Make way for another rambling nigh-incoherent conversation about videogames. Brought to you by the fine folks of the BBPS, me, and the letter E.
The Show:

What’cha Been Playing? (A whole lot)
Break (49:22)
Demo Impressions – Halo Wars, Killzone 2, Resident Evil 5 (49:40)
One Last Thing… (1:17:29)

Download BitCast 66 here, or in the usual spot on iTunes.

I don’t talk much about Penny Arcade around here. Everyone knows who they are. I have enormous respect for those guys and what they have accomplished, particularly with regard to the Child’s Play charity, which has set the public’s perception of “gamers” ahead 10 years all by itself.
That said:
I keep reading about “sluggish controls,” but [...]

I finally got a chance to play the Resident Evil 5 demo, which has been out a week on X360 for Live Gold members (i.e. not me). I tried out both the 360 and PS3 versions last night. I noticed no significant difference between the two. All impressions below are from the single player levels.
The [...]

This is quite intriguing…. some footage has surfaced of the cancelled Biohazard 2, a.k.a. Resident Evil 2. Or at least, what was supposed to be Resident Evil 2, at some point. It’s intriguing because this game actually looks better than the “official” RE2, at least from what I can recall.
Lots more info for the RE [...]

Many years ago I was sitting around with some friends playing the thoroughly mediocre Resident Evil 2 on PS1. At some point in the evening, god knows why, one such friend popped in a Danny Elfman CD and started playing the game using that music as background.
First thing we noticed was that track 2 – [...]

I originally posed this question on the forum at Ars Technica a few days ago:

New Resident Evil 5 trailer is spectacular – and disturbing
If you haven’t seen it yet – GO. It looks unbelievable. Insane, crushed HDR lighting actually works for this game. You almost feel like you need sunglasses to look at [...]