David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott and Special Guest Dave Kozicki (Freelance journalist, Official Playstation, Australian Xbox, Ultimate Nintendo and Penthouse magazines)
The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.
Game News This Week: Some updates on the Left 4 Dead 2 Australian Ban, Dave amends his ‘Wet’ review and Dave and Josh discuss upcoming events.
In “Great Internet Tech War of 2009” News: Apple buys PlaceBase to possibly compete with Google Maps.
Tech News This Week: An Aussie investor loses his $445 million patent case against Microsoft, The Australian Pirate Party has landed and Integral Energy faces a virus problem that could shut down the power grid.
Entertainment News This Week: Set pictures surface from ‘Green Hornet’ (maybe it will happen after all), the ‘Warhammer 40,000’ movie could be coming, Has Uwe Boll made a good film with ‘Rampage’, ‘The Crazies’ gets a remake and we review the trailer, we review the trailer for the ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ remake, Michael Bay announces ‘Transformers 3’ and has a personal message to Megan Fox, Australian cable provider Foxtel now has free TV and movie downloads and finally we have a major discussion about Roman Polanski getting arrested in Switzerland.
Our Feature Reviews: This week we review the new CG animated movie ‘Astro Boy’. Dave Kozicki thinks the film is raping his childhood but David and Josh are a little more positive. The film isn’t great but 10 year olds will have fun.
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to bad language.
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