To be clear, theWipeoutI am referring to is the one based on theABCtv show, not thetotally awesome racing game. So if you like the show, or you enjoyed the first installment of the game, you can check this one out on any of the three major consoles (the PlayStation and Xbox 360 versions will require the Move and Kinect respectively), as well as the DS and 3DS. For anyone who has never seen the show or played the game,Wipeoutis pretty much just people running crazy and extremely difficult obstacle courses....

Another new Podtoid this week — with emphasis on thenew. We’ve got new hosting, a new Valve game to play, and a new home for our own Jim Sterling. I’m tempted to make some sort of joke about episode 77 having a “new podcast smell,” but that sort of stuff is really overplayed. –Space Invaders Extremeis surprisingly literal – Adam Dork, voice of an angel – Director AI: great for campaigns, less great for versus...

There was no way Podtoid 96 would be able to adequately follow the JCVD-tacular heights Podtoid 95 achieved last week. That will surprise no one. Still, despite the absence of Raul Julia, we managed to make do. This week, Jonathan Ross joined Aaron Linde, Jim Sterling and myself to talk about nonlinear game narratives. And penises. As always, you can listen to the new episodehereor, better yet,get us on iTunes. Whatever floats your boat, really....

After falling in love withThe Mawand‘Splosion Man, I’m pretty much open to whatever Twisted Pixel Games is currently slaving away at. These days, that’d beComic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley. In an effort to get into our brains before the carnage of E3 begins, a number of announcements have been made. Comic Jumper, in case you hadn’t heard, is presented in a few various styles that mimic real-life comics. The third and fourth styles — the Silver Age of comics (“The Improbable Paper Pals”) and manga (“Cutie Cutie Kid Cupids”) — have been revealed....

Even though it didn’t make my “Top Five” list earlier this year, I’ve been really looking forward toGas Powered Games’ upcoming gameDemigod. It’s a difficult game to describe. The closest thing toDemigodis clearly theWarcraft 3modDefense of the Ancients(which, I sadly admit, I have only played a couple times), but even then there are some significant differences. I’m kind of upset it wasn’t on my earlier list, because I really, really like it....

Poor Pigsy. The squat, corpulent sidekick from Ninja Theory’sEnslaved: Odyssey to the Westis so lonesome out there in the wasteland. “Pigsy’s Perfect 10”, an upcoming downloadable add on forEnslaved, is his story. Relegated to a supporting role in the game’s main campaign, “Pigsy’s Perfect 10” brings the salty chubster into the spotlight. Looking for companionship, Pigsy embarks on a quest for parts to build himself a friend. Namco Bandai recently sent along some early preview code of the new content, giving us a sneak peek at what’s in store....

Last night, ourman in JapanDale North got to fiddle around with the PlayStation Vita and provided some excellent coverage. Just to make sure you don’t miss any of it, we’ve collected all the goods in one handy little post. How nice of us! Here’s what you didn’t see if you were asleep last night: TGS: Look at these official PS Vita accessoriesTGS: Vita features shown in detail, corgis featured!TGS: Japan’s Vita 3G coverage pre-paid plans, carrierTGS: Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 is a Vita launch gameTGS: PSP on Vita: 500+ titles, UMD program possibleTGS: Hideo Kojima teases new game that will ‘take awhile’TGS: Metal Gear Solid, Zone of the Enders on Vita, HDTGS: 26 titles announced for Vita, 100 in developmentTGS: PS Vita launches in Japan on December 17thTGS: Final Fantasy X HD announced for PS3 and Vita...

One of the biggest selling points for the PS3 is that Blu-ray player inside it. For a while there it seemed that was one of the only reasons anyone was picking up the system. So it should come as no surprise that according toHome Media Magazine47 percent of people who watch Blu-rays do it on a PS3. However, that’s actually a drop off for the system, as 45 percent of watches are now using stand-alone players where only six months ago the PS3 had a two-to-one advantage over players....

Following its usual pattern of having glimmers of good news interspersed within bad news comes word that Sony has finally managed to make a significant reduction in the production costs of the PlayStation 3 — halving it, to be exact. In a report brought to light byBusinessWeek, Sony has been able to bring the costs down for making a PS3 to around $400. Still not exactly what I’d term a money maker at this point, but by far better than the $800 they were dealing with before....

While the more astute listener may notice that today is, in fact, not Monday (the regular release day forRFGO!), he or she will be glad to have endured the extra day wait for this week’s episode. Why? Because, and this is also a warning, this week’s show is all about … the show. Yep, we do something we’ve yet to do here atRFGO!by giving the listeners a showaboutthe show from our perspective....

Sports are so totally boring. I realize some of you might like sports, but us? Not so much. Actually, there are two squirrels fighting over an acorn outise my window right now, and it’s a much more interesting competition to me than the thing that’s going to be on TV tonight. We talked about doing a sports episode in honor of that thing, but after about 8 seconds of deliberation, we decided that we don’t give a f*ck about the Super Bowl....

Of course there’s moreCall of Duty: Black Opsdownloadable content on the way. You guys keep buying it, and Activision isn’t going to leave money on the table. While it hasn’t been announced, an alleged GameStop promotional flyer has outed the details of the third pack, reportedly called “Retaliation.” The pack is said to feature four new multiplayer maps — “Hangar 18,” “Hazard,” “Silo,” and “Drive-In” — along with a new zombie map....

Now, I actually happened to enjoy the game version ofScarface, but licensed games that turn out to be good are about as rare as it gets. What’s even worse is that after seeing the successScarfacehas now had, game publishers will continue to go after the quick buck and push out the usual movie tie-in crap we’re used to. I’d put a ton of hope into the fact that this won’t happen, but I’m a realist and fully expect unsuspecting gamers to be taken advantage of....