With Vinny out on assignment, friend of the show Jared Rea sits in on the podcast to bring a wave of fighting and music games to the table. After a lengthy Tekken 6 discussion, Jeff talks about his evil impulse buy of DJ Hero: Renegade Edition and having to explain it even to the employees he purchased it from. Brad quickly discusses his loot addition swapping between Borderlands and Torchlight.

Jared dives back into some more obscure fighting game tournaments as well as Forza 3, which Jeff has also been playing since some good Giant Bomb logos have been made online. Ryan closes out a long opening segment with talk of GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

News starts off with the release of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trailer and how the presentation so far is bothering Ryan. The announcement of the DSi XL and Modern Warfare 2 rumors close out news for the week. As always, a good amount of listener emails close out the show.

Covered games and topics: Tekken, Sailor Moon, DJ Hero, Borderlands, Torchlight, GTA, Forza, Prince of Persia, Modern Warfare 2, DSi XL

Friend of Giant Bomb Jared Rea sits in for discussions of Jeff’s pretty robot girlfriend, the perceived benefits of gold rhythm game controllers, the parallels between Sailor Moon fighting games and jazz music, Hideo Kojima’s love of Twilight, and more!

Runtime – 2:23:41

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