• Mass Effect 3 (Because we haven’t talked about it enough!)
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (BJ becomes the hero of Goldman Sachs or something. And kinda likes it! At least for the first 100 hours!)
• Saints Row The Third: The Trouble With Clones DLC (Chuck says it’s short but good, kinda like my ex-gir… Um, never mind. Carry on!)
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations: The Lost Memory DLC (Maki warns everyone to stay the hell away form this. Unless you desperately want more terrible first-person puzzle sections. Which you don’t!)
• Singularity (Harlo travels through time to an era where story doesn’t matter, only gameplay. And enjoys it quite a bit. Even if he ruined the world. Stupid time travel!)

• Joe Danger XBLA (Maki & Chuck compare this to Trials HD. And not particularly favorably. DANGERRRRRRRR!)
• South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge (Chuck enjoyed this game and can’t understand the hate! But he’s bought every single South Park game over, so your mileage may vary!)
• Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack! (Maki enjoys the hell out of this Katamari-inspired side scrolling platformer. It’s almost the best game on Vita!)
• Thor: The Movie: The Game (Chuck hates this game! “Pixellated Blocky Polygonal Jackasses Dot Tumblr Dot Com.” This leads to lots of talk about terrible movie games!)
• Burnout Revenge (We attempt to get some multiplayer achievements before EA shuts down the servers. Sadly, this was a mistake. You can’t go back!)
• SSX & SSX3 (Maki continues to dedicate his life to this series. Just don’t try to play the old games these days. TERRIBLE IDEA!)
• Super Mario World (BJ discovers that sometimes you CAN go back! This leads to talk of the Mario series in the 2000s!)
• FEAR (Throwback half continues as Chuck goes back and finishes FEAR on 360. Slow motion death and ridiculous achievements abound!)
• Red Dead Redemption & Undead Nightmare (BJ kills his horse in various ways. You CAN go back!)
• Tales of Skyrim (Are all of Harlo’s tales now told? Will DLC bring him back? Listen and find out!)
• MOBILE CORNER!
• Draw Something (We make idiotic drawings, which you’ll see below!)
• Connectrode (Maki describes this fun puzzle game poorly! Don’t listen to him, just spend the 99¢ and you’ll enjoy it, honest!)
• Midway Arcade (Chuck declares that if your controls don’t work, don’t put them out for touchscreen systems! Also don’t force us to log into Facebook for leaderboards! Skeeball and Air Hockey are fun, though!)
• Pinball Arcade & Pinball Collection (Pinball! Still not quite used to touching left & right sides to hit the ball, though.)
• Mass Effect 3 Datapad (The easiest free way to get your galactic readiness up… Plus it’s got cool little e-mail tie-ins to ME3′s single player game. Did we mention it’s free? Yup!)
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Pick of Value! (2:34:19)

• Borderlands: Game Of The Year Edition (If you’re wondering why, you haven’t listened to our podcast before. Just buy this!)

• SSX (Maki gets a huge snowner and sticks it into a crevasssssse over this racing/trick reboot.)
• Syndicate (It’s like Deux Ex without the story! Ok, not really. Chuck gets a box quote, though: “it’s a fine game!”)
• Saints Row The Third DLC (Genkibowl and Gangstas in Space get covered, even though there are no bowls and it’s not in space. TRUTH IN ADVERTISING, LEARN IT PEOPLE.)
• Battlefield 3 (BJ tanks out and finishes the game. Drive AND shoot? He’s a marvel of multitasking!)
• Diablo 3 beta (Harlo discloses all he can disclose about our most-anticipated Action RPG lootfest. We also debate the pronunciation of “runes.”)
• Playstation Vita (Maki buys one and we talk of user interfaces and weird apps and project managers and Lumines and Uncharted: Gimmicky Edition and even claw hands!)

• Borderlands 2 Trailer (FUCK YEAH. Signed, BJ.)
• Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (Maki goes down the thermos rabbithole and enjoys both the original and the downloadable sequel. Chuck defends Alan Wake until the end of time!)
• Unbound Saga (Extreme laziness leads to BJ playing this game. And hating it!)
• Super Meat Boy (Maki beat it! He’s done with it! Honest!)
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Harlo journeys into Amalur… And journeys right back out when he realizes there are 100 hours more to that journey.)
• Tales of Skyrim (Is Harlo done with Skyrim? Not quite! We learn of Icebreakers and Stormcloaks and Torfgar and Wal-Mart life insurance policies.)
• Oblivion (Chuck learns that sleeping in strange caves and the sparkly life of a vampire kind of sucks. At least DLC fixes that instantly!)
• Jet Set Radio Trailer (Maki doesn’t have to stab anyone to get the HD remake! Sega must listen to No Quarters and saves a life!)
• Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (BJ puts a hurt on a bunch of tables and wants to hurt Pin*Bot.)
• Crackdown 2 (Maki gives people on Xbox Live an excuse to go back into Crackdown 2 for some reason. Also, rocket boots!)
• Mobile Corner: Temple Run (Running from Attack The Block monsters shows how imprecise the touch controls can be.)
• Mobile Corner: Puzzle Juice (Tetris + Scrabble = mind-jolting craziness. Also, grip changes.)
• Ghost Trick (Walls of text interrupt what could be an interesting Rube Goldberg-like game.)
• Mobile Corner: Zombies!!! (Windows Phone gets our dream iPad game. What the crap.)
• Mobile Corner: Tiny Tower (Time vs Money valuation leads to discussion of evil free-to-play schemes, cloning in the mobile game industry and offensive Tiny Tower business names.)
• Mobile Corner: Nyan Cat (It will drive people insane but it’s still awesome!)

• Moonpir asks what our dream/nightmare Skylanders products would be. (Answer: Everything!)

• Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
• Livin’ La Vida Loca (MIDI version, of course)
• Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

• Saints Row 3 DLC (Want to beat it? Easy! Want to ACHIEVE in it? Genki is pleased by your suffering.)
• Saints Row 2 (Chuck was right about something! Who’d’a thunk it? Your character REALLY is an asshole!)
• Red Faction Guerilla (We rage against timed missions and excessive collectibles in open world games. And yeah, Space Asshole, etc., etc.)
• Battlefield 3 (BJ loves turrets! And Patriotism Boners! The rest of us disagree! At least on turrets! We all agree we don’t want to stab rats, though.)
• Modern Warfare 3 (More shootin’ dudes. What do you want from us? It’s Call of Duty. You shoot dudes.)
• Call of Juarez (Juarez called. From 1997. He said fuck you.)
• Left 4 Dead 2 (Speaking of fuck you… Maki loses his mind and beats all of the chapters on Expert. We don’t know what’s wrong with him.)
• Demolition!
• Asura’s Wrath Demo (“Quick Time Event The Game.” with Rail Sequences! And punching gods in faces! Um, ok!)
• Kingdoms of Amalur Demo (Box smashing! And lockups! And box smashing! And Mass Effect Armor! And lockups!)
• SSX (Maki is chomping at the bit for this game. Harlo compares it to Crazy Taxi WHICH IS TOTAL BULLSHIT.)

• Nuclear Dawn (BJ delves into this crazy FPS/RTS near future hybrid set in the year 20XX. Or something.)
• Alpha Protocol (Harlo gives up very quickly due to RPG shooting skill trees. We hear they have copies with ET 2600 out in a landfill somewhere.)
• Bourne Conspiracy (It’s a movie tie-in 7 years after the fact, without any likenesses and voices from the movie… And chock full of QTEs. What could possibly go wrong?)
• Dragon Age (Chuck did everything, and with his total playtime, is now the same age as a dragon.)
• Oblivion (Chuck steps in the time machine and journeys to 2006. And murders indiscriminately. And eats cheese.)
• Tales Of Skyrim (Paula Dean ridin’ dragons, y’all. Harlo tells us about werewolves and in-game wives and Macho Man Randy Savage and other craziness.)
• Skylanders (Harlo beats it and buys more Skylanders and wants more Skylanders and recommends everyone get Stealth Elf. Skylanders.)
• Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (We complain about insane basic and wizard goals, yet we are still itching to play Pinball Arcade when it’s released in March.)
• Costume Quest (Maki beat it! Not much else to say. It’s clever and charming and stuff.)
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (Maki goes online and achieves after getting utterly annihilated!.)
• Rock Band 3 (Buy the Hall & Oates pack!)
• Super Meat Boy (The game beats Maki. Like an older brother.)
• Star Trek Legacy (“It’s garbage.” Chuck, noquarters.net. ”I don’t care, get it out.” – Also Chuck, noquarters.net. “Space garbage.” – Chuck, noquarters.net.)

• Jens asks about our gaming backlogs. (Answers will be obvious to anyone who has ever listened to our show.)
• Ed asks what HD remakes we’d like to see made. (“I would stab a human being for remakes in HD of those games.”)
• Blair asks what our favorite video games were as kids. (Nostalgia abounds! ET on the 2600might get mentioned.)
• Moonpir asks what sequels with altered controls and style bothered us. (Sports games might be mentioned!)

• Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
• A Song Chuck picked. by Somebody!
• Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

• Saints Row The Third (BJ & Harlo finish the story. BJ enjoys the craziness but dislikes the controls. Advice for next time? “Dear Volition, please unfuck your game.”)
• Saints Row 2 (Chuck & Maki debate the merits of this prequel to Saints Row 3, and see where they fixed the tone and a lot of mechanics. Also, they spray poo on buildings!)
• Skyrim (Harlo gives us a new entry in Tales of Skyrim™. This time we learn of how he would dispose of bodies, were he in need of doing that.)
• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (Harlo begins his journey down the figure collection rabbit hole. Is it really just DLC? Our wallets shudder if they take this model and apply it to the Marvel or Transformers universes.)

• WWE 12 (Chuck beats it, Harlo gets frustrated, controllers get murdered! Also, fuck Sheamus… And The Miz… And Randy Orton’s intro music.)
• Battlefield 3 (Harlo joins the single-player club. He’s not impressed with the graphics and the story doesn’t connect with him in any way. There’s your box quote!)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (Chuck loves it in all the ways he didn’t enjoy Battlefield 3. We all agree that Treyarch made an amazing game!)
• Renegade Ops (Dual-stick shooter b-movie insanity by the Just Cause 2 guys? Where has this game been all our lives!?)
• Shank (Maki returns to this side-scrolling beat-em-up… And ends up hating it by the end, sadly.)
• Jetpack Joyride (Maki and Harlo enjoy the hell out of this free iOS game. You get to high-five scientists!)
• Vanquish (Chuck dives into the world of Platinum games with this crazy shooter he describes as “Halo meets 9/11.” But not in a bad way!)
• Bayonetta (Platinum time continues, as Chuck plays through it on Very Easy mode. And loves it!)
• Shadows of the Damned (Speaking of insanity, Harlo finally gets into Garcia Fucking Hotspur’s demon-hunting, strawberry-gathering story.)
• Dark Souls (Harlo is tempted to play this by a whole bunch of top-10 lists. Is he a bad enough dude to rescue the Dark Souls?)
• Dragon Age Origins (Chuck goes absolutely nuts and drops 80 hours into this game. And he doesn’t even like fantasy settings! He does like dogs, though.)
• Game (xxxx.)

• Moonpir asks which games have freaked us out the most. (Scary games are mentioned! Quite a few of them, actually.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

• Moon Patrol ‘Road To Tyco Station’ ReMix by SpookyBlue
• A Song Chuck picked. by Somebody!
• Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

• Biggest Disappointment of 2011
• Duke Nukem (Harlo & BJ’s pick)
• X-Men Destiny (Maki’s pick)
• Dead Space 2 Severed DLC
• LA Noire’s 3rd act
• Battlefield 3 (Chuck’s pick)
• Bulletstorm’s dialogue
• DC Universe Online
• BJ’s Year of Game
• Maki’s Game Rationing Failure
• PSN getting hacked
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations taking a step backward
• Diablo 3 not coming out in 2011
• Mass Effect 3 not coming out in 2011 (kinda, and story spoilers getting out)

• Most Pleasant Surprise of 2011
• Driver San Francisco (Maki’s pick)
• LA Noire’s DLC pricing
• Mortal Kombat being awesome
• Captain America: Super Soldier being good! (Harlo’s pick)
• The fact that Magicka Vietnam exists
• Magicka DLC in general (BJ’s pick)
• Fight Night Champion’s Champion Mode
• Enthusiasm for Saints Row The Third (Chuck’s pick)

• “Blonde in a Bar” (Pretty game, but lacking substance)
• Child of Eden (Maki’s pick)
• Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Harlo’s pick)
• Modern Warfare 3′s single player campaign
• Marvel Vs Capcom 3

• Most Overlooked Game of 2011
• WWE All-Stars (Chuck’s pick)
• Captain America Super Soldier
• Driver San Francisco (Maki’s pick)
• Rage (Harlo’s pick)
• You Don’t Know Jack (BJ’s pick)

• The Stargroves (Favorite Soundtrack of 2011)
• LA Noire (Maki’s pick)
• Driver San Francisco
• Rayman Origins
• Shift 2 Unleashed (Chuck’s pick)
• Deus Ex Human Revolution
• House of the Dead Overkill Extended Edition (Harlo’s pick)
• Saints Row the Third
• Portal 2 (BJ’s pick)

• Weirdest-ass game we played in 2011
• Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck’s pick)
• Tornado Outbreak
• Kung Fu Rider (Maki’s pick)
• Naughty Bear
• Bayonetta (Harlo’s pick)
• Deadly Premonition
• Train Simulator’s over $1000 worth of DLC (BJ’s pick)
• Catherine Demo

• Games We Played More Than We Probably Should Have in 2011
• Tornado Outbreak (Maki’s pick)
• Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck’s pick)
• Game Dev Story
• Plants Vs Zombies (Harlo’s pick)
• Torchlight (BJ’s pick)

• Favorite Pre-2011 Game We Played In 2011
• X-Men Origins Wolverine (Maki’s pick)
• Battlefield Bad Company, Singularity, Wolfenstein (Chuck’s picks)
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Harlo’s pick)
• Far Cry 2 (BJ’s pick)

• Favorite Re-release of 2011
• Ico/Shadow of the Colossus (Harlo & Maki’s pick)
• Dead Space Extraction
• X-Men Arcade
• God of War Origins Collection

• Favorite Character of 2011
• Wheatley from Portal 2 (Maki’s pick)
• Space and Adventure Orbs from Portal 2
• Cookie Masterson & Billy O’Brien from You Don’t Know Jack (Chuck’s pick)
• Rusty Galloway in LA Noire
• Zimos the Pimp in Saints Row The Third
• Mayor Burt Reynolds in Saints Row The Third
• Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3
• Andre Bishop from Fight Night Champion (Harlo’s pick)
• The Penguin from Batman Arkham City
• Augustus Cole Train from Gears of War 3 (BJ’s pick)

• Favorite DLC of 2011
• LA Noire Season Pass
• Marvel Tables for Pinball FX2 (Harlo’s pick)
• Call of the Dead for Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Pac Man Fever album for Rock Band 3 (Chuck’s pick)
• Season pass for Forza 4 (BJ’s pick)
• Wavy Tube Man Chronicles for The Gunstringer (Maki’s pick)

• Favorite Downloadable Game of 2011
• Magicka (BJ & Maki’s pick)
• Torchlight XBLA
• Burnout Crash (Harlo & Chuck’s pick)
• Full House Poker

• 2011 Game We Want To Play In 2012
• Shadows of the Damned (Maki’s pick)
• Skyrim (BJ’s pick)
• Dead Island (Chuck’s pick)
• Saints Row The Third  (everybody’s pick)

• Favorites of the Year for 2011 (THE FOTYs)
  • Maki’s picks
  • Dead Space 2
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Gears of War 3
  • Batman Arkham City (Maki’s FOTY)
  • Forza 4
  • BJ’s picks
  • Magicka
  • Forza 4 (BJ’s FOTY)
  • Portal 2
  • Torchlight XBLA
  • You Don’t Know Jack
  • Chuck’s picks
  • Batman Arkham City
  • Deus Ex Human Revolution
  • LA Noire
  • Saints Row The Third (Chuck’s FOTY)
  • You Don’t Know Jack
  • Harlo’s picks
  • Gears of War 3
  • Batman Arkham City
  • Portal 2
  • Saints Row The Third
  • Skyrim (Harlo’s FOTY)

• Saints Row The Third (Open world insanity rules! And we do mean INSANITY. Chuck sells everyone on this game within the first 5 minutes of talking about it.)
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations ((Maki brings back the sighcast by giving his laundry list of disappointments in this weak entry in the series. You even get off the skateboard!)
• Skyrim (Harlo gives our initial entry in Tales of Skyrim™. We find out how pimpin’ ain’t easy, how Lydia silently judges you, and how dragon littering is a fineable offense. This all reminds us why we are all dying to play this game!)

• Need For Speed: The Run (An awesome premise is undone a bit by quick time events and lack of replayability. And unlocking physics. Yes, we said that right. Unlocking PHYSICS.)
• Forza Motorsport 4 (Speed round (GET IT?) is instituted and Harlo joins BJ and Maki in the fun. Also, fuck that steering wheel thing.)
• Burnout Paradise (All of us suck Chuck into the fun of challenges, and we decide you all need to buy 360 copies and play with us.)
• X-Men Arcade (Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Nerf Colossus!)
• DJ Hero 2 (Talk of the peripherals leads to talk of achievement value and whether or not developers hate gamers since the achievements in this one are idiotic.)
• Super Meat Boy (Harlo rages against this machine, while Maki enjoys it a lot. No, they don’t kill each other. This episode.)
• Rayman Origins (Maki recommends this beautiful side scroller, but only in limited doses at a time.)
• Dark Souls (BJ compares it to heroin. But in a good way! We think?)
• Red Orchestra 2 (Listener Andrew sends us a copy and BJ gives it a shot. And gets shot. Lots.)
• WWE 12 (We school Chuck on Sheamus and other modern wrestlers. Kind of. We also learn that some matches, even if you win, you lose. Which sucks.)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Chuck changes his mind and ends up really liking this game, in spite of the outsourced boss battles.)

