Signed In #32

The winners of the Signed In holiday contest are announced! Then it's on to a gauntlet of game talk starting with the Indie games Christmas Tree, Gravity, Balloon Blocks, and Solar. On the XBLA front, Craig offers some more thoughts on Gyromancer, everybody gets pulled back into Peggle with Peggle Nights, and Sean schools everyone on Madden NFL Arcade. The whole crew also gave the Bayonetta demo a run, Craig and Jeremy drool over Borderlands' "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" DLC, 1 vs. 100 trys it's best to take over everybody's Xbox, Jeremy finished Assassin's Creed 2, Craig checked out the first chapter of Fable 2, Jeremy channels Rogue Warrior by cursing up a storm, and Sean and Jeremy follow up from last episode with more thoughts on Left 4 Dead 2.

The show closes with a call out to the listeners for their picks for "The Best of 2009". Email signedinpodcast@gmail.com with your picks in the below categories! (And feel free to add your own!)

Best Single Player Experience
Best Multiplayer Experience
Best XBLA Game
Best Indie Game
Most Surprising Game
Best Music/Rhythm Game
Best DLC
Best Avatar Item

The Pull List podcast #106 (32.1 MB)

(1:00:56) This week Craig experiences future-shock with BUCK ROGERS #6, Sean fanboys out with IMAGE UNITED #1 and they both wade in deeply to this month's Previews catalog! All that and much, much more!

Email us at thepulllist@gmail.com

Go to www.kirbykracklemusic.com to hear "Ring Capacity" and other awesome music!

0:00:00 - Show ID
0:00:12 - Music: "Ring Capacity" by Kirby Krackle
0:01:08 - Introductions

0:04:11 - BUCK ROGERS #6: Buck has finally come back to Earth to mixed reactions, and he decides to return to his spacecraft to clear some things up.
0:11:02 - IMAGE UNITED #1: The original Image heroes (minus W.I.L.D.CATS) must team up to fight some as-yet-unknown villain! Superstar-a-rama!

0:19:35 - The Stacks:
0:19:47 - BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #11
0:20:20 - THE DARKNESS #81
0:21:03 - CRIMINAL: THE SINNERS #2
0:21:36 - DIE HARD: YEAR ONE #3
0:22:12 - DETECTIVE COMICS #859
0:23:18 - DARK WOLVERINE #80
0:25:09 - GIANT SIZE THOR FINALE
0:26:49 - JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #33
0:28:38 - UNCANNY X-MEN #517
0:29:56 - UNKNOWN SOLDIER #14
0:31:26 - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #20
0:32:34 - USAGI YOJIMBO #124
0:33:27 - GREEN LANTERN #48
0:35:21 - INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #20
0:37:21 - BLACKEST NIGHT #5
0:39:43 - Top of The Stacks: Sean - UNCANNY X-MEN #517; Craig - GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #20

0:40:29 - Previews of Things to Come: Dec. 2009

0:58:24 - Wrap-up
0:59:38 - Music: "Ring Capacity" by Kirby Krackle
1:00:56 - End

Three Die Block (11.30.2009) (49.2 MB)

(1:32:38) In this episode, Chance gets giddy as he and Pauly discuss the trials and tribulations of playing that sneaky, underhanded underdog of a team, the Goblins. Also this week, Pauly and Chance open up their new segment, Rule Book Revealed with a nice discussion of the Tackle skill. Then, after a round of local league standings, including the return of the HGC scoring and casualty leaders, Pauly reveals some game related news and Chance reveals the winner of the Three Die Block theme contest!

Email us at threedieblock@gmail.com

Music: "Boom (The Crystal Method remix)" by P.O.D.

Pull List podcast #105 (34.5 MB)

(1:05:10) This week, Craig remotely accesses DRONE #1, Sean puts the pieces back together with PUNISHER #11, and both the guys talk about the impressive tome that is THE WALKING DEAD VOL 01 hardcover from Image. All that and much, much more!

Email us at thepulllist@gmail.com

Go to www.kirbykracklemusic.com to hear "Ring Capacity" and more great music

0:00:00 - Show ID
0:00:12 - Music: "Ring Capacity" by Kirby Krackle
0:01:08 - Introductions

0:04:17 - DRONE #1: Three friends have hacked their way into the command feed for military robotic drones for an evening's entertainment, and when things get hairy they have to take matters into their own hands!
0:14:30 - PUNISHER #11: Frank Castle is dead, long live FrankenCastle! Following the Punisher's dismemberment, the Marvel monsters have collected and reassembled the pieces because they want to enlist his help in stopping a group of monster hunters who are hunting them into extinction.

0:22:45 - The Stacks
0:22:59 - BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #37
0:24:32 - ADVENTURE COMICS #4
0:26:08 - ECHO #16
0:27:56 - DEADLOCKE #1
0:29:50 - G-MAN: CAPE CRISIS #4
0:31:32 - TRANSFORMERS #1
0:32:53 - HELLBLAZER #261
0:34:33 - DARK REIGN: THE LIST: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
0:36:21 - JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 80-PAGE GIANT #1
0:40:20 - X-MEN LEGACY #229
0:41:35 - UNDERGROUND #3
0:43:58 - INVINCIBLE #68
0:45:28 - VIKING #4
0:47:04 - BRAVE AND THE BOLD #29
0:48:35 - TINY TITANS #22
0:49:53 - Top of The Stacks: Sean - INVINCIBLE #68; Craig - UNDERGROUND #1

0:51:15 - Trade-Offs: THE WALKING DEAD VOL 01 hardcover from Image

1:02:32 - Wrap-up
1:03:51 - Music: "Ring Capacity" by Kirby Krackle
1:05:10 - End

Signed In #31

Craig offers his thoughts on the dashboard update that went live to all users last week. Sean checked out the Indie Game Jumper Robot, Jeremy bought Peggle Nights, NBA Unrivaled makes Sean pine for games from 20 years ago, and Craig gives his impressions of the brand spankin' new Gyromancer. Jeremy kicks off the retail games discussion with Jurassic: The Hunted and Hasbro Family Game Night, Sean gets back into Red Faction, Jeremy gives his brief thoughts on the new releases Lego Indiana Jones 2 and Assassin's Creed 2 and offers an update on his Borderlands status, Craig finally got to play through the Left 4 Dead DLC, Sean and Jeremy are knocked on their collective asses by Left 4 Dead 2, and Jeremy closes out with his take on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, as well as his thoughts on "that" level. (Spoiler warning from 1:22-1:35!)

All of this is finished off with a reminder of the Signed In Holiday Contest running through the end of November! Join the Pseudoradio forums and post your gamertag in the contest thread for a chance to win a copy of The Beatles: Rock Band and possible additional prizes! (For full contest information, see here - http://bit.ly/2ktJFJ)

E-mail us at signedinpodcast@gmail.com!