David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.
Game News This Week: A quick review of Batman – Arkham Asylum and the demo of Shadow Complex, both games are top notch.
In “Great Internet Tech War of 2009” News: Microsoft wins a stay against the Word injunction and also wants have a centralised world patent system to stop this from happening again. Ebay sells Skype for $2 Billion.
Tech News This Week: The MPAA wants to lock off HD television signals, Apple locks in September 9th for “an event”, Snow Leopard has teething problems.
Entertainment News This Week: ‘Green Hornet’ actually starts production, Paul W.S. Anderson wants to remake ‘The Three Musketeers’ in 3D, ‘Captain Eo’ returns to Disneyland, and….
Josh and David talk about the sale of Marvel to Disney. This is a long look at the pros and cons of this sale.
For our feature reviews this week Josh and David review different films. Josh tells us about the new animated film ‘Ponyo’, with slightly mixed reactions and David reviews ‘Taking Woodstock’, a charming if ultimately forgettable film.
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to small amounts of bad language.
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