Thanks to your votes, BDPE is the highest rated gaming podcast on Podcast Alley! But we'll need more this month if you want that sexy Marathon video. Also on this week's show, the PS3 still sucks, politicians up in arms after the first GTA IV trailer, and a brand new contest.

Judgement: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Jetpac Refueled, Earth Defense Force 2017, Scurge Hive, Puzzle Quest
Jank: Earth Defense Force 2017 @ EBgames / Gamestop
Quote: "I love all manner of the arts. And beauty. My pectoral muscles are the size of watermelons."

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It's September 2005. The United States is suffering from a terrible post-industrial depression and the west is still a wild and untamed frontier. Subversive communists are at every corner, and in the streets women burn their brassieres in an act of defiance. The world is in chaos.

Yet through this darkness, there is light. A single beam of hope of things to come. Beneath the star of DDD, a podcast was born. It would become the BEST DAMN PODCAST EVER.

MacDudes was our very first attmept at podcasting. Originally intended as a spinoff of Adam Christianson's MacCast with a humorous twist, the MacDudes quicly turned into the IMG Podcast, and later BDPE. It may be crude, but it still has the heart of BDPE.

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Note: Episode 18 hilarity coming very soon!

Tom Barbalet explores the cavernous space inside Blake Buck's head in this reflective interview. Blake Buck talks of his past, how he met the other hosts, the trenches of IMG, and secret behind the scenes heat! Check out the .m4a version for tons of behind the scenes photos!

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The EDF or Earth Defense Force are an elite group of soilders who's one mission is to protect Planet Earth from the hords of evil in the universe.

Join us now citizen as we protect our planet from the Ravagers--a group of blood thirsty aliens.

Do you have the chops to make it? I think so, but watch this instructional video to make sure you got the mustard.

So go go go and buy this game. It's the best damn game you can find.