My third article for The Game Reviews can be found…

Here.

Paul & Storm

This week we’re immensely honoured to welcome these two champions of the nerdcore music scene. Fans of Jonathan Coulton will most likely already be aware of them, but for those that aren’t you’re in for a treat. In this extended episode we give them a full interview on their career so far, their influences, how they started out, their song creation process and plans for the future.

There’s also a full soundtrack to go along with the interview.
Paul & Storm Theme Song
Opening Band
Enormous Penis
Frogger
Nun Fight
Count to Ten
If Aaron Neville Were Waiting For A Parking Spot At The Mall, But Someone Else Snagged It
If James Taylor Was On Fire
If Bob Dylan Were Hiding At The Bottom Of A Well
Fresh Step
I Will Sing a Lullaby
Live
Cruel, Cruel Moon
Nugget Man
The Captain’s Wife’s Lament

You can find all of these songs on their website or iTunes or Amazon and we urge all of our listeners to support two of our finest guests by buying their albums in droves.

As of this episode we’re trialing an every-other-week release schedule for Digital Cowboys so the next episode should be out Friday the 16th of July.

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This is a transcript of a piece I wrote a year or so ago exploring how I and many other people felt around Nintendo’s E3 press conference in 2008 (You know, the one with Wii Music.). Considering their turnabout two years later at the most recent show I felt it deserved a different ending.

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“Live” Digital Rodeo 2010.

This is actually our second anual community meeting, but the first where we’ve recorded a podcast together. Twelve members of the DC community all converged on Alton Towers for a grand meet up.

Alex “Cowboy” Shaw

Tony “Ghost World” Atkins

Sharon “SouthernLights” Shaw

Lizz “LyraSilver” Atkins

Daryl “Killercadet” Sellick

Jeff “Jeff Merlehan!” Merlehan

Damon “Quizzzicaldemon” Foster

Steve “Count Stex” Jones

Linda “Penguin Girl” Thompson

Joshua “Combine Hunter” Garrity

Giles “Gile5″ Thomas

and James “Mijmeister” Perkins (Mij’s new IDFKA podcast is available to download on iTunes and everywhere else you find podcasts)

So enjoy the show. it’s fairly poor sound quality, but considering it was a single mic courtesy of Giles, we actually all sound clear enough.

First up there’s a DC general knowledge quiz with fabulous prizes at stake.

Then we field some questions about how we make the show.

We follow up with some round the room Pre-E3 predictions, virtually all of which are more exciting than what actually happens. (And a few that are scarily accurate).

We close out with “Live” audio footage of several rides from the park. We get wet, we get photographed and I confront my fear of heights in the cable cars.

It was a fantastic weekend and we urge you all to attend the next one.

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My take on the movie industry as it stands today.

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Here by popular demand, is where you will find images of us the cosplay costumes mentioned in Episode 160.  It’s a thread on our forum, if you haven’t joined already then now is the time.

E3 2010: Here’s what we thought.

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This week we take a look at cosplay; the act of dressing up like a character from a video game or anime. To get the most out of the subject we brought in long-time cosplay veteran Adella, also known as Sarah Quillian who has constructed over thirty cosplays for herself and others over the years and amassed her own community as a result.

Her site and pictures of her in her many many outfits can be found here.

Her Zelda Project is here.

And I’ll be posting up more pictures of things we mention in the show in the next few days.

It may seem a little girly at first, but stick with us. This young lady has an immense passion for what she does and as always we find that fascinating.

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This week we’re doing a tribute episode to Britains most long-lived and loved  TV news quiz; Have I Got News For You. American listeners may be a little confused but bear with us.

Our guests are…

James Batchelor of Gameburst

Dits Symeou of TGS

And David Turner of Joypod

If you guys enjoy hearing this as much as we enjoyed recording it, then we’ll do more.

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If you loved it,

If you hated it,

If you’re curious…

You have to listen.

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