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

This is a compilation of all of the checkpoints for TVGP Plays Bioshock. If you want to revisit the checkpoints or join the discussion, the thread on the forums is still open.

Huge props to Nintendork327 from the forums for putting this episode together.

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?

The TVGP Outcast returns! This is a collection of all the outtakes from a few episodes, where we’re talking about random stuff between segments. This time around we talk about our five favorite vampires, adrenaline rage, plums, The Spirit, too much food, Star Wars, DUDE WHATEVER, Crispin Freeman, and more!