Movies, music, games, the internet, whatever... Geek in Review takes an unscripted look at what's hot this week.
The X-Men trailer drops and we get our first look at Avengers 2 Wanda and Pietro... unfortunately.
Featuring
Links
X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer
Avengers 2 Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver pics
Community's second D&D episode
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
After a bit of a vacation, we're back in action with some big Spider-Man movie news and a post mortem on D&D Next.
Featuring
Links
Spider-Man Production Team Talks Venom and SS
D&D Next Playtest info
Dungeon World
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
There's so much news we had to bring in reinforcements!
Featuring
Links
Guardians of the Galaxy trailer
GoG poster revealed
Fantastic Four cast revealed
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Masses of MMOs are in beta and Russell has the scoop, we're talking about Monte Cook's Numenera, and the Lego Movie!
Featuring
Links
Cards Against Humanity blog
Numenera at Drive-thru RPG
Everything is Awesome, especially the Lego Movie
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Soem startling "news" on Batman V. Superman, plus... why you shouldn't write off that sexy comicbook superheroine.
Featuring
Links
Latino Review nerd trolling article about Lex Luthor
Paul Bettany is Vision
EN World's D&D Next Adventure Design contest
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
We're ranking the 6 trailers released during or around the Super Bowl... who will come out on top? Plus: Sherlock leads to nerd rage.
Featuring
Links
Watch the 6 trailers for yourself
How Elementary surpassed Sherlock (warning: nerd rage within)
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
In episode 100 (yes, you read that right), the guys are talking about Agents of SHIEL*D's next crossover experiement and low level characters in D&D Next!
Featuring
Links
Thor Warrior Lady Sif coming to AOS
Low Level Characters in D&D Next
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Game of Thrones releases it's first trailer for season 4, and Marvel trades blows with DC via movie news releases
Featuring
Links
Ant-Man Casting: Michael Douglas
Does Stark Create Ultron?
Johnny Depp as Dr. Strange? (nope)
Yapapi Strap Match
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's the first podcast of 2014 and we're looking forward to the most anticipated things of the year to come!
Featuring
A brief overview of the bigest events to come in 2014. Here's a complete list!
Movies300: Rise of an Empire
Captain America Winter Soldier
Amazing Spiderman 2
X-Men Days of Future Past
Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Guardians of the Galaxy
Dumb and Dumber To
Hobbit: There and Back Again
Video Games
South Park: Stick of Truth
Thief
Dark Souls 2
Diabo 3: Reaper of Souls
Elder Scrolls Online
Destiny
The Division
Watch Dogs
Order 1886
Zelda U
The Witcher 3
Star Citizen
Table Top
D&D Next
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion
TV
Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Special guest Adam joins us for an all Hobbit podcast!
Featuring
Links
"The Hobbit" is King of the Box Office
"I See Fire" song by Ed Sheeran (heard over the end credits)
Rotten Tomatoes reviews
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The holiday season is upon us which means... flee from your family! Seek refuge in the theater!
Featuring
Links (Trailers)
August Osage County
47 Ronin
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
The Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
Frozen
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
We get a few clues as to the drop date of D&D Next, plus we're talking about that big secret project!
Featuring
DDI tools going in a box. D&D Next is next.
What changes we expect to see from the playtest
The big project: OR20
Links
Russell's Open Range writings at Writer Lot
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's the second annual Holiday GiR Geek Gift Guide! This is a special podcast dedicated to those who might need a little help buying for the nerd in their life.
Featuring
Friendsgiving!
How to come up with a gift your recipient will really love
How to avoid giving just... terribly awful gifts
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
We crammed an hour's worth of podcastery into one half hour! The PS4 came and went. First impressions?
Featuring
Awaiting greatness with the PS4
On midnight releases and old TVs
Black Flag: When developers realize their story sucks
Links
A Weekend with the PS4
Assassin's Creed Black Flag review
You fox eared asshole
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Russell's back and just in time for SO MANY THINGS TO TALK ABOUT
Featuring
Thor: Dark World has been seen (SPOILERS)
Breaking down the movie, specifically the end credit sequence
"Infinity Stones" eh? Innnteresting.
WoW's next expansion unveiled
Links
Thor: Dark World
Lords of Draenor expansion
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Russell is out, Adam is in for a little hardcore comic talk and a preview of the Christmas movie season.
