, because it wouldn’t be a show …

The Geek Link Episode 27: Edison Stole Sh*t

smikey1123 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:00:33 +0000

On this episode we go over the Humble Android Bundle #3, IO Interactive changing Hitman: Absolution due to backlash over a trailer, Lucy Lawless will be on Park and Rec, two PCs containing an early build of Divinity: Dragon Comander and Divinity: Original Sin were stolen from Gamescom and The Oatmeal is trying to help make …

PNB 30: Pomp ‘n BS

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:00:15 +0000

We are going back to school with this episode all about college.

This week, we send Dylan off to college by telling our worst college stories. Travis gets drunk and almost fights at an election party in 2004, and Kayla slides on stage. (Not a metaphor!)

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 119: Inverse Phase (Pretty Eight Machine)

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:00:51 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with a guy that manages to have impressed Trent Reznor with his musical ability, chiptune artist Inverse Phase. A year ago, he had a successful Kickstarter campaign (you know, before it was cool) to create a tribute album to Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine called Pretty Eight Machine that …

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.04: Gamescommies

Malcolm Spinedi — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:15:39 +0000

Gamescom 2012 has hit, and all people can talk about is Sony… Or at least that’s all they should be talking about. Join us as we take a look at why Sony won this year at Gamescom, and more!

We’ll look at Cross Buy, and …

PNB 29: Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:00:57 +0000

Last week was the Gathering of the Jugglaos, or as we call it, “PNB’s Annual Jugglao Banaza”

This week in PNB, Travis is in love with Civ 5, Dylan just now discovers the early episodes of The Simpsons, Kayla learns that not everyone can eat eggs (and that she lost out on the best dog …

The Geek Link Episode 26: Dream Drop Derp

smikey1123 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000

This week Cannon and Xalaga discuss Konami cancelling the patch for the Silent Hill HD Collection on the 360, Animal Crossing 3DS will be “hardcore”, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, a teen had been hospitalized for too much Call of Duty and finally Steam Bandits: Outpost. There were also questions from the community …

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.03: Mass Effect’s Lithuanian DLC

Malcolm Spinedi — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:00:44 +0000

This week FTG’s Firmware Update makes history! For the first time ever… we got a girl on the show! That’s right, FTG’s own Xalaga guest hosts for this week’s update.

This week Sony appears to have abandoned The Last Guardian. Join us as we ask the question: Who is really surprised? Sony …

The Geek Link Episode 25: Evil Vs. Evil

Xalaga — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:00:52 +0000

On this episode we discuss the new Pokedex 3D getting a release date, the Oculus Rift, Steam blocking class action lawsuits, EA suing Zynga, details of the new Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC, and The Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane.

Starring Cannonfodder, Xalaga and Smikey1123

Music credit: Crya

Crya
crya—gecko

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Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 118: Wednesday Traffic Chopper: Shag-an-Olympian

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:30:01 +0000

The crew is back for another week of hijinks with the crew to get you over the hump of the work week!

Shanghai Six and Gamergirl do battle over whether or not zombie platformer Deadlight is any good, Batman tiptoes around the embargo for Darksiders 2 to talk …

PNB 28: Podcast ‘n Bros

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:27 +0000

Bro, this episode..this episode bro. Slammin.

In this episode, Dylan decides to ruin his stomach, Kayla finds Travis’s double in Dallas, and Travis becomes a dude bro, bro. Oh yeah, the gang also talks about games.

Opening Song: “The Goof” by Eric Kennedy

Travis Kayla Dylan

The Geek Link Episode 24: Que?

Xalaga — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:59:10 +0000

On this weeks show we rambled about a transparent Nintendo 3DS XL, the fact that Jet-Set Radio is coming to everything, Christian Bale visiting victims of the theater shooting in the hospital, Castle Story, the new movie Silent Hill: Revelation 3D and the possible return of Bill Nye the Science Guy show. …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 117: Drew Seldin from Project TriForce

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:00:53 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with one of the two co-founders of professional-level gaming replica makers Triforce (or Project Triforce), Drew Seldin! The two talk about Drew’s head-scratching decision to leave a comfortable ten year gig in press relations for daytime television to make expensive big boy toys, how US Customs almost singlehandedly shut …

FTG’s Firmware Update 0.02: The Three Man Wolfpack

Malcolm Spinedi — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:00:36 +0000

The Terrific Trio returns to drop some PS3 knowledge on ya.

On this week’s episode, we look at the latest trailer from WWE ’13, and some of the many features that allow you to destroy Randy Orton. We talk a lot about the OUYA and what it could mean to the industry. Is this the …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 116: Wednesday Traffic Chopper Gets a Firmware Update

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:30:46 +0000

As we all know, Gamergirl is a terrible, terrible person from London. So you should not be terribly surprised to find out that she skipped out on recording this week’s Traffic Chopper to continue to do terrible things in London. Probably Olympics related, we’re fairly confident, and not in fact having anything to do …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 115: Justin “SixOkay” Korthof for Orcs Must Die 2, Hero Academy

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:00:28 +0000

Everyone’s favorite dimwitted War Mage is back, and he’s brought a….friend? Shanghai Six sits down with the community manager for Robot Entertainment, Justin “SixOkay” Korthof to talk about Robot’s latest offerings to the gaming space: Orcs Must Die 2 with all the crazy new traps, trinkets and weapons available for orc-stomping co-operative gameplay.

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FTG’s Firmware Update 0.01: Welcome New Users

Malcolm Spinedi — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:00:06 +0000

Front Towards Gamer is in many ways the best site on the net, but with a small problem. They’re waaaay behind on their PS3 Updates! Well consider that problem solved as Coward Duck, Samurai Zero, and Joe Garcia give you all the PS3 news you need in one podcast.

On this week’s …

PNB 27: Clop Clop Juggalo

Travis "Turbobison" Foster — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:00:59 +0000

Woo boy, we made to the big time now. This is a humble little podcast started by Dylan (Phazon117), Kayla (tokengirlstfu), and Travis (Turbobison). We are a video game podcast, but we talk about a whole lot more…like jugglaos, Chris Brown, Dragon Ball Z, and Quetzalcoatl Jesus. We are fun and lighthearted, and we like …

The Geek Link Episode 23: Should Be Sponsored By…

Xalaga — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:00:06 +0000

On this weeks show we talk spoiler free about The Dark Knight Rises, Rockband Blitz getting a release date and 20 tracks, a Rurouni Kenshin PSP game being released in Japan, Orcs Must Die 2, the Nexus 7 along with the games Major Mayhem and Dead Trigger.

Starring Cannonfodder, …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 114: Wednesday Traffic Chopper: Tears of the Bat

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:30:10 +0000

That’s right, two weeks straight, this new “two FTGR podcasts a week” program is working out! Can’t guarantee next week, but we’ll do what we can to get you over the hump at work and dancing on your way to the weekend!

This week for the Wednesday Traffic Chopper edition of FTGR, Shanghai screams …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 113: Mikee Bridges from GameChurch.com

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:00:09 +0000

Hallelujah! Shanghai Six sits down with the laid back and tattooed video game preacher Mikee (yes, with two “e”s) Bridges from GameChurch.com, the gaming website that reminds you that, hey, “Jesus loves you”. Shanghai talks with him about their use of controversial iconography and advertisements to get people talking about GameChurch, asks …

Front Towards Gamer Radio 112: The FTG Wednesday Traffic Chopper

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:00:27 +0000

Shanghai Six and the crew are back with another episode of the Wednesday Traffic Chopper to get you through your humpday and onto the weekend!

This week, Front Towards Gamer’s token black guy, TurboBison, joins the crew to discuss trying to marathon through the entire Telltale Games Sam and Max catalog, Gamergirl …

The Geek Link Episode 22: Fresh Blood

smikey1123 — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:00:03 +0000

Episode 22 started with an announcement and then we get into the Steam Summer Sale, Legend of Korra season 2 and the Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC.

