Great interview. And its good to be reassured when it seams like a few words are being blown completely out of proportion. I'm already psyched about borderlands 2 and this is getting me that much more excited. I cant wait to get my hands on that mechromancer.

As for the editorial at the end: Blackwolf my good sir... you do not get enough credit. very very excellent. And i hope that this eps can spread and get more exposure for the vog network. I'm already trying to tell my friends about it.

::downloads:: Will listen before bed!

I think gaming journalism has turned into an oxymoron. Gaming companies have this relationship with the gaming press that is much more akin to an extra promotion arm for their business. I understand why, because so much money is involved, but aside from the occasional slip-up that the press jumps on to generate website hits, so many of the "news" stories come off like commercials without a lot of substance. Your interview was a lot more thought provoking than anything I've read on a major gaming news site.

Good interview Bobby. You can tell Hemingway wanted to get his explanation out there from his own lips. Its just sad it took this long for someone to even ASK him about it.

As for gaming journalism. The gaming journalistic community needs a wakeup call as a whole. Many of whom that claim to have journalism experience don't seem to actually use any of the proper channels of communication. Many bloggers or "reporters" from various commercial sites (ign, Kotaku, joystiq ect) get their standard media press releases (That everyone gets) and copies and pastes the important information. Or if anything they copy and paste from each others stories. Editorials have become nothing more than forum blog… read more posts. Nothing more than incoherent ramblings of people uninformed with the subject matter as its audience. So i am skeptical that these writers for "gaming news" sites actually take the time to follow up with anything before they post it. Copy and Paste has become the major tool in internet journalism these days.

Its sad that many people like indie podcasters or bloggers are the only ones doing the actual fact finding and reporting these days. People who don't profit off of it and are doing it for fun. Whats also sad is that Bobby doesn't have a degree in journalism and still opened up his email, contacted Gearbox himself to get this interview AND got more information from the source than any other gaming news site did. The same can be said about many other podcasters who have taken the time to ASK for interviews rather than copy and paste a press release or someones other post on the matter.

Well thats my rant. Regardless good show as usual read less

This was hands down the best show this week, Great interview by the Gearbox Developers and the rant on Gaming Journalism in General.

Wow, I can actually listen to Bobby's show before OLR for once!

That was a really good interview. And that editorial statement at the end of it was the complete and utter truth Blackwolf.

Seriously, you now have two Parsec nominee candidates in a row.

As for Auspher's call, you'll get a rebuttal definitely next week since I couldn't get on the phone in time. VOICE-MAIL WARS!

I really like how heartfelt Hemingway's explanation of "Girlfriend Mode" was. That really should help alleviate any anger people were feeling towards him on the subject. Just goes to show how much it helps to simply ask for an interview.

And YEAH I threw that gauntlet! Them be Golden Gauntlets from Ocarina of Time, even though the Silver ones are more pretty...