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UberDorkCafe

• To help tell us about this new sponsor, we bring on Natali, aka UberDorkGirlie, the owner of this idea
• Geek Refuge, Part Coffee shop, Part cafe, Part Game Room, Part Party place
• 1 geek, Ginormous Dream
• Art + Science = Geek
• Donate small ($1 or $2 or Big! and get rewards)
• Kickstarter site for UberDorkCafe

Deals of the Week / New Releases

• Microsoft Office 2010 Free for 60 Days (and Beyond)
  • You can “rearm” Office up to five times (180 days) using this free (and legal) program.

Geek Speak

E3 Talk

• COD: Black Ops
• Activision signs exclusivity agreement w/ M$. All map packs for COD hits first on 360
• Natal Renamed Kinect: Zune movies, handsfree entertainment control, Zune Music, + wii-type games (a Me2 for Wii)
• Metal Gear Solid: Rising – Sword Action
• Fable 3 (revolution)
• Halo Reach LOOKS AWESOME
• ESPN coming to xbox 360 for Gold Subscribers: 3,500 Live and pre-recorded events, Trivia, factoids, etc all available
• New redesigned console: smaller, 250GB, PRE-N wireless built in

Sony, Summary -

• Fat Princess DLC + Pirates and Ninja classes (Cake for everyone!)
• Sony pimping their 3D gaming tech, 20 titles native by Mar.2011 (Killzone 3 being their main title)
• (SM) Do ppl really want 3D in games?
• Move pushed by Sony heavily (Me2 for Wii) ($100)
• Sorcery looks kinda cool. Use the Move wand like a magic wand
• (LR) I was surprised to see Gabe Newell (from Valve) come out and support PS3 after his stances against the console.

• Theme = old franchises return, Tech is just a tool
• Golden Eye 007 is back!
• New Zelda for Wii, Sword = wiimote, nunchuck = shield, SM – looks way funner than twilight princess
• Disney Epic Mickey on Wii!

PC

• The Old Republic Trailer
  • Also just announced that players will be able to have and own ships!
  • Holy Crap! I want the trailer as a movie…
• Warhammer 40K: Dark Millennium Online Trailer
  • Developed by Vigil, makers of Darksiders
  • Slight glimpses of actual game-play but nothing real concrete yet.
• Portal 2 Trailer

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

• Remote WOW Auction House (SM)
  • Finally! People have been asking this for years.
  • $3.99 a month fee
  • Available for IPhone and Android Market
  • some ppl play wow just to screw around with the market economy

• UFC 2010 Slow Sales Affect THQ (LR)
  • UFC 2009 Undisputed sold a million copies in its first week (2/3 to xbox, 1/3 to PS3)
  • No NPD numbers yet for the newer game, but THQ revised their quarter numbers by 4 million (193 million)
  • What will this do for a 2011 franchise? Will this be another Madden or just a mediocre performing non-descript sports game?

• Actual Working Lightsaber (LM)
  • YEAH! Commercial ready no less
  • 1 watt laser – 1000 times more powerful on skin than the sun
  • ‘It will blind permanently and instantly and set fire quickly to skin and other body parts – use with extreme caution and only when using the included eye protection.’
  • Planes can see this laser from 72 KM away… :s
  • $200 pricetag makes this a basement bargain

• New Mac Mini Unveiled (SM)
  • Unibody aluminum case, Built-in HDMI port and SD Card Slot
  • 2 options including a “leopard server” option w/ more memory (just screams apple tv or xbmc )
  • Double the graphics power (GForce 320M)
  • 2.4GHZ, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HD (only 5400 tho)
  • Starts at $699

• AT&T Stops Taking IPhone 4 Orders (LR)
  • Website and phones were overwhelmed by pre-orders wednesday
  • AT&T had to call a halt to the madness
  • Expected ship date went from June 24 to July 2
  • Walmart still plans to sell in-store on June 24
  • Radio Shack Suspended their pre-order possibilities
  • Best Buy honoring their program (we talked about BB being in bed w/ Apple recently)
  • Some guess that over 600,000 phones were pre-ordered in less than a day

• Gates funds project for Nuclear waste project (LM)
  • A new kind of reactor that’s been theorized since the 50′s but never built
  • Uses depleted uranium, so nuclear waste from standard reactors to power itself
  • Claim that they would only have to be fueled every 60-100 years
  • Use a very small amount of non-depleted material to start it and then the depleted materials is shuffled around into a “power zone”
  • Very interesting and has a lot of potential for fixing the main problem with nuclear power: waste.

• Texting gone right in College (SM)
  • Students are going to text, why fight it?
  • Georgia State picks up a tech inspired from a Sports Jumbotron
  • Students text their questions to a certain number, scrolls across the bottom of the projector
  • 15 business classes using, $10,000 licensing
  • Education

• Bigfoot Sighting (LM)
• Bus Driver Steals Own Bus to See Girlfriend
  • Duane Snipes, 29, a Greyhound bus driver for 2 years, hijacks a $600,000 coach.
  • Later abandoned the bus, which caused a terror scare with local police.
  • When Duane was later caught, he made many excuses: Was giving $600 tours, picking up his daughter, and going for a joyride.
  • Later he said he did it for love; so he could meet his love in Mount Vernon. Problem: Family says that girlfrend lives in North Carolina.
• Woman Shoot Herself To Get Medical Aid
  • Kathy Myers hurt her shoulder but could not afford health insurance.
  • Her solution: Shoot herself.
  • Says “no suicide wish” and “…I want to live”
  • DA is concidering charges for discharging weapon in city limits.
  • (LS) Seriously, she should be up for mental issues IMO.

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