Front Towards Gamer Radio 111: Max Scoville from Destructoid and the Comedy Button!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:00:42 +0000

Nothing like announcing we’re doing two shows a week and then not posting either of them in a timely fashion!

ANYwhoozle, Shanghai Six sits down with Max “I’ve got a story” Scoville from Destructioid, the DTOID Show, as well side project train wreck The Comedy Button to talk about how he came up through …

The Geek Link Episode 21: Going Digital-Desu~

Xalaga — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:00:55 +0000

Episode 21 may in fact be our most kawaii episode yet! With talk and Microsoft, Motorola, Google Chrome, anime, and some extremely robotic cat ears. Smikey1123 and UziSuzuki join us again in deciphering this weeks perils of the Internet, and news of the gaming culture.

Starring Cannonfodder and Xalaga

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Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 110: Shawn “Kona” Warbiany from Kona’s Korner

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:30:40 +0000

Well, part two of our experiment is live! That’s right, “two” Front Towards Gamer Radio episodes in one week! Well, kinda, anyway, as we just chopped the main show into two halves, but now in more managable chunks!

The Saturday edition of Front Towards Gamer will be our interview segment from here on out, and …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 109: The FTG Wednesday Traffic Chopper

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:30:11 +0000

Happy 4th of July, all you ‘Mericans out there! We got something a little special for you this week!

So…Front Towards Gamer Radio has been getting bigger and more Batman5273-y over the last few months, to the point where a two hour show is getting a bit crazy. Not only that, but getting the interview …

The Mass Geek Link Effect Special Episode 20

Xalaga — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:00:36 +0000

On this week’s one hour episode of The Geek Link, we discuss the various endings of Mass Effect 3 and explain the differences between the original endings as well as the new free DLC from Bioware “The Extended Cut.” Whether you chose: Control, Synthesis, Destruction or the two different refusals, this is one episode you’ll …

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 108: Michael Manna (aka Stevie Richards) from T4Show.com

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:00:21 +0000

This week, Shanghai Six has his interview cage match rematch with professional wrestler and founder of T4Show.com (Tech Today Tech Tomorrow), Mr. Michael Manna. Some of you may know him better by his wrestling name “Stevie Richards”, and after dashing through some basic wrestling history, Shanghai talks with him about his unlikely tech repair …

The Geek Link Ep 16: E3 Nintendo Press Conference

Xalaga — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:00:07 +0000

The Round Table has come together to judge Nintendo’s presentation on the second day of E3. We go over all the new first and third party games they have to offer, the hardware they plan on releasing and all the software that comes with the hardware.

ESA: Statistics

Starring Cannonfodder and Xalaga

Music …

The Geek Link Episode 19: All About Korra…

Xalaga — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:00:46 +0000

This episode of the geek link we talk about Nickelodeon’s new show and sequel to Avatar: the Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra. We had two wonderful guest: Mike and Summer, who are fans of the show and have enjoy it as much as we have so far. If you haven’t seen the show, Nickelodeon’s website …

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 107: Michael Pachter from Wedbush Securities, Pach Attack

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:30:25 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with oil-company-lobbyist-turned-video-game-analytic-rock-star, Michael Pachter from both Wedbush Securities and his show “The Pach Attack” over at Gametrailers. Michael blows Shanghai out of the water with his discussion about how he made the bizarre leap into the games industry, his thoughts on winners and losers of E3, portable gaming, the MMO …

The Geek Link Episode18: 50 Shades of NO!

Xalaga — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:00:14 +0000

A grand total of 18 episodes and we are just getting started! In this week's episode we talk about the Amazing "humble Bundle" prints money, New Skyrim Vamp DLC, Black Mesa source project and we explain what "50 shades of gray" is all about.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 106: E3 Hangover Edition

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:37:59 +0000

What in the hell just happened? Was that E3 already?

In a blur of time distortion, E3 week came and blew past in the blink of an eye, and life goes on about it’s merry way. Again, no interview due to the insanity of every one being on two hours of sleep and wandering …

The Geek Link Ep 15: E3 Monday Coverage

Xalaga — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:12:43 +0000

Day one of the Electronic Gaming Expo has come to a close and we are here with our interpretations of Monday’s festivities. Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil 6, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony and more are brought to light in this episode. Make sure to bring an antidote, because in this episode the hosts …

The Geek Link Episode 14

Xalaga — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:53 +0000

On todays episode of The Geek link we talk about real life zombies, Kingdome Hearts HD and The Nintendo Pre Press Conference from E3. Will be covering E3 every-night this next week!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 105: Pre-E3 Madness

dingledodie77 — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:30:22 +0000

The Super Bowl of the video gaming world is upon us, and all eyes are on Los Angeles the first full week of June for this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, or "The E3" as it's known by Shanghai's grandmother. As everyone planned on being interviewed this week bailed because of the big event, we skip the interview and get right into the noise!

The Geek Link Ep 13: Is there a Witch Doctor in the house?

Xalaga — Wed, 30 May 2012 20:00:21 +0000

This week episode of The Geek link, could not be more random. Instead of giving you news, and bringing you reviews of games and all geek things we love, we decided to bring you in a game session of Diablo III. But not any old game session either. An all Witch Doctor cast!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 104: Tony Money from Shifted2U

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:30:06 +0000

Look at these filthy vagabonds that Shanghai Six has linked up with! Shifted2U.com founder Tony Money comes on the show this week to tell his amazing tale of creating a job in the Hollywood television production industry by simply being at the right place at the right time. Easily the luckiest son of a bitch that side of the Rio Grande, Tony has made a career of randomly walking into the middle of amazing opportunities, much like a new era Forest Gump. Most importantly, Tony and his crew are throwing a red carpet E3 party on Monday, June 5th that Front Towards Gamer (i.e. Shanghai Six) will be providing support for during the event!

The Geek Link Ep 12: Where is My Money?

Xalaga — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:00:32 +0000

This week on The Geek Link, Xalaga and Cannon talk about the pulling of Diablo III for Australia, Activation looking for dirt on former Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella, EA settling a $400 million lawsuit and Minecraft, the hottest thing since Call of Duty on Xbox 360.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 103: Esmeralda from Machinima.com

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 19 May 2012 11:00:21 +0000

Esmeralda Portillo from Sarcastic Gamer, SG Pink, Big Red Barrel and now Machinima.com joins Shanghai Six for an interview about getting into the games industry!

The Geek Link Ep 11: Giggling, Laughter And Video Games!

Xalaga — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:30:56 +0000

WE HAVE A GUEST!!! Our very first guest of the show, the lovely @DCXM from unitygamingclan.com. She brought us some question to go with our lineup of The Elder Scrolls MMO, EA Indie bundle, Encyclopedia of Dwarfs and Dead Island Game of the Year Edition! So much giggling, laughter and video games!!!!

Kramer’s Gamers 5.12.12: The Snipers, The Wrestlers, and The Whipped.

Josh "Firetruck" Shelton — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:00:04 +0000

This week on Kramer's Gamers, Kramer, Fir3truck, and Shaggy talk about Sniper Elite V. 2, Max Payne 3 and we give away tickets to the WWE Smackdown event coming to Springfield,IL on June 23rd.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 102: Justin McElroy, Polygon/Joystiq and MBMBAM

dingledodie77 — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:00:58 +0000

Eldest "My Brother, My Brother and Me" brother and video games "jarnalist" for Polygon.com, Justin McElroy stops by for a chat about celebrating 100 episodes of their podcast and the show's induction into the Max Fun family of podcasts, what going from the heights of Joystiq.com and starting all over again with Polygon.com is like, and some of the craziest advice the brothers and he have had to give out on the show!

Kramer’s Gamers 5.5.12: Tattoos and Video Games.

