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Craft Week! We bring up Minecraft, Starcraft and uh, that's about it. Actually, we break into more discussion over how awesomely bad the Battlefield 3 beta is, and the amount of interest we have in more channels for Xbox Live. Then we jump to a quick comic discussion, bring up a really out-of-place story for fun, and finish off with your questions!

Please forgive us for how we kick-off this episode (it was only appropriate for the episode number; ha!). This week, Tina, Sam, Sharkey and Miggels discuss nudity on Dead Island, Diablo 3 beta, Minecraft, skanky Catwoman and Starfire, and a few questions from the community.

"Hay you guys!" We're back! And with Sharkey! Sweet! Ok, so this week we chatted about Modern Warfare 3, Netflix's adopted pot head, a porn star gaming site, and the worst jobs in the Star Wars Universe. That poor Porkins. Oh, and we also discuss the potential of a hide-n-seek game in Minecraft.

This is the one where we have to listen to Tina talk about Gamescom. Borderlands 2, MW3, BF3, etc. Also, we all bash Alice for her British accent.

We talk about things that may make you think we're bad people. For instance, we blame the London riots on Alice, and we make fun of North Korea's Kim Johng Il. But we redeem ourselves with some good times -- I think. This week, Chris Plante makes his return and we're joined by regulars Sam, Tina and Alice. We're so ronrey!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDCASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST! What do you get when you mix three girls and a dude with a fixation on nice shirts? I don't know, but we recorded a new Oddcast! This week, Sam, Tina, Alice and Janine discuss how fans reacted to the great Blizzard news this week (Diablo 3), how a crazy GTA IV mod is turning heads, and how Alice's (possibly) distant relatives are selling kids to play in Internet Cafes. Neat!

So we podcasted. Again. We asked IGN's funny men Scott Lowe and Brian Miggels to join us this week. Rabble rabble: Bobby Kotick, Lollipop Chainsaw is supposed to be sexy (and make you look like a pervert), GoldenEye is too expensive, something about "infections," and we close it off with your questions.

Oh hell yeah. A Final Fantasy rhythm game in the works, a 3DS RPG coming for the ladies, and the erotic puzzle game Catherine gets a demo on PSN and XBLA this week. 1UP Oddcast loves you, Japan. Never change.

The Oddcast team has finished transitioning into their new office. Listen in and hear us brag about it! This week, regulars Sam and Tina are joined by Janine and Walter to discuss what it's like working in the new IGN office. Then we brag about how we played the Journey beta and answer more listener questions.

Happy Belated E3 to you! Sam, Chris, Alice and Tina discuss their takes on how the show was this year. Sam can't make up his mind about Nintendo, Chris thinks he has a fever dream while playing Duke Nukem, and Alice answers your questions about England.

To celebrate our 60th episode, we decided to throw our podcast planning sheet away and do it live. Enjoy.

Whoa, forget boys! Who needs them! Tina, Alice, Janine, and Sam take over the Oddcast this week -- discussing salad and feelings. No, not really. We discuss a new World of Warcraft feature, wish the best to 360 gamers, whine about Modern Warfare 3, and encourage Alice to be the best American in England.

OH WHAT A SURPRISE. This week Scott Sharkey joins us to chat about life in the woods and why Sony sucks for leaving their service so vulnerable to attacks. Plus, Soundboard Chris and the rest of the gang talk about Call of Duty online in China and more Alan Wake. And Ballsrog gets hyped about Mass Effect 3.

This week, we're calling our show, "Little Alice: The Farewell Podcast." We discuss the Portal 2 app, how we like Portal 2, oh and, what it's like to hide from Portal 2 spoilers. We dive into the news stories Tina picked, which happens to make it seem like PlayStation sucks -- PSP Go still exists in North America, Child of Eden delayed, PSN is still down. And we're sending Alice to the UK to cover the latest Mario & Sonic game.

This week we finally see the return of Chris Plante! He tells us what he?s been up to, talk about Kinect, Portal 2, and Sam tells us all he knows about the new Nintendo console that?ll be shown at E3.

Sam, Tina, and Alice are joined this week by special guest James Silva, who, for those not in the "know," is behind the XBLA game Dishwasher Samurai. We talk about legalizing switch blades for one-armed humans, shoehorning multiplayer into videogames, leaky codblop maps, and dressing like Solid Snake. Also, our call-in question mailbox seems to have contracted some sort of audio venereal infection we just can't get rid of.

After our strange disappearance from podcast-dom, we return with a double feature! This week (during the first half), Sam shares how old he is by remembering his first Street Fighter experience, Alice names her cat Sprinkles, and we suggest game music tracks. In the second half, Scooter, Jeremy, Tina and Sam find time to make fun of each other. Scooter is shy in front of the 3DS girls, Jeremy loves the Bioshock Infinite panel, and a 1UP imposter roamed PAX east.

