Alon manages to enjoy Close Range far more than any person should but manages to redeem himself by describing the several truly wonderful games from the Experimental Games Workshop at the Game Developers Conference. However, in keeping with the spirit of recent episodes, Ara brings the class way down with questions about a man's preference of sex over games.

Thanks to WorldGaming, you can now hustle people for money by playing games from the comfort of your own couch. Of course, Ara prefers the non-competitive joys of gothic lolita shooters and E rated softcore porn. Alon, however, has decided to partner up with EEDAR to create Crazy Al's Discount Analyst Services... Act now and he'll throw in a box of frozen steaks.

Kotaku seems to think it has business analysts on staff. It doesn't. Jack Thompson makes us realize that it will be decades before games aren't seen as just childrens' toys. Thanks to the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force, Alon now knows that he lives with a sexual predator.

GameStop CEO, Dan DeMatteo, won't admit that he's scared of Amazon taking some of his precious used games marketshare, and we debate the utility of adding middlemen to the indie game publishing process.

Listening to this week's show will educate you about common group enemy AI deficiencies, how to make your own annoying metagame online, and how to get banned from XBOX Live.