Tuesday, April 15, 2014

QQ News: April 11th, 2014

A fire hose of geeky news headlines for the weeks leading to April 11th, 2014.


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Headlines

  • 00:00 - Date and Introductions
  • 00:30 - What the Heartbleed Bug Means for You (LifeHacker)
  • 05:20 - Amazon FireTV Set-Top Box Goes On Sale for $99 (Escapist)
  • 08:40 - Scientists Use StarCraft II To Prove How Scary Aging Is (Kotaku)
  • 09:40 - Square Enix Has Finally Realized That People Like JRPGs (Kotaku)
  • 11:40 - Scaling the Facebook Data Warehouse to 300 PB (Facebook)
  • 13:00 - The Wil Wheaton Project Coming to Syfy (IGN)
  • 15:10 - DayZ Of Our Lives: SOE Zombie-Based Survival (RockPaperShotgun)
  • 16:15 - Amazon Buys Comixology, Biggest Digital Comics Store (Kotaku)
  • 17:30 - Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down (Escapist)
  • 19:55 - Minecraft Pocket Edition Sells 21 Million Copies (Escapist)
  • 20:20 - Minecraft reaches 12 million sold on Xbox 360 (Joystiq)
  • 22:10 - Smash Bros. 3DS Out This Summer, Wii U This Winter (Kotaku)
  • 22:30 - Zero Suit Samus, Sheik, Yoshi Return in Super Smash Bros (Escapist)
  • 23:20 - Samus' New High Heels Are, Well... (Kotaku)
  • 24:10 - Report: Drone Hacked, Crashes, Injures Athlete (Kotaku)
  • 26:15 - Top Gun 2 to Tackle Drones (IGN)
  • 26:55 - GameSpy Shutdown Will Affect A Lot Of Games (RockPaperShotgun)
  • 29:15 - Wrap up and rapid fire news reel!