This Week in Gamer PODCASTS

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So, if you're a legit core gamer like me, you probably listen to a lot of gaming podcasts. My love for podcasts started when I was just a babygamer, playing Link to the Past on Saturday night and listening to recorded talk radio segments. My love for videogames, timeshifted audio opinions, and sitting alone in my home all came together the day podcasting was invented by (I assume) Steve Jobs.

I've been listening to a lot of different stuff recently, and you benefit!

The Blog Show

The Blog Show is great because it is a panel show featuring all of my favorite Video Games Journalist personalities from the Blog website. Popular topics on The Blog Show include "What Have I Been Playing, My Friends?," "GAMER NEWS," "The Reviews System is Broken and Here is Why," "Jokes Commenting Upon Our Long, Off-Topic Tangents," and "Was That Supposed To Be a Segue?"

The Blog Show is also great because they are very concerned about what the Average Joe Gamer knows about video games. Turns out, not much. They just wanna play Modern Warfare; they don't even care about developer-related lawsuits against Activision. That makes me feel like an insider because I do care about why Frank West isn't working on Call of Duty anymore, despite the fact that I'm probably too legit to be caught dead playing CoD at this point anyway. I was a Battlefield snob for a while, but then my cousins started playing B3 and now I only play sprite-based indie games that run in a little pop-up window.

This Week: The Gang seems to really like Torchlight 2 probably, and one guy gets really defensive about his Borderlands 2 review.

Official Podcast

The Official Podcast is great because I can get the inside scoop on really important-gamer related issues from an Official Source. Imagine: first-hand accounts of things! None of the media spin! I can decide where I stand on things before they enter the Opinion Machine and get all screwed up.

I also love The Official Podcast because I love listening to men who have totally gotten over being picked on in high school get together with female Community Managers and pretend that they didn't do drugs in college.

This Week: Everything is AWESOME back at the office. After fifty-seven episodes, they still can't find one co-worker who can even believe that they have such an amazing job, doing what they love, and getting paid for it. According to the panel, it's all been a dream come true, and there are some really awesome things coming down the pike that they CAN'T WAIT to share with me, so that all sounds real good.

Just Skypin' with Buzzy McFuzz

Just Skypin' is a show where five to seven idiots with bad microphones attempt to sync up their Skype calls in Audacity while talking over each other like they're having a real conversation. Popular topics include "What Have I Been Pl*******(garbled)*****" and "I've Been Pricing Podcast Microphones."

This Week: The guys forget to hit record like twice, so we get to hear the giggly, jokey third version of a conversation they're sick of having about how great Torchlight 2 is and how the review score system is bullshit.

Haze Fancast

Haze Fancast is my favorite podcast because it's the only podcast on the web dedicated to the popular PS3 exclusive shooter from Free Radical: HAZE. It includes tons of inside jokes for HazeHeads (that's what Haze superfans call ourselves) like the ongoing character Bob, the Mantel Propaganda PR Director, and NECTAR DISRUUUUUUUUUPTIOOONNN!!! You'd better get with the program, BRO, because we HazeHeads are nothin' but ANIMALS, and I'm the TOP DAWG! WOOF!!  I'll see all you knuckleheads at HazeCon 2013!

This Week: A sober discussion about perception and reality ensues during a discussion on the specific psychological effects of Nectar. More of your favorite Duvall quotes. Also, we're in week thirty-two of the EPIC multiplayer tourney. Believe it or not, it can be hard to get a game going sometimes, so be sure to hop on at around 3PM on Wednesdays because that's the day I get off work early.

I'll never forget the first time I heard my favorite song:

Well, that's basically every gaming podcast on iTunes, as far as I can tell. Happy listening!