Rich went to E For All but apparently didn't play anything there. Maybe he didn't play Super Smash Bros. Brawl because of the absurd control scheme used at the show... Ara takes a few minutes tonight to actually say good things about a game - Project Gotham Racing 4. We also take on some listener mail.

Have you played Team Fortress 2 yet? Really? Yeah, neither have we... it played us. TF2 isn't the only thing broken around here, though. It seems Halo 3 is also unplayable without a system update that not all players have. Fortunately, it's not a big deal and people are liking the game. In fact, it's so good that the whole world seems to be playing it and doing nothing else. Luckily, we were able to pull ourselves away from Halo 3 and Portal to talk to Gil from Rainbow Studios about some technical details of game development.

Ara was surprised to find a mosh pit at the Minibosses concert, Alon was NOT surprised to find Sony backtracking on their own marketing spin (again), Rich couldn't figure out why either of them cared about the girl who got fired from Nintendo for blogging, and listener, Pen-15, wondered what we all think game reviews are really all about.

Is there any chance Bungie would actually leave Microsoft? Did Ara actually like a game (apparently Odin Sphere doesn't suck)? We learn from Ernie that talking about the Tokyo Game Show is actually pretty boring, although the idea of 200 booth babes in a line is kind of appealing.

Alon, Ara, and Rich were all at the Play N Trade launch tournament/fiasco for Halo 3 last night. Scratched discs just weren't pretty. Rather than talk about the actual game, we choose to talk a bit about its aspect ratio in split screen. Listener and official ChatterBoxer eThug, PEN-15, gets his questions answered regarding how to go about entering the video game industry as a writer. Low and behold, Ara has some good things to say about a game - it's Kororinpa, and you might want to give it a try.