QQ News: March 30th, 2014

A fire hose of geeky news headlines for the weeks leading to March 30th, 2014.

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Headlines

• 00:00 - Date and Introductions
• 01:50 - Facebook Buys Oculus Rift For $2 Billion (Kotaku)
• 02:40 - Oculus Kickstarter Backers Are Demanding Refunds (Kotaku)
• 03:00 - Notch Canceled Oculus Rift Minecraft Because Of Facebook (Kotaku)
• 03:20 - Cliff Bleszinski Labels Notch a "Pouty Kid" - Updated (Escapist)
• 03:30 - Facebook May Rebrand Oculus Rift, Import Interface (Escapist)
• 03:40 - People Are Buying Stocks With The Name 'Oculus' (Kotaku)
• 04:10 - Valve's Michael Abrash Joins Oculus VR as Chief Scientist (Escapist)
• 05:20 - John Carmack Voices Support For Oculus Acquisition (Kotaku)
• 08:00 - What does the QQ Cast think about the Oculus buyout?
• 13:45 - Oculus Rift Selling "Just Fine" After Facebook Buyout (Escapist)
• 17:30 - X-COM Creator Julian Gollop Announces Chaos Reborn (IGN)
• 19:00 - Sony signs 1000 licensed indy developers (Joystiq)
• 20:00 - Arcade Classic Gauntlet Is Getting A Remake (Kotaku)
• 21:30 - Happy 15th Anniversary, EverQuest (Kotaku)
• 22:45 - Do Titanfall Bots Play Nice With Eachother? (Rockpapershotgun)
• 24:50 - 'Twitch Plays Pokemon' Has Defeated Lord Helix (Kotaku)
• 25:50 - Who owns Duke Nukem? (Rockpapershotgun)
• 27:10 - SimCity Offline Mode Launches Today (IGN)
• 27:50 - EA loses worst company in America contest (Kotaku)
• 29:50 - Google Brings Cross-Platform Multiplayer to Android and iOS (IGN)
• 31:45 - Disney Purcahses Maker Studios (Kotaku)
• 36:00 - Alien: Isolation Hatches October 7 (Kotaku)
• 37:00 - ET Atari Documentary (Joystiq)
• 38:30 - Suspended Animation a Reality, Human Trials Underway (Escapist)
• 39:00 - Wrap up and rapid fire news reel!

Quest 23: What is Video Game March Madness?

Special Guest: Lynn DeVries!

Quest 23 goes mad with all of the crazy releases in the month of March!

Note: Jordan's microphone was having some issues, so he sounds "distant". We apologize and will continue to L2Podcast for future recordings :(

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Minutes

• 00:00 - Failed Mic Check and Introductions
• 01:00 - What is Lynn not geeking out on?
• 04:50 - Can you hear what Jordan is geeking out on?
• 08:45 - Does Tom only geek out on his tablet?
• 10:00 - Is this the best March for gamers, ever?
• 11:00 - Why are we not all playing Titanfall?
• 20:30 - Is South Park the best licensed game ever?
• 31:35 - Will the Diablo 3 expansion reap your soul?
• 43:25 - Can Heroes of the Storm save Tom's Marriage?
• 48:15 - What did Hearthstone add in their release?
• 49:00 - What class is your new 90 in World of Warcraft?
• 51:30 - Wrap up and hot seat!

Music

• Donkey Kong Country 'Diddy Evolution'

QQ News: March 14th, 2014

A fire hose of geeky news headlines for the weeks leading to March 14th, 2014.

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Headlines

• 00:00 - Date and Introductions
• 00:35 - Is a Farscape Movie in Development? (IGN)
• 01:30 - Candy Crush studio King seeks up to $7.6 billion IPO (Joystiq)
• 02:30 - Oculus Rift Production Halted (IGN)
• 03:20 - Sega slashes profit forecasts by 36 percent (Joystiq)
• 04:45 - Seth Rogen Directing Sega vs. Nintendo Film (Escapist)
• 05:20 - Tomb Raider stretches to 6 million sold, one year later (Joystiq)
• 06:50 - Donkey Kong Sells a Mere 36,000 Units in Japan (Escapist)
• 09:05 - Valve VR leader joins Oculus R&D with new Seattle team (Joystiq)
• 11:25 - Oculus Preparing To Launch RiftCon VR Convention (Escapist)
• 11:55 - Titanfall PC's 48GB install the result of uncompressed audio (Joystiq)
• 13:30 - Twitch Announces Mobile Streaming And Capture Tools (Kotaku)
• 14:50 - Marvel Building a Connected Universe Across Its Games (Kotaku)
• 16:00 - Marvel Unlimited Drops Subscription To 99 Cents (Escapist)
• 17:10 - Disney Interactive lays off 700 (Joystiq)
• 18:45 - Frozen Hits $1 Billion at Box Office (IGN)
• 19:30 - Jack Tretton steps down as Sony Entertainment president (Joystiq)
• 20:30 - DayZ Lead Developer Will Step Down, Start His Own Studio (Kotaku)
• 21:35 - NASA taps Kerbal Space Program to replicate space mission (Joystiq)
• 22:40 - 11 Percent Of Americans Think HTML Is an STD (Escapist)
• 23:40 - Asheron's Call developer ceasing development after 15 years (Polygon)
• 24:50 - Cumulative PS4 sales surpass six million units worldwide (Kotaku)
• 25:30 - Nintendo Shutting Down Wifi Service On DS, Wii (Escapist)
• 28:20 - RadioShack to Close as Many as 1,100 Stores (Escapist)
• 29:50 - Kickstarter reaches $1 billion in pledges (Joystiq)
• 30:35 - US Tax Plan Singles Out Violent Videogames (Rockpapershotgun)
• 32:15 - Space Jam 2 is Happening (IGN)
• 33:10 - Apple TV Generated Over $1 Billion in Revenue in 2013 (Live)
• 34:15 - Wrap up and rapid fire news reel!

Quest 22: Why does it have to be a confession to be a geek?

Special Guest: Zen the labrador!

A little late, but Quest 22 touches our hearts with a deep and meaningful question! This week we discuss Confessions Of A Final Fantasy Addict by Jason Schreier, and I Was A Final Fantasy Addict by Rachel Sanders.

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Minutes

• 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
• 02:00 - There can be only one! ...Pokemon Twitch stream?
• 05:05 - How much overtime does it take to keep Jordan from gaming?
• 08:55 - Does Tom Cruise make bad movies, or just not good movies?
• 12:10 - What are the "Confessions Of A Final Fantasy Addict"?
• 16:05 - Are geek activities that different from "normal" hobbies?
• 18:40 - Are physical games that different from video games?
• 20:15 - Why is fantasy football socially acceptable?
• 24:00 - What is a healthy game / life balance?
• 26:15 - Are geeks special, or are we becoming normal?
• 29:45 - Is playing a game just "pretending to be someone else"?
• 33:20 - Why is it considered "childish" to play video games?
• 36:20 - Were you a Final Fantasy addict, or are you still?
• 40:40 - Do you have the same gaming "itch" as when you were younger?
• 45:20 - What did you think of Bravely Default?
• 48:45 - Wrap up!

Music

• Super Mario Bros. '8-bit Eighties'