It’s a smorgasbord of downloadable titles, mobile apps, and terrible game ideas as Jon, Dave, and Erich slog through the gaming doldrums of August. Games discussed include Civilization Revolution for iPod, Basketball Shot for Droid, Family Feud, Dead Space, and a lengthy review of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. Plus, the killer iPhone app the world has been waiting for: the Snake Eyes in Drag Dress Up Doll!

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Blast Processing theme song by Dan “String Vulture” Moore.

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Erich, Dave, and Adam cover a lot of video game ground this episode: Dave’s first impressions of the much-anticipated Bayonetta, Adam’s disappointment about delayed Dragon Age DLC, Erich’s downloadable dabbling and love of Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection. One thing you won’t hear is what Adam accidentally said then asked be edited out. How awful was it? You’ll just have to guess. Meanwhile, enjoy this week’s Symposium Ad Nauseum: Babies. Make your New Year’s resolution to listen to this podcast. It’s way easier than losing weight.

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Erich, Dave, and Tim tear themselves away from a certain game. On the way to a mega-discussion about said secret game, the boys tackle the other titles they’ve been playing, including Dead Space: Extraction, World of Goo, and Uncharted 2. Following up on last week’s Halloween podcast, Dave and Tim trade picks, giving their respective takes on Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space. This week’s Symposium Ad Nauseum asks the hard-hitting question, “what counts as a vehicle?”

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To celebrate Halloween, the Pixel Verdict crew—minus a sick Adam—invite you to dip your hand into a bowl of fun-size audio candy, as they discuss their favorite scary games. Get into the spooky spirit with talk of abandoned schools, chainsaw killers, deep space monsters, grim boss fights, and Jonathan Coulton. Plus, take part in a gaming-themed version of “name that tune” with five scary snippets from classic games. How many can you guess without peeking at the answers (posted after the break below)?

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Click through for the answers to our Halloween audio quiz …if you dare!

Songs in this episode:

• Transylvania Theme, from DuckTales
• Stage 1 Theme, from Splatterhouse 3
• Ghost House Theme, from Super Mario World
• Cabin Theme, from Friday the 13th
• Graveyard Theme, from Ghosts ‘N Goblins
• Stage 1 Theme, Super Castlevania IV
• “Re: Your Brains,” by Jonathan Coulton

Erich, Dave, and Tim reminisce about the frustrating days of text adventures as an appetizer to a discussion of modern games including Tales of Monkey Island: Episode 1, Scribblenauts, Halo 3: ODST, Dead Space, and Lost Odyssey. In news, what do price drops, rebates, and bundles mean for the holiday shopping season? And in Symposium Ad Nauseum: throwing heads, guns without bullets, and balls as weapons.

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Variety has just stated that EA’s space pants-crapping simulator is coming to a multiplex near you sometime in the near future. Director DJ Caruso, known primarily for some halfway decent Hitchcock rip-offs (Eagle Eye and Disturbia) starring Shia The Beef is the man in the big seat.

More after the break

It’s a little early to see where this is going to go, but EA has already kicked off soem kind of inter-studio bidding war for what is sure to be a very scary film. Doubly so if DJ casts his main man Shia.

And because we at Pixelverdict can SEE THE FUTURE! I present you the first trailer:

I wonder how long it takes for Paul Anderson to sue!

Ubisoft: Wow, just… uhhh… wow. That was about the most unfriendly, awkward feeling press conference i’ve ever seen. Not much for us hardcores, Nice CG Assassin’s Creed II trailer (though Sony gets the real coup there with the live demo at their press conference), some Splinter Cell Conviction stuff (which looked woefully lackluster to me, despite everyone else and their dog suddenly having a huge hard on for a beardless, un-scruffy Sam Fisher). No More Heroes II coming to wii, that should please quite a few people, and an insane amount of casual gamer rigamarole. James Cameron shows up to talk (and talk, and talk, and talk) about Avatar, both the game and the film, and Red Steel 2 is finally shown, and looks pretty damn cool!

EA: This is a little more like it. They get the casual BS out of the way early on, and start in on games. APB (Cops n robbers MMO from the guys who made Crackdown) looks pretty entertaining, Dante’s Inferno trailer is brief but kinda cool, Brutal Lenegd is looking awesome, and Ozzy Osborne is in there! Woah!! Saboteur is looking mighty fine, and Crysis 2 is coming! To consoles !! Peter Moore (still the man) comes out and talks a bit about EA Sports, announcing EA MMA, which will probably kick the living crap out of THQ’s recent UFC game. Wii fans also get a taste of Dead Space: Extraction.  Bioware popped by to show off Dragon Age: Origins, which will ship on October 20th for Consoles and PC, and looks like absolute GOLD. Mass Effect 2 is there, looks great, and comes in early 2010, and finally, just to wash the bad taste of the first few trailers out of our mouths, they present a stage full of goddamn JEDI! Followed by one of the single most kick-ass trailers i have ever seen, for their upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic! Sadly it’s all in CG, and probably not even remotely representitive of the final product, but goddamn is it ever cool ,and that stage full of live action Jedi was hella neat.

So Ubisoft pretty much sucked up the joint, while EA actually made a decent impression.