Sunday, February 22, 2015

QQ News: February 2015

A fire hose of geeky news headlines for the weeks leading to February 22nd, 2015.


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Headlines

  • 00:00 - Date and Introductions
  • 01:30 - The X-Files May Return to Television (IGN)
  • 04:30 - Final Fantasy Puzzles and Dragons (Kotaku)
  • 06:10 - Metroid Prime Trilogy Coming to Wii U (IGN)
  • 09:50 - New 3DS XL Coming To America In February (Kotaku)
  • 10:45 - Nintendo's AC Adapter Policy Isn't Fair (Kotaku)
  • 11:45 - Final Fantasy XV Is 60 Percent Finished (Kotaku)
  • 14:30 - Blizzard Rewards Ten-Year World of Warcraft Vets With Statue (Kotaku)
  • 15:20 - Hearthstone Master Loses To Low Rank Player w/ Starter Deck (Kotaku)
  • 16:15 - Dota 2 Tops 1 Million Players At The Same Time (RockPaperShotgun)
  • 18:00 - Simon Pegg Will Co-Write Star Trek 3 (EscapistMagazine)
  • 20:00 - Transferring games to New 3DS XL needs a Screwdriver (Polygon)
  • 20:30 - Square Enix has trademarked "Square Soft" and "Enix" (Kotaku)
  • 22:35 - Live-Action Zelda Series May Be in the Works (EscapistMagazine)
  • 23:55 - Big Layoffs At EverQuest Studio Today (Kotaku)
  • 24:20 - Sony Sells Off Studio Behind Everquest, H1Z1 (Kotaku)
  • 26:50 - Amazon In Talks To Buy Stores From RadioShack (EscapistMagazine)
  • 29:30 - Spider-Man coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (IGN)
  • 33:10 - YouTube now defaults to HTML5 (Youtube)
  • 34:40 - Disney Eyeing Chris Pratt for Next Indiana Jones (EscapistMagazine)
  • 35:15 - Jon Stewart Is Leaving The Daily Show (Kotaku)
  • 36:15 - Sonic Boom is the Worst-Selling Sonic Title in History (IGN)
  • 36:50 - New Alien Movie Confirmed with Director Neill Blomkamp (Variety)
  • 38:50 - Rapid fire news reel!

Music

QQ Recommends [eBooks]: The Game Design Forum

What makes a good game?

The game design forums have a series of great Reverse Design articles for some of the best video games ever made: Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, and Super Mario World. If you are interested in game design, or just a fan of the aforementioned games, you really need to read these articles!

Enjoy,
Tom

Monday, February 16, 2015

Geek Out: February 2015

Tom and Jordan talk about what they geeked out on during the month of February, 2015.


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Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 01:45 - It's a boy!
  • 11:25 - Reversing the Design: Chrono Trigger
  • 24:45 - Besiege
  • 27:00 - Master of Orion
  • 20:00 - Hearthstone Tournaments
  • 33:00 - iOS Development
  • 37:10 - Wrap up!

Music

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