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Digital comic book reader coming to PSP in November

At Europe’s Gamescom, Sony announced that the Playstation Portable would be seeing a digital comic book reader this fall. Ira rubenstein from Marvel came onto the stage to announce that Marvel’s catalog would be available through the reader. Hopefully we will see further details on this announcement soon.

GeekiN Episode #94 – After E3

Following E3, we decided to do a wrap up show discussing the events. Randy and Nathanael (Polygon Wizard) begin the show, and soon get a surprise appearance from Wayne. Enjoy the show!

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E3 2009: Sony Conference Impressions

Sony was the last of the Big 3 companies to hold their press conference at E3 this year. What did they show, and how did they stack up to the other two? Read on for my impressions and video.

E3 2009: Sony Conference Live Blog

Sony’s conference is the final show from the console manufacturers. To find out how they rank with the rest of the shows, tune in to the live blog. Keep reading for more details. 

Live Blogging E3 2009

I’m going to be trying something a little bit different this week. For the three major E3 conferences, I will be live blogging on the site. LiveBlogging is basically a glorified way of chatting with users as the event is covered. If you are interested in the conference at all, you will want to be around starting Monday. The schedule and more details after the break.

Best Of Mobile World Congress

The annual Mobile World Congress took place this week in Barcelona. This conference reveals the latest in phone technology. What was the star of the show? Is Android about to take over the world?

Raimi And Maguire’s Spidey Senses Tingle Again!

News dropped today that Spider-Man vets Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi have been locked in by Sony to return for back to back productions of Spidey 4 & 5.

No word yet on Kirstin Dunst, but it is understood that Mary Jane Watson will be featured in the film and Sony isn’t looking to recast the character.

GeekiN Episode #78 – GeekiNput: E3 Discussion

Alright, I have to apologize up front. The evil podcast faeries came along and stole 2 hours of this episode from my computer. I went into the living room, and came back to an 11 minute episode. I don’t know what happened. One minute it was there, the next it was not.

So, what you are about to hear is the live version of the show. For the most part, it is decent quality. There are some sections where it has bad echos though. My apologies. Again, I have no idea what happened to the good version. If the echoing gets too bad, it fixes itself after a little bit. Hope you enjoy!

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Sony Conference Details

Sony’s conference is coming up. They are the last of the major three hardware developers that will be making a presentation. Will they take Microsoft’s approach of a packed conference, or follow Nintendo with their stats filled fluff fest? I’m imaging given their focus last year, they will continue to reveal a lot on the games they have coming up soon. Any big surprises? Any shots fired at Microsoft’s big reveals yesterday? Guess will see. When the show starts, "Read More" to follow my live updates.

A Small Change in Plans

I’m not too sure how I over-looked this. However, I somehow got it in my head that E3 was taking place this coming weekend. As a result, the next call-in show was scheduled for this coming Monday in order to take advantage of that. However, as it turns out, E3 has a bizarre schedule this year, with the festivities beginning on Monday, and lasting through Thursday.

A majority of the week’s events will happen on Monday and Tuesday, as the biggest surprises of the convention generally happen amongst the formal stage presentations (And even then, the majority of the news will likely come from the console makers’ shows).

As such, in order to allow for a majority of the news from the show to take place before we record (You know, so we can actually discuss it), we are going to have to hold off on the E3 Discussion episode. We apoligize to anyone that would’ve been available on the original day, but will now miss the show. However, it’s just about the only way of doing it properly.

The E3 Discussion episode of GeekiNput will take place on Wednesday, July 16th at 8pm EST/5pm PST. The remaining GeekiNput shows will not be effected by this change of schedule, and will continue to record on Mondays.

We hope everyone understands and can still make it.

Rock Band 2 Shipping this September

Rock Band 2 has just been made official. Releasing in September on the Xbox 360, with the other consoles recieving the game "later this year". In addition, IGN has an excellent interview up with harmonix over at their site. Check it out. Some of my favorite bits from the article:

The most important question. Will Rock Band 1 DLC be playable in Rock Band 2?

Dan Teasdale: Yes. We’ve been developing Rock Band as a music platform from the start. All of the songs that you’ve purchased so far (and will be able to purchase in the future) are instantly playable and fully supported in Rock Band 2. We’ve even added some cool new features that let you play your DLC in different ways, which I think people will be very excited to get their hands on.

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"Rock Band 2’s instruments will not disappoint. Like I mentioned before, our philosophy here is to innovate, then perfect. Along those lines, we’ve been able to take all of the feedback we’ve received to make quieter, more realistic, and more reliable instruments."

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"Rock Band 2 has the strongest playlist we’ve ever assembled, and I think fans will be blown away not just at the spread, but also at the caliber of acts we’ve attracted."

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"We’ve taken almost everything people have asked for in Rock Band and added it to Rock Band 2, as well as including some "first time ever" features."

More details will be released at E3 this year. Join us July 15th for GeekiNput’s live discussion of all the E3 events, including Rock Band 2!

GeekiN Episode #10: 08/31/2005

Welcome to Episode 10! We had a lot of fun doing tonight’s episode, and we hope you have a lot of fun listening! We are moving the files for the podcast to a new server, which shouldn’t affect anything of the listener end. But if you have problems, let us know at podcast@geekshow.us

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