This week the Nerds welcome Dev-i-boy to the group. Dev-i-boy is also known as Brad, a Brisbane game developer, who we interviewed around a year ago. Check that one out too, it's a good one and it'll be in the show notes below.

Professor and Dev-i-boy are gushing over Half Life: Alyx, despite a massive lack of Valve Index availability in Australia. Why, Valve, why?. HL:Alyx also doubles as an online lecture platform, a Cover your Cough training simulator and apparently, a generally good game.

DJ wants to see the Dragons Lair movie. Ryan Reynolds has been cast in a live action remake of a classic animated Laserdisc game from 1983. Don Bluth is on board, so it should be something interesting to watch.

Once again, the Nerds take on the topic of dinosaur chickens. Professor rants about the software design skills of Dennis Nedry and Dev-i-boy thinks there's no point in bringing back dinosaur chickens. But imagine the drumsticks on those chooks.

As usual, we cover the games of the week and remember some famous figures who passed away this week.

Half Life & Valve news

- https://uploadvr.com/new-valve-vr-games/

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271440/Next_Gen_HP_VR_Headset/

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKsSsEmfjoE&feature=emb_title

Dragon’s Lair Movie remake

-https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ryan-reynolds-talks-tackle-live-action-film-80s-game-dragons-lair-1279270

Recreating living dinosaurs now a reality

-https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247402?fbclid=IwAR2oerRwD5V1i3wiT_uBZglAOB5pbAazIK5GYFTxWFwlYbV4KrClpkFsRzk

Games Played

Professor

– Half-Life 2: Update - https://store.steampowered.com/app/290930/HalfLife_2_Update/

Rating – 4/5

DJ

– Call of Duty : Warzone - https://www.callofduty.com/warzone

Rating – 4/5

Dev-i-Boy

- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker

Rating – 4/5

- Colin McRae Rally 2005 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McRae_Rally_2005

Rating – 5/5

Other topics discussed

A Nerds Special - An Interview with An Aspie Life developer : Bradley Hennessey - https://thatsnotcanon.com/topshelfnerdspodcast/episode87

Valve to pay AU$3 million fine for misleading Australian gamers

- https://www.cnet.com/news/valve-to-pay-3-million-fine-for-misleading-australian-gamers/

F-Stop or 'Directed Design Experiments'

- https://vcc.wiki/wiki/F-Stop

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