Oct 13

Platforms Episode 1 – Pilot

PlatformsJosh Philpott and Dave Kozicki are joined by their first guest Grant Noy (and David McVay sticks his nose in here and there).

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’.

Special Report: Upcoming games Borderlands, Dragon Age, Assassins Creed 2, Darksiders, Brutal Legend, DJ Hero and Mass Effect 2. Opinions and judgements given.

News This Week: Left 4 Dead 2 rated and destroyed, PSP Go now available and Guitar Hero gets serious with new equipment.

The boys also discuss what’s instore for this Christmas?

Review of the week: This week two games get the Platforms treatment, ‘Motorstorm’ (PSP) and ‘Kingdom Hearts’ (DS).

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

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Platforms is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above.

Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above (Make sure you use the word ‘Platforms’ in the subject line). If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.

The Platforms Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Monday Evening 7pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Tuesday. Want to catch up with the video but missed the show on Monday? Go to geekactually.com/platforms, the repeat runs all week.

Oct 12

Platforms Launches Tonight

Just to let everyone know that our new gaming podcast, ‘Platforms’, goes live tonight at 7pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time (UTC+11). Come and join the chat and help Josh & Dave make this a great launch. The audio podcast will be on this site and on iTunes later in the week. Click the logo to go to the Platforms page.

The Platforms Podcast

Oct 11

Geek Actually Episode 55 – Dave Vs. Mirren

Geek ActuallyDavid McVay and Josh Philpott are joined by Dave Kozicki (Freelance journalist, Official Playstation, Australian Xbox, Ultimate Nintendo and Penthouse magazines) and special guest Mirren Lee

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

Game News This Week: Left 4 Dead 2 will be released censored in Australia, Rock Band comes to the iPhone and Josh and Dave have a tonne of gaming news, reviews and previews. In fact, so much we are starting another podcast (Platforms) just for them. See the bottom of this post for details.

Tech News This Week: Amazon’s Kindle book reader finally getting released internationally, The Agenda Setters of 2009 announced, a new survey tells us that Macs and PCs are living together in sin, Apple releases a new ad and what do people really search for on Wikipedia?

Mirren Lee joins us for the entertainment section today, has Dave Kozicki met his match?

Entertainment News This Week: Adrien Brody to play Schwarzenegger in new Predators movie, where are the clones in Resident Evil 4, Marlon Wayans to play Richard Pryor and would someone please stop Terry Gilliam from chasing windmills.

Our Feature Reviews: This week David, Dave and Josh review the new Rian Johnson film ‘The Brothers Bloom’ and David and Mirren review Nora Ephron’s new film ‘Julie & Julia’. ‘The Brothers Bloom’ is well received by all but Josh had a few reservations. General consensus, not as sharp as Rian Johnson’s first film ‘Brick’ but still a good film. The female characters are the best thing in it. David and Mirren both really liked ‘Julie & Julia’, especially Meryl Streep’s performance as Julia Child. Very good date film.

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

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Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above. A Special Note: We are still trying to raise money to send us to Melbourne to visit the set of a new Sci-Fi film being shot there. Help us to add some great content to the show and donate today.

Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.

The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Saturday Morning 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Sunday. Want to catch up with the video but missed the show on Saturday? Go to geekactually.com/live, the repeat runs all week.

‘Platforms’, the new gaming podcast will be recorded live on Ustream on Monday night, 7pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). You can watch it at geekactually.com/platforms. The repeat will run all week at the same address.

Oct 08

Is Left 4 Dead 2 Coming to Australia?

Left 4 Dead 2Okay I am going to start by saying that I have no hard facts yet. However, that being stated, it looks like Valve’s Left 4 Dead 2 might get an Australian release with an MA15+ rating.

Now before we start cheering, we don’t know if it is an edited version or the uncut version. The only real information we have at this point comes from kotaku.com but a little birdie (that will remain nameless at this time) has told me this from another source as well.

I will keep my eye on the major news sources and report if I see any real hard news about this surfaces.

In the meantime, we really do need to keep up the effort to bring in an R18+ rating for games to Australia so this doesn’t happen again. Write to your state’s Attorney General and tell him that you want an R18+ rating brought in to effect in Australia. This is particularly important if you live in South Australia as it is your Attorney General who is keeping the R18+ classification from being brought forward. If enough people get involved we might be able to bring about change.

Oct 04

Geek Actually Episode 54 – The Curious Case of Roman Polanski

Geek ActuallyDavid 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.

Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes

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Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your contributions. If you wish to make a contribution, go to the “Support Us” link above. A Special Note: We are trying to raise money to send us to Melbourne to visit the set of a new Sci-Fi film being shot there. Help us to add some great content to the show and donate today.

Just a reminder, if you have any comments about the episodes please leave them in the comments field below or email us using the contact link above. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here.

The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Saturday Morning 11am Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Sunday. Want to catch up with the video but missed the show on Saturday? Go to geekactually.com/live, the repeat runs all week.

Oct 04

Trailer: The Crazies Remake

This week on the Geek Actually podcast we discussed this trailer for the remake of ‘The Crazies’ so we thought we had better post it up.

For those who might be interested in a comparison, here is the trailer for George A. Romero’s original 1970’s film.