Episode 59 - iPhone vs Android, Fight! [ 26:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (570)

A mini-episode while Tev gets married and Adam buys a house.

Our guest is Joe, and we talk iPhones and Androids!

We talk about: Maps, Multitasking, Battery Life, Customization, Updates, Tethering, Speech Recognition, Apps, Censorship, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and more!

End Song: Bitch I Got an Android, Fuck You Apple Fanboys

Episode 58 - Diablo III and 38 Studios [ 1:03:53 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (617)

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show: Blueberry Beer

Ingredients:

• Mr Beer Kit
• Wheat Beer
• Blueberries

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam:
• Tev: 3

Television

What we’ve been watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender

News:

• JJ Abrams Creating a ‘Revolution’
• Community renewed for 13 Eps, moves to Friday, Dan Harmon not on board?

Tech

News:

• http://www.businessinsider.com/google-will-allow-multiple-manufacturers-early-access-to-next-version-of-android-2012-5

Video Games

What we’re playing: Tower of Fortune, Runesword (correction: RuneSPELL), Diablo 3

News:

• Activision and EA settle lawsuit over Call of Duty
• 38 Studios has lots of problems Link 2 Link 3

New Releases This Week

Movies

News:

• http://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-studios-president-kevin-feige-talks-sequels-companys-future/
• http://www.slashfilm.com/aaron-sorkin-adapt-steve-jobs-sony-pictures/
• James Cameron only doing Avatar from now on

Netflix Watch Instantly: Drive

End Music:

• http://www.viddler.com/v/5647935c

Episode 57 - Avengers, Assemble! [ 1:04:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (620)

SHOW NOTES

Television

What we’ve been watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra

News:

• Dish network DVR skips network commercials
• Community renewed
• 30 Rock final season
• Parks & Rec renewed

Books

What we’ve been reading: Soon I will be Invincible – Austin Grossman

Tech

News:

• Apple paying Foxconn to make their factories slightly less soul-crushing
• Lying on your resume: Yahoo CEO steps down
• Facebook co-founder renounced US citizenship to avoid taxes

Video Games

What we’re playing: Popcap bundle, Trials Evolution, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Legend of Grimrock, WoW TCG

News:

• EA’s “Indie Bundle”
• Kickstarter bringing classic games out of the woodwork (Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Carmogeddon, etc)
• Subsidised Xbox360 available
• Kinect Internet Explorer
• Amazing Alex next Angry Birds game

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Avengers

News:

• New piracy warning screens on DVD and Blurays
• Tom Wilson’s “Biff Tannen” card

End Music:

• Take me to the bonus level because I need an extra life – Pornophonique

Episode 56 - TV Shows You May Have Overlooked [ 2:20:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (530)

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show:  Hadouken Shot

Ingredients:

• 3/4 oz Blue Curacao
• 3/4 oz Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
• Splash of Bacardi 151

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 4
• Tev: 4
• Joe: 4

Topic: TV Shows You May Have Overlooked

Shows: Ray Bradberry Theater, New Outer Limits, Chuck, Black Books, Traveler, Peep Show, Duckman, Huff, Spaced, Farscape, Lexx, Jericho, Supernatural, Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Television

What we’ve been watching: Hollywood Treasure, Archer

News:

• Nielson reports drop in number of TV households
• Hulu may requires a cable subscription
• Star Trek: TNG season 1 on blu-ray gets a date: July 24th

Books

What we’ve been reading: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman  (From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury)

Tech

News:

• Microsoft invests $300M in B&N Nook
• Study suggests that not enough sleep activates fat genes
• RIM introduces Blackberry 10
• Target to stop carrying the Kindle
• Apple patents touchy feelly technology
• Brand Loyalty no more
• TSA on the lookout for surgically emplanted bombs
• Renting your phone is probably a bad investment
• Subscribe to Adobe CS6 and save?

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Legend of Grimrock, Triple Town

News:

• Contract-subsidized Xbox coming soon?
• THQ ditches budget ValuSoft division
• Oxford study treats post-traumatic stress with Tetris

Movies

What we’ve been watching:  Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Buckaroo Banzai, High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music

News:

• Disney gets Henry Selick to direct The Graveyard Book

Break Music:

• Spiderman (cover), Douglas Mitchell

End Music:

• Commander Shepard, Miracle of Sound

Episode 55 - Stupid Video Game Tropes [ 1:15:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (515)

SHOW NOTES

Topic: Stupid video game tropes

Rescuing the princess, lives and continues, amnesia, crates and barrels, inventory management, health packs, cover health recovery, world war II, boss fights, pure evil enemies, jumping physics, inappropriate item drops, arbitrary boundaries, locked doors, sexy women armor, cheap shop keepers, save points, black and white characters

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones, Law & Order: SVU, My First Sale

Books

What we’ve been reading: Alone, Richard Byrd

Tech

News:

• Scientists create artificial DNA alternative, XNA
• Google’s gonna mine asteroids
• Rent-stabilized apartments okay in New York
• Google Drive Announced
• Sheep + Worm
• How much would it cost to mfg iphone in the USA
• TSA Screeners don’t need no stinkin background checks

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Pinball Arcade, Fez

News:

• For the first time in its history as a public company, Nintendo posts a yearly loss
• Adam Sessler leaves X-Play (and G4)

New Releases This Week

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Brick

News:

• The Hobbit at 48fps

Last Weeks Box Office

New Releases This Week

Netflix Watch Instantly: Jem, GI Joe, Transformers

Break Music:

• VOID, Gitaroo Man

End Music:

• First of May, Jonathan Coulton