Episode 30!  PARTAY!  Brendan and I kick off CTP 30-39 with a 30 story salute!  We cover a RIDICULOUS amount of news this week, along with our reviews of Civ Rev for the iPhone, Psychonauts (Xbox) for Games on Demand, and a brief talk on Brendan’s new World of Warcraft Habit!  With GamesCom just wrapping and BlizzCon just beginning, we are packed to the brim with new content this week!  Stay tuned!

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Show Notes:

Hosts: Jack Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jackbogdan & Brendan Kelly- www.twitter.com/brendandk

News Discussed:

It’s official: PlayStation 3 price drops to $299

PS3 Firmware 3.00 features in development pre-NXE

A tiny glance at PSP Minis, Digital Comics

GameStop: PSPgo Owners Will Trade In UMDs

Dead Nation: new PS3 exclusive from Super Stardust devs

Rock Band DLC to hit 1000 tracks by holiday with help of Queen, Nirvana & Elton John

Harmonix looking at Project Natal for ‘Rock Band 3′

Sony: PS2 back compat not returning to PS3 (ever)

id: Xbox 360 Rage may have separate discs for campaign and multiplayer

Final Fantasy XIII team ‘aiming’ for three-DVD release

GRIN Were Working On A Final Fantasy Game

No demo for Borderlands – at least not ‘before launch’

Quake Live adds support for Mac, Linux

New Starcraft 2 videos: cinematic trailer and some single player gameplay

Fable II ‘Episodic’ revealed, pay-as-you-play starts Sept. 29

Molyneux announces Fable III at GamesCom, coming 2010

Fable 3 will question the foundations on which Fable is built, says Molyneux

LittleBigPlanet PSP loses multiplayer, and maybe its soul

Eye of Judgment seen on PSP

Namco Bandai to publish Heavenly Sword-dev Ninja Theory’s next IP

Fat Princess Teases Pirates And Ninjas

Latest Brutal Legend trailer shows multiplayer, awesomeness

Brutal Legend demo rocking XBLM and PSN in September

It’s not concept art: New God of War III pics are that pretty

Bethesda clarifies MMO claims, Elder Scrolls V statements

And This Is The Guild Wars 2 Trailer

Crysis 2 Images and Movies Tease New Nanosuit

Plants vs. Zombies Lurching Onto iPhone, iPod Touch

World of Warcraft: The Magazine Launching

First Footage of EVE Dev’s Console MMO ‘DUST 514′

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Music:

Music by Steadman