Josh "Firetruck" Shelton — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:00:55 +0000

This week on the show Kramer, Firetruck, Shaggy, and Doc Noyes talk about Sniper Elite V.2, Prototype 2, the NHL 13 contest from EA Sports and Kramer get a double shock, one at the beginning of the show and one at the end.

Front Towards Gamer Radio AMBUSH, Episode 101: Alex Irvine, Marvel’s Avengers Alliance

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:51 +0000

Not only is The Avengers the hottest movie in theaters, but Marvel: Avengers Alliance is the hottest game on Facebook. Our very own Batman5273 sits down with the game's Head Writer, Alex Irvine and talks about super heroes, comics, and raising kids.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 100: Tim Schafer, Founder of Double Fine and King of Kickstarter

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:30:39 +0000

For our monumental 100th episode of Front Towards Gamer Radio, Shanghai sits down with Double Fine's chief to talk about what it was like rubbing elbows with heavy metal legends like Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Halford for Brutal Legend (METAL!), whether or not Double Fine will be doing another "amnesia fortnight" following the success of Double Fine's downloadable titles, and how exactly you follow up making three million dollars on Kickstarter for a $300,000 project. And yes, I ask about Psychonauts 2.

The Geek Link Ep 10: Thrills, Terrors and Trivia

Xalaga — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:00:20 +0000

Episode 10! This week Xalaga and Cannon talk about how CISPA is bad. Mmmmk? Other topics include- Shinji Mikami is back in the horror business, Dragonball Z for the Xbox Kinect, Diablo 3, and the crew hitting Ground Kontrol's Zelda Trivia night! For once do what Navi tells you, "Hey! Hey! Listen!"

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 99: Burnie Burns, Founder of Rooster Teeth and Creator of Red vs. Blue

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Shanghai Six finally tracks down the commander in chief of Rooster Teeth and the mega franchise Red vs. Blue, Mr. "Burnie" Burns for an interview on how he explains to people at dinner parties what he does for a living, the surprising method of how Red vs. Blue fight scenes are choreographed, how they managed to pull down Elijah Wood to provide voice work for Season 10, and who Burnie thinks he can take at the office in a fight!

The Geek Link Ep 8: Jackets, Maids, and Touch Screens

Cannonfodder — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:19 +0000

This week may have run a little long, but we tried out a few new things in it. This episode we manage to complain about a few things including: The Wii U, Resident Evil 6, Borderlands 2, and the Silent Hill HD collection. How much are you willing to spend on your fandom? What do you expect from from the next generation of gaming consoles? See what we think in this weeks episode.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 98: Rana McAnear, Face of Mass Effect’s Samara and Morinth

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:30:04 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with LA actress and model Rana McAnear to discuss how a simple afternoon of facial capture has more or less changed the course of her life! As the face of two of the more notable Mass Effect Asari characters, Morinth and Samara, the job has been the jumping off point to her career. We discuss her surprisingly rabid fanbase, the shocking amount of time and energy it takes to "become" an Asari, and how Bioware is handling her appearances (it's not what you'd think!).

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 97: PAX East 2012 Podcastrophe!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:00:43 +0000

What smells like stale beer, untamed body odor, Axe body spray and 5-hour energy drink? The staff of Front Towards Gamer on day two of PAX East in Boston!

The Geek Link Ep 07: PAX East 2012 Sunday!

Xalaga — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:00:06 +0000

Last episode of the PAX extravaganza, with a very, very delirious Cannonfodder. We talk about enforcers, Magic the gathering, Kaijudo, RoseWill, Wargaming net, Robot Entertainment, and much more! At the end of this episode we are giving another awesome League of Legends skin! Starring @Cannonfodder and @Xalaga.

The Geek Link Ep 06: PAX East 2012 Saturday

Xalaga — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:30:36 +0000

Day two done and Cannonfodder starved himself to give you this very special episode of The Geek Link! Firefall, Smite, Natural Selection and much, much more! At the end of this episode we give away some SWAG! More to give out tomorrow! Make sure to listen and subscribe for a chance to win!

The Geek Link Ep 05: PAX East 2012 Friday

Xalaga — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:25 +0000

The first day of PAX East has come to an end. Now the thing to do in Boston is to party geek style! Cannonfodder recounts his experience as a first time PAX East attendee covering the League of Legends booth, Wargaming's World of Tanks, Borderlands 2 gameplay, Christian gaming, the Astro Gaming headset booth, Max Payne 3 and more!!!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 96: Ross “Pallidian” Furman from Digital Noob and Gamers Gone Wild

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:42:32 +0000

Shanghai Six returns to the helm with this week's interview of Ross "Pallidian" Furman, the enigmatic front man and founder of the new style all the kids are talking about, DigitalNoob.com.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 95: Andy Bauman, KOXM, GamesRadar, Qore, PC Gamer

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:00:35 +0000

A must listen for you GamesRadar fans; Batman5273 sits and talks with ex-Future US employee Andy Bauman about his time with GamesRadar and why TalkRadar is dead.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 94: Dan Amrich from Activision, Author of “Critical Path”

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:30:06 +0000

Oh, hai there! Shanghai Six sits down with one of the nicest guys in the games industry, Activision lightning rod and 20-year games journalism veteran Dan "One of Swords" Amrich. He's taking a break from his whirlwind book signing tour of Laos and Malaysia to discuss the culmination of almost a decade worth of cocktail napkins scribblings: his book "Critical Path: How to Review Video Games for a Living". Dan has literally written the book that will give you everything you need to get your foot in the door of the games industry, making sure to give those starry-eyed prospective future games journalists a much needed reality check of living with six roommates in a single bedroom apartment in San Fransisco for $19,000 a year.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 93: Tyler Wilde from PC Gamer

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:30:08 +0000

Shanghai Six welcomes PC Gamer editor and ex-Gamesradar alum Tyler Wilde onto the show this week to discuss how he got into the biz, his half decade over at GamesRadar and his transition in house over to PC Gamer!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 92: PS Vita Weather Balloons

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:00:45 +0000

What is the official female body part of choice for Front Towards Gamer Radio's crew? Who the hell is Gary the wish granting snail? Why does Batman know so much about Pokemon? All these questions and more are answered in this week's Front Towards Gamer Radio!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 90: Valentine’s Day Massacre

dingledodie77 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:00:51 +0000

Damnit to hell, another week without an interview? Well, that's okay, because the crew makes up for it with drunken revelry.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 89: Misti Dawn “The Nerdiest Girl in Porn”

dingledodie77 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:30:50 +0000

By far, the sexiest Front Towards Gamer Radio to date! Shanghai Six ogles video game porn star turned games industry gal Misti Dawn (reportedly, her real name). Shanghai talks about how a Mormon Kentucky girl wound up in the porn industry, how she's coping with some major life changes that turned her world upside down, and her recent exit from porn to work in the games industry!

Front Towards Gamer Radio AMBUSH, Episode 88: Gotham City Impostors

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:30:55 +0000

Shanghai Six fires off a hip shoot interview with Monolith's community manager Dayne McClurg and associate producer Lucas Myers for Gotham City Impostors, releasing this week!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 87: Tim “MightyMutt” Hibbs from Big Red Barrel

dingledodie77 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:30 +0000

The podcast interview two years in the making, Shanghai Six sits down the one of the leaders of the OTHER Sarcastic Gamer rebel camp, Big Red Barrel, to talk about just what in the hell happened to drive 25+ staff members away from the site (or more accurately, WHO in the hell happened, #amIrite?)

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 86: Toxic Green Barrel

dingledodie77 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:00:13 +0000

No, this is not the Tim "MightyMutt" Hibbs interview episode, that's the one for next week. Shanghai has been juggling interview guests since the new year, but they've all since wigged out or gotten busy. But have no fear, we'll be interviewing ol' Tim next week.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 85: Ellen McLain, the Voice of Portal’s GlaDOS

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:30:33 +0000

This was a triumph.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 84: Dale Mulcahy, Effects Artist for Treyarch/Activision

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:01:23 +0000

Shanghai Six talks with video game animator and special effects designer (i.e. he sets things on fire) for Treyarch, Dale Mulcahy, as he laughs about how he snuck into E3 to land a job with Activision and what it's like working on some of the biggest games in video gaming history (Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3).

