Welcome back! After two weeks off for Easter and Spring Break we are back with podcast-y goodness. Contrary to Stanley's beliefs at the top of this episode, this is in fact episode 7. Sorry Stanley, yet again numbers are your downfall. We also have a fully functioning website - contrary to the things said in the episode.

This week we have a very political Byrd's Nest and have a discussion about video games and the recession. Then we talk about the economic structure of the video game industry. In News Conference we talk about the Violence in Video Games Labeling Act. The discussion is so great that it continues after the break so we decided to add it to the end of the episode. Stick around after the music to hear the bonus conversation. Finally, we have Personal Choice where we choose games we would play with our family to change their opinions of video games.

Welcome back! After two weeks off for Easter and Spring Break we are back with podcast-y goodness. Contrary to Stanley's beliefs at the top of this episode, this is in fact episode 7. Sorry Stanley, yet again numbers are your downfall. We also have a fully functioning website - contrary to the things said in the episode.

This week we have a very political Byrd's Nest and have a discussion about video games and the recession. Then we talk about the economic structure of the video game industry. In News Conference we talk about the Violence in Video Games Labeling Act. The discussion is so great that it continues after the break so we decided to add it to the end of the episode. Stick around after the music to hear the bonus conversation. Finally, we have Personal Choice where we choose games we would play with our family to change their opinions of video games.

Stanley is back! We start off with a Byrd's Nest inspired by last week's conversation and share our feelings about walkthroughs. In News Conference we talk about the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3 and BioWare's reactions to the fan outrage. Finally in Personal Choice we pick our favorite video game endings. Be warned! We spoil all of the games we talk about in this segment. Here is the list of games we talk about so you can avoid all of our spoilers.

Shadow of the Colossus

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

BioShock

Red Dead Redemption

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Contact

Portal 2

Heavy Rain

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

Final Fantasy X

Pokemon Black (Hacked Version)

We are all back this week – except for Stanley whose whereabouts are unknown. Byrdie is sitting in as host and apparently hosting gives him an NPR style voice that is very distracting for the rest of the group.

For the first time this season Malic takes us to the indie gaming world with Independent Pixel. We talk about two games that allow players to unleash their inner game designer: Sketch Nation Studio from Engineous Games and Code Hero from Primer Labs.

In News Conference we talk about an article from Kill Screen Magazine’s blog about what is means to complete video games. We discovered we have very different opinions about the necessity of actually finishing video games. We also bring up the controversial ending to Mass Effect 3 which makes us all sad.

Finally for Personal Choice we talk about games where we would rather play as the antagonist than the protagonist.

*Taylor had a cold during this episode and apologizes for her unpleasant coughing.

This week it's a very small podcast with just Kaillif, Byrdie and Adam and we've only got two segments. In Byrd's Nest we talk about enemies in video games and why we find it so easy to kill them. In Personal Choice we talk about video games that could be adapted into movies - hopefully good movies...

This week it's a very small podcast with just Kaillif, Byrdie and Adam and we've only got two segments. In Byrd's Nest we talk about enemies in video games and why we find it so easy to kill them. In Personal Choice we talk about video games that could be adapted into movies - hopefully good movies...

We are all back this week – except for Stanley whose whereabouts are unknown. Byrdie is sitting in as host and apparently hosting gives him an NPR style voice that is very distracting for the rest of the group.

For the first time this season Malic takes us to the indie gaming world with Independent Pixel. We talk about two games that allow players to unleash their inner game designer: Sketch Nation Studio from Engineous Games and Code Hero from Primer Labs.

In News Conference we talk about an article from Kill Screen Magazine’s blog about what is means to complete video games. We discovered we have very different opinions about the necessity of actually finishing video games. We also bring up the controversial ending to Mass Effect 3 which makes us all sad.

Finally for Personal Choice we talk about games where we would rather play as the antagonist than the protagonist.

*Taylor had a cold during this episode and apologizes for her unpleasant coughing.

Stanley is back! We start off with a Byrd's Nest inspired by last week's conversation and share our feelings about walkthroughs. In News Conference we talk about the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3 and BioWare's reactions to the fan outrage. Finally in Personal Choice we pick our favorite video game endings. Be warned! We spoil all of the games we talk about in this segment. Here is the list of games we talk about so you can avoid all of our spoilers.

Shadow of the Colossus

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

BioShock

Red Dead Redemption

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Contact

Portal 2

Heavy Rain

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

Final Fantasy X

Pokemon Black (Hacked Version)

It's a brand new season of Library of Games and we've moved up in the world. Thanks to our great partners at Digital Youth Network we are now recording the podcast at the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University.

We are kicking off the new season with a personal choice segment that is looking forward to the end of LoG's 5th season. We will be ending the season with our E3 coverage, so in our personal choice we talk about our wish list and predictions of E3 2012.

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