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Jace and Marti get back from the holiday break and discover the office has been completely destroyed by a new arch rival getting revenge. Jace then drops in on Tom Green to check out how he films the TomGreen.com show and play some Ms. Pac Man. We also head back to Sony Online Entertainment to celebrate "Everquest Day" the 10 year Anniversary of Everquest, and the MMORPG that started it all.
Jace and Marti find the culprit who vandalized the office, but she is too fast to catch and gets away. Jace then enjoys some cake and dance at the birthday bash for Everquest's 10 year anniversary party. We also talk with SOE President John "Smed" Smedley and original Everquest developer, Steve Clover. Afterwards, Jace runs into Zach Levi at the Street Fighter 4 Launch Party in Los Angeles, where he learns he needs a fighting stick in order to compete with the best players in the world.
MMA Stars, Cung Le and Josh Thomson stop in the office to play Jace in Street Fighter 4 where he's still without his arcade stick. Jace decides to solve the problem by going to Arizona to visit the folks at Arcade-In-A-Box to get a custom build arcade style controller to compete with Cung and Josh. Jace's luck doesn't get better when he gets back to LA with his controller.
Jace tasks Corey with getting Marti a birthday surprise for the office, which turns out to be very costly. We then go with Jace to the set of "Beautiful", the newest music video from artist, AKON. Also, Pete Wanat and Nick Torchia from WB Interactive Entertainment sit down with their former boss to talk about Wanted: Weapons of Fate.
Jace heads back to Sony Online Entertainment to check out their newest free-to-play MMORPG game, Free Realms, and join in on the Usability Lab testing. Back at the WB Interactive Entertainment offices, Nick Torchia and Pete Wanat let Jace test play Wanted: Weapons of Fate.
At the HD Films offices, Todd and Jace decide to try out Corey as a writer for segments on the show. Jace then visits with actress Kiki Palmer to shoot some zombies in House of the Dead on the Wii, which ends up in an argument with Corey that can only be resolved by heading to the paintball range for some real life shooting.
Ian Somerhalder comes by the HD Films office to be a part of what he thought was Jace's show "V" thanks to Producer Todd Roy. Jace then heads out to James Gunn's house to talk with James and his brothers about their internet series, PG Porn with Mikaela Hoover. The Office's Craig Robinson shows up to take a nap which cuts sends Jace and the Gunn's to the moving set of PG Porn. Also, Jace heads to San Francisco to Double Fine Studios, the development company of legendary game designer, Tim Schaefer where they revisit the olden days of gaming.
Corey is in the office getting stand up comedy advice from Jace, who is then forced to suffer the wrath of the Jace Hall Show post production wizards. We then head back to San Francisco to play some Brutal Legend, the new game from Double Fine and Tim Schaefer starring Jack Black. Back at the office, Kelly Hu drops in to play golf... Wii Golf, which she claims is harder than real golf. Her and Jace decide to take it outside for a game of mini golf with a wager of an ice-cream Sunday.
Leela Savasta is scheduled to come into the office and Corey is set on him having what it takes to woo the girl of his dreams. Jace heads up to the massive EA compound at Redwood Shores to take a tour of the facilities with Glen Schofield and try to take a look at their new game Dante's Inferno.
Jace sits down at the Smoke House with Battlestar Galactica's "Starbuck", Katee Sackhoff for drinks and romance? Afterwards, Jace managed to convince EA to let him take a look at their newest action game, Dante's Inferno with Jonathan Knight and Steve Desilets, the games lead producers who discuss the philosophies of balancing the deep metaphors of the poem with the deep metaphors of boobs.
Stargate Atlantis star, Joe Flanigan comes by the office to talk with Jace about "V" and ends up walking away with something very special to Jace. We then get a playtest of Dante's Inferno, and take a tour of the offices where the game is being made before we beam over to the set of "Sanctuary" to see how a little web show turned into a huge TV show.
We are back on the set of "Sanctuary" and take a tour of the sound stages with stars Robin Dunne and Amanda Tapping. Back in Los Angeles, Jace invades Zach Levi's house to try to play Terminator: Salvation with Roland Kickinger and the games Vice President of Development at Halcyon Games, Cos Lazouras.
At the office, what Jace has called the worst segment of all time, features Corey having some issues with choclote. Jace then heads back north of the border in Canada to talk with Brad Wright, the Executive Producer of Stargate: SG 1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Stargate: Universe. Brad then gives Jace a tour of the set, while Jace and Todd have to carry Corey out of the building in his underwear.
Jace sits down in the editing room talks with one of the shows editors, Nic Aragon, about why Grand Theft Auto is the worst game of all time. We also head out to master hard ware modification guru, Ben Heck's secret lab to see what new mods he is working on and see if he ever gets outside.
Jace visits with legendary rapper / musician and member of Cypress Hill, B-Real at his recording studio and ends up with what might be a contact high. Afterwards, Jace heads up to NGMOCO to talk with producer Stephanie Morgan about why the iPhone is a real gaming platform, and see their newest hit game, Star Defense as well as meet the team at their San Francisco offices. Including one familiar face that isn't happy to see Jace at his office.
Corey has decided to take his writing seriously and wants to join Marti in her office to work. Then Jace and the crew visit G4's Attack of the Show host and actress, Olivia Munn at her house to talk about hosting video game shows, her book and all things tech. Olivia tries to teach Nic Aragon, producer Todd Roy and Jace about how to make a real show, and in the process makes everyone cry.
Jace shows Producers Shanna and Marti his videos from the Streamy Awards and gets some lessons on his wardrobe. Then Jace heads out to take a look at Batman Arkham Asylum with the Paul Cocker of Rocksteady games and Stanley Phan of Edios.
Jace is in Canada and meets up with TV and Movie Star Morris Chestnut of "V" in what used to be Jace's hotel suite to talk about Morris is up to and find out who really took Jace's hotel from him.
Stars from various Star Trek TV shows including The Smoking Jacket Guy, Armin Shimerman, Jeffery Combs, Max Grodenchik and Conner Trinneer gather together to talk with Jace who brought along an Atari and TV to finally play games with someone. Things don't really go as planned for Jace who is left with his buddy Gary to play Frogger.
The Jace Hall Show, the first to break the news and first footage of Duke Nukem Forever in Season 1, learns of the more recent story of Duke Nukem development being shut down. Jace takes us on a history lesson of the game and developer in a tribute to Duke Nukem and debuts the "lost" gameplay footage from 3D Realms vaporware game, all the while enjoying a nice visit from "Duke" himself who seems to have hacked our shows Ventrilo ports.
In the Season 2 Finale, Marti and Shanna decide to talk with Olivia Munn without Jace around to try and add a real host to the show while Jace listens on about the status of his hosting duties on the show that shares his name. Meanwhile, Jace is missing for the interview with Alex Pardee, which Corey decides to do himself. Alex Pardee is joined by Unreal Engine 3 animator and director Landon Pascual. They take Corey on a virtual tour of Cardboard City, the setting for Alex's new web series, "CHADAM".
