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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew takes a break from Civilization VI and Fallout 4   to play  Bravely Second  on his Nintendo 3DS while Dan plays through the well-made but wobbly-written  Stories: The Path of Destinies . ALL IN A NAME: Based on the article written by the McArthur Law firm , Dan and Andrew investigate the strange situation between Cards Against Humanity and a homage/derivative game,  Humanity H...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew spends some time with Fantasy Flight's  Arkham Horror: The Card Game  while Dan reads Boss Fight Books'  Metal Gear Solid by Ashly and Anthony Burch (a book he may actually finish!). GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE: Sony had it's most recent Playstation Experience event which unveiled a lot of new games, most Sony exclusives, but amid that they announce the new installment of the pr...

WEEK IN GEEK: In honor of the 53rd anniversary of the show, Andrew watched the 1970s  Doctor Who serial, "Day of the Daleks," and follows that up with the new timey-wimey show,  Timeless . Dan gets nostalgic to re-read  X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson and finds, to his estimation, that it holds up rather well. WAR KIND OF CHANGES: Andrew picks up  Fallout 4 on PS4...

WEEK IN GEEK: To celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States, Andrew and Dan share their recent happenings. Andrew plays more of  The Trail while Dan reads through his new copy of  The Art of Metal Gear Solid V and reads the  Metal Gear fan comic, " Yellowcake ," by millionfish . Leave your thoughts about this week's topics at forallintents.net . Join the official Facebook group for site updates,...

WEEK IN GEEK:   Andrew finally sat down and saw Marvel's newest edition to its cinematic universe,  Doctor Strange , while Dan sits down and replays the opening of  Mass Effect 2 . BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: After being pushed back in the movie schedule before getting removed completely,  The Inhumans finally gets a release date...on television...kind of. While it's premiere will be in IMAX theaters for...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew played DC Legends as well as Peter Molyneux's new mobile game, The Trail while Dan got sentimental up reading  Prophet: Earth War issue number 6, which finally wraps up the big  Prophet reboot. REMEMBER, REMEMBER: Though Dan and Andrew missed November 5th to properly discuss  V for Vendetta , in the eyes of some Americans, the country did us a solid by possibly setting up a si...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew wades through the neck-deep waters of  Civilization VI and loves every second of it while D. Bethel watches the crowd-funded fan film,  Cable: Chronicles of Hope   by K&K Productions . WHAT'S NEXT?: Considering the imminent political event happening in the United States of America, Dan and Andrew examine how television has taken a look at the presidency by comparing and contra...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew steps into a new reality when he tries out  PlaystationVR with the help and aid of friend-of-the-show, Taylor Katcher , while Dan starts watching ABC's new procedural show,  Conviction , which he instead considers to be a time-travel continuation of  Agent Carter , which also starred Hayley Atwell. I KNOW THAT VOICE: A week ago, voice actors in the SAG-AFTRA union strike again...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew listens to an academic argument about free to play games and, inspired by it, plays Marvel  Avengers Academy while Dan plays through Episode 2 of  Batman: The Telltale Series and still can't believe how awesome Bruce Wayne is. #CYCLOPSWASRIGHT: Bringing back resident Marvel expert, Elijah Kaine, the trio talk about Marvel and how it uses crossovers both in the narrative sense...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew attends Geek Girl Con 2016 and relays some of his experience to the show while Dan gets freaked the eff out while playing  INSIDE , the latest from Playdead , makers of  LIMBO . OLD SEGMENT UPDATE: Back in Shortcast 14 , Andrew and Dan discussed a fairly quiet lawsuit that  Dungeons & Dragons and  Magic: The Gathering publisher, Wizards of the Coast, was confronting with regar...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew watches the season 3 premiere of  Star Wars: Rebels (as well as talks about the extended edition of  Ghostbusters aka  Ghostbusters: Answer the Call ) while Dan talks about going to a heavy metal show to see the band, High Spirits. BULLETPROOF BLACK MAN: Dan and Andrew talk about their first impressions of Marvel/Netflix's  Luke Cage , the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew started playing  World of Warcraft ...again while Dan sees a trailer for Steven Okazaki's documentary,  Mifune: The Last Samurai , and they talk about killing your idols. TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT?: Dan and Andrew examine the sudden and growing trend of bringing back notable 1980s' franchises back for modern audiences...but on television.  Lethal Weapon ,  The Exorcist ,  MacGuyve...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew bides his time until  Civilization VI releases by playing a bunch of Blizzard games while Dan swims through the lush animation and Old Norse world of Thunder Lotus Games'  Jotun . NEWS BLAST - UPDATE -  METAL GEAR SURVIVE :   Metal Gear  series creator and famous non-employee of Konami, Hideo Kojima, boldly said that he has nothing to do with Konami's upcoming  Metal Gear Soli...

