GameHounds

What do podcasters do when a single game takes up every single minute of gaming-related spare time? They do an entire show about that game. In a season where the biggest of the triple-A games are hitting market, one has become a massive time and energy sink: Skyrim. Edie Sellers, Holy Goalie, and Nick Dinicola devote this entire episode on Skyrim — the ups, the downs, the pluses, the minuses. The various wildlife floating across the tundra. Yeaaaah, a lot of that. And they read a ton of listener mail about favorite moments, usually bug related. And usually hilarious. Don't worry, there's also a smattering of Assassin's Creed and Battlefield 3 in there as well. But this is a big fat Skyrim episode. Don't lose sight of that. Enjoy.

Seems the only streaming Holy Goalie likes is the kind he does in the bathroom. Yeah, that was uncalled for. Sorry. In this rant-fueled episode, Holy Goalie lets us know exactly what he thinks about video-streaming services, while Nick Dinicola and Edie Sellers sit back and enjoy the show. They also hit the news, including:

Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, and Modern Warfare, oh my!

Does there need to be any more news?

Enjoy!

What can we say? Holy Goalie has now taken over the show! It's pandemonium! Okay, maybe not pandemonium. Mostly it's co-hosts Nick Dinicola and Edie Sellers ignoring just about everything that spouts outta Goalie's pie-hole. What else is new? But seriously, our intrepid hosts once again hit the gaming news, including:

Siri outage hits the GameHounds, as evidenced by Episode 161.

iOS 5 to iTunes 10.4 problems fixed with update.

Dead Island update makes game harder... and easier... and harder.

Xbox dashboard update will get rid of some pages, clean up the front page, and add "beacons."

Rumors of what Microsoft intends for the next Xbox are... rumor-y.

Mass Effect 3 mistakenly releases beta, but it won't have local multiplayer. Period.

Skyrim has infinite procedurally generated quests.

Black Friday deals are out there.

Nick gets flamed by a listener... Or should we say, Miss Dinicola.

Enjoy.

It's a well-known fact: If you don't like that game you don't like, it's not the game. It's you. You're what's wrong with country. The zombies. The plague. Autism. The one percent... and you. Because surely, it is not the game. The game is great. You just can't understand it or handle it. Just ask Jeff Minter. That's the syndrome we tackle this week in the GameHounds podcast. Which game is it? Well, you're just going to have to find out for yourself. When we're not "being haters," GameEdie Sellers, Nick Dinicola, and Holy Goalie also cover the news, including:

First round of DLC drops for Gears of War 3.

Heavy Rain's director's cut is really not a director's cut.

An Alan Wake sequel is on its way.

Grand Theft Auto 5 teaser is out in the wild.

Resident Evil for Nintendo 3DS will be $50 without the add-on peripheral.

And if you don't like this podcast, you suck. Enjoy.

Yeah, we are going to need a montage. But let's face it, everything would be better with a montage. I mean, think about it. Instead of going to work and slaving away for eight or nine hours, you could just play a montage. You wouldn't need to slog off to class every day for four years to get that degree — just play a montage. And in two short minutes you could be on your couch with a beer in hand... or a neurosurgeon. Respectively, of course. Unless you already are a neurosurgeon, and then the first scenario works. Well, you get the idea. In this week's episode, it's a montage-o-palooza with Edie Sellers, Nick Dinicola, and Holy Goalie as they chat up the latest in games and gaming news, including:

Battlefield 3 is NOT a "poor man's Call of Duty." So there.

Netflix by recent boneheadedness.

Grand Theft Auto 5 . And there was much rejoicing (yay...).

Game studio is asking you to pick what game you want it to develop and to .

Enjoy.

Look, in this world of Plants vs. Zombies, Alien vs. Predator, Red vs. Blue, Good vs. Activision... There's a lot of "versus" going around. So why not bring the versus a little closer to home, right? This week, our three intrepid podcasters — Edie Sellers, Nick Dinicola, and Holy Goalie — chat about good vs. bad when it comes to the week's releases. And they chat up the news. So why not hold Ears vs. Mouth, and let ears win. Enjoy.

Cough. Hack. Yeah, this should be titled the Cold and Flu Season episode. That's what's held up this podcast. GameHounds HQ has been crushed by illness, with everyone in the household dead on their feet and hacking up furballs. Fortunately, you can't get the flu over the internet, so GamerEdie didn't spread the plague to co-hosts Nick Dinicola and Holy Goalie. Nor did she give it to special guest, Tim Wilsie of The Widget Podcast. You remember Tim. Former co-host? Deep voice? Brain the size of a planet and all they do is let him open and close doors? Yeah, that guy. Tim visits us to talk about the return of and sticks around to talk about games, Netflix, and all the other stuff. Also, listen to this episode and you could get a free copy of Issue 6 of GameFan. Enjoy.

Yep, it's that time of the year, my friends. PAX Prime is behind us, and being that we had two of our writers there, we brought them both on the show. It's a four-man squad of preview awesome, with GamerEdie Sellers, Holy Goalie, Nick Dinicola, and special guest Chris Salazar. And boy, do we have the red-hot previews for you. What games, you ask? Well, lemme tell ya (and we'll even give you time stamps, so you can pick and choose):

Battlefield 3 (9:15)

Dead Island (24:20)

Borderlands 2 (36:30)

Skyrim (44:15)

RAGE (57:45)

SSX (1:08:00)

Rise of Nightmares (1:35:00)

Mass Efffect 3 (1:16:10)

Orcs Must Die (1:26:00)

But that's just the games. There's a lot of other stuff. Funny stuff. Enjoy.

Gasp! It's a miracle! The GameHounds staff finally put up a podcast. Yes, we admit, this is pretty bad. We were out for almost a month. Between Burning Man and PAX, there was a lot going on, and we haven't had a chance to sit down and chat. We miss our podcast buddies terribly. In this episode, recorded before PAX, Nick Dinicola, Holy Goalie, and Edie Sellers chat up games and then take a departure from the news. They discuss a listener comment regarding spoliers. What makes a spoiler? When is it okay to reveal a spoiler? And does knowing a spoiler wreck a game? Sorry for the delay. We now return you to your regular programming. Enjoy.

It's that time of the week. As the Ides of July roll toward the Ides of August, it's time for us to don our togas and get into a bacchanalia of gaming news. Our esteemed Holius Goalius, Nickus Dinicolus, and Ginger Bitchus Maximus bring you the news this week, including:

Driver: San Francisco for the PC connection.

Harmonix is to celebrate its 3,000th song.

Bioware is letting .

Popcap makes a

The Entertainment Software Association from the State of California.

WalMart for movie streaming.

Roku boxes .

Enjoyus. By the way, Holy Goalie has a vewy good fwend in Wome named Bigus Dickus.