Happy Friday, listeners! This week, Conrad jumped into the hot tub with us to talk about the Commodore 64. Highlights include:

Did you play theMonster Hunter Tridemo? If not, don’t bother. It sucked. Okay, that’s subjective, but it’s definitely fair to say that theMonster Hunter Tridemo did not accurately represent the full game. Imagine if Rockstar put out a demo for the nextGTAgame that had you inside of a car as soon as you boot it up, and had you drive from point A to point B to point C, and then it ended....

If you’re over the whole “zombies in videogames” streak the industry has been on the past few years, you’re not alone. What once was a rare and genuinely exciting occurrence (Zombies Ate My Neighbors!, for instance), has now become commonplace with varying degrees of success.Dead Risingto a full-on zombie mode inCall of Duty: World at War. FromLeft 4 DeadtoLittle Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ(yes, that’s a game). The market, as it seems, may be oversaturated with the wails and groans of the undead....

Fresh off the press release from OGPlanet comes word that they have released the online multiplayer fighting game,Rumble Fighter— and they think they have exactly the type of game you’ve been waiting for. As Chief Creative Officer Jack Liu points out, their aim was to bypass those watered-down casual fighting games normally found on PCs, and evolve the formula into something a bit more worthy of your time: “Until now, most online fighting games have been limited to simple gameplay derived from consoles....

UK magazine PSM3 says that Hideo Kojima is going to announce more than one game at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. They say: MGS maestro Hideo Kojima’s got some big announcements for E3 in June: one a quasi-logical step for an existing game, the other… So,Metal Gear Solid 5? Finally? The timing would be right, I’d say. But asG4says, why would they announce two games at once? Wouldn’t anMGS5announce overshadow any other announcement....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfaremay hit the Wii. According to aKotakureport, publisher Activision will announce, at some point today, that Infinity Ward’s other (and older) modern-day shooter is coming the waggle-tastic platform. It will ship the same day asCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2for the big boy consoles (November 10th) and is being handled by Treyarch, developer of severalCall of Duty Wiititles. Despite the “rumor” tag, we’re pretty sure this thing will happen....

Normally I wouldn’t post a rumor which source seems simply to be “some Dutch guy,” but there is an element of logic which runs through this story making it worth considering. The rumor from “some Dutch guy” is thatKingdom Hearts Coded, Square Enix’s mobile phone installment of the franchise, may enjoy a PlayStation Portable appearance.Codedis set after the events ofKingdom Hearts IIand is a puzzle game with action elements. There is already a PSP game in the works,Birth By Sleep, as well as a planned DS title known as358/2 Days....

What’s good enough for Activision is good enough for EA if gossip is to be believed. It’s being said that the nextMedal of Honorgame will be brought bang up to date with a foray into the realm of modern warfare. According torumors,Medal of Honor: Operation Anacondawill take players to Afghanistan in 2002 and be based around the real-life mission of the game’s name. The ill-fated mission saw a helicopter crash and a unit stranded in Taliban-filled mountains....

The above picture says it all. Not content to (allegedly) copy the Wii’s motion controls, Microsoft is now possibly introducing its own take on Nintendo’s Mii characters with these customizable avatars. This is once again pure rumor, but comes from the sameleakthat brought usMarvel ZombiesandForza 3, so it looks pretty likely. Nintendo has Miis, Sony has Home (one day) and now Microsoft is set to have avatars. All I’ll say is, the Xbox 360 can copy the motion controls, it can copy the Miis, but unfortunately for Microsoft, it will never copy the profits....

Tecmo Koei has today unleashed what I’d call a silly amount of new screens for its upcoming 3DS hack n’ slasher,Samurai Warriors Chronicles. There’s also character art for the brilliantly named “Hero” and “Heroine.” I shall play this and I shall probably enjoy this game. But you all knew that anyway.

Looks like Deep Sliver/Koch Media has pulled in an impressive voice cast for the upcoming RPG,Risen. Lena Hedey (Sarah Connor from the ill-fatedTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Ringstrilogy’s Gollum), and John Rhys Davies (Gimli fromLord of the Rings)will all be providing human sounds for the PC and Xbox 360 title. “The quality of the voice casting reflects the quality of the game,” says Paul Nicholls of Koch Media....

Make thatSavage Moon: The Hera Campaign, theportable counterpartto the PlayStation Network tower defense game from early this year. From what I can remember, people seemed to enjoy the original on PS3, with the major complaint being overly brutal difficulty. With Christmas on the very near horizon, I guessthey wanted togive next week’s PSN releases some room to breathe —Savage Moonwill be ready for download on Tuesday instead of the usual Thursday time slot....

It seems like the weekend is never too far away. Maybe that’s just a fact of my rubbish day job but at least it means you’re never too far away from some weekend PC game sales. This weekend you can save a fair whack of cash onThe Witcher 2and theDawn of Wargames. Good Old Games are running a special gamescom promotion, the centerpiece being a40% discount on the digital premium edition ofThe Witcher 2....