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 83: José “JVB” Betancourt from the ECA, Post Game Report

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:00:26 +0000

If you hate the SOPA as much as we do, you should probably know more about the Entertainment Consumer's Association (ECA). Who better to explain things than the new community manager for the ECA and long time podcasting junkie, Joe "JVB" Betancourt?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 82: Have a Claymore Christmakwanzakah!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:00:52 +0000

Front Towards Gamer Christmas special with the FTG Crew discussing Game of the Year choices. We promise you'll shoot your eye out!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 81: John Patrick Lowrie, Voice Actor for Valve

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:00:27 +0000

Shanghai hijacks another video game voice over actor with his interview with John Patrick Lowrie, a thirty year veteran of both the Seattle acting scene and more recently, video game voice over work for a variety of games developed in the Seattle area. John talks about the transition from doing theater to voice work for Valve, how he had to talk his wife, Ellen McLain (the voice of GlaDOS from the Portal series) into getting into voice acting, and his science fiction novel, Dancing with Eternity, currently sitting at a 5-star rating on Amazon!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 80: Mitchell Dyer, Xbox Associate Editor for IGN

dingledodie77 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:00:20 +0000

Hey, kids! Want to learn how to get a job in the video games journalist field? So do about a million of your friends, but no one seems to have the magic bullet that gets you behind the velvet rope...unless you talk with someone who's made the successful transition from struggling freelancer to industry insider! And we've got one of them on the show this week! Maybe you've heard of him, maybe you haven't, but you will now that he's the associate editor for IGN's Xbox division, Mitchell "MitchyD" Dyer.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 79: Aaron “ImplictMLG” Smith from Major League Gaming’s Gamebattles

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:00:44 +0000

For most, the Major League Gaming circuit is a mysterious land of twitch-reflex fifteen year olds with sponsor deals with Doritos and Hot Pockets. Every now and again, its good to dip your toes in the wading pool of the undercurrent of what's going on at these events, and Shanghai Six brings in community support staff for MLG Gamebattles.com, Aaron "Implicit" Smith to discuss just what went on this year and what we can look forward to for next year's season!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 78: John “JohnDubya” Whitehouse from the N4G Podcast

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:54 +0000

This week, Shanghai Six sits down with one of the seventeen co-hosts for the N4G Podcast, Mr. John Whitehouse, and talks to him about his time affiliated with Zero Tolerance Game Domain (ZTGD), while ChaingunPope and Gigi share hosting duties for intro/outro!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 77: Gus Sorola from Rooster Teeth, Red vs. Blue

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:00:32 +0000

Shanghai sits down with Gus Sorola, one of the founders of infamous Halo machinima makers Rooster Teeth, to get some details about their asylum-style headquarters in Austin, Texas. Shanghai finds out about just what in the hell is going on with the Drunk Tank/Rooster Teeth Podcast, what the plans are for 2012's Rooster Teeth Expo, and we get to the bottom of just where exactly the magnetic north pole is!

Front Towards Gamer Radio Special: Battlefield 3 Vs Modern Warfare 3 Debate

Xalaga — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:00:20 +0000

We put Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 in the ring to duke it out. In-depth conversation about Elite service and Battlelog, as well as the upcoming titles for Modern Warfare: Mash Potatoes and its DLC: Gravy. Lost? Well if you are still in the fence about these games or you want to hear the pros and cons of each game, then look no further, listen and enjoy the show!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 76: Brett Elston from Capcom Unity

dingledodie77 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:15 +0000

Now that Brett "Brett-Bot" Elston has left Games Radar to become a community manager over at Capcom, Shanghai Six finally has something to talk with him about (no Zelda tattoos or game music maniac here)! Shanghai asks him about how he made it out to the West Coast into the gaming industry, talks with him about the transition from "gams jarnalist" to industry insider, and tries desperately to get him to tell us what in the Hell Capcom is doing with the Mega Man franchise!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 75: Jason Olander, Snowblind Studios for War in the North

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:00:56 +0000

For the diamond anniversary episode of FTGR, we brought in Jason Olander from Snowblind Studios for Lord of the Rings: War in the North (say that five times fast!), where we talk about his lengthy history in the games industry and his love affair with all things Lord of the Rings that brought him to …

FTG Random Assault #30 “Punch Drunk Time”

Kate Reilly — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:00:15 +0000

Well, we finally got all those damned freeloaders out of the RA Mansion. This week, Mitch brings up stuff no one has heard of or cares about, Tony tells us all about Eurogamer, and Alex finally has had enough of Kate bashing Minecraft.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 74: Will “Raczilla” Kinsler, Epic Games

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:36 +0000

Shanghai Six messily chainsaws his way through an interview with Epic Games community manager for Gears of War 3 and Infinity Blade 2, Will "Raczilla" Kinsler. The boys chat about what it's like being at ground zero to one of the biggest launches of the year, if all Epic employees have to kneel at the altar of all things Cliff Bleszinski, and Will tries to explain what exactly a "Raczilla" is!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 73: Lester Speight (The Cole Train, Baby!)

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:00:17 +0000

Front Towards Gamer Radio goes two weeks straight by interviewing folks with IMDB pages with Hollywood actor Lester Speight (that's pronounced SPAY-t), the voice actor who brought Gears of War thrashball hero Augustus Cole to life! He generously gave us an electrifying hour of his time to talk about what it's like to be a part of a Michael Bay movie (Transformers: Dark of the Moon), the surprising amount of work it took to voice Cole, and obviously about whether or not he think he'll be attached to a Gears of War movie (see also: duh).

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 72: Steve Blum, Legendary Voice Actor

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:00:05 +0000

You couldn't pick him out of a police line up, but the minute you hear Steve Blum's voice, you'll immediately realize he's done voice work in just about every video game out there worth playing.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 71: Jeff Gerstmann from Giant Bomb

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:00:26 +0000

Eight months and fifty-six emails later, Shanghai Six finally harasses "gaming jarnalizm" industry legend Jeff Gerstmann into borrowing a cup of sugar...oh, and an interview. This 20 year industry vet has seen it and done it all, and those are some of the stories you'll hear about on this episode, including the infamous Kane and Lynch/Gamespot debacle, the creation and foundation of Giant Bomb, and whether or not the "NintenDownload X-press" will be making a return appearance!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 70: Steve Jaros, Drew Holmes for Saints’ Row the Third

dingledodie77 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:30:19 +0000

Professor Genki commands your very much listening pleasure-ation to this weeks Fronting Towards Radio Gamers! Shanghai Six postulates wickedly with Volition writer faces Steve Jaros and Drew Holmes for very much pleasing time game Saints Row the Third, where talking much about Professor Genki's muchly brilliant innovative Super Ballistic Man-apult and the Powerfully Incapacitating Octopus Gun (editor's note: okay, that had to have been the strangest, most fun opening line for a show I've ever written)!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 69: Michael Rung for the 2011 Gamestop Managers Conference

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:00:55 +0000

Quietly, gaming retail lords Gamestop has been holding an annual mini-convention/conference prior to the glut of holiday release titles coming out, where big game publishers fight to the death against one another to jockey for shelf space in Gamestops across the United States. Shanghai Six heard about this conference and interviewed district Gamestop manager Michael Rung to get all the juicy details!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 68: Ciji “Starslay3r” Thornton from the WCG Ultimate Gamer