Featuring
Previewing Thor: Dark World in theaters next week
Marvel and Fox unveil conflicting Quicksilvers
Lego games, Lego Marvel Superheros
The Lego Movie and Christmas movie season preview
Links
Lego Movie trailer
Anchorman 2 Movie trailer
Honest Trailers: Grown Ups
Mr. Peabody and Sherman trailer
Morgan Freeman begrudgingly reads "What Does the Fox
Say"
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Marvel serves up a hell of a trailer and a... not hell of... a TV show.
Featuring
Captain America: Winter Soldier FTW!
A bit of background on the titular character (spoilers!)
The not quite rise and not quite fall of Agents of SHIEL*D
Links
Anchor Man 2 trailers
Captain America Winter Soldier trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
When is collecting cards not like collecting cards? When it's on the internet!
Featuring
Hearthstone beta is Russell's big news for the week
The history of the CCG and how this moves things forward.
How Blizzard is like Taco Bell (in a good way).
Will Russell stick with the PS4 or will be become a last minute XBoner?
LinksHearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
PS4 Launch Titles
XB1 Launch Titles
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
How Blizzard is a lot like Taco Bell
Take a trip down memory lane and get your pokeballs ready... if you can still find them.
Featuring
Pokemon X and Y launches big
The long road to Pokemon
Why X and Y are worth your time at any age.
How Nintendo plans to win the game by not playing
Links
Pokemon X and Y: A New Life
/r/PokemonOrder 1886 Trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The D&D Next playtest is practically over... the guys give you an inside look at the process and if the resulting system is worth your time.
Featuring
Being polite in GTA IV
The final D&D: Next playtest document
Where we started and where we're ending
Does Next deserve the keys to the castle?
Links
Selfies in GTA 5
D&D: Next Playtest
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Marvel returns to the small screen. So does DC. In a sense. A terrible sense.
Featuring
The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premier
The good and the bad
DC answers (Hint: It's not looking good)
Jeramy explains why there will never be a Gambit movie.
Links
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D Premier Roundtable
'Gotham' Brings Gordon to TV
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
A new Harry Potter movie (that will likely not include Harry Potter) plus... there's a new iPhone coming out. Who knew?
Featuring
Fantastic Creatures headed to the big screen
So you have a license to print money. Now what?
DC responds to the Harley Quinn artist call controversy
iPhone 5C and 5S: The untold story
Living in a post iPhone dominated world
Links
JK Rowling to write new wizardy movie
DC Apologizes for Harley contest (not really)
iPhone 5C and 5S info for fanboys
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's a podcast fight! Or not. Lots of controversy on the podcast today, including a split decision on the new Robocop trailer and the trouble plaguing DC!
Featuring
Remaking an American classic: Robocop
Things to like, things to be... concerned about.
DC in crisis times two
The gay marriage that never was. The Batwoman team walks
Outrage X 2: Naked, suicial Harley Quinn
In defense of DC: getting all the information
Links
Robocop trailer
Has DC Done Something Stupid Today?
Batwoman authors exit
Naked, suicidal Harley Quinn reports
The artist request from DC
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
More huge movie news, from both DC and Marvel, plus... why everything isn't ruined forever and Nintendo's step forward/backward with the 2DS.
Featuring
- Batfleck loses it's Brian Cranston-y silver lining.
Why Batman won't be ruined forever
Guardians of the Galaxy gets a raccoon
The Nintendo 2DS and what it means for handheld gaming
Links
Bryan Cranston... not Lex Luthor
Bradly Cooper set ti play Rocket Raccoon
Nintendo's 2DS could hurt the 3DS
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
A two topic podcast? Sort of. But, to be fair... two huge topics.
Featuring
- The World's End is here. Tell your friends.
Jeramy's Blood and Ice Cream theory
One word: Batfleck
Why Superman vs Batman will suck. Hint: Not Batfleck
Links
The World's End on RT
Patton Oswalt on Batfleck
Other Bat supporting Batfleck
Batman vs Daredevil Supercut
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Gencon is here, plus a brief missive on the Daily Show and a look at the 2013 ENnie awards!
