We will still be doing a weekly podcast, and it will still be Jon, Erik and myself — just a little different. The CastMedium Podcast is transmogrifying into Podcast Thing Weekly (credit goes to Jon for this bit of genius). We are still not quite sure how and where we will post the show, but the feed will stay the same, so no need to re-subscribe. The new show will appear in your podcast catcher of choice as it always has.

Onto this week’s topics:

• Bastion
• From Dust
• Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
• Jon’s PSPgo purchase
• FemSheps
• Google+
• Incoherent OS X Lion ramblings
• New TWiT digs

We’ll be back, better than ever next week, so stay tuned, we are just getting started!

If you missed the raw podcast chunk from last weeks scrapped show, here’s your chance to catch it. (NSFW)

Also, keep on eye on Jon’s blog over the next few days for a forthcoming review of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

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Runtime - 52:12

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Games

• Uncharted 3 Beta (Jon & Erik)
• Team Fortress 2 (Jon)
• Dungeon Raid (Jon)
• Alpha Protocol (Erik)
• Frozen Synapse (Jonathan)

Movies

• Dear Zachary (Erik)
• Splice (Jonathan)

Television

• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Jon)
• Deadwood (Erik)
• Treme (Jonathan)
• BSG (Jonathan)
• Curb (Jonathan)

Music

• Destroyer – Kaputt (Erik)
• AV Club – Summer Break covers (Erik)

Whatever Else

• Game of Thrones book dropped on July 12th

Erik and I talked about having extra codes to a certain game on Steam. Listen to the show and if you are interested hit @castmedium or @jonathandownin with a request. First two people get ‘em!

Also, if you aren’t ready GTD, you should be, and even if you are, don’t miss the launch of Tech Thing Daily on Monday!

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Runtime - 51:40

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Erik, in his typical curmudgeony fashion, is not in on G+, and he finds it difficult to muster any enthusiasm about a new social network.

Since we record on Tuesday nights, we missed Facebook’s announcement on Wednesday. Luckily for you, Jon and I did an extra 10 minutes on Facebook’s new addition of video chat and tacked it onto the end of this one. You’re welcome.

Note: Google+ is now open to all with a Google account.

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Runtime - 45:55

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Google Music Beta is the most interesting of this bunch and it is pretty comparable to Amazon’s Cloud storage music offering. YouTube movie rentals is also an interesting development, but it doesn’t seem to offer much over many of the other rental services that are already out there.

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• Jon Cole - @jonathanacole
• Ross Adams - @randomlyrossy
• Alex Martin - @ADewiM

Runtime - 34:42

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This was one of the most fun episodes we have ever recorded, so give it a listen!

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• Jon Cole - @jonathanacole
• Ross Adams - @randomlyrossy
• Alex Martin - @ADewiM

Runtime - 43:12

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Here are the topics we hit:

Games

• Battlefield Play4Free
• Skyrim screens
• Updated Xbox disc format
• Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC
• Xbox Live Rewards “Gamer IQ” Sweepstakes - http://rewards.xbox.com/gamer-iq/

Tech

• New York Times paywall
• Jon’s Android experience
• Amazon App Store for Android

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• Jonathan Downin - @jonathandownin - Game Thing Daily
• Jon Cole - @jonathanacole
• Ross Adams - @randomlyrossy
• Alex Martin - @ADewiM

Runtime - 40:07

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Here’s a fat list of the stuff we have been consuming:

Games:

• Dead Space 2
• Pokemon Black
• Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes
• Dragon Age (1 & 2)

Tech:

• Death of the Zune
• iPad 2 (Real Racing 2 HD)

Movies:

• OldBoy
• King’s Speech
• True Grit
• Yes Man

Also, I put up a video showing some games on iPad vs. iPad 2 over at Game Thing Daily, so check that out if you want a quick look at how the two iPads handle games differently.