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:30:00 +0000

Once upon a time back in the year of our Lord 2009, there was a reality show on the SyFy network called the World Cyber Games Ultimate Gamer. One part reality show, one part Survivor style competition, the show focused around folks doing both live action challenges and video game faceoffs to eliminate one another. One of the show's competitors was the school-girl-uniform-wearing Guitar Hero ninja Ciji "StarSlay3r" Thornton. Shanghai talks with her at length about some of the behind the scenes stuff that the public isn't privy to for reality show taping, how she's continued on with the death of the Guitar Hero franchise, and what her future plans are to work her way into a paid gig within the gaming industry!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 67: Greg Miller from IGN

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:00:53 +0000

Quite the comedy of errors this week with PAX Prime and window washers with mechanized lifts that beep through interviews! Anyway, Shanghai Six tricks the executive Playstation editor for IGN, Greg Miller, into sitting down with him and talking about everything from where he got started, where he sees himself in ten years, to what happened to his relationship with fellow IGN staffer Kristine Steimer! Steamy!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 66: The Calm Before the PAX Storm

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:30:01 +0000

It's the night before PAX-mas, and all through the house, Shanghai Six was running around like an idiot packing and not interviewing anyone! We had an interview scheduled, and then they wanted to know if I could do it Monday at 9:00 PM PST. That's midnight on the East Coast. Not bloody likely. So sorry, but we'll make up for it during PAX Prime!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 65: Justin “SixOkay” Korthof for Orcs Must Die

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:00:59 +0000

Industry veteran and Superman aficionado Justin "SixOkay" Korthof joins Shanghai Six this week to talk about Robot Entertainment's upcoming fantasy third person tower defense downloadable game, Orcs Must Die, coming out in a few weeks for PC and Xbox Live Arcade!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 64: Christine “SDWifey” Hoang for The Behemoth

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:00:36 +0000

Sometimes, it’s about being at the right place at the right time, and no one knows that better than Frag Doll-cadette-turned-PR-manager for The Behemoth (Castle Crashers, Alien Hominid), Christine “SDWifey” Hoang. She talks about the crazy stunt she pulled trying to land a marketing job with Sony, some of her stories from her time as one of Ubisoft’s female ninja assassins, and the brush with destiny that landed her the PR spot with one of the coolest indie developers in video games.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 63: Pryde and Shorty from Not FN Cute

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:30:15 +0000

Podcast three way! Shanghai Six sits down with the cosplaying vixens and founders of Not FN Cute.com, Pryde and Shorty, to discuss how the two sexy nerds found one another, why they split from SFX-360, and tell us some of their favorite cosplaying stories...naked!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 62: Jim Sterling from Destructoid

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:00:45 +0000

He is the stuff of PR managers’ worst nightmares. Women want to be with him, men want to be him, he is Destructoid’s reviews editor and legendary “bad boy” of the gaming industry, Jim Sterling. After Shanghai was able to muster up the courage to talk to him, the two discuss Jim’s busy schedule as a media gun-for-hire, discuss what it’s like having the ability break an entire game studio over his knee like so much kindling, and his bizarre fascination with William Defoe.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 61: David “Knuckles Dawson” Dreger from Achievement Hunter

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:32:22 +0000

Shanghai Six welcomes back the first ever return interview guest in David “Knuckles Dawson” Dreger from Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunter! We discuss the trials and tribulations of going for the “achievement-a-day” marathon he did and Shanghai emulated, we get a trip report about his birthday adventure in Texas for the Rooster Teeth Experience, and we hear some pretty surprising news about his new project, Clever Gaming Reference!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 60: Yanier “Nero” Gonzalez, Founder of Destructoid

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:32 +0000

Front Towards Gamer Radio brings the heat for its 60th episode with Shanghai Six interviewing "Nero" Gonzalez, the founder of one of the largest independent gaming sites out there, Destructoid. Nero tells us the where he came up with the idea for the Destructoid robot head, how he deals with having controversial reviews editor Jim Sterling on staff, and tells us the harrowing and inspirational tale of all the hurdles he had to jump to bring the site into being at all!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 59: Greg Kasavin for Bastion, SuperGiant Games

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:30:59 +0000

Finally back on track with interviews, Shanghai Six sits down with ex-executive editor for Gamespot (and almost English professor!) turned video game creative director for SuperGiant Games, Greg Kasavin, about their award winning upcoming Xbox Live title, Bastion. Greg talks about how he got in the business and his huge leap of faith from respected (and paid) games journalist to risking it all to build a killer app with a small team of friends.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 58: Geddafukouttaere

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:00:08 +0000

Week two of our interview drought continues, much to Shanghai Six's dismay, but he promises an interview for next week (one is lined up right now, just holding our collective breaths that it holds up)! Hey, you know what? It's not easy getting an interview absolutely every week. We could be just another jerk off podcast with three guys talking about what games they played last week. But NOOOO. We gotta make things hard on ourselves. Hey, at least you get two almost back-to-back shows, right?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 57: The Lost Episode

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:30:16 +0000

Regular hosts Nico, Batman and Shanghai take a minute to get in some last punches and kicks against the Wii U as well as a few more games Shanghai saw on the E3 show floor, while Nico and Batman gloat about getting review copies of Alice: Madness Returns and Duke Nukem Forever…and as you can imagine, one of them is more excited than the other…

E3 2011: Front Towards Gamer vs. The Married Gamers Gagglecast: Last Day!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:00:42 +0000

The last day of E3 rings in Shanghai Six's birthday with a shootout in the lobby of the hotel and a wild car chase through Los Angeles. Okay, not really, but Shanghai, Lefty and ITLoo really get into the weeds with all the games we got hands-on and demo time with on the floor, including NeverDead, Sonic Generations, Brothers-in-Arms: Furious 4, Space Marine, and a hell of a lot more!

E3 2011: Front Towards Gamer vs. The Married Gamers Gagglecast: Day Two

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:30:53 +0000

Ugh. The morning after a hell of a party over at Bethesda, and Shanghai is feeling the pain while podcasting bright and early from day two at E3! Chris "Lefty" Brown and Loren "ITLoo" Nikkel from The Married Gamers are there to laugh at his smooth, sensual hangover voice. They talk about what they saw from the first day on the floor, what they thought about their hands on time with the new Wii U from the Nintendo booth tour, and some impressions on some games they saw! Two Alka-Seltzer please!

E3 2011: Front Towards Gamer vs. The Married Gamers Gagglecast: Day One

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:00:31 +0000

Morning all! We're all chilling out prior to the Nintendo press conference and waiting on those glorious doors of the convention center to be flung open...so we decided to knock out our early impressions of the press events here at E3 from yesterday!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 56: Lady J from SFX-360

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:30:38 +0000

Shanghai misses another episode in preparation for E3 this week, but not before getting a hold of the Queen of SFX-360.com, Lady J! They talk about sweaty WWE wrestlers, how it's once again safe to listen to her podcast (Game Goddess) at work, and her thoughts on upcoming E3!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 55: Drew Holmes from Volition for Red Faction Armageddon

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 25 May 2011 10:30:35 +0000

Shanghai sits down with the lead writer for Volition for Red Faction: Armageddon (as well as Saints Row: The Third), Drew Holmes, and discuss the process behind writing for a triple A title, what it's like being a part of a SyFy movie tie in that doesn't suck (hopefully), and the odd series of circumstances that got him into the video game industry in the first place!

SQUEEEE! Front Towards Gamer, Operation Supply Drop Mentioned on The Nerdist Podcast!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:30:16 +0000

Boom. Just read the title of the article, and you'll know.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 54: Robert Khoo from Penny Arcade

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:00:16 +0000

Big get this week with Penny Arcade's logistical commander-in-chief, Mr. Robert Khoo. We talk about how he took just another goofball webcomic and turned it into a multimillion dollar gaming industry, we get some behind-the-scenes insight into what it takes to run one of the largest annual video game conventions in the world, and he finally answers the rumors behind the possibility of a Penny Arcade Expo in London or the Midwest US! Now if that isn't a big interview...

