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women's tiny pockets Elon Musk's a poet and we didn't know it plus all the latest gaming news it's all coming up on the scene at UK podcast hello and welcome to the latest episode of scene at UK podcast I'm rich Turner home and I'm joined by Katie Collins how you doing Casey I'm very well great very good thanks yeah we've got a lot to talk about this week so let's crack on first of all this is probably a subject close to your heart women it's official women's pockets are too small there's been a study done about the size of pockets in women's jeans women's clothing specifically in relation to smartphones in the size of smartphones and whether you can fit an iPhone X in there or a samsung galaxy and most of the time you can't so 100% of the time with men's front pockets could accommodate an iPhone X but only 40 percent of the time could a pair of women's jeans accommodate an iPhone X and it actually drops to 20 percent for the Samsung Galaxy and the Google pixel photo only five percent of the pockets tested of women's jeans could handle these gargantuan phones now Katie you're a woman yes as a woman tell us how you feel about these results well I mean I think that this it's an issue firstly that's very very close to my heart and being a woman that wears jeans a lot and but I actually think this has been a problem for decades and it's just really coming to light now because our smartphones are so big if smartphones hadn't got bigger than perhaps we never would be discussing this which I think would be a terrible shame because it's really about time that women's pockets got the attention that they deserved in the news 3 the bucket and Tosh tag yes and you know this isn't just a small pocket issue there are a lot of women's clothes don't have pockets at all and let me tell you how inconvenient that is and I saw a meme recently online which basically said how do you know if a woman's dress has pockets and the punchline was she'll tell you I remember once I was at a wedding when someone iDisk I know discovered they had pockets that someone's no that is nice dress and and they were oh yeah thanks unless they were kind of like swooshing it about they discovered pockets they were oh my god it's got pockets and we almost have to stop the wedding to make it like the father the bride was mid-speech stop and say nose and gentlemen this woman is a woman with pockets and she's very happy about it yes I treated myself to a birthday dress the shoe and the thing that I was most excited about was that it had a huge pocket I could have so I'm actually using an iPhone 8 plus which is slightly bigger than the iPhone turn and it's the same size size screen but the the actual body of the phone is bigger and so I could but I could easily fit maybe two I reckon I could reckon I could fit two phones in each of the two pockets I could carry four phones well points columns that's what they call yeah you've got a backup for your backup yeah is this one of those cases you think we're like obviously late you say for years women have been carrying stuff around like like makeup and that kind of thing yeah and no one's really addressed this pocket issue but suddenly smartphones come along they're a thing that men understand do you think this is the thing that only comes to the men are only taken seriously because because I think that it's it's definitely kind of brought it to the forefront a little bit more hmm but you know I I would personally love the option to sometimes be able to go places without a bag that would be a really really lovely thing you know you see plenty of men on nights out or just kind of just kind of nipping to the shops or whatever and just being able to yeah put their phone in their pocket and go I want to be able to do that you know it's I think it's this is a feminist issue fair enough yeah I should have you know it should be a fundamental right that I should just be able to go places without a bag should it's it's human rights that's all we're talking about so yeah so let us know how you feel about the whole pocket issue our phones just too big or a pockets too small I think that's kind of the fundamental question becomes technology or is it somewhere in the middle as with most things [Laughter] difficult defense there so also have what's happening this week Elon Musk I mean just there's just every time you look at what the Elon Musk is up to there's just more stuff that you did not expect to ever be dealing with so fresh from his his bizarre Twitter round with his alien Banks he has proved he's been getting into poetry yes so this was this happened yesterday it's yesterday was exactly two weeks from the date that must kind of teased on Twitter that he might take Tesla private and earlier in the day and he hadn't tweeted anything all day and we suddenly realized that he deleted his Instagram account without saying anything right it's just gone yeah and it's not the first time Elon Musk's deleted social media accounts so earlier this year for example he deleted the Facebook pages for two of his company SpaceX and Tesla now we were all a bit mystified as to what was happening and I got in touch with one of his representatives no comment and I think like I suspect though what I thought would happen is as usually happens with Elon Musk is he likes to kind of be his own spokesperson use Twitter as his microphone and I thought oh I'm sure I would probably suggest that maybe he takes