Harried and annoyed, Ben and the Petes meet up for a short show about the FORZA 3 and BAYONETTA demos, the final word on HALO 3: ODST, AAaaAA!!! A RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR GRAVITY (I took out a whole mess of a’s to keep line breaks reasonable), LUCIDITY, METEOS, TETRIS and a pile of other strange stuff. We also do an abbreviated Winning Time for MEGA MAN 9 and...

Yes, console games are too expensive. Though we might have grown slightly more immune to retail sticker shock since this generation of machines emerged a few years ago, $60 remains one outrageous sum, especially compared to what we’re asked to pay for graphically superior, more flexible PC ports of those games. But when we’re judging the relative merits...

A funny thing happened on the way to the FTP server. We had a top five for this week — our favorite swords and sorcery games — to match our planned discussion of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” I explicitly remember recording all 25 minutes of it. I even remember pausing it after my mom, who’s visiting my place this week,...