FBS Webcast Archive

  • Should video games become more and more like major motion pictures? Many AAA-game developers I have met seem to think so. While games like Modern Warfare and Battlefield owe their success to the fact that their games play out like movie-fare, sometimes…gameplay suffers as a result. Recently, at least one influential developer has spoken out against this trend. We discuss...

    FBS 5: Game or Story?

    Posted on February 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Should video games become more and more like major motion pictures? Many AAA-game developers I have met seem to think so. While games like Modern Warfare and Battlefield owe their success to the fact that their games play out like movie-fare, sometimes…gameplay suffers as a result. Recently, at least one influential developer has spoken out against this trend. We discuss...

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  • In this week’s episode of FBS, we invite Aggregame.com’s Josh (aka JD_2020) back onto the cast. First order of business is to find out how he ended up being in the center of one of the hottest Internet memes going: The Ocean Marketing story. After we deal with that tidbit, we go on to talk about the Spike TV VGA’s....

    FBS 4: Trends for 2012

    Posted on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
    In this week’s episode of FBS, we invite Aggregame.com’s Josh (aka JD_2020) back onto the cast. First order of business is to find out how he ended up being in the center of one of the hottest Internet memes going: The Ocean Marketing story. After we deal with that tidbit, we go on to talk about the Spike TV VGA’s....

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  • Though we’re a PC shooter cast,  it’s the end of the year and on this cast we look at the whole genre of 2011 PC games. We’ll get to the FPS titles soon enough, but this year, we had a raft of non-FPS games that frankly outshone and outdid most of the shoot-em’ups. Aside from our co-hosts Chris, from the...

    FBS 3: 2011 Gaming in Review

    Posted on December 26, 2011 | 7 Comments
    Though we’re a PC shooter cast,  it’s the end of the year and on this cast we look at the whole genre of 2011 PC games. We’ll get to the FPS titles soon enough, but this year, we had a raft of non-FPS games that frankly outshone and outdid most of the shoot-em’ups. Aside from our co-hosts Chris, from the...

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  • Zh1nt0 aka Daniel Matros, the hard-working Battlefield Community Manager was gracious enough to come on and talk with Chris, Jim and Jock today on FBS live. Zh1nt0 stopped by to give us a status check on Battlefield 3 and to talk about the year leading up to its release. It has been an exhausting 2011 and for those at DICE...

    FBS 2: Everything In-between

    Posted on December 18, 2011 | 7 Comments
    Zh1nt0 aka Daniel Matros, the hard-working Battlefield Community Manager was gracious enough to come on and talk with Chris, Jim and Jock today on FBS live. Zh1nt0 stopped by to give us a status check on Battlefield 3 and to talk about the year leading up to its release. It has been an exhausting 2011 and for those at DICE...

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  • This morning, BASHandSlash.com took the wrappers off FBS, a new live PC FPS-gaming talk show we have created. This episode, FBS 1 is the start of a new era for us in PC FPS webcasting.  On this, the inaugural show, we introduce the hosts of FBS: Chris (Xiao) from the Blackmonkeys.de, Jim (Rudedog) from FPSAdmin.com and myself, Jock from BASHandSlash.com....

    FBS 1: Back in the Saddle Again

    Posted on December 11, 2011 | 23 Comments
    This morning, BASHandSlash.com took the wrappers off FBS, a new live PC FPS-gaming talk show we have created. This episode, FBS 1 is the start of a new era for us in PC FPS webcasting.  On this, the inaugural show, we introduce the hosts of FBS: Chris (Xiao) from the Blackmonkeys.de, Jim (Rudedog) from FPSAdmin.com and myself, Jock from BASHandSlash.com....

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