The Ballad of Gay Tony starts this week’s episode. Tyler Barber is standing-in and giving his perspective on the latest and last GTAIV expansion. It looks like there are enough new things in the game to make it worth checking out, but this feels like one of those times when CO-OP may be a little too positive.

Torchlight is up next and Arthur Gies joins Matt to discuss this Diablo-successor. They hit on the genre refinements that the game introduces, and express their surprise at the variety of the environments. This is a game that has been talked about a lot, but the video format of CO-OP is especially suited for providing a glimpse at what the game is really like.

Avatar rounds-out the show with a short segment that has a few of the guys discussing the game after seeing it at an event. The inclusion of 3D is the focus here. Matt sums it up when he says that it wasn’t on his radar, but after seeing it, he is anticipating the game.

The words “movie” and “license” area anathema to gamers when paired and the exception is rare. Fortunately, this week’s coverage of Jame’s Cameron’s Avatar may show us a way to one of said exceptions. We were invited to an event at the Dolby Labs in San Francisco to experience the game hands-on (in 3D no less). Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony ratchets up the excitement and the better-than-Diablo Diablo clone Torchlight receives some much deserved face time.

Runtime – 25:59

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