Confirm your weekend by listening to this week's Listen Up podcast at 1UP, where I join host Garnett Lee, alongside David Ellis and What They Play's John Davison, as we argue "Halo Wars" expectations, reviewing "50 Cent: Blood on the Sand" and more.

I rolled into the rough side of the bay area last night with What They Play's John Davison to appear on the Rebel FM podcast with ex-1UP staff members Philip Kollar, Nick Suttner and Anthony Gallegos to discuss all the games we've been playing, the casual/hardcore divide and more -- listen here!

In the 16th minute of gaming journalist Robert Ashley's colorful and profane first edition of the gaming podcast "A Life Well Wasted," what was an episode about the death of Electronic Gaming Monthly becomes a techno song about the death of Electronic Gaming Monthly. And then it goes back to being a podcast, one well worth wasting about 45 minutes on. Find it on iTunes.