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Somehow, Beastmaster and Master of the Universe make it on the show, starring Tina Sanchez and Scott Sharkey.

The thread is packed to the gills this week, as we open with TGS leftovers, Who's Beaten the Donkey Kong High Score This Week, the Michael Jackson MMO, Billy Blanks' Wii game, the iffiness of GOG.com's death and return, Netflix in Canada, and tangents, tangents, tangents!

On this episode, Frank and Tina report on the latest PS3 firmware update that kinda screwed third-party controllers, the insatiable appetite of Halo players, Blockbuster's bankruptcy, and Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Matt suffering from massive jetlag from his trip to Japan.

It's a guestacular second episode of 8-4 Play as two of the industry's finest - former EGM/1UP scribe Shane Bettenhausen (now of Ignition Entertainment) and Kojima Productions alum Ryan Payton (now of Microsoft's 343 Industries) join us to give their thoughts on this year's Tokyo Game Show, the state of the Japanese game industry, Dante's new hair, and a whole lot more.

Frank Cifaldi joins the crew this week to eat candy and discuss Zap Paks. 1UP's TGS photo galleries get some attention, as do Batman villains Two-Face and Killer Moth. Also listener calls!

This week, we're calling our show the atOdds cast. Why? We get Mike and Travis from at1UP to join us in Sam's absence. This week Chris rags on PlayStation Move, Tina complains about Halo Reach, we all discover what impact KFC has in Japan, wonder what you all think of Medal of Honor being banned by the military, and Sharkey loves Lord of the Rings online. As always, we take some pretty damn good call-in questions and letters.

This week on The Sound Test, we recognize more recent game releases with selections from Etrian Odyssey III and the third Professor Layton game; new music from Monster Hunter Tri; an interesting experiment with Nintendo's Popeye, and a fitting end for Super Mario's birthday.

Tina and Sharkey close the week out with a statement on the PSP2, Kotick on licensing cutscenes, PSO2 announced, Colonel Sanders in Phantasy Star Portable 2, and our TGS wrap-up.

Special Guest and 1UP.com podcast-legend Garnett Lee joins the 8-4-some in a game-by-game analysis of everything at the 2010 Tokyo Game Show, including Tactics Ogre, Parasite Eve, Yakuza, Castlevania, Monster Hunter, El Shaddai, Mega Man Universe, Child of Eden, and more. And before you start, be sure to listen to Weekend Confirmed Ep. 26 over at Shacknews.com to get the first half of our TGS 2010 discussion!

It's the big ol' Tokyo Game Show roundup with Ray, Scooter, Justin, and briefly, Alice. We go over Ray's big 3 "whats" (or "WTFs"): Yakuza, DmC, and Steel Battalion. Every other big announcement is talked about, too, including but not limited to Microsoft's hardcore Kinect games, The Last Guardian, Shadows of the Damned, Phantasy Star Online 2, and at the end, non-TGS impressions of Pac-Man Championship Edition DX and Kirby's Epic Yarn. "Epic yarn" might be a good name for this episode, too.

Tina and Sharkey chat about the latest Last Guardian info, APB shutting down, Steel Battalion on Kinect, MGS3 on 3DS, and our Halo Reach Music Feature.

Tina and Sharkey go over a plethora of newly announced titles from Tokyo Game Show 2010 and discuss Halo Reach Day +1.

Frank and Sharkey chat about a potential PS3 backwards compatibility patent, a new study, our Halo Reach feature, and a new Retronauts show.

A different Scott joins Frank to discuss a possible 3DS release date, a new poll on video game violence, Jeremy's TGS blog, and Scooter's Halo Reach review.

We discuss where we've all been: LA, PAX, and where we're going: TGS. Sam talks about what he's looking forward to seeing, like The Last Guardian, and an empty Black Ops booth. The group is missing Chris' presence, but Alice is kind enough to join us.