Host: Rob Logan
Co-host: Damien Cranshaw

The Geek Generation – #275 – Video Game Myths and Urban Legends

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• Got feedback??
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• Video Game Myths and Urban Legends:
  • Street Fighter II – Sheng Long
  • Mortal Kombat – Ermac
  • Pokemon: Red & Green – Lavender Town
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 – The Shadow People of Hell Valley
  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial – Buried in New Mexico
  • Super Mario 64 – Playable Luigi
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – The Haunted Cartridge
  • Minecraft – Herobrine
  • Shadow of the Colossus – The 17th Colossus
  • Luigi’s Mansion – Luigi is Dead
  • Tomb Raider – Nude Code

The look of this version of Scorpion was designed by Jim Lee, Co-Publisher at DC Entertainment. Scorpion will soon be available to those who purchased the Season Pass, or available separately for 400 Microsoft Points on XBLA or $5 on PSN.

Host: Rob Logan
Co-host: Mike Volpe

The Geek Generation – #120 – Days of Tomorrow Yesterday

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• Got feedback??
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  • Call 508-316-9787 and leave a voicemail
• Geek Outs:
  • WWE Royal Rumble
  • New car
  • Volpe’s house going back on the market
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Rob mentioned on The Indoor Kids again
• Freak Outs:
  • Watching wrestling with wrestlers
  • Crazy drivers
  • Alarm clock issues
  • Young Justice and Green Lantern: TAS canceled
  • Kidney stone saga continues
• Obscure Movie Reviews with SuperFan Chris Tong
  • The Girl With the Naked Eye
• Listener Mailbag
• News/discussion:
  • J.J. Abrams is officially directing Star Wars: Episode VII
  • THQ files for bankruptcy and sells off licenses
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past update
  • New showrunner confirmed for The Walking Dead
  • Grand Theft Auto V release date announced
  • Emily VanCamp in talks for female lead in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Alex Kingston joins the cast of Arrow
  • Doctor Who returns March 30
  • PlayStation 4 rumored to be announced on February 20
  • The Muppets sequel titled The Muppets… Again!
  • Showtime renews Shameless, House of Lies, and Californication
  • Girl Meets World casts Rowan Blanchard in lead role
  • Sin City: A Dame to Kill For casting news
  • Jurassic Park IV is coming in 2014

Host: Rob Logan
Co-hosts: Mike Volpe, Bryan

The Geek Generation – #092 – SDCC 2012

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• Got feedback??
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• Geek Outs:
  • Robert Downey Jr. entering Hall H
  • SDCC 2012
  • Ted
  • New diet
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation on the big screen
  • Our Lady Peace concert
  • Ron Perlman grants Make-A-Wish as Hellboy
  • T-shirts on the way
• Freak Outs:
  • Barbara Gordon replacing Stephanie Brown in Smallville: Season 11
  • Dealing with exes/lack of loyalty
  • Gym deal
  • Max Payne 3
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
• Blu-ray upcoming releases:
  • Lockout
  • The Three Stooges
  • Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
  • Casa de mi Padre
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season One
  • Silent House
  • Undertaker: The Streak
  • Boss: Season One
• Listener Mailbag
• News/discussion:
  • Marvel Studios announces full “Phase Two” plans
  • Man of Steel footage screened
  • Deadpool game announced
  • Injustice: Gods Among Us adds Nightwing and Cyborg
  • Marvel NOW! is coming in October
  • Josh Trank confirmed as Fantastic Four reboot director
  • Godzilla teaser screened
  • Marvel vs. Capcom Origins announced
  • Yvonne Strahovski joins the cast of Dexter
  • Legendary Entertainment acquires Nerdist Industries
  • Avengers Assemble cartoon to replace Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
  • Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Set gets more goodies on PS3
  • Mortal Kombat: Legacy – Season 2 announced

