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Nice work squeezing out a podcast this week. Thoroughly enjoyed.

Not a lot of turdie talk lately. Cheapy, have you heeded your critics? Say it isn't so.

Still my favorite gaming podcast. Best sound quality, best pace. I tried listening to gam3r's Hit Points, and although it has potential, there is too much laughing into the mics (glad you're having a good time, but it's annoying to listen to) and mixed production/quality is too annoying for an hour.

Game Informer's up to 40 episodes, and there has been clear improvement. When the topic is interesting, I listen to that one.

Plus other podcasts have an issue with pacing. I don't know if it's intentional, but it makes for a more pleasant 'cast if you don't spend 10 minutes talking about BFBC2 without covering any new ground.

So what podcasts are you guys listening to and liking lately?

CAGcast- still the beast!

TGS is probably a bit more expensive of a show to attend as a publisher/developer since you have to travel all the way to Tokyo if you don't have a Japanese branch and then any Western games you could show probably aren't worth showing to the audience due to their lack of interest. At E3, you'll see a ton of companies from Europe, North America, and Japan since the audience is a bit more broad and full of the media with less of the general public there.

Giant Bomb and the other sites has more ads around the video pages from what I've seen. I don't think they're out of money since they wouldn't have moved to new, bigger offices and added two new sites with their own new staff members earlier this year. They'd just rather get money/support from their userbase than from advertisers just for the sake of being able to keep doing what they want to do. Now they have the opportunity to just add new features and content just for their users to keep them happy rather than just for having more places for ads so their advertisers are happy, which leaves the users as second fiddle. It wouldn't work for many sites since the staff has to make most of the content, but the users fill in the wikis on Giant Bomb, Screened, and the other sites so that they can focus on reviews, videos, podcasts, and other content that they want to do.

The podcast "perk" was one of the two dumbest moves they've pulled with the subscription, as they held the podcast hostage to try to get more subscribers when they had to be sure that they'd hit the target anyway. Not touching Screened, Tested, or any of the other podcasts shows that they weren't serious about it. The other issue is the complete lack of detailed info on what the subscription has to offer, as I've seen bits and pieces in the podcast, the Whiskey Media Blog, the Big Live Live Show, and their twitter account, but nothing in one place.

I found out about the podcast being held hostage on the podcast and was really disappointed until I found out about them offering the chance to get it freed with their Big Live Live Show, a seven hour streamed show on justin.tv, and that they reached that goal when I eventually saw links to their twitter account. None of this information was on Giant Bomb, Whiskey Media's site, or any kind of central Whiskey Media sub page that explained what your $50 got you. The closest I could find was a subscription FAQ that was all about the shirt and billing details.

Good show.