Next week we will be in Seattle for the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo - expect lots of interviews to be posted over the next coming weeks! Bioshock was the big story this week, and one person thinks that it's worse for teenagers than WWE Smackdown. Microsoft announced XNA Game Studio 2.0 which will allow all developers to use Xbox Live for multiplayer. A research company wants to use Xbox Live users for focus groups. A European company has developed Wii-like controls for the PS2. Then we take an email talking about AI programming on the PS3. And then we take calls about a Hannah Montana music game for the DS, Uwe Boll, the difficulty in Madden and NBA Live, and sports games on the Wii. Then we talk about being two years late on the Guild Wars train. See you at PAX!

No excuses on the lateness of this one other than just not having the consecutive time all week to edit the show the way I usually do. Next week *should* be better. We're getting ready to go to Penny Arcade Expo and already have a lot of interviews lined up with companies, and we hope to be streaming LIVE from the show floor sometime during the weekend. There was a Wii update and a new Metroid Prime 3 Preview channel. Microsoft representatives at SIGGRAPH informed us that DirectX 10.1 is coming and no current hardware supports it. Great way to stick it to your devoted customers! In Finland, Microsoft demoed XNA using a Wii Remote thanks to being able to use third party .NET libraries in PC compiled XNA programs. Halo 3 is being cross marketed like a movie with tie-ins with 7-11 and Mountain Dew. Circuit City has subpoenaed CheapAssGamer.com and DVDTalk.com to give information about a forum user posting their weekly sale ads early. Our midpoint song is "Re: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton, who will be performing at PAX. Then we attempt to define "hardcore gamer" and then take calls about an extra channel in the Wii and discuss the Stranglehold demo. An interesting question arises: which is a better value for $60 to you: A 60 hour experience that is slow to get into but has some great experiences (peaks and valleys) or a 10 hour experience that is intense 100% of the time?

I apologize for the audio quality and other audio issues in the show. The reason it took most of the week is because the initial recording was bad of the live show. I cleaned it up as much as I could, but it's not as good as I'd like it, and it's also encoded at a funky bitrate compared to my other shows. Anyway, first we begin with a correction about our statement on HDTV's last week. A blogger has declared Resident Evil 5 racist, even though she doesn't know anything about games (or the fact that the game isn't made in America) - does the pulling out of the race card on RE5 diminish the true issues that still exist today with regards to racism? U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided the homes of people who installed mod chips. Contrary to what Peter Moore said, you will NOT be playing Grand Theft Auto IV this holiday season. Is the PS3 to blame? GameTap has gotten the entire Codemasters library - including DiRT and Overlord - on their service. Viva Pinata is coming out for the DS...Is this Microsoft's way of saying they're not entering the handheld market? Then we take some emails on Nintendo and good books to read on video game history. Then we take calls about EGM's Warhawk review taking price into account, chiptune composition (with an oldschool tracker/demoscene flavor) and Halo 3's new weapons and armor.

We had an amazing experience with our PS3 - we upgraded our firmware without leaving the couch! We also discuss the extremely large Heavenly Sword demo and wonder why developers today have bloated code - includes reminiscing about the Demoscene of old and what they could accomplish on old PC's and Amiga computers with a filesize no larger than a floppy. We talk about the Metal Gear Solid 4 gameplay trailer as well as warn people away from Wing Commander Arena. CBS Sports aired the first episode of the World Series of Video Games - and it wasn't that bad! Electronic Arts is no longer #1 in third party sales - that's Activision - and the CEO believes that they were hardware fanboys and that's why they lost their place. If you head to Circuit City (in the US) this week you can take part in a sale on Xbox Live Accessories that are $20 off if you buy two accessories of $20 or more - including points cards! The Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player's price was reduced and you can also get 5 free movies. Then we talk about the acceptance of HDTV's and then about the term "Hardcore Gamer" and why it sucks.

First off, big thanks to The Blue Skittle for featuring us in Issue #2 of their gaming webzine. Nothing says July like Football, as two new games have come out - and we glitched one of them! We rant a little bit more about Rock Band's drum peripheral - this time explaining how we screwed up the game for everyone else due to poor placement of a button. A leap in logic has been made by a financial newspaper angry about a possible scenario in All Pro Football 2K8 - Is it just because it's Take Two Interactive that publishes it? Too Human developer Silicon Knights is suing Epic Games over gimped Unreal Engine 3 technology - we look at the lawsuit and try to paruse the legalese. Peter Moore has decided that Northern California is where he wants to be and has left Microsoft to head up EA Sports. Then we discuss some interesting things about Guitar Hero III such as who will most likely sue them and why, as well as a misspoken marketing representative that almost gave us the biggest scoop of E3. We then take calls about Burnout Paradise, the Casual Game Summit, and long RPG's for the DS.