Front Towards Gamer Radio AMBUSH, Episode 53: Ed “Bongoboy” Stern from Splash Damage for Brink

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:43 +0000

Early show this week, gang, specifically designed around getting you this interview in a timely fashion! Shanghai Six sits down with lead writer for Splash Damage, Ed "Bongoboy" Stern about his work on their hotly anticipated title releasing tomorrow, Brink!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 52: Fragger from Achievement Hunter

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:30:01 +0000

Okay, back on track this week, if you've ever had an interest in capturing your gameplay videos, than this interview is for you! Shanghai Six sits down with one of the lead contributors from Achievement Hunter, Fragger, to discuss how he captures his video and his time interacting with the intergalatically large entity known as Rooster Teeth/Red vs. Blue.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 51: Justin “Six Okay” Korthof from 15 Minutes of Game

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:30:32 +0000

WOW! Sorry for the late show, but the resurrection of Jesus really screwed up our plans this week. If you are at all interested in getting involved in the games industry, then listening to SixOkay's story on how he went from just another enthusiast blogger to running websites for Warner Brothers and Electronic Arts is inspirational.

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 50: The Sarcastic Gamer “Blu” Show

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:30:57 +0000

What better way to celebrate our 50th episode but to invite on not one, not two, but three of Front Towards Gamer's first major fans, the entire cast of the Sarcastic Gamer "Blu" show! That's right, Rothbart, PacManPolarBear, and Frawlz, all on the show, all tripping all over each other to tell dick and fart jokes!

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 49: Aaron Jungjohann from The Behemoth

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:00:43 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Aaron Jungjohann, level designer for The Behemoth. Oh, you know The Behemoth. Does the name Castle Crashers ring a bell? Of course it does; it is literally the largest selling downloadable title on Xbox Live and Playstation Network. So, I had to sit down with Aaron and try to figure out just what in the hell their next title, Battleblock Theater, is all about, why it took an extra three years to port Castle Crashers to the PSN, and why Dan Paladin's character designs all look like animatronic sugar cubes?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 48: Founder’s Day Gaming Marathon Podcast

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:44 +0000

What happens when you get a Skype channel full of sleep deprived rebels who have been playing video games for 18-20 hours straight? You record a god damn podcast! It's the witching hour this week for the show, and the podcast was recorded around 2:00 AM during Front Towards Gamer's "Founder's Day" one year anniversary and 24-hour gaming marathon. 2:00 AM...you know, that time of the morning where everything is funny and all you can do is think about going out to get some early morning "I'm-drunk-and-the-bar's-closed" grub at the closest Waffle House.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 47: Jake Kazdal for Skulls of the Shogun

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:30:33 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Jake Kazdal from Haunted Temple Studios, one of three and a half guys responsible for the upcoming downloadable 4-player online strategy game, Skulls of the Shanghai...er, Skulls of the Samurai, no that's not it....Skulls of the SHOGUN! There we go.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 46: Lizzie Cuevas from GamesRadar, The Glowing Stars

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:00:50 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Glowing Stars' chiptune cherub and GamesRadar's favorite little sister (that everyone wants to have sex with), Miss Lizzie Cuevas! Lizzie talks about what it's like working at the black vortex that is GamesRadar, how it feels to be asked to open for Anamanguchi, and answers your questions...including explaining in painful detail what "trunk butt" is!

PAX East 2011: Day Two Gaggle-cast

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:00:29 +0000

Day two of PAX East ends with a bit of L.A. Noire and Portal 2 discussion, Bedivere and Shanghai argue about The First Templar, and plumber crack!

PAX East 2011: Day One Gaggle-cast

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:00:38 +0000

It's ladie-dadie-everybody from Front Towards Gamer in a happy little circle, dehydrated, massaging swollen feet, and podcasting about everything they saw from their first day on the PAX East floor,Friday, March 10th. Roll call: Shanghai Six, Del673, Batman5273, Skyliner, Amigosniped, Bedivere, Jatosin, and ChaingunPope.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 45: Dan Teasdale, Mike Henry from Twisted Pixel for The Gunstringer, Ms. Splosion Man

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:00:30 +0000

Shanghai Six sits fist fights not one, but TWO developers from Twisted Pixel, Dan Teasdale and Mike Henry about not one, but TWO Twisted Pixel games, The Gunstringer and Ms. Splosion Man before the FTG team tackles them all at PAX East.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 44: Phil Osyfee from Community Voice Podcast, Sarcastic Gamer

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:00:12 +0000

Sorry, no hot gaming goddess this week! Shanghai Six awkwardly sits down with Phil Osyfee, the host of the Community Voice Podcast and ex-Front Towards Gamer audio editor, where the two face off in an epic rap battle to settle their differences, once and for all! No, but seriously, Six figures out just what Phil has been up to after leaving the Rebel Camp and grills him about his time with "Capital City" and Lono. Hooboy, fun times!

Front Towards Gamer Episode 43: JForJade, BusyGamer’s Gamette of the Year

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:30:12 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with JForJade, a Major League Gaming semi-pro ranked Halo 3 player, aspiring Charisma +2 model, brand new Frag Doll Cadette, and BusyGamer.com's "Gamette of the Year". Shanghai asks her more detailed information about her experiences in the whole MLG racket, what in the hell MLG is going to be doing adding Call of Duty: Black Ops on the PS3 to their lineup, and what happens when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 comes out? Hot gamer girl pictures inside, gents. Just click here!

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 42: Yvonna Lynn from Charisma +2 “Booth Babe” Modeling Agency

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:00:20 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Yvonna Lynn, the voluptuous Commander-in-Chief for Charisma +2, a modeling agency specializing in filling gaming conventions with booth babes who actually know their way around a gaming controller. Shanghai can't remember what they talked about because he is distracted by Yvonna's photo shoot picture from the 2009 Quake Live calendar.

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 41: Chris Paladino from Gamerscore Blog, Promethium Marketing

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:00:19 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Chris Paladino from Microsoft's Gamerscore Blog and now Promethium Marketing. Chris talks of what it was like packing everything up to move across the country to MAYBE work for Microsoft, what it was like actually landing a dream career in the gaming field, and how he turned his getting laid off from Microsoft into his latest and greatest endeavor to date, helping run point for the upcoming futuristic PC shooter MMO, Firefall!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 40: N’Gai Croal from Newsweek, Hit Detection

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:30:16 +0000

ULTRA SPECIAL INTRO ALERT! IF YOU DON'T LISTEN TO FRONT TOWARDS GAMER RADIO, LISTEN TO OUR INTRO AND PREPARE TO BE BLOWN AWAY. Shanghai Six sits down with newsman and tech wizard N'Gai Croal from Newsweek and Hit Detection to discuss what it's like being an honest-to-god games journal-ol-ogist, what exactly his new company Hit Detection is all about, and go back and forth about the pros and cons about Nintendo and Sony's next round of portable handheld devices (3DS vs. NGP) and whether or not they'll be able to hold their own against the game-changing behemoth, the iTunes app store.

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 39: Dan “One of Swords” Amrich from Activision

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:00:19 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Activision's "chief apologist", Mr. Dan "One of Swords" Amrich, where they talk about Dan's extensive history across the gaming industry, his transition from games journalist to Activision's experimental social media lightning rod, and whether or not he truly enjoys his weekend knitting circle with Activision CEO Bobby Kotick.

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 38, Highly Refined from Gamebattles

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:30:55 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the winners of Snowball Fight, the nine hour Call of Duty: Black Ops tournament held in Fredricksburg, Virginia on Saturday, January 15th and talk about the future of Black Ops in Major League Gaming, what it feels like to not lose a single map in an entire day of tournament, and what the boys are planning on doing with their hard earned prize winnings!

