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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Building a studio for podcasts & radio drama

    I’ve been very gradually building up a home studio setup over the past four years, as Dead Medium Productions came together. Although my setup is very modest and modular, it’s capable of recording ‘broadcast quality’ radio either indoors out out, capturing four performers simultaneously, and editing the whole shebang in multichannel stereo. I thought it… Read more

  • Comedy Chernobyl – Episode 2 – Gareth Stack Show Live

    This weeks show featured interviews with controversial comedian Robert Coyle, award winning conceptual artist Jonah King, and Caoimhe Lavelle and James Moran from the Bluebottle Collective. The show was produced by superproducer Ronan Misteil, and presented by Andrew Booth. Special guest was Gareth Stack. Prank call featured was by Siam Collective, with permission. The show… Read more

  • Lets Play – Dark Dungeon Adventure

    Gareth & James from the Threat Detection Podcast play through two extremely shoddy text based adventure games, scrawled by Gareth’s very own plush hands in the mid 1990’s. Read more

  • Threat Detection – Episode 7

    Download: Episode 7 We talked about… 1) Retro gaming and the reasons people play classic games. 2) Irrational Games shutting down! (Just beat me to it. Was in the process of linking stories to this) (System shock, tribes3, freedom force, swat 4, bioshock) – Sean Elliot employers! – Ken Levine to start new downsized studio… Read more

  • Episode 7 Preview: Arcade and Retro podcast

    We had Gavin from the Arcade and Retro podcast on our show this week. We discussed coding your own adventure games, VIC-20s, Goldeneye being stuck in time, and six year olds playing Sonic. Check out the Episode 7 podcast later this week. Read more

  • The Gareth Stack Show Live – Featuring Gareth Stack – Episode 1

    I’m ordinarily a modest man. I received an award for it in college. It was a small thing, hardly worth mentioning, although they kept giving it to me year after year. ‘Gareth’, they said, cheer speaking as they held me aloft on their warm, respectful shoulders, ‘Don’t be so modest. Wait, no, do, that’s what… Read more