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Fresh Air is Over-Rated #22 - The Ice Climbers Show

July 1st, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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Finally Kurbzz is in this show, making it feel like a FAIOR show again! There was a ton on news to go through including Square Enix’s mystery game revealed, THQ sues partner Jakks Pacific over WWE rights and a Sony “mole” unveiled their evil plans! Wildmatt did a top 10 fighting games and then we took some callers!

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Fresh Air is Over-Rated #21 - The Zelda Show

June 24th, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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This week’s FAIOR, Kurbzz had to work, again. So Wildmatt’s on his own to catch up on 2 weeks worth of news like, Activision’s Bobby Kotick threatens to stop supporting Playstation, GTA Chinatown Wars is PSP-bound and more. Then it’s off to the top 10 puzzle games and we take some callers!

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Real Racing (iPhone / iPod Touch) - Controls D Gameplay

June 12th, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

This is Firemint’s Real Racing for the iPhone, available now on the app store for $9.99. If you were wondering Firemint’s last title was Flight Control for the iPhone. This has to be one of the greatest looking racers out there, alongside Need For Speed.

There’s 4 controls schemes, adjustable auto-brake, tilt sensitivity and more. I’ve yet to play it extensively, so I haven’t unlocked everything yet, but it’s looking to be a solid title.

WebcamMax Review

June 11th, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

Before you read on, it should be noted that, I have been using version 5.1.1.6 for this review.

I used an older version of WebcamMax back in the day, so I pretty much knew what I was heading into. Having said this there are quite a number of features added, including chroma-key or “background removal” support, which I actually requested a while ago. So it goes without saying that their tech support is superb, even with this latest version, I had a virus and I reached the install limit and they gladly reset my serial number.

Anyways about the actual product it’s what we use to produce Fresh Air is Over-Rated, our weekly video podcast. I think it speaks for itself but let me elaborate. It has multiple picture-in-picture support, shows images, cycles webcams, plays videos and captures the desktop. All work flawlessly and even more stable and less CPU intensive then the previous versions. So it works great if you want to do shows live, you can put a watermark if you want, add text overlays it’s pretty much all there.

But what if you’re just a casual user? Well the best news for you guys, along with the broadcasters is this allows you to multicast. No longer can you only share your webcam with 1 application or 1 friend, but now you can broadcast to multiple sources. Other great things for the casuals is all the pre-made effects, there’s some for holidays, some are masks. They all have different uses for different types of people.

The transform effects are amongst the coolest one, there’s a sweet looking fire effect, color changing effects, distorting mirrors, snow and alot more.

The mask effects are pretty cool, they track your face and allow you to, you guessed it, wear a mask. So there’s animals like dinosaurs, cartoon characters like Shrek, glassses, hats and more (oh Batman!).

The frames have some usefulness to them, some are even animated like the lights and the tap that fills the screen up with water. You could also display the time, so if you plan to stream at a specific time, displaying the clock is a great way of letting people know the time, regardless of time zones.

The emotions effects is mostly just animated stuff, like football players and a smiley, AND DEATH!!!!

Then finally we have the text overlay, probably the least exciting one, but most useful ones. You can make it scroll, change the color, the background color, the font, the size, it’s highly customizable.

The great thing about all the effects is they’re savable with custom thumbnails, plus if you don’t think there’s enough, and you can’t create more, you can download more from the internet right in the application.

That about does it, I’d just like to say I tried the beta or alpha version of 6 and it’s pretty awesome, the only problem is it doesn’t work with Adobe Flash Media Encoder, once it does it’ll hopefully be out of it’s alpha/beta phase. Check out www.webcammax.com for a free trial and at least give it a shot, it’s great.

I’ll give it a 4 out of 5 stars simply because I’ve seen the improvements coming in the next version, and there is always room to improve with these sort of apps, so a perfect score would be a rare thing from me.

Fresh Air is Over-Rated #20 - The Donkey Kong Show

June 10th, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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This week Kurbzz decided to not show up, leaving Matt to tackle the news alone, which included a bunch of trailers and racing talk. Jeff called in to partake in the inFAMOUS review, is it awesome, listen in to find out. Then Kurbzz called in and we talked about E3 a bit, took some callers and discussed our plans for Fan Expo 2009.

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Fresh Air is Over-Rated #19 - E3 - The Magnetman Show

June 4th, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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Join us during E3 Extravaganza week! This is the last day of E3 and it’s been a great one, Wildmatt is alone on this one, he talks about Army of Two: 40th Day, Saboteur and many more games. What disappointed him during the event, what was missing and more! So tune in and we’ll see you guys next Wednesday.

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Fresh Air is Over-Rated #18 - E3 - The Dr. Wily Show

June 3rd, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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Join us during E3 Extravaganza week! This show Wildmatt tackles the E3 news alone, such as Hideo Kojima working on the new Castlevania and South Park still coming, they swear! Following this Matt attempted to start his UFC 09 review but got interupted by his friend who then joined in the review.

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Fresh Air is Over-Rated #17 - E3 - The Bombman Show

June 2nd, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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Join us during E3 Extravaganza week! This show we as in Wildmatt and Jeff, took a look back at the Nintendo and Sony conferences, talk more news about E3, and give you the low down on which of the BIG 3 conferences was the best? Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony, let the grudge match begin!

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Metal Gear Solid: Raising is not 360 exclusive

June 1st, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

Hideo Kojima walked up on the Microsoft stage today to announce, Metal Gear Solid: Raising, a game featuring Raiden. We pretty much know this for a fact now that, it’s not exclusive, they never mentioned that during their talk. So don’t be surprised to see it at the Sony press conference tomorrow at 3pm ET, right after then Nintendo one at 1pm ET.

Also highly like we’ll see a PSP game featuring Big Boss called Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Fresh Air is Over-Rated #16 - E3 - The Elecman Show

June 1st, 2009 by Matt St-Georges

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Join us during E3 Extravaganza week! We take time to talk about the news that happened before the conferences like the PSP Go and the new Metal Gear! Then we get into the nitty gritty and talk about Microsoft’s press conference.

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