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Nice episode, guys. It was epically long, so I had to finish it this morning after catching about 2/3 of it on Friday.

I'm honestly surprised that David Jaffe isn't a household name for everyone. He has had a pretty big presence in the industry for a while now, with his claim to fame lying in Twisted Metal. His "toy" comment isn't all that surprising if you've encountered some of the stuff he has said in the past. Being such a prominent developer, I really don't like that he does such a poor job of representing the industry.

Jason Hillhouse, one of our contributing writers and good friend of mine, has worked in the industry and he'll be the first to tell you that guys like Jaffe are the norm and not the outliers. This makes it hard for the rest of society to take gaming seriously, which will ultimately hurt it, but it's not 100% clear how just yet. I'm always concerned that the right nut will make a good case to a misinformed judge, and we'll see the government get involved in the industry. Thank god for the ESA and their efforts to self-regulate via the ESRB.

Anyhow, I also noticed that almost everyone has took note that PC predominant genres are mostly on the chopping block. FPS got the axe there, RTS is dying slowly, and I agree with Stanton, MMOs will likely lose significant popularity after WoW falls by the wayside. I think MMOs can always find an audience, but repeating the success of WoW is highly unlikely.

... Now I'm trying to remember what topics I heard in the part I listened to last week...

Oh right, the NGP. That thing is doomed for failure for the same reasons the PSP failed to match up to the DS. The high price and push for all digital like the PSPgo is a mistake too. Sony, how the mighty have fallen.

In any event, I'm looking forward to next week, and with any amount of luck you guys will have a fourth member joining you. Let me just say that I'm super excited that PixlTalk is back in action. A big thanks to all you guys for contributing, and especially to Jason for organizing all of this. Without his push to get it jump started, it wouldn't have happened.

This was actually a review of the North American version of the game, however, it was done with a DS ROM as opposed to a boxed copy.

Believe it or not, our review has been embargoed for a while due to the game not being released yet. Supposedly, it was released to stores this past Wednesday, but I haven't been able to find a copy of the game anywhere. I actually wanted to pick up a final version for the collection, but have had no luck.

I'm actually excited to try out one of these. I haven't played a Pokemon game since Red/Blue, so I'm pretty excited to get into a new one. Nintendo may be sending us a copy, and if they do, I might have to play along and chronicle my experience as I go (like I'll be doing with Tingle).

Re-encoding with Audacity should've worked. Have you checked this week's out yet, Maxi?

In response to your question Jason, for something like PixlTalk I think one hour to an hour and a half is the max I'd like for a single episode. If you have more content than that, it might make sense to split it in two and release two separate episodes.

Just got this in the mail today, I'm excited to give it a go! I'll probably start playing it next week sometime, but I'll definitely have to boot it up at least once in the meantime and try it out.

There are like 3 or so hanging around IIRC. Phantom Brave, Ghost Recon, and something else... Can't remember.

Well, you do troll the site consistently enough that it's probably worth making an account. At that point, you can edit your comments all you want!

Someone out there must own a PSP and want to review games on it...

Seriously, please help me D:

Hey, good point! I hadn't even noticed that until you pointed it out. That's very interesting and it even further excites me for this game.

Nice episode, Jason. I enjoyed your GDC recap and I really think you summarized Iwata's speech pretty well. As for Explodemon, it sounds pretty lame - for reference, I don't think Splosion Man is all that great either. I think it gets way more praise than it really deserves.

Also, for information on Iwata's keynote speech and a link to watch the actual footage, click here.