OSMcast: XBLA Trifecta! 9-15-2008

Because one game just wasn’t enough, we decided to tackle three Xbox Live Arcade games for this episode of the OSMast!: Castle Crashers, Bionic Commando, and Braid. Check it out!

OSMnotes

That’s right, we’ll be at Anime Weekend Atlanta this weekend, so you should track us down and say hello!

Also, if you happened to head this direction by way of the AWO, hello and welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay. And I apologize about Indy IV. Really, I do. However I will defend the honor of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates to the uh, death. I guess.

See you folks at the con! Or not! (Then throw us an email!)

OSMcast: Gurren Lagann 9-8-2008

Finally our current tagline will now make sense as the OSMcast! tackles Gainax’s Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!

OSMnotes

Image © Go Nagai/Dynamic Planning, Honey Production Committee
Image of the hottie whiskey bottle © Go Nagai/Dynamic Planning, Honey Production Committee

Now this podcast really isn’t a day late or anything. I mean, it’s not like a bird hit a plane causing Inubito’s friend’s flight to be delayed so he was busy entertaining his guest to mix down the podcast until late Monday night. And it surely wasn’t Basil being too busy playing Spore to actually update the site once he had the file.

I mean… obviously.

By the by, hasn’t anyone noticed how the theme of Spore is kinda how creatures must use the power of evolution to grow, expand, and survive as well as you (not I of course) the player also evolve by varying games of complexity?

And how it expresses it’s theme by the use of a galaxy as imagery. And how galaxies kinda like like spirals? You know, like Gurren Lagann?

Not that I’ve been playing Spore or anything, and that my race of creatures are called the Gurrens.

Nope.

Not at all!

OSMcast: Cromartie High School 9-01-2008

WARNING: We talk about Eiji Nonaka’s Cromartie High School in this episode of the OSMcast! There… YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

OSMnotes

We talk about a lot of stuff that’s actually kinda out of date! But that’s OK, because it’s all still awesome.  And so is Cromartie and you should buy a version of it right now.

Check back with us next week when we take on Gainax’s Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!

OSMcast: Wild Zero 8-25-2008

We aren’t dead yet! In this triumphant return to the OSMcast Basil, Eric, and newcomer Lee tackle Tetsuro Takeuchi and Guitar Wolf’s wild and crazy “Jet rock ‘n’ roll”/zombie horror/comedy/cult classic/movie thing, Wild Zero! And succeed with marginal success! WARNING: Guitar Wolf’s music can be really loud.

OSMnotes

We actually recorded this a week or two ago, so the World of OSM news is kinda old, but it’s all still vitally important, at least as far you should go buy Bangai-O Spirits RIGHT NOW.

What’s actually important is that we’re back and we’ll be now updating on Mondays, not Fridays. And we should have it set for next Monday as well, where Lee and I talk about Cromartie High School.

Be prepared!

OSMcast: The Dark Knight 8-01-2008

We’re rollin’ into the month of August with Christopher Nolan’s latest take on the Batman, The Dark Knight. And more!

OSMnotes

First off, you can now see Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog once more without buying it off iTunes! You just have to deal the occasional commercial. You know, like regular TV.

And you should go buy some Freakazoid RIGHT NOW.

Really this is the best week for super heroes and super villains ever.

OSMcast: Mushishi 7-25-2008

Mushishi, by Yuki Urushibara is the topic of tonight’s OSMcast! And it’s definitely awesome. But don’t take our word for it! … Well, actually do take our word for it, but listen to us talk about why first!

OSMnotes

Really you should go buy a copy of Mushishi in one form or another right now. Though you’ll probably have to special order it. But that’s okay because this manga and anime is pretty special.

In that good way, not that short bus special or anything.

So go get it.

Like, now.

Go!

OSMcast: Catchin’ up on the World of OSM 7-18-2008

Okay so for the past two weeks we’ve skipped out on the World of OSM… And it kind of built to a great big pile of stuff that needed to be caught up to. So here it is!

OSMnotes

So we talked about this stuff (more or less):

  • Chrono Trigger DS!
  • Slayers Revolution!
  • Rock Band 2
  • DCvsMK fatality correction
  • FF13 on Xbox 360!!
  • OMG SQEENIX YOU COMMIT SUDOKU!!!11!
  • Xbox Live + Netflix = Win! (However it was later clarified that everyone has to have a Netflix account to watch the movies. Still awesome though!)
  • Mii Avatars! And other Xbox 360 stuff. Microsoft made a pretty good press conference. However…
  • Nobody is interested in Animal Crossing: City Folk. And by that I mean the person we know as Nobody.
  • Wii Sports Resort is pretty cool we guess.
  • Wii Music makes my soul sad.
  • So much. My heart: broken.
  • So sad.
  • Sony’s conference was pretty meh for us as well. But uh… 256!!! I guess.
  • That game was called MAG (Massive Action Game). But we really don’t care.
  • Really Penny Arcade got it right.
  • Song Summoner for iPod
  • Anime Expo! Maybe they did well attendee-wise? Who knows!
  • Persona 4! In the US! December 9th! This year! YAY!
  • Hayate the Combat Bulter via Bandai Entertainment
  • The Girl Who Leapt through Time manga based on the film, actually via Bandai and not CMX like I said! (CMX released a different adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt through Time.)
  • Funimation now RULES THE WORLD! Ouran High School Host Club and 30 titles that was once held by ADV.
  • Kodansha is setting up a U.S. subsidiary to publish their own manga starting in September. Good, bad, or awesome? Guess we’ll find out!

Yeah, it was a lot of stuff.

OSMcast: Metal Gear Solid 4 7-11-2008

And we’re back! This week DJ Inubito and Basil talk about Nerdapalooza 2008 and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

OSMnotes

So it sounds like Nerdapalooza 2008 was pretty bad ass! If you want to check out CSHC with our man DJ Inubito on the plates, check out their YouTube page.

And like we said, MGS4 is gosh darn awesome. And you do end up feeling pretty bad for Old Snake sometimes, when they make fun of him for being old and his Psych meter goes down in the saddest noise possible.

No OSMcast this week :(

Due a few factors (OSM Central coming down with illness and our resident DJ off being a nerdcore superstar), we weren’t able to get a podcast together this week. However AWO actually updated this week, so go listen to them instead this time.

Just come back here next week too. There’s a lot to catch up in the World of Awesome so I’m sure that it’ll be  a lengthy one to make up for this dire lack of OSMcast!