Music and Audio News

How will the transformation of the music video from a promotion to a commodity affect the music industry? Read the full story.

The guys focus in on wargaming this time around, discussing types of games as well as specific examples ranging from Ogre/GEV to Onslaught: D-Day to the Rhine to Mechwarrior. Also includes a segment on free paper buildings available from Microtactix. Read the full story.

This episode of the conversational podcast about RPGs focuses on the roles of good and evil in a high fantasy campaign, a topic that's often reduced to the question "well, do we kill this guy or not?" Read the full story.

The guys start off with a discussion of tactical scene dressing vs. literary scene dressing. They then debate the merits of having players to solve in-game problems rather than their characters. Read the full story.

News about the Delta Green players handbook, Dennis Detwiller's Insylum RPG, the Cthulhu players directory, a forum round up and a review of the board game Arkham Horror . Read the full story.

Jason talks about the Duke University Podcasting Symposium, discusses getting listed in iTunes, and plays the track "Columbia and Cameron" by The Physics of Meaning. Read the full story.

Mur Lafferty offers insights into being a geek and a parent, and also updates everyone on the upcoming Duke Podcast Symposium. Read the full story.

J.K. Rowlings finally wises up to the fact that people were turning to pirated copies on the Web after being denied the ability to buy the Potter books as digital files. Now she's releasing digital audio versions of the first six books via the iTunes Music Store. Read the full story.

News and interviews from GenCon 2005. Read the full story.

Mur talks about podcasts by geek women, her new podcast, I Should Be Writing, and her cool and froody new t-shirts. Read the full story.