AwesomeCast 760: Samsung’s Insane Tri-Fold Phone, Fortnite Chaos & Red Dead on Netflix!
Snow can’t stop the geekery. This week, Michael Sorg, Katie “Dudders” Dudas and Dave Podnar settle into the Sorgatron Media Studio (with interns Tony and Mac on the couch) to unpack a packed slate of tech and gaming news.
We start with a birthday shout-out to long-time supporter John “Diggy” DeGore and his stash of wonderfully weird vintage Star Wars comics, then roll into the latest gadgets and headlines:
Samsung Galaxy Z Tri-Fold – Dave breaks down Samsung’s wild three-panel foldable that transforms from a tall, skinny phone into a 10" square tablet. We talk durability, price, and whether any of us actually need three iPhone-sized screens in our pocket.
Living-room cloud gaming with OneCast & GeForce Now – Sorg shares his journey turning an Apple TV and Chromecast with Google TV into a cloud gaming rig, streaming Xbox Game Pass titles like Mortal Kombat 1 and Marvel’s Midnight Suns without a console in the room.
Lara Croft’s Guinness records & Assassin’s Creed on Netflix – courtesy of Chachi’s Video Game Minute, we celebrate Lara’s world records and look ahead to Netflix’s Ancient Rome Assassin’s Creed series.
Netflix Games: Red Dead Redemption & beyond – Katie covers the original Red Dead Redemption riding onto Netflix Games (with Undead Nightmare), a stripped-down WWE 2K Netflix Edition, and why fewer than 1% of Netflix subscribers are playing games despite legitimately good titles hiding in the app.
Marvel’s Cosmic Invasion & Fortnite’s mega-event – Sorg reviews Marvel’s Cosmic Invasion (a Konami-style arcade beat-’em-up on Game Pass) and recaps the Fortnite event that shoved Homer, Godzilla, Kong, Superman, Voltron and more onto one island before rebooting into a West Coast-themed season with Kill Bill, Back to the Future, and K-pop Demon Hunters.
Smell-O-Vision & haptics – We revisit Hideo Kojima’s proposed blood-scented floppy disk for Snatcher and check out BHaptics VR suits you can now find at Best Buy, blurring the line between games and real-world sensation.
Shopping in 30 minutes & misbehaving robotaxis – Amazon’s 30-minute delivery test in Seattle and Philadelphia, Katie’s Walmart looking more like a fulfillment center than a store, and the now-viral clip of a Waymo driverless car slowly rolling through a live LAPD arrest scene.
It’s the perfect mix of gadgets, cloud gaming, streaming wars, and the slightly cursed future of tech you’ve come to expect from AwesomeCast.
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