Ugh. Mongo like this episode. Balmer like, too. Commander Tim nice man. So is Cooper Hawkes. Edie Sellers have pretty face and nice voice. They talk games. And news. Lots of news. Week very big and full with news. They make Mongo laugh. They funny. Show this week include:

• Xbox Live Dashboard Update preview not nice. Mongo hate.
• Sony lose lots of money on Playstation 3. That make Mongo sad.
• Nokia stop support of N-Gage. Mongo sad about that, too.
• Sega Racing Classic, or another word for next Daytona game but without bad words like "Daytona" and "NASCAR," testing in arcades now.
• Balmer make mistake last week. Major Nelson correct. But maybe Balmer not make mistake and Major Nelson lie. Mongo confused now.
• X-Game finally make adapter for Xbox 360. Mongo say Microsoft can suck it.
• Nintendo announce new DSi called DSi XL. Will be larger.
• Random stuff, email and thank yous.

Enjoy, nice people. Go night-night now.

Man, oh man, have we got man in this episode. In as long as it's been, we are stunned that we have two, count 'em two, men on this show. Both Commander Tim and Cooper Hawkes join Edie Sellers to do up the news that they do so well. On this week's episode:

• Wanna win a bunch of swag, including a The Beatles: Rock Band t-shirt, a Brutal Legend patch, a pack of candy cigarettes, a copy of Brutal Legend and a copy of Hello Kitty Online (oh, and a $20 gift card to Amazon)? Check this out!
• Xbox Live Dashboard Preview phase one is out. Did you get it?
• Gamestop says that its plan to combat digital distribution is to, among other things, to buy an existing digital distribution entity. Whoa.
• Unreal engine for consumers? Sign us up!
• If you got your copy of Borderlands early, you didn't get to play it early. Sorry.
• Peter Molyneux says there are five games that inspire him as innovators in the industry. Do they compute?
• Fable 3 will have microtransactions and Project Natal support.
• Major Nelson corrects Steve Balmer in public. Balmer make boom-boom in his pants!
• Nannies say Dante's Inferno's "Bad Nanny" achievement belittles their profession.
• Random stuff, email and more, more more!

Enjoy!

Hey, it finally showed up! Episode 84 is in the can, as they say in the "biz." And it seems that GamerEdie Sellers and Commander Tim have a lot to say after taking a week off. They came back rested and ready to talk out the issues of the last two weeks. As promised in the show, here's the show notes, including a link to sign up for the upcoming Xbox Dashboard Update Preview.

• Major Nelson says if you're using a non-authorized Memory Unit, you may not want to take the new dashboard update. Either that or move your game-save backups and profiles back to your hard drive first.
• Sony announces a 250GB PS3 for the US starting November 3 for $349.
• Oh yeah. That Xbox Dashboard Update Preview? Wanna sign up for it? Go to this link. You'll need your GamerTag, Windows Live ID name, your console serial number and your console ID number.
• Michael Pachter says that Project Natal needs to be $50, the PS3 motion controller $100.
• Nintendo, Capcom and 53 other publishers file suit against four resellers of the R4 flash cards that hack your DS.
• Random stuff, thank yous, and other fun.

Enjoy... Tim's genetically perfect eyebrows.

Lost joke? Yeah, it was almost a lost episode. First, let's dispatch with the credits. Opening music is "Sucky Yaki" from the album Nothin' But Sausage from Ken Yokoyama. The vocals on that track are not Ken, but the GameHouds official Japanese interpreter and "assistant sound engineer" Serge Verhovski (also known as the bass player for that album). We got his permission for the music, and we think it's very fitting for the first episode back after our soiree to Tokyo. Next, closing music is "Gay Bar" by Electric Six. As for show notes, GamerEdie and Cooper Hawkes discuss:

• The PSP Go is out and about.
• The Entertainment Consumers Association launches "Gamers for Digital Rights" to help keep that pesky DRM crap out of our games, hopefully.
• Do not update your Wii to Menu Update 4.2, unless you like big white bricks in your home theater system.
• Nintendo Life confirms that you cannot move purchased DSiWare from your old DSi to a new DSi. Sahweet! (uh, not).
• OnLive proves it can make a buttload of venture-capital scratch. But can it launch?
• Thank yous, email and fun.

