In a week of high-volume chatter, we…make it worse. We’re tackling your questions this week, so the topics are all over the place. Kat, Hugh, and I discuss the long road to next-gen gaming, the Call of Duty app, the new Thor movie, Kat’s package, more double XP, poison oak, how to praise a dev team, buying and selling children, the Portal of Power, an iOS app Hugh should not play, why we will or will not be venturing into the next generation this month, what makes the babysitter leave in a hurry, Rocksmith 2014, and the transitive properties of marriage.

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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

Absent 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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• Next-gen COD Ghosts double XP weekend Nov 29-Dec 2
  
• Call of Duty app available now
  
• Rocksmith 2014
  
• Tiny Death Star on Android and iOS
  
• Kat’s package
  
• Kat’s photography DeviantArt page and Facebook page
  
• Kat and Hugh and Dan and Yameen on Twitter
  
• Kat’s DeviantArt page and Facebook page
  
• Dan’s book: Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living
  
• Hugh’s book: City Under the Moon
  
• Enter your own question for Hugh Don’t Know Jack (or Stick It To The Dan)
  
• Write to the show’s Megamailbag