Front Towards Gamer Radio Episode 37: SFX Uriyya from The Show Radio

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:30:27 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Andrew Alliance, AKA Uriyya from SFX 360 and his The Show Radio, where the two of them discuss the year past, the year to come, and just what exactly the hell is a "Uriyya" anyway?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 36:The 17th Annual Holiday-pocalypse ChristmasCast

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:30:13 +0000

Easily, some of the most chaotic podcasting we've heard on Front Towards Gamer Radio, and by god, it feels just like the holidays with the family...like that one time Uncle Peter got drunk and felt up the cat.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 35: Elizabeth “Cherith” Parmeter, Gaming Angels

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:30:04 +0000

Shanghai sits down with long-standing editor-in-chief of the female-focused gaming website Gaming Angels, Elizabeth "Cherith" Parmeter, and discuss what the Gaming Angels think of other female sites like the Fragdolls or Gamecrush, and what exactly is a "Cherith"?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 34: Julia Hardy of Gameface, GamesMaster Magazine

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:30:40 +0000

Shanghai sits down with UK television personality, writer, and internet radio DJ Julia Hardy to figure out how "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" helped her land her first job, what it's like to harass celebrities at red carpet events, and they take a good chunk of the interview discussing just how awesome Mike Patton is.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 33: Andy “Bravo” Dudynsky from Major League Gaming’s Triggers Down

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:00:10 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the coach of Major League Gaming's Triggers Down, Andy "Bravo" Dudynsky, as they come down from their high of taking 4th place this year at the MLG Nationals in Dallas for Halo 3. As an old fogey who blows at multiplayer games as a rule, Shanghai has a million questions for Bravo about the fascinating journey from relative obscurity into an getting paid relatively well to play Halo.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 32: The Married Gamers

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:07:25 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Mr. and Mrs. Lefty Brown from the Married Gamers and discuss how video gaming saved their marriage, Lefty's special Christmas gift idea for Mrs. Lefty Brown, and how they apparently live in a particularly bad neighborhood.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 31: Fallout New Vegas’ Mojave Desert

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:00:57 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down and talks with absolutely no one. The problem with scheduling weekly guests is that when your primary interview guest for both that week AND the following week don’t show up, you find yourself absolutely boned. So we skip the interview portion for this week.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 30: Ramona from Gamecrush

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:00:29 +0000

Is it just me, or is this slipping further and further to the right on the calendar each week? Anyway, Shanghai Six sits down with Ramona, who was sponsored by the Gamecrush folks to come to Penny Arcade out in Seattle this year to be an official spokesperson, to get the skivvy on what it's like being a "pay-for-play" girl gamer on Xbox Live.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 29: Matt “Chainsaw” Chaney from Comic Jumper

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:30:33 +0000

We're back, and with an extra special intro from a pair of surprise guests! Shanghai Six sits down with the musical genius behind the ukulele rock anthem "Everybody Loves Donuts" from Twisted Pixel, Matt "Chainsaw" Chaney, and talks with him about his bevy of "few-sandwiches-short-of-a-picnic" songs for Twisted Pixel's latest jam, Comic Jumper!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 28: Dennis Shirk for Civilization 5

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:30:28 +0000

Shanghai Six goes after Firaxis producer Dennis Shirk for Civilization 5 and asks him hard questions about the decision process behind revamping a lot of the Civilization 4 game mechanics, such as taking religion and espionage out, the changing from swappable civics to fixed policies, and the fact that DAMNIT, ALEXANDER BEAT ME TO THE GREAT LIBRARY AGAIN!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 27: Maxx Kaufmann for Hunted: The Demon’s Forge

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:00:15 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Maxx Kaufmann from inXile Entertainment to discuss their upcoming Gears-of-War-meets-Dragon-Age 3rd person shooter, Hunted: The Demon's Forge. We discuss how inXile did NOT work on the Bard's Tale for the PC, what exactly is "slag", and Shanghai invents a new drinking game for the show listeners; every time he uses the word "interesting" during the interview, take a drink!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 26: PureDarkness (and not Drazial) for Eurogamer Expo

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:00:38 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with forum member and UK field correspondent PureDarkness and gets his impressions about his weekend at Earls Court with the Eurogamer Expo. The two talk about impressions of all the titles Pure played, talked about some of the folks he ran into, and why it's absolutely important to stay in school, kids!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 25: Chris Antista, Games Radar

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:00:17 +0000

Shanghai Six would like to apologize to the Games Radar folks who have come here to hear an interview with the legendary host of Talk Radar, Mr. "Norwegian King of Names" himself, Chris Antista. Apparently, Chris' journalism gene kicked in somewhere and he started interviewing Shanghai instead. The boys talk about what five years of not flossing will do for you, Playboy's "Gamer Next Door" epic adventures with Task Force Blue, and what it's like to be at the top of the gaming website heap. Also, a whole mess of links and an embedded video from Zero Punctuation. Come on in, folks!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 24: Chris Hecker, Creator of Spy Party

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0000

Shanghai Six flies through an interview with the energetic Chris Hecker, the human tornado behind the PAX Best-of-Show nominee and thinking man's shooter, Spy Party. They talk about his storied independent gaming history, his work at Maxis Games working on Spore, and why sometimes being a spy in a wheelchair is a good thing.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 23: Tyler Sigman for Big Sandwich Games (Hoard)

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:52:01 +0000

Sorry for the delay, Rebels, but between Nico being out of action this weekend, Halo: Reach dropping last night and my general running around like a chicken with my head cut off announcing FTG charity work and redesigning the site, sometimes things are just going to slip sideways. Also got some screenshots of what to expect with Hoard!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 22: PAX BlastCast with Liberal Tugboat

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:17:21 +0000

Before Shanghai Six makes the mad dash to the airport in Seattle, he finally grabs a hold of forum member and winner of the Penny Arcade Expo three day badge drawing, Liberal Tugboat, to find out what he thought of this year's PAX! We talk Steel Battalion, Liberal Tugboat's trip to Bungie studios, and go over what they sampled on the floor. No intro, no outro, just thoughts on PAX and then the bitter farewells...until PAX East!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 21: Tom Champion from Eurogamer Expo

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:49:45 +0000

Shanghai Six beats the house with his blackjack and interviews Tom Champion from Eurogamer and his role in organizing England's biggest gaming festival, Eurogamer Expo! Tom details Eurogamer's attempt to branch out to Leeds last year, and Shanghai discovers Tom has a dirty, dirty attraction to poorly scored role playing games.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 20: Chandana “Eka” Ekanayake, Executive Producer for Monday Night Combat

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:35:36 +0000

Shanghai Six clears the big "two-zero" with a visit from the Chandana "Eka" Ekanayake, the executive producer for Uber Entertainment, the studio responsible for the game we here at the Rebel Camp are all playing, Monday Night Combat! We talk what it's like to be a massive XBLA hit, what exactly is a "Bullseye", and just what is the deal with all the bacon?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 19: Jack Scalici, Production Director for Mafia 2

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:00:24 +0000

Shanghai Six sits in on a developer conference call between 2K Games PR team and Jack Scalici, the Director of Production on the upcoming 2K Games title, Mafia 2. A little different format and a little less personal, but with the game coming out in a week's time, I imagine the team is a little busy for individual interviews. And hey, beggars can't be choosers, right?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 18: David “Knuckles Dawson” Dreger from Achievement Hunter

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:45:10 +0000

Shanghai Six has a surprise interview with Guinness World Record holder (681 consecutive days getting an Xbox achievement) David "Knuckles Dawson" Dreger, discussing his induction into Microsoft' MVP program, what having 160,000 gamerscore feels like, and we talk about some of his harder achievements he's earned as a founding member of Achievement Hunter. I could have talked with this guy for hours, and actually did when the microphones were off (sorry, didn't want to have a four-hour podcast).

Front Towards Gamer Radio AMBUSH! Episode 17: Runic Games for Torchlight 2

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:11 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with what seems to be the entire leadership staff at Runic Games, the team that brought the microprice point hack-and-slash PC darling, Torchlight, and are back to announce the sequel! The team includes Runic Games CEO Max Schafer, Lead Developer Travis Baldree, Art Director Jason Beck and waiting quietly in the wings making sure no one talks out of turn is public relations super ninja Wonder Russell (psst, picture of Wonder in the post! Click to see her! Girls! Click here!)

