Oh, you think we're talking about the game. Well, it is a game, but not that one. You'll just have to listen to find out. This week, Edie Sellers and Commander Tim are joined by Holy Goalie of the GameHounds Sanctuary. In addition to discussing drinking games and scorpion bowls, they also get into the news of the week, including:

• Modern Warfare 2 blows every previous sales record out of the water, meanwhile cheif douchbag Bobby Kotick sells off 40 perecent of his holdings in the company at a cool $20 million profit. Hail, Satan!
• Ars Technica says skip the PC version of MW2 because it sucks. Bobby will get you, and your little dog Toto, too.
• Regie Fils-Amie says that Super Mario Brothers will outsell MW2. Eventually. And with caveats.
• Microsoft initiates a holy jihad on Live customers using modded Xboxes and bootleg disks, banning more than a million customers and soft-bricking their machines. Meanwhile, the semi-bricked 360s are now showing up on Craigslist dirt cheap.
• Alan Wake is rumored to be arriving in stores in May.
• Sega says it won't be selling Alien vs. Pretator in Germany. Sorry, Hansel.
• The Rumble Pack will join the GameHounds Humpdate staff when it comes back from vacation. Check them out!
• Random stuff, email, thank yous.

Enjoy.

Yes, more zombies it does have. And more Edie Sellers and more Commander Tim. But it's got less Cooper Hawkes. Crisp and clean! This week, Edie and Tim discuss:

• Congrats to Ben Hiebing of Sheboygan Falls, WI, for winning the Platform Nation pumpkin-carving contest.
• Netflix streaming on PS3 is getting the nerd-rage treatment.
• Direct2Drive, Impulse and Gamersgate all turn their backs on Modern Warfare 2 because of the imbedded Steam store.
• No Doubt sues Activision for turning frontwoman Gwen Steffani into a hermaphrodite.
• Kotaku's Michael Fahey notes that Activision's butchering of lyrics in Band Hero is ridiculous.
• Random stuff, voice mail, and fun, fun, fun.

Enjoy.

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.