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Steven – Evony, Battle Fields Heroes

• BFH Released and 100% free!
• Love the art style and the music… quite campy
• Enlisted 1 million users since launch
• Micro transactions, can they be successful?
  • Evony- Free town building, Castle building, ppl fighting, persistent world
    

Jeremy- Damn Steven and Derek I got hooked on new Facebook games and this new spy game for Twitter.

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

• Google Announces Netbook OS
  • Hype or Substance?
  • Essentially it will be another Linux build that will play nice with Google Docs
  • Anything does that currently with a web browser… so why haven’t they been successful? (no google name therefore no trust?)
  • No Office support = hard to sell?
  • Factors: Firefox: 10 years to be successful in challenging M$
  • Apple: 8+ yrs of OSX to only grab a measly 5% market share
• Microsoft announces their new office suite 2010
  • Some of it will be web-based, available to companies and current subscribers
  • Obvious M$ is feeling the heat from Google Docs
  • Google Docs is free though, albeit not as full featured
  • Smart = low “web-only” price to lure ppl into using a better featured product
• Buy Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition: Get Nightvision Goggles (JP)
  • Really Cool… but I wouldn’t pay for this… (that being said if anyone wants to send me one!!! Feel Free!!!)
    
• Apple rejects snow pee writing app… and then accepts it
  • Not because of questionable content but there was “human feet” in the app
  • They changed it to Bear feet and Apple accepted it
• Twitter Contest to get a one liner in Serious Sam HD on XBoxLive (JP)
  
  • Gamers can log on to Twitter and send a brilliant tweet quip to @devolverdigital between July 15 and July 30. Croteam will choose the winning line and Devolver Digital will announce it to all followers of
    www.twitter.com/devolverdigital and www.twitter.com/majesco in early August.
• Microsoft Releasing Streaming Music Service in UK
  • UK only for now, no US release date planned.
  • Direct competition with Spotify
  • 1 minute commercial per hour.
  • Talking about a “paid” service with no advert
• Never Ending HALO onslaught – Multiplayer goodness revealed (JP)
  • 24 multiplayer maps in total (all of those found in Halo 3, the three Halo 3 map packs, and these three new ones).
  
  

Geek Speak

Ryan Reynolds cast as “Green Lantern” (JP)

• Thoughts from some of our listeners.
  • DJ ISS from La writes to us: “GEEK HERE…… I am a huge fan of the Justice League, Superfriends, super hero era… probably more than most… Ryan Reynolds as green lantern, HM….i dont know about that.  I see Green Lantern a little older and Ryan has too much witt, Green lantern was never that funny he was more of a straight arrow…. so i dont know about him being the right cast for the role.  I can see him as flash though!” (@IssRadio on Twitter)
  • Lacy J. From Nebraska writes in to us via Facebook: “It could be much worse. He doesn’t suck to bad.”

Wil Smith remaking the Karate Kid to star his son…
Crap.

• lets talk remakes, what works what doesn’t. Transformers / GI Joe

Warehouse13 premiered on SyFy (newly renamed formerly SciFi) channel to great success… it has a very early X-Files feel to it with more comedy involved… Listener thoughts??