Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: Technical Peccadilloes Edition

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We return after holidays, work, and the inevitable technical breakdowns, but we persevere to bring you another podcast! This week, we discuss the impossible: Minecraft goes 1.0, the unfortunate: GSC Game Studios and GamePro fold, and the stupid: EA continues their über-ban policy, parents name their kid after a character in Skyrim, Telltale gets caught sockpuppeting user reviews of Jurassic Park: The Game and Ars Technica’s Ben Kuchera supports them, the International Red Cross opens their mouths to say that video games might be a war crime, the other shoe drops on the Playstation Vita, Microsoft makes you sign away your right to class-action lawsuits, and Skyward Sword has an unfixable game-breaking bug. And you wonder where our sunny disposition comes from. Please, Share and Enjoy.

FGEC Podcast Episode 40 (12/10/11)

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Categories Features, Games and Gaming, Hardware, News, Reviews, Software, Tech
Author Kasey Kagawa
Platform(s): Consoles, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox
Genre(s): Arcade, Casual, Co-op, FPS, MMO, Multiplayer, RPG, Singleplayer

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