It’s a big week for your letters, some of which were unearthed from the spring! Kat, Hugh, and I talk about Destiny’s beta, semantics over Season Passes, how our taste in games is based on our upbringing, the dream of next-gen backwards compatibility, some Vicarious Visions history, how a game is slowly revealed over time, game box spines, what constitutes a franchise, Transformers having sex, and what’s on Hugh’s desk from, like, months ago. Also, at the end of the show, you get to actually hear Hugh descend into the madness of a new addiction!

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Host: Dan “OneOfSwords” Amrich, Activision Community Manager, author, musician, puzzle nerd, and fire juggler

Co-host: “The Lovely and Talented” Katrin Auch, photographer, graphic designer, bassist, Mechromancer, and inventor of Headshotmas

Co-host: Hugh “DJ Darkhugh” Sterbakov, screenwriter, author, comic creator, Emmy-nominated writer/toy wrangler for Robot Chicken, and Governor of Somewhere

Soundtrack: Yameen - available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and all online music stores

Relevant show links:

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• Destiny’s new trailer and beta details
  
• Cookie Clicker (Hugh, do NOT click)
  
• Much Ado About Nothing on “home video”
  
• Whedon’s World infographic
  
• Breaking Bad in Animal Crossing
  
• Kat and Hugh and Dan and Yameen on Twitter
  
• Dan’s book: Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living
  
• Hugh’s book: City Under the Moon
  
• Kat’s DeviantArt page
  
• Enter your own question for Hugh Don’t Know Jack (or Stick It To The Dan)
  
• Suggest topics for The Third Degree
  
• Write to the show’s Megamailbag