Featuring
Oh, to be a hoosier. Gencon 2013
Roll20 is making your digital tabletop dreams come true
The runaway success of Tabletop.
More ENnie winners
John Oliver ends his run on the Daily Show
New ships for Star Wars: X-Wing
Links
2013 ENnie Award Winners (Nominees)
Tabletop
Roll20 Homepage
FFG Gencon News
D&D Gencon report
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Saints Row 4 is hitting the streets, the 3DS is huge, and join the rebellion with Fantasy Flight Games.
Featuring
Saint's Row 4 is making the machine gun cool again
Jeramy's trip to the Nintendo 3DS XL
Shadow of the Colossus is outselling from beyond the grave
Age of Rebellion coming to a tabletop near you
Links
12 Best Games for 3DS
Shadow of the Colossus towers over July
Fantasy Flight Games Announces Age of Rebellion
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Good news everyone! The death of Doom isn't so certain afterall, plus the fall (seemingly) of Titan, and a next gen MMO with at least a little promise.
Featuring
Cryptozoic saves The Doom that came to Atlantic City
Keith Baker's other project: the Gloom expansion
Blizzards Titan isn't looking so titanic these days
How MMOs are just like everything else
Something a bit different from Everquest
Links
Cryptozoic saves The Doom that Came to Atlantic City
Gloom: Unquiet Dead
D&D at GenCon
Blizzard’s Titan Unlikely to be Subscription-Based MMO (if anything)
Everquest Next and Landmark
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Google has a new dongle for you, plus... RPGs are making a splash on kickstarter, but beware!
Featuring
Google's Chromecast is looking pretty sweet
The ins and outs of Chromecast, and where it fits in the landscape
RPGs on Kickstarter: a cautinonary tail
Red Aedis, Apotheosis Drive X, and more!
Super Smash Brothers creators say the dumbest things.
Links
Chromecast on CNet
Streamer comparisons
Red Aegis
Keith Baker on Atlantic City kickstarter failure
$112k Kickstarter dies. What happens next?
Shadowrun makes crowdfunding look good
Apotheosis Drive X updates
Next Super Smash lacks story mode
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Com-Con! It's Com-Con! So much movies and comics and other things. Com-Con!
Featuring
Avengers 2 has a name and a new villian: Ultron
The Thanos, Pym, Ultron connection
Agents of Shield taking it slow
Superman and Batman to tangle to the delight on... well, no one.
The Marvel/DC movie connundrum
Links
'Age of Ultron' Reveal
Agents of SHIELD show at SDCC
Karen Gillian bares it
Thanos in GoG and Avengers 2Superman/Batman crossover movieWonder Woman costumeGodzilla at Comic-ConBatman Dracula
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The guys are all about Kaiju reviews, an X-Men spinoff movie, and being a dick to robots. Really.
Featuring
The reviews are in and Pacfic Rim is looking better and better
Three X-Men movies in the works: Fox clearly not giving it up
X-Force coming to a theatre and pouch store near you
The problem with Wolverine
An exceedingly brief history of Silly Putty
Links
Pacific Rim on RT
X-Force movie announcement
40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings
A Closer look at Playroom
Playroom trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Heading for the rim... the Pacific Rim, plus the trouble with tonto, and... Skype commercials? The guys have it all, all in one place.
Featuring
Pacfic Rim is shaping up to be pure kaiju magic
Johnny Depp's stupid bird in The Lone Ranger
Have we reached the bottom of the cinema barrel? Finally?
The Lego Movie has balls
A Skype snafu or a harbringer of something more?
Links
Pacific Rim trailer and posters
Lone Ranger a blow for Disney
The Lego Movie trailer
Constructing a prosthetic leg-o
Skype's auto-play ad
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The guys take a look at some of the most highly anticipated RPGs coming out this year plus; cellular wall-penetration.
Featuring
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire sourcebook has a release date
ENWorld's list of anticipated RPGs
The force, the Star Wars universe, and everything
Borderlands 2's D&D-y DLC
Seein' through walls with your smartphone.
Links
Star Wars: EoE productsENWorld Most Anticipated 2013 RPGsReaper MinisTiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep trailerResearchers See Through Walls With 'Wi-Vi'
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Microsoft hits the breaks, how to get what you want, Dr. Strange movie "rumors", and you've been saying everything wrong.
