April 26th 2009 11:23 pm PT

Show #317 : Wolverine, The Maw DLC and Todd McFarlane

This week’s show:
Co-host : e
Interview: Don Vondrak, Wolverine (18:32 – 31:14)
Interview: Michael Wilford, The Maw (31:14 – 40:53)
Interview: Todd McFarlane, Halo Action Figures (40:54 – 1:16:21)
Xbox 101
Much more…

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Format:
1:47:52, 49.3 MB, (MP3)

Link dump (some of the things mentioned in this episode:
http://www.xbox.com/games/x/xmenoriginswolverine/
http://www.xbox.com/games/t/themawxboxlivearcade/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_McFarlane
http://spawn.com/
http://spawn.com/halo/
http://marketplace.xbox.com/games/offers/0ccf0001-0000-4000-8000-00004541087a?cid=MajorNelson&partner=MajorNelson

 

Podcast By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2009/04/26/show-317-wolverine-the-maw-dlc-and-todd-mcfarlane/

  • SteelCity Beast

    YAY! New Show Finally!

  • IconicSoulJA

    I hope the Lode Runner Pricing Fiasco is discussed! I highly doubt it though.

  • Anonymous

    it is on the site but i cant get it off of itunes on my ipod touch yet. i wish it would upload faster

  • George Locust

    good podcast so far

  • Gamepolice

    Hey Major can you post pics of your new office?

  • George Locust

    The other toys todd McFarlane should do is the Call of Duty series and Gears of war.these games are very popular and would sell good.

  • Monster Warfare

    Sweet, just in time for school again, will listen in Study Hall.

  • a peeking duck

    Major, you should put chapters into your podcasts with different images for each chapter. This way you can show off stuff you’re talking about. :)

    (Other podcasts I listen to do this.)

  • IconicSoulJA

    Damn McFarlane is ranting! First time I’ve heard this in Major’s podcast. I wonder how Major felt. He’s pretty conscious of the male and female gamers. McFarlane’s views were pretty stereotypical.

    Wow!

  • Quicksilver4648

    WOW! Todd McFarlane is awesome. Epic interview! Major, I understand you essentially had to stay quiet for a couple of comments for personal/legal reasons, but wow, he was great. I do agree with many of his comments.

  • IconicSoulJA

    I am kind of pissed that you guys at Xbox can break the Terms of Use to open and hack the console. I’d like to do that but fear I’d get banned for doing the same thing you would not get banned for. :( I hate double standards :(

  • George Locust

    soulja major isnt doing anything to his console its the tech guys and major is getting a dev kit. just think your one step closer to getting an xbox with more than 120 gigs.

  • IconicSoulJA

    @George Locust

    The hard drive sizes can be increased by Microsoft at any time. It just a matter of planning, testing, and marketing. The special sauce is what Microsoft does to the drive to make it work with the console as Major stated. The problem is that they could put 500GB Laptop HDD in the 360 HDD shell but they’d sell it for more than the Arcades.

  • IconicSoulJA

    Not that the drive is worth that much…

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136314

    At retail, the drive is $100 so in bulk maybe $50 a drive?

  • TaygetaVendetta

    I thoroughly enjoyed the McFarlane interview, great show overall. I can’t wait for Virtual On this week!

  • ABomb

    Great interview with Todd McFarlane. You and “E” should drive down to “The Spider’s Web” (www.spawntoys.com) in Puyallup, WA which is a comic book store that is co-owned with Todd’s brother-in-law. They also sell all of the toys. I visited the store after reading this article in the Seattle Times (http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000725&slug=4033503).

  • ItsNymo

    Great interviews, Major! I seriously cannot wait for Twisted Pixel’s ‘Splosion Man!

    also: Cannot WAIT to see more “Crazy Larry” every month! ;)

  • Warrengonline

    @Maj

    Are you and e going to co-op online on Lode Runner? I’d LOVE to hear how you to accomplish to complete the levels. Its whole lot of fun as minds HAVE to agree where you go and how to solve the levels.

  • Turtle502

    good show. Due to time, I had to listen to this at 1.4x speed. Major’s voice runs along at hamster speed…yet e’s voice is like listening to normal conversation. Major is always on fast-forward, it seems…
    …
    in other words, it’s e’s fault these shows are soooooo long. talk faster, dude!

  • Anonymous

    great interview with todd – shame the price “discussion” wasn’t talked about but ah well

  • HighDef Edition

    Todd McFarlane is tha ‘MAN’. I ‘fell-in-love’ with his drawings in The Amazing Spiderman when he was working for MARVEL COMICS in the late 1980′s. I have since followed him & the ‘other’ artists who left MARVEL COMICS to form IMAGE COMICS.

    Thanks for the interview Major.
    Me Like.

  • Ganon255

    Is it just me or is there some subtext between e and Major regarding Twitter. Every time Major brings up Twitter the feeling in conversation gets strange, like an unspoken power struggle between Major and e regarding Twitter. I think e is relenting on using Twitter because he didn’t find it first, and is now ‘sticking to his guns’ about not using it.

  • TOMCATS

    One of the best shows yet!

  • IconicSoulJA

    @Ganon255 It’s not that complicated.

    e wants http://www.twitter.com/e If he can’t get it, he don’t want to join! That simple. Erin got it before him. I think e needs to give Erin a visit :) .

  • SteelCity Beast

    I 100% LOVED Todd McFarlane interview, you can definitely tell he loves what he does. I have one McFarlane figure my friend bought me of Willie Parker, I’ll admit its not great it seems to have problems staying in its “grass” stand it came with.

  • MEXICAN GRUNT

    SteelCity Beast I agree with you, My favorite interview is still Stepto but Todd is so passionate.

  • Warrengonline

    @Maj
    No disrespect, but this (Todd McFarlen) was the BEST INTERVIEW EVER!!! Totally unscripted and not quiet, tangents like this are true innovation and show the passion burning – no wonder his work is NOTHING but AWESOME! His comment on the 45 Magnum was just so hilariously true – right along the lines of George Carlin (R.I.P.). Nice work: http://www.ioffer.com/img/item/523/921/31/SPARTAN_SOLDIER_HAYABUSA_RED.jpg .

    Nice job Maj – you actually let him speak his entire peace. Awesome. Thanks!

  • zxcoolbird

    Great show cant wait for the next show.

  • davidkenobi

    Another very good show, particularly the interview of Todd McFarlan

  • Anonymous

    Great show, Todd McFarlan was the best….

  • Singular Trap

    Awesome conversation with Todd McFarlane! The man who single-handedly saved the Spider-Man franchise. I’m a huge fan of his work, and hearing him talk about what he’s (still!) passionate about is phenomenal. Sometimes when people have been in their positions for so long, they lose the passion. Not Todd!

  • M Shadle

    Todd is the man!!!

  • Warrengonline

    @Singular Trap
    Yep, sure do. And he still just as great at it now as he was on day one. Could you imagine the game models he’d make if he was doing the detail on the 3D aspect? Blows my mind.

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