This week, Rand and panel discuss video game adaptations of popular movies through the years. Discussion starts with the infamous E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600.

For the last portion of the show, George “coldlimit1972” joins in for a discussion on myriad topics.

Episode is live on the feed now.

Friday Night Trivia returns on 12 March at around 9:15PM EST at TalkShoe ID 72402. The theme is word puzzles.

I’ll probably be late in arriving, due to New Media Roundtable, which starts at 8PM and runs a bit past 9PM, but I will be there, hosting.

It’s The RaT Project 70 Live: The Pie Extravaganaza!

This coming Sunday is March 14, which is Pi Day (3.14). Join Rand and panel as they discuss all things both pi and pie! The fun begins at 8PM EST on Saturday at TalkShoe ID 21129!

Thursday, March 4, was World Book Day. To celebrate, this show was devoted to discussing favorite books, and books we’re currently reading. Dave AC and Rand gather quite a list of books.

Dave has a list of books and notes here, which is well worth checking out.

First of all, though, news topics:

Doctor Who news:
Next three episode titles for the 2010 series were announced in Doctor Who Magazine. The titles are “The Time of the Angels”/”Flesh and Stone” (a two-parter written by Steven Moffat) and “Vampires in Venice”, written by Toby Whithouse.

First 2010 series DVD has been announced. The volume will feature the first three episodes of the series, and is set for release June 7.

Canada’s SPACE channel announces April 17 as their start for the 2010 series, which is the same date that BBC America will premiere the new series. Australia, while not having confirmed a date as of yet, has said they will start “within a few weeks of the UK premiere transmission”.

BBC Press Office have confirmed two additional series for Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. Production on the next series begins at the end of this month.

BBC Worldwide have announced that they now fully own DVD distributor 2|entertain, the company closely associated with Doctor Who classic series releases on DVD. This announcement settles worries over the distributor since it went into administration in 2008.

The Guardian newspaper had an exclusive interview with Matt Smith in their Saturday, 6 March edition.

Gallifrey 21 convention is now in the past, and reports are around the Internet. Doctor Who Podshock’s recent episodes (184 and 185, at least) present coverage from the convention.

Video Game News:

Cover of Nintendo Power V253 confirms Scribblenauts 2 is in the works for the DS, developed by 5th Cell. Following on from last year’s title, this will offer refined controls and camera, larger vocabulary, and the addition of adjectives.

Final Fantasy XIII is now available in the US.

Mega Man 10 is released on Wii’s Virtual Console, available for 1,000 Points. My Quick Review can be found here.

Activision, Infinity Ward fallout. Activision fires IW bosses, who then sue Activision. New direction for IW projects, including Call of Duty/Modern Warfare franchises, possibly new genre directions.

GTA V announcement is possibly “imminent”, before E3.

And that wraps up the news section.

Episode is now live on the feed, and on iTunes. It can also be downloaded here.

Episode 69 is all about books! On “Our Book Club”, Rand invites guests to discuss books they are currently reading as well as to bring recommendations of books they have read. Any genre of book is open for discussion, as the discussion may well include our thoughts on what makes a book enjoyable.

Show goes out this Saturday night at 8PM EST at TalkShoe ID 21129. Hope to see you there!

Thanks to everyone who showed up to this week’s live episode, where we discussed movie adaptations of popular video games. How do the two mediums differ, is such a translation a good idea, and more were the topics of discussion.

The episode is available on the RSS feed (as well as via the iTunes podcast directory), or can be downloaded here.

Rand, along with guests DaveAC and Logan, discuss the NBC series Heroes, giving their thoughts on the show as a whole, favorite/least favorite characters, strengths/weaknesses of the show, and thoughts on individual seasons/volumes.

Episode is available via iTunes and here.

Episode duration is 1:26:13

This Saturday night The RaT Project Live focuses on the NBC series Heroes. With a fourth season now complete, and no official word on a fifth, Rand and panel discusses the run of the show so far.

Join in at TalkShoe ID 21129 at 8PM EST!

Coming soon, a sub-series of shows from The RaT Project, wherein I, along with cohorts, watch random episodes of random shows and comment on them. The result is a show you can listen to while you watch whatever episode of whatever series we happen to have done.

Yes, this was an idea I got from Cultdom Collective, I’ll admit.

Anyway, to start this off, I plan on watching and commenting on the pilot episode of Sliders, and I’m looking for a co-host. If you’d like to join me, leave a comment here. I’ll be doing these commentaries via Skype, and it’ll help if you have access to the episode in question.

Well, weather happens, and things became well out of my control. I lost power at my house Friday night after a snow storm struck. Power wasn’t restored until yesterday at around 4:30PM EST. As such, I wasn’t around to host The RaT Project Live. I thank everyone who showed up (Logan, Dave, Chris, and Graeme, from what I can tell).

I’ve bumped the Sci Fi movies topic back to this coming Saturday, where we can actually get a show out of it. I’d like to thank Graeme for providing a better source link, one that lists all the sci fi/fantasy movies coming out this year. The link is here.

The topics on down the calendar have each been bumped to the following weekend.

Anyway, just a programming note.