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August 26, 2010
Day One Perch
As Chris packs for Boston and we switch off the lights, the Idle Thumbs Podcast finishes up with a bunch of talk about video games, interspersed with loosely related distractions and stories. Thanks for listening!
Games Discussed: BioShock Infinite, Fallout 2, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, Fruit Ninja, Imperial 2030
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August 9, 2010
The Silken Goku
Don the Silken Goku. Enthusiastically pore over our collection of galactic maps, carefully curated battle decks, and lushly rendered hexagonal tiles, while we try to tell you about game development, girls, and sports.
Games Discussed: Civilization V, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Jagged Alliance, Metal Gear Acid 2, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Achievement Unlocked 2, 2010 FIFA World Cup, Mass Effect 2
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From Idle Thumbs 43: Jeff "Gone" Goldblum
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Posted by Chris Remo, September 24, 2009
A day late, here's your supplementary material for Idle Thumbs 44: Salacious Thumb.
Policenauts English Fan Translation
A substantial chunk of the cast was devoted to the ambitious fan localization of Hideo Kojima's 1994 graphic adventure game Policenauts. That project can be downloaded at its official site and more information about the game itself is available on Wikipedia.
If you plan to track the game down, note that the fan patch works only with the PlayStation version of the game (which you can then play with a PC-based emulator). Copies seem to be out of stock at most importers in the wake of the patch's release, but auction sites like eBay should have copies available.
30 PC games in 45 days
In the reader mail section, we read a note from a guy who's attempting to play 30 of this decade's best PC games in 45 days. He's got a blog on which he tracks the games and posts his thoughts as he finishes them. At the time of this writing, he's knocked down Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich, Psychonauts, and Age of Empires III.
That's four games in five days, which means he's already a little bit ahead of schedule--but The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is next up. If you're interested in following his progress, his site is quicksaved.com.
Posted by Chris Remo, September 18, 2009
Prior to the launch of the blog, I was linking visual material discussed on the podcast in a dedicated forum thread. Going forward, I'll collect it here on the front page, with a link to the corresponding episode's discussion.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet had time to edit, encode, and upload the Resident Evil 5 co-op footage we captured, but I'll get on that this weekend. Until then, peruse these other fine materials. Also, we've had requests for a blog RSS feed: here it is! Enjoy.
Jeff Goldblum
 Jeff Goldblum approaches the security checkpoint. Soon after, the man in red proposed to Nick Breckon the theft of Gold Jeffblum's shoes.
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