• MusiM asks “How many games that you want to play does a console have to have on it before it becomes attractive enough to purchase? Also have any of you ever bought any past consoles based solely on the company producing them without any consideration as to games released for the system?” (This leads to a ton of discussion of features on all the current consoles and which historic ones were timed at the right time. Also, we predict the future. Honest.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

• Funky Dungeon remix by Mazedude – Kid Icarus
• Help is On the Way (Gladiator Remix) – Shift 2 Unleashed
• Larry’s Funky House of Lowe remix by Mattias Häggström Gerdt – Leisure Suit Larry

• Modern Warfare 3 (It’s Call of Duty 8! It’s got crazy packaging! It’s got a super-crazy story! You know all this already because you’ve already bought it!)
• Battlefield 3 (Chuck & Maki get angry about this glitchy, poorly optimized mess of a CoD clone. The should have finished it before releasing it. Also, they should have wiped the lens first!)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic BETA (NDAs mean Harlo only says how much he loves the cutscenes. And yeah, it’s a WOW clone. Duh.)

• Skyrim (Harlo’s Box Quote: “Killing fucking dragons is awesome!”)
• Batman Arkham City & Asylum (Challenge rooms! The bane (hah, get it!?) of Maki’s existence!)
• Shift 2 Unleashed (Chuck thinks this sim racing game is nothing special except for its amazing soundtrack!)
• Forza 4 (Speaking of soundtracks, this one dubsteps BJ to death (it’s not really dubstep, but don’t tell him that!))
• Uncharted 3 (Harlo thinks it’s not quite Uncharted 2, but really, that’s a pretty high bar to set.)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Chuck thinks the boss battles are garbage, but the rest isn’t bad if you don’t mind not killing dudes.)
• Game Dev Story (Maki getting an iPhone leads to lots and lots of inappropriate 14-character video game names.)

• InstaTrent asks “Nintendo releasing the ‘Circle Pad Pro’ for the 3DS: Doesn’t it just scream ‘Design oversight’?”(Yes. This leads to talk of handhelds, mobile gaming and the inadequacy of the Wii. Yup, long answer to a short question. Again.)
• Moonpir asks for the Left 4 Dead Expert story (Maki obliges.)
• Moonpir also asks: “What other media would you like to see adapted into video game form?”  (We make terrible suggestions.)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

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• X-Men Destiny (Maki reminds you not to buy it. Ever. Unless you want about 800 quick achievement points. Then rent it.)
• Batman: Arkham City (We heard something happens to his parents. We also heard that this game is kind of amazing. Wait, we said that!)
• Forza Motorsport 4 (BJ & Maki go nuts over the Top Geariness of this More Of The Same Sequel. They also make fun of Deloreans and cheap opponent drivers.)
• Burnout Crash (Harlo eats crow by loving the hell out of this and its Doc-Doc-Doctor Beat soundtrack.)
• Season Passes (Maki admits he bought the Forza 4 and Gears 3 passes. Yes, he has a problem, but at least the first step is admittance.)

• Rage (Harlo wishes more people had bought this amazingly beautiful game. He speaks about it, unlike the silent protagonist murderer you play in the game.)
• NBA 2K12 (Maki realizes that sim sports games have passed him by. Looks like no NBA at all this year for him. Or ever.)
• Gears of War 3 (Harlo & Maki beat it. You probably don’t want to hear any more about it, we understand. Arcade mode is fun. Ok, we’re done.)
• Demon’s Souls (Harlo inspires Maki to go back and actually play it. BJ is intrigued by the insane difficulty.)

• Cory from 4logpodcast Wants to know “whats it like being so amazingly awesome?” (Spoiler: Awesome!)
• Jens asks: “I am curious, what is the last game purchase that each of you truly regretted making?”  (We expand it to include all-time stuff.)

Third Half! (1:37:03)

• What we’re buying (We are buying video games!)
• Need For Speed: The Run (Chuck demos this but it doesn’t let you get out of the car. Wait, it has quick time events?)
• Quick Time Events (Why are they still in games? Seriously!?)
• House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut (They didn’t clean it up that much at all. It’s still awesome but it also still looks like crap on PS3. Sad face.)

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• Gears of War 3 (Who cares if it’s more of the same? It’s more of the same but with months worth of content and BETTER!)
• Bulletstorm (Chuck brings our percentage of people on the cast that have beaten it to higher than 0%! He enjoys playing it, though he hates the dialogue. Sorry, dicktits!)
• Dead Island (Harlo calls it Borderlands With Zombies. That should basically sell everyone on this game!)
• X-Men: Destiny (Maki takes the bullet for all of us and says not to spend more than $20 on this game. Ever!)
• Captain America: Super Soldier (Harlo hits the other end of the spectrum, with a $20 game he’d pay full price for. This game is Arkham Asylum with a Captain America skin!)
• Turok (Chuck gets angry and hates Maki for loaning him this piece of crap!)
• Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection (Harlo borrows Maki’s copy and goes nuts over SotC all over again. Ico not so much since it’s a big escort mission. These games are gorgeous, though!)
• Ultimate Spider-Man (It may be old and last-gen but it’s still a really good Spidey game!)
• Batman: Rise of Sin-Tsu (Do not play this game. Punch, kick, it is NOT all in the mind!)

• Driver: San Francisco (Chuck & Maki love the hell out of this completely insane entry in the Driver series. It’s like Quantum Leap meets GTA meets a 70s cop show!)
• Forza Motorsport 3 (Maki guns for level 50 before Forza 4 arrives! That is a LOT of driving!)
• Mortal Kombat Arcade Collection (Maki says stay away unless you enjoy losing to psychic computer opponents on Very Easy mode!)
• Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (Chuck dives into the last dregs of the music genre for some reason. And guess what? It sucks!)
• Pinball FX2 (Maki comes around to accepting that it’s not Williams Collection and finally enjoys it as much as Harlo & Chuck!)
• Demon’s Souls (Harlo decides to attempt to brave the pain. It makes him realize that he is done with Lord of the Rings type settings. Aside from Skyrim, of course!)
• Beyond Good and Evil (Harlo immediately gets sucked into this world after a couple minutes worth of demo!)
• Lair (Maki has a brief $10 Challenge game and regrets it. A dragon flight simulator with Sixaxis controls? Yup, this is a recipe for disaster!)
• Nyko Zoom for Kinect (Maki tries it out and finds it works… Kinda. It’s for VERY specific situations!)
• Demolition! 
• Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster (We think this Dance Central knockoff is the best thing ever if you want to wear your child out!)
• Gunstringer (Maki is itching to get this, once he has less than 30 games waiting to be played!)
• Crimson Alliance (Harlo gives this Diablo-style hack & slash a thumbs-up.)
• The Baconing (Maki gets his ass (death)spanked by this game. Fun humor, though!)
• Rock of Ages (Funny idea, iffy gameplay. Bowling/tower defense/Age of Empires/Monty Python/What?!)
• Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon (Do not even waste the time it takes to download this game. Atrocious!)
• Lucha Fury (Shank with luchadores! What could go wrong? Apparently, everything!)
• Burnout Crash (It’s not Burnout Revenge’s Crash mode. Once we get over that fact, we actually enjoy the hell out of this puzzle game!)

• TheSuperHungry1 Wants to know if there were any more Kung Fu Rider shenanigans? (Spoiler: No!)
• BRoy0505 asks: “I have a huge pile of shame. Should I start with mass effect series or the assasins creed series?”  (We disagree a little but come to a consensus. Listen and find out what it is!)

What we are getting this fall! (2:16:05)

• Harlo is getting: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Rage and probably Uncharted 3 and Modern Warfare 3!
• Chuck is getting: Battlefield 3 and Saints Row 3!
• Maki is getting: Forza Motorsport 4, NBA 2K12, Modern Warfare 3, Dance Central 2 and House of the Dead Overkill: Extended Cut!

