If you’ve been listening to Villainy INC for a while now, you know that for some odd reason summers are murder on this show. We usually go on hiatus, audio quality takes a massive hit, and I resort to drinking to dull the pain.

Well worry not our faithful listeners because it looks like the worst is behind us. I’ve just recorded a couple episodes with M and I’m going to try and schedule recordings with WK and SM (I’m far too lazy to type the full names) soon. I’ve also got my mixing board and microphone here, so I don’t have to use the “ghetto” setup of having a crappy logitech mic and turning the sensitivity up all the way.

Also the booze finally ran out so I’m finally sober enough to edit.

I don’t want to give a definant date, but they’ll most likly start airing next Friday. If not, the next Friday.

While finding a job and getting my paperwork in order really contributed to our absence, listed here are the real culprits behind the massive delay in episodes:

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. Final Fantasy XIII
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Transformers: War for Cybertron
6. Sin and Punishment: Star Succusor
7. Resident Evil 4

Shame on you vidja games! Especially you Final Fantasy XIII! You took me 2 months to beat. That could have been 2 months of editing podcasts!

My apologies friends, romans, and countrymen. Working as a substitute teacher and finding a real job takes A LOT of time. I didn’t think it would require this much effort, but it does.

I don’t want to promise when episodes will go out because I’ll probably never make the deadlines (for now). So for a while now if an episode goes out, it means I had time that week to edit it together.

You can also blame Mass Effect 2 and Super Mario Galaxy 2 for eating up my remaining free time.

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The Poor Bastard Who Has to Cut This Show Together Every Week.

This week you’re all in for a treat. Jack Wall returns to the show for his second appearance on Villainy INC (third if you count the video podcast). Even cooler than that is he played some of his favorite tracks from Mass Effect 2 on the show and you all get to hear it. There’s even music that’s not in the actual game!

Refresh you’re music app of choice, click the link in the podcast player, or listen to it on the player below. I confound you with options.

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In this episode Jack discusses what went into making the scores for Mass Effect 2 including musical inspirations, how the team collaborated, and how the music was implemented. Great stuff. There’s also some real fun moments that I don’t want to spoil.

Speaking of Mass Effect music, look what we have here? Seeing this only makes me want to play this game more!

Also as an added bonus here’s the full version of the Suicide Mission theme I found on youtube. Too awesome for words.