We’re a little loopy this week, but we manage to chat about Crackdown 2, Dead or Alive 4, Meds, Chime, Limbo, Deathspank, Trials HD, Red Dead Redemption, Persona 3 Portable, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Puzzle Quest 2.

• June NPDs!
• Kinect pricing and bundles are announced
• Marvel vs. Capcom 3′s roster is now x+6

It’s a mix of old and new with Crackdown 2, Frequency, Amplitude, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2, Chime, Risk: Factions, Persona 3 Portable, Red Dead Redemption, and Blacklight: Tango Down.

• Welp, Blizzard’s RealID is already gone
• 3DS has crazy, unexplainable piracy protection
• Microsoft cancels 1 vs 100
• Double Fine working on a slew of new games
• Codemasters says they’ve figured out how to kill DRM

A shorter episode this week with Ryan out and us losing a bunch of audio near the end, but we do chat about Risk: Factions, Split/Second, Rez HD, Mirror’s Edge, Ace Combat 6, Left 4 Dead, Chime, Crackdown 2, Puzzle Quest 2, Tiger Woods 11, Persona 3 Portable, and Scribble Defense.

• March NPDs!
• Microsoft to help organize the XBL Store with Destination Arcade
• PS4 development will be more developer-focused
• Your actual, real name will show up on the Blizzard forums

We have a smattering of old and new games this week, with Amplitude, Chime, Poker Smash, Rez HD, Just Cause 2, Crackdown 2 demo, OnLive, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, Risk: Factions, Crackdown, and Puzzle Quest 2.

• ABP will have in-game voice chat ads
• Diablo II is 10 years old…
• …and Pac-Man celebrates his 30th birthday
• A Sony exec makes it pretty clear there are more HD PS2 games coming
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC returning (but only for a short time)

Capturing two weeks of our whatcha been playing, we cover Alan Wake, Baby Maker Extreme, Rez, Mass Effect 2: Overlord DLC, Frequency, Split/Second, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Dirt 2, Crackdown 2 Demo, and Dante’s Inferno.

• Xbox 360 Arcade Slim annonced, $200
• Microsoft also announces the incredibly wordy Xbox Live Gold Discount Family Pack
• OnLive launches, we’ve got prices
• The first few Dreamcast re-releases are a bit different

It’s all E3 all the time (and then some e-mails!). There are far too many hot new games we talked about to list them all, but you should join the E3 2010: The Thread of Predictions, Hopes, & Shattered Dreamsthread over on the fourms. Big props to Soulman for starting that thread.

Before we reminisce about old games again, we chat about Dead Space: Extraction, Dead or Alive 4, Split/Second, Duke Nukem 3D, Alan Wake, Pure, Modern Warfare 2 (single player), Snoopy Flying Ace, Dirt 2, and 3D Dot Game Heroes.

• New Mortal Kombat movie/pitch?
• An unlikely partnership announces Dungeon Seige 3
• Dragon Age anime on the way
• Class action lawsuit claims Final Fantasy XIII freezes PS3s
• Interested in White Knight Chronicles 2? Might want to play the first game…
• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions gets all 2099

We spend some time this week avoiding the rain and talking about Alan Wake, Split/Second, Modern Warfare 2, Pure, Dirt 2, and Dead Space: Extraction.

• New PSP ‘Favorites’ line, free games!
• Happy Birthday to Rare!
• Red Faction: Armageddon unveiled Friday
• EA tries to justify their add-on online codes
• The next MMORPG is in the Mummy universe? Wha?

Though we didn’t play many games this week, we did have a great conversations about Split/Second, Blur, Modern Warfare 2, and Alan Wake.

• Mass Effect movie rights acquired
• Supreme Court rules that NFL teams are separate entities
• Little-known (to us, at least) Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project coming to XBLA
• Google Pac-Man made permanent, kills everyone’s time
• RUMOR: Natal costs $150, maybe renamed to Wave?

The magic of Skype brings us together to talk about Dead or Alive 4, Split/Second, Trials HD, Madden 10, Modern Warfare 2, Dead Space, Alan Wake, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and The Gamers: Dorkness Rising.

• There’s disaster in the April NPDs
• Visceral job listing may hint at Dante’s Inferno 2
• RUMOR: Premium PSN subscription may be announced at E3
• Mass Effect 2 DLC may lead into Mass Effect 3