Episode 83 - The Worst Sound Ever

It's our Halloween episode... technically. So Optimusgene is the only one who dressed up and there wasn't a spooky theme to the show, so what? We still have plenty of horrifying tales to get you in the mood. Netflix is bleeding customers, thePS Vita is going to suck your wallet dry, Nintendo lost almost $1 billion and what is the worst sound ever? Click and listen... if you dare.

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Show Notes

New Releases

• This Week:
  • Movies - Anonymous, In Time, The Rum Diary, Johnny English Reborn
  • Blu-rays - Attack the Block, Captain America, Winnie the Pooh
  • Games - Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, Battlefield 3, Centipede: Infestation, Kinect Sports: Season 2, Kinect Dance Central 2, Puss in Boots, The House of the Dead: Overkill Extended, Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
• Next Week:
  • Movies - A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Puss in Boots, Tower Heist
  • Blu-rays - Cars 2, Crazy Stupid Love, Water for Elephants
  • Games - Cabela’s Adventure Camp, Goldeneye 007 - Reloaded, Lord of the Rings: War for the North, Nascar Unleashed, Sonic Generations, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Fall / Winter Movie Game

• http://www.onemanasylum.com/fall-winter-movie-draft

News

• Movies - Farrelly Bros. hard at work; The Three Stooges and Dumb & Dumber 2
  • The Three Stooges: release April 1, 2012, stars Will Sasso, Sean Hayes & Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Several shorts together: try to save orphanage then murder mystery then reality TV show
  • http://www.slashfilm.com/sasso-sean-hayes-chris-diamantopoulos-the-stooges/
  • Dumb & Dumber 2: want to get Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels back together
  • http://www.slashfilm.com/writers-hired-dumb-dumber-2-farrelly-brothers-reunite-jim-carrey-jeff-daniels/
• Industry - Netflix loses 800,000 users
  • First loss is subscribers for quarter; 2-3 mil increase in previous quarters
  • Expanding to Great Britain & Ireland; stock dropped 27%
  • 23.79 mil users; only 2.34 mil are DVD only
  • http://www.slashfilm.com/netflix-loses-800000-subscribers-expand-great-britain-ireland/
• Movies - Sony wants Aaron Sorkin to write Steve Jobs Biopic
  • Sony obtains the rights to Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography
  • Sony trying to get Sorkin to write the movie adaptation
  • Sorkin was a friend of jobs; has adapted movies of other tech individuals
  • http://www.slashfilm.com/sony-social-network-screenwriter-aaron-sorkin-pen-steve-jobs-biopic/
• TV - HBO to pick up The Dark Tower TV series
  • HBO is picking up two TV series connecting the three planned movies
  • The series was on hold over money issues; cut $45 - $50 mil from movie in hopes of getting movie studio to pick up
  • Ron Howard & Javier Bardem still attached
  • http://www.slashfilm.com/dark-tower-tv-series-air-hbo/
• TV - Walking Dead picked up for Third Season
  • Second episode dropped 20% in viewers
  • Already signed for a third season
  • Story is “moving slow,” will take multiple seasons to wrap up story
  • http://www.slashfilm.com/the-walking-dead-remains-alive-season-3/#more-114638
• Games - Nintendo sells 6.68 mil 3DSs
  • More than the original DS at the same time
  • Reported 70.2 bil yen ($924 mil) loss
  • Hopes upcoming games (Super Mario, Zelda, etc) will increase profits
  • http://ds.ign.com/articles/121/1210833p1.html
• Games - PS Vita will REQUIRE memory card
  • PS Vita will not come with memory card & will not store game save data on games; requires memory card
  • Some games will require a memory card just to boot up
  • $29 - 4GB, $125 - 32 GB (Min purchase: PS Vita $249 + 4GB Mem Card $29 + 1 game $39 = $320) PS3 with Uncharted 3 = $299
  • http://www.destructoid.com/famitsu-ps-vita-memory-cards-are-a-requirement--214599.phtml

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