Episode 22 - Culture Shock

Mike and Dave talk about a multitude of subjects.  Here's some handy-dandy links and notes:

• The Art of Video Games Exhibit at the Smithsonian
• Dragon Age: Redemption
• Activision Q4 Earnings Conference Call and the Death of Guitar Hero.
• Bulletstorm and the Fox News Faux Pas - Rock Paper Shotgun has a good summation of events.
• Guild Wars 2 to have alpha and beta tests this year.
• Question of the Week time! - Mike and Dave also weigh in with their opinions.
• FatUglyOrSlutty.com

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Music is taken from "Zombies Ate My Neighbors - The Curse" by Christian Pacaud.

Episode 23 - All About Games

This episode is dedicated solely to video games.  Why?  Accident really.  We talk about 3 games with one tiny tidbit of gaming related news.

Here's some helpful notes and links for the episode:

• Dave provides his review on Dead Space 2 for the 7BitArcade.com Global Playthrough.
• Bask in the amazing glory that is Bulletstorm!  
• By the way, People Can Fly and EPIC Games, we love you for this one.
• Dragon Age 2 demo review and anticipations.
• Bethesda's challenge to brand your child.

Listen to the podcast via the flash player below

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Episode 18 - Boss Battle's Best of 2010

Mike and Dave, along with special guest Benji (Fierhawk), talk about their top picks for 2010 in this episode.  They discuss their choices for top games on each platform and across each genre, as well as their picks for the worst games, features, and biggest disappointments for the year.  Feel free to share your picks as well with us on the forums.

Games most mentioned in this episode: Mass Effect 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Halo Reach, and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.





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Episode 14 - Emotional Rollercoaster

The podcast topics range from the enraging to sad to happy stuff.  Topics (with links) as follows:

• Man jailed for killing a child for interrupting video games (article via Kotaku)
• Portal 2 delayed until April.
• Bungie needs beta testers.
• First impressions for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
• Carolina Games Summit and their qualifers on FraggedNation.com

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, want to be a guest host, or want to be interviewed, contact us via Twitter @bb_mikendave or e-mail us at mikendave.bossbattle@gmail.com.



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Episode 11 - The Halloween King

Halloween is here and so is Episode 11 from us, along with special guest Donna from Pink and Deadly.
Here's what we talk about during our show.

• Our beloved Fable 3.
• Angry Birds.
• Rumors about Apple buying Sony/EA.
• "Aaron Greenburg is a dildo." - Dave.  Here's why.
• WoW gamers confess to murder in game.
• Halo Reach community game night.
• the Family's 1v1 MW2 tournament for local gamer.

And here's some useful links.
For Donna: Visit Pink and Deadly - RocklandUSA - Player Affinity
For the Family: Visit their site - the Facebook group for the tournament - YouTube Vid

or download the full mp3 here.

Music was taken from "Psychonauts - Psychotic Censors" by Mazedude.

Episode 9 - Three Times Three

EscoBlades joins us again with some various topics.  And evidently he turns into a demonic robot during points.
Some topics include:

• Universal release dates.
• Critical mass gaming budgets.
• In game advertising.
• Zombies makes everything.. zombie-filled.
• Black Ops beta leaks.
• Other stuff.

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"Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World - Go the Distance" by Sixto Sounds was featured in the intro and outro of the podcast.  Go find it on OCRemix.org.

Episode 8 - You Asked For It

We answer YOUR questions in this episode.
The questions:
Could Gears 3 delay benefit Bulletstorm?
What will be the longevity of the Move and Kinect or will they succeed?
Is it strange that Black Ops got similar features to Bungie games after Bungie joined forces with Activision?
What do we think about EA changing to enemy name from the Taliban to Opposing Force?


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Intro and outro music featured is from "Castlevania 2 Bloody Hell" by Ailsean and Kaijin.  Go find it on OCRemix.org.

Boss Battle Forums - Boss Battle on YouTube - Boss Battle on Twitter

Episode 7 - Reach Around

Mike and Dave are back in full force after a week break to set-up forums. Yes. Forums. Anyways. This week's podcast topics include:

• Our forums!  Yay!
• Our opinions on Halo: Reach.
• Gears of War 3's new release date.
• Borderlands newest DLC.
• Dave's impressions of Hydrophobia.

or download the mp3 here.

So, enjoy the show.  Go to our forums and provide comments, suggestions, questions, and random nonsense.

Episode 4 - +1 to Shenanigans

Today's episode comes with 50% more hosting power with special guest host ESCOBLADES!
Notes:

• Escoblade's introduction.
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (and Beta.).
• "Crap" Ops and Medal of Honor discussion.
• Our top arcade games.
• If you have gaming-related news or want to know our opinions regarding it, let us know!

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And here some nifty links for things mentioned in the podcast.

• The Infinity Ward Forums - Where you find Mr. Esco.
• The Pink and Deadly Podcast and Forums.
• Escoblades on Twitter.

The intro and outro music comes from "Tales of Symphonia - Strike of the Devil's Axes" by CarboHydroM and LuIzA.  Go check it out on OCRemix.

Episode 3 - Back on the Rant Train

Episode Notes:

• How MLG is a poor representative of true competitive gaming.
• How WCG Ultimate Gamer 2 is a poor representative of true competitive gaming.
• Scott Pilgrim vs the World the Video Game! makes us happy.
• Dave lets us know he's excited about Dungeon Defenders.
• Ask us questions that you want on the podcast by commenting here, e-mailing us at mikendave.bossbattle@gmail.com, or contacting us via Twitter ( The Podcast @bb_mikendave, Mike @h2o_ohmalley, and Dave @WasteControl).
• If you would like to be a guest host via the same methods.  If you're using Twitter, make sure to send us a direct message rather than just a mention.  Please, include any topics that you'd like to talk about as well.

or download the mp3 file here.

Here's some links to things mentioned in the podcast.

• Major League Gaming - Official Website.
• Kiaeneto - Walshy's gamer shirts.
• WCG's Ultimate Gamer - Go there to watch the season's episodes if you don't believe us.
• Scott Pilgrim The Game! on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
• Dungeon Defenders trailer.

And as always, intro and outro taken from "FF7 - Black Wing Metamorphosis", a collective work by Fishy, Sixto Sounds, Steffan Andrews, Suzumebachi, bLiNd, pixietricks, and tefnek.

Episode 2 - Resolution

Here's a general outline of this episode.

• A recap of Episode 1 and comments
• Reasons for hate: Dave (Gears/MW2) & Mike (Halo/AC)
•  Clarification about gamers.
• We like Valve.
• Batman: Arkham City & Bioshock: Infinite
• Costume Quest and other small notes.

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Things mentioned in this week's episode:

• Check out the Joystiq interview with Ken Levine about Bioshock: Infinite.
• And the trailer for Costume Quest on GameTrailers.com.

Our intro and out music is from "Chrono Trigger - The Final Battle" by PLBenjaminZ over at OCRemix.org.