This week, Peter, John and Chris talk about rats causing broadband outages,the death of the Zune HD, and the fact there are more mobile devices than people in the US, as well as :

Gaming News

• Mass Effect 3 – has multiplayer?
• WoW now adding a way for getting money for gold in game
• Deus Ex DLC out Oct 18th for $15
• Duke 3D on Android.
• Arkham City buy new to get all the levels?
• Battlefield 3 Online pass (buy new) required for Online Play
• Spyro collectible items to unlock characters in game.

Tech News

• Nokia will be loading 100 million new phones with a dubstep inspired version of their ringtone composed by Sizzi, an Italian DJ, which we play out on the show! Many times ….
• Samsung Google 19th of Oct ICS/Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong (3AM local time)
• iOS5 impressions from Pete

• Microsoft finally owns Skype for $8.5bn
• BBM Outage probably over
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• Google *might* be planning a MP3 store
• hipstamatic adds 24 shot delay to seeing your picture
• HP and Condé Nast team up to offer auto printing magazines

This week

• Doom sales ban in Germany lifted after 17 years.
• Firing laser beams in the sky could make it rain!
• A planet which is made of diamond.

Gaming News

• Chrono Trigger coming to iOS and Android. Also Final Fantasy Legends, Itadaki Street, and Dragon Quest Monsters.
• 3DS slide pad is official ships Dec. 10th. Monster Hunter Tri G, BioHazard Revelations, Snake Eater 3D supported
• Max Payne 3 Coming March 2012
• CS:GO to have PC/Mac vs PS3 cross platform play
• Razer Blade, the $2,800 dollar ‘worlds first gaming laptop’

Games We’ve Been Playing

• Deus Ex: HR,  Deus Ex HR coming to Mac Winter 2011/12, Deus Ex DLC coming October

Upcoming:

• Serious Sam 3 – October 18th
• Rage – October 4, 2011

Tech

• Windows 8
• Steve Jobs Resigns.

And finally – Astronaut posts pictures of the southern lights to Google+ from space

Hit The Switch 18th September 2011

• Notch challenges Bethesda to a Quake 3 Showdown
• Like button now Illegal in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
• Microsoft Sued for $500 billion dollars by xbox 360 user via loophole

In Gaming News

• PS3 Price cut
• Sony Confirms ALL PS Vita games will be downloadable, and specs released
• Gabe Newell: We have to convince EA to come back

New Releases

• From Dust
• Age of Empires Online launch
• Bastion , and the soundtrack too

Coming soon …

• Deus Ex : Human Revolution

Tech News

• Chaos Communication Camp 2011 just finished
• Google Buys Motorola Mobility
• HP Getting out of the PC (and Phone) business
• Blackberry (BBM) music, $5 a month for 50 songs to share
• Foursquare Lists and Events
• New disc storage tech
• OS X Lion to be released on a USB stick

Hit the Switch 21st August 2011

• Man arrested after trying to make a fusion reactor in hit kitchen
• Apple (briefly) becomes the most valuble company in the USA
• Electronic tattoo monitors hospital patients

• Elder Scrolls vs. Minecraft dev: “scrolls” is our word
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Make use of all those bloody hats you got in TF2
• Stanley Parable

• Retail Battlefield 3 Will Require Origin
• How much is your steam account worth?
• Australia grows up, finally has R18+ rating for games
• PlayStation Vita won’t hit Europe or US until ‘early next year,’ says Kaz Hirai

• Games on Google+
• Facebook Messenger

• Virgin Media to roll out free WiFi in London
• Smartphone addiction diagnosed as users admit to stall-surfing

Hit the Switch 14th August 2011

Hit The Switch 12th June 2011

This week, we talk about more … things and stuff. (insert show notes here)

This week, we talk about games, tech and other related fun … things!