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This week Nathan continues with Animal Crossing as well as returning to another GCN classic: Metroid Prime. Jon continues with Mario Tennis Open and Sean finishes The Darkness 2, Iron Brigade and plays some Happy Action Theater. In the news section we discuss the further developments of 38 Studios, Ron Gilbert's new Double Fine game and Nathan mentions something about a pony documentary.

This week Nathan has been fully absorbed in Animal Crossing for the GameCube, but finds time to play through Max Payne 3. Jon is trying out Mario Tennis Open and Sean finishes Skyward Sword, The Darkness, ends his time with Super Mario 3D Land and starts up The Darkness 2. As for news, more games continue to get pushed into 2013, the Devil May Cry reboot gets a release date, Bungie's next game get...

It's the launch night of Max Payne 3 and Diablo 3 and we're all here, indoors, to talk about it. Over the last week Sean finished Asura's Wrath along with its first piece of DLC and started up Skyward Sword again; Jon played more Kid Icarus as well as some older games which I can't really remember the names of. One is Bee 52 (sp?). Nathan tried out a My Little Pony and Ace Attorney cross over game...

After a week of post-convention illness and work woes, we are back with another helping of video-game-related anecdotes and news. Kicking it off, the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo was last week, so Sean, Jon and Nathan summarize their highlights from Western Canada’s BIGGEST nerd-friendly expo (so…many…bronies). Then they go over the pros and cons of “Indie Game: The Movie” before it is rev...

It's a long one this week since we got a million questions sent into us - which is great! Jon's been playing some 3DS downloadable games while Sean tries out more shitty Kinect Fun Labs games, L.A. Noire DLC, Mass Effect 3's new multiplayer DLC and plays through all of Fez. Nathan returns from his road trip which means more WTF. As for news, Prey 2 is still alive, Nintendo held an event in Japan a...

This week Nathan is off at some music festival but Jon is back from PAX East. He goes over his time at the convention as well as Mario Tennis Open and Dust. Sean plays through Journey again and tries out a small bit of Fez. As for news, Resident Evil 6 is getting an insane collector's edition and Gamestop's in California have to advertise the loss of bonus content for used games.

This week Jon is away at PAX East so it is up to Nathan and Sean to hold down the fort. Sean finishes up Kid Icarus: Uprising and gives his final thoughts on the game while Nathan continues to attempt artistry with Draw Something. The season three finale of the Tester aired last week so we finish up our coverage of that...until next year hopefully. As for the news we discuss Harmonix's recently an...

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT MASS EFFECT 3 SPOILED! We rip this game apart and ruin almost every plot point we can think of, if you're playing or plan to ever play Mass Effect 3 and don't want the story spoiled for you then do not listen to this episode. As for the content. Sean, Nathan and Game Guiders' and Media Monks co-host Paul Fleck gather to discuss all things Mass Effect 3. We t...

We found Jon so we're all accounted for! Jon is finishing Return to Dreamland and playing (incorrectly) Kid Icarus: Uprising, while Sean is also playing it (correctly). Nathan played the new hotness: Draw Something. As for news, the CEO of OMGPOP went kind of crazy, Fez gets a release date and Obsidian pitches in to help with Wasteland 2.

This week Jon is mysteriously missing but that doesn't stop Sean and Nathan from discussing a little more Mass Effect 3 and the plans for a spoilercast. We also briefly mention Kid Icarus: Uprising, The Hunger Games iOS game and Mario RPG. As for news: the The Walking Dead game is detailed, information on Bioware and Mass Effect 3's ending is brought up and LittleBigPlanet Karting is announced for...

This week Sean and Nathan are talking about Mass Effect 3 again as well as the recently released Journey on the PSN. Jon plays through some Kirby's Return to Dreamland. As for news, a new highly popular Kickstarter has popped up to make a sequel to Wasteland after seeing the success of Double Fine, XBLA games are soon going to be getting a significant gamerscore update, Diablo 3 release dates and...

It's Mass Effect 3 week so Sean and Nathan proceed to talk about that for a good chunk of time. Along with this Nathan and Jon have been playing the Home Improvement game as well as Street Fighter X Tekken. The fifth episode of the Tester is discussed as we get ever closer to the end of this season. As for news, we recap how Double Fine's kickstarter is going, discuss a delay for Counter-Strike GO...

