We have divested ourselves of 2012, and we’re ready for 2013 to take us on the ride all over again.

The crew weighs in about the games we’ll be watching to make a big splash, like Bioshock Infinite, as well as some titles we kind of hope will just blow over, such as The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. And there are a heap of others, including some you might not yet know you can’t wait to play. What does that sentence mean? Listen and find out!

And if there wasn’t enough to fancy and fear this year, we also throw the bones about Gabe Newell’s words on the future of Steam, found in this article from Gamasutra.

Hosted by James [Vigil80]
Participants are Eric [Ravenlock] and Robert [Trebor]
Produced by Clayton [Voodoo]

Other links:
ROAM at Kickstarter

Think we’ve got a game pegged wrong? Did we miss one of your 2013 hopefuls? Let us know on Twitter, in an email, or in the Colony of Gamers discussion thread.

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A lot of PC games came out in 2012.

A lot of really good PC games came out in 2012.

We did not talk about all of them. But wow, we talked about a bunch.

Unfortunately our recording encountered some technical difficulties for this episode, but Clayton has done his damnedest to make sure they don’t impact your listening enjoyment. Settle in for another long one, folks.

What were your favorite PC games last year? Did we agree?

Come find out! It’s The 2012 IMmies!

Hosted by Eric [Ravenlock]
Participants are James [Vigil80] and Robert [Trebor], with voting contributions from the whole IM crew.
Produced by Clayton [Voodoo]

I promised to drop a few links on you, so here they are:
The Westeros Mod for Crusader Kings II.
A Virus Named Tom.
Frog Fractions. If you haven’t played Frog Fractions… go. Just go play it. We’ll wait right here.

(Don’t forget to follow our Twitter feed, and if you want to join the discussion, come visit the forum thread over at Colony of Gamers.)

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We’re as surprised as anyone, but it appears that the world has survived to see 2012 end and 2013 begin. What were the odds, right? It was a close thing there for awhile. (I’m assuming The Doctor saved us.)

I’m glad it turned out this way, though, because we asked you guys to help us craft our end-of-the-year episode, and you delivered! Thorough discussions of your topic proposals lie within. I will warn you, we were… long-winded, at points. I do hope you enjoy that sort of thing.

We spent a little bit of time talking about Minecraft in there, and some of the crazy stuff people are making with it these days, and I promised to drop this link in the shownotes. Which I have now done.

The 2012 IMmies are right around the corner, and it’s gonna be a doozie, because a lot of great PC games came out this year. Seriously. A lot.

In the meantime, though… it’s the IMpocalypse!

Hosted by Eric [Ravenlock]
Participants are James [Vigil80], Robert [Trebor], and Steve [Dukefrukem]
Produced by Clayton [Voodoo]

(Don’t forget to follow our Twitter feed, and if you want to join the discussion, come visit the forum thread over at Colony of Gamers.)

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This right here is the link to the forum thread! Follow it, it won’t bite. If you didn’t listen to the audio bit yet and don’t know what I’m talking about, read on.

We’re coming up on the end of 2012, and we’d like to get one more episode in the bag before the world ends or 2013 begins, whichever thing goes down.

Traditionally that means it’s time for The IMmies, and we’ll probably still do that early next year after we’ve all caught up on some 2012 games we haven’t played yet, but we were talking about it after the last recording, and going forward we want the podcast to involve you guys more. Immortal Machines is the PC Gaming podcast of Colony of Gamers, after all, and we like to think we aren’t just doing this for ourselves (sure, we’re mostly doing it for ourselves, but not entirely).

So our next episode is going to be crowdsourced. We’re handing the reins to you! (Nothing can go wrong with this plan.) What do you want to hear us talk about? Nothing’s out of bounds as long as it’s PC related – ask us to talk about a new PC game, a forgotten classic, stuff about the state of the industry, whatever’s on your mind. We’re gonna talk about what you tell us to. And while I reserve the right to change this later, my current intention is to leave nothing out – if you post it in the thread on the CoG forums, we’ll say something about it, no matter how long the thread gets. If it’s a three hour episode, then it is.

But that also means that if you make no requests, the episode might be very short.  So go over there and post. Give us some marching orders. Make your podcast monkeys dance!

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