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Videogame Roundtable Episode 298: No Frills This week's episode is raw and unedited, since Jonah's laptop got fried. However, despite the audio issues and being posted via cell phone, the gang got off a pretty good show. This week's news includes: Overwatch pro ends career with stream of racial slurs Don't expect Kingdom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy 7 remake until at least 2018 DOTA...

On Kenny Selcer’s long-awaited ambitious effort, I Simplify, New England’s veteran acoustic / Americana minstrel has put together an album that fuses Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street nuances with Grateful Dead guitar/keyboard interplay.   Those Stones’ nuances are subtle, an undercurrent on the opening track, “I Know It’s Not Too Late,” Selcer’s philosophical observations rife with intentional simple word...

When drummer Rich Marshall called out to “All you hamburgers and cheeseburgers” it was quoting the late Little Joe Cook of “Peanuts” fame, the legendary r & b singer who ruled at the Cantab.  On Saturday, April 29 three members of Little Joe’s band, bassist Lee Lunday, guitarist Candy Delgado and Marshall with Daemian Allen on keys, Steve Tajian...

Mojotone describes the DW Tomahawk as “a one of a kind, passive, high output humbucker, designed to have more clarity without muddying up or compressing your sound like most other high output pickups. So forget about what you’ve heard with other high output humbuckers and take a look at the new ‘DW Tomahawk.’ This is a fresh new take...

Opening track "Waiting for a Change" off of Lilly Black's My Own Hero CD is a gliding, rocking, sliding-on-the-groove bright pop tune with the energy of the New York Dolls meeting the pop majesty of the Go Go's. Liam Barry's drums bolster the undercurrent opening the door to track 2, "Rag Doll." These first two songs contain...

Matt Washburn has run LedBelly Sound studios in Atlanta for so long and clocked up so many clients, that it takes ages to scroll down the full list on his website. His clients are an eclectic mix of all genres, and for the last 15 years all of them have been recorded with his Audient ASP8024 analogue console - without which,...

Mobile gaming has become a massive industry, so big that analysts predict mobile game sales will surpass both PC and console games in sales this year. Estimates place game revenue at 99+ billion dollars (for the upcoming year) with mobile games expecting to take $36.9 billion, PC to claim $31.9 billion and console rounding up the balance with an estimated...

Officially launching herself into cosplay in 2015 is 22-year-old former Japanese pop idol Enako Rin. While keeping busy with her voice over work for various anime Enako has attracted quite a following in a relatively short amount of time, especially when you consider that many cosplayers do not attract hundreds of thousands of followers through social media in a time...

Fred Gillen Jr. opens his masterfully produced album, What She Said, with “Prayer for America” giving time and space to refugees, philosophy and the iconic Statue of Liberty only partially visible, as if sinking in the sand in Charlton Heston’s original Planet of the Apes.   That philosophy, seeded throughout the variety of ideas, include possibly not believing in God...

Videogame Roundtable Episode 297: EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II plans Since the podcast recording last Wednesday had audio issues and the news was, frankly, boring, the crew decided to record a new 297th episode on Easter Sunday, after some more interesting stuff was announced near the end of the week. That, and Scott expresses his enthusiasm for Thimbleweed Park, the...