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In the first of three mini-episodes Mark and Jessie look back at their favorite video games of the past decade.

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Hosts: Mark, Jessie

Show Outline:

• Introductions and Welcomes (0:00:18)
• Team Fortress 2 (0:02:07)
• World of Warcraft (0:05:09)
• Portal (0:09:09)
• Left 4 Dead 2 (0:10:14)
• Mass Effect (0:11:46)
• Diablo 2 & The Lord of Destruction (0:13:55)
• Knights of the Old Republic (0:15:53)
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (0:18:28)
• Rock Band 2 (0:20:07)
• Mario Kart DS (0:25:42)
• The Sims (0:26:59)
• Gun (0:29:21)
• Civilization IV (0:31:53)
• Batman : Arkham Asylum (0:35:18)
• Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix (0:37:04)
• AudioSurf (0:40:50)
• Fatal Frame 2 (0:42:23)
• Spider-Man (0:43:06)
• Lumines (0:44:26)

Music Credits:

• Opening Intro – “Nerdaverse” by The BeerJays
• Outro Music – “Nerdaverse 2” by The BeerJays

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Hi all,

I know I’ve been a bit lax updating this site for the last episode, but bear with me. In case you didn’t have a pen and paper ready last episode, you may have missed some of our recommendations for essential iPhone games and apps. So, here ya go:

Games

• Flight Control
• Uniwar
• 3D Slugger
• Rolando
• Tap Tap Revenge (if you love rhythm games)
• Galcon

Apps

• Facebook
• Pandora
• Shazam or Midori
• AudioBoo (with link to my personal audioboo feed)
• Pano
• TwitterPhone, TweetDeck or Twitter-ific. I know people who use more than one Twitter app, depending on what they want to do on Twitter at the time.
• Weather Channel app
• Showtimes
• Remote
• Stanza e-reader
• Snaptell

In addition, I stumbled across this nifty app today that I just downloaded. It’s free, so if you’re addicted to Achievements on Xbox like I am, this will probably tickle your fancy:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/27/iphone-app-offers-achievements-for-life-booyah/

In addition, I promised links to articles discussing the dilemma of how to price iPhone games to move:

• http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/11/want-to-sell-an-iphone-game-price-it-2-or-less/
• http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/App+Store/feature.asp?c=14291

As promised in the show, we’ll be posting lists of what we consider to be essential nerd films for true horror buffs. All those titles will also be available in our Amazon store (hint hint). Stay tuned to this space for more (or email us if you want a notification of when we post our lists).

Give us a call! We’ve just got set up with some sweet voice mail action courtesy of Google Voice. (Big thanks to guest host Chris for the invite.) So now, all you folks out there have another chance to be a part of the show. Ring up Jessie and I and leave us a message.

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Greetings Citizens of The Nerdaverse!

Just wanted to post a little bit here while on my way home. So the new year has passed. I hope that everyone had a safe and happy new year. I had a grand time myself. (Ask nice and I’ll share with you how guest host Blake Clouser spent his new year. Tee-hee) So hopefully by now you’ve had the chance to enjoy our series of End of the Decade episodes. What did you guys think? Be sure to write to us at the Mailbag (mailbag@nerdaverse.com)and give us your thoughts.

I also want to ask a favour of our listeners. Do you listen to the show? I think both Jessie and I are curious to find out exactly how many of you out there listen to our show. Saddly, this is often harder to determine then you might think. Unfortunately iTunes is very sparse in the information that they provide relating to subscription numbers. It is possible to kind of figure out our numbers by evaluating download traffic but that involves math, and you know if you listen the the show that anytime I can be prevented from doing math I am happy. (and the world is possibly safer as well.) so here is what I’d like to ask. Write to us if you listen. Drop us a note to the mailbag. Tell us what you think of the show if you want. Heck send us a blank message. I’m not too picky. We’d just like to know how many folks are out there.

So there you have a little request from me. Jessie and I are at work planning our next episode. I think we will be talking about Avatar, and maybe our initial impressions of the new BioWare RPG Dragon Age: Origins and I am sure much more.

Thank you for listening!

Here is a quick review for you folks. Durring our discussion of our favourite games from the past decade in Episode 17 Jessie brought a game to the table that I’d never heard of. A game known as Lumines. Intrigued by her description of a tetris like game with a pulsing techno soundtrack I went out to find if a version existed on my moblie gaming platform of choice the iPhone. Much to my delight there was, and I am very happy to report that the iPhone version of this game is an absolute joy and has quite possibly eaten my brain. If you are not sure if the game is for you a free demo version is available and you should certainly give it a look. The full version is a very easy to justify $2.99. The full version comes with one default skin package that provides some interesting visuals and techno tracks and additional skin packs are available for purchase through the app.

Final Grade: A+
Poop or Puppy: An Absolute Puppy