Make sure you listen to all of the show this week as there's a special ending on this one made by Nathan. Jon is playing some Dillon's Rolling Western as well as Twisted Metal with Nathan. Sean finishes up Rhythm Heaven Fever, Halo Anniversary, Alan Wake's American Nightmare and some old launch Kinect Games. As for news, we got Nintendo's newest employee, information on Assassin's Creed 3 and a la...

Nathan starts off (and continues to bring up) this week's show with more pony talk. Jon is playing some old NES games along with Ratchet and Clank All-for-One. Nathan tries out some Kinect games including Double Fine's Happy Action Theatre and Sean finishes Warp and starts up Alan Wake's American Nightmare. We continue our coverage of the third season of The Tester and discuss Nintendo recent stri...

This week Jon is sick so he sniffles a lot but he talks about Tekken 3D and Twisted Metal. Nathan has some some opinions about the Mass Effect 3 demo and Sean talks about Warp and Rhythm Heaven Fever. As for news, there isn't really any.

This week Jon is finishing up some games as well as checking out the recent XBLA port of The Simpsons Arcade, Nathan is playing Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale and Sean is playing Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and revisiting Borderlands. As for the news, we detail the upcoming Mass Effect 3 iOS apps and talk to great length about some interesting deals going on over at Double Fine.

The 3DS continues to being the heat as Jon discusses Sakura Samurai and Mutant Mudds. Nathan is trying out Puzzle Juice as well as returning to the PS2 for some Marc Echo's Getting Up and Sean continues through Skyward Sword. In the news category: the latest Mass Effect novel has some weird stuff going on, as well as BioWare announcing a mobile version of Mass Effect 3 and Capcom releases Ghost Tr...

We're back with a ton of stuff to talk about! Nathan is playing Cave Story + as well as trying out Star Trek Online; Jon plays some old SNES games I can't remember as well as the majority of Shadows of the Damned and Sean is trying out the XBLA version of Ticket to Ride and the new iOS hit: Puzzle Juice. As for the news, we're talking about a ton of WiiU stuff as well the recently release Resident...

There's still nothing really going on this week in games but we've been playing stuff. Sean tried out 2010's Fluidity as well as put in some real time with Skyward Sword and Jon is playing Zen Pinball on the 3DS.

This week is all about playing through the backlog. Sean talks about his time with Lost in Shadow, Kirby's Return to Dreamland and You Don't Know Jack. Jon is playing some SNES games as well as more Mario Kart 7 and Nathan is going through and enjoying Driver: San Francisco. As for news, the trailer for the third season of the Tester is out (and it's GREAT) and Microsoft announces information on t...

SPOILER WARNING! We spoil a ton of games for people during this. We don't even warn people at some points. So, if we start talking about a game that you don't want to be spoiled in anyway, it's safer to just assume we spoiled it at some point. Otherwise, take your chances. Games we spoil for sure: Ghost Trick, Catherine and Portal 2 (those are off the top of my head). In this show each of us discu...

It's back log time and Sean is playing Dance Central 2, The Gunstringer, some crappy Kinect Fun Labs games, getting angry at Fruit Ninja Kinect and the recent 3DSWare hit: Pushmo. Jon is also playing some Pushmo as well as getting progressively angrier at Mario Kart 7 and Nathan deletes Tiny Tower during the recording! As for news, there are some Q1 release dates from Nintendo announced, DeadMau5...

This week Sean has finished up Rayman Origins. tested out Mirror's Edge iOS and continued, along with Jon, to play Mario Kart 7. Nathan tries some Kinect games and we discuss the 360 and 3DS's latest updates. As for news, we talk about some of the reveals on the Spike TV Video Game Awards, Bastion getting some interesting DLC and Club Nintendo offering some news prizes.

The year is slowly wrapping up and that means games aren't really coming out anymore. However, we're talking about this week's one big release: Mario Kart 7. Sean also finishes Assassin's Creed Revelations and Saints Row the Third, Jon plays some Cave Story 3D and Nathan has toe shoes! As for news, we discuss Xenoblade coming stateside, Notch stepping down as lead of Minecraft and Obsidian's plans...

The games keep rolling in as Nathan and Sean discuss Saints Row the Third and Jon is finishing up Super Mario 3D Land. We also discuss Fruit Ninja Kinect and a bit of Kinect Adventures as well as the first-party Vita launch line-up in Europe and the next 360 dashboard update.