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Gaming Memories, Today's Movies, and the Future of VR - Rant & Bollox Podcast (Ep.4)

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Channel: Rant and Bollox · 2017 · Entertainment

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Alex knows his shit, so we get into it proper with talk about the Playstation and Xbox consoles, exclusive and shared games, before cracking into how we feel about The Walking Dead return (one of us likes it).

We're all over the place this week!

Like all good episodes we go everywhere and anywhere, talking about the rise of video games in society, our classic memories of playing, saying goodbye to John Hurt, AI Poker machines, and looking forward to Marvel Infinity War, worrying (still) about DC, and let's not forget a quick chat on Iron Fist!

00:45 - Tech Talk: 'Libratus' the Poker playing A.I
05:27 - 23&Me: DNA: Will we have Gattaca babies? Gene-Tinder?
12:40 - Spotted the new SUV Tesla and Hyper-Trains
15:50 - Predictions: 5-hour flights to Australia?
19:25 - Good journey to John Hurt (1940 - 2017)

22:14 - Games: laying our some of our future plans for reviews and videos
23:05 - The battle between Playstation Pro and Xbox Scorpio
29:30 - The rise of 'Beta' testing
33:56 - Neary babbles about games as a new medium that is changing society - is VR anti-social and is it dangerous?
41:42 - Valve's VR plans - comparing the brands
49:40 - Alex has a rant at the mini-Nintendo (Santa let him down)

52:33 - Our gaming memories from childhood - Duck Hunt, Street Fighter, Street of Rage, Time Crisis...so many great times

01:01:01 - Movie News: What Neary's been watching - other people who make movies! Interviews for awards season.
01:06:43 - Avengers Infinity aWARds Tease Reaction
01:11:25 - DC Movie News: The Batman movie has a new director
01:11:55 - The Problems with the rest of the DCEU...what is going on over there?!
01:19:27 - New Predator movie begins filming
01:21:50 - The Walking Dead returns...but will Alex bother with it anymore? Neary won't. Because he's a prick.
01:32:52 - [SPOILER] Star Trek Discovery Casting
01:34:23 - Discovery is delayed in shooting

01:34:48 - The LEGO Movie is great...but are LEGO pushing too many films? 

01:39:21 - IRON FIST! KAPOW!!!...Alex doesn't care...he hates fun. 

01:45:14 - Letters! There are none this week...but we have 'The Wolverine' commentary coming up!

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