Wandering Geek Podcast

Episode 7 of WGP for October 26th, 2009 - Posted November 4, 2009

Intro Music - Beatnik Turtle - A Synthesis Of Logic

Intro Sounder - Chooch and Viv from City of Heroes Podcast

Show News - Contest sponsored by Heroic Journey Publishing to celebrate the upcoming release of “Blast Off!” a supplement for their “Bounty Head Bebop” RPG. (1 First Prize - Bounty Head Bebop - Core Print, BHB: Blast OFF Print, CD with all PDF support for Bounty Head Bebop; 3 Second Prizes - Print Book of BHB: Blast Off!; 5 Third Prize - PDF of Bounty Head Bebop Core); Patrick, Keith, Robert, and Justin join Wandering Geek Podcast on Facebook , and Stephan and Jeff wrote on our Wall; Andrew and Rob join “The 30″; We are on Page 2 of “Other Games” on iTunes; Writing a review on iTunes or another podcast delivery system is the ultra-super-top secret way to enter any of our contests - just email us a link to the review. Email - Emails from Andrew/Bravemaximus, William, Vincent, Nick, Rob

Geek Buzz! - Robert Rodat to write World of Warcraft movie; Monkey Lab by Alderac Entertainment Group; Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune by Rio Grande Games; Rochester Gamers Community 4th Quarter Games Day 2009 - November 14 (Thanks, Michael!); UCON at the University of Michigan - November 13-15 (Thanks, Rob!); Wintercon at The Oakland Center, Oakland University - December 5 (Thanks, Rob!); Fantasy Flight is shipping Rogue Trader (Thanks, Jeff!); NECA Acquires WizKids Assets from Topps

DVD & Movie News - Monty Python: Almost The Truth (2009); Monty Python: The Other British Invasion (2008)

MMO/PC Game News - D&D Online goes free, gets big; MMOs hold Halloween Events; Guest Authors go live on CoH; Freebie - Age of Conan; Leftover Warhammer Trial Disks and Codes - First come, first served

Console Game News - PSP Go Launch Issues; Nostalgia (DS); Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (PSP)

Break - All Games Considered

Main Topic - Game Reviews - (Wandering Geek Podcast was provided with review copies of these games by the publishers) Mayfair Games - Le Boomb (2/+4/6); White Wolf - Mwahahaha (4/+2/6)

WGP is released under a Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 3.0 license. Thanks to Beatnik Turtle for our theme music.

Outro music - “Four Jacks” from the CD “That Night In The Gardens” - Emerald Rose

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These are the remaining interviews I did during Gen Con 2009, all in one convient place. I promise I’ll get full notes up as soon as I can, but we get to hear about the Brave New World movie, talk to Marc Gunn and Tom Smith, hear from Publisher Reality Blurs, speak to the designer of Tower of Mystery, discuss MMO communities with Bob from EA/Mythic, chat with a first time author, learn how Dave Arneson first got into role-playing games and spend a little time at Killer Breakfast.

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Episode 6 of WGP for October 12th, 2009

Intro Music - Beatnik Turtle - A Synthesis Of Logic

Intro Sounder - Tracy Hickman

Show News  - Contest sponsored by Heroic Journey Publishing to celebrate the upcoming release of “Blast Off!” a supplement for their “Bounty Head Bebop” RPG. (1 First Prize - Bounty Head Bebop - Core Print, BHB: Blast OFF Print,  CD which includes all PDF support for Bounty Head Bebop; 3 Second Prizes -  Print Book of BHB: Blast Off!; 5 Third Prize - PDF of Bounty Head Bebop Core); Michael, Chris, and Stephan join Wandering Geek Podcast on Facebook , and Alan, Ed, and Stephan wrote on our Wall; “The 30″; Cowboy66 wrote a review on iTunes; Writing a review on iTunes or another podcast delivery system is the ultra-super-top secret way to enter any of our contests - just email us a link to the review.

Email - Emails from Morgan, André, Rick, Brian

Geek Buzz! - Jones Soda - Dungeons & Dragons Limited Edition Spellcasting Soda; Rock-Con; Tauntaun sleeping bag; Fantasy Flight - Arkham Horror Minis; Fantasy Flight & Q-Workshop - Arkham Horror Dice; Rochester Gamers Community 4th Quarter Games Day 2009(Thanks, Michael!) 

