Okay, gotta be honest. I talk shit about MONSTER HUNTER TRI in this episode, and I’ll be walking it back very shortly. Keep watching the site. But more about the actual show. This week, we make noise about X-COM: UFO DEFENSE, Boss Baddie’s WAKE, FINAL FANTASY XIII, SPLINTER CELL CONVICTION and CRYSIS. Also, challenges! At stake was a kickass shirt...

Keen observers will notice that this podcast post has NO LOGO. That’s because I HAVEN’T MADE ONE YET. It’s a brand new show! Well, kind of. We moved up our timetable on the two-week thing. Long story short: the new stuff starts today, and you don’t have to do anything. If you’re subscribed to the Jurassic Radio in any podcast...

(first person to name that reference gets a hug) I’m not sure I need to contribute anything about FINAL FANTASY XIII in print, given that I’m going to try to conscript Benji, who has finished it, to write a review. I expect we’ll be discussing it on the podcast pretty exhaustively Sunday, and I’m only about halfway through, and the...

So, as you may have read if you’ve been following the posts on Gameosaurus, we took a break from our weekly podcast, and will soon be slowing down recordings. There were a number of reasons for it, but chief among them was this: I, the Gameodactyl, was awful at keeping up with our self-imposed schedule. We planned on discussing a book, Steven Johnson’s...

But first, some exposition. Never in my life had I gone to a midnight release for a game, or a console. I’d done some movies (which turned out to suck: thanks for nothing, George Lucas!). So it was a very new experience for me. While chillin’ at the local mall, anxiously awaiting my copy of the game, I also heavily promoted this site. To any new readers...