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 16: Zach Wigal from Gamers Outreach

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:51:17 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the Zach Wigal, the young chief of the digital charity organization Gamers Outreach. We discuss what it's like taking on "The Man", hosting 70 man LAN parties in your basement, and we hint about future charity work that FTG will be getting involved in next year!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 15: Tim Cotten from Electronic Arts (Ultima Online)

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:45:09 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Electronic Arts lead designer Tim Cotten, who spent most of his time working on their old hoary chestnut and continued cashcow Ultima Online. They discuss his meteoric rise from "glorified UO fan boy" to "lead designer of the game", why it's good to get out and try your competitor's products, and what exactly a trip in a "Vomit Comet" is like.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 14: V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N in the summer sun!

Nicodumas — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:46:49 +0000

Shanghai Six makes the mistake of leaving for the week. What results is pure chaos, as Nico, Del673, Phil Osyfee, Bedivere, and everyones favorite squirrel, Instant Karma. Fear as they rant about the lack of games for the week, and rejoice in knowing that next week the shows will be back to normal!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 13: Danny “Godfree” Pena from Gamertag Radio

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:30:42 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with what could be considered the Godfather of Modern Day Video Game podcasting, Danny "Godfree" Pena, the ringleader over at Gamertag Radio. We chatter on about what it's like to do five years of podcasts, that strangely addictive quality of hunting for agility orbs in Crackdown, and I try desperately to get a scoop on Gamertag's New York/Miami party they are planning for August.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 12: Jamie Cheng from Klei Entertainment (Shank)!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:56:41 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the very young-looking CEO of Klei Entertainment, Mr. Jamie Cheng, and they discuss how his company could be misconstrued as a piece of Ikea furniture, what it's like to work in your pajamas, and, most importantly, their upcoming downloadable XBLA/PSN title, Shank! Also for intro/outtro, Del returns to argue with Nico's temporary replacement from across the pond, Mr. Instant Karma, who has an interesting way of signing off from podcasts...

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 11: “Pallidian” from SFX-360 and Gamers Gone Wild

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:17:49 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the founder of SFX-360, Pallidian, to discuss his growing role at gaming conventions with his groundbreaking "Gamers Gone Wild" party. They also discuss the new Transformers title, why gaming shoes are awesome, and just how much Spirit Airlines sucks. A growing trend for Front Towards Gamer Radio, Del and Nico back on to chat about the Crackdown demo, why Del hates fun, and cross each others fingers with the release of Naughty Bear. Click to take a look at some of the pictures from the party inside!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 10: Cathlin “Catastrophe” Sentz from N4G/ZTGD

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:28:06 +0000

For the “Ten-iversary”, Shanghai Six sits down the Cathlin “Catastrophe” Sentz, the Community Manager and Admin for the NewsBoiler Network (see also: N4G and ZTGD) to go over all the mischief she got into while she was in Los Angeles for E3 2010! Hey, if you can’t send someone from your own site, hijack someone else’s correspondent! Also, helping with hosting duties for this week, Shanghai brings Del and Nico back on to talk about their god damn love affair with Excalibur. BAKA! And finally, click to see more pictures of Miss Cat, read thoughts on Mr. Twitter's 100th follower, and Shanghai's ramblings on the running the Rebel Camp!

FTG/CVP Megacast – E3 2010 Edition!

Phil Osyfee — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:00:45 +0000

Welcome everyone to the first of many FTG CVP Megacasts, where a star-studded cast of FTG and CVP regulars discuss all the big announcements to come out of E3. We go over motion gaming and all that it has to offer and who will win the battle between Microsoft's Kinect and Playstation's Move. What was the best new video game? Did Nintendo steal the show? Tune in and let us know what you think!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 9: Annoying Adam?

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:00:44 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with forum member Annoying Adam, where we discuss why he feels the need to spam Samuel Jackson soundboard clips while playing Modern Warfare 2, why sometimes it's good just to put a bullet in an Alpha Protocol character, and we even manage to talk a little about E3. Also joining me on the podcast for a little change of pace for the intro and outro sections, I will be joined by Nico and Del for a little random banter about Spencer Pratt and "True Blood". Wait, what? Also, further information on our upcoming grudge matches against Talkingship and Sanctuary 4 Gamers! Make sure you dust off those Modern Warfare 2 discs!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 8: Samit “Sports” Sarkar from Destructoid!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:37:58 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with Yankee fanatic, associate editor and sports writer for Destructoid, Samit Sarkar. Having no background in sports games whatsoever, the podcast consists of 45 minutes of awkward pauses and uncomfortable silences! Good times. Also, read on for information regarding FTG's participation with Extra Life, as well as more information on the campaign to get us FTG shirts!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 7: Larry Liberty, Senior Developer for Fallout: New Vegas!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:00:47 +0000

Shanghai Six interviews senior developer Larry Liberty from Obsidian Entertainment, the folks bringing us Fallout: New Vegas. We discuss how funny schizophrenic super mutant radio DJs are, whether or not Wayne Newton will be the voice of "Mr. New Vegas" (15 minute mark, I absolutely now believe it to be true), and have an uncomfortable conversation about that whole Alpha Protocol mess! Plus, information on FTG...t-shirts (GASP)?

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 6: Amy “Valkyrie” Brady from the Fragdolls!

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:30:52 +0000

All right, fellow gaming nerds! This week on the podcast, FTG Radio breaks another milestone by having our first living, breathing GamerGRRL on the podcast! So, take a shower, shave off your backhair, slap on some cologne, and get ready to get some good vibrations in your ear holes. Wait, did that come out right? Also, you can find more site notes on future guests and the internal argument over whether FTG should participate in Extra Life!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 5: Gambus Kahn from N4G

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:00:19 +0000

Greetings, programs! Shanghai Six interviews podcast veteran Gambus Kahn from N4G Radio & Zero Tolerance Game Domain about the glory that is the original "Tron" movie, why the Legend of Zelda needs airships, and the Final Fantasy XIII mehs! Make sure you click here to read the all important show notes, detailing future shows and random thoughts from Shanghai!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 4: DrAzIaL

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:00:05 +0000

Shanghai Six interviews Front Towards Gamer forum member DrAzIaL, where they discuss how EA Sports' new online plan is the equivalent of...prison rape? Also, we find out that one-star iTunes reviews kill unborn babies and burn down orphanages. All-in-all, a stellar episode!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 3: Hip Hop Gamer

Nicodumas — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:00:04 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down and tries to keep up with the verbal freight train known as the Hip Hop Gamer. They discuss his plans to take over the gaming world, why Halo: Reach Beta was such a massive disappointment, and finish things up with a little freestyle by Hip Hop.

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 2: Justin Amirkhani from Xbox Canada

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:00:58 +0000

Shanghai Six sits down with the founder of GeneralGames.ca and Xbox-Canada writer Justin Amirkhani and discuss his current work with their “Experiential” marketing team, his thoughts on Red Steel 2 and Zeno Clash, and get into a happy little argument over the Famitsu/Metal Gear:Peacewalker debate. Enjoy!

Front Towards Gamer Radio, Episode 1: SoldierX from Post Game Report

Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:00:20 +0000

Well, this is it, FTGers; the moment of truth. The premier episode of the Front Towards Gamer Radio podcast. I’ve been sitting on this damn thing since Monday morning, but I wanted to start the site off with a bang and save it for the opening. Seemed to make the most sense! This week’s interview is with podcaster extraordinaire from the Gamercast Network, Soldier X, who is also off trying to start his own side project, Gamers Transform.

FTG Podcast Test

dingledodie77 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:38:56 +0000

Podcast Test, stand by.