Holy crap guys! The Game Developer's Conference happened! And we were there! We lost Alice in the crowd so we recorded without her.

Thud... Thud... Thud... The water in your cup shakes. What can it be? You look over at your monitor; a podcast appears! We're joined this week by one Matt Clark (you may recall his winning blog entry a few years back that scored him a ticket to E3!) as we discuss Telltale Games' recent bevy of game announcements, including the dinotastic Jurassic Park. Some other stuff is discussed after that, but the important part is that Sam still doesn't know how to enter his credit card information into PSN. We must all take pity upon his purchase-disabled existence.

Can somebody give their PlayStation 3 a hug? We talk about Sony's bad string of luck, how Japan thinks Catherine is better than MVC3, we ask why Tina likes to irritate her new boss, and Sam mentions something about why he loves Justin Bieber. Oh, and we finish off with Ballsrog's latest rap.

Oddcast is 50 years -- er, episodes old! In our old age, we've grown senile, and can't remember what was said, revealed, or otherwise shouted across the airwaves this week. For all we know, we've murdered Chris, and he'll never be heard from again, except as a ghost, like in that one movie. Well, we're at least pretty sure this episode also includes Dog Football.

Ready for the new year? We're putting 2010 behind us the only way we know how: Odd Awards! Listen to us talk about such categories as, "He gave it to his Mama," or "PMPNP" (Predict Michael Patcher's Next Prediction).

Happy holidays from the 1UP Oddcast crew! Special remix by @tole_cover.

On this week's Oddcast, we can't wait for Bad Company 2 Vietnam, share moments about our NYC trip, Tony Hawk is a dying breed, Alice has a new instrument, Sam likes Kratos and Chris explains why his girlfriend has no idea about our show. Also, we take call-in questions and emails.

The Oddcast Thanksgiving Special! Don't listen to this one before you eat.

It's the Oddcast's 1-year anniversary! But no one gives a crap. This week the gang goes off on Black Ops' multiplayer, continues to gripe about the bugs in Fallout New Vegas, and bitches even more about San Francisco banning happiness (aka Happy Meals). Plus we talk about how Tetris cures all and plan our trip to Spain to visit Super Mario Street!

This week we discuss everything Kinect, Gran Turismo, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Battlefield Play4Free and introduce two new segments we think you'll enjoy. Oh, and we finish it off with listener questions as always!

Behold! Chris has escaped his well and is now in?a bathroom? Yep! This week we talk about Halloween, One billion XBL hours, Keiji Inafune, EA Tiberon, PS3 fans rejoice, Sam and Max, and Sam's new favorite game: schoolgirl shooter Gun Gal. And we take your tweets, call-ins and letters as usual.

We're finally back after a two week hiatus. And we're back for good! Tina, Sam, Chris and special guest Alice discuss the latest with EA buying the Angry Birds developers, Fallout New Vegas bugs, Medal of Honor, and uh, Oprah. We share our love for Costume Quest and Super Meat Boy, and then go into a WTF segment with Alice. And we finish everything off with questions and call-ins as always.

This week, the gang talks about scary stuff like the Taliban and Cthulu and God's toothpick, it must be huge! We talk confirmed delays (Gears 3), rumored cancelations (Ninjatown 2) and save the dates (the NY Comic-Con meetup). Minecraft is our reccession game and new favorite thing. Lastly, we respond to your letters and voice mails. Listening to this podcast will not give you bed bugs, promise.

Chris, missing? Boo! But Matt Leone gladly fills in on this week's show! We make fun of the TGS gallery, Halo Reach sales in Japan, Batman Arkham City, Medal of Honor being banned on military bases, and we take call-in questions!

This week, we're calling our show the atOdds cast. Why? We get Mike and Travis from at1UP to join us in Sam's absence. This week Chris rags on PlayStation Move, Tina complains about Halo Reach, we all discover what impact KFC has in Japan, wonder what you all think of Medal of Honor being banned by the military, and Sharkey loves Lord of the Rings online. As always, we take some pretty damn good call-in questions and letters.

We discuss where we've all been: LA, PAX, and where we're going: TGS. Sam talks about what he's looking forward to seeing, like The Last Guardian, and an empty Black Ops booth. The group is missing Chris' presence, but Alice is kind enough to join us.

The gang reunites after too long apart. We celebrate with good discussion. Capcom's cutting out the racism! Valve made a fairy game! Acclaim died, again! And for Recession Gaming: Robot wants fishy! All those exclamation points plus community questions in this week?s Oddcast. It's good to be back.

Sharkey is back from his vacation, but Sam is off in Germany. Matt sits in and is kind of an old grump about it all while we talk about Italians threatening to kneecap Mafia II for sterotyping them, play Icarus Proudbottom and the Curse of the Chocolate Fountain, and take questions, and chatter about what games we've had stolen from us. Also, some guy in Malawi claims to have grown lady parts but we're more blown away that Tina has apparently been reading Perez Hilton.