Featuring
A bit about Man of Steel (no spoilers)
Microsoft discovers what Sony discovered weeks ago
"Rumors" about the Dr. Strange movie that aren't true, but might be.
Some actual confirmed Avengers news.
Everything you say is wrong.
Links
Man of Steel on Rotten Tomatoes
Microsoft's XBone back pedaling
Unconfirmed "confirmed" news about Dr. Strange
Silent Ls
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's our E3 super show! Featuring everything from the land known as E3
Featuring
How Sony "won"
The strange world of marketing culture
XBone V PC: The house/hotel analogy
Games, games, games
The "rape joke" controversy
Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug international trailer
Links
Kotaku's very thorough E3 coverage
Wii U games and surprises
Did Microsoft make a rape joke at E3?
Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
After a sickness delay, we're back and talking Star Trek and the maligned XBone.
Note: If you haven't seen Star Trek: Into Darkness, this ain't the podcast for you.
Featuring
Star Trek: Into Darkness: Opinion is split
Jeramy practically has a heart attack
What went wrong and what went wronger with the XBone unveiling
A look ahead to E3
Links
Rotten Tomatos cleary disagrees with Jeramy
Microsoft defends the XBone
Microsoft E3 Preview
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
EA deals a crippling blow to Nintendo... but is it all part of Nintendo's grand scheme? Plus: looking ahead to Tuesday's big Microsoft announcement
Featuring
Links
EA turns its back on the Nintendo Wii U
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Just a week following Iron Man 3, we get some huge Marvel news. Russell is trembling with excitement. Also: A D&D movie. Hooray.
Featuring
Links
Doctor Strange movie confirmed for Phase 3
Warner Brothers working on a new D&D movie
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
This podcast is about Iron Man 3. It contains a ton of spoilers. Seriously, like right off the bat. Don't even open the little window if you haven't seen the movie.
Featuring
Links
Iron Man 3 box office
Ghost Rider, Punisher, Daredevil, and Blade back to Marvel
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
What pair of sibling should we see in Avengers 2? The guys are back and getting hyped for summer movie season.
Featuring
Links
Joss Whedon teases brother-sister stars
Psylocke on Marvel wiki
25 Most Hyped Summer Movies
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
After a brief forced technical hiatus, the guys are back to talk about Game of Thrones and the hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.
Featuring
- Back in Westeros for Game of Thrones season 3
- Why HBO deserves to have its shows pirated
- The SimCity lesson that should be learned for all media
- Seriously. Go fk yourself, Fox**.
LinksFiascoRecord GoT piracy, thanks to HBOGoT Oatmeal comicFox is full of assholes Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Tons of huge tabletop news, including Star Wars and a big kickstarter from a company that makes pure RPG porn. Ok, not LITERAL porn.
Featuring
LinksStar Wars Edge of the EmpireFirst module: Long Arm of the HuttDwarven Forge game tiles kickstarter Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Pax East is bringing the not-so-Earth-shattering, plus, forget basketball: robots fighting robots! Featuring special guest Adam!
Featuring
LinksFirst Impressions of HearthstoneTMNT: Out of the ShadowsDuck Tales (woo-ooo) You think Wall-E could beat this bad mofo?Apotheosis Drive X: A Fate-Powered Mecha RPG Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
SimCity has blossomed into a full on catastrophy!
Featuring
LinksSimCity and Servers
EA Chief Steps Down
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
SimCity launches with more bugs than... something that has a lot of bugs, plus the guys are playing in a galaxy far, far away.
Featuring
LinksEA Fixing SimCity Problems
Google Glass and Privacy
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
David Hill from Machine Age productions joins us to talk about big robot fighting adventure with Apotheosis Drive X!
Featuring
LinksGood resource for ADX information
Machine Age Productions
FATE rpg system and its branches
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Playstation's big night wasn't so big afterall, but we always have Game of Thrones season 3 to look forward to!
Featuring
LinksMegan Fox in the new Ninja Turtles movie
PS4 online features could be awesome... or lame
Game of Thrones season 3 trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The first real shot in the console wars could be coming soon, and the guys look into their Destiny.
