It's a big week for Jumping the Shark as a perfect storm of shiftless layabouting on the parts of Bill, Danielle, and Brandon -who seem to think their vacations and road trips should trump podcasting- leave Todd in charge of the show for a week. He does his best to persevere and not lose the entire audience in the span of 60 minutes. Helping to further that goal we have two returning guests this week: senior editor for the Escapist, Susan Arendt, and No High Scores' very own Michael Barnes. This week's topic is all about the mainstreaming of video games, how games going from a niche hobby to what Al Gore referred to as "the new normal" at Games for Change this week has changed the nature of gaming itself. Along the way Michael backhands Shadows of the Damned and gives us his take on L.A. Noire, Susan and I talk about our love/hate relationship with Dungeon Siege 3, and I talk about my new addiction to Carcassonne on the iPad.

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With E3 freshly behind us, we used this week's Jumping the Shark to talk about E3 the show. What we liked about this year's show. What we think is changing about it, for better or worse.  Why you know more about what's going on there if you just stay home. Etc. In the what we're playing segment, Bill dispenses with Hunted, Brandon finds Greent Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters to be surprisingly enjoyable, Danielle digs out Costume Quest and Saints Row 2 from her back catalog, and I lament that my "early" copy of Dungeon Siege 3 refuses to install (due to a Steam activation issue).

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Take a trip in the wayback machine to Day 3 of E3. The usual crew along with Tom Chick, Brian Rowe and Jason McMaster round out the E3stravaganza. Next week we'll have our formal E3 wrap-up show, so stay tuned!

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E3 Day Two is upon us and we all saw good things and bad things and everything in between. How's that for vague? The usual crew is here, along with Tom Chick, Justin Amirkhani, Brian Rowe and Jason McMaster. Our day three show will go up on Sunday as a "normal" episode with a formal E3 wrap-up the week following. 

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It's day one at E3! Woohoo!

The usual GameShark crew is here along with Tom Chick, Jason McMaster and Mitch Dyer and we're all talking about the highest of highs and the lowest of lows from E3 day one. Be sure to come back for days two and three of the extravaganza that is E3!

Jumping the Shark does the pre-E3 thing with Danielle, Brandon, Bill and Todd talking about what they are and aren't looking forward to during this year's E3. Oh, and Brandon goes on a truly epic rant about D&D: Daggerdale.

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