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The review panel this month take a look back at the controller-smashing Xbox Live Arcade hit - Trials HD. Joining Gary are GameBurst alumni Lewis Holt and regular contributor Rob Finney. We round off with some more nominations for the January Replay poll for later this year, and once again run through the details of October's Face-off specials.  Remember this month's game is Bastion. The Face-off games are: - Perfect Dark Zero vs Resistance Fall of Man - Kameo vs Genji: Days of the Blade. - PGR3 vs Motorstorm - Geometry Wars: Evolved vs FlOw January Nominations: - Rob: Puzzle Quest - Lewis: Torchlight - Gary: Professor Layton Curious Village

Join Gary, Andi and Chris in the news pod this week. They discuss; The Xbox One release date, the potential return of Xbox One Digital Trade-ins, the Pokemon Bank cloud service, the sales of Rayman: Legends, PS4 voice commands, announcement of a new Timesplitters game for PS4 and other headlines... www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.uktwitter.com/gameburstfacebook.com/gameburst

After their return from the chaos of Gamescom 2013 Daan Koopman and Gary sit down with James to discuss the value of video games consumer shows and expos. Do we need these consumer and industry events? Is there a conflict of interest? What is the impact of the video game bloggers and youtube journalism on the business events? Are these actually poor consumer shows? What is the future for Gamescom?

James returns to the news chair to discuss the latest gaming headlines with Neil and Mij. The team talks about the design and target audience of Nintendo's surprise new handheld the 2DS and celebrate the death of Microsoft Points. Meanwhile, Bethesa announces it is trying to negotiate with Microsoft about its Xbox Live Gold paywall ahead of the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online, and a new survey finds that 27 per cent of parents would let their children play Grand Theft Auto V. Plus, a shocking revelation from Neil about video gaming's most notorious movie director. All this and more on this week's GameBurst News. www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.uktwitter.com/gameburstfacebook.com/gameburst 

[Roundtable] Join Chris and special guests Joshua Garrity and James Carter in discussing the varied topic of indie games/developers.  Plus a quick bonus chat at the end (after the outro) all about Gone Home [Warning: Spoilers!] Track list: United We Stand - Thomas Was Alone The Prettiest Weed - Sword & Sworcery www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.ukfacebook.com/gamebursttwitter.com/gameburst

[News] Join Mij, Andi and Chris in a Gamescom news special... Covering the Sony News, Microsoft News, EA news and additional stories from the show... List of games for the October Replay: http://bit.ly/gbreplayfaceoff www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.ukfacebook.com/gamebursttwitter.com/gameburst

[Unplugged] This month Andi, Gary & Joel review the 2009 family strategy game Small World and its iOS counterpart. We also talk about our plays of Seasons, Gears of War - The Board Game, and Sentinels of the Multiverse. www.gameburst.co.uk  pod@gameburst.co.uk  facebook.com/gameburst  twitter.com/gameburst

[News] It's Neil, Gary and Chris in the news pod this week... Covering; Xbox One delay in 8 countries, Kinect functionality, Grand Theft Auto Online, Disney Infinity and Resident Evil 7...   List of games for the October Replay: http://bit.ly/gbreplayfaceoff www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.ukfacebook.com/gamebursttwitter.com/gameburst

This week the team examine the annual gaming summer drought and ask 'is it a good or bad period for the hobby?' Gary, Neil and Mij also talk through their annual summer plans, and look back on previous summer releases

[News] Chris, Andi and James discuss this week's news... Featuring; Nintendo Multiplatform news, XBO v PS4 DVR functionality, Skyrim the Greatest Game this gen?, a $500 vita bundle? and more rumour news with possible Left 4 Dead 3 in development?... www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.ukfacebook.com/gamebursttwitter.com/gameburst

"Chris, Gary and Gonzo Planeteer Jerome McIntosh pass the bar exam to review the handheld classic Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney.Nominations for September:1. Borderlands - Island of Dr Zed2. Vanquish3. Bastion4. Portal 2"

[News] Mij is the chair this week for the news and is joined by Andi Duncan, Gary Blower and special guest Jerome MacIntosh to cover this weeks big gaming news! GET INVOLVED! www.facebook.com/gameburst www.twitter.com/gameburst or @GameBurst Email - pod@gameburst.co.uk

Neil, Gary and Mij tackle the tricky topic of Game Pricing: everything from finding bargains to digital vs physical.

Neil, Chris, Gary and Mij have all the week's video game news for you.

This month Gary, Andi & Joel review the multi-award winning 2007 game Agricola and also discuss our cardboard gaming highlights of the month. Game Links: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45315/dungeon-lords  http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-of-tokyo  http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91312/discworld-ankh-morpork  http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31260/agricola  Link Roll: http://www.ministryofboardgames.com  http://boardgamegeek.com/guild/view/1483

Andi, Neil, Nintendo blogger Daan Koopman, and friend of the show Rob Finney, trawl through this week's news.

[Top Five] In our latest (and longest - sorry about that) Top Five, James and Mij are joined by Cane & Rinse's Joshua 'CombineHunter' Garritty to discuss the best in video game soundtracks. Naturally, tastes vary and we've tried to include a taste of all them here. We also had an absolutely fantastic response from listeners, so listen out for your Top Five. www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.uktwitter.com/gameburstfacebook.com/gameburst 

[News] Neil, Mij and Chris discuss this week's news. Covering; the cost of EA's PS4 and XBO games, the ability to play your PS4 digital games on any PS4, FFXIV not coming to Xbox One, Miyamoto working on a new IP, no ZombiU sequel and the news headlines... www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.ukfacebook.com/gamebursttwitter.com/gameburst

[Quiz] This months GB Quiz is all about E3! Mij takes the gameshow host chair to reign over this months contestants: Neil 'KidDogg' Taylor & Andi 'BigAndiD' Duncan of GameBurst and Dits Symeou & Chris 'DastardlyJabby' Jellyman from The Same Coin. They will battle it out over 4 rounds: 1) E3 In The News 2) E3 Music Round 3) E3 Name The Year 4) E3 Defend The Indefencible As always, a great feast of audio pleasure served right to your ears! Get Involved: Twitter: www.twitter.com/gameburst Facebook: www.facebook.com/gameburst Email: pod@gameburst.co.uk Website: www.gameburst.co.uk GameBurst will return on Sunday for the News show P.s: Please note that due to the hilarious nature of the show, curse (swear) words have not been bleeped apart from one particular word for entertainment purposes. Sorry for any offence this may cause. The show will have an explicit rating. Thank you. [Mij]

[News] James, Gary and Chris discuss the latest gaming headlines, including: Xbox's anti-troll Reputation system, Game's gaff highlighting Ouya's SNES emulation, Top free-to-play tricks revealed, why Don Mattrick joined Zynga, Double Fine Adventure runs out of money and more. www.gameburst.co.ukpod@gameburst.co.uktwitter.com/gameburstfacebook.com/gameburst