Featuring
LinksSony Playstation news conference
"Leaked" PS4 launch trailer
WiiU sales plummet
Sony controller "leak" photos
Bungie's Destiny
Destiny ViDoc
Destiny on Twitter
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Special guest co-host Adam sits in with Russell and Jeramy to talk about the thing that pissed the internet off this week... and superhero movies!
Featuring
LinksNext-Gen Xbox may block used games
The Ouya
Star Wars spin-off movies
Community returns to NBC
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
TV finally comes to the internet (finally!) and the guys prep to take their pencile-and-paper to a galaxy far, far away.
Featuring
LinksCharles in Charge theme song
House of Cards media buzz
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire from Fantasy Flight
Tabletop: Dragon Age
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Big gaming and movie news for the week passed... D&D drops a big load, Marvel-ous revelations on Ant-Man and Dr. Strange, and Star Wars is getting more lens flare.
Featuring
D&D Classics
Dr. Strange and Ant-Man
J.J. Abrams on Star Wars
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Sometimes podcasts have asides... tangents, if you will. Including sexualized anime figures and weird German guys. This is one of those times.
Featuring
Links
Under Siege trailer
Anime Figure Licker
What some guy in CN thinks
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Monopoly is holding a beloved game piece hostage, Gygax Magazine nears, and CES 2013!
Featuring
Links
Save Your Token
Gygax Magazine
Razer Edge info
CNET's CES roundup
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The first all new podcast of 2013! We're talking about movies, music, and a little upstart MMO by our friends frenemies at Paizo.
Featuring
Links
Freedom from Django Unchained
Hansel and Gretel redband trailer (NSFW)
e20 Kickstarter leads to lawsuit
Pathfinder Online kickstarter
Goblinworks devblog
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's a very special episode of Geek in Review... and no, no one gets inappropriately touched in a bicycle shop. It's our first anniversary podcast, A.K.A. our first podcastiversary!
Featuring
The evolution of GiR
The very, VERY first podcast Jeramy and Russell ever recorded. Unheard until now by the general public. Come for the awkward beginning, stay for the akward ending.
The Red Solo Cup incident
LinksRed Solo Cup
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's part three of the GiR Holiday gift guide, and we're focused soley on RPG supplements. Find out what to get that weird tabletop gamer in your life, or, if you ARE that weird tabletop gamer, find out where to blow your Christmas money. Win-win!
Featuring
LinksDwarven Forge
Dragon Chow Dicebags
Crystal Caste
Gale Force Nine (DM token set with wooden box, DM's Keep screen)
Reaper Miniatures
RPG stuff on Etsy
2012 ENnie award winners
Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Returning to Middle Earth and it feels so good. It's our very special The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey podcast, with special guest Macy Jones (theatre expert and wife of Russell) and film afficionado Adam Philpott. You will not find a more complete Hobbit experience outside the local cineplex.
NOTE: Here be spoilers.
Featuring
LinksThe Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyList of 48fps theaters
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's episode two of our ongoing series about gifts. This time, the guys are tackling card and board games. Come for the recommendations... stay for the holiday themed pastries.
Featuring
**Links
Dumb Ways To Die video
TableTop
Fluxx
Munchkin
A Game Of Thrones
Settlers of Cataan
King of Tokyo**
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's public service time! The guys have a geeks gift guide unlike any other... not what you SHOULD buy, but what you SHOULDN'T. It's all about the tech this week.
Featuring
Links
Baldor's Gate enhanced edition
CNET's TV buying Guide
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The guys get into Black Friday by not getting into it, lament the passing/changing of a great publication, and look ahead to a new magazine with a familiar name.
Featuring- The Black Friday myth
- Kobold Quarterly is ending publication- Complete coverage of Gygax Magazine... who, what, when, and if, specifically.- Is the market right for GM? Pros and Cons.
Links
Kobold Quarterly Folds, A New Adventure Begins
Gygax Magazine
Gygax Family Split Over Magazine
An update from Tim Kask (from Gamers & Grognards)
Tim Kask Q&A
Loremaster interview with Luke Gygax
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
It's console season! Listen as the guys warp the way you'll think about the Wii U, talk about gamers in medicine, and much more.
Featuring- Wii U, Wii U, Wii U, Wii U, Wii U.
- The obsticles forcing the console- A hilarious joke and frank discussion of vaginas.- Skyfall lights up Rotten Tomatoes... Jeramy, not so much.
