My all time favourite video game industry story starts with the 2 major video game heavyweights of the late 1980’s and early 1990′s, Sega and Nintendo. Sega, back in the day when they actually made consoles, were quite a gutsy and ambitious bunch. They were the first to bring an 8-bit console to the home [...]
Could you be a Whedonite? It can be hard to tell but if you’ve ever watched an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer or become inexplicably obsessed with Nathan Fillion you have already succumbed. You might not even have heard of the writing, directing and producing extravaganza that is Joss Whedon. But you’ve almost certainly [...]
Okay, we have talked about this on the podcast but I am just going to say that I hate the way Fox is milking ‘Avatar’. Hasn’t the film made enough money? I have been boycotting the first DVD/Blu-Ray release of this film because it is in the wrong screen format (1.85:1 instead of it’s native [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the whole “gamer” thing has gone from being shunned 10 years ago to being such an everyday hobby? I remember being called a nerd, dork, or a freak just because I enjoy playing video games when I was in high school. Now, if you bring up [...]
I have been wondering how so many Apple products geek leaked now days. If you go back a few years, Apple was a tight ship and we didn’t know what they had for us until Steve Jobs took to a keynote stage and announced it. Lately, there have been no secrets. We have pretty much [...]
I think there becomes a time when you can be too much of an apologist and Shia LaBeouf may have just reached that time. On the last episode of The Geek Actually Podcast Josh, Nathan and I discussed Shia’s comments on the upcoming Transformers 3 film, where Shia basically said he knows that part 2 [...]
Only in our strange weird world can a strong turn out in support of something cause it to fail! Okay, fail is a harsh word, but the discussion on the introduction of an R18+ Rating for games seems to have stalled. According to Federal Homes Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor, more than 86% of the submissions [...]
In my time spent rummaging around the internet .. oh and believe me I do spend a lot of time doing that. I realised I’ve seen a lot of “top ten bad guys” lists… which are usually all the same, showing the persons love and admiration for Sephiroth and Bowser..not so much a measure of ability but [...]
