One of Swords Podcast 005: Wood and Beer

by Dan on February 25, 2010

Cheerio, pip pip, and all that sort of stereotypical rot, guv’nor! I’m in England this week on business, but Kat joins me through the magic of Skype to talk about Bobby Kotick’s DICE speech, Rocksteady joining WB, the Muppets, the unwelcome return of a certain disbarred law-talkin’ guy, and what real-world responsibilities we’ve shirked for gaming. (Sadly, you will also learn a little something about our sex life.) And since the international travel made getting a guest tricky this week, we just filled up the space with your super-awesome MegaMailbag letters.

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Co-host: Katrin Auch, light gun enthusiast, graphic designer, bassist, photographer, and inventor of Headshotmas
Soundtrack: Yameen – available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and all online music stores

Relevant show links:

Bobby Kotick’s DICE speech at G4TV as well as the GamePro and 1up liveblog transcripts
Rocksteady Studios sells majority stake to Warner Bros. Interactive
Bizarre Creations, developers of Blur
Modern Warfare 2 wins two AIAS awards
The unassuming Digital Downloads section of Activision’s website
Funny (?) videogame parody songs from Palette-Swap Ninja

Got a question or comment? Write to megamailbag@oneofswords.com or call 1-888-9-1SWORDS (1-888-917-9673) and leave a brief message.

Want to enter the trivia contest? Send your answer to freestuff@oneofswords.com and don’t forget to include your name, address, phone number, and (if you want some new digital friends) your gamer identity online.

I am not lying, I’m really in London. See?

My podcast studio this week:

Because I’m traveling, I have a different microphone with me, but I fiddled with it a bit to make it sound better. Won’t sound the same, doesn’t sound perfect, but shouldn’t sound bad. Also, sorry for the length of the show — that was my fault again.

Oh, and I did eat at both McDonald’s and KFC. Just like America, only without the salt. And I realized that while I was tempted to spell it “McDonauld’s,” I probably should not add a superfluous U to KFC.

  • http://twitter.com/pedgarcia Paulo Garcia

    I'm listening to the podcast right now. FYI, the website still shows as the desktop version in my Blackberry Bold, but when I select the Column View option it shows much better, with a good layout. Another option I found is using the Opera mini browser 5 beta instead. The layout on it is very similar what I've seen in the iPod.

  • garnsr

    This is the second podcast exhorting me to watch Firefly in just a few weeks. And this is the first one I listened to after watching the show and movie. I thought it was okay, but it kept making me want to watch Brisco County Jr. instead.

  • http://twitter.com/mrfusion mrfusion (Weston)

    So you had McDonald's and KFC but still no Fish and Chips? You are in a port town after all can't be to hard. Also weren't the names of the hamburgers different names? Besides the low salt content I'm sure the price was a bit more expensive there.

  • charliegavin

    Got about halfway through the mailbag segment when my iPod died. Good stuff, though! Made freeway night driving that much more interesting – and me that much less attentive behind the wheel.

  • http://twitter.com/zigs00 Edd

    I have to disagree with Kat. Leeds is not a beautiful place. And I'm not aware of any castle that we have here, not quite sure what she's referring to…

    But cheers for answering my questions! :) Really appreciate it, even if it wasn't the answer(s) I'd hoped for

  • http://oneofswords.com/ Dan (OneOfSwords)

    I think she might be talking about Leeds Castle, which is in Kent — and that would be a source of confusion.

    http://leeds-castle.com

  • http://twitter.com/zigs00 Edd

    Ah, that explains it, makes sense. Can't say I've heard of Leeds Castle before, but there we go.

  • Luke

    Great podcast and a wonderful insight into a company that I don't hear much about except in the negative. Just wanted to clear up a point for the podcast concerning the Muppets. Disney does own both the Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House outright. The deal was made in 2004 I believe (it was one of Eisner's final moves while CEO).

    Great Job and much continued success.

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