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Lion! New Apple gear! Nintendo on the way down, Lego as the perfect animation medium, and trouble with Google’s G+. All that and a whole lot more on the newest episode of Platformer!

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A surprisingly games-lite episode of Platformer, with our heroes studiously analyzing the latest Apple rumours, the broken state of broadcasting in this Space Year 2011, the even more broken patent system, and why RIM sucks even more than usual.

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Lots and lots of Apple news and speculation, including the possibility of an iPad Pro, Zynga being Zynga, Free to Play taking names and kicking buttocks, and lots of banter about app stores and ecosystems. Plus we sorta kinda lament the move from tinkerer/geek toy to everyday device our good friend the computer has taken in the last few years.

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A new era dawns! Introducing the Platformer Podcast, an expanded pallete for the hosts of the (now former) Fruitygamer podcast to expound on more than just Apple and games. We’ll still cover those subjects in depth, but we wanted a forum where we could rant, rave and cogitate about all manner of tech, gadgetry and games. This episode we look at Google Plus, the continuing Final Cut Pro X debacle, World of Warcraft going free to play, and the iCade, plus a whole lot more! Enjoy, and please tell us what you think o the new format, the new title, or anything else.

In the weeks to come we’ll revamap the site, change the url and try to add new and different content, but for right now we wanted to just get our new format out there.

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Even though we’re nominally a gaming podcast, the disastrous release of Final Cut Pro X deserved some attention…and Chip managed to wrangle things back to gaming with a comparison between the FCP X launch and Star Wars: Galaxies debacle of many moons ago. Also, Marathon is coming to iOS, the iPhone 5 is apparently Apple’s first step to world gaming domination, and the United States Supreme Court has just ruled games are a form of expression and thus subject to free speech protection. Heady stuff. Enjoy!

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Mac Pros and Minis incoming in Auust? Airplay mirroring works great in iOS5! New York Post blocking Safari access via iPad? iCade + iAmiga = Awesome! Explanation points? Explanation points!

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New iPhone in September? According to some telecom guy in the UAE, yes. According to us, no. Warren rescues his Boot Camp partition from BSOD hell, Todd makes a game, and Chip is victorious in getting publishers to charge us all more money. All in this week’s Fruitygamer!

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WWDC and E3 on the same day means a ton of news about Lion, iOS5, the mysterious iCloud and plenty of semi-related but mostly just cool console news. LIsten as Warren, Todd and Chip wax eloquent about clouds, Kinect and a whole lot more!

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No Chip this week, but Warren and Todd stared a short newslist right in the eye and digressed like the strapping gentlemen they are. WWDC speculation, Mac gamers as second class citizens (or are they?), an EA memorial day sale, and more!

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Despite a dearth of interesting news this week, Warren, Todd and Chip all managed to ponder such important matters as the legacy of LCD Game n’ Watch systems, Amiga fanaticism, and Apple’s possible alliance with Square. They also delved into the quite serious matter of where our gadgets come from, given the recent explosion in a Foxconn factory in China. Also, Chip has reached near OCD levels of Infinity Blade.

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