If you haven’t done so already, and I know you haven’t, I strongly recommend checking out episodes three and four of Consolevania, whose sheer excellence has already been covered in this space before. Episode three’s a little lackluster, but still features extremely intelligent, insightful, and entertaining reviews and a wealth of pretty unfunny comedy sketches. But you do get to see one of the host’s testicles. So that’s good. I guess. Episode four, which will now be discussed in this same paragraph, is probably the best stuff this team has produced so far. In addition to great reviews of Winning Eleven 8, Gradius V, Escape from Butcher Bay, and Michigan (more on that one in a second), the comedy pieces and random sketches finally seem to be coming into their own, and with the exception of an extremely stupid “video game safety” bit, are all quite good. So, if you can stomach Bit Torrent and the massive file sizes, I strongly recommend checking them out. Again.

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So, Michigan. If you’re like me, and let’s hope you’re not, you’ve never heard of this game before. Sure, it’s mentioned in that column over at Gamespy, but who reads those anyway? However, I’m not going to explain its premise. In fact, I’m just going to keep talking (writing) as though you know just as much about the game as I do, having watched the fourth episode of Consolevania (see paragraph one) and all. The concept behind Michigan is undeniably brilliant, and if worked into something a little less crass, could become a truly unique gaming experience. Unfortunately, it seems a little too panty-shot intensive. Actually, on second thought, the whole “look between women’s legs” aspect of the game really seems to fit in with the rest of the experience. If I had some sort of magical, import-ready PS2, if such things even existed, I’d probably import this sucker and be extremely disappointed. So that’s saying a lot. A lot of

The Sims 2 too. After learning the hard way that Sims aren’t intelligent enough to take care of their basic needs like eating and pooping without a little divine intervention, I’m having an absolute blast with this game. I sure don’t remember The Sims (1) being this entertaining from the ridiculously small amount of time I spent with it. Currently, my neighborhood is the home of the epic tale of the tragically doomed Man-Well family, a gang of homeless street children, a strikingly similar gang of WooHoo-happy senior citizens, and a male nurse/novelist and the first female president of SimNation who plan on birthing the perfect son with which to seduce God’s Chosen. But I won’t bore you with the details.

And look at this: World of Warcraft PvP revealed.