Compliments from your Mum always feel loaded. To that end, it's probably a good thing that ours aren’t listeners of the SaladCast. They could make it weird.

This week there’s more XBOX One and PS4 news, SimCity patch news, XCOM: Enemy Within, Saints Row IV, The Bureau, Guild Wars 2, Gunpoint, Plants Vs Zombies 2, Bioshock Infinite and Awesomenauts.

Rob decides to take a weekend break in London on a Podcast weekend, forcing the team to phone it in. When we say "phoning it in" it's not to say that your getting a half-arsed show. You are most definitely getting all of our arse.

This week there’s Bioshock Infinite, Dark Souls, XCOM, Infamous, DmC, MTGDotP 2013, SimCity, next Gen game pricing, EVE, Puddle, Spiral Knights and our ignorance towards sports games.

Psst! Hey you! Yes you... You want some of this SaladCast? It's good quality man, really pure stuff. I do you a deal… How about this first hit for free huh?

This week we’ve been playing the likes of The Binding of Isaac, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Animal Crossing, Infamous, Fire Emblem, SS&S:EP, Gyromancer and Dyad, Dyad, Dyad.

I know we keep talking about the heat of summer and how we suck at dealing with it in these blurbs but just imagine as you listen to this episode of the SaladCast the literal sweat that went into making it. You're welcome.

This week we talk about Dust, Rogue Legacy, Magic The Gathering 2013, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Proteus, Dear Esther, Fire Emblem, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, giraffe combat, Don Matrick and of course Ryan Davis.

It would be rude not to dedicate this episode (and probably every episode we’ve ever done) to the essence of awesome that is Ryan Davis. He will be sorely missed.

It's hot, hotter than it’s been this year so far. Dan has a cold. I don’t understand.

This week there’s Xbox 180, Rogue Legacy, Animal Crossing, Cola, Kerbal Space Program, Fire Emblem, Stowmarket, Dust, DmC and Little Inferno.

Wrapping up our E3 extravaganza are Nintendo's direct streams and Sony’s bomb dropping conference.

We talk about Mario Kart 8, Super Mario 3D World, Super Smash Bros, Wind Waker HD, The Dark Sorcerer, Assassin’s Creed IV, Beyond: Two Souls, The Last of Us, NBA 2K14, Diablo 3, Final Fantasy XV, Kingdom Hearts 3, Elder Scrolls Online, Destiny, Mad Max, Killzone Shadowfall, The Order, Pokémon X and Y, Donkey Kong Country Returns 2, Bayonetta 2 and Fantasia.

NOW it's time to get our E3 on. As is traditional for the SaladCast the team takes you through the twists and turns of the press conferences in the order news broke. As the title suggests Microsoft kicks things off and then the big publishers follow.

In this part we talk about Xbox One DRM, Metal Gear Solid 5, a new Xbox 360, World of Tanks, RYSE, Killer Instinct, Sunset Overdrive, Forza 5, Minecraft, Quantum Break, Project Spark, Crimson Dragon, Dead Rising 3, Battlefield 4, Titanfall, Need For Speed: The Rivals, EA Sports, Mirror’s Edge 2, Watchdogs, Assassin’s Creed 4 and The Division.

E3 may have happened but we still played games in the last two weeks. Join us for our regularly scheduled podcast in Part 1 of 3 E3 episodes.

In this part we talk about Half Minute Hero, Dust: An Elysian Tale, Catherine, Bioshock: Infinite, Kerbal Space Program and Animal Crossing: A New Leaf.

Why is it considered such a British thing to talk about the weather? Is it that it's more unpredictable in this country or is there some deep seated fear in all of us that suddenly all of the world’s worst weather will arrive and tear up our small land mass? Either way, Zac thinks it’s been hotter so far and does not approve.

This week we tear apart what little we know about the XBOX ONE and how little Microsoft know about good PR. There’s also Catherine, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Sonic Lost World.

As we draw ever closer to the "reveal season" some news just can't contain itself and slips free. This way it gives us something to talk about before the noise of E3. The games are coming and we must be ready for them.

This week there’s DmC, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (and whether or not it’s racist), Bioshock Infinite, EA and Star Wars, Gran Turismo 6, Burnout Paradise, Star Trek, Half Minute Hero and Crysis Warhead.

Greece should have won Eurovision clearly.