Sunday, March 30, 2014

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!