Big gaming and movie news for the week passed... D&D drops a big load, Marvel-ous revelations on Ant-Man and Dr. Strange, and Star Wars is getting more lens flare.

Featuring

- The anime-stylings of the new Devil May Cry
- Marvel confirms Dr. Strange and Ant-Man movies
- Who plays Dr. Strange?
- Jeramy's wild assumptions about the Ant-Man and Avengers 2 and 3.
- J. J. Abrams will direct the next Star Wars movie

Links

D&D Classics
Dr. Strange and Ant-Man
J.J. Abrams on Star Wars


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Sometimes podcasts have asides... tangents, if you will. Including sexualized anime figures and weird German guys. This is one of those times.

Featuring

- A test to see if you've seen Under Siege
- Disney: Infinity is coming for your monies
- "What the crisy fried ***in shit is this?!"
- "It's not as bad as you think... but, in some ways, it's worse."
- Guns, games, and the people that love/hate them.- Why we must be permissive, despite the risks
- The inherent problem with rating systems 

Links

Under Siege trailer
Anime Figure Licker
What some guy in CN thinks

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Monopoly is holding a beloved game piece hostage, Gygax Magazine nears, and CES 2013!

Featuring

- Monopoly plans to kill a piece... but which one?
- A look inside the first edition of Gygax Magazine
- Is digital over print even a battle anymore?
- Best in show at CES: Razer Edge
- Solutions looking for problems
 

Links

Save Your Token
Gygax Magazine
Razer Edge info
CNET's CES roundup

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The first all new podcast of 2013! We're talking about movies, music, and a little upstart MMO by our friends frenemies at Paizo.

Featuring

- Django Unchainged off the chain
- Redband Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters trailer looks even more promising 
- What makes a story good? Strategic use of awesome.
- Kickstarting Pathfinder Online
 

Links

Freedom from Django Unchained
Hansel and Gretel redband trailer (NSFW)
e20 Kickstarter leads to lawsuit
Pathfinder Online kickstarter
Goblinworks devblog

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It's a very special episode of Geek in Review... and no, no one gets inappropriately touched in a bicycle shop. It's our first anniversary podcast, A.K.A. our first podcastiversary!

Featuring

- The evolution of GiR

- The very, VERY first podcast Jeramy and Russell ever recorded. Unheard until now by the general public. Come for the awkward beginning, stay for the akward ending.

- The Red Solo Cup incident

Links
Red Solo Cup

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It's part three of the GiR Holiday gift guide, and we're focused soley on RPG supplements. Find out what to get that weird tabletop gamer in your life, or, if you ARE that weird tabletop gamer, find out where to blow your Christmas money. Win-win!

Featuring

- Terrain: Dollhouses for dorks
- The basic gift: a dice bag
- Can you ever have too many dice? No. No you cannot.
- Dice towers, miniatures, and more
- Looking ahead to our first podaversary.

Links
Dwarven Forge
Dragon Chow Dicebags
Crystal Caste
Gale Force Nine (DM token set with wooden box, DM's Keep screen)
Reaper Miniatures
RPG stuff on Etsy
2012 ENnie award winners
Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game

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Returning to Middle Earth and it feels so good. It's our very special The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey podcast, with special guest Macy Jones (theatre expert and wife of Russell) and film afficionado Adam Philpott. You will not find a more complete Hobbit experience outside the local cineplex.

NOTE: Here be spoilers. 

Featuring

- Midnight showing? Midnight showing.
- 2D, 3D, or 3D 48 fps? Yes.
- If this is a kid's movie... why is Gollum so terrifying?
- Yes, Radagast is in this movie. Yes, you will get over it.
- Jeramy's epic nerd trolling

Links
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
List of 48fps theaters 

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It's episode two of our ongoing series about gifts. This time, the guys are tackling card and board games. Come for the recommendations... stay for the holiday themed pastries.

Featuring

- A brief aside about HDMI cables
- What not to look for in a board game
- The time/difficulty/player number coefficient
- Game recommendations 

Links

Dumb Ways To Die video
TableTop
Fluxx
Munchkin
A Game Of Thrones
Settlers of Cataan
King of Tokyo
 

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It's public service time! The guys have a geeks gift guide unlike any other... not what you SHOULD buy, but what you SHOULDN'T. It's all about the tech this week.

Featuring

- Baldor's Gate and the Apple question
- Guide to buying video games: in short, don't.
- Why gift cards are the opposite of impersonal
- Consol season schmonsole season!
- The cheap gift any geek will love. No, really. 

Links

Baldor's Gate enhanced edition

CNET's TV buying Guide

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The guys get into Black Friday by not getting into it, lament the passing/changing of a great publication, and look ahead to a new magazine with a familiar name.

Featuring
- The Black Friday myth
- Kobold Quarterly is ending publication
- Complete coverage of Gygax Magazine... who, what, when, and if, specifically.
- Is the market right for GM? Pros and Cons.

Links

Kobold Quarterly Folds, A New Adventure Begins
Gygax Magazine
Gygax Family Split Over Magazine
An update from Tim Kask (from Gamers & Grognards)
Tim Kask Q&A
Loremaster interview with Luke Gygax 

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