UPDATE #2: Back from Mexico. Show fixed. Now it’s available. Sorry all for making you wait an extra week. It’s still a great show, and listen fast: We got another one coming.

UPDATE: Just got calls from Goalie and Hawkes. Looks like the show is borked. Sorry guys. Looks like no show this week. Sometimes the Internet gods decree there will be no show. Whatcha gonna do? I will repost on Friday when we are back in the US. Look at it this way: Two shows next week!

Out the door. Hawkes, Edie, Goalie. Part of the show lost. Saved by coworker, FighterAce100.

I got so distracted by the tons of crap going on in my real life that I totally spaced and forgot to post the GameHounds episode. I uploaded it to the server, and then I forgot to actually post it!

So, this week, we were Hawkesless. Edie Sellers and Holy Goalie pick up the pace with a full week of gaming news, including:

• Nintendo officially debuts the DSi XL with a pricetag of $190. Wow.
• Sonic fanboys are calling for a boycott of Sonic 4 by buying old copies of Sonic 1 on Sonic 4’s release date. No really. Stop laughing.
• Random stuff, emails, fun, and of course, the Kracken.

Enjoy.

This latest Humpdate, for February 24, 2010, will be the final Humpdate.

It’s been a laborious thing making two shows a week, and we’ve enjoyed every minute of it. But it was a labor of love that we wouldn’t change a bit.
If you think about all the amazing things that the Humpdate has been, it’s a bit mindboggling. After starting out as a two-man show, it became a variety podcast and it brought you some amazing voices — from ThatOneGuy Ry and the Digital Cowboys to the recent crowd, including The Rumble Pack.

We’re sorry to see it go, but we know that it will only strengthen the GameHounds regular podcasts, because now we’ll have more time to make them and give you the best — which is what you deserve.

In this last episode, the SportsHound WillG talks about how a recent lawsuit against Electronic Arts may affect sports games in the future, Holy Goalie offers his thoughts on in-game advertising, and The Rumble Pack interview Jim Zubkavich, project manager for Udon Entertainment.

Enjoy.

This week, Holy Goalie debuts as a permanent host of the show. Which is very much like when he subbed in. But it’s still awesome.

Goalie, Edie Sellers and Cooper Hawkes talk up the gaming news of the week, including:

• MTV reports that Bioshock is causing problems for those with colorblindness. Wanna see what that looks like?
• Red Octane closed by Activision, as is Underground Development.
• Sony says that there may be a looming Playstation 3 shortage. Yeaaah. Riiiight.
• Assassin’s Creed II’s DRM is makes Machiavelli say, “That’s cold, dude.”
• Random stuff, and stuff… and stuff.
• Most importantly: The Mass Effect rap is titled “Those Minerals,” and it was written and performed by Kabuto The Python. The MP3 can be downloaded here.

Enjoy.

Sit down, take a breath. Remember, do *not* panic.

… Commander Tim is stepping down from GameHounds.

Now, wait. I said don’t panic!

This is not a bad thing. He’s just way too busy with school, work and the rest. The forums now being on Pink Ninja is proof that he’s still a dear friend of the podcast, and we wish he would stay. And one day in the future he may just come back. But right now he’s stretched way thin and he needed to let something go.

Also, you’ll still be able to hear him on The Widget Show, so it’s not like he’s disappearing, he’s just condensing a bit.

But with the sad news comes some happy stuff.

Our semi-regular fill-in, Holy Goalie, will be a new, permanent replacement for Commander Tim! We’re really thrilled to bring his dulcet tones and bad Tiger Woods jokes to you every week as a regular part of GameHounds.

Please feel free to send your love, adoration and congratulatory wishes to Holy Goalie!

We attended X10, courtesy of GamingAngels.com. GamerEdie Sellers chats about what she saw and tried and who she talked to. Full coverage — far more in depth than what is here — can be found at GamingAngels.com.

This week, Edie, Cooper Hawkes and Commander Tim chat in an EXTRA LONG episode about:

• More Mass Effect 2 analysis.
• Bioshock 2 for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.
• Assassin’s Creed 2 and the Heavy Rain demo.
• Alan Wake, Halo Reach, Crackdown 2, Final Fantasy XIII, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Toy Soldiers and a host of other great games at X10.
• Nintendo cancels demos for Wii Ware.
• Bobby Kotick suggests that Activision might make future Modern Warfare games subscription based.
• Random stuff and emails.

Enjoy.

This week, Cooper Hawkes, Commander Tim and Edie Sellers tongue-kiss the latest and greatest exploits of Commander Sheppard, as well as get down and dirty with the lastest news of the gaming world.

This week’s topics include:

• Microsoft announces that it will end Xbox Live for Xbox 1 games and consoles on April 15. The king is dead, long live the king.
• A Sony big-wig finally says the fateful words: PSN will be a paid-for service at some point. Will it be an upgrade? What will it cost? That they’re not saying.
• Green Man Gaming execs explain more about how the service will be able to buy used digital downloads back from consumers. Of course, they don’t explain everything.
• Random stuff, emails, voice mails, thank yous and the rest of the gang.

Enjoy.

As you know, about a year ago, we had a huge makeover, courtesy of of Tim.

And if you’ve ever done any home renovation, you know: You spend tens of thousands of dollars and months of hard work on re-doing a room, and it always seems you just never get around to putting the cover on the light switch because, well, it’s too easy to do, to easy to forget, you want the job to be over, and you just don’t get around to it.

That’s how the GameHounds Forums were. We knew they had to be done, we just didn’t ever get around to it.

Now we have. We have entirely new forums that can be found at:

http://pinkninjastudios.com/forum/index.php?board=53.0

Or you can go to the top of this page and hit the “forum” tab to get there.

As you can see, we’ll be migrating Tim, Hawkes, and Edie there and be bringing in the Pink Ninja community as well.

Check them out and please feel free to post there.

(Oh, and ten points for the first one who posts in the forums who that guy cheerleader in the above picture.)