We told you the OliveCast would return this weekend, and late Sunday night is still the weekend, so we’re safe. We have returned from our two-month drought and needless to say, we had a lot of stuff to catch up on, but we kept it shorter this time around for our own sake and your’s. Hit up the triangle below and while you’re at it, subscribe to our podcast via RSS or iTunes.

Hosts: Craig Lloyd and Tim Hage
Music: Cool Cavemen – Fusion

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Howdy, readers. After a two-month OliveCast drought, we’ll be finally returning to the microphones this weekend. If you recall, we decided to postpone last month’s OliveCast in favor of spending more time with Hulu Plus. This month’s main OliveCast topic will be about the busiest time of the year for us, game developers, and gamers. That’s right, we’ll be previewing Q4! So, sit tight and look forward to this weekend!

So, this our eighth ever podcast. As always, we let you know what we’ve been up to aside from the hustle and bustle of Tech Olive, as well recap some of the big news from the past couple of weeks. Then we end with our main discussion about we expect to see at E3 this year. We’re still working out the kinks in our audio, but we think we’re getting really close to solving all of the problems that we’ve been having. So, please sit back, relax, and listen (or don’t, but please do) to our latest OliveCast.

Hosts: Craig Lloyd and Tim Hage
Music: Cool Cavemen – Fusion

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00:52 – What We’ve Been Up To
01:19 – Red Dead Redemption for PC Not Coming Anytime Soon
06:42 – Mad Catz MW2 Xbox 360 Controller and Throat Communicator
10:32 – Treyarch Considering Dedicated Servers for Call of Duty: Black Ops
11:38 – Call of Duty: Black Ops Co-op Separate From Primary Campaign
18:11 – Review: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive
20:35 – Mini Review: Seagate GoFlex Net Media Sharing Device
22:24 – E3 2010 Preview
26:02 – Portal 2 E3 Party Canceled, New Surprise Incoming
26:40 – Valve’s E3 2010 Surprise Not Half-Life 2 Episode 3
27:03 – Portal 2 Delayed; No Cake Until Next Year
30:18 – Crysis 2 Teaser Warns of “Pinger” Attack at E3

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Get ready, folks. Our monthly OliveCast will be back this weekend, and we actually have some very interesting things to talk about. We’ll be discussing what Tim and I have been up to since the last OliveCast, as well as recapping some news from the past couple weeks. Then, we’ll wrap up with what should hopefully be an interesting discussion on what we could expect at E3 2010.

We don’t know exactly when we’ll be posting up the new OliveCast for your hearing pleasure, but we promise it will be up before Saturday gets done with. Stay tuned!

We’re back for another OliveCast brought to you by the deadly dual of Tech Olive. We let you guys know what we’ve been up to and give you a sneak peek on the Mad Catz Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 controller. We also discuss Iron Man 2 and digital distribution, as well some new things going on with the site.

Hosts: Craig Lloyd and Tim Hage
Music: Cool Cavemen

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00:47 – What we’ve been up to
07:11 – Sneak peek at Mad Catz’s MW2 Xbox 360 Controller
12:19 – Iron Man 2 Review
24:04 – Editorial: Are CDs/DVDs Headed Out the Door?
28:22 – Site News

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Yeah, it’s been awhile, but we’re finally back with a new podcast. We thought it would be a good idea to update you guys on what we’ve been up to besides Tech Olive and we also discuss all the speculation on the upcoming Portal sequel by Valve, Portal 2.

Hosts: Craig Lloyd and Tim Hage
Intro/Outro Music: Cool Cavemen

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You heard that right, folks. We’re finally digging out the microphones again and will be OliveCasting this weekend. We’ll be discussing some site news and catching you up on what we’ve been up to in our personal lives, as well as talking about speculations on the upcoming Portal 2. If there’s anything specific you want us to talk about, hit us up in the comments!

We don’t have an exact time on when the podcast will be up, but we can assure you it will be posted up before the weekend’s end!

It’s been almost a week since Modern Warfare 2 has released. We’ve taken these past few days to play some MW2 as hard as we can and now we come to you to give you the lowdown.

(Please report any technical issues you experience with the podcast. We’re still working out kinks.)

Hosts: Craig Lloyd, Tim Hage, Andrew Kershaw
Intro/Outro Music: Girl Talk – What It’s All About

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For our (less than) regularly scheduled podcast, we all piled onto Skype and awaited Craig to begin the conference call. A few minutes later, I get word from Craig notifying me that he could not record that night and the the OliveCast would need to be rescheduled. Andrew decided that the OliveCast waits for no man and because Craig is always laying down the “lol,” we recorded without him. Welcome to the OliveCast #4.5.

In this podcast, we rant about L4D2 details, MW2‘s lack of dedicated servers, Starcraft 2‘s lack of LAN and just about everything else that we plain don’t like. We also ramble on about many things that you probably don’t care about. Those who do not wish to hear biased opinions should look away now.

Hosts: Tim Hage, Andrew Kershaw
Intro Music: Cool Cavemen – Fusion
Outro Music: Weebl – Amazing Horse (Get On My Horse)

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05:56 – Spam emails
07:11 – Left 4 Dead 2 rant
20:24 – Modern Warfare 2 rant
40:53 – Starcraft 2 rant
44:25 – Xbox 360 gaming
45:30 – Random crap
54:08 – We boycott Craig
55:03 – The horse song

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If you didn’t notice, we completely rebranded our podcast and officially named it the OliveCast for now on. We think it’s quite fitting. Join us for this 4th installment of banter about the tech and gaming world’s most recent happenings. We talk about Modern Warfare 2 (again), Chrome 4.0 beta, Verizon’s ad campaign and lots more.

Hosts: Craig Lloyd, Tim Hage, Andrew Kershaw
Intro/Outro Music: Cool Cavemen – Fusion

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00:51 – Infinity Ward Kills Modern Warfare 2 Online Community
13:34 – Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 Release Date Announced?
14:30 – Chrome 4.0 to Have Extensions Support?
19:21 – Verizon Takes a Stab at the iPhone
20:49 – Palm Pre Coming to Verizon Early Next Year
23:47 – Public Voted Gordon Freeman Over Mario
40:42 – Seagate 1TB FreeAgent Go Unboxing

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