Intro background:
Shusaku Uchiyama, Takeshi Miura - G Adult Body - Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles OST

Shoutouts:

• New listeners
• Regulars
• Santa Regione - Fotonica dev
• Joost van Dongen, Arno Landsbergen - Proun devs

Housekeeping:

• Site - new PLS link, near direct stream link
• Show - upcoming shifts as we approach Journey 2
• Stream - probably nothing new until permanent VG-related stream in place

Events:

• Mojang and Bethesda resolve trademark issues
• BAFTA - many video game awards
• Asset seizure against Megaupload may be null and void?
• ACTA to be forced to Senate vote
• Zynga acquires OMGPOP
• CA congressmen attempting to put warning label on T+ games
• Indian SOPA equivalent enacted

What are we playing?

• Mr. Bond:
  • PC - Minecraft plus Tekkit pack, Jamestown
  • Mobile - Angry Birds Space
  • Console - Mario Kart Wii
• Tormod:
  • PC - None this week
  • Mobile - Words with Friends, Infinity Blade 2, Skee HD, Angry Birds HD, Pinball HD
  • Console - Mario Kart Wii

Upcoming/Recent Hardware:

• iPad third generation
• nVidia Kepler architecture released - GTX 680, GT 640M
• Neo Geo X - handheld Neo Geo games
• No news for next-gen XBox, PS

Upcoming/Recent Software:

• Indie Royale St. Patty's Day bundle - came and went!
• Indie Royale - Ninja Lightning Pack
• Mass Effect 3 ending controversy
• Double Fine final kickstarter total - $3.4 million (!!)
• Wasteland 2 Kickstarter
• Diablo 3 to be released May 15th
• Minecraft for XBox 360 to be released May 9th, $20
• Angry Birds Space (free on Android)
• Terry Cavanagh set up site for smaller indie games
• Linux kernel 3.3
• EA shuts down servers for 14 online games
• Firefox 11
• AI creates games from scratch with minimal human intervention
• Dragon's Lair going to XBLA
• Ultra-high resolution support for Windows 8, OS X
• Humble Bundle for Android 2
• Everquest going free-to-play

Upcoming/Recent Music:

• New remix album: Maverick Rising
• Guifrog - Samba Primata - Diddy Kong Racing
• Shnabubula - Jammin with my NES - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 11-track album from Shnabubula, NES JAMS

Song set #1:

• 8 Bit Instrumental - Wild Guns - Wild Guns (indie)
• Temp Sound Solutions - Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor - Gyruss (Remix ThaSauce)
• Koelsch1 - Concerto for Velociraptor - Jurassic Park (OCReMix)

Genre discussion:
On-Rails

n00b genre entry:
Arcade shooters (pretty much all of them)

Song set #2:

• MC, SGX - More than a Weapon - Panzer Dragoon Orta (OCReMix)
• djpretzel - GET READY - Space Harrier 2 (OCReMix)
• vail - vail underground mix - Tempest 2000 (OCReMix)

Mainstream game:
House of the Dead

Song set #3:

• Mr_44 - Fear (Arrakis: Giga) - Rez (OCReMix)
• CarboHydroM - Limitless Skies - Space Harrier (OCReMix)
• DZComposer - Lylat Starscape - Starfox (indie...sorry, no link)

Indie games:
Proun and Fotonica
No giveaway this week

Song set #4:

• djpretzel - Fortuna Favors the Funk - Starfox (OCReMix)
• DZComposer - The Story of Zoness - Starfox 64 (indie...sorry, no link)

Game aspect discussion:
Camera angles / control

Audience requests: none this week

Outro background:
Shusaku Uchiyama, Takeshi Miura - Theme of Alexia Type II - Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles OST