End of Year Hiatus.

Yep, it's that time again. The holidays are upon us and we at GVN (Andrew and Myself) are going to take a brief hiatus from podcasting.  We each have a couple more articles to publish before the end of the year, so expect a couple more posts.  GVN Radio will resume in January along with my annual Top 10 games list video.

So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to everyone.

GVN Radio will be returning this month

Towards the end of the summer, I took a small hiatus with GVN radio because of some scheduling conflicts preventing me and my co-hosts from having our bi-weekly podcast sessions.  There was also a lot going on in terms of my main job, Summer Jam and my wedding anniversary that I'd rather spend more time focusing on.  However all that has past and I will bring back GVN Radio.  Hopefully, I can manage two episodes this month, if not at least one and resume out bi-monthly releases from then on.

Also on the agenda, I am working on a review of the Bitmap Brothers classic, Chaos Engine for Diehard Gamefan.  I will have this review turned in hopefully by weeks end in time for next week's schedule.  Aside from that I am looking forward to the release of Grand Theft Auto 5 and maybe even pick up Diablo 3 on Xbox 360 at some point.  I also picked up the recently released Chaos Code and I might consider reviewing this unique anime fighting game.

Anyways, take care and keep on gaming.

-Robert Hubbs

Thursday Night Flashback returns this week

Yes sir, this Thursday at 9pm EST I will resume the classic gaming stream with one of my favorite Gameboy games and what I consider a prelude to the survival horror genre, Alien 3.  I haven't played this game in 20 years and I've only beat it once as far as I can recall.  So this will most definitely be a fun TNF to watch.

Another Gaming Marathon Death.....

Well actually it's about a year since the last reported gaming marathon death, but that doesn't keep people from getting darwin awards.  This time we have an 18 year old Taiwanese boy who died after playing Diablo 3 for over 40 hours  straight.  The boy neglected food and drink nonstop in favor of the game at a Lan center.  He was passed out when an employee at the center found him and managed to wake him.  After a few steps, the boy collapsed and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead after nine hours of intensive care.

Source: http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/taiwanese-teen-dies-40-hour-diablo-iii-marathon-190451985.html

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown drops June 5th

Thats right, Sega finally announced the release of the long overdue Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. Sega will be releasing the game via download only on June 5th for PSN and June 6th for XBLA. Hopefully this will resurge the scene for the slowly dwindling VF community.

Source: SRK - Sega reveals VF5FS release date