Winter and the holiday season makes it tricky to get the team team together but the 3 week gaps do give us a lot to talk about.

This week there's plumbing, cars, shoes, Halo 4, Call of Duty, Planetside 2, Burnout Crash, Civilisation V and more!

After a slight break in our regular schedule due to both Zac and Dan being incapacitated last week we are back! And Halo 4 arrived!

Zac plays a number of little games this week including Towns, FTL, and Cargo Commander whilst recounting the occurrences during the Guild Wars 2 "Lost Shores" event. Rob takes on two of this year's biggest “triple A’s” with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and a bit of Halo 4.

While it would probably be exaggeration to say we subscribe to liking Halloween it does create some unique gaming craziness. "Trick or Treat" is an annoyance at best. Costume Brawl on the other hand...

Zac and Rob investigate the special events in Guild Wars 2 and Dan joins them for this year's Scream Fortress. Also played this week: XCOM, Mark of the Ninja and Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine.

Dan's MIA this week. London or something, we don’t know. We never know.

Regardless Zac and Rob bring you the sexiest episode ever (lies). Zac plays XCOM: Enemy Unknown and joins Rob in attempting so World vs. World in Guild Wars 2. Also mentioned are Trine, Sonic Generations and Fez.

Finally back in one "studio" after a couple of months of “remoting it in”, it's time for the SaladCast!

It’s a kinda “bitty” week covering a lot of little things. Zac covers the release of allegedly the first Kickstarter game, FTL and more Borderlands 2. Rob plays a bit more Saints Row: The Third and exercises. Dan plays Half-Life again thanks to Black Mesa.

In honour of Rob's recent holiday in Paris I thought it may be good, as a welcoming gesture to our European neighbours to introduce this week’s cast in French. Google can handle that right? Let’s see...

Zac commence à jouer de nouveaux communiqués de Borderlands 2 et Torchlight 2, Dan passe son attention sur la presque complet mais jouable Black Mesa tandis que Rob joue n’importe quoi à sa portée apparemment.

Got that?

There's something about the number 66. Maybe it’s at that point you realise you are old. So by Episode 66, are we now "internet old"? We definitely have the reminiscing bit down and are getting dangerously close to repeating ourselves and forgetting that we have.

Rob and Zac play A LOT of Guild Wars 2 and Dan plays some more Max Payne 3 and gives a Battlestar mod for Freespace a whirl.

So there’s something about the number 66. You start to repeat yourself. I remember the days when... snore.

This week was a bit of an experiment. Zac, reluctant to tear himself away from the pre-release time in Guild Wars 2, thought this would be a good opportunity to start some streaming video stuff. So combine that with this week's Saladcast and you get the first Saladcast LIVE. The video stream is available from livestream.com/happysalad and maybe we’ll figure out a way to get some clips on YouTube. Keep following the twitter feed @SaladCast and the Facebook page here for more video fun times in the future.

So aside from talking about Guild Wars 2 a lot Zac remembers to talk about Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet and the Mann Vs Machine TF2 update, Dan plays some more Max Payne 3 while Rob continues to play Saints Row: The Third. Additionally we cover this year’s UK Pinball Party. We were there for real... and there was pinball!

Happy 6-bit episode! We didn't realise during the recording of this episode that we have now done 64 of these. So I’m going to enjoy the moment right now.

Yay us!

We talk about the Olympics, cars, "louding" and a few video games! Dan pushes through Max Payne 3 with the aid of copious amounts of pills, Rob starts Saints Row: The Third, nearly completes Bastion and attempts to play Nexuis while Zac goes back to Eve, Minecraft, Final Fantasy Tactics A2 and TF2.

And yes it did take me 2 days before I realised that 4-bit would work for episode 16, not 64.

So do you have "Olympo-mania"? Whether you do or not the next couple of weeks will be full of it so it has to be mentioned right? Or have your recent Steam purchases strengthened your resolve to achieve zero sunlight exposure?

Zac continues his coverage of Guild Wars 2 and Settlers 2, Rob finishes Mass Effect 3 and fails to put down the pinball addiction and Dan gets current and plays Max Payne 3 for PC.