Killed in a Smiling Accident.

For those of you who are not monitoring our podcast RSS feed or stalking us on the Twitterverse, brace your main hats and hang on to your sails, because we’re pleased to announce that it’s time for Kiasacast episode 5: The burnout yo-yo!

This episode of the podcast includes:

- Introduction and news

- Reader mail – where we find out that we’re still cursed after tigerears bit us under the light of a full moon

- This month (maybe longer) in KiaSA, including::

     - Everquest 2

     - Jumpgate

     - Lord of the Rings Online

     - Star Wars: The Old Republic

     - And more…

- Book Club

- Twitter questions

- MUSIC BLAAAAST FROM THE GAMING PAAAAAST!

     - Last episode’s tune: Wing Commander theme tune

Download Kiasacast Episode Five

For those of you who are not monitoring our podcast RSS feed or stalking us on the Twitterverse, brace your main hats and hang on to your sails, because we’re pleased to announce that it’s time for Kiasacast episode 4: E3 special!

This episode of the podcast includes:

- An admission

- E3, including:

     - Beatles rock

     - Alan Wake plans

     - Project Natal hurts

     - Sony Wands massage

     - Molyneux hypes

     - Barnett entertains

     - APB impresses

     - The Old Republic juices

     - Jumpgate delays

- Search term of the period of time since the last podcast

- MUSIC BLAAAAST FROM THE GAMING PAAAAAST!

     - Can you identify the music from the end of this episode’s show?
        Answers on an aldis lamp, and then email an MPEG of the lamp to us.

     - Last episode’s tune: Magic Pockets, intro from the Amiga version,
        outro Betty Boo – Doin’ the Do

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For those of you who are not monitoring our podcast RSS feed or stalking us on the Twitterverse, brace your main hats and hang on to your sails, because we’re pleased to announce that it’s time for Kiasacast episode 3: The Kiasacast Strikes Back!

This episode of the podcast includes:

- Listener’s mail

- Second Opinion: a Darkfall re-review

- This (Three) Month(s) In KiaSA: Don’t Believe the Hype

- What We’re Playing

- Book Corner, including:

     - Child 44

     - Fly by Night

- The brand new and incredibly innovative Listener’s Twitter Questions

- Search Sewage

- MUSIC BLAAAAST FROM THE GAMING PAAAAAST!

     - Can you identify the music from this episode’s show?
       Answers on an aldis lamp, and then email an MPEG of the lamp to us.

     - Last episode’s tune: Xenon II Megablast, intro from the Amiga version, outro remix by daXX

Download Kiasacast Episode Three

For those of you who are not monitoring our podcast RSS feed or stalking us on the Twitterverse, brace your main hats and hang on to your sails, because we’re pleased to announce that it’s time for Kiasacast episode 2: The revenge of Kiasacast!

This episode of the podcast includes:

- Listener’s mail

- This Month In KiaSA, including:

   - Melmoth going back to Lord of the Rings Online and tempting Zoso with cosmetic armour (and hats)

   - World of Goo on WiiWare

   - Doing the Raidwarp Again

   - Mysterious publicity for Warhammer Online

   - The compression of end-game into a gear grind

   - Grand Theft Auto IV on the XBox360 and PC

- Search term of the month, which we’re not daft enough to repeat here on the blog.

- Book Corner, including:

    – Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale

    – The Steel Remains

    – Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?

- MUSIC BLAAAAST FROM THE GAMING PAAAAAST!

    – Can you identify the music from this episode’s show? Answers on a postcard, and then email that postcard to us.

   - Last episodes’s tune: Galaforce for the BBC B. Remix by Heartcore

Download Kiasacast Episode Two

In what we believe is an unprecedented move, we at Killed in a Smiling Accident thought it might be interesting to try and send our voices through the internet in what we’re calling a “podcast”, combining the everyday words of “cast” from “broadcast” with “pod” from “podophyllin”, a brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), so, encoded using fruit extract, it’s episode one of the Kiasacast!

In this episode, we take a look back at the events of 2008, or “flip back through the blog and talk about a few posts”. It’s our first time, as it were, so it’s a little shaky, but we get into the swing of things.

Subjects covered include:

• Hellgate
• Subscription numbers
• The recurring cycles of MMOG blogging
• Lack of giant robot MMOGs
• Bonekickers!
• The reason Age of Conan and Warhammer haven’t done too well
• Guitar Heroism

Intro music: Galaforce for the BBC B microcomputer
Outro music: Galaforce remix by Heartcore

We’re not sure if it’ll become a regular thing, if nothing else watch (or indeed listen) out for a review of 2009 in a year or so!

Download Kiasacast Episode One