Does LOST’s handling of time travel make Flashforward fall flat? Can anything top it ever again? Logan lets us know his thoughts on Brutal Legend, Bioware announces the street date for Mass Effect 2, and — try as they might — Mattel can’t seem to get anything right.

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What you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Is that why the Japanese game industry has been slipping lately? Even prominent Japanese creators are seeing the writing on the wall, saying that they must innovate, “or die”. As if to prove their point, we talk about a mess of games we’ve been playing that were not made in the land of the rising sun.

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A BotCon video! In September?

BotCon 2009 was a great time. We talked about it in Episode 11 of the Powetcast, but we also shot a bunch of video at the convention itself. Fans of the Powetcast and Transformers fans alike should enjoy this little peak into the event of the year, before we were let down by Revenge of the Fallen.

Following suit with Marvel, DC is bought out (again) by Warner Bros. Following suit with Siegel/Shuster (against DC), Jack Kirby’s heirs decide to sue Marvel. Kanye West makes a jackass out of himself. Sonic Team wants to make a GOOD Sonic game for a change. And Famicom Dojo Season 2 news! What’s going on in the world??

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Disney acquires Marvel, and a photoshopper’s wet dream ensues. Thomas “John Conner” Dekker tells a n00b to STFU. On YouTube. Shirtless. We chat about the dethroning of Kings, aDam almost spoils “K”, and Powet picks up the torch for Reading Rainbow!

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More and more, the games Powet plays are $10-$15 add-ons and episodic content. Is this trend wide-spread? Is the era of expensive, disc-based gaming over?

Also, news of the video game world at GamesCom and BlizzCon, reviews of Ponyo, District 9, the new Professor Layton (out today), and more! Also introducing special guest Shaun Hatton of Toronto Thumbs and the 4 Color Rebellion network!

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The first supplemental in a long while! Crazy rants about Mattel’s poor handling of its Wonder Twins release… sans monkey! Well, sans monkey for most people. Even for the people who were supposed to get it!

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With Comic-Con behind us, we look forward to the many cinematic adventures born of geekdom. But World of Warcraft? Prince of Persia? Halo? Asteroids? REALLY??

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