Van Hemlock: Licensed to Ramble! Somewhat redundant information by now I suppose, but yes, we have indeed joined the Varied Integrated Resource Gathering Intelligence Network ("V.I.R.G.I.N.") Worlds Collective podcast network thingie, making it even more difficult for me to do my customary trick of getting so far into a project or idea, and then panicking and vanishing!

With all that fuss, it would be rude not to do another show, so here it is!

 

Hemlock, Van...Hemlock; Episode 007: In which Various News is mocked as is Customary, future MMO Gaming on the Console is considered in all it's various Promise and Pitfalls, and just how long is a Piece of String, or indeed, a good computer game?

 

Here are some Uniform Resource Locators:

Chimps in Space: Console MMOs? Who's idea was that?

Joe Ludwig's Blog: Why Aren't there More Console MMOs?

 

Massively: Average Conanite will reach level 80 in 250 hours

Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Age of Conan announces 250 hours to level cap average

 

And as predicted, we (The UK) did indeed come last in the Eurovision Song Contest Finals (which we automatically qualified for anyway), and Sir Terry Wogan did indeed get annoyed about Political Voting, to the extent that he may not bother going to the next one, saying that it was "no longer a musical contest", which is a shame, because frankly, I only bother watching the otherwise banal warble-fest to listen to him taking the piss out of everyone in the commentary!