Welcome back to PodCulture! We have Andy in the studio this week while Adam is off having birthday bacchanalia! Andy’s been working on his upcoming junior English curriculum. Glenn’s been working hard getting aerial news out to Louisville and playin[...]

This week, Mako-chan bring us Moon Animate Make-Up, and DJ Ranma S, and Ari Rockefeller review it! Along with an issue from ConnectiCon Convention. In anime news, the Science of Dragon Ball Z, Gurren Lagann come to Toonami on Adult Swim, 15th anniversary of Digimon, The Pikachu Cafe, and Chris Sabat speaks out about his Vegeta voice! Then in the Open News Forum Topic, "We all started somewhere when it comes to anime. Now that we know better and try to get other into anime, what series would you introduce to a newbie to get them into anime?" And finally in News From Japan, panty thief strikes again... But how he did it! Along with a 3D vagina printer and the courts overturn a groping conviction?!

As you may have heard on some of our gaming shows on the network this week, VOGNetwork.com was at GaymerX2 last weekend. GaymerX2 took place from July 11th - July 13th at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA. While we were there, we shot some video and talked to some of the people at the show. Take a look at our VOG VLOG capturing the sights, sounds and most importantly cosplay of GaymerX2. Also featured in the video some of our podcasters here at VOGNetwork, as well as some fellow indie podcasters who took the stage in one of the many panels at the show, "Podcast X Zone"

Tonight we talk about the Destiny beta with our pal Ian from the Qoopa Klub podcast. This console shooter game from the makers of Halo has some very familiar MMO elements. Could this be what is drawing us to this genre of game that we might not normally play otherwise? In breaking news, the logo for the Warcraft movie is revealed at Comic-Con. Surprise! It’s nothing like the games at all, but isn’t that to be expected? Also in Blizzard news, Grandpa talks about the latest expansion for Hearthstone.

We start off by congratulating RPGrinders on their 300th episode, and pimping a future (at the time) meeting of the Atlanta VR Meetup. The Evil G is at it again, and wants to tie exclusive gameplay to preorder bonuses. The Sims 4 won't have toddlers or pools at launch, and EA states it's because of other code and not that they're holding it off for the first expansion pack. Then we take calls about free games, Magic 2015, Shovel Knight, and OLR Rob's take on GaymerX.

Wanna take a stab at what movie the sistahs are talking about this week? It isn't Yentl. This week's show got a little personal – hell, it went straight for the balls this week! Both of the sistahs took time out of their awesome-filled lives to sit down and watch the Jeremy Snead documentary, Video Games: The Movie. Panda has dubbed this the "NOTumentary" as it seems that the movie's message was weak. In fact, it was completely missing. Here is the proper definition of the word documentary: a movie, television or radio program that provides a factual record or report. […]

Show opens with the Ball Pit of VOG, which quickly breaks everything. Travis gives an important PSA on the dangers of cosplay costume making. What is the big deal with Thor becoming a woman? None actually except the name. Part 2 just gets “Tacky” *VOGNetwork.com Passphrase is available now on the podcast and the YouTube recordings.*

Rob and Jamie are back from GaymerX2, and talk about some of the things they saw and the highlights of the show! Also, with the Destiny Beta kicking off this weekend, Rob has some early impressions of the game, and we get other impressions from our live chatters. Also, Microsoft is in the news a lot this week, as the layoff news has been a topic of much conversation. Is all the news bad at Microsoft, however? As sales figures from last month may indicate things are on their way up with the Xbox One.

The box office has been pretty strong this summer as nearly all the movies highlighted in part 1 ended up as top 10 earners of the season so far. If only I had spotlighted “Neighbors” over “A Million Ways to Die in the West” all nine would have been up there. With a frontloaded summer like this, is there any money left to support the movies coming out in the second half of the season? Looking at July, you may not think so, but things ramp up big time in August.

Ever since Changes, the novel that fundamentally shifted the focus of The Dresden Files and added untold complications to the larger story, each successive novel has dealt with major revelations and advancements in the saga. Even before that, the novels leading up to Changes were on a clear path of escalation. In other words, it’s been a while since there has been a novel of The Dresden Files that has been relatively stand-alone and low-key.