Unspooling this week is the best of all the A Vampyre Story trailers, largely because it drops the narrator and just shows off the game's gorgeousness.
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Ron Gilbert bestows the inaugural "Honorary Trailblazer" award to Tim Schafer at the 2010 Indiecade.
The XIIth Cook Chase podcast this week features another guest star: Milkman/John N/A/Nojan from IRAN! We set up a satellite link directly into his cave, where he talked about how LucasArts games are received in the Middle East.
We also launch a new feature ('Getting to Know You'), discuss the new screenshots from Telltale's Walking the Dead (is that what it's called?), and look back on the Back to the Future series. With a perspective from IRAN!
Listen below, or go to our to download a higher quality copy. Thanks to Zaarin for editing it together. The review of BttF Nojan refers to can be found here.
The XIth Cook Chase podcast this week features a guest star: Junaid from the old days of The World of Monkey Island! Junaid was one of the many Monkey Island fan artists who has since become very talented and amazing. And he owes it all to Disney LucasArts!
Gabriel recorded this week's podcast by crouching behind his neighbour's fence, stealing their wifi; and later on Roger 'Zaarin' Roger gives a moving performance in honour of Dave Grossman. The Paco Vink comic mentioned in the podcast can be viewed here, and the article in which Bill Tiller talks about CMI character design can be read here.
Listen below, or go to our to download a higher quality copy. Thanks to Zaarin for editing it together.
Thanks to everyone who voted in our poll last week. The results can be seen below:
Which poem do you think is the best? (Listen to them in the podcast). | ||
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Schenk: 'Untitled' | 6 | |
Grossman: 'Burger' | 4 | |
Total votes | 10 |
As you can see, I won by two votes. IN YOUR FACE, GROSSMAN. I mean, bad luck. But seriously, try harder next time. I am officially challenging you to a poetry smack down. BRING IT ON, IF YOU DARE. Competitive poetry: it's the gay Olympics.
The new poll asks the question Where would you like to live? Answer by clicking on one of the choices, or by leaving a comment here!
This week's pick is a twelve-minute special on LucasArts that G4 Tech TV aired in the 2002-2003 area. Furnishing employment for the zaniest narrator ever, this video features interviews with a pre-assassination Simon Jeffrey, Mary Bihr, Dave Grossman, Sean Clark, and Mike Stemmle. Apparently those last two are respectively working on a Full Throttle and Sam & Max sequel, so that's exciting, though I didn't know Tim Schafer made The Curse of Monkey Island.
The 10th Cook Chase podcast includes: LucasArts games for the blind, the latest Power of Monkey Island episode, the Puzzle Agent 2 review, Gabriel's experience of interviewing Dave Grossman, and a new feature analysing Grossman's poetry, which this week is based on 'Burger'. Gabriel wrote his own poem in reply to Grossman's, which you can listen to in the podcast. Please vote for which poem you think is the best by using the voting form on the right.
Listen below, or go to our to download a higher quality copy. Thanks to Roger 'Zaarin' Roger for editing it together.
Coming soon: a way of subscribing in iTunes! So that will be exciting.
This week's selection is sort of a sequel to last week's: Tim Schafer's second appearance on Gamespot's web show "On the Spot" in March 2005, only a month and some change after the previous appearance and sans beard. With the imminent release of Psychonauts even more imminent, the hosts interrogate Tim about the game, Tim betrays murderous intentions for anyone who would dare to make a Full Throttle sequel, and footage of Tim's dad from the Psychonauts launch party is unspooled.
Note that this is the Edited for Mojo version of the episode, meaning we lopped off the parts that didn't have Tim in it,
Another week, another Cook Chase Podcast, in which Dan and Gabriel attempt to summarise a whole week of news, and discuss the most important developments.
This week, we catch up on listener comments (including a tweet and an e-mail from Uri Geller!), the Puzzle Agent 2 review, Dave Grossman poetry, and we also bring you exciting news about a music video that has LucasArts references in it. Listen below, or go to our to download a higher quality copy. Thanks to Zaarin for editing it together.
Information about the music video referenced in the podcast:
I've been a long-time reader of Mixnmojo. Needless to say I freaking love old-school Lucasarts games.
I've recently completed a pixelated 8bit animated music video and have put hidden references to loads of games in it. Some are fairly straightforward and a couple people spot the Max head ... however what very few people are able to find is the Day of the Tentacle reference. Only hardened DOTT players will pick it up. And someone with a quick finger for the pause button.
Making Of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz1_MQnw5WA Making Of - extra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pblMKuuplCY Write-up: http://www.goldfishlive.com/blog/brand-new-goldfish-music-video-we-come-together 'Spot the 64 references' by Mahalo Video Games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PUvuAADA28Benny has continually been updating his music and speech extractors for Telltale's games and his latest update introduces support for the Back to the Future finale. Head on over to his site to grab them both. Is Puzzle Agent 2 support coming soon, one wonders...
