This week the PixlTalk crew is graced by the presence of special guest, Jason Hillhouse, a close personal friend of Nick and Chessa.

Yesterday I joined in on Sony's newest generation of consoles when I bought a PlayStation 3. As some of you might know (if you listen to the podcast), I have not been a part of the Sony-buying public since the PlayStation 2. That changed last night.

PixlBit recently had the opportunity to chat with producer of the Valhalla Knights series, Yoshihisa Ohbuchi. He gave us some insight into the latest iteration of the series, Eldar Saga, which recently released on Wii.

Ken Patterson and Matt Heinzen of Minnesota-based developers Big John Games just put their most recent game, this week's DSiWare release Thorium Wars, to bed. We talked about their latest game and how it originated as a retail release.

I feel as if we are being bombarded with Little Big Planet news: first the Watchmen Sackboys, then the PSP release date. It's as if there's no place left for the Sackboy to go except the silver screen…..

With the PSPgo out in the wild, we must ask the question: Is it worth it?

On October 4, PixlBit will try to figure out Captain Rainbow in front of a live internet audience via a live stream.

According to Wikipedia, we are in the seventh generation of the console cycle. As we all know, this generation is home of Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360. Additionally, though not a part of the seventh home console generation, this is still currently the era of the PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS.

With the introduction episode behind us, we jump right into our first full fledged episode.

Alex Neuse from Gaijin Games took some time out of Bit.Trip-making schedule to talk about the Bit.Trip series and a whole lot more, including his testing past with Grim Fandango and Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, and his designing work on Gladius.

XSEED's upcoming title Ju-On: The Grudge, is a haunted house simulator based in the same universe as the Ju-On movies. In fact, the creator of the Ju-On movies, Takashi Shimizu, was on hand throughout development of the game in order to assist with making the game scary and canonical. PixlBit had the opportunity to talk with Jimmy Soga of XSEED about their upcoming title Ju-On: The Grudge. Ju-On: The Grudge will release on October 13 in North America.

On the first episode of PixlTalk, we delve into the origins of ourselves. We also talk about our favorite games and a little bit of what we've been playing. Neal gets Wet (gross!), Lauren is playing Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story, Nick is typing in Scribblenauts, and Chessa goes import friendly with Another Code R.