DVD & Movie News  - Legend of the Seeker: The Complete First Season (2008); Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Two-Disc Special Edition) [Blu-ray] (2009)

MMO/PC Game News  - CrimeCraft switching to free-to-play game; World of Warcraft Hit by New Phishing Scam; Second Life Transactions Reach $1 Billion; Freebie - Eve Online 14-day trial; Leftover Warhammer Trial Disks and Codes - First come, first served.

Console Game News - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS); Space Invaders Extreme 2 (DS)

Break - The Great Debate Promo

Main Topic - Game Reviews - Wandering Geek Review Format; Bucephalus Games - Perfect Pyramids (3/+2/5); Z-Man Games - Pandemic     ( 4/+2/6 ) 

WGP is released under a Creative Commons,  Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 3.0 license. Thanks to Beatnik Turtle for our theme music.

Outro Music - “Do You Want to Date My Avatar?” - The Guild

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Intro Music - Beatnik Turtle - A Synthesis Of Logic

Intro Sounder - Kilroy from 7th Son

Show News - Contest for a pair of Warhammer Online games and a Guidebook, in-game codes for special items and a t-shirt. Sponsored by EA Mythic. Send entries by September 18^th, Wandering Geek Podcast on Facebook, Members of “The 30″ please re-register, Review of the new show over on iTunes,

WGP would like to thank the very generous game manufacturers that supported the show with review copies of their games at Gen Con: Flying Frog Productions, Z-Man Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Smirk & Dagger, Wattsalpoag, Herobits Corp, Mayfair Games, Bucephalus Games, Playroom Games, AEG, Ovation Productions, Decipher, Filsinger Games, Rackham, North Star Games, P9Gaming and Danielle Freeland

Email and voicemail - Emails from Brian, Allen, Michael, Richard, Patrick and Lee. And Morgan checks in on the Voicemail line.

Geek Buzz! - XDM (Xtreme Dungeon Mastery), Fantasy Flight Games, Dragon Novel with Margaret Weis.

DVD & Movie News - Aidan5 Project, Tons of Blu-ray and Alternate packaging re-releases: I’ll Believe You, Fringe Complete Season 1, Wizard of Oz - 70^th Anniversary Edition, Monsters vs. Aliens.

MMO/PC Game news - Hob Zob (Oops, wrong section), Odd Society, FREEBIES - Alteil, Runes of Magic

Console Game news - Comicbooks on PSP, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

Break - Solid Symbols Promo

Main Topic - GenCon - K Studios, Poker Tourney Story - Gamestation, Cardhalla, The Game Crafter Audio

WGP is released under a Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 3.0 license. Thanks to Beatnik Turtle for our theme music.

Outro music - “When The Dairy Farm Caught Fire” - Marc Gunn

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Intro Music - Beatnik Turtle - A Synthesis Of Logic.

Show/Group News - The winner of the Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard courtesy of 1C Company is Michael Jordal of MN, New Contest for a pair of Warhammer Online games and a Guidebook, in-game codes for special items and a t-shirt. Sponsored by EA Mythic. Send entries by September 25th with “Warhammer Contest” in the subject line, Wandering Geek Podcast on Facebook - Welcome Ed, Allen, William!, Members of “The 30″ Please re-register & Welcome Jeff!, Website updates: Scott’s email - thepeppermeister@gmail.com, Scott’s Twitter - @ScottLangston.

Wandering Geek Podcast is NOT associated with Kore New Media any longer. We would like to wish Walt well with his stable of podcasts.

Email and voicemail - Emails from - Morgan, Brian and William, Voicemails From Itamar (of Hamis`hakia - The Hebrew Gaming Podcast) and William.

Geek Buzz! - Indie Press Revolution, White Wolf Games, Mayfair Games.

DVD & Movie News - Fire and Ice [Blu-ray], Art of War, Dungeons& Dragons: The Animated Series.

MMO/PC Game news - HeroMages, FREEBIE - Free Realms.

Console Game news - Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, Marker Man Adventures.

Break - Gutter Skypes Promo & Chad Ellis (Your Move Games)

Main Topic - Gen Con - Terror Werks, Cheese Weasel - Con Games, Fight Klub Licensing - Decipher.

Thanks to Beatnik Turtle for our theme music.

Outro music - “Insert Geek Cliché’ Here” - Tom Smith.