Host: Rob Logan
Co-hosts: Mike Volpe, Anna Zifcak, G1

The Geek Generation – #067 – January 30, 2012 News

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  • Call 508-316-9787 and leave a voicemail
• Blu-ray and Video Game releases
• News:
  • DC Entertainment reveals new logo
  • Resident Evil 6 announced
  • DC announces ‘We Can Be Heroes’ to fight hunger
  • The Expendables 2 will be rated PG-13
  • Kevin Feige addresses the villains of The Avengers
  • Season 3 of The Walking Dead gets 16 episode order
  • Lily Collins drops out of Evil Dead
  • Green Arrow pilot gets the green light; first details emerge
  • Netflix abandons plans to offer video games
  • The Crow reboot resurfaces with a new writer and director
  • Beavis and Butt-head in real life
  • Street Fighter X Tekken won’t have Xbox exclusive fighters
  • Street Fighter X Tekken gets PS exclusives Mega Man and Pac-Man
  • Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition announced
  • No more Resistance from Insomniac
  • Doctor Strange movie script is complete
  • Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock reveals the game’s monsters
  • The Muppets take LittleBigPlanet 2
  • DC Comics cancels 6 titles and launches 6 new titles

Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition delivers the critically acclaimed game and all previously released downloadable content. The DLC includes fan-favorite warriors Skarlet, Kenshi, and Rain, as well as the infamous dream stalker Freddy Krueger. The game also offers 15 Klassic Skins and three Klassic Fatalities for Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile.

The Komplete Edition of Mortal Kombat will be available for PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 28.

Host: Rob Logan
Co-hosts: Mike Volpe, Anna Zifcak

The Geek Generation – #055 – October 10, 2011 News

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• Got feedback??
  • Send it to podcast@thegeekgeneration.com OR @GeekGeneration on Twitter OR call 508-316-9787
• Blu-ray and Video Game releases
• News:
  • R.I.P. Steve Jobs
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation finally coming to Blu-ray
  • Netflix and DreamWorks Animation announce exclusive deal
  • Netflix will exclusively stream The Walking Dead
  • Amazon announces streaming deal with 20th Century Fox
  • Justice League: Doom announced, voice cast revealed
  • One more season for Arrested Development?
  • Xbox LIVE is coming to Windows 8
  • Mortal Kombat: Legacy inspires New Line to reboot the film franchise
  • WB’s ‘Aim High’ is the first-ever “social series”
  • Lionsgate acquires the movie rights to Dead Island
  • Van Damme and Chuck Norris confirmed for The Expendables 2
  • Nightwing to be playable in Batman: Arkham City DLC
  • Qore covers Arkham City, reveals new villain
  • ‘Beware the Batman’ is coming to Cartoon Network in 2013
  • Disney and Pixar to re-release four more films in 3D
  • WWE ’12 adds Create-An-Arena mode
  • Kurt Russell replacing Kevin Costner in Django Unchained
  • Wanted 2 moving forward
  • Writers hired for Zorro reboot
  • Universal Soldier is being developed as a TV series
  • Mister Ed being adapted for the big screen

Based on the success of both the recent video game reboot and the online web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy, New Line and Warner Bros. have decided to reboot the Mortal Kombat film franchise. Legacy was such an inspiration that the director of both the original viral trailer and the resulting web series, Kevin Tancharoen, has been tapped to direct the new take on Mortal Kombat. The movie will be written by his partner Oren Uziel. New Line president Toby Emmerich said the idea to do the movie came entirely from the work the director did online.

“The new game and the online shorts prompted us to consider a reboot of a brand we hadn’t been actively thinking about,” Emmerich said.

Watch the original viral “trailer” here:

Host: Rob Logan
Co-hosts: Bryan Lipsitz, Mike Volpe

The Geek Generation – #047 – August 1st, 2011 News

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  • Send it to podcast@thegeekgeneration.com OR @GeekGeneration on Twitter OR call 508-316-9787
• Blu-ray and Video Game releases
• News:
  • The Amazing Spider-Man – teaser trailer
  • Andrew Garfield’s SDCC Spider-Man speech
  • Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 announced
  • Capcom leaks entire new Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 roster
  • Darabont leaves The Walking Dead, new showrunner named
  • Man of Steel moved to Summer 2013
  • Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management being shopped
  • Mortal Kombat reveals final DLC character to be… Freddy Krueger??
  • Batman: Arkham City – Collector’s Edition revealed
  • Talia Al Ghul and The Penguin added to Batman: Arkham City
  • Street Fighter X Tekken adds four more to the roster
  • Uncharted movie director Neil Burger gives updates on the film
  • Goldeneye 007: Reloaded announced
  • GameStop grants extra costumes for Spider-Man: Edge of Time and X-Men Destiny

