ARG Netcast, Episode 14: Cow Farts

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It’s a whole new world for the ARG Netcast series. We have our spiffy new website, and a whole new attitude. It’s like Extreme Makeover, ARG style! Episode 14′s panel, hosted by ARGnet‘s Jonathan Waite, includes Jessica Price, Marie Lamb, Jackie Kerr, and Sean C. Stacey. Subscribe to the ARG Netcast feed through this link or via iTunes.

Game News and General Discussion

• MeiGeist has a live event, a hilarious video, and a farting cow website. Jackie is now playing the game (go Jackie) and you should be too! I mean, come on — check out all of these interesting game references! Discussion also trails into discussion of more frivolous things, such as sexy game characters.

• Gamejackers Ahoy! Save VT is (apparently) a gamejack of Stop VT, which is a game that sprang up after Beast of Black River. The Giantology (alternate reality?) game of ARG past has been gamejacked due to an errant, unregistered email address. We have the details, for those of you brave enough to follow along with the confusion.
• ARGNet has an article up about I Am Trying To Believe — the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero ARG.
• Jackie talks about a very interesting article from the Nature scientific journal involving collective intelligences.
• Jane McGonigal wants game designers to be eligible for the Nobel Prize for Science. See the article here. In the discussion, we bring up the recent news about how SETI helped a woman get her laptop back, which we promised would also be linked to in the show notes. So, here’s the link.
• More news about geocaching nightmares in Boston — naughty boomboxes and the Dr. Pepper coin hunt. Marie sets the record straight.
• The Restaurant Game is a creation of the fine people over at MIT.
• Members of the NYU College Republicans create a game called “Find the Immigrant.” Um, tacky.

ARGFest Update

The panelists (and panels) are pretty much finalized, and the FestCast will take place on Saturday afternoon. Register for the conference (important!) and Cruel 2 B Kind (fun!) if you plan on attending. For reals.

Listener Email and Comments

• Thanks to Severn and RothkoWoofed for their MeiGeist information submissions!

• Additional thanks to thebruce for his Dr. Pepper article on ARGNet!
• Will Bagby is awesome for offering a name for the ARGFest netcast and his laptop for recording purposes!

Contact us at our special netcast email address, netcast@argnetcast.info with your tips, suggestions, concerns and submissions. Call us on the ARGNet voicemail at 630-274-5425.