a bit of time off yeah good thing so was this latest thing that he's tweeted them so rather than tweeting an explanation and all he said was he tweeted I don't know whether that it was a direction whether it was read Elliott's notes on the wasteland or read Elliott's notes on the wasteland ursin you should read this or I've just read this right it's not very clear but he he tweeted a link to Wikipedia article about TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land and also a kind of a short passage snobby later yeah so I thought I would read the passage okay and bring bring the full weight of your your gravitas and an acting experience to this well yes I did do an English literature degree so this is this should be we didn't do performance poetry but you know we didn't do - yes spoken word bit slam poetry coming up for you ladies and gentlemen okay fleebus the finition a fortnight dead forgot the cry of goals and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss a current under the sea picked his bones in whispers as he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool Gentile or Jew oh you who turned the wheel and look to windward consider fleebus who was once handsome and tall as you my word musk and well so I you know as I said I did an English literature degree now yeah but I don't need to because some wonderful journalist at Bloomberg had a little crackers there and I think did a really good job I'm just gonna I'm just going to we'll try and link to this this piece in the show notes to give them their due but they pointed out that it has been a fortnight since Elon Musk tweeted his that he had he had funding secured today to take Tesla private and so you know he was saying he as in the poem he says a fortnight dead I know I mean obviously he's still alive but I mean who knows what he's been going through some private turmoil in that time on Musk's head it's one of the great questions about time yes absolutely yeah I mean will one day we'll figure it out yes yeah well yeah though fascinating stuff and if you have a favorite piece of poetry that applies to a particular tech billionaire eccentric then let us know is there a piece of there a particular poetry or Limerick that goes back to the way the Elon Musk then the wasteland will that will have to wait maybe I should start a column on that I think this stimulus I think we should start poetry corner in this podcast I think you know if you're a big fan of the poetry then we can we can do more of it you know Katie's poke turn it to full-on Katy reads poetry podcast and I'm okay with that yeah I think I think that's good I'm getting a thumbs-up from across the board yeah I'm sure I'm sure there'll be some comments on YouTube suggesting that we don't do that there's always some comments on YouTube suggesting that we don't do things that it's never stopped us before right so so yes so moving on and so something that said that someone mentioned actually was that that particular piece of poetry that lends its name to consider fleebus Philebus the the is that he said I hope it is yeah which is platter which is an en banc sci-fi novel that's going to be turned into a TV show by Amazon which leads us rather tortuously and roundabout yeah it was a bit it was a bit bit labored but I mean I'm gonna run with it Rick brings around to Amazon's latest TV show Jack Ryan which is based on the famous Tom Clancy best-selling series of novels and the character Jack run who's be seen in movies before you might have seen the the Alec Baldwin movie hunt for October with Sean Connery you might seem me to Harrison Ford movies about Jack Ryan you may have seen the benefit one the Chris Pine one but no one really likes to talk about those and after all those movies they're trying to make Jack Ryan into a big TV show and I watched it and it's okay oh yeah it's I mean so the thing is it's it's gonna be on Amazon very soon it's I think it's the 30th of I will tell you that admit the 31st of August so not not long and it's it's okay the the problem is it's really really generic when Tom Clancy's novels were written he was like a real master of this kind of geopolitical spy story this kind of like nations and terror and terrorists kind of groups at war with each other and kind of globe-trotting stories about these kind of these these smart analysts and and it was it was you know he was a real master at that story and Jack Ryan character who is this like office desk jockey who's kind of dragged into these conflicts and was kind of was really well realized in the novels he's like the smartest guy in the room and he can sort of be drawn into action but it's a very good see it's all about the politics of these situations and they were really really good and yeah they're absolutely they sell by the they sell by the aircraft carrier form but the problem is when Jack Ryan put on screen sitting at a desk or working on a computer doesn't quite translate on the screen quite so quite so well and to be honest it just doesn't really grab me as a character and and it doesn't help that this particular show it just doesn't have anything particularly unique about it like you've seen everything in this show before there's a lot of stuff of like guys with beards like following other guys with beards through African market places and like frowning and saying like we he's made us and then kind of jumping into jumping into cars and and and and chasing around after people and and then it cuts to like