That Mobcast was extra good; probably because of the Canadian-goodness. ;)

thanks

The horrible intro music being absent is a plus. Seriously. Please use something upbeat. That stuff is so depressing when most of us are listening looking at white or cream office wall paint. Let us pretend our lives are halfway interesting.

that slow bitmob intro is gone? Guess instead of tomorrow I will have to at least listen to the intro today.

Hsu's segment was incredibly frustrating to listen to. Hsu is in a position of power because he as a large audience. He should be using his power to call out these people by name so that the misdeeds he speaks of stop. Go ahead and call out the fact that IGN will overrate a game if they have close ties to the developer (see Too Human), or the recent complaining on the Joystiq podcast about not getting a free review copy in time. Hsu's segment is wasted without specifically calling out these people, in name, and repeatedly until their actions stop. That segment didn't sound like the same people who published the story about Ubisoft denying coverage for bad reviews and previews, or the people that rallied behind fired Gamespot journalists for giving deservedly low reviews to advertisers. Overall, a good episode, but a very disappointing segment. I hope they revisit it in the future and call out the people that need calling out because without doing so, Hsu and others have no right to complain about the problem.

For the record, if you check IMDB, a new Ghostbusters movies has, in fact, been announced. So, perhaps the video game was more of a device to renew peoples' interest in the property, rather than merely to tell a final chapter in the story.

I agree with Hsu on the issue of young journalists. Youtube sent a few of their 'celebrities' to E3 this year. Among them was this kid: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjELHcZJslU&feature;=PlayList&p;=A2575A738A116680&index;=1[/url] *facepalm*

On the topic of young journalists, I've been on the other side of the young journalist spread. For 5 years I produced and presented a geek culture radio show (Chez Geek on Edge Radio 99.3 in Tasmania) and throughout this time we received no freebies and the only publisher who actually talked to us was Atari Australia - and even then, all we had was access to their press releases. Despite repeated attempts (and even after the station took out broadcaster of the year awards etc) we couldn't even get any other publishers or developers to put us on their mailing lists (which is all we were asking for). We never expected to get and freebies or special treatment, and the only "industry" event we ever got into was a XBox360 promo tour which in addition to already being public access didn't even have an actual 360 there to display. For those "young journalists" stuck on that side of the divide it can be very hard and I can only imagine the temptation to "take it all" should you ever break through. But for us, this wasn't even a paying job - we all had other jobs and did this as a hobby (and in the slim hopes of one day getting noticed). We paid out of our own pockets for games, travel and everything. And I think that we were all the better for it.

I hope to see these guys back on later shows down the road. I agree with Scott that with the begining intro gone. It was overall better. Maybe a different intro down the road?

[b]@Brian:[/b] The purpose of the segment wasn't to call anyone out or change the industry. It was just a topic of discussion. Just because Shoe is in a position where people listen to him, doesn't mean he can't simply discuss things.

This turned out to be a great episode, Shoe. Many thanks. Hypothetically speaking, if you had somehow recorded the journalist in question mid-tantrum would you post it anonymously on the internet?

Hsu, just want to say it is amazing how entitled some "journalist" become. For example Joystiq has been complaining about not receiving review copies of games even though they normally do not do reviews. They actually complain in their podcast about this. I've about stopped listening just due to these childish complaints. If you want to review a game spend $60 on the game, and then you would have the same experience as the normal consumer. My favorite part is they refuse all sorts of gifts and brag openly about it, but then they contradict this stance by complaining about not receiving free games. I know their response will be they give the games away, eventually. I'm not sure that makes it alright.