One of the things I love about the IT industry is the constant hype. There is always some new idea or silver bullet that will fix everything. The hype can provide endless hours of amusement and it can be great fun to watch the clash of the old with the new, the believers versus the Luddites. And of course it provides great mental exercise — deconstructing the hype, trying to understand it, trying to debunk it and trying to see where the hype is real.

This week Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Toby Shapshak are joined by developer and winner of Microsoft’s Most Valuable award for Xbox 360 in 2008 and 2009, Craig Nicholson, and we discuss Windows 7, new products from Apple, the interconnection debate, and much more

Brütal Legend (note the heavy metal umlaut) brings together visionary game designer and writer, Tim Schafer, with actor Jack Black…