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Weekend Confirmed Episode 21

August 13, 2010 12:00 PM

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Before Garnett and Brian head to Texas for QuakeCon, they sit down with Jeff to record this week's show. It's a broad swath of gaming in Whatcha' Been Playin? ranging from more Madden and Starcraft 2 to Arc Rise Fantasia and even Minecraft. Your thoughts from our conversation last week about the viability of female characters leads the Warning before the subject turns to the line between fun, engaging game design and frustrating compulsion to beat a game. And in the front page there's news of new Borderlands DLC and the celebrity voice cast in Fallout New Vegas. Due to travel we recorded early this week but we'll have Jeff's reaction to Bioshock Infinite and look at July's sales figures next week.

Weekend Confirmed Ep. 21 - 08/13/2010

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Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here's the timing for this week's episode:

Whatcha' Been Playin: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:30:37

Whatcha' Been Playin and Cannata-ford a New Game: Start: 00:31:40 End: 01:03:29

The Warning: Start: 01:04:38 End: 01:36:58

Music Break featuring "Quid Pro Quo" by Civicminded Start: 01:36:58 End: 01:40:14

The Front Page: Start: 01:40:14 End: 02:12:19

Music Break this week comes from Civicminded, winners of the Best New Artist honors in the Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards. The track "Quid Pro Quo" comes from the band's debut effort, Sequence. You can download the full song for free on the Civicminded Facebook page. You can also catch up with them on MySpace. Civicmindedâ€™s own Phil Reno also composed the soundtrack for the Giant Bombcast.

Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes and check out more at his Facebook page.

Jeff can also be seen on The Totally Rad Show. New episodes come out weekly on Tuesday.

Our Official Facebook Weekend Confirmed Page is coming along now so add us to your Facebook routine. We'll be keeping you up with the latest on the show there as well.

Weekend Confirmed will be taping live at PAX! Hope you can join us Saturday, Sep 4 at 2pm in the Serpent Theatre.

Garnett Lee

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August 13, 2010 1:14 PM

I would totally listen to the SC2 podcast btw >_> Great episode so far!
- Grumbeld
  
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  August 14, 2010 12:11 AM
  
  I'll second this. I can't get enough of listening to SC theory.
- Ojimaru
  
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  August 14, 2010 11:24 PM
  
  If Shacknews wants to do something similar to Blizzard's Battlecast, I'm all for it.
  
  Grab videos of Shacknews staff (coughGarnettcough) and add Brian's commentary. Instant gem.
- DeadlyShadowX
  
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  August 17, 2010 6:06 AM
  
  Isn't that what the last couple of episodes have been? Just kidding... a little, even though I have yet to play any SC 2 and have only played one mission of SC, I still enjoy the discussion.
- battery77
  
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  August 17, 2010 7:11 PM
  
  I would like to listen to a SC 2 podcast if it is Garnett & Jeff talking about scenarios and Brian telling them how they could suck less. That part of the podcast was funny and interesting and I don't even play Starcraft!
- GameHobo
  
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  August 18, 2010 3:34 AM
  
  unfortunatly i dont have a decent enough pc to play SC2 but i love listening to the stories and stratergies you guys have been talking about it, im with theese guys if you release a SC2 battle podcast sign me up!