Yet again, I managed to get up before sunset, one Saturday in two, and make it to the luxurious state-of-the-art recording studios of my Cohost and Producer. This is no mean feat, what with me being more or less nocturnal now and my body-clock has drifted, after much abuse, to a time-zone shared mostly with the citizens of Rio De Janeiro. I think there was once a time when I did things on a Saturday; productive things. They may have even involved Being Outdoors - I forget. However, in lieu of anything productive, er, produced, this weekend, we made another podcast instead!
Van Hemlock and Jon's Instructive and Educational Internet-Based Lecture! - Episode 4: In which our hosts Look At The Big Picture, and also Ramble On At Great Length about the British Broadcasting Corporation! Also, some letters are answered, and some games are played, of The Online Variety!
Links to Things Talked About:
MMOGChart.com - Online gaming subscription populations and analysis
eve.coldfront.net - Tranquility and Serenity EVE Online server numbers
Next-Gen - Top 100 selling games of the last 12 months.
City of Heroes Community Site - Bringing Optional In-Game Ads to Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™
Note: I've only just remembered that NCSoft bought CoH/V from Cryptic some months back, so please do substitute 'NCSoft' for any bit where I ramble on about 'Cryptic'. My bad...really must do more some research for these things! The rest of the point still stands though. (If anything, it's worse - NCSoft being a bigger concern than Cryptic, and all!) Cryptic Studios are in fact working on Champions Online now, a game also about spandex, superheorism and and going 'POW!' a lot.
As is becoming customary with these podcasts, I haven't the faintest idea what the music is, but if you think you know, head on over to the Cohost/Producer's blog - I think he's toying with you all!
(Except the closing music. I know exactly what that is, and shall be having even stronger words with him about that, and with any luck, this won't be the very last ever Van Hemlock podcast because of it!)