We are back live (sorry about the time it took to get the podcast up) and we talk about how much we hated EA Replay on the PSP and how much we like Hotel Dusk on the DS and Sam & Max on the PC. 2K Sports has announced a football game called All-Pro Football 2K8 - but will we care without the NFL license? Sony's Jack Tretton offers an interviewer $1200 for each unsold PS3 he can find on store shelves...We play the game too and daydream at how rich we would be after visiting just one store. Old Spice Deodorant thinks you stink and wants to give you stuff if you continue being an achievement whore on Xbox Live. Battlestar Galactica is coming to Xbox Live Arcade, but whatever happened to the Babylon 5 game that Sierra was doing ages ago? Gears of War pretty much swept the AIAS awards, probably because Capcom wasn't invited. Then we take calls about Super ACiD Block Attack, finding a PS3 on shelves, Bonus Round on Gametrailers talking about game rentals and used games, Mass Effect, and Guitar Hero on the Wii and DS.

In a special prerecorded edition of the show, we invite Tom Kim from GDC Radio to talk about game development, game industry greed, and award show greed. Some topics we cover are certain genres of the game industry passing us by, game design concerns in terms of gameplay conventions, game engine concerns, and if graphics actually matter. Plus, an online retailer has stopped selling games because they believe the game industry is greedy, which segued into a discussion about experiences in gaming retail. Also, Capcom has blasted the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences for their "pay to play" policy of giving an award to Dead Rising and Okami. All that and much more stream of conciousness talk are on this longer-than-usual big-game edition!

The Wii got new downloadable content that people had been waiting on for a while - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and the Wii News Channel, which had some surprising stories on the first day it was up. An update on the XNA project - a fully playable prototype has been completed of a card game, once menus and scoring are added, the PC version will be available as a download. Harmonix has announced that they are doing a new rhythm game franchise, and calls the Guitar Hero franchise limiting. The Wii will be getting original content, but NOT under the Virtual Console moniker. eBay has stopped allowing virtual items to be sold on the site, thwarting gold farmers everywhere. Sony has announced the PS3 launch date and price for Europe - and it's a whopper. A Japanese retailer has LOWERED the price of the cheaper PS3 for a limited time. Also, prices for the PS3 in Canada have been changed - but a caller tells us that it was by retailers, and not by Sony. We also take calls about Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, the lack of bots in Halo 3, and the lack of soccer on the PS3. There will be no LIVE show next week due to the big football game, however there will still be new prerecorded content on the podcast feed.

We got Wario Ware: Smooth Moves and we beat it really quickly - and also broke something we didn't think we could break. We also talk about Sam & Max Episodes 1 and 2, patiently waiting for Episode 3! BioWare is talking about doing episodic content - let's hope they pull it off. Lumines Live is getting free content and a price drop - too little too late? Microsoft is also upping the filesize cap for Xbox Live Arcade titles. Electronic Arts is throwing in it's hat for XBLA development with Boom Boom Rocket. Activision makes a business decision to bring Guitar Hero development in-house - goodbye Harmonix, hello Neversoft. Will Warhawk be available in a brick and mortar store or in the PlayStation Store? And when will MotorStorm be out, anyway? We take calls about Sony claiming to not pay for exclusives, FPS's on the Wii, and PS2 games being ported to the Wii. We also give some preliminary thoughts about the gameplay of a very controversial independent game.

We've launched some new blogs on Allgames.com, including our XNA blog...You should go check them out! Microsoft made some announcements at CES, however not about a new unit. They did demo two things - IPTV, which isn't as cool once you learn the details - and Vista gaming. New Gears of War content is out, and it's free - and also fixes some bugs in ranked matches. Castlevania broke a lot of barriers back in the day, and it is doing so again by going over the filesize limit on Xbox Live Arcade. Sony has patched their demo of Gran Turismo HD Concept. They've also announced that they will port six Midway titles to the PS3 with full online capabilities. Kaz Hirai spoke at CES about the issues with the PS3, and claims that nobody has done a worldwide launch successfully except for one company who only did a "mild upgrade" to their console, therefore it doesn't count. Good luck in getting Wii Play - Gamestop and EB have already halted preorders! Then we take calls about the Wii, PS3, a Gamestop ad, Zelda, and the need to have a boxed copy of downloaded content.