Sex! We "tee hee" a lot when it comes up. On this week's OddNews, we talk about Ratchet and Clank, Blizzard removing inappropriate maps in StarCraft II, and Activision making a move on hindering used game sales. Recession gaming involves the shooter in your pants, a.k.a. Privates. And we tangent off into a talk about cyber sex in World of Warcraft. With Scott Sharkey gone this week, we fill his place with another Scott from the office.

The whole crew is reunited after a short absence from Chris. Battlefield 3 is announced in a shitty way, the Gears of War movie adaptation is delayed, the Crayon Physics guy has another food game, and we talk about our Games to Play Before You Die feature. And we close off with our q and a segment.

Matt subs in for Chris this week as we rap about women apparently spending more than guys on imaginary videogame items, the awesome freebie game Alien Swarm, the Medal of Honor beta is fun, and we hate on the eleven states that support the California anti-videogame law. Also, more calls calls calls, calls from the public.

Tina, Sharkey, Sam and Chris jam on such topics as GameStop's whining that they don't like being in the used games biz and the Joe Danger guy ripping on XBL. Also, Ballsrog and Tolecover both sent in some hilarious music. We need to set them up for a rap battle.

This week, we talk about Space! Specifically, the MMO Nasa created. Also, Bobby Kotick says something to piss off gamers (again) and Tina wants Spain to win the World Cup (nobody cares). We have a great chat with developers of Shank, Prince hates the internet, and we close off with our call-in questions.

This week, we make an attempt to have a serious discussion about games as art—no, not really. Sam brings up Ebert's recent comments while everyone else falls asleep, Miyamoto makes a comment about needing new game characters, and uh, Dead or Alive will just be as perverted on the 3DS. Sharkey suggests Transformice for Recession gaming and we have our usual email and voicemail segment.

What's that noise? It's our world cup edition! The crew gets settled in after E3. Although, we can't figure out how to get Chris to stop sounding like a robot. We discuss Odd news of the week, like Kinect's pricing, children can't play 3DS, and Iwata's comment on the industry. We make fun of the comments in our E3 award feature and answer more call-in questions. Vuvuzela!

We're barely alive, our voices are nearly gone and Sharkey has a hangover; yay E3! Sam, Tina, Chris and Sharkey get on the mics to ramble about the WTF moments of the event. And special guest Cliff Bleszinski stops by to talk about Gears 3 and Bulletstorm.

Valve delays Portal 2; surprise! Everyone is eager to talk about E3, and how CNN investigates why videogame movies suck-- Chris Plante elaborates. Tina makes fun of Alan Wake's wife, Sharkey shares his favorite Left 4 Dead mod, and Sam still doesn't play games.

Oh crap! Chris is back, and Sharkey finally sheds a tear of happiness. This week we talk about that little convention that's right around the corner, show some love for Wii Fit (no, not really), and we take more beloved call-in questions.

Hope this episode doesn't harm your ear drums; Tina edited it. We share our thoughts on cocaine and how it relates to games, Sam discusses a PlayStation 3 rumor, Frank tells us about PopCap's beginnings and Sharkey is himself again. And we wonder if children can thoroughly enjoy Super Mario Galaxy 2.

This week the Oddcast goes into Space! Well, not really. Frank joins us again as we discuss the finer moments of this week, such as the lingerie based off of No More Heroes 2. We try to understand the real meaning of Square Enix's "History-Making" game, and we go into Recession gaming as always. We close off with a healthy amount of audio and email questions.

Aye Dios Mio... we can't seem to put Chris down the well this week, so we get good ol' Frank to fill in once more. The news portion is filled with PC and Mac talk, Sam manages to suggest an indie game, Sharkey makes fun of bad pirates, we learn why we all secretly want a zombie apocalypse and Tina likes shooter. Surprise!

What? We're on time? That's new. Our buddy that we keep down the well escaped this week, so we have Frank as a temporary replacement. The news is filled with good comments from users, except those dudes who think 30 frames per second equates to being slow as hell. Tina's thrilled about Stephen Hawking comments, Sam likes the PSP Go, and Sharkey asks us all to buy indie games for a good cause. And then we finish off with our call-in questions.

The gang rants about California's violent game law going to the supreme court, Halo 2 players valiantly staying logged in to Live, and a free game that places Link, Samus, Megaman, and the Contra Guy in Super Mario Bros. before taking calls from the public. Oh, and Nintendo once sent Sharkey a cease and disist for writing a webpage about how much he wanted to have sex with Pikachu. Just thought you should know that.

Bring out your hankies and your snuggie for comfort! This week's podcast is a downer. Sam tells us about the SEGA layoffs, Tina wants to group Xbox Live friends into categories before obtaining more, and Sharkey is himself. Chris can now hear user questions and we have our usual fun with them.