Hey all. If you were lucky enough to get into the Xbox Live Update Preview, we want to cordially invite you to join Edie for an evening of grindhouse mayhem on Netflix. Tonight at 8 p.m., we’ll be showing a selection from Edie’s Netflix queue — trust us when we say it’s going to be [...]

If you find yourself in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, you might wander over to Electronic Arts’ Redwood City campus.
First: Hey! You can finally walk onto EA’s Redwood City campus without getting tossed out on your keester by a couple of EA Stormtroopers. That alone is pretty cool.
Second: The company is holding an [...]

My GameHounds co-host Commander Tim has it to me so many times in the past: “Adventure games can never be good on a console.”
He’s not the only person to believe so.
And who’s to blame him? The adventure game flourished in the days when only the PC could provide the graphics, interface and processing capacity to [...]

When you’re a toddler, there’s nobody bigger than your dad. He towers above you, glowers in a scary way when he’s angry, but he can pick you up and toss you so high you feel like Superman. To you, he is immortal. To you, he is infallible. To you, he is the greatest human being [...]

Feel like being a part of the E3 mahem?
Edie and a host of other Platform Nation hosts will be liveblogging the major media briefings this year via CoverItLive.com. Check out these links during the press conferences and you’ll be hooked in to Edie, Chris Brown of the Married Gamers, Johnathan and Bryan of the Target [...]

As if you need yet another reason to get on Twitter next week (uh, you did know about our upcoming Liveblogging of the major E3 press conferences, right?), Electronic Arts has announced that you’ll be able to ask questions directly to Tim Schafer about his upcoming game, Brütal Legend.
According to the announcement:
For your chance to [...]

I’m not an engineer.

Oh, I’m a tech head as much as the next guy, but I do not have strong electronics skills, nor do I possess the time to build a special coupling that allows me to hook up a Wii to my PC for the purposes of backing the files on the built in memory board.

What I have is an understanding of technology and imagination, and it is armed with these very lethal weapons that I write this article.

I had been chatting with Bert, a long time listener with whom I’ve developed a personal relationship. We had started talking about when the next generation of consoles would come out and threw around ideas of what type of system they would be. We both realized that without some major changes in the hardware, piracy would still be a major concern for console makers and software developers.

The average gamer bemoans any DRM. They beg, plead, and cry to publishers how it’s not fair to consumers to have to deal with bloat in order to play a game. Some developers have introduced the finger to these cry-babies, others have listened and complied.

Perhaps they should have used the finger.

So with GameHounds on Radio silence till next week, I figured I’d let you guys know where you could find some of us until then.
For example, you can hear Commander Tim on The Digital Cowboys Episode 103. And while you’re at it, be sure to check out Alex and Tony (you know them from [...]