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Intro Music - Beatnik Turtle - A Synthesis Of Logic

Show/Group News - Contest for a Logitech G15 gaming keyboard courtesy of 1C Company, Wandering Geek Podcast on Facebook, Old shows being “Archived”, Members of “The 30″ please re-register, Website updates including a “Donate” button with Thank-you gifts.

Emails and voicemail - Email from William, Nick, Allen, Robert and Itamar (From Hamis`hakia - The Hebrew Gaming Podcast)

Geek Buzz - Fellow Podcasters make Parsec Finalists (The Brilliant Gameologists, The Game Kennel, The Podge Cast, All Games Considered, City of Heroes Podcast), New Kobold Quarterly, Gary Gygax monument, Birth of “Geekdo”, Death of “Gaming Report”?, BYOG (Bring Your Own Geek), “The Kaiser’s Pirates”.

DVD & Movie News - The Last Starfighter 25th Anniversary Edition, The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season (Limited Edition Comic Book Guy Head Packaging), Midnight Chronicles available to Pre-Order.

MMO/PC Game News - On-line theripists in WoW, Guest authors for CoH?, World of Warcraft back up in China…sort-of, Champions Online available for pre-order, Freebie - Puzzle Pirates

Console Game News - G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Break - “This Just In From Gen Con”, Richard Hatch, “All Games Considered”

Main Topic - 1C Media Event in San Francisco

Just getting to the event, The 1C Company, Audio with Dave from 1C , Rig ‘n Roll, Captain Blood, Audio with Ed from 1C, Death to Spies: Moment of Truth, XIII Century: Blood of Europe, IL-2 Sturmovik “Birds of Prey, King’s Bounty 2 “Armored Princess”

Contact Info - Voicemail - 206-984-4995, Email Adresses -podcast@WanderingGeek.com OR wgpodcast@gmail.com

Outro Music - “Geeks of the Industry” - The Great Luke Ski

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The All New Wandering Geek #1 

Intro Music - Beatnik Turtle - A Synthesis Of Logic

Show/Group News - Curt will be at Gen Con and Dragon Con - Representin’, Contest for a Logitech G15 gaming keyboard courtesy of 1C Company (Send an email to podcast@wanderinggeek.com, “G15 Contest” in the subject line, Name and Shipping address in the body on the email along with the location of any of 1C’s offices and the title on any of their new games), New internet address - www.WanderingGeek.COM

Emails and voicemail - Email from RIck letting us know about some upcoming conventions, Brief Email from Micheal, Voicemail from Anim5 at International Detective Dragons From Outer Space.

Geek Buzz - Gencon floorplan and vendor list has been published,  ENnie Award Nominations - Gratz to the podcasters on list: All Games Considered, Brilliant Gameologists, Brilliant Gameologists, Return to Northmoor and The Voice of the Revolution, Fortune Magazine declares that board games are back, Eve Online Novelization.

DVD & Movie News - Watchmen (SE), This is Spinal Tap (Blu-Ray) 25th Anniversary, Robot Chicken Star Wars EP2, Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] .

MMO/PC Game News - WoW still on ice in China, Second Life College Classes, Champions Online Beta…maybe, City of Heroes additions fire back, Freebie - Sword of the New World

Console Game News - Guitar Hero 5 tracks released & new drum kit (w/cymbals), Codemasters sets release date for DiRT 2.

Break - Stanger Things Promo & Margaret Weis

Main Topic - I’m a PC, and I’m a Handheld - Curt and Scott compare the virtues and drawbacks of both formats in hopes to help you decide what would best fit your gaming style on the road.  Some links used in researching this topic: PSP Slim vs. DS Lite, History of Handheld Games, Nintendo DS, Playstation PSP, Dell Inspirion Laptops (Budget), Alienware Gaming Laptops (Highend)

Contact Info - Voicemail - 206-984-4995, Email Adresses - podcast@WanderingGeek.com OR wgpodcast@gmail.com

Outro music - “Geeks on Vacation” by Curt “The Camera Guy”

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I’m hoping to have time to post some real show notes in the near future. But the big news is that The Wandering Geek Podcast is becoming part of The Kore New Media Group. This will hopfully mean that you will get shows more regularly and I won’t have to do as much in the way of production work.

The “Lost Audio” is from Wizard World Chicago last Summer and a couple of pieces from Gen Con ‘09 that I thought were gone forever.

