May 25

Legendary Pictures Acquires Mass Effect Movie Rights!

I’m going to get this out of the way right up front, DON’T FUCK THIS UP!

Okay, I feel better now. So the news today has Legendary Pictures acquiring the rights to the fantastic computer game series, ‘Mass Effect’. This is probably one of my favourite games and on the one hand I would love to see big budget super movies made out of these games, on the other hand games don’t generally make very good movies (there are rare exceptions).

Legendary is an interesting company that has made some decent movies, ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Dark Knight’, ‘Watchmen’, ‘300’ and  ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ to name a few, but they also have a few dudes on the books too, including ‘10,000 BC’, ‘Ninja Assassin’, ‘Lady in the Water’, ‘Clash of the Titans’ (the remake) and ‘Beerfest’. Continue reading

May 25

Platforms Episode 33 – Lost Interest Too

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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 crappy trailer for ‘Lost Planet 2’, 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

May 25

Geek Actually Replay – Platforms Episode 33 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 33 (Recorded 24th of May 2010)

May 23

Geek Actually Episode 85 – Anything to Declare

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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott, Dave Kozicki and Shane Gregory

The Geek Actually Podcast, your weekly dose of ‘the week in geek’. This week David McVay and Josh Philpott are joined by Dave Kozicki and Shane Gregory for a look at the latest in tech and entertainment news and a review of the latest comic book adaptation to film ‘The Losers’. You can find more Dave, Shane and Josh at rawDLC.com. Your show links follow.

Watch us live at geekactually.com/live 12pm Saturdays (AEST UTC +10) Continue reading

May 23

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 85 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 85 – Anything to Declare. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott, Shane Gregory and Dave Kozicki review the new comic book film ‘The Losers’. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes.Just a quick note about this episode, We missed the first few minutes of the video feed on the recording. 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.)

May 20

Megan Fox Not Returning for Transformers 3

Apparently Megan Fox is not returning for ‘Transformers 3’. One part of me says ‘thank god’, the other part (the male part) says ‘oh, she was eye candy’. Paramount Pictures decided not to renew her option for the role and it is said that the final decision came down to Michael Bay. I’m frankly not surprised by this turn of events considering the very public war of words that happened two years ago between these to forces of nature. Also, it could be Michael Bay’s revenge for Megan comparing him to Hitler.

Whatever the reason, we don’t get to ogle Megan’s barely covered body in the new film but I guarantee Michael Bay will cast with his penis again and we will get some new hotness for Shia to fall in love with. Continue reading