This week we talk about 90s music, Dark Void, Chime, Dante’s Inferno, Jurassic: The Hunted, Battlefield 1943, Trials HD, Mass Effect 2, Heavy Rain, The Beatles: Rock Band, the Blur beta, Final Fantasy XIII, and checkpoint #3 in TVGP Plays: Half-Life 2.

• GDC 2010: Sony unveils the Playstation Move
• GDC 2010: OnLive launches June 17th
• GDC 2010: Capy announces Clash of Heroes for XBLA / PSN
• GDC 2010: Rock Band 3 surprisingly coming out this year
• We judge the new Sonic 4 details
• Shockingly, Ubisoft’s DRM servers had a little downtime, maybe were hacked
• Portal 2 announced! Also, we reminisce about the BBS days
• Scribblenauts 2 announced, Boston is too excited about adjectives
• Sony files a patent for eroding game demos

As you might guess from the title, we spoil the hell out of Heavy Rain!  We go through the whole game and give our thoughts on the story overall and our individual playthroughs.

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Even though we’re short one person this week we manage to record the longest episode yet! We talk about Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Heavy Rain, Red Faction: Guerrilla, and the second checkpoint in TVGP Plays Half-Life 2.

• General Infinity Ward Craziness
• It was a quiet weekend for PS3 phat owners
• Portal gets a patch, internet detectives solve the mystery
• Avalanche CEO says more games should be cancelled
• The PS2 is ten years old
• Rock Band Network launched this week
• Itigaki starts talking again, starts a new studio

Even though the snow threatened to stop us, we still manage to chat about Dirt, Bayonetta, Chime, Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Ninja Blade, Heavy Rain, Left 4 Dead, and the Williams Collection. And the perfect recipe for mashed potatoes?

• Nintendo holds a Spring Conference
• Criterion developer says modern FPSs are f-ing boring
• Men are buying less movie tickets, Xbox is to blame?
• We have killed an insane number of zombies in Left 4 Dead 2

TVGP Alumni Brad joins us this week to talk about Mass Effect 2, Indigo Prophecy, DiRT, Serious Sam HD, Chime, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Mass Effect, Bioshock 2, MegaMan 2, Plants versus Zombies, and Rise of the Triad.

• Microsoft and Sony unveil plans for their networks on mobile phones
• RUMOR: DS2 is in the hands of developers, is pretty awesome
• Darksiders gives you a healthy taste of the game
• GameFan relaunching in mid-March
• Bobby Kotick shuts down a studio, then insults them

The TVGP Recording Curse strikes again, chewing up our recording and spitting it out. We do manage to chat about Mass Effect 2, Star Trek Online, The Williams Collection (only a little, I promise!), Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5, Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Left 4 Dead 2, Serious Sam HD, Chime, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Darksiders, Bioshock 2, and Mass Effect. Whew!

• Microsoft’s X10 Conference starts as we start recording
• I love ‘em, you love ‘em, it’s January NPDs!
• The original Xbox Live being discontinued on April 15th
• BlazBlue: Continuum Shift coming to consoles…sometime

Back in the studio again, we chat our way through Mass Effect 2, Trials HD, Madden 10, Mass Effect, Darksiders, Mass Effect: Galaxy, Assassin’s Creed 2: The Battle of Forli, KrissX, and Chime.

• Capcom to change outsourcing strategy
• Games kiosk comapny, e-Play, suspends operations
• God of War III releasing in March
• Project Needlemouse fully unveiled
• Fable 3 to reinvent game mechanics
• Sony working hard on PS1/PS2 digital releases

Snow strikes again, but the magic of Skype helps us talk about Serious Sam HD, Shadow Complex, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Trials HD, Madden 10, Darksiders, Final Fantasy VIII, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

• Ubisoft announces brand new and highly controversial DRM scheme
• Microsoft claims that Microsoft Points were never meant to mislead people
• Warner Bros. looking to the Mortal Kombat movie ‘franchise’

This week Knobs 1000 points Williams Collection and kicks his habit, and we chat about Heavenly Sword, Serious Sam HD, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, inFAMOUS, Final Fantasy VIII, and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes.

• December NPDs
• NetFlix streaming coming to the Wii
• Rumor: Sony’s motion controller may be called ‘Arc’, though it definitely is delayed
• There will definitely be a Crackdown 2 demo. I can also see my house from here.

No pre-show video this week. We explain at the beginning of the show. We should have one next week!

We chat about quite a few games this week, but we start with Knobs’ waning addiction to the Williams Collection, Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond, Gears of War 2, Darksiders, DIRT, inFAMOUS, Shatter, Allods Online, Wii Fit Plus, EA Sports Active, and Final Fantasy VIII.

• Microsoft unveils Game Room for 360/PC at CES…
• …and have a few more details about Natal
• TVGP PSA: Nintendo no longer shipping Metroid Prime Trilogy
• Ubisoft announce plans for the upcoming fiscal year