Date: October 2, 2011 Time: 1:31:12 Hosted by Jordan Drake Co-hosts: Scott Wasson, Geoff Gasior, Cyril Kowaliski Download: MP3 (65.8MB) | M4A (89.6MB) Subscribe: RSS (MP3) | RSS (M4A) iTunes (MP3) | iTunes (M4A)
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Show notes
In TR Podcast tradition, we kick off this episode with a lengthy round-table gaming discussion. Cyril relates his experiences with the Battlefield 3 beta and TrackMania 2, after which our panel goes over some of the more notable titles on the horizon, including Rage, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Modern Warfare 3.

Next, the panelists change gears and share their thoughts on Amazon's new Kindles—especially the Kindle Fire, which Scott believes will be a commercial success. We round out the episode with a look at Asus' big honkin' Llano notebook and a slew of new 120-128GB solid-state drives.

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Tech discussion:

Cyril's early impressions of Battlefield 3 (0:01:30)- Read more

TrackMania 2 (0:12:16)- Read more

A slew of forthcoming games (0:17:23)- Arkham City - Rage - Serious Sam 3 - Modern Warfare 3 - Skyrim

It's raining Kindles: Amazon announces four new devices (0:33:01)- Read more

Asus' A53T Llano-powered notebook (0:51:53)- Read more

SSDs in the sweet spot: Modern contenders at 120-128GB (1:10:01)- Read more

That's all, folks! We'll see you on the next episode.