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• NCAA 12 (Apparently you have to play high school football. In a college game. Or something!)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Come for the cutscenes… Stay for the cutscenes!)
• Split/Second (Maki is almost done with this game! We promise! Now somebody give us a spiritual sequel!)
• Burnout Revenge (Maki is done with this game! All Perfects! Honest!)
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Chuck kinda likes this non-co-op game made entirely of escort missions. Sweet!)
• Naughty Bear (Harlo breaks out his best british accent for this insane cross of Sneak King, Manhunt, teddy bears and a Peter Molyneux fever dream.)
• Kung Fu Rider (Maki takes a trip to Infinite Mountain in this insane Tony Hawk/Crazy Taxi/Kung fu fever dream for PS3 Move. How did this never appear on the Dreamcast?)
• Deadly Premonition (Maki enjoys it more than Harlo, but the graphics hurt his eyes, Zack.)
• Super Mario Bros. 2 (BJ goes old school and plays the All-Stars version on a SNES. And loves it!)
• Remakes vs Re-releases (Ed asks us which we prefer, and we answer! Sprites, polygons, framerates, local co-op, sports games and Megamania are discussed.)

• Tornado Outbreak (Maki does not follow Chuck’s advice and picks up this game. And loves it!)
• Beautiful Katamari (Tornado Damacy leads Maki to play the 360 Katamari game. It’s the worst Katamari game, but leads to talk of Katamari theme songs in every version. Check below for some of those songs discussed!)
• Conan (Harlo is inspired by the bloodlust of the new Conan movie.)
• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Maki hates sliding puzzles but gets weirded out by the way the story is resolved…)
• Chrono Trigger (Maki experiences the joy of this classic JRPG, including checkpoints and Dude Collectin’.)
• Red Dead Redemption (Tomahawks, Explosive Rifles and multiplayer Buffalo riding! This game still rules!)
• Demolition! 
• Toy Soldiers Cold War (It’s like the Strike series from the Genesis days. Unlockable Rambo rules!)
• Fruit Ninja Kinect (A reason to use your Kinect, kinda! Wait until Gunstringer if you really want it.)
• The Gunstringer (We know Twisted Pixel has the fun storyline stuff down, but can they bring the gameplay?)
• Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition (Even Maki is not hardcore enough into fighting games to play this.)
• El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (It’s kind of a JRPG and its style looks terrible! Count Harlo out.)
• Catherine (Goats, pizza boxes, boxers, block puzzles, texting. What in god’s name did we play?)
• Warhammer 40k Space Marine (Tobias recommends this ridiculously violent Gears type game, that will sadly get crushed by Gears 3.)
• Driver: San Francisco (Chuck and Harlo try the single player demo and really aren’t satisfied by the driving. In a game called Driver! The story feels crazy enough, though.)
• Bodycount (Nobody even lasts 5 minutes in this demo, despite having exploding bullets!)

• Blueshoes asks, if you were a character in Mortal Kombat, what would be your fatality? (We will leave you to listen to our answers to this. Spoiler: Harlo has no less than 3 of them.)
• Moonpir asks multiple questions:
• Worst Save file loss? (Harlo wins, though BJ’s sucks pretty bad.)
• Proudest Achievement? (Learning to read wins, though Maki has a few others. Rock Band features prominently.)
• Most enthralled we’ve ever been by a game? (Good times abound.)
• Do we rent games? (Short answer? No.)

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• Borderlands 2 (We can confirm that it is a video game and it will eventually be available for purchase. Also, we can confirm that we will PLAY THE HELL OUT OF IT.)
• Summer of Arcade Demolition!
  • Ms. Splosion Man (All The Single Ladies are kind of annoyed about the changes to this sequel.)
  • Bastion (Cool, but not $15 cool… We love the narrator, though.)
  • From Dust (We debate the pronunciation of “Chahi” and debate whether Pikmin love is enough to get us to buy this.)
  • Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (“Oh hey, Tim Burton threw up on this.” And yeah, it’s a Metroidvania. Your mileage may vary!)
• Dead Nation (It’s a pretty awesome game, especially for a free game!)
• Dead To Rights: Retribution (Chuck teaches us the basics of Scrotalities and Dog Resurrection.)
• Tornado Outbreak (It’s Katamari Tornado. Chuck attempts to talk us out of the game, despite how fun it sounds.)
• Deadly Premonition (Harlo just can’t get into it, despite Chuck’s protests. It gets compared to the videotape in The Ring, if that gives you an idea.)

• Bayonetta (Harlo calls it Anime God of War. Or God of Whore. Also, he loves breakdancing & gunboots. Needless to say, he enjoyed it more than Maki.)
• Army of Two (Maki & Harlo suffer terrible opponent AI yet still have fun with pimping their guns and dapping to war slaughter.)
• Far Cry 2 (BJ kills the entire population of a planet in his quest to cure his malaria. The death toll may or may not include his NPC buddies.)
• Mortal Kombat DLC (We talk new characters, including, um, Freddy Kreuger? Ok!)
• Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (We rage against the Capcom machine with all their terrible re-release policies as Harlo starts playing the original version.)
• Burnout Revenge (Maki is close to 100% in it, despite of its completely insane difficulty. Yup. This leads to talk of Trials HD.)
• Burnout Paradise (We discuss Burnout Chains and other ridiculousness we have pulled off in that awesome game.)
• X-Men Legends 1 & 2 (Harlo goes back in time to play the progenitors of Marvel Ultimate Alliance and finds out they still hold up!)
• Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 (Harlo’s trip to the past continues. Does he miss the Molyneux in 2?)
• Stuntman Ignition (BJ, Chuck & Maki rage against the difficulty of this game and the awesome concept that it squanders. Apparently it’s better to be lucky than good.)
• Velvet Assassin (Chuck needs to do more research before buying his games. Too much stealth!)

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• Duke Nukem Forever (We vomit crow and eat sadness. It’s not as bad as everyone is saying but it’s definitely not good. Sighs abound.)
• Child of Eden (We are confused by the storyline for this game… And by whether or not it’s actually fun. Sighs abound.)
• Bayonetta (Maki officially hates it. Harlo still wants to play, despite the hate! Sighs give way to yelling.)
• X-Men Origins Wolverine (Maki declares this ultraviolent romp as his favorite game so far this year. No sighs here!)
• God of War PS3 Collection (Harlo has beaten them already but can’t wait to play them again. Guess we like the ultraviolence! Again, no sighing!)
• Infamous 2 (“Small, minor tweaks of better” is Harlo’s box quote for this one. Actually, he liked it a lot more than that. A half-sigh.)
• Mafia II (Chuck avoids prison rape with quicktime events and roams an open world that discourages you from roaming it. Sighs are present.)

• Red Faction: Armageddon (Harlo redboxed this Faction and decided to wait until it’s bargain bin. Sigh?)
• Vin Diesel Wheelman (One of the best games ever. At least if you enjoy watching other people play it… Long, loud sigh.)
• Brink (Got friends? Play it. Don’t have any? STAY AWAY. Sigh…)
• Borderlands (Speedround returns as Harlo beats Claptrap Revolution! Sighs, but only for the random item collection achievements.)
• You Don’t Know Jack (Chuck almost misses the Turncoat achievement and then cheats to get it. SIGH.)
• Lego Star Wars: The Complete Series (Maki compares it to Quake 1. Seriously. Sigh?)
• Rock Band 3 Fender Squier Real Guitar (Maki buys it after it gets discontinued and all are impressed with how well it works. Harlo raves about the Poison DLC pack. Sigh!)
• Rock of the Dead (Chuck spends $3 on a crap game and we all make fun of it. We also compare it to Typing of the Dead, not unfairly. SIGH!)
• Demolition!
  • Outland (We debate whether the eventual difficulty spike will be worth playing through. Half-sigh.)
  • Gatling Gears (Nice, long demo and the price dropped to $10, so we’re probably getting it. No sighs!)
  • NCAA Football 12 (Chuck is a hardcore fan but will probably be skipping this one. Sighs abound.)
• Pinball FX 2 (Chuck and Harlo talk about a lot of the Marvel tables and really like them, especially Captain America. Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection and Gottlieb Collection are also discussed. No sighs this time!)
• Avatar Typing Horde Invasion (XBL Indie Games comes through with a Typing of the Dead-type game! Now to find a keyboard that works on a 360… Sigh.)

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• LA Noire (We talk about it. A LOT. And we KINDA like it. Sorta.)
• Duke Nukem Forever (We rally against an entire continent getting it before AMERICA.)
• Mortal Kombat (We get into pre-order bonus insanity!)
• CODBLOPS: Call of the Dead (Harlo answers the Call of the Dead and it seems to be the most meta thing ever in a COD game…)
• Portal 2 (We have all officially beaten it! BJ feels it is, ahem, whelming.)
• Kinect Adventures (BJ finds out how to shut off pictures! Success!)
• Split Second (Maki gets first in everything, including the terrible Detonator races!)
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Maki keeps playing it despite really not enjoying it. He’s sorta stupid like that.)