Due to technical difficulties, only a Shortcast can be brought to you this week, but D. Bethel and Andrew Asplund have packed as much content into a single serving as humanly possible with a Week in Geek! Check out Andrew's stream of  Star Trek Online at A YouTube Channel [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes . WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew plays the remaster/reboot/sequel to the classic PC Civ-in-Space game,...

WEEK IN GEEK:  Andrew checks out PAX West while D. Bethel plays the mobile puzzle games,  1010! and  Street Fighter Puzzle Spirits . THAT'S EDUTAINMENT: Inspired by  Japanese: The Game card game Andrew saw at PAX West, Dan and Andrew talk about games made with education in mind. Games like  Oregon Trail and  Where in the  X  is Carmen San Diego? are classic examples of educational games done right...

WEEK IN GEEK:  Andrew watches a classic  Doctor Who stories, sequels of each other, in the Fifth Doctor adventures "Kinda" and "Snakedance," while Dan watches two episodes featured in Amazon.com's sitcom "Pilot Season":  The Tick and  Jean-Claude Van Johnson . NERD AUTEURS:  Starting with the reveal trailer at this year's Gamescom for Konami's surprise,  Metal Gear Survive , Dan and Andrew discuss...

WEEK IN GEEK:  Andrew dives into the  Doctor Who audio drama archive through the use of the Big Finish app while Dan listens to classic  Doctor Who while hurrying to finish his new  Long John  book. WHO'S THAT GIRL?: With the rumor that actress Zendaya has been possibly cast as Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming  Spider-Man: Homecoming film, Dan and Andrew discuss the history and thought behind cont...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew builds a new gaming PC while Dan plays  Batman: The Telltale Series - " Episode 1: Realm of Shadows." SPOILERS REDUX AND DMCA C&D: Dan and Andrew's discussion was initiated by a post over at the AV Club that covered an instance where major television network, AMC, issued a cease and desist order to a  Walking Dead fan site,  The Spoiling Dead Fans , when they started listing p...

WEEK IN GEEK:  To serve the purposes of research, Andrew punishes himself by rewatching  Torchwood: Children of Earth while Dan listens to John Carpenter's sequel to 2015's  Lost Themes album of original music,  Lost Themes II . THINGS ARE STRANGE:  Dan and Andrew dive deep into the latest Netflix phenomenon:  Stranger Things . They talk about its influences (and reference this interview with crea...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew recovers from his serious bout of time-travel last week by watching Wil Wheaton's tabletop adventure,  Titansgrave: The Ashes of Volkana while Dan finds room on the bandwagon to jump on and start watching Netflix's  Stranger Things . SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY?: Even though DC/Warner Bros.'  Suicide Squad only hit theaters today, audiences at premier screenings have been walking...

Things are out of sorts. People are lost to time. But Andrew and D. Bethel will do their damnedest to get another episode to you on time (in time?). Nick Springer & the Fremont Horror: Witness the first installment of a long-in-development (pre-podcast!) audio drama ripped from the minds of Andrew and Dan. I Ain't Afraid:  Andrew and Dan dig into the new  Ghostbusters and love every ounce of it. N...

We're finally here! Episode 100! Kind of. Mostly. Half, at least. But still a full episode. You'll find out when you listen. Week in Geek: Andrew went back to  Watch the Skies megagame with a new, interesting twist, and relays his experiences this time around while D. Bethel starts watching the now-cancelled show,  Penny Dreadful . Also, bonus outtakes! Limited Classic: Nintendo dropped an out-of-...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew spent his week diving deeper into the Lego muck and mire, watching a bit of the Lego  Ninjago animated series in order to get some more context to the more esoteric Lego Dimensions levels he has encountered.. Dan didn't stray to far, playing  Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour , the proof-of-concept demo for Capcom's sequel  Resident Evil 7: Biohazard  (or  Biohazard 7: Resident...

Week in Geek: Andrew simulates walking in  Gone Home  whereby he ponders how this mechanic has future ludic applicability; he also starts playing the strange but intriguing indie game,  The Bridge . Dan reads volume 1 of the manga,  Akira , upon which the classic animated film is based. Leave your thoughts about this week's topics as comments at forallintents.net . Be sure to join the official Fac...

Week in Geek: Andrew plays more  Lego Dimensions while also attends a Pride-week cosplay contest while Dan plays  Mega Man 2 in the  Mega Man Legacy Collection . How The Mighty Have Fallen: Keiji Inafune's hotly-anticipated, long-delayed, much-derided  Mighty No. 9 has finally been released to much controversy. Dan and Andrew wade through the hot mess that some have called the "worst game launch e...