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.