May 05

Geek Actually Episode 82 After Show – Brødre

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David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott, Ben O’Brien and Celine Roberts

Welcome to the Geek Actually Podcast After Show, the show were we just leave the mics on and record whatever we feel like talking about. This show gives us a chance to talk about anything that didn’t fit into the format of the main show. If this is your first experience with the Geek Actually Podcast, stop! This is not an actual show, it is the random ramblings of a bunch of geeks. Go listen to the main show first then come back to us. The Geek Actually Podcast and After Show are recorded live on Ustream. Continue reading

May 05

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 82 After Show Live Video

Here is this week’s live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 82 After Show – Brodre. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott, Ben O’Brien and Celine Roberts review the original Danish version of ‘Brothers’ (Brodre). There is also deep dissection and comparison to the remake. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes.

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 05

StarCraft 2 Gets It’s World Wide Release Date!

Blizzard has finally announced that the wide release date of ‘StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty’ will be July 27th, 2010. It will be released in stores in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. It will also be available for purchase directly from Blizzard shortly after the retail launch.

CEO of Blizzard, Mike Morhalme said “We’ve been looking forward to revisiting the StarCraft universe for many years, and we’re excited that the time for that is almost here.” Continue reading

May 04

When Worlds Collide: Microsoft Stands By Apple Against Flash!

Wow, I feel like I have entered some alternate dimension, Microsoft has joined arch rival Apple and criticised Flash as a web standard. A few days ago, Steve Jobs came out in a long statement about why Apple would not offer Flash support in it’s mobile devices. I won’t go over the details of that memo again here as we covered it in Geek Actually Tech (episode 10), but basically Jobs offered several points that we agreed with and a little bit of condescension that we didn’t agree with. Adobe fired back by saying that Apple was just trying to sell their products and the people should be able to make their own decisions about what they want to use. I have way over simplified this, but you can read the rebuttal here. This is very Apple behaviour and there is nothing strange about this, however, this is were the strange alternate reality kicks in. Continue reading

May 04

New Mass Effect 2 Equalizer Pack DLC

As anyone who listens to our podcast will know, I am a Mass Effect junkie and I look forward to every little piece of Mass Effect news I can get. This week (Tuesday US time) a new DLC (for the non-gamers is stands for Down Loadable Content) pack will be released, this time called the Equalizer Pack and it contains some new items for Shepherd.

So far, with the exception of Katsumi, I have been a little underwhealmed by the Mass Effect 2 DLC, for game of this calibre I would hope that some super DLC is still yet to come. I actually found myself getting bored during Firewalker. Anyway, below is the official Bioware description for this DLC: Continue reading

May 04

Trailer: The American

Check out the new trailer for ‘The American’ starring George Clooney as an assassin who wants to retire. The trailer is moody and dark and quite frankly, after ‘Up in the Air’ I’d watch Clooney do anything at the moment. ‘The American’ is directed by Anton Corbijn (‘Control’) and co-stars Bruce Altman, Thekla Reuten, Irina Björklund and Violante Placido. It is due for release in the US in September 2010.