• Vin Diesel Wheelman (Chuck makes us salivate over this game. It sounds like the answer to all our prayers. Chuck disagrees but we don’t care.)
• Prince of Persia (2008) (It makes Harlo’s eyes bleed. Honestly, the visual style messed up his eyes and made him tired. Weird, huh?)
• Far Cry 2 (BJ enjoys the pretty fire and nature and stuff.)
• Red Faction Armageddon (We discuss the demo and how we might consider getting it, even if it’s not open world anymore.)
• You Don’t Know Jack (Harlo beats every episode and grabs a bunch of DLC. It’s getting into obsession territory…)
• Tekken 6 (We bring Maki’s retired samurai girlfriend out of retirement, at least for one night of fighting. Tekken reminds us just how good MK is, though.)
• WWE All-Stars (Harlo unlocked everyone! At least, everyone that’s in the game. Which is not every wrestler ever, sadly.)
• Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue (Harlo cracks 60k gamerscore by getting 100% in it! )
• House of the Dead Overkill PS3 (The Best Lightgun Shooter Ever on the platform that is best ever for lightgun shooters!)
• Demolition!
  • Gatling Gears (It’s like Assault Heroes but even cooler! Still waiting for it to go on sale, though.)
  • Outland (It’s a lot like Shadow Complex! Still waiting for it to go on sale, though.)
  • D&D: Daggerdale (Harlo fishes for negative box quotes. We don’t think they’ll use them.)

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• Portal 2 (Just like 99% of the world, we really love this game. Controversial, we know!)
• Mass Effect 3 (BJ predicts it will not be as good, the rest of us vehemently disagree with him.)
• Playstation Network (Yup, it’s down, and we hate hackers. Controversial, we know!)
• Mortal Kombat (Once again, we eat crow since this game pretty much rules. Unless you’re going for 1000 achievement points. Then it’s crazy stupid.)
• Customizing a SF4 joystick (AKA this is how much Harlo enjoyed MK. Paradise Arcade rules, check them out at www.paradisearcadeshop.com)

• WWE All Stars (Harlo picks it up and the rest of us spend time naming forgotten wrestlers that are not in the game for some reason.)
• Character Customization (WWE All Stars leads us into a discussion of customizing ourselves into games. Most of the time it involves us making ridiculous amazing things.)
• Fight Night Champion (Harlo goes nuts and buys yet another game… And loves the story mode a million times more than he figured he would!)
• Gears of War 3 Beta (Maki and Harlo just can’t get into it. I guess Horde mode will always have our hearts. And chainsaws.)
• Modern Warfare 2 (Spec Ops still rules and it is still HARD AS HELL on the higher difficulties.)
• CODBLOPS Call of the Dead (We debate whether it will be any different from the other zombie maps. Probably not.)
• Mass Effect 2 (Maki beats Insanity mode… And our long national nightmare is officially over.)
• Mirror’s Edge Time Trial DLC (Maki thinks it still looks amazing, but it is controller-snappingly difficult.)
• Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island DLC (BJ and Maki enjoy corkscrewing and flatspinning their flying deloreans in the coolest car sandbox ever.)
• Torchlight XBLA (BJ & Harlo achieve 100% in it! They definitely got their money’s worth.)
• Magicka (Nobody played Vietnam yet but we figure out some really good spells!)

• Nintendo 3DS (None of us bought it, none of us probably will… Though Combat of Giant Dinosaurs is tempting!)
• Burnout Crash (We love Burnout and we love Crash Mode! What could possibly go wrong with this?!)
• Bulletstorm (Wait, one of us got it! Who’s the dicktits that went and did that? At least it leads to discussion of tutorial sections and storytelling in games!)
• Full House Poker (We like the game, though we feel like AI is always cheating. ALWAYS!)
• Xbox Live Labs (We all played it! For SIX HOURS!)
• Torchlight (We all love how it controls on 360! Inventory sorting is the only gripe, so you know that it’s good. So yeah, Torchlight is still awesome!)
• CODBLOPS (BJ beats single player and Harlo beats multiplayer! Well, he prestiges at least!)
• Split/Second (Maki discovers a new area! Maybe there really is more to this game!)

• Maki’s DLC Corner
• Mass Effect 2: The Arrival (Maki proves that insanity mode is for those that are insane. He doesn’t recommend it, either.)
• Assassins Creed Brotherhood: The DaVinci Disappearance (Maki discovers the joys of glitches that rob your safehouse of all items!)
• Dead Space 2: Severed (Would you like to play through 2 levels from the main game, except backwards? Then buy this!)
• Mass Effect 2 (Harlo starts another playthrough but avoids going insane, unlike Maki.)
• Unbound Saga (Well worth $2, even with the crazy perspective that gets annoying)
• Magicka (Harlo plays it with a gamepad… And it works! Also, he learns of the best spell ever put in a game.)
• Demolition!
• WWE All-Stars (Flyin’ Brian was not in the demo, but we still enjoyed WWE as a fighting game!)
• Mortal Kombat (We play it on PS3, and are kinda lukewarm on everything but the X-ray moves!)
• Duke Nukem Forever (We wonder why the hell it’s getting delayed. Is it a joke?)

Third Half! (1:41:45)

• Portal 2 (Harlo and Maki decide to switch to 360 from PS3. Mostly since we can get a Steam copy next year for 50¢!)
• Headsets (Do people have super headsets for CODBLOPS? Why does sound quality suck on 360? How come group chat on PS3 is terrible?)

• You Don’t Know Jack (BJ & Harlo make Maki & Tstrel feel stupid while still having fun. Jack Attack is the devil.)
• Dead Space Extraction PS3 (Spam that telekinesis, kids. Also, port House of the Dead Overkill to the PS3, please. Yes, you. Do it.)
• Dead Space Ignition (It’s crap. The less said the better.)
• Dead Space 2 (Multiplayer is Left 4 Dead… In Space! With massive amounts of teamkilling.)
• CODBLOPS (Double XP brings Harlo back down the CoD rabbit hole. And BJ tackles the single player!)
• Team Fortress 2 (Sandviches? Hats? What?)
• MAG (A Massive Ass Game! With multiplayer! On PS3! And it’s pretty good! What!?)
• Bayonetta (Kickpunchbootbutterflykillironmaidensmashgunbootcrappycamerakickpunchbuttonmash. It’s kind of like that.)
• Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (Harlo and Maki are SUPER tempted to get this even though they both know they will suck at it.)
• Bulletstorm (Everybody else loving it has us tempted even more than MvC3. But we’re still holding out.)
• Gears of War 2 (22x XP gets us right back into Horde mode.)
• Magicka Vietnam (SWEET LORD IN HEAVEN ABOVE HOW IS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING THAT IS SO AWESOME)

• Duke Nukem Forever (Balls of Steel edition! *PREORDERED’D*)
• Borderlands (BJ finishes Claptrap DLC and wants to do a playthrough 2! Add him! He’s lonely.)
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Maki clears it out single-player wise but keeps getting booted from multiplayer for being too good. Yeah, we don’t believe it either.)
• Split/Second (Marathoning this game will get you bored fast… Needed more environments, sadly.)
• DC Universe Online (Harlo is sticking with it for a few more months. If their “holiday” events are as terrible as Valentine’s Day’s, he’s done though.)
• Justice League Heroes (A listener recommendation brings Harlo back to the PS2 era! And he likes it, even if there are no trophies.)
• Pac-Man CD DX (We all go nuts over murderin’ ghost trains)
• Prince of Persia 2008 (Nolan North out-Nebraskas Jake Gyllenhaal! In a fun game!)
• Left 4 Dead (Yup, BJ plays the original. And he still sucks at it. Sad face.)
• Demolition!(We brought the hate!)
  • Bejeweled Blitz (It’s like Bejeweled and Hexic and Uno Rush had a baby and it sucked!)
  • Ilomilo (If Echochrome and Little Big Planet had a baby it would look like this and Harlo wouldn’t like it!
  • Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Y’know Lego games? It’s one of those. With a couple new features.)
  • Dragon Age II (Unpreordered? Lucky for them Skyrim is months and months away…)
  • Stacking (We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again… Tim Schaeffer, make a cartoon instead of a game!)
  • Fight Night Champion (Stop forcing us to use stupid control schemes. For the love of god. Stop.)

• Dead Space 2 (Maki marathons his way through both discs worth and really enjoys it aside from one section. Also, what is up with Visceral Games’ writers and their girlfriends/wives?)
• DC Universe Online (Harlo picks up this PS3 MMO and WAIT IT DOWNLOADS 13 GIGS WORTH OF DATA!? THIRTEEN!?!? Ok, with that out of the way, we find out whether or not Batman is unlockable at level 30.)
• Magicka (It’s Diablo meets Alchemy meets Gauntlet! Kinda! We like it a lot, in spite of the jank!)

• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit (BJ played it and didn’t like it! Pretty, but just not what he wanted. Make Most Wanted 2!)
• Breach (Harlo gives the multiplayer-only game with destructible environments an actual review that consists of “meh.” Don’t try to make Call of Duty unless you have the budget to make Call of Duty!)
• Bulletstorm (We are not convinced that we need this game, dicktits!)
• Duke Nukem Forever Trailer (Yup, we talk about the Duke trailer. INVADERS MUST DIE. Can you tell we’re super-excited about this game?)
• Limbo (Maki beats it! Is it all style over substance, though?)
• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Harlo and Maki co-op it up and it gives us memories of old Sierra adventure games. Kinda. And then we broke the game!)
• Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (We all have fun playing co-op, even Tstrel joined in! And then we broke the game! Again!)
• Def Jam Rapstar (We get all gangsta and drop some rhymes and enjoy the hell out of it, in spite of the T for Teen censorship.)
• Strongbad Adventures (Harlo finally gets to experience a Telltale game! Pointing & clicking is fun. Especially torturing The Cheat!)
• Borderlands: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution (BJ beats the DLC on playthrough 1! Now for the collectible farming…)
• GP2X System AKA “The Wiz” (Harlo gets a Linux-based portable gaming system. Um, what?)
• Assassin’s Creed 2 (Maki gets 100% of everything, including the DLC. You could say he enjoys this game!)
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Moving directly into the sequel, Maki realizes that it takes a few steps forward but a few steps backward too, unfortunately. Multiplayer is simultaneously fun and broken!)

• 360 RROD (BJ Enjoys the fun!)
• Steam Purchases (We all enjoy the fun!)
• AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (Computer base jumping at its finest)
• PC Gaming In General (Harlo has problems with PC gaming. Sad face.)
• Metro 2033 (Harlo doesn’t beat it but says it feels “off”)
• Assassin’s Creed (The world’s best-looking Beggar Annoyance Simulator!)
• Assassin’s Creed 2 (It’s Mirror’s Edge with swords! But totally different!)
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (The Bag of Spilling strikes… And it is a bummer)
• Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Maki gets 100% in it and gets depressed over this fact)
• Force Unleashed 2 & Endor DLC (Maki 100%s this too… And the dark side isn’t quite as “AWESOME” as it was in FU1.)

• Tony Hawk Ride (Yup, it is as broken as we feared.)
• Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island (More Burnout is NEVER a bad thing)
• Crackdown 2 Deluge & Toybox DLC (Rocket boots and an arcade mode? Maki is in!)
• Railworks 2 (BJ loves him some train simulator. And Scurves.)
• Limbo (Pretentious indie game hype? Harlo might think so.)
• Trials HD (Fun game! Until it sucks. Sad face. Again.)
• Maki’s New Year’s Resolution (2 old games beat for every new 1 bought!)
• Dead Space 2 Demo (Harlo wasn’t impressed… Cause for concern?)
• Half-Life (BJ gets a Half-Life! Yes, THAT Half-Life.)
• NBA Jam (We can all see the code in this game, Neo-style. Also, Harlo beat Remix mode, which is kind of amazing.)
• Dance Central (New Year’s Dance Party Excitement Freestyle Stupidity Fun!)
• Kinectimals (BJ joins in the annoyance of the flying fairy ferret badger thing)
• Stuntman Ignition (Trial and error?  OCD? We’re in.)
• Gamestop (Seriously, where are the manuals and cases?)
• Kinect Sports (Opinions to come!)
• SSX Deadly Descents (It may be good, but it’s not what Maki wants)
• Bulletstorm (Marketing is bullshit. Seriously.)

• NBA Jam (Sigh… How do you spell disappointment?)
• NBA Street 2 (The last truly great NBA Jam?)
• NFL Blitz (BJ wants this to get the NBA Jam graphical treatment.)
• SSX (Maki wants this series to return. Desperately. He’s the only one.)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (Doing barrel rolls! Annually! CODBLOPS!)
• Gears of War 2 (BJ joins the fun and discovers just how awesome horde mode is.)
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Hey, no DJ Atomica! We suggest you play as the cops, by the way.)
• Alan Wake: The Writer (Yup, it’s more Alan Wake. Shockingly thermos free.)
• Dance Central (Uniting families. Especially Maki’s.)
• Kinectimals (Calm down, T’Challa! Ritalin is your friend!)
• Splinter Cell Conviction (BJ joins the party, Richter… I mean, FISHER.)
• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Cool multiplayer, Bro.)
• Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Harlo says skip the PSP version, stick with 360 & PS3)
• Poker Night At The Inventory (Well worth $5!)
• Lucha Libre: AAA (How do you say “fun but shallow” in spanish?)
• TMNT: Turtles In Time (XBLA deals saves us! Fun game, not worth $10)

• Biggest Disappointment of 2010
  • BioShock 2
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Crackdown 2
  • Force Unleashed II
  • Halo Reach
  • NBA Jam (Our winner! Just beats out Crackdown 2)
  • Star Trek: Online

• Best Character of 2010
  • Barry from Alan Wake
  • Bonnie MacFarland from Red Dead Redemption
  • General Knoxx from Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx
  • Jack from Mass Effect 2
  • John Marsten from Red Dead Redemption (Just an awesome dude. Barry came in a close 2nd)
  • Mordin from Mass Effect 2
  • Everyone from Mass Effect 2 except for Jacob
  • All of the Bad Guys in Splinter Cell Conviction

• Most Overlooked Game of 2010
  • Just Cause 2 (The winner! Harlo played enough for all of us)
  • Splinter Cell Conviction
  • Split Second

• Games We Played More Than We Probably Should Have in 2010
  • Alan Wake
  • Angry Birds
  • Dante’s Inferno (Best of the God of War clones, but still a very guilty pleasure)
  • 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
  • Game Dev Story
  • Red Faction: Guerilla

• 2010 Game We Want To Play In 2011 (No consensus, but no matter what we win!)
  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • BioShock 2
  • Blur
  • Fable III
  • Fallout New Vegas
  • Gran Turismo 5
  • Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
  • Split Second

• Best 2009 Game We Played In 2010
  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand
  • Forza 3
  • Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Simply put, the best pinball game ever. Thanks, Knobs!)
  • Red Faction: Guerilla

• Best Downloadable Game of 2010
  • Angry Birds (BJ’s pick)
  • Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (Maki’s belated pick)
  • Deathspank (Harlo’s pick)
  • Game Dev Story
  • Monday Night Combat
  • Scott Pilgrim: The Game
  • Shank

• Best DLC of 2010
  • Lair of the Shadow Broker for Mass Effect 2
  • Secret Armory of General Knoxx for Borderlands (Harlo & BJ’s pick. More hours in this than any DLC this year!)
  • Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption (Maki’s pick. The best Total Conversion ever?)

• Favorite of the Year for 2010 (THE FOTY)
  • Civilization V
  • God of War 3
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Red Dead Redemption (Marsten wins! Storyline, characters, presentation, music. This game had it all. Mass Effect 2 was the close 2nd place.)
  • Rock Band 3

• Microsoft Kinect (Crow… It tastes delicious!)
• Kinect Adventures (Living statues are our new favorite thing ever)
• Dance Central (Freestyle section = LOLZ)
• Sony Move (More delicious crow eaten. It’s like Wii Motion Plus but even better!)
• Sports Champions (Dude! It has bocce ball!))
• Time Crisis Razing Storm (BROUGHT TO YOU BY NAMCO. AND IT IS AWESOME)
• Rock Band 3 (Speaking of AWESOME, holy crap Rock Band 3)
• Borderlands (The patch arrives! Crawmerax grinding returns!)
• Williams Collection Pinball Hall of Fame (We all give in to Knobs’ love of TWC, even BJ!)
• Split Second (Is this the new Burnout with added explosions? Some of us think it is!)
• Blur (Inevitable comparisons to Split Second occur)

• Force Unleashed 2 (Way, way too short, and somehow involves Myspace angles and duck face?)
• Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (Chupacabras, unicorns, Sasquatches, this game has EVERYTHING!)
• Fallout New Vegas (More Fallout. This is not a bad thing if you ask us.)
• Sacred 2 (Spoiler alert: Harlo HATED this game)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (It’s just fun to say CODBLOPS.)
• Demolition!!!
  • Super Meat Boy (We all like it but don’t want to buy it… If that makes sense)
  • NHL 11 (It’s still no NHL 94)
  • Shonen Jump Naruto Shapuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (Um, yeah, I don’t even know what to type about this)
  • Fist of the North Star (Crazy fun, according to Knobs & BJ)
  • Baby Launcher Extreme (Epidural Power, activate!)
  • Vanquish (It’s like Lost Planet, but with powerslides! Also, it’s like P.N.03 & Gungrave, according to Knobs)
  • RUSE (Not a bad console RTS game)
  • Quantum Theory (It’s like Gears of Peace. Or something.)
  • NBA 2K11 (We’d rather play NBA Jam)
  • Costume Quest (We like it, but probably won’t buy that either)
  • ArcaniA: Gothic 4 (BJ: “It’s retardafuckinreculous!”)
  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Castlevania games have terrible names. This is a pretty good God of War clone.)
  • Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Sounds like this demo doesn’t give us the best impression of what this game is…)
  • Dragonball Raging Blast 2 (This demo sponsored by Fresh Balls)
  • Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Burnout guys made it. We’re getting this.)