- A poorly timed discussion of Inception
LinksWii U, Wii U, Wii U, Wii U.Are Video Game Players Better at Laparoscopic Surgical Tasks?
Skyfall on Rotten Tomatoes
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Let's all go to the lobby, Let's all go to the looooooobby, Let's all go to the lobby... but return quickly because this podcast is mostly about movies. Yeah, that works.
Featuring- Some impromptu tips to maximize the effectiveness of your GameFly que
- RZA's new movie Man With the Iron Fists ain't nuttin to fck wit.- Is Adele's Skyfall theme the best Bond theme ever? Short answer: No. Long answer: noooooooooooooo- World War Z* is controversial on the internets
- The discussion: are fast zombies actually zombies?
LinksMan with the Iron Fists on IMDB
Bruceploitation
Adele's Skyfall theme
Andt tapped to pen Star Wars 7, 8, and 9
Brad Pitt's hilariously bad perfume commercial
World War Z trailer
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
cue Imperial March... Darth Vader dons mouse ears
Featuring- George Lucas in bed with Walt Disney, and other images you'll never be able to unthink about
- What the move means for other Lucas IPs: Star Wars TOR, Clone Wars, comics, and more.- Yes, this podcast is all about Star Wars being sold to Disney- Wanna fight about it?
LinksLucas Donating the Money to CharityStar Wars legend Tim Zahn on the announcement
How deep does the universe go? 10 Minor Star Wars Characters with Completely Unnessecary Backstories
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Tablets are all the rage this week, with offerings from both Apple AND Microsoft. Plus, the saga of Arrow continues with no end in sight.
Featuring- iPad Mini? More like iPad skinny, AMIRIGHT?- The problem: aspect- Damnit Surface. Stop making me want you.
- Arrow again? Yes. Again.
LinksiPad Spec Comparison
The hilarious Surface launch video
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Big Marvel and DC news plus, episode 2 of Arrow manages to top the first.
Featuring- Ant-Man release date... but what ant-man?- Marvel's Thor: Dark World has a setting and a villian!- James Gunn helming Guardians of the Galaxy
- The JLA movie has a tentative release date
- The problems with a JLA movie
- Arrow episode two minor spoilers
LinksMarvel Studios Update: Thor, Iron Man & Ant-Man
Justice League Aims for Summer 2015
JL8 Webcomic
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The aftermath of the VP debate drinking game, a length discusson about CW's Arrow and the Best. Sound. Ever.
WARNING: This podcast contains spoilers for the series premier of Arrow.
Featuring- Paul Ryan tried to kill you last Thursday - A polite discussion about Arrow SPOILERS*- *Jeramy hates everything
- Creating the greatest sound in the world... or opening a pit to the underworld?
LinksGive Joe the Bird
CW's Arrow
The Worst Sounds Ever
Meltdown Celebrity D&D 2013: Penance
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Russ returns to Arkansas, Marvel at The Avengers, Taken Again, and the officially official GiR VP debate drinking game!
Featuring- A brief discussion of shops- The Avengers is out of blu-ray. Commentary and deleted scenes!
- Jeramy's thoughts on Taken 2: Electric Boogaloo- Getting hammered with Joe and Paul!
LinksThe Avengers of Blu-ray
Taken 2
Official Geek in Review
Vice-Presidential Debate Drinking Game
For multiple players
If either candidate says…
Welfare: Drink from someone else’s glass/bottle
Obamacare/Romneycare: Take two drinks, call me in the morning
Libya/Libyan: Be the first to say “Holy shit!” Anyone who doesn’t immediately respond with “I’ll draw their fire!” must drink
Bin laden: Anyone who doesn’t scream “BOOM! HEADSHOT!” must drink
“You have my word”: Respond immediately with “And my axe!” or drink
“kill Medicare”: Drink, then pour some out for your homie Medicare
If Paul Ryan…
uses the vice-president’s first name: The youngest person in the room must drink, as well as anyone who doesn’t immediately turn to them and say “Joey… have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”
says “government jobs”: Anyone who doesn’t say “We must protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen!” drinks
removes his shirt: Turn off the debate. Drink until you can smell colors.
