If you’d like to hear all manner of NCsoft staff talking up a storm (plus Draw the World Together artists like David Nakayama and Andrew Wildman, to boot) then Split Infinity Radio and MusicWorldRadio have you covered, baby.

I had the pleasure of talking over the weekend with Riff, AKA Scarlet Shocker, of MusicWorldRadio, and also with Simon, AKA DJ Villain, of Split Infinity. Both had plenty of questions to ask and I hope I answered ‘em well. I’d like to thank them both for taking the time out to come down to the event and do the interviews – I hope you had a good time guys, and we’ll definitely see you next year!

Keep reading for all the links and information you need….

Split Infinity Radio presents…

First of all, Split Infinity have a bunch of different interviews live. You can get to an index of all of them from this news story, but if you prefer you can download the MP3s directly. The links below are all separate MP3 downloads, so you can get each one easily. The interviews include all of the following peeps:

From NCsoft Europe

• Avatea – One-woman community commando for Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa
• The entire City of Heroes/Villains community team (that’ll be GhostRaptor, Kerensky and Palladium)
• Martin ‘Snowstorm’ Kerstein, Guild Wars guru
• Martin ‘Amboss’ Rabl, Aion authority
• .. and me, some ligger who got involved somehow…

From NCNorCal

• Melissa ‘War Witch’ Bianco, our guest of honour for the weekend and game designer for City of Heroes/Villains

From Draw the World Together

• David Nakayama, artist on the City of Heroes comic (and also now kicking ass on Marvel Adventures)
• Andrew Wildman, legendary pencil behind Transformers for many years… and of course the founder of Draw the World Together

MusicWorldRadio presents…

Not wanting to be left out of the party… Riff of MusicWorldRadio also got loads of material, including the entire Q&A session that Melissa ‘War Witch’ Bianco did on Saturday (including my ‘standing too close to the microphone causing feedback’ gaffs at the start – watch your ears folks!).

He also recorded an entirely separate chat with Melissa that’s over an hour long. If you want value for your listening download Riff’s your man, although I assure you Split Infinity packs loads into their interviews as well (If you listen to one SI chat, make it Melissa’s – good stuff).

Anyway, when Riff first put his interviews live, the traffic to his site was so great it overloaded his bandwidth, so we offered to host the interviews on the EU COH site servers. That’s where you’ll find them in two convenient ZIPs:

MusicWorldRadio Interview Set One includes chats with Martin ‘Amboss’ Rabl about Aion (28m19s), GhostRaptor (24m45s), Kerensky (18m25s), myself (30m32s – spot the blowhard) and Martin ‘Snowstorm’ Kerstein about Guild Wars (15m10s).

There’s also a short retrospective piece from Riff talking about the entire convention experience, which is a great round-up of the whole thing (thanks Riff – and by the way, August Bank Holiday? Are you INSANE, man??). Six files folks, two hours of chatter! Get it on your iPod and enjoy on your commute or in the gym.

MusicWorldRadio Interview Set Two is a back-to-back MelissaFest, including her Q&A on Saturday (Again – watch out for those ear-splitting screeches near the start…!) and a one-to-one interview with Melissa herself. Bear in mind the first part of the Q&A was done using presentation slides, so occasionally, you might not quite understand what’s being referred to (yeah, I’m going to try and get those up somewhere). However, the recording includes the extensive Q&A we had afterwards, which should make sense.

On top of that you also get over an hour (boy, can she talk!) between Riff and Melissa herself, which I’ve listened to, and is a really great chat with exclusive information in it right from the start. Face it, you’ve just gotta download ‘em all!

Again – thanks to all of you guys who interviewed us, we appreciate it – and I hope all of you who listen to ‘em, enjoy them!