We're The +1 On This Week's Idle Thumbs Podcast

I (and by "I" I mean "Brad") took a trip into downtown San Francisco earlier this week to eat pizza and drink cola in the apartment of one Gamasutra editor Chris Remo. Then we did a podcast! The Idle Thumbs podcast, specifically, which is the new audio-only form that Remo's defunct game news/culture/thought-experiment site has morphed into. Also on-hand were Shacknews editor Nick Breckon and Telltale Games' jack-of-all-trades Jake Rodkin. (He gets a wiki page because he actually makes games.)

Their guest last week was Steve Gaynor, level designer on a forthcoming independent title by the name of BioShock 2. Clearly they decided their audience deserved less this week. Here's the show description.

Your old Xbox is about to become your new Xbox, but that might mean you just start using your Netflix account again. Special guest Brad Shoemaker of Giant Bomb gently guides us through the minefield of this week's industry scandals, helps us finally close the book on Far Cry 2, and rekindles our love of J. Allard.

They knew they'd need a J Allard expert in the house, so they called me ahead of time. Check out the show: it's episode 6, "Explode Mode" on the Idle Thumbs site.

Hey, I just noticed those dudes use the same shade of gray on their site background as we do. I'm calling our lawyer.