Alon's friend, J0hnnie5Alive, got screwed by MS/XBOX Live a second time. It seems Microsoft's customer service is good, but only when people are watching. EA's silly Battlefield microtransactions make us angry about digital content delivery. Ara is excited to learn that some game designers actually work to curb the problem of online stupidity from griefing gamers.

April Fool's Day is the scurge of our real world existence... We do real news here at ChatterBox. Ara was happy to find that he likes Outrun 2006 - Someone please send him an old copy. There's a new game called Miss Bimbo which takes the cake for most hilarious and socially irresponsible game ever made. We also talk about XBOX Live Arcade and the confusingly poor job Microsoft does at selecting which games make the cut.

Looks like the XBOX Live dungeon masters are laying the smack down on GamerScore cheaters, but how much do we actually care about GamerScore? Do you finish fewer games than you used to? If you're anything like us, we bet you do... and finally, how would you feel about paying half price for a game? If you could buy a level at a time or pay-per-minute, would you play more or less? Listen in to hear what we think.

It seems EA and Take Two are bickering like school girls over this whole stock buyout thing. We're just wondering if a buyout would have any real affect on the games we play. In other boring adultish news, Gibson is suing Activision over its use of a guitar-shaped controller even though it worked with Activision to throw the Gibson logo all over Guitar Hero 3. Also, a quick discussion about why Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is so horrible.

Alon tries to defend the beauty of Echochrome from the scoffs of both Ara and Rich. Ara tells the detailed story of how he worked his way into the game design field. Finally, Alon and Rich describe how EA has produced another bad game, Army of Two, that the public will surely think is incredible.