If Joe Biden…
Repeats the same phrase more than once: Last person to stand up and say “I’m Spartacus!” drinks
Mentions Sesame Street: Fire Big Bird in your best Donald Trump voice. Drink to celebrate
Starts talking about his trans-am: Turn off the debate, turn on some White Snake, and drink until you pass out.
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
A special themed edition of the podcast, just in time for debate season: internet freedom, Halo armor, and drinking. Lots of drinking.
Featuring- A very quick aside about WoW: MoP- Rep. Zoe Lofgren fighting for freedom with the Global Free Internet Act of 2012
- How the act could work... and how it might not.- Free Halo armor for watching the debates?- A geek guide to the 2012 debates (drinking game coming soon!)
- Curiosity makes history again
LinksZoe Lofgren lays down marker on Internet freedom
Watch election coverage on Xbox Live, get avatar armor
2012 Election drinking game guidelines
Curiosity finds what was once water
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Do you smell that? Smells like new fall TV. And hobbitses.
Featuring- Russell gets a new old iPhone, Jeramy gets a new new mic- Fall TV is here! New Shows! More exclamations!
- The night the lights whet out in Revolution
- Noted Sherlockophile Russell and Elementary
- Arrow goes for broke with a BSG alumn- NBC... run by cats?
- New Hobbit trailer. Seriously. Watch it. It's the one.
Links
Blue Snowball iCE
New fall TV schedule
BSG actor on Arrow
New Hobbit trailer. Watch this.
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The boys are back on course and set for adventure with a new game from Obsidian, Wii U, and a musical about the grandfather of TCGs (sorta).
Featuring- Project Eternity promises to make the old new again! And adultier!- What Nintendo is trying to do with Wii U- A brief rage incident involving HDMI cables
- Why Nintendo will not succeed with what they're trying to do with Wii U
- Musical, Muppets, and Magic: The Gathering
Links
Project Eternity Kickstarter
Wii U Rundown
Magic: The Gathering the Musical
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
A better-late-than-never look at the iPhone 5 announcement, ways to ensure Russell sleeps on the couch, the story about the wolf and the turtle, and Hansel and Gretel (the movie and the "fable").
Featuring- A frank discussion about Russell's bedroom activities- Apple set to unveil the iPhone 5, just days after the internet did it.
- They're making a new Furby. Just when you thought you were safe.
- Jizzchina reports that Goophone plans to stick it to Apple. Rowl.- Kindle is on fire again with the Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE LMNOP
- What's the moral of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters? - Russell's favorite Hugh Jackman "story"
Links
"Accidental" iPhone 5 preview
The New Furby
Hansel and Gretel
Subscribe on iTunes!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Not even a hurricane can stop a new episode of the podcast, especially when Joss
Whedon is coming back to the small screen!
Featuring- Who we might see on S.H.I.E.L.D- More Whedon news: Dr. Horrible Part 2!
- The Hobbit answers what and when.- The Sims in Skyrim
- Farmville in WoW
- We eulogize City of Heroes
Links
ABC Greenlights Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series
'Sing-Along' sequel on the horizon
The Hobbit titles and release date
Skyrim Hearthfire
City of Heroes shutting down
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
How can you go from international lawsuits, to DC comics, to Calvin and Hobbes, to Randy Travis? You'll have to listen to find out, on a very special (read: weird) episiode.
Featuring- Apple V. Samsung V. Technological Innovation- The Oatmeal raises a cool mil. In 9 days.
- Death comes to Madden- Take my Star Wars Detours... please!
- Jeramy has a problem with The CW
- Dark Tower likely to stay very dark
- Randy Travis has lost his f***ing mind
Links
$1 billion loss for Samsung
Tesla museum funding
Star Wars Detours trailer
Madden's new feature
Randy Travis arrested (again)
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Smell that? Smells like a new D&D Next playtest. Also, the scent of death. Flash death.
Featuring- D&D Playtest 2: Electric Boogaloo- The biggest development out of Gencon
- Flash goes terminal.
- Derailing trains WWII-style.
Links
D&D Next Playtest
Unlocking the D&D Digital archives
Flash: Gone in a Flash
Experiments to Derail a Train
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
NASA piques everyones Curiosity, D&D on your TV (or whatever), and the delicate issue of Red Dawn
Featuring- Curiosity proves there's still intelligent life on Earth
- Boston Based Brass Monkey's Dragons Gameboard- Russell doesn't read Dog Fancy- Joss Whedon, Avengers 2, and the small screen
- Red Dawn 2012: A good fit?
