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Well, we managed to go one whole show without a departure, but it’s OK, because this time it’s an upgrade! We’ve replaced your common, everyday Chris Grant with a scoop of Griffin McElroy. Let’s see if you notice.
Plus, we’ve got talk about all the latest games you crave like Red Dead Redemption and … umm … Ocarina of Time. Thanks to Evan Hodgins for the straight-shootin’ photoshop.
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After more separation than our therapist recommended, the three hosts of the Joystiq Podcast reunite and actually manage to stay put for an entire show, if you can believe that.
Plus, they played a bunch of games to talk about, like Alpha Protocol, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Super Mario Galaxy 2. God, could today get any better?
Also, congratulations to Nathan Foster for capturing the epic struggle between choice and fate in a single photoshop.
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Just in time for Midnight Madness – when NCAA men’s basketball teams can begin practice – comes the first gameplay video featuring the two announcing teams in this year’s NCAA Basketball 10.
Unfortunately, CBS’s Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery are a bit thin and generic in their commentary – but in their first year, it’s to be expected, as they don’t benefit from the kind of dialogue library built up that Brad Nessler and Dick Vitale have. This is too bad because Gus in real life is constantly …

Just in time for Midnight Madness – when NCAA men’s basketball teams can begin practice – comes the first gameplay video featuring the two announcing teams in this year’s NCAA Basketball 10.
Unfortunately, CBS’s Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery are a bit thin and generic in their commentary – but in their first year, it’s to be expected, as they don’t benefit from the kind of dialogue library built up that Brad Nessler and Dick Vitale have. This is too bad because Gus in real life is constantly …

Brendan Harris’ groundout to end Minnesota’s American League Divisional Series with New York started a 171-day clock until the christening of the Twins’ new ballpark, Target Field. Sony’s MLB The Show will have to have the grounds ready much sooner.
New stadium construction is not just a problem knotting up state legislatures and city councils. Any sports title developer – any that presents its game as a true-to-life simulation, anyway – must also cope with changes of venue. In the current console generation, baseball has seen this more often than its …

Today’s coupons roundup contains a bunch of reminders of ongoing sales you may have heard about. They might not be breaking news, but they’re definitely where you should be looking first if you’re looking for new games.
Hardware • Technically not a sale, although the $349.99, 250 GB PS3 Slim could be construed as getting another 130 GB of hard drive space for just $50. Amazon has it listed, release date is Nov. 3 but you probably already knew that. [Dealzon]
• If you need hardware other than a hard drive, there …

In case you didn’t know, the name of this site is Kotaku. Did you know that? Some people don’t, they just click wildly around the internet like a pyromaniac in a straw factory.
Kotaku isn’t a real Japanese word, it’s a word somebody (not me!) made up many years ago. “Ko” in Japanese (小) means “small”. “Otaku” has a couple meanings, but here it refers to someone who is obsessively interested in something. But shouldn’t the site’s name then be “Kootaku”? Shuddup.
There are many types of otaku: train otaku, anime …