The Kevin Costner Episode

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You might want to cover your ears, because we're two hours and we're explicit! Coming off of a best of episode and a mini-hiatus, we have a lot to talk about. This includes movie's we watched (and hated!), games we played (and hated!), and friggin' Kevin Costner! We also loved some stuff, including Frontierville, Crackdown 2, and Monopoly. It's more than your little Silver account is allowed to do. Check it out if you have the time!

Download 2 hours here and subscribe 2 hours there!

I'm on a unicycle!

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The Best Kinect Video

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I have a few jokes for this...
  • She can Kinect to me any time.
  • This is why I want to go to E3.
  • She's giving me a kinection.
  • Kinect her? I barely know her.
  • I'll be playing my own version of Kinect Adventure later.
  • She's making my Wii-mote Move.


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Try Not To Fart (XBLIG)

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I discovered an independent game this week called Try Not To Fart. Naturally, I had to capture some video of this comedic gem.

The premise of the game revolves around people in public trying not to fart in certain social situations. The first one has you in a club trying to pick up a girl. The second one is you at lunch in a restaurant.

I didn't spend the 80 points to buy the game. I'm not sure what other scenarios you go through since I didn't go past the second one, but if it includes one where you're in mid-coitus and trying not to fart, I might reconsider spending the $1.



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Best E3 Trailers

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Here are my 3 favorite trailers from this year's E3.






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The Best of The Uncanny Gamers Vol 1

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If you've never listened to The Uncanny Gamers for fear you've missed too many episodes and you'll have no idea what's going on, your time has come. This episode marks the first volume of the best of The Uncanny Gamers. Twentysomething shows in, we've culled the funniest and most interesting bits and assembled them into one behemoth of a show. If you don't laugh at least eight times while you listen to this show your funny bone is either broken or nonexistent. Or your soul has been devoured by Lucifer himself. Or you have the volume turned way down. Whatever the case may be, laughs are guaranteed. And by laughs we mean slight chuckles. And by guaranteed we mean our fingers are crossed that you like it.

Laugh your ass off here and subscribe your ass off over there!

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Lock And Load Episode 21

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Gemini Ace guests on Platform Nation's Lock and Load podcast again this week. We talked all about our E3 predictions. Check out the show and all the great E3 coverage going on over at P*N.


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Split/Second

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One of my favorite games of all time is Burnout Revenge. So much so that when Burnout Paradise released, I spewed nine kinds of hate towards it for changing the formula and jettisoning everything good that was in Revenge. Having since played it on the PS3, my hate has softened like a gallon of ice cream left out at a birthday party. It's still there, but everyone has forgotten about it.

Enter two new contenders to the Burnout Revenge throne. Not that they were being marketed as such, but in my mind both Blur and Split/Second were being developed to fill the void that the Burnout franchise abandoned several years ago. The only recent contenders for the position of "full-on destruction smash racing game" have been Full Auto and possibly Motorstorm, and as you know neither fit the bill or fill the shoes of Burnout.

I played the Blur beta and enjoyed it quite a bit. Since I don't have a Wii anymore I can't play Mario Kart, so Blur scratched that competitive itch and did it with gorgeous graphics and real cars. The Split/Second demo was also good fun, so it was pretty much a toss-up as to which one would be spinning in my console sometime soon.

Best Buy recently had a sale on Split/Second, dropping the price to $40. Decision made!

So this brings me to the reason for this writing. Split/Second IS the new Burnout. I'm only 3 episodes in to the campaign and I'm loving the racing, destruction, and explosions. Blur might give you different weapons to use on your opponents, but Split/Second makes the entire track your weapon. It's amazing.

The only thing I wish it has is the Twitter integration that Blur has. It is cool that the achievements you unlock show up as decals on your car. This is an awesome idea and something that should be implemented in other games (Reach, I'm looking at you).

Bottom line is, if you've been wanting a good racing game, the wait is over. It's been quite a dry spell, but Split/Second is like a shot of Gatorade to the face. Gatorade and gasoline.

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Podcast Alley

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My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-d28cde24de3cd85bedf4c07916ea5193}
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Bucket List 2: Bucket Harder

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In our latest episode, we pitched another movie idea that we have "in development" here at Uncanny HQ. Here it is written out for your reading enjoyment. How good would this movie be?!

Bucket List 2: Bucket Harder!

In this movie Ryan Reynolds plays a guy that made a bucket list when he was only 8 years old. Since then he has slowly been checking off items on the list. As he nears his 35th birthday, a scant 5 items remain. After a visit to a psychic, he realizes that, if he never completes the list, he will never be able to die. It becomes a race to escape fate as he dodges the final items on the list, which keep being presented to him by a power greater than himself.

His own mortality!

In the end we see him as an old man. 1 item remains on his list. In the final moments of the film, we see him undertake the final task. It involves him rocketing into space in the hopes of becoming a space cowboy ninja unicorn.

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