Been wondering who on Caprica this Allie Townsend is? She’s our wonderful little intern and we forced her into this week’s Techland Show. It was awkward. For her.
Watch as we discuss Google’s exit strategy out of China, unbox a special care package from EA, discuss whether or not the Spider-Man franchise is dead and gawk over …
The Nexus One. The Microsoft tablet. The Consumer Electronics Show. All big stories in the news this week.
All utterly foreign to me.
I’m the TV and movie dude. But with Peter in Vegas, I decided to try my hand at talking gadgets. The results were not pretty. (Watch Peter Ha’s CES Report on the Nexus One and HP Slate here)
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This week, for the first time, the Techland Show features me, Peter and Steve. On one couch. It’s like in the Dark Crystal, when the three suns align. Look out for Skeksis.
Seriously we’re talking about the Google Phone and about Avatar. And we make great sport of the Avatar video game. Come, join us in our jolly japes.
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I just want to explain that I am better than Peter at Halo 2. I didn’t have my glasses. And I was using the old-style monster controller. Plus he kept killing himself. I want the record to be clear.
Apologies for the funky audio. We were getting some interference from the Hometree. That’s an Avatar joke. It will make sense to you next week.
We’ve got a guest star for this week’s Techland Show: Me. Mr. culture/tv/movies. The guy who can’t really play video games – though I did have a glorious few years as a devoted player of Counter Strike. I was the sniper on Dust, who waited patiently to pick you off one by one. You mocked me for slowing down the gameplay.
Now …
Yes, we did another Techland show. We do it every Thursday morning. But we pretend it’s Friday in order to maintain the cinematic illusion. What you see is not scripted or staged. We actually come up with that amazing material on the fly.
Except for Peter. Peter uses a stunt double.
