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Greetings everybody and welcome to Podcast Unlocked episode 44. This is IGN's best and only Xbox 360

centric podcast. I'm your host, Stephen Hopper, the head of IGN's Xbox channel. Joining me are

locksmiths Peter Eichmanns, hello everybody, and returning from his sabbatical Mr. Casey Lynch,

beard and chief of IGN. It's like we're just changing radio stations from our own podcast.

Got very crazy and static in here. Well, welcome back Casey. It's good to have you back in the

podcast. Let's get it back. Say it along. Good. Sorry guys, I'm getting over something.

Getting over the loss of a close friend. Might not being sickness.

I'm sick. The guy and I used to hang out all the time. I'm not a kid this week. He stopped calling.

It's about a quarter of the people in the office are sick. That's a mess there.

But yeah, a lot to talk about this week guys is a ton of games. I know it hit. January started and

we're like, what are you going to play? I don't know. What are you going to play? Last year's stuff.

Now it's like 2012 is here. Yeah, man. That's some games. It's nuts. I mean, we, you know, there was

a nice little lull before. I mean, after Christmas and suddenly we're back in the day loose and it

looks like it's going to keep on going. It's going to keep on trucking. But yeah, this week we had

never dead, which we're going to talk about. Final Fantasy 13-2, which we're also going to hit on.

So caliber five, I guess. And on the downloadable front, Double Fine released Happy Action Theater,

which was just reviewed today and later on in the podcast, Mr. Casey Lynch is going to talk about

that for us. But first off, let's talk about the greatest game to launch this week.

Never dead. Never dead, right? Yeah, undoubtedly. This is the game to watch.

Yeah. Yeah. So in case you haven't heard about Never Dead, it didn't receive a lot of hype

from their publisher, Konami wisely chose not to do much with it. We reviewed it. We posted

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