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It seems safe to assume that, at this point, the majority of you are NOT playing DemiGod.  The lackluster launch combined with some balance issues caused most PC gamers to stay clear or drop the game after a few weeks.  However, for those who were able to wrap themselves up in it, it proves to be a solid game full of excitement and action with clans and tourneys finally starting to pop up.

If you have yet to give it a shot and don’t care to invest the cost to just try it out, stop by Impulse’s website and check out the newly released demo!  While it’s true (in my opinion) that the demo should have been made available even before launch, it’s nice to see that they’ve finally got one out and are trying to get some new blood into the game.

If you’re not familiar with the game, check out my DemiGod review posted a few months earlier.

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There are tons of rumors running the mill lately about the tablet that Apple would be releasing. At first, I honestly thought it would be a bad idea but the more I thought about it, I personally wouldn’t mind having one. The idea that Apple would be making a tablet has been circulating for more than 5 years, which makes me think that if this many rumors are coming out about it releasing, it’s a pretty good chance that we will see this tablet within 2009.
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Well, here we are… Episode 13 of MuchCast.

In this week’s episode, Chris, Dan, Brian and Kevin talk about some video game, tech and movie goodness. Some of which includes video games Call of Juarez 2, World of Goo, Audio Surf, Unreal Tournament 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Bioshock 2.

In the tech portion we dive into Google Voice and Windows 7 RTM and then cap off the night with some talk about the movies Bruno and Harry Potter. ENJOY.

Run Time: 1:06:09

Download: MuchCast-13-The J-Man (July 28, 2009)

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Facebook Apps – if you are like me than you have no idea how you got into even playing with these apps… I normally only use Facebook for keeping in touch with college friends. However, I see these as a new way to stagger through my work day.  Some of these apps are meant to just take your mind off of what you were currently doing and waste a little bit of time.  Others are so addictive that you just find yourself now checking your Facebook for updates with these apps and freak out because your co-worker or some friend you haven’t seen in 3 years just beat your Chain Rxn score by 32 million…and you need to sit in an imaginary bubble for just 10 minutes while you try and beat this gloriously high score…I’ve been there already.

1) Farm Town and Farmville (they are both basically the same): Pretty self explanatory, you plant seeds and trees and watch them grow. Then you harvest and sell them for money. The more you plant and harvest, the more experience you receive and then higher your level will be. You can also get animals and fences, buildings, the list goes on. You can also send plants and animals to your friends for their farms. The only down side I have yet to see is you either check your farm too late and have to delete the withered left overs or wait 3 days for your corn/wheat to grow, some plants take 4 hours and some take 3 days.

2) Chain Rxn: This is a super-massive addictive game, no lie. The object of the game is to click anywhere on the screen to start a chain reaction of balls as they bump into the other balls that have explodedfrom the initial ball. The longer the chain goes, the higher the score for each ball that bumps into another exploded ball. I have nothing bad to say about this except that it is the new crack, it’s that addictive.

3) Mafia Wars: I cannot really review this only because I have never played it, though I am going to review it now because it was the first app that made me cringe at using any other app. I used to have about 40+ new updates about my friends’ Mafia and always got invites to join the crew. I am sure that within the next few months, I will probably give up and join. I am a lemming…

4) Bejeweled Blitz: Come on, my generation and even those who may be a little bit older certainly remember the game Bejeweled. I would play that game like it was then end of the world, if I even turned my head away, the Earth would face certain horrifying death. Yeah, I know, I had issues. Either way, Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook is basically Bejeweled 2 with a 1 minute time frame, thats pretty much it. I adamantly tried to burst all of your bubbles there to save you the annoyance, because that is what happened to me.

Hopefully, this little tidbit of highly important information will either have you interested in playing with some of these Facebook apps (there are a TON more out there.)  If you do happen to get into most of the apps I mentioned…send me something for my farm…please…

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Californication season 2 blows your mind. Hank Moody (David Duchovny) shines new light on what it can feel like to be a New Yorker livin’ in Hell-LA. The man has me sold with a brand new collection of on screen mannerisms and lewd behavior. But before all good light shines down, a rock legend has his story to tell. It’s plain and simple folks, Lew Ashby (Callum Keith Rennie) is rock history. Furthermore, our favorite characters from the first season stand and deliver. Chuck Runkle (Evan Handler) and Marcy (Pamela Adlon) share their swing and battle through love in the darkest depths LA has to offer all of us. And when the writers pick us up, ice-cold blackouts drop us down to ground. The scenes remind us this: at the end of the day, it’s all about her. ‘N u kno dis man! Karen and Becka are the perfect complementary balance to Moody. I just have to say that the on screen work of Duchovny and Rennie is fucking brilliant. Furreal yo! To avoid further spoiling, amazon.com and itunes has the season available for download as a purchase. The DVD set becomes available for purchase August 25. Season three is due to air this fall on Showtime. Do yourself a favor and grab lines, emotions, and mannerisms to act out on all of us back in real time. I’m waiting. =)

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Microsoft Office 2010

By now, most of us have heard bits and pieces about what Microsoft is planning to do with their next iteration of Office, 2010, including extending the ribbon interface to Outlook and any other program that were without and the collaboration enhancements allowing multiple users to not only edit a document together, but even display PowerPoint presentations in a remote web browse.

However, some interesting news came out earlier about a completely new method of access and use of (most of) the software suite – nearly full featured online versions accessible on any of the major web browsers.  This isn’t a particularly revolutionary move, which is not uncommon when it comes to Microsoft, with Google Docs being so well developed for the past few years, but there is the potential for Microsoft to make a major splash with this release… and did I mention it will be free?

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Here we go, episode 12 of MuchCast comin’ your way.

In this week’s heated episode, co-founder Chris, Dan and Kevin debate some of the newest topics in tech including the announcement of Google’s Chrome OS and the lack of LAN support on Starcraft 2.

Some less heated conversation includes a review of the movie Up!, an overview of game Peggle Nights and a discussion of the add-on for Burnout Paradise, “Big Surf Island.”
The gang also talks about Call of Duty 3 for xBox 360 and Dan’s epic GameMine saga continues……..

Run Time: 1:15:50

Download: MuchCast-12-Lanless (July 13, 2009)

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Sorry to everyone who may have encountered some of our recent downtime; I have upgraded our Wordpress install and a few of the addons were not compatible ( I know, I should have checked) namely Redirection and Tweet This.  Redirection has been updated by the author, Tweet This has not (notice the lack of “Tweet this” buttons at the bottom of posts).

Everything SEEMS to be back up and running.  If anyone notices a quirk or two, do let me know!

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Upgraded the Rediretion plugin, all is well again.

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Just an FYI, the nav bar at the top of the page here was broken when going to the new version of WP. It should be back up and running in a short time, but, in the mean time, you can get to the forums at http://www.muchgeek.com/forums

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