We are up early and ready to go with this week’s Crunch Time!  Gear up and roll out, with our Transformers: War for Cybertron review, in addition to 9 scrumptious news stories.

Gore Verbinski Confirms Bioshock Movie is Still Happening, Insists It Will Be Hard R | /Film

Activision Wants “More Value” For Call Of Duty Xbox Live Players

After Nearly Four Years, The PS3 Finally Turns A Profit

Download some of Ilomilo’s soundtrack for free (or just enjoy the new trailer) | Joystiq

Gears of War Maker Calls iPhone, iPad & Android ‘The Consoles of the Future’

Project Offset team disbanded at Intel; Offset Software founders form new startup | Joystiq

Sony Hears You On Those Ico, Shadow of the Colossus HD Remakes

StarCraft 2 getting 3D support post-launch | Joystiq

The Super Smash Bros. Secret That Took 7 Years To Unlock

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Hosts: Jack Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jackbogdan & Alex Griendling- www.twitter.com/gravitybomb

Community:

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Music:

Intro Music By: J. Arthur Keenes Band

Outro Music By: Steadman

Woah nelly, crank this show to 500% and pray the CPU doesn’t crash!  We’re here on another beautiful sunday afternoon for Crunch Time

Check out our coverage of the following:

Dead Space & Bird Strike

For Now, No New Green Day: Rock Band DLC

Left4Dead 2 “The Passing” DLC Hits Next Week

Red Dead Redemption gets difficulty settings

New details on the cancelled Halo MMO

“Game demos prohibitively expensive” – Crytek Boss

Kojima could quit games if Peace Walker doesn’t sell?  WHAT?!?!

StarCraft cheating scandal rocks Korea

Blizzard sells pony for 25 dollars

X-COM Returns!

Gears of War 3 Announcement Trailer

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Hosts: Jack Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jackbogdan & Alex Griendling- www.twitter.com/gravitybomb

Community:

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News:

‘Green Day: Rock Band’ DLC Only Includes Available Tracks For Now » MTV Multiplayer

‘Left 4 Dead 2′ DLC, ‘The Passing,’ Arrives Next Week » MTV Multiplayer

‘Red Dead Redemption’ Gets Easy Mode » MTV Multiplayer

Cancelled Halo MMO Details | IncGamers

Crytek boss: free game demos ‘prohibitively expensive’ — Joystiq

Gears of War 3 dated April 5, 2011 — Joystiq

Kojima Says He May Leave The Industry If His Next Project Fails » MTV Multiplayer

StarCraft cheating scandal rocks Korea « GamePron

World of Warcraft Pet Store Adds $25 Mount – Shacknews – PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads

X-Com Is Back! – Xcom – Kotaku

Music:

Music by Steadman

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′

Community:

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Music:

Music by Steadman

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Well we did it, we finally prioritized and realized that making asses of ourselves comes first for you people. We will try and do a song weekly, but if this litmus test has shown us anything, it takes a LOOONG time. On the show this week, social games and how we might see them in the future, along with our review of Mafia Wars for the iPhone and Facebook, and Dragon Wars for Facebook.

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Hosts: Jeremy Bogdan- www.twitter.com/jeremybogdan & Brendan Kelly- www.twitter.com/brendandk

News Discussed:

Kotaku – BlizzCon Exclusive WoW Pet Is A Space Marine, Sort Of – World of Warcraft

Gamasutra – News – PopCap’s Canessa Heads To Blizzard As Battle.net Project Director

Possible Kojima Productions Reveal in Three Days?: News from 1UP.com

Atari pulls out of E3, current plans in question

Eidos Montreal’s ‘Thfourteeneff’ now entering pre-production phase

EA officially details Spore Hero, Spore Hero Arena

Kotaku – Resident Evil On iPhone – resident evil: degeneration

Kotaku – Jerry Bruckheimer Gets Halo, Ubi Execs To Craft Unannounced Games – Jerry Bruckheimer

Robot Chicken and Spore to be combined … somehow

Kotaku – Red Steel 2 Is Wii MotionPlus Only – red steel 2

Gamasutra – News – Zynga Sees 10 Million Active Social Gamers

Community:

E-Mail us text or MP3 responses to crunchtime@jeremybogdan.com . If it’s an MP3, try to keep it short and sweet! so we can play it on the podcast! Thanks!

Music:

Music by Steadman

Intro Backing by Queen