Ricky and Phil kick off this massive show with some machinima news and current events, before launching into an in-depth discussion of Bioware’s epic video game, Mass Effect. SPOILER ALERT: Some of what is discussed in this show is directly related to the game’s storyline, so if you’re concerned about preserving a sense of surprise before you experience the game, please be advised.

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This Week’s Hot List (URLs from the show’s content):

• Music Credits for this show:
  • Opening music is the main theme from Bioware’s Mass Effect, by composer Jack Wall.
• The Vimeo issue
  • Vimeo’s Announcement
  • Shattered Keyboard: “Ban On Game Only Clips”
  • Machinima For Dummies: “Vimeo inspires creativity by banning gaming videos
  • Eric Rice: “Vimeo’s Ban on Game Videos Strikes a Nerve”
  • Overman’s Blog: “Vimeo Alternatives”
• Mitch Featherston: “New Seamless Texture Set”
• iClone Daily: “iClone 3.0 - 08-08-08
• Antics Blog: “Antics V4 in action - realtime shadows video!”
• Wikipedia: Antics 3D
• Moviestorm
• Phil a guest on The Awful Show, Friday August 1st 2008
• M dot Strange working on new “mysterious doll film”
• See also: We Are The Strange
• OneJovialSim’s first live action film, Nocturnal Emissions
• Also re: OneJovialSim: Jabberwocky in Second Life
• International Machinima Expo (site coming very soon) at Festival Arcadia - 2nd weekend in November, Montreal Quebec
• Topic: MASS EFFECT by BIOWARE
• Zero Punctuation on Mass Effect
• ZS Forum Discussion on Securom
• Boing Boing: “Bill Gates’ 2003 flame email about Moviemaker”
• Wikipedia: Mass Effect 2
• Mass Effect Downloadable Add-on Content
• Bioware Forums
• Overman’s “So I Ran Over a Monkey”
• Overman’s Blog: “To Game or Not To Game”
• Mass Effect Console Commands
• Ricky’s Wonderful World of Sound - Episode 2: Frequency
  • Download the sound effects (5.66 MB .zip file)