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Thank you, and goodnight.

As we announced on our Thomas Dolby episode, we’re re-branding with the reboot of the podcast! The ARGNetcast will now be known as the StoryForward Podcast.

So why a new name, you ask? Over the past decade, we’ve watched as Alternate Reality Gaming has expanded in scope, really beginning to take hold in various forms as not just ARGs, but Transmedia Storytelling, Viral campaigns, Apps, Events and more. With storytelling still at the core of our discussions, we wanted the name of the podcast to reflect the fact that we’ve begun to talk about more than just ARGs.

So we bid a fond farewell to ARGNetcast as a label. Many thanks to Jonathan Waite, Sean C. Stacey, Marie Lamb and the rest who made the ARGNetcast as great as it was, and we look forward to continue discussing the future of Entertainment and Storytelling as the StoryForward Podcast.

We’ll stop updating this website at this point, as everything can now be found at the new StoryForward Podcast website. If you subscribe via iTunes, you don’t need to take any action, as everything will update automatically. And don’t worry, we’ll be keeping all 127 ARGNetcast episodes archived at the new website, so you’ll be able to listen to any of them any time.

Hey everyone! We’re very exited to announce that Thomas Dolby will be our guest for Episode 128 on January 16th!

We’ll be talking with him about what he’s been up to, and the awesome Transmedia game project he produced to accompany his lastest album, A Map of the Floating City (iTunes link).

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Thanks to intrepid fans on Twitter last night, I’m revealing who my new co-host will be for the soon-to-be-relaunching ARGNetcast. So, without further adieu…

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be joined by writer and awesome boots-wearer, J.C. Hutchins!

No stranger to cross-media storytelling, J.C. is best known for his podcast novel trilogy 7th Son, which has over 2 million downloads, and also for his fine work co-authoring Personal Effect: Dark Art with Jordan Weisman. Additionally, J.C. was just the keynote speaker for the 2011 ARG-Fest-o-Con.

We’ll be announcing the actual date for our first new episode soon. In the meantime, to help us out with our new format, send us comments, questions, requests, rants and tips at netcast@argnetcast.com. And sending special welcomes to J.C. would be nice, too. Now’s your chance!

The ARGNetcast is back! Watch for Episode 118 Tuesday May 4th, with special guest Streamy Award winner Nina Bargiel (Valemont).

A word of warning: We won’t be doing a live videocast and chat for these first few episodes, as I need a chance to get my ducks in a row. Sorry for the inconvenience.

As was reported yesterday on our Twitter feed, the ARG Netcast is alive and kicking after all! I’d like to welcome in the shiny new host of the podcast, a voice you will already know and love, Mr. Steve Peters! Steve is affectionately known as the Godfather of Alternate Reality Gaming (the GARG?) and has been a frequent guest on the ARG Netcasts over the past 3+ years. I am happy as can be that the podcast will continue to be a part of the growing transmedia community, and hope that you all continue to listen in as Steve takes the reins. There’s no word as to what kind of recording schedule Steve will implement, and when the next new episode of the ARG Netcast will be, but I’m sure that Steve will let you all know as soon as he can.

So, for the last time (from me, anyway), thanks for all of the support you all have given us over the years, and continued best wished to Steve and his podcasting crew!

For those who weren’t listening live on February 8th, we had an announcement during episode 114 that you may not have heard yet, and that is that we are wrapping up production of the ARG Netcasts in March. While this is sad news, we consider ourselves lucky to have been a part of your lives since October of 2006. Our last shows are shaping up to be some of our very best, with scheduled guests such as No Mimes Media and Lone Sharks Games confirmed for the next two episodes.

We have three shows remaining, tentatively: February 22 (No Mimes Media), March 8 (Lone Shark Games), and the finale on March 22. We hope that you can all make it to the live shows and that you enjoy this last stretch of the podcasts.

Hi listeners,

We are moving to a new host and might encounter come hiccups on the way. Please be patient if we encounter a temporary interruption of service. Hopefully, everything goes well and the new host IPs propagate over the tubes in the next few days!

I was so excited about the new voicemail number we got yesterday (which, after 24 hours, it seems we didn’t need to get, but oh well) that I forgot to mention that the live recording time for the netcast is changing. Partly due to demands (apparently, we are up against Big Bang Theory in the US) but mostly due to personal schedule, the netcast recording is moving to 9 pm CT on Monday nights. That’s only a half hour later than what is has been, so it’s not a monumental change, but significant for those that tune in live each week. As well, because of commitments through the week, the netcast will regularly be published on Saturdays, so that’s when you can look for it through iTunes or similar podcast clients.

Thanks for continuing to listen, tune in, and help out. We love you guys!

