Gweekly News Desk #21 – We’re off to FanExpo

We’re off to FanExpo so you’re getting the podcast to your ears early! Also our residential Sims and Dragon Age expert Rachel is back to chat a bit more about where the Sims 4 and Dragon Age Inquisition are at these days.

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Show Notes: August 26 2014

Why do the dwarves in the unofficial provings hire mages?

Simon Etwell, Andrew Dupe, and special returning co-host Rachel Wolfenberg

What Andrew and Rachel are excited about for FanExpo!

Movies

Our friend Jake Stromoneome is working with Arrowstorm to make a fantasy Christmas movie where he apparently helps orphans save Santa and they make friends with a Dragon. Hopefully we can get him on the show again! It’s on Kickstarter as well. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arrowstorm/the-christmas-dragon-feature-film
GotG projected to be highest grossing summer film, maybe highest of year, so far
Baby Groot bobblehead and Howard the Duck POP figure on their way! Groot is set to come into stores in December while Howard the Duck will be “soon”
A tribute to the late Richard Attenborough was shared on twitter with a picture of a statue for John Hammond. This will appear in Jurassic World

Weird Al parodies popular TV intros in the Emmys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhiJ7gIvgSw
New Star Wars Rebels short “Entanglement” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxyXtBuXHM#t=11
Bojack Horseman renewed for a dozen more episodes and is met with lukewarm response from critics.
Ultimate Spider-man:Web Warriors in upcoming 3rd season episode, spider-man chase green goblin through multi-verse, meets Miles Morales, voiced by Donald Glover. clip: http://marvel.com/news/tv/2014/8/26/23128/hear_donald_glover_voice_miles_morales_in_marvels_ultimate_spider-man_web_warriors

Games

I’m working on doing let’s plays and streaming my video games on Twitch!
Final episode of walking dead season 2 is out!
Pokkén Tournament, a Pokemon 3D fighting game. That is made by Nintendo and Bandai Namco (creators of Tekken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-WqRkiLe1A
Sims 4 will be out before our next episode airs! Rachel will guest on the blog and will likely be involved in future Sims articles.
DAI multiplayer is announced and is independent from the story completely. EA says it’s nothing like the Galactic Readiness in Mass Effect.
Shadowgate remastered is out.

Comics/books

FutureDude Entertainment premiers it’s first comic Brainstorm, available on comixology

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About the Author

Andew Dupe Andrew is a web developer and general geek. He likes drawing, programming, table top gaming, video gaming, other general geek things, and of course long walks on the beach. Follow him on twitter @dup3 Favourite Movie: Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi Favourite Game: Halo 2 Favourite Book: Name of the Wind