• Dead Rising 2 (Now we remember why people hated DR1)
• Red Dead Redemption (BJ beat it, and count him in for zombies)
• Civilization V (presented by Sid Meier, Will Wright, American McGee, Tom Clancy and 50 Cent)
• Comic Jumper (Let’s just say Harlo liked it A LOT more than Maki did)
• Splosion Man (Maki’s up to 3-2 on Hardcore. ‘Nuf said)
• Halo Reach (Great packaging, not so great game. We bought the Misogyny Edition)
• Tony Hawk Ride (Nope, Maki still doesn’t have it)
• Sony Move (Why Harlo might get it!)
• Microsoft Kinect (Why none of us will be getting it – and it’s not why you think)

• Borderlands: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution (We want the patch!)
• Left 4 Dead 2: The Sacrifice (Good… But why pay for both L4D2 & L4D?)
• Xbox 360 new dashboard (It’s like living in silence)
• Splinter Cell Conviction (Co-op icing of dudes and tearing of MCLs = fun)
• Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue (Yup, it’s more Deathspank)
• Costume Quest (This sounds REALLY cool)
• Rock Band 3 (Our anticipation is tangible)
• Dragon Age: Origins (Surprise me, Harlo!)
• Oblivion (Finish it, BJ!)
• Demolition!!!
  • FIFA 11 (Um, 3 minutes?)
  • Sonic 4 (Um, 30 seconds?)
  • Force Unleashed 2 (Um, damn pretty?)
  • Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2 (Midair refueling? F YOU)
  • Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light (Smash TV + Puzzles + Co-op = Good!)
• NBA Jam (Wii version officially worthless now?)

• Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions (Harlo does not like his dimensions to remain intact and likes this)
• Dead Rising Case Zero (Maki enjoys this, but the again, he really liked Dead Rising which puts him in the minority)
• Rock Band DLC (or, How Maki Filled a 16-gig USB Stick)
• Red Dead Redemption (BJ joins in the addiction while lassoing bears)
• Splosion Man (Hard as hell but almost worth it for the closing cinematic)
• Trials HD (Also hard, also worth it)
• Shank (That’s some super-polished ultraviolence)
• Scott Pilgrim Vs The World The Game (Like the movie? Like River City Ransom? Chances are you’ll like this, then)

• Mass Effect 2 Shadow Broker DLC (Maki declares it the best Mass Effect 2 DLC ever)
• Dragon Age Origins (How many missions is too many? Or, “Hey, I Took Care of Your Rat Problem”)
• Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (Super-good pinball on the Xbox? It’s true!)
• Pinball! (Dude! We talk pinball! The real kind!)
• Playstation Plus (Harlo got it. He wanted Hulu that bad.)
• Borderlands (Not even a speed round, we talk Claptrap DLC and online cheating on 360?!)
• Demolition!!!
  • 99 Nights II (You get to kill LOTS of dudes. More than 99.)
  • NCAA 11 (BJ amends his thoughts. Also, he plays as Tebow. Ok, not really.)
  • Madden 11 (No play calling? No problem!)
  • Mafia 2 (Like GTA, but with slower cars and less polish)
  • Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2 (Midair refueling? F YOU)
  • Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light (Smash TV + Puzzles + Co-op = Good!)

• Alan Wake DLC (Fatheads, cutouts and alarm clocks! Sadly, no thermoses.)
• Monday Night Combat (It’s like Team Fortress 2 meets Disenfranchisement of the Ancients!)
• Blur (Where did the multiplayer community go?)
• Red Dead Redemption (Maki posses on up to multiplayer!)
• Rock Band 2 (Tstrel says if you don’t have tons of DLC, don’t bother with multiplayer!)
• Ghostbusters (Still waiting on Ernie Hudson Oz DLC!)
• Prince of Persia: Fallen Sands (It’s Prince of Nebraska! With PoP: Sands of Time style puzzles!)
• Maki hits 50k (People with proper social lives shake their heads in disapproval.)
• Forza 3 (Maki really geeks out about how much he loves this game!)
• Gran Turismo series (Where did you go, Joe DiMaggio? We wax nostalgic for a series we really, really used to love.)
• Split Second (The TVGP crew has convinced us we need this. Now for a price drop…)
• Tiger Woods 10 (No cocktail waitress minigames… That’s in Tiger 12!)
• Burnout Revenge (Who’s still playing? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone…?)
• EA’s DLC (Discounts sell DLC, guys. Where are your Deals of the Week?)

• World of Warcraft (Harlo goes back down the rabbit hole. WHY, GOD, WHY?)
• Starcraft (Should Maki bother with the original? Can he even download it?)
• Starcraft 2 (Still waiting on Harlo to get it. Why did he resubscribe to WoW, again?)
• Rage (Can’t wait for the engine. The game? Not so much.)
• Splinter Cell Conviction (Careful with those Uplay points, FISHER!)
• Xbox Themes (Why are we talking about this?)
• Borderlands (Dude! More DLC! DUDE!)
• Duke Nukem Forever (Dude! More DNF! From Gearbox!? DUDE!)

• Red Dead Redemption (Awesome. Also, janky. But still awesome!)
• Alan Wake (99 problems but a thermos ain’t one! Also, passive aggressiveness leads to hilarity!)

• Red Faction Guerilla (It’s BJ’s grand finale as he conquers this open world. Also, way too many uncomfortable allegories!)
• Red Faction Armageddon (Going underground might not be good. Also, The Roots? On Mars!)
• Neptunes Pride (Free online strategy… IN SPACE. Also, NOT on Facebook! Also, np.ironhelmet.com!)
• Green Day Rock Band (Yup, it’s Rock Band. With Green Day. Also, not as good as The Beatles Rock Band!)
• Rock Band 3 (Keyboards! 80s songs! Realistic guitars! Also, KEYBOARDS!)
• Beatles Rock Band (Keyboard DLC? It only makes sense… Also, if you are listening Harmonix, WE WILL BUY THAT.)
• Top-loading NES (Miracles abound as Greencapt and Harlo unleash old-school gaming amazingness on Maki. Also, RC Pro Am!)
• Dreamcast games (On XBLA and PSN! Crazy Taxi! Also, JET GRIND RADIO, NOW PLEASE!)
• Demos: Iron Man 2 (It sucks. Also, it sucks!)
• Demos: Transformers: War For Cybertron (Why multiplayer only? Also, it sucks!)
• Demos: Earthworm Jim HD (Not as awesome as you remember? Also, it’s not Harlo’s thing anyway!)
• Demos: Backbreaker (Definitely NOT Blitz. Also, it sucks!)

• Madden (Why does he get to replace NFL in the title? His eyebrows are creepy. Seriously.)
• Tiger Woods (In which we discuss Mean 18, Links and other old-school golf games)
• Blur Multiplayer Demo (Wipeout, Whiplash, F-Zero and Burnout are all mentioned. Also, we really like Blur.)
• Crackdown 2 (Preorders ahoy!)
• South Park Lets Go Tower Defense Play! (or how a license can actually save a licensed game)
• Defense Grid (XBLA “inventory clearance” sale yields a definite winner)
• Puzzle Quest (I’ll take “what game is Maki ragequitting for $500, Alex.”)
• Splosion Man (the love of cake is strong with this one)
• Peggle (Don’t stare at the logo too long. You’ll go blind.)
• Just Cause 2 (Harlo can’t believe its size. Wait, that didn’t sound right.)
• Red Faction Guerilla (BJ lands himself on the FBI watch list with his terrorist analogies)

• Mass Effect 2 Firewalker & Kasumi DLC (One is free and one is paid, one feels cheap, one feels overpriced…)
• The iPad (Harlo gets one, which inevitably sparks “the future of games” discussion)
• Plants vs Zombies for iPad (Because we haven’t talked quite enough tower defense yet)
• Xbox 360 250 gig HD and USB storage support (Money is spent, 120 gig HDs are gifted, everyone wins. Especially Microsoft. And BJ.)
• GTA4: The Lost and Damned (It’s more fun to say “TLAD” but we promise one of us will beat this some day.)
• Borderlands (Speed round is back, we talk Zombie Island sale and weird achievement glitches)
• World of Warcraft (Guess who can never spend $15 a month to play it, ever again!)
• Champions Online (Guess who would beg anyone alive to play it for $15 a month!)
• Rock Band (It’s still Rock Band. This is a good thing.)
• Green Day: Rock Band (things get testy and Dookie is thrown)
• Tony Hawk: Ride (Because, hey, why not mention it?)

