We have some more photos from last weekend’s Toronto Fan Expo. In this set we have Tahmoh Penikett speaking at his panel as well as Felicia Day and Amy Okuda from The Guild.

One thing I forgot to mention in the last podcast, was that a number of the console companies had booths promoting upcoming games and some were even available to try out. The volume of people and my own impatience unfortunately meant that I didn’t get to try any of these out so take my opinions with a huge grain of salt.

Ubisoft were demoing several games including the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. I can’t comment on the game-play so much but somehow the graphics are even better this time around. Sony was demoing the PlayStation Move controllers and Nintendo also had a number of games available to try out. Microsoft also had booths set up for people to try out Halo Reach and Kinect and I was a bit underwhelmed with both. I’ve had fun with just about all of the Halo titles but this time it just seems like more of the same. And maybe for some that’s not a bad thing but I’m finding it harder to each year to get excited about it. I guess we’ll see when the game is released later this year. Kinect on the outset looked like it could be a lot of fun. But as I watched people try it out, I got the nagging feeling that this was just Wii Sports all over again. Really fun to try out with your friends and play through a few times, but later gets relegated to the shelf to collect dust. I am curious to see how the technology will develop and how they can integrate the technology into more advanced titles but out of the gate I’m not knocked out. But I hope they prove me wrong.

In the meantime check out some of the second set of photos below. You can find the first set here.

 Podcast Episode # 80 - Ask Tanya [56:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On the podcast this week we get a chance to play an older freeware PC game, Cave Story. We also checked out yesterday’s DVD release of Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer. And we close the show off with a look at the first few issues of the ongoing comic series, The Walking Dead.

Cave Story (01:37 -18:16)

Cave Story is a freeware indie game that was originally released back in 2004 and also released earlier this year on Nintendo’s WiiWare service. This 2-D platformer was developed by Studio Pixel, who is actually only one guy who managed to construct the game in his spare time. Head over to the game’s website to download it including a patch for the English translation.

The Ghost Writer (18:25 – 34:07)

Directed by Roman Polanski and based on the Robert Harris novel The Ghost, The Ghost Writer was originally released in theaters back in February and is now available on DVD. Check out what we thought of this political thriller starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.

The Walking Dead (34:21 – 53:47)

We close out the show by looking back at the first few issues from 2003 of this comic series published by Image Comics and written by Robert Kirkman. Even though we’ve been inundated with Zombie films/games/books in the last few years, this series is still ongoing and is going to be turned into a TV series starting in October on AMC. Head over to the AMC site to check out some pics and video from the show along with a motion comic.

 Podcast Episode # 75 - Stand Back Ladies [58:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A little late this week but we have a good show nonetheless. We’ve got a new release from Activision for the Xbox 360 (as well as PS3, DS, PC and Wii), Transformers: War for Cybertron. We’ve also done something a bit different this week. We each picked something we had been watching or playing and brought it to the table. We’ve got a couple of Out of the Bin selections for the PSP and the Wii as well as a mobile game for the Blackberry and a critically acclaimed show on AMC.

Transformers: War for Cybertron (01:55 – 30:17)

Pixelated for the Blackberry (30:37 – 36:56)

House of the Dead: Overkill for the Wii (36:57 – 38:29)

AMC’s Breaking Bad (38:30 – 41:55)

Puzzle Quest for the PSP (41:56 – 52:15)

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 Podcast Episode # 72 - F*ckerWhacker [69:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week on the podcast, we look at a couple of new video game releases. The first is a new racing game for the Xbox 360 developed by Bizarre Creations, Blur. The second is the latest in Nintendo’s extensive Mario franchise, Super Mario Galaxy 2. We also take a look at a pair of films. One, the DVD release of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and a recent British export now in theaters in North America, Harry Brown.

Blur – (0:58 – 13:54)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 (14:04 – 24:58)

Alice in Wonderland on DVD (25:15 – 45:21)

Harry Brown (45:22 – 67:05)

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This week on the podcast we look at the latest film from Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island. Plus we look at a pair of games; EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the Xbox 360 and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Wii.

Shutter Island (01:16 – 20:07)

Battlefield Bad Company 2 (20:19 – 47:47)

Silent Hill – Shattered Memories (47:54 – 55:03)

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 Podcast Episode # 59 - The Littlest Hobo [ 59:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download