Links
Dragons Gameboard Kickstarter
Brass Monkey team
The Italian Greyhoud Club of America
Joss Whedon writing and directing Avengers 2
Red Dawn Trailer
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
iCloud gets iHacked leading to guy getting iScrewed, Ghosts are getting busted again, and The Hobbit will bring three times the fun.
Featuring- Gizmodo's Mat Honan gets pwned by the iCloud
- A cautionary tale for those who revel in user friendly tech
- Ghostbusters 3 sans Dr. Venkhman
- Three movies for The Hobbit? Sign us up.
Links
How an American Can Stream the BBC’s Official Olympics Coverage
Mat Honan gets hacked
Ghostbusters 3 to go ahead without Bill Murray
The official Hobbit 3D glasses
Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
An Olympic size problem with Olympic live streams, Chick-fil-a's lack of internet know-how leads to a collosal PR disaster, and Google wants you to have all the internets. All of them.
Featuring- The Olympics goes for the gold... in making itself unavailable online
- The nightmarish hellscape that is Chick-fil-a's online PR
- Google Fiber sounds too good to be true. Except it's not
- Jeramy's essence of Doritos story
- World of Warcraft announces the release date for Mists of PandariaPOKEMANS
Links
Did Chick-fil-A Pretend to Be a Teenage Girl on Facebook?Google Fiber in KCMists of Pandaria launch datePOKEMANS Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
The Dark Knight has risen and it's the big topic for this week's podcast. Plus, Marvel dazzles at ComicCon, and if you can't get enough 13th Age... well, we have that too.
Featuring- The Dark Knight Rises in theaters (Spoiler free!)
- Jeramy's odd relationship with the bat
- The elephant in the room: The Justice League
- The secret origin of Harley Quinn- Marvel puts on a ComiCon panel you need to smoke a cigarette after
- Russell is DMing 13th Age... how's that going?
LinksThe Dark Knight Rises on Rotten TomatoesHarley Quinn's secret origins
Marvel Owns ComiCon
13th Age on Pelgrane Press
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
D&D 3rd Edition lead designer Jonathan Tweet joins the guys to talk about his latest tabletop RPG (with co-designer and 4th Edition D&D auteur Rob Heinsoo) 13th Age!
Featuring- 13th Age with designer Jonathan Tweet!
- Power to the player: how 13th Age redifines what you can do in an RPG
- Jonathan talks about the RPG industry as a whole, the future, publishing, and what's going on with D&D
- Amazing Spider-Man: the best movie no one has been excited to see.
Links13th Age on Pelgrane Press
Jonathan Tweet on G+
Amazing Spiderman at the Box Office
Look for 13th Age this fall from Pelgrane Press!
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com
Russ is playing Funcom's Secret World and Jeramy blows a small gasket over Blizzard.
Featuring- Secret World could be a secret hit.- Blizzard admits Diablo 3 is unsustainable. Really.
- Jeramy makes no friends at Blizzard
LinksSecret World
Blizzard's big "announcement"
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com.
Russ has family in town, but that doesn't stop the GiR train. We're talking twitter D&D Next rumors!
Featuring- GenCon blurb leads to a kerfuffle on twitter. Could Greyhawk be back in a big way?
- If not Greyhawk, then what?
- Why we should bump one of the three core books.
LinksThe blurb
d20 Monkey's tweet
d20 Monkey webcomic
Fharlanghn
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com.
Microsoft "wows" with their Surface and a new crop of summer movie trailers have the guys... well... something.
Featuring- Surface: Unintentional comedy at its finest.
- The problem for Microsoft... Apple and designer tech
- Taken 2 will find you. Taken 2 will kill you. Again.
- Jeramy doesn't like Dredd
- Dungeons & Dragons: Book of Vile Darkness. The movie. Yes, that's a movie.
LinksSurface by Microsoft
Taken 2: International Trailer
Dredd (official trailer)
Supreme Court: Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass'
D&D: BoVD trailer
Sockbaby
Follow us on twitter @GiRPodcast or shoot us an e-mail at girpodcast@gmail.com.