• God of War III (It’s awesome, but you knew that already. We kind of compare it to everything. Also, Harlo drops an awesome voice actor spoiler!)
• Star Wars games (will we ever see another good one that follows the original trilogy’s story?)
• Ico (somehow this is related to God of War 3… And the movie Nell!?)
• Dante’s Inferno: Dark Forest DLC (Not evenly remotely worth the $5. Unless you’re an achievement whore. And even then no.)
• Aliens Vs Predator (we lose a Dirt 2 but gain an AvP… And Maki is glad he only paid $10 for it!)
• Borderlands (Speed round returns: we refine our Crawmerax techniques and we ask for Claptrap action figures)
• Red Faction: Guerilla (BJ loves destroying things in this open-world terrorist simulator)
• Just Cause 2 (or how a demo can completely sell all of us on buying a $60 game)

• Diablo 2 (They patched it? Seriously? JUST PUT OUT DIABLO 3 ALREADY)
• Titan Quest (Diablo 2.5… In Greece!)
• Nintendo 3DS (We avoid Virtual Boy jokes! Seriously!)
• Jurassic Park Warpath (Maki’s “retired video game samurai” girlfriend gets the PS1 hooked up, ass-kicking ensues)
• Tekken 3 (Yoshimitsu remains awesome, especially when he imitates Harry Carey)
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater (The framerate sucks and it looks awful now, yet it’s still AWESOME)
• NES systems (somebody send us a top-loading dogbone controller model! Please!)
• Sega Dreamcast! (So many amazing games and we pine for the VMU to return in one form or another)
• 250 gig Xbox 360 hard drive (Still a ripoff, but less of a ripoff)
• USB storage on Xbox 360 (It’s been nice knowing MU)
• Playstation Move (We like the commercial…)

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (More of the same, but that’s a good thing this time)
• Kratos’ Slurpee (apparently, it tastes like anger, which is delicious)
• Heavy Rain (Quick Time Events for everyone!)
• Dante’s Inferno (AKA God of War 2.5)
• Mass Effect 2 (Insanity mode = time consuming)
• Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx (No-limits Borderlands talk returns, now with more Crawdonperax!)

• Portal 2 (Could it be… ARG stuff that doesn’t suck?)
• Call of Duty series (Activision: “Let’s fire the guys who made it good and run this series into the ground!”)
• Psychonauts (The PC version is so much better than we remember!)
• OnLive ($15 per month and you don’t even get any games? NO THANKS)

• Crowbars (or why games need more of them)
• Body Count (Most awesome press release ever?)
• Dirt 2 (Helicopters and racing collide as we all condemn ourselves to hell)
• Final Fantasy 13 (Don’t do it, Maki!)
• Game Renaming Brainstorming Session (The only reason to listen after the final song)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

• Hopscotch, Jacks & NBA Jam: TE (the classics never die!)
• Borderlands (don’t worry, we set a 4-minute limit on Borderlands discussion.)
• 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand (BJ’s box quote: “An intellectual masterpiece.”)
• Burnout Paradise (BJ is now officially elite!)
• Guild Wars (Is it an MMO or not?)
• Mass Effect 2 (Maki spends WAY too much time to have not beaten it yet)
• Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares (It’s like RE1 in RE5!)
• “Exclusive” DLC (We all agree it sucks, especially when you can’t get it anymore)
• Batman Arkham Asylum (Crippling dudes is like riding a bike!)
  
• BioShock 2 (More of the same is not really a good thing, sadly)
• Assassin’s Creed 2 (Harlo faces his enemy and sees what the sequel to his “worst game ever” is like!)

• Dante’s Inferno (Harlo melds with hell while BJ fishes for box quotes)
• Starcraft 2 Beta (Are we over RTS? Or are we just over getting raped by a Korean man?)
• Steam UI Beta (Maki breaks it within 60 seconds, BJ waits for the Ubuntu version)
• Star Trek Online (Don’t worry, it’s the MMO speed round)

• Mass Effect 2 (Harlo and Maki bask in its glory while BJ sleeps it off)
• Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot (We complain about it but keep playing it)
• Sequels In General (We discuss why More Of The Same just doesn’t cut it anymore)

• Gamefly update! (A game flies in, after much anticipation!)
• Star Trek Online (Harlo anticipates actually making it through the queue and playing it!)
• BioShock 2/BioShock (Cautious anticipation abounds!)
• Aliens Vs Predator (Irrational fanboy anticipation!)
• Dante’s Inferno (Tasteful anticipation!)
• Fallout: New Vegas (Flat-out anticipation!)
• Game time counters (We anticipate these being removed one day!)

• Batman: Arkham Asylum (Harlo becomes one with the combat system and we all like it)
• Transformers: The Game (It’s like an intervention for achievement junkies)
• Gamefly! (They actually sent a new game!)
• ET for Atari 2600 (We dig into the landfill for this one)
• Lego Rock Band (Yup, it’s Rock Band. With Legos.)
• Singstar (Rock Band 3, PLEASE integrate the youtube feature)
• Facebook “Games” (Why did we mention this?)
• Star Trek Online (Yup, still an MMO)
• Dragon Realms (Text based gaming is the future, people)

• Ugh, more MMOs (Let us all stop talking about these, please)
• Mass Effect 2 (Our anticipation for this game is palpable)
• DLC/Expansions (Larger or smaller? Which is better)
• House of the Dead: Overkill (Cutscenes and diminishing returns)
• Zombies!!! (Let’s get physical! As in tangible game pieces!)
• Munchkin (Or why it is not good to go in a gaming store)
• Local Co-op (Needs more. Please. For everything.)
• Lost: Via Domus (Over here! In the banyan trees!)
• Wii via Bluray? (Ain’t technology grand?)

• Modern Warfare 2 (Don’t worry, we only talk about it briefly!)
• Borderlands (Harlo’s GOTY!)
• Brutal Legend (DLC GPS!)
• Buying crap for your 360 Avatar (If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem!)
• Borderlands: Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot DLC (Don’t bother solo!)
• Mass Effect (Maki loves it! Harlo… Not so much.)
• Dragon Age (Definitely NOT Harlo’s GOTY!)
• Steam/Xbox/Amazon sales (We spend lots of Space Bucks!)
• Tony Hawk: Ride (Rest easy, Maki didn’t buy it!)
• Far Cry Instincts: Operation Paradise (We barely mention this but it’s awesome so it gets a show note!)
• Shadow Complex (It’s awesome, that is all!)
• Braid (Dare we say it… Overrated!)
• ‘Splosion Man (We all want to buy it but haven’t yet!)
• Fallout 3 (BJ starts it just as Harlo beats ALL of it!)
• Oblivion (Harlo overcomes deleted saves to beat ALL of that, too!)

• Scribblenauts (This game SUCKS!)
• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (This reminds me of a puzzle… Or Harlo’s ex-girlfriend!)
• GTA: Chinatown Wars DS (Dope wars and dildos!)
• PSP vs DS vs iPhone? (It’s a deathmatch!)
• Peggle (We can’t explain why we love it on all platforms!)
• Burnout Legends PSP (Your level is still loading!)
• Uncharted & Uncharted 2 (Harlo LOVES them!)
• InFamous, Mass Effect & Dragon Age (Playing as good or evil characters! We actually have an interesting and funny discussion about this!)

First half!

• Modern Warfare 2 (Dudes get shot!)
• Call of Duty series in general (CoD4, World at War, even CoD2!)
• Gears of War 2 (Horde mode!)
• Left 4 Dead & L4D2 (zombies!)
• Half-Life (crowbars!)
• Counterstrike (get lives, people!)

Second half!

• DJ Hero (and JD Coolguy!)
• Tony Hawk: Ride (why, Maki, why?!)
• Peripherals in general (Radiohead sings about Fake Plastic Guitars!)
• Assassin’s Creed (disagreement!)
• Crackdown (9 MORE F’ING AGILITY ORBS!)
• Diablo/D2 (still good!)
• Sims 3 (Why, Harlo, why?!)
• Carmageddon (BJ still plays it!)
• Fallout 1 & 2 (They kinda don’t hold up!)
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted (Razor Callahan!)
• GTA4: TLAD (DLC we’ve barely played!)
• GTA4, Borderlands, Fallout 3, Oblivion (long or short games? You choose!)

Value Game Picks!

• Torchlight (It’s like a new Diablo without multiplayer!)
• Dead Space (Why don’t you have this yet?!)
• Burnout Paradise (Again, why don’t you have this yet?!)

Songs used (courtesy of OCRemix.org)

• Intro - Underworld Rock by dimmer from Super Mario Bros
• Break - Manic Mugenical by Dandy-J & T.M. Revolutionary from Maniac Mansion
• Outro - Hell March to the Apocalypse by Prince of Darkness from C&C: Red Alert