Source: Quick and Easy software
This week's selection is another beefy one: Tim Schafer's first appearance on the web show "On the Spot" in February 2005. Observing that the studio where Gamespot taped the show was "really close to where I get my coffee," Tim dropped by unannounced and armed with a demo of Psychonauts. His beard was still in play at this point.
Note that this is the Edited for Mojo version of the episode, meaning we lopped off the parts that didn't have Tim in it, and also all the hardcore sex scenes. Boy, did we have our work cut out for us in deleting those.
Another week, another Cook Chase Podcast, summarising all the recent news and discussing the most interesting items.
This week, Gabriel is joined with "Peter", a.k.a. SurplusGamer, and topics include: homoeroticism, Fate of Atlantis replicas, and whether Trenched being delayed is worth crying about. Listen below, or go to our to download a higher quality copy.
In other news, if you have a response to the current HOT TOPIC -- what are you doing when you listen to the podcast? -- be sure to send them to podcast@mixnmojo.com.
A Maniac Mansion fan by the name of Joseph Flatt decided to sit down and write four instrumental tracks inspired by the game. That's right - bucking the tradition of producing covers of actual tracks from Maniac Mansion, Flatts has obliterated expectations like a microwaved rodent and composed music that might have been heard in the game.
But rather than mail his mp3s off to Mark Eeter or parlay them into an audition for Green Tentacle's band, he's decided to share them with us, and us with you.
No Cook Chase Podcast this week, due to 'technical difficulties', and the fact that Dan took the week off to 'research' the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. But! We can now release episode three of the B-series (also called the 'B-side'), which was recorded on February 14th 2010, and then locked inside a time-capsule for sixteen months. The hope was that the podcast, originally too controversial for this site, would receive a more understanding audience in the far-away future utopia known as 'June 2011'.
In this episode, called 'The Telltale Tirade', Gabriel phones in from prison, and Dan and Roger have been in hiding since the last podcast (when Gabriel recorded in the bath, in Skywalker Ranch, until he was arrested by burly guards). The main discussion topic is Telltale Games, and whether they have become too powerful, or too beloved, and whether it is justifiable to have a small group of people questioning and criticising them, in order to maintain a balance of opinion. Also discussed: screenshot leaks, Telltale job listings, and 'Poetry Wars' -- a segment in which games-related poetry fight each other (metaphorically).
The previous two B-side podcasts can be listened to here, and the ghastly album cover can be viewed here. Thanks a lot to Roger/Zaarin for editing these podcasts together.
This week's selection from the video archives is an excellent sit-down that 1up arranged with seven LEC ex-developers: Tony Hsieh, Larry Ahern, Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman, Bill Tiller, Noah Falstein, and Mike Levine. This was recorded in 2008, and supposedly a lot of material ended up on the cutting room floor. Not sure what role a cutting room floor needs to ever play when it comes to footage of these guys reminiscing about the olden days, but you'll have to take that up with 1up.
To quote Crow T. Robot, there's no tradition like a new tradition, and why not one to raise awareness of the newly launched video archive that Zaarin unveiled a single news post ago? Every Sunday, we'll fish a video from the ever-growing collection to award the front page treatment. Like, remember this Armed & Dangerous trailer?
What a fun-looking game! I'm sure it will sell like hotcakes. Anyhow, I think you get the idea. Check back next week for another selection, which will be no difficult investment being that you visit us every day for the general wealth of quality gunk we always have on tap for you!
"When will Mojo's video and audio files be available?" Many psychics have asked themselves this question over the past year, but none have conjured up an answer. Well, I can finally tell you that the answer is: NOW. Check out our archive of trailers, including the very first Sam & Max footage from Telltale, or some animation tests from the cancelled Sam & Max: Freelance Police!
Want something for your ears? The audio section is not as populous, but it still has the complete Cook Chase archive!
We'll be adding more stuff over the Summer, so check back here or our Twitter feed for updates!
Hello! The new Cook Chase podcast, which attempts to round up all the LucasArts news from the past week, has been released, and you can listen by pointing your mouse to the blob on the right. Thanks to Zaarin for editing it together.
This week, Dan is back from e3 and there is a long rambling introduction about the comments from last week. Then there is a brief round-up of news, followed by a long rambling conclusion, mainly about the 'album covers' released below.
If you are insane enough to save these podcasts, and maybe have them in something like iTunes, then you might want to have album covers to distinguish them from the other podcasts released on Mixnmojo and other gaming web-sites! If so, see below for the B-series (two 30 minute episodes released last year) and the Cook Chase. Open them in a new tab, to download the images directly, if you have trouble saving them to disk.
We also have a HOT TOPIC in this week's 'cast -- what do you do when you listen to the podcast? Answers in the comments or by e-mail please!