Bullet Heaven HD, Episode 41 - Radiant Silvergun Revisited

The legendary shooter makes its triumphant return (and North American debut) on Xbox Live Arcade! In this special extra episode of Bullet Heaven, and in response to criticism towards the Radiant Silvergun review for the Sega Saturn, we take this opportunity to hit all of the points I missed in Season 1's Episode 10.

Stick around after the stackup for a related hardware review of the PDP Versus Fighting Pad for Xbox 360.

Bullet Heaven resumes on October 6th with the debut of Season 3! In the mean time, as always, questions, comments and suggestions are not only welcome but encouraged!

Bullet Heaven HD, Episode 36 - Strania: The Stella Machina

The West will never see the amount of shooters Japan does. But there's still hope if you like blasting stuff with a lone ship. Today's shmup king is the Xbox 360, no matter where you live in the world. The fairly recent Strania: The Stella Machina by G.Rev can be had for just 800 MS Points, and offers North America another modern shooter with interesting gameplay. Is Strania the next great downloadable shmup, or a weak pea-shooter thrown to the masses?

Did you like what you saw here today? Comments, Questions and Suggestions are not only welcome, but encouraged! Let me know what you thought in the comments section below!!

PPR 7

We took this opportunity to go over a big aspect of the video game lifestyle, which is collecting games. We take a look at just why exactly gamers who collect take the concept of collecting to a whole other level (no pun intended at all.) We discuss personal memories and thoughts on what exactly possesses individuals to hold on to video games in numerous numbers, or search out niche games or platforms. Also being side-tracked with the release of Guitar Hero 5, where we voice out our opinions on whether or not to boycott it. Video game collectors hold themselves in a very strong community where they work hard to support one another and their hobbies as well, while also wrestling with the strong temptation of a rare find at the cost of spending those precious extra bucks to obtain that holy grail of a title.

Sometimes, there's the dilemma of deciding upon trading in your games for credit to obtain that game you've been looking forward to, and whether or not you'll grow to regret it later. As Toast mentioned, he's been catching up, collecting retro classics himself, through the advantages of the current generation, where there's heavy digital distribution abound with PSN games, XBLA games, and WiiWare/Virtual Console games. The instant-availability and low-cost entry of these digitized offerings of retro software to anyone interested in buying them brings up a whole new argument in and of itself on the question of whether or not re-investing into digital release of retro games will affect the value or preservation of their original releases for the coming years.

So please tune in to the episode, and while you're at it, we want you guys to send us a picture of your collection! photos or even to stories that we can share on the next episode, also we figured we'd throw in a name drop on the hilarious homebrew show series known as "Chuck Norris in Oblivion" and decided to drop the link here for everyone to check out, or just search it on Youtube!

Until then, we'll be comparing collector's editions to first limited prints, and all of that other nonsense here on Press Pause Radio episode 7!

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