Dan

Justin,

I've grown to love you and I wish I could take this comment away. Ok, you really did annoy me that day, but I love you now...in a platonic way, of course.

This 'splosion of news almost washed the nasty taste the waxy people like creatures from the last video of GTA IV out of my mind..."almost" being the operative word. All joking aside, this game is going to be worth the lashing of words I'll surely incur when my wife sees this game sitting on my console later this year.

Hey, loved the podcast! Sorry my email was so freakin' long. It did spark some good commentary though and I think I detected some truly genuine regretfulness on Justin's part although I think he's livin' the dream, as you all are, in many respects. My students all asked if you can really make money writing about video games and I told them you're living proof. They then proceeded to ask how you can become a food critic, professional TV watcher (that job does actually exist!), and a video game tester, so I guess they sort of lumped bloggers into the same category as those jobs.

Oh, and I always imagined Ludwig driving a cooler car than a VW. When I see him in my mind's eye I see him in a white Toyota Landcruiser.

A couple of reasons why I was playing way more COD4 than Halo 3:
1. Even though my team might lose, I still get individual kudos and rank advancement for my personal performance.

2. Less annoying people online (read: less annoying teenagers)

How bizarre! I mean, this is coming from the land of in which breasts bounce freely on the beaches and people beat each other down in MMA fights, etc. Weird!

Call me a total geek, but I'm very interested in what he has to say. I think a lot of what MS (and the others) say about the current generation gives us important clues about what's going to happen in the next generation of consoles.

Without Ludwig there's just not enough sarcasm! Man, Justin makes those pretzel flips sound so good that I actually went out and bought some and they're really good!

I think I may finally have to buy a Wii. Up until now it's the wife that's stopped me, but perhaps if I buy this it will prove to both provide a way to play SMG AND, at the same time, actually get my wife to play video games with me!

This game WILL come to the 360 and PS3. They are denying that fact because their number one priority right now is to SELL COPIES ON THE PC. Mark my words.

I agree...this game will likely come out on both the 360 and PS3, but they need to deny, deny, deny so that they can sale as many copies for the PC.