Geek Actually Episode 48 – bpwhamburgerorchardpark

David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott

Recorded live on Ustream.

In game news Plants Vs. Zombies goes to the iPhone and into retail stores, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has highest fail rate of all the consoles and Australian ABC’s iView may be coming to Ps3.

In “Great Internet Tech War of 2009” news Microsoft releases it’s proposed iPod Touch killer, the Zune HD and 1% of the market share cheers and Microsoft also declares that the Apple App Store is too cheap.

Tech News This Week: Symantec releases a list of the web’s 100 dirtiest sites, tech purchases are helping Australia avoid recession and Internet Explorer 8 declared the most secure browser in an independent survey paid for by Microsoft.

Entertainment News This Week: Two high profile trailers are analysed; “The Wolfman” and James Cameron’s “Avatar” (follow the links to see the trailers), Stephanie Meyer (Author of the Twilight Saga) is sued for plagiarism, Aussie stars are among some of Hollywoods highest earners, “District 9” director Neil Blomkamp hints at a sequel and Shazam gets new writers but do we really care?

For our feature review Josh and David have very different opinions about Quentin Tarantino’s latest film “Inglourious Basterds”. Josh not so impressed, David thought it was a fun ride but not Tarantino’s best.

As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to small amounts of bad language.

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