Live from Dragon*con 2006, it's the Podcasting For Games panel from the Podcasting: Now and Beyond track. Panel features Caroline from Gamer: The Podcasting, Sam Chupp from The Bear's Grove, Jim Van Verth from The Vintage Gamer, Don Dehm from Pulp Gamer, and Bobby Blackwolf. The panel is moderated by Swoopy from Skepticality. We'll be back live next week with our traditional live format with video game news!

Yes, we had a show on Sunday and yes, it's posted two days late - this is not a habit, there were just some extraneous circumstances. We talk about news from the Liepzig Games Convention in Germany. Nintendo announced two new Wii titles in Germany, but here in the states we learned something interesting about third party online games. Sony annonced that the PS3 will be playable in Tokyo, and we also learned that the PS3 isn't actually in production yet. Microsoft announced that All Your Soccer Are Belong To Us, and have secured the exclusive next-gen console rights to both FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer. Kropotkin calls in from the UK to discuss this as well as Peter Molyneux's comments about combat in games. They also have some new hardware coming out, such as the Xbox Live Vision camera and a USB dongle to allow you to use your wireless 360 controller on your PC. They also want to rip you off with Lumines Live. Guitar Hero II has some updated impressions, and The Wizard is coming to DVD. There won't be a normal show next week, but catch us at the Podcasting for Games panel at Dragon*con on Friday at 7PM!

Are there really 28 launch titles for the Wii? And will online really be free? Fanboys are upset that they have to use the Wii hardware with the Wii version of Zelda...In other news, the 360 version of Madden requires the 360 hardware. Could Sonic be the next non-Nintendo character in Super Smash Bros Brawl? The PSP is getting two retro compilations that look cool - Sega Genesis Collection and possibly EA Replay. (Mutant League Football on the go? Sign me up!) Microsoft brings Xbox 360 game programming to the masses - find out how well it worked in the past. Georgia's Attorney General is teaming with the ESRB to educate parents on game ratings. An analyst predicts that the PS3 will have the leading market share by 2011, and WE make a BOLD PREDICTION about the immediate future of the next-gen console race. The Phantom will never come out - it is now an on-demand game service that runs on your PC like Gametap. Dragoncon is coming - we're broadcasting a panel LIVE! Listen for details!

Several organizations want to become the next E3 - but is that really what anyone wants? Gamers want the show to be open to them, and the large publishers want all the attention for themselves. On the political front, the Truth In Videogame Ratings act has been put forth to congress, and we look at what it may do with our release dates. Taxpayers in Illinois must pay over half a million dollars to pay for the unconstitutional bill that state lawmakers attempted to pass. G4 had a golden opportunity to discuss video game violence with Jack Thompson, and blew it. Find out who we thought won the debate from Attack Of The Show. Bully is coming out - is it as bad as the politicans and worried mothers want us to believe? If you have a PS1 or PS2 memory card, you can put your saved games on your PS3...For a fee. Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player, and they showed an awesome movie with it. (Once again, not really.) We prepare ourselves for the All Games Radio Chromehounds Invitational by taunting the OLRmy some more...

It's official - E3 has been refocused into a smaller show called the E3 Media Expo. Were we right in saying who did and didn't influence the change? What will happen to the smaller companies that hung out in Kentia Hall? And is this the end of gaming events in the USA? Bobby had a moment of weakness and now has Chromehounds, and lays down the gauntlet towards another podcast. Scot Rubin, Lawrence Young, and Arena Ron from All Games Interactive check in from the Sunday One-day Fun-day Tournament in Los Angeles. Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting is hyper hard, and that's upsetting some fanboys - but they were then happy to hear what Castlevania game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. You can get a Wii with your Slurpii (get it?) but does this mean that the price of the console is higher than expected? Spore isn't just for PC gamers - it's coming to consoles as well. And Gears of War emerges with a viral marketing campaign and a firm release date.