Well, we finally finagled one of those elusive Google Voice invited (thanks Giskard!) and we have a brand new voicemail number for the show — (347) 878-7245. Or, for those quick on the keypad, (347) 87-TRAIL. Start filling up our inbox with messages and serenades!

Hey listeners/viewers! It has come to our understanding that some of the most recent video netcasts aren’t formatted properly for viewing on the iPod Touch and iPhone devices. I will re-encode the videos and release them as soon as possible, so watch the feed for those. Thanks to our friend Brian Enigma for alerting us to the issue.

As many of you already know, the alternate reality gaming community lost a friend and inspiration last week with the passing of Dave Szulborski. Dave was a leader in the development and promotion of ARGs, and authored two books on the subject. He was a guest on the netcast a few times, and was the center of attention for episode 24, The Szulbosrki Show. We would like to remember and celebrate Dave by re-airing episode 24 on Monday night at 7:30 pm CT. The rebroadcast will take place on our live stream at Ustream, which you can hear by visiting live.argnetcast.com. The stream has an IRC chat in which you can share your thoughts and memories of Dave as the episode plays. After the rebroadcast, we will have a new episode at our regularly scheduled time of 8:30 pm CT featuring the team behind Ruby’s Bequest, which recently wrapped up.

We hope you can join us on Monday and we extend our deepest sympathies to Dave’s family and friends and all of you who were lucky enough to have met Dave or played one of his many games.

Author JC Hutchins will be a guest panelist on tomorrow night’s netcast recording, which happens at 8:30 pm CT. The author of 7th Son, a podcast novel trilogy, and the upcoming Personal Effects: Dark Art will be on to discuss his work, his interests in alternate reality gaming, and many other topics. You can catch the show live at live.argnetcast.com or download the podcast here on the site later this week. As always, if you are subscribed to the ARG Netcast syndicated feed, the podcast will be delivered as soon as it’s available.

If you are a fan of JC’s work and wish to have a question answered, email us or send us an mp3 file at netcast@argnetcast.com, or leave us a voicemail at 630-274-5425. It’s going to be an amazing show, and hopefully we’ll see you there!

Hey listeners,

We are moving our site over to argnetcast.com and have (hopefully) worked out many of the kinks. However, we know that there is a problem with the iTunes store feed, and we have sent Apple an email regarding the problem. Hopefully, everything sorts itself out in the next few days and we can get back to business as usual.

Edit: As of 10:25 pm CT, the feed issues seem to be resolved. Happy downloading!

Hey all!

We will have the next episode of the ARG Netcast ready tonight or early tomorrow, but in the meantime, we have some exciting news — our new web site!

If you visit www.argnetcast.com (as opposed to the familiar argnetcast.info), you will see a familiar sight. Yes, that’s right, we now have a dot-com address secured for the netcast!

We will be migrating things over to the dot-com site, and developing a new look for the site, but until that’s ready to go, continue to use the dot-info site.

For those expecting a netcast from the recording om Monday, December 15, fear not. The edit is delayed due to various job and health related factors (yay, stomach flu!) but the edit should be published sometime this weekend. Sorry about the wait.

A reminder that there will not be a live recording this coming Monday, the 22nd.

I didn’t even think to mention this on the last netcast, but this coming Monday is Thanksgiving in Canada, and due to my family commitments, we will not be recording a show. Our next scheduled show is Monday, October 20th at 8:30 pm CT. See you in a week, and Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian brethren.

Sadly, there will be no netcast recording this coming Monday due to family commitments. The next scheduled netcast (episode 63) is Monday, October 8th at 8:30 pm CT. See you then!

A quick bit of housekeeping as we get back into the swing of things…

(1) We will be streaming live audio/video at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/arg-netcast each and every time we record the audio version. With the video stream, we also have a live chat room that listeners can be a part of — during last week’s Ustream experiment, the chat denizens were very helpful in contributing to the conversation, and we expect future netcasts to be the same.

(2) We will be adopting a new recording schedule starting, um, now. Recording for the netcast will now take place each Monday at 8:30 pm CT, with the edited version of the program showing up shortly thereafter. And yes, we know that’s a bit late for our UK listeners, but it’s the best time for our regular panelists and co-hosts.

We thank all of our listeners for their continued support, and hope to hear from many of through voicemail, email, and perhaps, during the live chats at Ustream!

Thanks to a tip from BrianEnigma, we’ve come to understand that the ARG Video Netcasts aren’t playing nice with iPods or iPhones, but fear not, because we plan on re-encoding video episodes 1, 2 and 3 sometime tomorrow which will hopefully fix the problem. We encoded episode 4 a little differently, so please let us know if it works or not — we’ll test it out on the iPod Touch we have kicking around the office.