NBS Review EP13: Current Affairs Edition (+ Special Guest Tim Smalley!)

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Episode Topics:

30 Sega Genesis come to PSP/PS2.

EA concentrating on DS rather than PSP - we inevitably rip it out of Sony.

History of Sony format failures - more inevitable ripping out of Sony.

Sony doesn’t know about it’s own Blu-Ray statistics - addition to the above.

PS3 titles being cancelled in favour for Xbox 360 only - addition, again, to the above.

Restricitions’ on hand luggage electronics on planes. Experiences with baggage handlers. Alternative transport? Flying naked?

Vista Coupons -… Aero and Intel integrated graphics and the average consumers buying habits.

New NVIDIA integrated graphics are a step lower than the current 6150.

ATI subpoena by Intel for its future forecasts etc.

Rockstar’s “Bully”, marketing, parenting, game potential, getting it banned?

AOL releases search data which is ultimately identifiable. Should search data remain anonymous or should it be questioned?

Episode Notes:

No massive topics on discussion this week, more of the little things in life that are just as important.
Unfortunately, due to the news we can’t help but rip it into Sony. But then again, Sony making bad press this year is as inevitable as the earth turning. After all, as consumers they should work to please US! Maybe, should people care enough; we’ll get emails from Sony fanboi’s. We can but cross our fingers, hope to die, stick a needle in our eye.

None of us hate Sony, after all, how can you hate a company that never does anything right. OK, I’ll concede on the PSX/PS2 as the possible exception, if they are your consoles of choice, that is.

Tim was on his skype phone seeing as we roped him in 10 minutes before going live. Hiren has taken this week off and we miss him for keeping us in check with regards to timing. I think we have a space open for next week too so let us know if you’re interested!

Tim doesn’t actually pee during the podcast, I’ve been reliably informed he was pouring a drink or perhaps collecting one from a miniature waterfall in his house?

We had another half hour on quad-sli discussion, but due to the ever unenabling crap that is Powergramo: it didn’t record. So after Tim falling into oblivion (not assimilated by Bethesda) we apologise for the loss of the further discussion on quad SLI. You’ve got an hour to listen to though, so it’s not like we’ve left you short changed.

We got scanned by the governments! NOOES!! /Changes name and goes underground, living on the edge, always on the run, a rebel without a cause…

Music is from the contender for best FPS ever released: System Shock 2. No longer sold and used to be out on the net as “abandonware” for a while until Looking Glass Studios threw a hissy fit. If you do find a copy now, most likely second hand, you’ll have to find an XP/2k patch to play it as it wasn’t written to support the NT kernel. We’re borrowing Peter Kolfers arranged mixes from the game and those familiar with it will bask in the glory of Science and Operations. No monkeys included.

You might also enjoy checking out our delicious link for stuff that interests us and may make the next podcast: http://del.icio.us/nbsreview If you find something cool, email it on!

Many thanks, as usual for Tim Smalley from Bit-tech.net for taking the time out of his Saturday at incredibly short notice in order to spend it with us!

- Rich

Two things from me:

1) H-bomb (Hiren has been renamed since technically “Mike” is now Mike Fev until I come up with something ridiculous for him, too), we miss you.  The lack of our companion can really be felt on this episode, in all the unseen ways he makes the show better - like shutting Rich and I up on cue, or even recording the bloody thing.

2) Timmeh saved our bacon and your ears, because Rich was talking about just having us two sit and talk about all this stuff.  Since he had no sugar this week and I only had 2 cups of coffee to start my day, this would have been an auditory tragedy of epic proportions.  Thanks for the fill-in on short notice, Tim, and a warm “thank you” to G for his unknown consent to make use of his skype phone.

Aside from that, enjoy the episode!

- Brett