#258 – Krypton Cousins

This week Cer and Ray tackle some subjects that are fairly new to them, such as E-Sports and Virtual Reality, and of course we can’t go a night without Bacon News.

Show News

• Photo contest – http://thesundering.net/contest
• December Winner – No one!
• Will be announcing the Annual winner during next week’s show, last chance to play catchup
• Have until Friday ⅛ at 11:59:59 pm ET to send in catchup photos
• 60 Days Warcraft Game Time
• $20 J!NX Gift Certificate
• Warcraft Mount of your choice (Warforged Nightmare excluded) from the Blizzard store
• Warcraft Battle Pet of your choice from the Blizzard store
• $20 Battle.net Gift Card
• $20 Steam Gift Card

Bacon News

• Baby reacts to bacon for the first time (play video)
  • http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/baby-filmed-parents-tastes-bacon-7086264

Geek & Random News

• Pizza manager declares war!
  • http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-woman-gets-vulgar-note-on-dominos-pizza-receipt_56846743e4b0b958f65b3ec7?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
    • A domino’s manager, apparently in response to an earlier complaint, put the message “Fuck this cunt” on her receipt. The customer in question even ordered a second time, and the manager against wrote “Fuck this cunt”.
• Disney creates robot capable of scaling walls
  • http://www.geek.com/news/disney-has-created-a-robot-that-can-drive-up-walls-1643411/
    • Made from 3d-printed parts
    • Uses two propellers to maintain balance. One to “stick” to the wall, and the other to stabilize the robot’s position.

Gaming News

• What’s your New Year’s gaming resolution?
  • Any games you need to finish?
  • Any games you wanted to play last year but never got around to it?
• 2016, the year of virtual reality?!
  • http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35205783
    • HTC Vive joining existing virtual reality products in a few months
    • Businesses, schools, and even doctors may use VR for further interaction with their customers/patients.
    • Is VR really the next step for gaming? Is it too big of a leap?
• Warcraft Movie Tour in China
  • http://www.legendary.com/warcraft-hits-china-with-epic-mall-tour/
• Activision Blizzard Purchases Going Out of Business MLG for $46 Million
  • http://esportsobserver.com/mlg-sells-substantially-all-assets-to-activision-blizzard-for-46-million/
  • Earlier this year Blizzard started their own esports division headed up by Mike Sepso, a co-founder and president of MLG

RAY

• twitter: @rayfyst
• Steam: Rayfyst
• XboxLive: Rayfyst

CER

• Twitter: @ceraphus
• XBOX Live: Amish Mafia
• PSN: CeraphusPrime
• Steam: Ceraphus

XIA

• Twitter: @itsxia
• Xbox Live: itsxia

Mr Hasu

• Twitter: @Mr_Hasu

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