In this thrilling episode we discuss:

• Playstation Move, the cost of it and the Natal.
• Tim Burton movies.
• New revision of the Xbox 360 coming?
• Endless amounts of movie remakes / reboots
• The final season of Lost.

Enjoy!

Listen to Benheck.com Podcast Episode 70

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Since I’m building a Bill Paxton themed pinball machine and Katheryn Bigelow won an Oscar last night, I figured I should share this video with anyone who hasn’t seen it.

REACH (Martini Ranch)

The song is from Paxton’s band, the video was directed by James Cameron and includes Katheryn Bigelow as a cowgirl hunting down Paxton. These are strange days, to be sure. You’ll get the point after the break, unless you become a widowmaker.

These are just the ramps that DIDN’T make it into the game! (I think I ended up making every ramp at least 3 times)

Wow it’s been a couple months since the last official Bill Paxton Pinball update! The playfield is complete, the code is less buggy and it will definitely be done in time for the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic.

The full, final reveal of the machine on this site will likely be around March 17th. You can keep up with the progress by subscribing to my YouTube channel or Twitter feed. (Warning: Twitter feed also contains a lot of non-work-related ramblings, usually about beer, the weather or waiting in lines)

For a sneak peek at the vector drawing of the final board, hit the rest of the story after the bump. We’ll see you soon!

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We’re back with another amazing podcast! In this episode we discuss:

• Movie reviewers should quit. With terrible movies coming out every weekend (and making money every weekend) it’s clear nobody reads, or cares, about movie reviews. We discuss.
• Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2.
• The Cider House Rules.
• Why videogame quality keeps going up while movie quality keeps going down.
• Crappy romantic comedies / Matthew McConaughey’s aversion to shirts.

Enjoy!

Listen to Benheck.com Podcast Episode 69

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We’re back! In this thrilling episode we discuss:

1) The 3D movie tax. Now that every movie is going 3D, every movie ticket automatically becomes $2.50 more expensive. Lame!

2) The Apple iPad. What and who is this for?

3) Actors who haven’t lived up to their potential AKA Come on Dwayne Johnson, pick up a machine gun already!

Listen to Benheck.com Podcast Episode 68

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Parker Dillman - the “Longhorn Engineer” and a member of my forums, has gotten a custom “remanufacture” of an Atari 2600 working! Way to go!

You can visit his site here - hopefully he’ll have this for sale soon! He also has a very nice Atari 2600 composite video mod you should check out.

Hello internet, Ben here with another plug for the Midwest Gaming Classic. (MGC)

If you like videogames, and you live even remotely close to Milwaukee, WI (home of all the best beers) you owe it to yourself to visit the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic! It’s become quite a large event, rivaling the size of game conventions you’d find elsewhere (well, maybe not Dragon*Con).

Best of all, at least in the context of this website, you can visit the Benheck.com Experience room of MGC to meet me, podcast co-host Jason “Jones” Jones, and many of our forum members. Highlights include:

• On-spot mods and repairs of whatever you bring in.
• 3D printing demonstration, thanks to Chris Kraft.
• Separate panel by myself discussing pinball and probably lots of off-topic BS.
• Hands-on demonstrations of forum member’s projects
• BILL PAXTON PINBALL. Free to play, with high-score save and 4 player competition mode!

So if you haven’t already, check out their site here! We’ll see you there!

As many of you know I have been working on a Bill Paxton themed pinball machine for several years, and have made a lot of progress since last summer. A few months ago I was on the “Fat Man and Circuit Girl” show and suggested to Jeri Ellsworth that she attempt a machine of her own, since she loves pinball so much and could obviously handle it.

Cut to a few months later and not only is she working on one but making amazing progress as well! The theme is “As Seen on TV”, so I’m hoping when the ball drains it says “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

Some of her friends have started their own innovative pins as well. A bit of trash talk later and now it’s a race to see who can finish their machine first and “out toy” each other!

If you’d like to keep tabs on this epic battle and egg us both on, see below:

Benheck.com YouTube channel
Benheck Twitter Feed

Jeri’s YouTube Channel
Jeri’s Twitter Feed

Well met!

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It’s that time of the year again! In this Christmas special podcast we have our long-gesturing “Mel Gibson’s Nativity Story” intro (not for the easily offended), followed by each of our picks for:

• Game of the Year
• Game of the Decade
• Movies of the Decade.

Finally we spend a far amount of time discussing the most revolutionary, woodenly acted, game-changing, generically plotted, astounding movie of all time AVATAR! Enjoy…

Listen to Benheck.com Podcast Episode 67

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For additional fun, here’s a link to Jones’ review of “Avatar” on his website.

It’s that time of year again! Time to listen to me ramble on about what I think will happen in the gaming industry. For this installment I mostly concentrate on new consoles since I feel this generation is already getting old, well the 360 and Wii at least. Other topics covered are the death of music games without a country savior, 3D games and the Microsoft Natal.

Here it is, enjoy!