WoW super early show today gotta love Gabe and Tycho love the long interview with them.

Early

Nice

Downloading show now

seriously major , where is the spring update , this is getting rediculous

Just make a post on the progress of it

Saying you are working on it / it should be out soon

Why not do us a huge favor and give us tidbits of features that are going to be added?

Like group chat , that would be a megaton and the entire community of xbox live would scream in orgasm

Hey Major,

 even though you had a reason to put it up early, thanks, it means alot to me :)

1600 has been a bad price point in the past...que Lumines and Bankshot Billiards whiners...I have paid it, but have been left disappointed (especially with Lumines and all the "extras" that came after the initial high price), so I will probably pass. 400-1200 should be the range for Arcade titles, with DLC maxing out a games price near 1600...that is entirely reasonable in my opinion.

Now Major, do you think you can whisper in someone's ear that TimeShift needs to be "accepted" on Xbox.com? I loved the idea of free DLC (especially with new achvs), but unfortunately the new achvs don't show up anywhere except my personal view of my profile on the console...not in friends lists, not on the site, and most importantly, not on my gamercard!

I hate that intro. It is too generic, ever "hip" radio station uses those kind of intros and they just get annoying.

e, don't be such a downer. I am impressed with the show every week, its got to take a lot effort to put this out every week. Thanks, Major, I look forward the show every Sunday.

In regards to Gabe/Tycho interview, Bejeweled 2 is not $20. It's $10, or for $20, you can get the retail PopCap collection with 4 games including Bejeweled 2. And though I agree Bejeweled is boring and sucks, 1600 points is too much for an arcade release. I'll buy the Penny Arcade game a year later when it's down to 1200 or 800.

Yeah I gotta admit 1200 points is ridiculous. I recall reading posts on their site and all talking about high MS points prices. Interesting they are choosing to have people spend $20 on it.

Here is the question though, Will they say MS chose the price and/or will MS say that they chose the prices. Cause devs always say that MS makes them come up with a price yet MS (Major you have said this on many occasions) that it's the developers that choose the prices.

I'm not buying that game.  I've never even been to Penny Arcade, and this is not a good first impression.

To add to the xbox 101.  I use the breakout cable but most of the time I don't use my reciever.  The cool thing about the way this is setup is that since the hdmi sends the audio to the TV, I am not forced to use the reciever.

As to the penny arcade game, not all arcade games are created equal and I would take a wait and see attitude with it

Bit pricey for the Penny Arcade game, I will have to try the demo to see if it justifies the price.  I like the intro but its more for a radio show, I would see what else you can try.  Get the top 5 and play one each show and then see what happens.  Good show by the way.

E:

How about Ichi Roomba for a name?? (I'm a Bleach anime fan)

WDHA is such a great station. Rock on NJ!

I always thought that there wasn't going to be a demo for the Penny Arcade game. Am I wrong?

I agree that 1600 points is far too much for an arcade title. Microsoft uses size limits and also sometimes forces some of its partners set a price on content instead of making it free (Gears maps). So they should be able to set a maximum price. If this Penny Arcade Adventures game is really good and can compare to an older Final Fantasy, then why not set it aside from the XBLA stables ?? Like Xbox Originals, Xbox live could offer mid-sized games (sub-DVD size i.e: 300mb to 4gb maybe) as downloadable games under a different "label". Then that new kind of release could offer other ames such as a stand-alone downloadble version of PORTAL !!! There is a market for this type of stuff, but Im pretty sure it should be offered outside of the XBLA banner (which points to smaller, sometimes casual games that would fit on a memory unit... With arcade games that are now coming in over 100mb, those 256mb memory units really look tiny !!! Major and E: keep up the great work, you guys are part of my morning commute and if you were to stop making it, Id have to settle with (MUCH) lesser podcasts about gaming...

5-10 hours of gameplay for 1600 points; doesn't sound like good value. This will have to be really good to justify the price hike.