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.

Ara tells us about Persona 3, his new favorite RPG about high school kids who take on the undead. He also tells us a bit about the nuts and bolts behind the design of The Red Star. Then we hear from Michaela who tells about some of the evil she conducted trying to recruit innocent students to a game design program that wasn't worth a damn.

Fresh from the Game Developers Conference, we have an interview with James Silva, the sole developer of the upcoming XBOX LIVE Arcade game, The Dishwasher.