Whoops! I recorded this on Saturday but stupidly forgot to get around to the crucial uploading part, so here’s Episode 9 of the James Newton show, a little later than usual.

As today is blog carnival day – over at Akusai’s excellent VGmusings - I’ll be giving the rundown of my top three carnival submissions. There was some real quality in there this month, so thanks again to everyone. Next month’s carnival is taken care of by the prolific Jigsaw HC – let’s hope he doesn’t go to pieces about it.

There’s also a sneaky world exclusive regarding Halo 3 as I become the only person in the world… well, you’ll see.

I’ve been considering giving the podcast a TIME EXTENSION! for future episodes, as six to ten minutes seems pretty paltry considering a lot of other podcasts run at forty minutes plus. I try to keep things short and sweet, and I wouldn’t want it degenerating into two idiots talking – who’d download that? – but I would like to expand things a little. I’d welcome feedback about it!

As always, check back next week for more in the way of Sega-biased news, chatter and tunes. Cheers!

Links:

Episode 9 – May’s Carnival

The Carnival of Video Game Bloggers for May!

Submit your article for next month’s carnival!

It’s becoming harder and harder to come up with clever titles for these podcasts. Not that I consider them particularly clever in general, but they’re certainly not getting any smarter!

That’s not to say the podcast isn’t as entertaining as ever – there’s another winning combination of good news, bad news and even an exclusive LIVE report from a mystery location. Download the podcast here, and come back next Monday for another cracker!

A slightly grand title for a podcast, I must say, but it signals that episode seven is here and ready to download.

Sorry about the delay, but it’s been an extremely busy week here and there’s been a few things to contend with, but now I hope they’re all behind me and I can get a few more posts and podcasts coming at you in the coming weeks.

Don’t forget to subscribe to the feed, and submit your entry into the next Carnival of Video Game Bloggers, very kindly and ably hosted by Akusai over at VGMusings. Pop over to the Carnival homepage to submit your entry!

With practically nothing of note happening in the world of games, this week’s podcast has a rather patchwork feel to it, which I like. The big news is today’s excellent Carnival of Video Game Bloggers, but I also let loose a few first impressions of Okami, Phantasy Star Universe and wax lyrical about the all-conquering, universe-changing Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution.

Let’s hope something interesting happens in gaming this week, otherwise in the next episode I’ll let you know what rares I found in PSO:Blue Burst (actually, two Snake Spires and a Black Odoshi Domaru!)

Related links

Carnival of Video Game Bloggers – the April edition, hosted by my brother Phil at www.sodaware.net. Excellent articles and a great post too. Well worth your time!

Virtua Fighter.com - the best VF site ever created.

Thanks to Hiro, this week’s podcast has a tremendous subject: are Sega’s franchises enjoying a renaissance on Wii? As well as discussing the upcoming revivals I also touch upon which games from their rich past would make for fantastic sequels on the Wii.

You can listen to the podcast here, and subscribe to the feed with this link.

Thanks for coming by, and feel free to make suggestions and leave comments!