SHOW NOTES

Topic: Stupid video game tropes

Rescuing the princess, lives and continues, amnesia, crates and barrels, inventory management, health packs, cover health recovery, world war II, boss fights, pure evil enemies, jumping physics, inappropriate item drops, arbitrary boundaries, locked doors, sexy women armor, cheap shop keepers, save points, black and white characters

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones, Law & Order: SVU, My First Sale

Books

What we’ve been reading: Alone, Richard Byrd

Tech

News:

• Scientists create artificial DNA alternative, XNA


• Google’s gonna mine asteroids


• Rent-stabilized apartments okay in New York


• Google Drive Announced


• Sheep + Worm


• How much would it cost to mfg iphone in the USA


• TSA Screeners don’t need no stinkin background checks

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Pinball Arcade, Fez

News:

• For the first time in its history as a public company, Nintendo posts a yearly loss


• Adam Sessler leaves X-Play (and G4)

New Releases This Week

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Brick

News:

• The Hobbit at 48fps

Last Weeks Box Office

New Releases This Week

Netflix Watch Instantly: Jem, GI Joe, Transformers

Break Music:

• VOID, Gitaroo Man

End Music:

• First of May, Jonathan Coulton