[Episode 10] Movers and Shakers

[Voodoo]

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We've been gone a long time, baby, but we missed you. I promise we'll never leave again. (That was probably a lie, but we want to mean it!)

There were grand plans - grand plans! - for this episode's content, but then recording delays and E3 ensured that we spent a great deal of time talking about the potential (for success and failure) of things like Project Natal, Sony's motion control device, and OnLive. Also discussed was the strange relationship PC and console games seem to have to each other these days, growing more and more alike in almost all respects and yet somehow becoming even more distant from each other in others.

Clayton [Bacalou], Eric [Ravenlock], Adam [Grifter], Jacob [MagGnome], and Robert [Trebor] join us this week - we're also recording an encore episode very soon to make up for lost time and to cover the rest of the things we wanted to talk about here but didn't get to. What can I say, we ramble.

Also, we forgot to mention that if you have something you want to ask us, tell us about, complain about, or otherwise make known, podcast@immortalmachines.com will do the trick. Of course you can just post here too. ;)

Immortal Machines presents... Movers and Shakers (http://www.immortalmachines.com/public/podcast/Immortal_Machines_Podcast_Movers_And_Shakers.mp3)

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[MagGnome]

I was Mister Naysayer in this podcast apparently. :p

[Shadowstorm]

Downloading now! Thanks!

[Ravenlock]

You'll notice as you listen that the order of some stuff doesn't make sense - we talk about Red Faction at around 50 minutes as though we hadn't talked about it before, even though we clearly did; I ask whether we should start long after we started, etc.

Suffice it to say that audio editing is a magical ability that can solve almost any problem but also makes stuff sound confusing. ;)

I'm lying. We actually just went back in time in the middle of the recording!

I should also clarify that when I said that "12 months ago Hulu was a crazy fantasy", I didn't mean the tech to stream video, obviously. I was talking about somebody being able to put up a single site that streams such high-quality videos from so many different networks, with their consent, on a tolerable ad-supported model, able to show up on my TV through my 360 with 3rd party programs. Hulu by itself practically lets me cancel cable TV. That's fairly remarkable, and the same sort of shift in the console market would be extraordinary.