Enjoy.

Huhwhaaa? Is it Humpday already? Man, this jet lag is kicking my butt. Thank god we have the SportsHound WillG and an interview with Chris Arbogast of Nyko Technologies and Edie's first-person impressions of Assassin's Creed 2 from Tokyo Game Show. Otherwise, we'd be in some serious, serious doodie, my friends. Hound doodie. The worst kind. Enjoy.

LIVE FROM TOKYO
(well, it was live when we recorded it)

This week, Edie brings us all the news and happenings from the floor of Tokyo Game Show (or TGS as the kids call it). And even though she's totally exhausted herself in the pursuit of journalistic excellence, she dishes out on the sites and very loud sounds of the upcoming games we'll all be playing (well, except Commander Tim, he only plays Pong). Listen in for info on: Assassin's Creed 2
Bayonetta
Pixel Junk Shooter
Insightful comments by a Japanese game developer panel
PSPGo (or Sony Face-Palm)
A new Project Natal demo

Yep, it’s a day early because Edie’s taking off to Tokyo tomorrow morning.

And yep, it’s without shownotes for exactly the same reason. We just don’t have time to post anything, especially considering that Edie hasn’t unpacked from PAX yet.

So, enjoy the extra day of GameHounds love. And the next time you hear us, it will be from Tokyo Game Show.

This week's Humpdate is ever so special. Have I mentioned how special it is? I did. Didn't I? In addition to all that specialness, we have Edie with her interview with Tom French, the lead designer of Saboteur from PAX, the SportsHound WillG reviews Madden NFL 10 and the "AFC Legacy Pack" add-on, Holy Goalie offers some non-gaming advice for the backyard barbequer (hey, we can't game all the time), and the Digital Cowboys discuss lesbian love and Fear Effect with the Eidos' community manager. Enjoy.

Yay. Edie's back home, at least for a couple weeks. And after a last-minute dash to PAX, she's got a lot to talk about. She, Commander Tim and Cooper Hawkes discuss what she saw at the Penny Arcade Expo and the rest of the general news of the gaming world. These tasty news nuggets include:

• Nineties-rock gargoyle Courtney Love cries foul as Kurt Cobain becomes a playable character in Guitar Hero 5. Former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic agree. Too bad all three personally signed off on the music and images and spent the last three years working with Activision so Cobain would be part of the game. Damn the internet. It never forgets.
• Wolfenstein flounders at retail. But isn't it nice to know that Blizzard brings in so much money that Activision doesn't need to sell anything but one game a year?
• Dear Resident Moron, when you pirate a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum for the PC, don't complain about bugs in the company forums.
• Random stuff, email.
• Edie takes a listener-written gaming history test. Hilarity and embarassment ensues.

Enjoy.

Didn’t get enough PAX coverage from day 1 of Platform Nation’s live coverage?

Didn’t get enough GameHounds for the week?

Never fear, day 2 is available for download.

On this recap, Steve 519 hosts Edie Sellers of GameHounds and Lefty Brown and Mrs. Lefty Brown from the Married Gamers. We get cameos from BDazzler and GuiJ of the Gamers Pub.

A bunch of great guests drop in for the show as well, including Doc Adams of Sarcastic Gamer and Dan Echo of Breaking the Game, and Kiki Lewis of The Blue Skittle.

Oh, and did we mention that we also get visits from:

• Chris Keene of Playlogic to chat about Fairytale Fights.
• Dave Marshal, editor of upcoming Mass Effect Redemption comic series for Darkhorse Comics.

And the games we chat up?

• Mass Effect 2
• Saboteur
• Tekken 6
• Star Trek Online
• Champions Online
• Left 4 Dead 2