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• Jon Cole - @jonathanacole
• Ross Adams - @randomlyrossy
• Alex Martin - @ADewiM

Runtime - 39:12

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It was high time that I upgrade my machine so I picked up a 2.2 quad core i7 15″ with 1680×1050 (yeah, we messed up the resolution in the podcast) screen upgrade. It’s a fine machine and we touch on the upgrades in the recent Sandy Bridge iteration.

The big news is the iPad 2. It seems like a great iteration on the orignal iPad, but is it enough to get Erik and Jon ready to buy? There is only one way to know. Are you interested in the iPad 2? How about the 9x graphics performance??? Let us know in the comments.

We will hit games next week– we promise.

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• Alex Martin - @ADewiM

Runtime - 32:11

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The Motorola Atrix is probably Android’s best candidate for an “iPhone Killer”, offering cutting edge hardware that outclasses Apple on its own. On the other hand, AT&T has recently announced that the Laptop Dock for the device will only be subsidized if you sign up for tethering, which makes absolutely no sense to the Engadget crew. Either way, Josh is fairly confident that this’ll be the phone that takes him away from the iPhone, which I’m sure we’ll see in the future.

The iPhone 4 on Verizon manages to be a quality phone despite being on another carrier, though Verizon’s position on downscaling video and bandwidth for power users depresses everyone a fair bit. The show wraps up with some news on Palm/HP’s upcoming plans for webOS, including a product that seems reminiscent of the Atrix.

00:08:24 - Live from Google’s Android event!
00:08:37 - Android in-app purchases hands-on (video)
00:08:55 - Android Market gets a web store with OTA installations, in-app purchases coming soon
00:11:00 - Android Market web store hands-on
00:20:47 - Motorola Xoom first benchmark: 1823 in Quadrant
00:21:47 - Google shows off Fragments API for Android 3.0
00:25:00 - Motorola teases Xoom Super Bowl ad: ’2011 looks a lot like 1984′
00:36:30 - Motorola’s Atrix 4G coming to AT&T on March 6th for $200, bundled with Laptop Dock for $500
00:51:35 - Verizon iPhone review
00:52:23 - Verizon can now throttle top five percent of bandwidth hogs, downres multimedia transfers
00:53:12 - Verizon breaks first day sales record with iPhone 4 pre-orders — in only two hours
01:01:43 - Nokia, Microsoft announcing partnership next week, possibly involving Windows Phone 7?
01:10:19 - Palm creating palmtop computer with detachable, dockable cellphone?
01:12:15 - HP CEO: New webOS products shipping weeks after February 9 reveal, another big announcement March 14
01:13:35 - Palm ‘Think Beyond’ teaser shows off glimpses of… something (updated with longer video)

Runtime – 1:19:40

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Veronica got a chance to try out the latest Dell Streak 7, which takes the poor idea of a 5-inch tablet and upsizes it to better compete with devices like the iPad or Galaxy Tab. The device is offered on T-Mobile via their ’4G’/HSPA+ network and offers a lot of interesting hardware choices like an SD card slot for additional storage and a solid 5MP rear-facing camera for taking video. Unfortunately, stuff like a low-resolution screen and the compromise of a skinned Android 2.2 interface drags the experience a little, but Veronica seems quite satisfied nonetheless.

Alex Lindsay of Pixel Corps and MacBreak Weekly fame joins the show to give some insight on the state of consumer-grade 3D video camcorders. Clearly there are quite a few options if you’ve got a nice budget to flex, but the market is still fledgling and companies are trying out quite a few methods. The show wraps up with some viewer questions.

Intel’s big recall over broken SandyBridge chips! Is your new PC Hosed? Don’t Panic! Making your own 3D video part one: The cameras. Are. So. Cheap. If you’ve got $400, you’ve got a 3D HD camera and Alex Lindsay is here to show you how to use it! How to kickstart your business venture into high gear! Find out how to search for every Twitter Post you’ve ever made. eSATA to USB explained part three.

Runtime – 40:42

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