Geek Actually Episode 56 – The God Particle

New Geek Actually Cover ArtHosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki (with a special appearance from Nicholas ‘The Little Geek’ McVay)

The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.

Game News This Week: Dave and Josh tell us about ‘Brutal Legend’ and ‘Uncharted 2’. Dave gives a quick review of the new ‘Smack Down’. For more gaming news check out our other podcast, Platforms. See the bottom of this post for details.

The Great Internet Tech War of 2009: Apple declares that Windows 7 will help boost Mac sales.

Tech News This Week: Pepsi apologises for it’s new iPhone app, Steve Jobs rates high with teens, Microsoft stops ebay sales of the Windows 7 party packs and was the Large Hadron Collider stopped by a future version of itself!

Entertainment News This Week: ‘Green Lantern’ not coming to Australia, Bryan Singer wants to return to ‘X-Men’, ‘Warcraft’ movie news, Moses (Sparta style!), Platinum Dunes wants to do more than horror remakes, the writers bail out of ‘Transformers 3’ and what is one of the most unlikely sequels going into production?

Our Feature Reviews: This week David, Dave and Josh review the new Duncan Jones film ‘Moon’ starring Sam Rockwell. This is one of the finest films of the year, listen to find out why we think that.

This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.

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