24 Hours, 24 games (total coincidence in the end). We hit 7500 gamerpoints, 2500 more than our initial aim of 5000. And massive, massive thanks to all of you who donated we’ve made over £1000 for Medecins Sans Frontieres so far. It was an amazing and exhausting experience and we had members of our community along for the ride every step of the way in a hastily organized video chat-room.

You can still donate here.  http://www.justgiving.com/Digital-Cowboys-Haiti-Relief-Challenge There will be no cut off date and considering the recent earthquake in Chile your donations will definitely be going to much-needed use. We’re unusually humbled by the fact that as foolish and punishing an undertaking as this was for the two of us, it will genuinely help people. It’s not often we can say that about the things we do.

Special thanks go out to Giles for helping us bring this to fruition and donating a massive chunk of the funds. True to his word he gave us £10 per 100 points. This week’s podcast will be edited highlights of our recordings so you can listen to us get more and more frazzled.

We’re moving this back a week to the 27th and 28th of February. The principle reason being that Tony is recovering from a nasty bout of flu and it would seem cruel and unusual punishment to deprive him of sleep and make him play CSI: Hard Evidence. We know that our community care about us being fighting fit and able to take on this challenge with gusto rather than actually being in pain.

The donations page is still here.

Thanks so much to everybody who has donated already. We’ve got over £200 so far and we’re 11% towards our goal already. It seems only Giles wants to sponsor us per gamer point so we’re going to pull out all the stops when it comes to getting them. Join us next weekend for the 24-Hour Marathon. Constant Twitter and forum updates. Estimated start time is 11am.

OK folks. This is a call out to all of you who would like to be on the show. This Thursday evening Tony and I will be on Skype. We want to do a Room 101 episode starring our community. If you want to be on the show, jump onto the thread on the community forums here, request a time slot and email me your Skype name if I don’t already have it.

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What you have to bring to the show is something that you’re sick of about games, the games industry or even gamers themselves. The aim is to make a convincing enough argument that the thing you hate gets cast into the fiery pit of Room 101. Conversely Tony and I have the task of playing devil’s advocates and trying to make a case for keeping your pet peeve out in the world. We’ve done three of these shows already and they’re always great fun and really entertaining.

Episode #114: http://thedigitalcowboys.com/2009/07/digital-cowboys-episode-114-room-101/

Episode #67: http://thedigitalcowboys.com/2008/08/digital-cowboys-episode-67/

Episode #11: http://thedigitalcowboys.com/2007/07/digital-cowboys-episode-11/

We’ll be updating throughout the night on Twitter. Let us know what you think.

Last Saturday we had the pleasure of attending the Eurogamer expo in London. We saw a lot of games we’d already seen at PAX but got hands-on on several we hadn’t yet witnessed. There was also a particularly fascinating keynotes address from David Cage; Director of Heavy Rain and Fahrenheit.

In the evening we finished off with a round table discussion podcast hosted by Kropotkin of Superhappyfuntimeshow, Elmo and Michael of Joypod were there to lend their particular expertise. You can find and listen to the whole show here on the SHFTS website.
Many thanks to Krop, Joypod and everyone we met and worked with, including old Cowboy Paul and DC listener Mr McFluffin who we played a little Beatles Rock Band with on stage.

Hey all

For the month of November we’re having a donation drive in support of DC. We’re hoping to raise enough to pay for three things…

* Commander Tim for the space we’ll be using on his servers throughout 2010
* The purchase of our domain name for 2010
* Any extra we get will be used to pay Libsyn for our monthly bandwidth fees

I’ve done the maths and worked out a final figure that would be very good for us. If every show listener throws in a pound or a dollar then we’ll be more than sorted. There’s a Paypal donation button in the right side bar . You’ll be able to donate all year round but we won’t mention it outside of November when we’re going to be having the drive.

Many many thanks to those who have donated donated already.

We said last week we’d have on the Gamer’s with Jobs to talk about gaming with your kids, but scheduling conflicts means we’re pushing them to the week after. Instead Commander Tim will be on talking about the preservation of vintage games and what we face when some titles may end up disappearing forever.

We’ll also have our full Halo 3: ODST review. You can hear more from Tim in his show The Widget and of course on Gamehounds; a proud member of Platform Nation.

Thanks to Sean, Julian and Tim for rearranging everything at short notice.

After months of planning and tireless work from Steve Jones and Tony Here are our brand new forum.  Come along and get a more hands-on experience with the DC community. There’s also a link on the right. I’m pleased to say that since Saturday we’re growing into a sizable posse already.

We’ve decided to move Game Club back into the main show for now due to work hours and in the interests of staying focused. We may move it back into two shows at a later date but for now look for just one Digital Cowboys show a week. This weeks game that we will be talking about for a full 40 minutes is Batman: Arkham Asylum. Look for Episode 122 out Friday night.

Greetings. It has been a week of relative silence from the Digital Cowboys and I think it’s time we spoke up. We just got back from The Penny Arcade Expo or PAX in Seattle, one of the biggest fan-events in the world for folks who love gaming of all kinds. We saw so much over the past few days it’s impossible to summarize. Over the next few days and indeed weeks, the effects of this are going to become obvious. We’ve got tons of hands-on info on unreleased games, interviews with developers and PR and accounts of what it’s like to just be there with 60,000 other like-minded people.

So in the interests of streamlining, we’ll leave the questions up to you here. treat this as your own ongoing panel and ask Tony and I anything you want about PAX.

Regarding podcasts, we DID record a show on Sunday night along with the hosts of The Married Gamers and Some Other Castle, but there was a catastrophic technical foul-up and we lost the whole thing. Plans are afoot to do a long-distance, multi-host Skype session this week and bring that fantastic evening back for our deserving listeners because it really was excellent stuff and we want to share it with you.

Meantime check out Platform Nation (who were an absolute pleasure to meet with) in the next few days there should be the recording of a live podcast Tony and I hosted on Sunday afternoon at PAX with several walk-in guests and co-hosts. It was nerve-wracking stuff because we’d never recorded live (or indeed next to one another) but I think it was also a great show.It should be called PN @ PAX 09 Sunday’s Live Show Recap.

It’s great to be back, but we’re also going to miss everyone we met, some people especially.

OK now DC listeners can make with the questions.

We’re taking a leaf out of GamerDork’s book this week and dividing our show into two. The first is up at the normal time frame (Saturday morning) and is a very entertaining pre-PAX discussion with Chris O Regan of Superhappyfuntimeshow. The second is the first of a new series tentatively titled Game Club, where Tony and I talk only about what games we’ve been playing.That will be out late Tuesday.

For the first episode it’s Shadow Complex and Trials HD, which we’ve played to death respectively. We’ll also be talking about the Breakout evolution style game on the PSN: Shatter. We have a code to give away to our PS3 owning Twitter followers  so one lucky listener will get to own that for free. Simply Twitter this.

@Digitalcowboys Game Club coming soon!

We’ll pick a post at random and that person will be mentioned on the show and sent their code immediately afterward. I’ve been playing it this evening and I can tell you that it’s not at all the sort of game I’d usually buy, (frantic arcade paddle-blitzing) but for that very reason it’s really different and fun.

Get Twittering.

IMPORTANT!: You must live in the USA to be able to use this code, it won’t work on PS3 accounts from any other region.

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT!: We now have a UK code as well so get tweeting, because we’re giving away one to each side of the Atlantic.