2010 is looking to be an amazing year for gamers. “Thanks to” the release of Modern Warfare 2 and a little bit of econimic crisis several high profile titles meant for late 2009 got pushed into 2010 instead.

Jenni is MIA for this week’s episode, so you can only imagine what shenanigans Mike and Eric get themselves into! Topics include Halo: ODST, Gamestop’s used game sales, Kaz Hirai’s attitude toward the competition, and Obama’s Wii

For years video games have been stigmatized by worried parents and opportunistic politicians. Fortunately for gamers, there are people like Dr. Christopher Ferguson of Texas A&M International University. Ferguson authored a paper about a year ago arguing that studies claiming to link violent video games to violent behavior are, “faulty and fail to acknowledge the significant methodological and constructional divides between existing video game research and acts of serious aggression and violence.” Which is fancy academic talk for what most of us already knew: killing in a game won’t transmogrify you into a murderer.

Some new details about the monthly Halo comic have been announced at the New York Comic Con. Joe Quesada, editor in chief of Marvel has named Brian Michael Bendis, known for his work on the Marvel Ultimate Universe, as the…