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Archive for October, 2006

Episode 24: The Silent Dark Labyrinth

Monday, October 30th, 2006 by NinJaSistah

A WARNING: This episode contains an abundance of swearing, cursing, and screaming. It is SERIOUSLY NSFW, NSFK, hell... it's NSFA really, but we had a ball doing it.

In this episode the girls get you ready for Halloween by sharing with you some of the scariest games they've played, and why they scared them so badly. For Pandalicious it was Silent Hill 2, for NinJaSistah, it was Eternal Darkness... but MagicMysticGrl saves the day by sharing her take on the movie Labyrinth and the new Return to the Labyrinth manga. Oh yeah, they also briefly touch on being scared fuckless, proper zombies in your room protocol, Bowser in real life, and Jim Henson.

Congrats to our latest candy bitch, WonkeyDonkey. Hit Us Up with your mailing addy so we can send you your prize.

It's a fun episode y'all, enjoy it!

Episode 23: Old School Friday

Monday, October 23rd, 2006 by NinJaSistah

It's new podcast episode day... get it right here, right now!

We talk about so much stuff in this episode, I had to FIGHT to edit it down to 80 minutes y'all. Pandalicious talks about two of the Saturday morning cartoons that sparked her love of computers and animation which ultimately lead to gaming and anime lust: Pirates of Dark Water and Reboot. MagicMysticGrl shares an old school Playstation side-scroller called Einhänder, NinJaSistah talks about the craziness that is eBay PS3 pre-orders, Sony's profit declaration shortfall, the new "November 17th as a soft launch date" stance of late and along with guest Douceswild talks Bully, ESRB reform, Jack Thompson "super crybaby" and the need to keep government out of gaming.

Oh yeah, there's also some talk about Tim Curry, David Bowie, TV show spinoffs and why the don't work and as always, what to do with their toast.

And there's one more thing, Jabberwookie is our newest Candy Bitch, along with Yotaru Vegeta! It's a Double Candy Bitch podcast people! Embrace your inner child and try to win free candy too!

Skypecast Goes Off Friday

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 by NinJaSistah

You know the drill, it's free-swim Friday: EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL

BYOSAAH [That's Bring Your Own Skype And A Headset for those of you not in the know] and join us for a live recording of the ESH podcast this Friday OCT 20 at 5pm EDT. Ask questions, , chat along, it's all good in the hood. NinJaSistah will be talking about the Rockstar game Bully and the lack of student violence/deaths in schools [poor Jack Thompson, proven wrong yet again] and the value of online gaming. Who knows what Pandalicious will talk about, but you can rest assured it's going to be a party ya'll!

So get on your Skype account, make sure you have a mic and headphones [or a headset] plugged in [you know, to keep ambient noise out] and go to Skypecasts.skype.com we'll even give you this link log in with your username and password, and then at 5pm EDT on Friday under the "Find A Skypecast" click on "On Now" and look for "Electric Sista Hood." It's just that easy. If you have any difficulty, you can read this page for help and instructions.

See you then.

Episode 22: We're Just Gonna Bring It

Sunday, October 15th, 2006 by NinJaSistah

Yeah, you know you wanna grab it, Episode 22 of our podcast... get it while it's HOT!

In this episode of the podcast the sistahs cover a whole bunch of stuff from Pandalicious' take on the anime series Full Moon, the launch of ESH.mobi, the upcoming FRESHware store update, and NinJaSistah talks about Michael Ephaims comments last week, Blue-Ray hype versus Cell Processor lack of hype, Sony short-sightedness versus Nintendo forethought and game development cycles on the different platforms including next-gen systems, and finally closes out the episode by talking about the Clover Studios closing and the need of creativity for the future of gaming in general.

I will warn you, Full Moon is the most emotionally draining anime title I've ever heard of, and there is some begging for sponsorship contained within the episode. It's all good in the hood, take a listen.

Episode 21: Totally Legal

Sunday, October 8th, 2006 by NinJaSistah

If this podcast episode was a person, it could legally drink alcohol in any of the 50 states and across the globe. Hurray for Hpnotiq!

In this episode the sistahs announce the launch of the ESH Arcade, then Pandalicious talks about the South Park World of Warcraft episode. We'll even be nice and give you a spoiler alert: Panda breaks down the entire episode, so if you don't want to know how the episode ends, best to skip over her part of the show. Panda even lists for you some of the errors the writers made in the episode and Ninja offers up her best "you killed Kenny" impression... and schools Panda on the pwnage that is Hello Kitty! Hello Kitty will pwn you ALL!

If you visit no other URL that we give you, hit up drinkcocaine.com. Only for those who like their caffeine at dangerously high levels. If you have some, send us a message through the Hit Us Up form and let me know. I want it.

NinJaSistah let's her inner Trekkie out to play for a moment before being handed the mic of a thousand truths to dish on the PS2 title Genji: Dawn of the Samurai as a prelude to Genji 2: Days of the Blade, then wraps up the episode with some conversation on the Gamestop pre-order news.

OH YEAH! Can't forget to send a shout out to our latest candy bitch, Ro!

The sistah had a ball putting this episode together, take an hour and check it out!

Episode 20: Hodge Podge

Sunday, October 1st, 2006 by NinJaSistah

We talk about so many different things in this episode we just couldn't agree on any other name for it. So here is ESH Podcast Episode No.20: Hodge Podge.

If you like Norse mythology, flighty characters, or are into "May-December" romances, then Pandalicious has you covered with her introduction to the Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok anime series.

Did you like Neon Genesis Evangelion but hurt your brain trying to wrap your mind around it? Well, MagicMysticGrl has a series that will bring back the memories of the things you loved about EVA, but with a linear storyline that you can actually follow. Argento Soma seems to be one of those "well known secrets" in the anime world, and MagicMysticGrl takes this opportunity to let you in on the secret.

And bringing up the rear [as only she can] NinJaSistah recaps some most interesting news tidbits from X06 and the Tokyo Game Show. A little bit of Gears of Wars and Assassin's Creed demo news on the XB360 side of things balanced off nicely with some PS3 Devil May Cry 4, Heavenly Sword, and Fatal Inertia topping it off with a hint of XB360 stuff via Fable 2.

Yes, the girls got you covered this week, so show some love!

p.s.
Dax Desai, hit us up with your mailing address cuz you got candy bitch!