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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Threat Detection – Episode 25 – Dancing with Bono

    Another grab bag of topics this week as Gareth & James discuss early access games. The failures, the successes, and how they’re changing the industry. From Minecraft to Project Zomboid, Scale, Tangiers and the Forest, we examine how early access has changed the economics of indie game production, for good and ill. We also take… Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 24 – All Filler, No Killer

    Gareth & James get together in the first Threat Detection for a while for a general chat about games. They talk about classic videogame publications like PC Gamer, C&VG and EGM, as well as the revival of classic games on sites like Good Old Games. Download: Episode 24 What is Threat Detection? Threat Detection is… Read more

  • ‘Popical Island’ – Culture File

    Image: Popical Island, literally ripped from the pages of Hot Press I’ve long been enamoured of the sheer fun of Popical Island‘s albums and gigs. The label come collective feature numerous highly regarded Irish bands like Groom, Tieranniesaur, Squarehead, Big Monster Love and No Monster Club. This indy rock (I’d go as far as to… Read more

  • Copyright Bonus Episode – Mad Scientists of Music

    The Instrument of the Law‘ examined how changing technology and copyright laws are impacting music. This bonus episode fills in the blanks, addressing additional issues we didn’t get to talk about in detail, like creative commons, the legality of mashups, copyright as a promotional tool, and alternative business models at a time when music sales… Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 23 – A.I. in Games (Part 2)

    What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. Download: Threat Detection – Episode 23 In the second part… Read more

  • ‘The Mentalist’ – Culture File

    I can’t quite believe it, they let me do it again! Recently the producers of Lyric FM’s daily culture programme ‘Culture File‘ took an interest in my documentary series Mad Scientists of Music, asking me to adapt a report on brilliant Northern Irish chiptune musician Chipzel for their show. Last week they commissioned me to… Read more