Ian Buck and Ian Decker with returning guest Sam Roth discuss their early impressions of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Sam reviews Aliens: Colonial Marines among two other games, Ian reviews the ME3 Citadel DLC and discusses a console to play retro games and why games make you want to hunt whales.
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