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This weeks gaming podcast, we’re flashing back to Trade Wars and the Teleplay Modem while learning a bit about our communities ideas about video gaming in prison. We’re checking out a few news tidbits for the week:

• PlayStation 3 has been hacked
• Microsoft plagued by another class action lawsuit
• Nintendo giving their opinion of the iPad
• Gamestop COO wants to educate customers about DLC
• Metal Gear Solid Head developer not happy with delay

This week we’re asking the question: Is it acceptable for older people to play games and when did this become socially acceptable for adults to be gamers?

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This week we’re missing Don but we’re making up for it with pure awesome. Well, we’re taking a flashback look at Buck Bumble and the history of Argonaut Games. We’re busting through some community feedback and covering a few news tidbits:

• Tiger’s Scandal doesn’t hurt sales
• Flash Exploit hacks WoW accounts
• Onlive Gaming service in closed beta
• Sims 3 tops global PC charts for 2009
• Scottish prisoners learning via the Nintendo DS

This week’s question of the week is simple: Will DS products change the life of those in prison?

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This weeks gaming podcast brings us some recent news articles while also focusing the history and flashbacks on play-by-mail games. We’re looking at Diplomacy and discussing this weeks comments. The week in news includes:

• Analyst predicts Nintendo “DS2″ will be out in 2011
• Beatles Rock Band lack luster sales
• Nintendo Wii finally gets Netflix
• ESRB Rating Awareness
• Games Fueling Social Change

Don’s with us in studio this week and goes on a tear about iPhone Monopoly, requiring many censor beeps. We’re asking a new question of the week: ESRB – What is your ratio to TV/Movies for electronic entertainment?

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This week’s gaming podcast paints its face with your blood. Okay, not quite, but we’re definitely hitting up some news, reading community comments and looking back at Sinistar and the history of the Power Pad. This weeks news includes:

• Metroid Prime Trilogy Dead
• 2K Boston Once Again Irrational Games
• Microsoft focusing on unique experience for Natal
• Fable 3 to be unveiled soon

We’re also asking the question, are you looking forward to a LEGO mmo?

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This week we’re bringing the energy, talking about General Computer Corporation, Ms. Pac-Man and reading off some good listener questions (including our facebook questions). We’re hitting up the news with the following stories:

• Microsoft Working on new motion control
• EA shutting down game servers
• Activision making DJ hero 2
• Sega not making hard core titles for the Wii
• EA cutting game prices?

This week’s question of the week, are we going to spend more money on episodic content than a single-boxed game?

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This gaming podcast closes out the year of 2009, we’re going to put in our predictions for the year, we’re going to hear a few comments from listeners and flash back to a game that has yet to be (but is old enough to flash back): Duke Nukem Forever. You’ll also, finally, get the first impressions of Assassin’s Creed 2 and some game news including:

• Duke Nukem Not Done
• PSP 4000 Advertisement was a mistake
• Sony to combine international shipping and video game distribution
• Square Enix Doesn’t separate gamers into categories

We’ll also ask for your predictions on next years gaming excitement. What are your predictions, in the game industry, for “twenty ten”?

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This weeks gaming podcast flashes back to Drakkhan, touches on the history of Infocom and battles some gaming news in a time when gaming news is light. We’re reading some community comments and tackling these difficult headlines:

• Natal suffering from lag?
• Another PSP model in the works?
• Blizzard is not anti-console
• Carl Icahn Buys more than 11% stock in Take Two
• Blu Ray 3D specification finalized

This week’s question of the week, what occurred in 2009 that “wowed” you, made you happy, built your excitement or just generally rocked your face off?

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This week’s gaming podcast is slightly light on news because nobody wants to inform the market about gaming updates, they don’t want to damage the holiday sales season. We might not be eating Vegemite sandwiches but there is no doubt Men at Work would love this episode. We’re flashing back to California Games, we’re hitting up some gaming history on artist and graphic designer Paul Jaquays. We’re reading some listener comments while handling these news tidbits:

• Aussies Ask To Voice Option On R18+ Rating
• Wii Remote Colors
• Game Sales Down, Layoff Ax Begins Swinging
• Will EA Stand by Tiger?

This week’s question of the week, what do you think of Tiger Woods and his role with Electronic Arts? Will they keep him on the cover?

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This week we’re touching on a couple key gaming podcast style stories. We didn’t get through the gaming history this week because we had a lot of content to cover. We did, however, hit up the gaming flashback with M.U.L.E and learn about Tony Hawk’s ugly baby. This weeks gaming podcast includes:

• Namco Bandai Licenses RealD’s Stereoscopic Gaming API
• Pachter predicts another 360 price cut
• Tony Hawk Fights back
• Wii is being called this generation winner

This week’s question of the week: Are you ready for a next-generation console yet?

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This week’s gaming podcast brings back the old game Lemmings in our flashback while covering the history of DMA Designs. We’re also going to explain to you why we’d never make an FPS clan. This weeks news includes:

• Xbox Live iPhone App
• Microsoft thinking about bringing Natal to TVs
• Santa Claus coming to PlayStation Home
• Puzzle Quest 2 Coming in the Spring
• Valve and Steam don’t mix
• Blizzard: Don’t bother cloning WoW

This week’s question of the week, would you rather have the “Swiss army knife” of gaming hand-held systems that does it all, but features must be turned off to conserve battery life or a more focused hand-held platform that does just what’s needed with no additional bells and whistles?