Dice Guys Audio Podcast 021: Are Leprechauns Just Green Hobbits?

Dice Guys Audio Podcast 021: Are Leprechauns Just Green Hobbits?

It’s that time of year again: green hats, green beer, green clothes, green, green, green! Mike and Jason dump the leprechauns, though, and get right into some danger happening to a couple of hobbits — or hobbit pubs, anyway. They talk a bit about the forthcoming Diablo III, just released Journey for PS3, and a new game announcement from Fantasy Flight Games! Also, Microsoft is giving their projects evil scientist device names now, and our game of the week: Arkham Horror.

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SHOW NOTES

• We’ve been dreaming about video games. Jason’s brain is consumed by Blizzard’s Diablo III pre-download, and Mike’s really interested in what thatgamecompany has built with Journey.

Brain Flakes

• Public Radio International’s All Things Considered has retracted a story they did about Apple and FoxConn and problems with their Chinese manufacturing. Apparently the guy who started all of this lied — or at least added enough to his story to make much of it suspect. Problems existed and are being worked on, but maybe lying isn’t the way to do journalism?
• Dan O’Kopniak turns a board game idea sitting in his closet for over 20 years into an iPhone/iPad app, Words of Habit, bypassing board game companies.
• Hollywood’s burning eye turns on a couple of hobbits: The Hobbit Pub and The Hungry Hobbit restaurant. Good thing Gandalf has Hobbit Pub’s back.
• Belgian rightsholder group troll, SABAN, wants libraries to pay copyright fees for reading books to kids at storytime. How evil is that?
• SCIENCE! Microsoft’s latest evil scientist weapon: The Beamatron!! Oh, my bad — it just sounds like that. It’s actually another bit of Kinect-based augmented reality kit. We know it’s a piece of the forthcoming holodeck, though.

Features

• Just a short bit about Fantasy Flight’s latest announcement of Relic, a boardgame set in the 40K warhammer universe which uses talisman style rules and play. See a picture here.

Pick of the Week

• [amazon_link id=”1589942108″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Arkham Horror by Fantasy Flight Games[/amazon_link]

If your friendly local game store doesn’t have our picks, click the links and nab them!