We’re proud to welcome to the show this week; David Crookes, gaming journalist and curator of the Videogame Nation exhibition currently on show at the Urbis in Manchester. It’s a celebration of the thirty year history of video games, largely focusing on the British creative side. Various themed areas take you from the bedroom to an arcade, a sports arena and eventually up to date in the living room. People of all ages and from all levels of game experience can try out classic titles and glean fascinating insight about the often misunderstood industry.

Here’s the link to the calendar of events. http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3332 I recommend anybody able to get there bring along their friends and family. Entry is only £3. David gave us an excellent 20-minute phone interview, going into more detail about the exhibition.

Also this week, we’ve been playing lots of games. Tony talks Fuel and we mop up after E3 with some aftermath news, including Peter Molyneux’s ascension to Creative Director of Microsoft Game Studios and how pre-E3 leaks harm our excitement. All that, plus Random Game of the Week and Reader Mail.

Listeners should go to Steven Jones’ blog and read his summation of six months of 360 ownership after a mostly PC-based gaming life. http://st.thomsen-jones.co.uk/?p=325 Steven is one of our regular letter writers and gives a particularly provocative submission this week regarding a theoretical way of Microsoft handling downloadable 360 games.

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