I was excited to hear that French electronic duo AIR had a new release planned for 2012, but I became even more intrigued when I learned that it was a soundtrack for a newly restored version of Georges Méliès’ short film Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) (featured prominently in the recent film Hugo). This sounds like a pretty inspired choice of audio to go with the imagery if you ask me. Stream two more tracks from the upcoming album after the jump.

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Remember how I was saying my life is insanely boring 99% of the time? Well, last week was a good example of that. I spent the better part of my evenings fighting with a nasty virus that managed to infect the computer we use for recording the podcast. Yeah, it was pretty annoying given that I had just recently reformatted that computer, installed a new solid state drive and put Windows 7 on it so that we could eliminate the random skipping problems we started having ever since we switched to a USB mixer. In order to optimize performance, I thought that I would also forgo anti-virus software since I wasn’t going to use the computer for anything other than recording and editing the podcast anyway. That turned out to be a pretty stupid move.

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The universe has a strange way of bringing balance to itself. When Daisuke Amaya released Cave Story for free on the PC back in 2004, it slowly became a big hit (for an indie game, at least) but he didn’t see a dime from it. Years later, he was given the opportunity to port the game to the Nintendo Wii, DS and a handful of other platforms, thus restoring money to his bank account and order to the world. Now a similar scenario seems to be unfolding for an addictive little indie game called Super Crate Box.

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I’ve heard of designing games to be accessible to a wider audience, but this takes things to a whole other level. How long before people start buying iPads just to keep their pets occupied all day? I’m wondering if this cat knows there is also a Puss in Boots version of the game.

Now that it’s the year 2012, I think it’s safe to say that personal blogs are officially dead. Right? As I observed a few years ago, Twitter, Facebook and other social media are satisfying our self-publishing urges to the point where they have essentially replaced the idea of a daily blog. Even the most popular personal blogs on the web only seem to be updated once every couple of days now with supplements from Twitter, Flickr and everything else in between.

Which is why I’ve decided that this is the year I’m bringing back the personal blog. Maybe.

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I was excited to learn that the folks behind the Canadian travel show Departures are returning with a new show in 2012 called Descending. It’s another travel show, but not in the usual sense; this time they are focusing solely on underwater exploration. Sadly it seems that Justin is not involved, but I won’t let that stop me from adding this to my PVR — especially now that I get OLN in HD. Check out another teaser embedded after the jump that showcases the gorgeous cinematography of Andre Dupuis.

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By now, some of you may have noticed that this blog hasn’t been updated since way back in April. There’s a very good reason for that. The beginning of April was when I started a new job at Gameloft in Toronto, which threw my life into upheaval and started a tidal wave of change around me. As a result, the rest of the year has been a blur.

Three of the most stressful things you can do in life include starting a new job, relocating to a new city, and having a child. Alicia and I did all three in the span of 8 months, and I can now confirm that they are indeed stressful. I think it has been a lot harder on her, but I am proud to say that we managed to come out the other end relatively unscathed… with a new addition to our family, no less.

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Just finished watching the first season of An Idiot Abroad a couple of weeks ago, and the final episode kinda made me wish Ricky, Steve and Karl had a weekly half-hour video podcast that wasn’t animated. Either way, somehow they managed to talk Karl into doing another season based around his “Bucket List” and here’s our first taste of it. I fear that this time they may have pushed him too far…