Ah the memories I had back when Nintendo Power first showed off the SNES CD expansion.  What fun I would have had playing games like The 7th Guest and, if Nintendo had been more open to crappy game, NIGHT TRAP!!!  Oh how happy I am that that never happened.  However, we do get to look at and potentially own a little bit of history with this SNES CD Controller.  The eBay auction ends on January 3rd, with this hunk of plastic is going for… (tabs over to see the price…)   !!!!   $2999.99

Well, at least I can look at a JPEG of it, and in the end, isn’t that all that really counts?

In an article posted on WinExtra.com, Steven Hodson (a self-proclaimed cranky old fart wandering the internet causing mayhem as he goes) asks the questions that are on everyones mind.  Will 2008 be the end of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)?

As more music artists turn away from the old models of their media; Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” sold for a user-selectable price,  Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails going independent and releasing their music nearly open-sourced, and purely independent artists like Jonathan Coulton doing their thing and having fun and fame along the way, one does wonder what the RIAA’s usefulness is anymore.

To read the article, click here.

Tonight is the night.  According to Gobbler on the Myndflame forums…

 We’re starting the uploads as planned at about 6PM EST (+5 GMT).

If you are a fan of machinima, world of warcraft, myndflame, or warcraft in general, be sure to check Myndflame.com for the information to get into the chat and show your support.  I know I’ll be there. 

I could go into the technical mumbo jumbo whoziwhatzits about the podcast generation script that I am using to create The Geek Media’s podcast RSS feed, but that would be long and boring so I will just say this, it is fixed for now, it may break again in the future over nothing more than an non-breaking space that iTunes doesn’t like, and I will fix it again   And on a side note, congrats to me for the awesome run-on sentence.

Back in the dark ages of the 1990s (96 to be exact), the Texas based software development company ID Software released Quake. Unlike ID’s previous games; Wolfenstein 3D and Doom which used a pseudo-3D world based on a 2D map design, Quake featured a full 3-dimensional world allowing designers to explore new ground in the area of level creation. Maps could contain bridges that could be walked on and under, tunnel systems, underwater structures and more. In addition to this, Quake also had many hooks in the watered down yet quite pliable QuakeC programming language, allowing even more modifications to the base game than most before it.

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Oxhorn, just in time for Christmas, has posted the Oxhorn Christmas Special.

The Oxhorn Christmas Special

To quote Gobbler from the Myndflame Forums…

We’re having a cast party on New Year’s Eve to debut “Illegal Danish: Escape from Orgrimmar”. Join us in a live chat starting at 6PM EST time if you’d like to celebrate the release of our most challenging project yet. This video will be available to the public right here on Myndflame.com on the evening of December 31st, 2007.More information on this soon.

About the release date: We’re aware that many people have plans on New Year’s Eve, but we’re also aware that many of our fans will spend this holiday online, or have close access to a computer. Wherever you are or whatever you have planned, there will be plenty of time to watch this movie.

Whether you tune in to be one of the first to see it on New Year’s Eve, or watch it after your holiday parties are over, we decided that we’d like to bring in the new year with our cast and community.

You heard it first (from Gobbler’s typing fingers). Escape From Orgrimmar, December 31st 2007.

It appears that the guys over at Oblivious films are at it again, this time with a video entitled ‘Inside World of Warcraft’. You can check it out over at Machinima.com, as well as a streaming video of it below.

The Geek Media would like to congratulate Kistilan Dark who is the winner of the Nintendo Wii contest in conjunction with the Child’s Play Charity Donation Drive. We”re very happy to say that our winner is in the United States Air Force and just returned to the US from Japan. Congratulations again, Kistilan, enjoy your Christmas gift from The Geek Media.We would like to thank everyone who donated to the Child’’s Play Charity Donation Drive. We”ve collected quite a bit and, it will be going to benefit different hospitals around the world. All of you are now responsible for giving games, toys, books and other things to children in the hospital. That’’s one heck of a Christmas gift you gave. Thank you all again!