What makes a game good? Rich says it's awesome sauce, but we actually take some time to break it down into core elements. In the middle of all this, Alon manages to talk a whole lot about Braid, all the while struggling NOT to talk about it to avoid spoiling the experience for Rich and the ChatterBoxers. PS - Go play Braid.

This week we actually spend the whole show investigating a single topic - should the player be given more control over the content he plays? This is a complex topic that has no clear answer, but we certainly do a good job of wasting time considering the options.

This week we're joined by Scott Novis, founder of The Game Truck - gametruckparty.com. Ara knows Scott from when they both worked at Rainbow Studios. Scott regales us with stories of Rainbow Studios' history and explains how he managed to create a successful business from a bunch of video games and a trailer. Aside from that, we also take a few minutes to whine about how some of the more popular new iPhone games are also some of the worst. It's not that the iPhone isn't a viable gaming machine, but porting existing games doesn't capitalize on the features that the device offers.

E3 was full of... apparently nothing. We school you on why a unified console will never come to be and why some games will always have dynamic difficulty adjustment, or "rubberbanding". We also go on about visibility in games and the importance of knowing what's going on. Seems obvious, huh? Not for everyone, it seems.

Nintendo is finally releasing an accessory to make the Wii Remote work the way it should have originally. Microsoft is making a major change to the XBOX 360 dashboard - Rich and Ara have serious concerns about it. Wii Music is coming too, but it's apparently not much of a game, which is a bummer for us music game lovers.