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RPS Podcast Takeover Prt 2: One Life Left

Written by Kieron Gillen on November 25, 2008.

It’s not just John who can barge into one of our peers’ expensive recording studios and marvel at their fancy mikes. I was the special guest on the award-nominated One Life Left last night, with comrades Ste Curran and Sir Ann Scantlebury. You can get the podcast here. In it we talk about all the important issues, such as where I was when I heard the PC had died and why anyone would play a Civil War game anyway. Also, talk about the Sugababes. You’ll also find details of the OLL Christmas party, which I’ll be attended on Satuday. Do come! Here’s the link again, in case you read with your mouse-cursor as a guide. Which podcast should RPS crash next, readers?

RPS Wireless Show Ep6: Erik Wolpaw Speak-O-Chat

Written by John Walker on November 11, 2008.

In a very special sixth edition of the very “special” Rock, Paper, Shotgun Electronic Wireless Show, not only are all four overlords of RPS united, but also joined by a proper important guest. Mr Erik Wolpaw was lovely enough to join us in one of Valve’s echoey metal rooms, so we could discuss co-op gaming memories, Left 4 Dead, and the trick behind decent voice acting. Along with all the usual excellent distractions and nonsense. Details below.

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The RPS Electronic Wireless Show Episode 5

Written by John Walker on November 3, 2008.

Liiiiiiiive (except pre-recorded and not live) from Seattle, it’s the RPS Electronic Wireless Show once more, now at the fine old age of five. Now in New Clarity! Details fester below.

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The RPS Electronic Wireless Show Episode 4

Written by Kieron Gillen on October 30, 2008.

We’ve done the impossible. We’ve worked out a way to make RPS’ podcast sound quality even worse. The following was recorded on the way back from the PC Gamer Showdown. On a Train. However, between the advice of Qt3’s Ryan Markel on the software processing front and the fact we’ve got our first special guests in the form of Warhammer: Age of Reckoning’s Paul Barnett and Electronic Arts’ Tom Mayo, we’ve somehow got something we think may be worth listening to. You can download it directly from here, the RSS feed is here and the Itunes link here. And the running order beneath the cut…
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The RPS Electronic Wireless Show Episode 3

Written by Kieron Gillen on October 17, 2008.

Yes, we managed to find enough willpower to sit in a room with one another for long enough to record a podcast without throttling one another. Three times now! This luck won’t hold. Anyway, this time Alec Meer and myself sit and talk about the issues of the day. And the day in question being the Geekiest Day Of All Time. Namely, today. You can grab it here, subscribe to it at Itunes over here or on general RSS here and complain about the sound quality in the comments thread. Because we’re back on my dictaphone again. Man! Running order follows…
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The RPS Electronic Wireless Show Episode 2

Written by John Walker on October 3, 2008.

Yes indeed, a second RPS podcast! They said it couldn’t be done. They look like fools now. This time Kieron and John found themselves at the PC Gamer Showdown, huddled into a hotel room, sat on the novelty-sized hotel room beds, full of hangover and cold respectively. We discuss the Showdown, the games we’ve been playing, and who Kieron was once insultingly compared to.

But what you care about most is the sound quality! It’s… slightly better, but still an impromptu recording on an mp3 player, not helped by Kieron boiling the world’s loudest kettle in the background. See below for the running order.

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RPS Electronic Wireless Show On iTunes

Written by John Walker on September 26, 2008.

The RPS Electronic Wireless Show is now on iTunes. Which means you all have to subscribe to it and make us appear in some sort of chart, in order that we can feel a sense of validation.

That is all.

The RPS Electronic Wireless Show: Episode 1

Written by RPS on September 25, 2008.

Yes indeed, we finally did it. A podcast. Well, half of us did. Kieron and John got together in John’s squalid bedroom and recorded 45 minutes of the highest quality PC games-based banter you’re ever likely to hear (if you can understand Kieron’s hyper-speed Midlands-twang). They only made one mistake. They recorded it on a toaster.

So, be warned. What we’re linking to here is of utterly abysmal sound quality. No one in their right mind would be willing to put out something that sounds like two broken robots being drowned in a bathtub. Fortunately, there are no right minds here, so you get to hear it. But you’ve been warned. (And it’s all perfectly audible). So NO complaints about sound quality. Not one. We know. We know. We know. Anyone who complains will be put to death.

Below the jump is a running order of the inanity. Plus links to the potential RSS feed. This is all highly experimental at this point, and we’ve no idea whether it will all work. Definitely post if you’re having trouble getting it. BUT NOT ABOUT THE SOUND QUALITY.

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Podcast Infiltration: RPS in OLL

Written by Kieron Gillen on December 5, 2007.

We don’t have a podcast, despite some people urging us to do one. It would be a mistake, as the shallow pretense of camaraderie would be shattered within four seconds of the mic being turned on when I accuse Walker of being some manner of auto-fellator because he’s such a bad healer. This is the closest you’re going to get.

One Life Left is 2/3rds of RPS-comrades the Triforce videogame radio show on London’s Resonance FM. You can also download it as a podcast, both from Itunes and the website and… oh, all the usual ways. It’s a podcast. Anyway - they talked me to guest occasionally as a kind of PC games expert and general talking head. During the random Skype chat, I try and avoid saying anything slanderous, insult Ste a bit and generally not pay too much attention as I was playing Armageddon Empires at the same time. My gibberish starts at 43:40, but it’s one of my favourite podcasts so I’d recommend listening to it all. Also, frankly, Ste and Byron say some incendiary stuff about the interaction between the press and the publisher related to the current controversy, which starts about 30 mins in.