In this week’s exciting episode Mike Eric and Jenni discuss Halo Wars, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Persona 4, The Fifth Estate, Amazon’s new trade in program, the iPhone as a gaming platform, and the dangers of drinking White Russians while podcasting.

Let’s assume I was trying to run homebrew applications on my PSP. For this hypothetical scenario, my sole purpose for doing this would be to play PSone games on my PSP. Likewise assume that I own all of the games I will be using an emulator to play on the PSP and the programs I will be using to do so are free to use. The only thing stopping me from doing so would be the software running on the PSP. Is this at all fair? Is it right that the manufacturers of both handheld and home consoles control nearly every aspect of how we use them?

When I think back to the history of Apple I look to none other then Oregon Trail. What stood out about Oregon Trail was that we were playing a video game in school. Whenever we would finish our keyboarding exercises…