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Every Wednesday, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw releases a review of a new game at The Escapist in his inimitable style. A few weeks ago, he reviewed Valve’s The Orange Box.

His hyperactive delivery speed combined with simple, clever visuals (heaped with puns galore) and his scathing British wit make for some of the funniest and most entertaining reviews you’ll ever see.

Obligatory Warning: Yahtzee has zero qualms about using adult language to convey his thoughts, so please be advised.

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I cannot be the only person who had never seen one of these Steadicam devices in action. This demonstration and explanation of how it works, courtesy of Indy Mogul, was very enjoyable for me, and made me appreciate the value behind the scary price tag.

Overcast #025 features a brief interview with Matt Kelland and Dave Lloyd of Short Fuze / Moviestorm, conducted by Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram. If you, like many, felt #024 with the BloodSpell crew was painfully too short in duration, you’ll likely feel the same about this one… but fear not. A full length interview with Matt and Dave has already been recorded and will be released in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

Friday night (Saturday at midnight) saw the third incarnation of the monthly audio conferences for machinima makers. You can read over the link list and notes for Conference #03, though there’s really no capturing the experience of being there. You and your friends are invited any time you can make it, and we’d love to have you there. We’re taking the month of December off because of year end holidays, but we’ll resume the conferences again at the end of January. Stay tuned to this page for the date/time of the next conference, or look me up on Facebook and I’ll send you a calendar invite (event) through there.

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The online animated series, Afterworld (which I first wrote about here) has now reached the halfway point in it’s 130-episode post-apocalyptic journey. After what was perceived as a shaky start while distribution issues were sorted out, which had some fans bristling, the creators of Afterworld stated at the end of August that they would be releasing daily (5 days a week) episodes until the series completion. It’s a big commitment, and one which I’d never seen made by an online series of any kind, much less honored. But apart from a few minor hiccups (again related to distribution challenges) they have kept their word, and the only major hiatus in that release schedule came this week - at the fans’ request. People wanted an opportunity to catch up on the story so far, so the producers decided to take one week off to let them do so.

The secret to being able to perform this kind of release schedule? It’s no big secret, actually; it’s something television has been doing for decades. Your production is being completed WAY before it’s time to release. In Afterworld’s case, they were scheduled to finish production on episodes 121-130 yesterday, though the release date for those is months away.

I am happy to report that the strong storytelling I observed in the early episodes has continued throughout the series to-date. We follow the travels of Russell Shoemaker, a man who wakes up one day in New York to find 99% of the human population has disappeared, and all modern technology has been rendered useless by some kind of inexplicable worldwide event. He sets about on a journey from New York to Seattle, Washington - on foot - in hopes of reuniting with his family… if they, too, survived.

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