Jun 01

Platforms Episode 34 – Rear Naked Choke

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Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki (with David ‘Beardy’ McVay)

Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We kick off this week with the trailer for ‘UFC 2010 Undisputed’, this week’s feature review.

Josh and Dave have established a new home on the net, you can find out everything you need to know by going to rawdlc.com. Your show links follow. Continue reading

Jun 01

Happy Birthday Little Geek!

Just a quick note to say happy birthday to the network’s “The Little Geek” (who also happens to be my son) Nicholas McVay. Nicholas is 11 today.

In his 11 years Nicholas has been through a lot, in 2005 Nicholas was diagnosed with leukaemia (A.L.L.) and we have gone through 5 years of treatment and clinics. When he was 8 he was having trouble with school, he just couldn’t seem to get his head around reading or learning in general. We had him tested at two different places and he was diagnosed with severe learning difficulties and we were told he would never grow out of it. They told us he will have to find different ways of learning. Well, we changed school and he repeated grade 2 and he had two wonderful teachers in a row and now he is reading and making movies. In last year’s grade 3 standards tests, he was at grade 3 average level. What do experts know :-)

Nicholas is now happy in school (a few small issues with maths, but this is apparently a known side effect of cranial radiation) and he is completely off treatment, and except for a small cold at the moment, he is in good health. This year’s birthday is a special one, in August it will be 5 years since his cancer diagnoses and he will be considered cured at that time.

So all my best to my beautiful boy.

50% of all donations taken today will go to Nicholas as a birthday present so he can buy stuff for his movie making.

Jun 01

Guillermo del Toro Leaves The Hobbit!

I think the writing was on the wall for this one; Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy 1 & 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) has left the Peter Jackson produced ‘The Hobbit’. After two years of writing and pre-production del Toro couldn’t wait for MGM to fix their financial problems anymore because he has other projects waiting.

Guillermo del Toro announced his departure from the film on the Lord of the Rings fansite The One Ring. Continue reading

Jun 01

New Trailer: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – Full Trailer

Here is the brand new trailer for ‘Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World’. Like a lot of geeks I was pretty jazzed about the first teaser trailer a couple of months ago. I like this one too and I really am looking forward to this film. Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead & Hot Fuzz) looks like he has crafted a really fun looking fantasy. Enjoy.

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What did you think? Looking forward to this film? Comment below.

May 31

Geek Actually Replay – Platforms Episode 34 Live Show

Every week we record the Platforms Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy.

Platforms Episode 34 (Recorded 31st of May 2010)

May 31

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 86 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 86 – We’ll Come Back To That Later. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott, Shane Gregory and Ben O’Brien review the new video game based film ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes. Just a quick note about this episode, We thought we had lost this recording but I discovered it unlabelled in our Ustream account, so yay for us. Listen to the audio version to know what you missed.

Almost every week we record the Geek Actually Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy. (Note: We only started recording the feed as of episode 46, there are no videos of earlier shows.)