For those of you who enjoy drinking games feel free to use this episode on the show and have everyone drink at the use of the word “fabulous”. I’m not sure why my mental gears were stuck on that one word, but let’s just say you won’t get to hear the closing song if you decide to play.

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Hey Everyone. I’m Baaaack. Full show notes will follow, but this is mostly the remaining audio I got at Dragon Con in Atlanta a few months ago and some of my thoughts on it. Plus what the heck happened to the show for nearly 3 months? It’s great to be back.

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This is my conversation with AEG’s Jim Pinto. While we talk mostly about AEG’s new card and board games, we do touch a little on their flagship brand, Legend of the Five Rings. I hope you enjoy. A full show map will be posted as soon as I have time to breath and internet access again.

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Hey Everyone. Here is a pile of listener emails and a bunch of audio from Dragon Con ‘08 down in Atlanta. Audacity wanted to play dirty, so we’re back to the 22K sample rate. I will try to correct that for the next show. And, of course, I’ll have a full Show Map posted as soon as I have time.

All the best, Curt

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Wandering Geek Show Map for Episode 21 - Gen Con Recap Vol. 4

Opening - Welcome, 5 Hours of Gen Con Audio!Listener E-mail & Show News - Selganor clarifies his podcast backup and looks for 4E input on his blog, Aliens You Will Meet, Ed signs-up for The 30 and asks what’s next, Walt calls in on his Swag Bag, Scott “The Peppermeister” wins Gen Con Swag Bag #2, 2 Dragon Con Swag Bags up for grabs.

Feature Topic - Gen Con Recap Volume 4 Gen Con Stories: Meeting people, Itamar from the Hamishakia (trans:Playpen) Podcast, Ed and Alex help with Mwahahaha, Ran into Rick and Stephen, Podcaster Meet and Greet, Where did the Steampunk craze come from?, Wits and Wagers Game Show, LARPing too casual?, ENnies, Killer Breakfast (”Right click, Save as” - Video1, Video2, Video3), I’m going to be in a in a comic book over at We Have Issues Publishing.

Gen Con Audio: Wizards of the Coast, Magic:The Gathering, (The streaming video of this interview can be found here.), Fantasy Flight Games, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Flying Buffalo, Meta Games, Dark City Games, True Dungeon, Gen Con Volunteer Program, Hamishakia Podcast.

Closing - Contact information, upcoming shows, Credits.

Promos and ID for the Episode: RPGPodcasts.com, BoardGamePodcasts.com, Escapistcast, The Tome Podcast.

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Show Map - WGPR 13 - Dragon Con 2008This is the September edition of my “all-music” show. This time we’re listening to the acts that were performing at Dragon Con 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Keep in mind that my bit-rate is not really music quality, so if you enjoy the songs you might want to visit the artist’s website for a better copy of it. Or better yet buy the CD that the song is on so you can listen to all the other cool music on it. All the songs in this episode are available as MP3 downloads or streaming on the various artist’s websites. So honestly, go check them out. Opening: Welcome.

CruxShadows didn’t send music in time for the show.

Abney Park - The Secret Life of Doctor Calgori, Airship Pirate, Emerald Rose - All For Me Grog, Come To The Dance.

George Hrab - Skeptic, The Assumption, The Brobdingnagian Bards - If I Had A Million Ducats, Marc Gunn - When The Dairy Farm Caught Fire.

Paul and Storm - Your Town, The Captain’s Wife’s Lament, The Great Luke Ski - Bad, Bad, Boba Fett, No Sleep ‘Til Babylon.

Tom Smith - Talk Like A Pirate Day (Live), Curt “The Camera Guy” - Prey.

Promos and IDs Played - BoardGamePodcasts.com, RPGPodcasts.com, The Geologic Podcast, Geek Radio Daily, PodioBooks.com 

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Random Encounter 15 Show Map

Opening - Welcome.

Odd Austin - Doctor Demento, Weird Al Yankovic, Mad Music Archive, The Great Luke Ski, Craig’s List, Ted Wilson, One Stop Media Shop, The FuMP Sideshow, Seamonkey, Worm Quartet, Hot Waffels, Mile High Con, Nerdapaloosa, Sudden Death, EMPulse Records.

Closing - Contact Information, Upcoming Shows, Contest Reminder, Credits.

Promos and IDs - RPGPodcasts.com, Pulp Gamer “Family Night”, BoardGamePocasts.com.  

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