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Sometimes you just don’t catch something soon enough and it’s already gone.  I’ve been considering getting into Eve Online, and so I’ve been digging around in the ‘casts relating to the game.  I found Podded, which I caught at episode 4 (on the eve online website) and then did some more searching and found the final episode (11) which went up in April of 2007.  Michael did a good job of talking about development and in-game action.  Thanks for the show Michael, perhaps things will change where you get to cast again in the future.  I did also listen to another ‘cast on MMORPGs but I won’t mention the name as I found it sorely lacking versus any other ‘cast I’ve ever listened to.

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Update: And now I am checking out Warp Drive Active (takes you to show #25), which seems to be a solid two-player ‘cast.  The in-game news tends toward battles and kills and it sounds like some equal time should be given to the exploration/corporate contracts side of the game, but real world news tends to run along the same lines doesn’t it?

I want to talk about online and offline computer games for a sec. Oh, wait, I guess they can all be online, given that Guitar Hero III and Rock Band are console games that connect to the internet, but I digress. I asked Brian to post about GH and I do hope to sponge off him again in regards to rock band. But I had lunch with Brian last week who was able to show me Eve online. It’s an incredible space opera massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) which is in fact not that new (although Mac access just came as of recently). But I was hooked as soon as I saw it in action. There is one drawback in which you have to stay “in ship” during the game. And while I would probably play anyway, I really hope an MMOG is set up for the Firefly/Serenity universe that would be the walkthrough of Second Life, with the in ship action of Eve online. Dare to dream.