Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. The guys at Giant Bomb have been wandering around The Matrix Online in its final days and were there on 31 July when the servers went silent forever. Enjoy.

The Investigation Team continues its trek through heaven. Get Persona 4!

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. Guess what guys, it’s the slow season. Not much is going on…at all… Let’s celebrate the start of this week with some Phoenix Wright! The folks over at OCRemix have put out some mixed versions of the songs from the soundtrack. Man do I love this series. OBJECTION! Classic. No Yakuza? ...

Looks like Charlie and the gang are entering Heaven to save Nanako. Get Persona 4!

If you couldn’t already guess, a midwife/doctor type confirmed that Debora was not only pregnant, but quite far along. It brings up the tricky point of time in these video games. What seemed like hours traveling around the world map in my control must have been nine months, because Deb is apparently ready to pop. It makes sense, considering the scale of the map and the modes of transportation, but without an outright statement of “Nine Months Later” (too obvious), I find myself pulled out of the narrative a bit. Speaking of getting pulled out of his narrative, Dan is summoned down to see King Albert, prematurely ending the joyous discovery. ...

As Vinny and Jeff get closer to the end of this mystery, we’re all wondering if they’ll manage to get the “true” ending, the “good” ending, or the “bad” ending. From this point on, it’s all on what they decide. Get Persona 4!

It’s time for Wednesday Morning Quarterback, your weekly sports round-up. This year’s hall of fame class included Joe Gordon, Ricky Henderson, and Jim Rice, a fairly solid class inducted without much controversy. It seems like the controversy will only increase as the years continue to go by. Already the HoF voters seem to be softbanning Mark McGwire from the Hall by simply not voting for him on the basis of the steroid allegations made against him and the Hall of Famers are certainly starting to speak up and become vocal about this point. Both Hank Aaron and Jim Rice were quoted last weekend as condemning the steroid era and the numbers and players they represent. While some don’t mind them entering the hall, it’s universally accepted that those numbers need to have some sort of caveat to indicate the shady methods from which they were obtained. ...

The Persona 4 hijinks continue at the hot springs bathhouse in Yukiko’s inn. Get Persona 4!

It doesn’t take a genius to guess that Debora’s probably pregnant. I may have mentioned this before, but at any point in Dragon Quest V, the player can choose to have the main character chat with the members of his party. Dan spoke with Debora and she all but confirmed her impending motherhood with a “You know…I might be…never mind, let’s go.” Further travels to Gotha are marked with few noteworthy events. Now that Dan is rather close to Gotha, he hears from the populace about the king Panrkaz whose travels took him away from his kingdom for near twelve years now. No one seems to know he’s dead. Dan’s mother even makes an appearance in some of the dialogue as some townspeople remark on Dan’s resemblance to Madalena. The recently married Dan is also offered marriage advice by some of the NPCs he speaks with, just to hammer home that family theme. ...

It looks like Jeff and Vinny finally made it to the crazy beauty pageant in Persona 4. Will Charlie win? Get Persona 4!