Welcome to the Gamer's for the Jobs Conference Call for December 8th, 2010.

I'm Julian Murdoch, and I'm here with a big crew this week, and not one of them is named

Sean.

On my virtual left, I've got Laura Krueger.

Hello, Laura.

Hello, hello.

And I have Alan Pyroman Cook.

Hey, yeah.

And this week we have not one but two special guests coming in off the bench, as it were,

both of whom were regular enough to be almost quasi-normal around here.

From Joystick and My Brother and My Brother Me, we have Justin McElroy.

Hi. I'm here. Hello.

Hello. What a pleasure.

He can't be heard of the fanfare, right?

It is.

It's all the crowd noise.

And last but not least, because we were really digging deep onto the bench, we decided to pull in irrationals, Mr. Ken Levine.

Ken, how are you?

Good evening, Mr. Murdoch and et al.

So this week we're going to be looking at the issue of bias, all the baggage and stereotypes that we bring to the games we play, to the games people make, and to the coverage of games by the press.

We've also got a little something special for the holiday season and, of course, your emails.

But first, let's talk about games you can play right now.

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