This week Federico and Myke discuss a scientific study of Mario Galaxy, the merits and disadvantages of crowd-funded games, a GameBoy HDMI extension, tales of recent local multiplayer experiences and they talk about the iOS games they’ve been playing this week.

And if you’re looking for more podcasts for this holiday weekend, you can’t go wrong with the latest Virtual. Plenty of games and gaming-related links while we’re waiting for this month’s releases on the 3DS and Wii U. Get the episode here.

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