So why Freddy Krueger?? I don’t understand it either, but co-creator Ed Boon answered some of PlayStation.blog‘s questions about the inclusion:

PlayStation.Blog: So what is the inspiration for bringing Freddy Krueger to Mortal Kombat as a DLC character?
Ed Boon, Creative Director, Netherrealm Studios: It was a number of things. It’s kind of hard to choose a character who would fit well into the Mortal Kombat universe, with the blood and violence that’s so associated with it. Kratos from God of War is a brutal, bloody character, so he makes sense. When we had the discussions about the DLC characters, we knew that we wanted to add a returning character, a new character, but also a guest character. That was one of the goals right from the beginning. A number of names were run by us: Jason, Michael Meyers and all those guys. Freddy Kreuger, we felt, was the most instantly recognizable and he fits in with Mortal Kombat with his claws. It just seemed like the best fit.

PSB: Did you base Freddy off the 80s films or the reboot movie from a few years back?
Well…that’s a good question. We didn’t try to make him look like the actor Robert Englund, I don’t even know if we would be allowed to….Admittedly, I didn’t see the latest movie, the remake. But obviously the first few movies were huge — they left an undeniable mark on pop culture. When I look at him, I think of the original Freddy: he’s got the striped sweater and is instantly recognizable. He’s Freddy in general, we don’t really identify him as one version or another.

PSB: Freddy isn’t exactly a martial artist. How does he keep up with the kombatants?
[laughs] He doesn’t fight like a martial artist, either! We gave him two claws, which we explain in his character bio, so you can almost imagine a Baraka with shorter blades that are always out. He’s got lots of swipes, he can send his claws creepy-crawling on the ground or flying through the air. He can dig into the ground and the claws will come up under his opponent. He’s very claw-centric.

PSB: Will Freddy’s ability to invade his victims’ dreams play into his Mortal Kombat incarnation in any way?
Yeah, you’ll see some of that. His story ending really plays into that. In the middle of a fight, you won’t see him entering a guy’s head in a dream sequence or anything, but there is plenty of dream-related stuff in his introduction animation, his victory stance, his fatalities and so forth.

Developed by Other Ocean in conjunction with NetherRealm studios, the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection will offer fans the chance to play through the games in their original arcade state and rediscover all their favorite characters, fatalities and environments as well as relive some of the franchise’s most memorable secrets. In addition, this new collection will feature online play, leaderboards, achievements and trophies.

An arcade-perfect port, the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection brings players their favorite Mortal Kombat arcade classics for $9.99 on PlayStation Network or 800 Microsoft Points.

Host: Rob Logan
Co-host: Bryan Lipsitz

021 – Top Comics of 2010

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Show notes:

• Poll question:
  • What was your favorite movie of 2010??
  • Send answer to: podcast@thegeekgeneration.com OR @GeekGeneration on Twitter
• Geek Outs & Freak Outs:
  • Thor trailer / X-Men Arcade / Marvel Pinball / Justice League animated / Howard Stern re-signs / Warehouse 13 holiday episode
  • The Walking Dead / Buffy reboot / Microsoft Office issues / Rob wants a new phone
• Top 3:
  • Top 3 weapons in the comic universe.
• News:
  • Howard Stern re-signs with SiriusXM for 5 more years
  • Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – debut trailer
  • Thor – trailer
  • Jon Favreau won’t be directing Iron Man 3
  • Batman: Arkham City – Hugo Strange reveal trailer
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – Storm and C.Viper debut trailers
  • Mortal Kombat – Kratos reveal trailer
  • Black Swan earns a wide release
• Bryan’s Top Comics of 2010

Mortal Kombat will feature Kratos as a playable character exclusively in the PS3 version. The brutal warrior from the acclaimed God of War series will have his own customized move set, fatality, and fighting arena, available to all original purchasers when Mortal Kombat hits stores in April 2011

Jeri Ryan has revealed on her Twitter account what the video was made for – “Not a game trailer. Actually was made by the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film.”