Amazon sells Kindle Fires like, well, a house on fire, screenless games, Rovio tells Zynga to take a $2 billion hike, and Arkham City gets love from Warren and tough love from Todd. Also, Warren puts his foot in his mouth at least 10 times. Yum.
Standard Action is a fantasy web series shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. The show follows the misadventures of a quartet of Dungeons and Dragons-esque characters as they travel through a mythical land fraught with danger…and laughs!
Freyburg.tv was able to interview, Joanna Gaskell and Rob Hunt, two members of the creative team behind Standard Action, at the annual Vcon science fiction convention held in October in Vancouver.
Chip has a mea culpa, VMWare Fusion lets you virtualize Leopard and Snow Leopard, Ice Cream Sandwich phone tastes great, and Apple fashion from days gone by. On this, the 20th Platformer Podcast!
iPod Nano recall, iTunes Match is born, Steam and Safari compromised, and mobile Flash is dead. But it isn’t all bad, as the boys put in an epic length podcast, and let’s not forget that somewhere out there, Google is working on networked dinner plates and space elevators.
The new Nook Tablets are out in the United States, and our august crew declared them servicable, even though two of us are in Canada and will thus never, ever use one.
We also delve into Apple’s App Store sandboxing, the controversy surrounding Growl (for more, listen to this podcast), how Siri is a danger to Google Search, and Warren rants about jetpacks. What more do you need?
The Mac Pro may be dead, iOS 5 battery life is running out, and Google TV is resurrected. With all this spookiness, it’s a shame we didn’t release this episode on Halloween.
Besides that, Todd’s playing Arkham City and reading about Steve Jobs, and Chip is playing with the Doctor Who Encyclopedia on his iPad. Warren couldn’t make this episode, but has regardless pronounced the new GTA trailer to be “rad.”
