Smoke & Hannibal

Expanding Known Space Dual Review and Giveaway (closed)

Eat My Battleship


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It is surprising the release of Expanding Known Space hasn’t made a bigger splash. There aren’t many well thought out turn-based strategy audio games for us to play. The latest release from Valiant Galaxy attempts to fill this void in the audio game world. Smoke and Hannibal are teaming up in a dual review to see if this release is a good addition to the audio game genre. There is a giveaway with this review, and All the details will be at the bottom of the post. Read more

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Reoccurring Live Stream Giveaways and Competitions

Get lucky or get better


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I’ve been talking about doing live stream giveaways for a while now. After talking with Hannibal we have figured out a pretty decent plan for structuring the giveaways. This post will be archived as a page anyone can access from the main nav bar at any time. These giveaways will be recurring every month until otherwise posted. Read more

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Vote On Hannibal’s Next Cover Song!

Australian Idol

If you have been following the blog then you know all about Hannibal’s 70 like challenge. The readers came through and Patreon members were able to submit songs for Hannibal to cover. Below will be a list of the submitted songs for everyone to vote on. If you are a Patreon member then there will be a

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Twitter Outrage ep496: #AbledsAreWeird

It Really Is Not Okay


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What’s the best way to deal with negative experiences you’ve had with individuals? Well if you ask someone today it is to insult and shit on a group of people you blame for those issues. Most people realize this could be confused with racism or Anti-Semitism, but we live in odd times. #AbledsAreWeird is a trending topic on twitter, and folks have mixed feelings on it. I had 0 feelings until reading 500 or so tweets and now I’m very annoyed and quite pissed off at it all. Read more

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New Horizons, Smoke’s Review & Live Stream

Major Smoke To Ground Control


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I love me some space games, but sadly there hasn’t ever been many to choose from in the audio game world. New Horizons was recently released, and I jumped all over this one the day it came out. This is a big deal to me, sometimes I’ll wait months or years before finally trying a new game. Not this time though, I’ve been playing NH every day since it’s release to make sure I had enough information for a review and not a first impression. Read more

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Twitter Outrage Episode 494, Paul Thurrott

Get your torches and pitchforks!


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The blog has gone quite a while without me writing about twitter drama, but that is about to come to an end now. Blind twitter is all riled up and flipping out over something someone said on the Windows Weekly podcast. Spoiler alert, all the rage and offense is being blown out of per portion and there is 0 reason for any of it. People just seem to want to be offended, but of course I’ll show why this is all based on someone taking everything out of context to manufacture outrage. Read more

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Smoke’s review, Planet Monopoly

Where’s my stress ball?


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I’m going to try and do more reviews this year and first up is monopoly planet by LimeBerry Software. We already have two versions of Monopoly put out by RS Games and QC. It’s time to see if this new release can compete with these two well established audio versions of the game. Read more

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A Good Voice and Game Recording Setup

Break the Loop!


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Christmas just ended and folks might have some cash they want to spend. If getting a decent affordable recording setup is in your plans, this might help you decide. I’ll go through what I use along with what you can do to break the Yeti loop everyone gets stuck in. This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for a while now. I recently received an email asking me what I use for recording my audio guides, so I decided to go ahead and finally get this published. Read more