02.18.09
Posted in games at 3:23 pm by Rob Fahey
The second episode of what threatens to become a weekly podcast about videogames and arguments is live on Stage Clear. This week, we discuss multiplayer games, argue that due legal process is all “total bollocks” and viciously insult one of our few listeners for daring to disagree with us.
Naturally, Perrin has rendered the whole thing vastly less entertaining than it could have been by leaving out several sections where I was so witty, erudite and intelligent that he feared being overshadowed – but it’s still quite a good listen, I reckon, and it’s definitely a much more professional presentation than our last ‘cast. We’re learning!
(Oh, and we’re on the iTunes store now – search for “Stage Clear” in the podcasts and we’re the first hit you’ll find. Handy if you fancy subscribing through iTunes, which will helpfully download each new episode as it’s posted.)
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02.13.09
Posted in games at 10:42 pm by Rob Fahey
Creative Commons image courtesy of hiddedevries on flickr.
Almost everything I’ve posted here in recent months has been political in nature – perhaps not what the original intent of the blog was, but there’s been far more interesting stuff going on in the political sphere than in the gaming sphere of late.
Which isn’t to say that there isn’t lots of interesting stuff happening in the world of videogames. So much so, in fact, that it merits sitting down once a week or so to talk absolute bollocks about it. In plainer terms – I have been dragged, not altogether reluctantly, back into the world of podcasting, courtesy of a little experiment in Internet media which we’re calling Stage Clear.
It’s rather rough and ready, but our first podcast is up for your auditory pleasure. It’s a bit too long (55 minutes or so, being a recap discussion of 2008′s best or most discussed games) and the audio quality isn’t great, but we’ve recorded a second edition today to post sometime next week, and we’re definitely evolving into something quite listenable.
(My co-host in this endeavour, by the way, is Richard Perrin, an occasional games blogger, even more occasional designer of freeware indie adventure games, and very regular drunkard.)
What I’m saying is, if you want to listen to two blokes talking vaguely educated (I do emphasise the “vaguely”) nonsense about videogames, you could do worse than download the first podcast. If you want something a bit more polished, I’ll post again when next week’s edition goes live. I haven’t done any podcast stuff since Eurogamer’s ill-fated efforts in the space ground to a halt a few years ago, so it’s quite fun to be back. A couple more episodes to improve and work on feedback from our listeners (yes, we have listeners!) and it might even be fun to listen to, too!
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