an office where there's a bunch of people in this kind of like glass framed office looking at millions of computer monitors going I think you know where's he going we've lost him you know we're doing borns on the move and this kind of thing except it's not a Jason Bourne movie but you've you've literally seen all this before and there's very very little that's new it's very slickly done it's very cinematic and you know there's a good chance that if you like this sort of thing you're going to like this but it just doesn't have any of the kind of like fresh angle or you know even just a slight twist on the formula that stuff like homeland or you know various other movies have that are very similar to this I was I was thinking about this just last night actually because I saw it's a totally different genre but when I was on the tube I saw him a poster for a new adaptation of Vanity Fair there's a curry novel and I they made a film of that I mean it must have been at least 10 years ago now with Reese Witherspoon in it but I did think you know they we're especially with these book adaptations of kind of well-loved series or well of love books you know I think if they're gonna do it more than once if they're gonna redo redo it then it really has to be something special and it does have to be something new I mean there were other adaptations I can think of that you know I remember when they remade Pride and Prejudice for example which also is you know not of this this genre the BBC adaptation was so classic so brilliant you know people still talk about it with with Colin Firth diving into the latest mr. Darcy yeah and the fact that they remade it just kind of seems a little bit pointless and I I mean there are things I think you know the add up the first adaptation perhaps the technology wasn't quite there like the way that they adapted it perhaps could have done with some work like I I often think of His Dark Materials by Philip yeah in those novels and they actually ended up only making the Golden Compass the first one of the books and didn't go down very well yeah everybody sort of said it wasn't particularly well done and I think that they're now going to make a long form TV exact location out of that which I think would be it's a much better format for it and much better and it's an opportunity to to give that amazing series the adaptation it deserves but unless you're going to like you say really brings something fresh and really new to it then I can't really see the point in really adapting something yeah yeah well that's well that's it and this is an amazon show and the amazon previously have made a lot of kind of quite prestigious kind of like quirky shows and they haven't really had a big hit in the realm of like who lose handmade tale or netflix is stranger things and you know they've won a bunch of awards are transparent stuff but then they haven't had like a big kind of mainstream hit and that that's kind of why they're shifting a bit towards these kind of big tentpole things so they're doing they're doing jack ryan but they're also doing Lord of the Rings and it's the same it's like you say I mean it's not like we don't have a definitive version of the Rings no one watched the piece Jackson one of the Rings movies and went well that was good but it could have been longer yeah so you know that's kind of I'm kind of wonder what they're doing and the thing about this Jack Ryan show is that it kind of wipes away all of the sort of the the the the the kind of the surroundings and the settings from the from the books because it's you know it's it's 20 30 years later so so like the kind of Cold War setting is completely gone and when you take this character who isn't really that interesting on his own and you kind of put him into a very very generic sort of setup that has been lifted straight out of spy game and homeland and all these other kind of identical spy movies it's it's it's really difficult but uh as a kind of like coded to that I'm actually quite looking forward to the Vanity Fair because I recently spoke to the visual effects people who worked on it and you know wit being a period period story you don't really think about there being visual effects but actually there's quite there's a huge number of visual effects in it they used them they used a cutting-edge digital visual effects to create stuff like some of the things we talked about whether the Battle of Waterloo is seen in there in the story and so they used visual effects to do that in a way that hasn't been seen in a period drama before and they also one of the scenes that we talked about the way we focus on listing in t it's gonna be coming up very soon so if you're interested in this kind stuff look out for this but they talked about how they recreated Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens which is this kind of like bacchanal and the kind of the kind of exciting well I suppose so how is the soho at the time but this kind of you know kind of like outrageous sort of back an alien decadent place where people would go to to entertain themselves and they've used creating sounds sounds pretty cool but they've this thing so they've used visual effects to to kind of build out the scale of that and do and realize that in a way so there's gonna be a shot where you're probably the idea is that you won't notice that it's visual effects but there's gonna be a shot where someone walks through this incredible lively teeming set and then walked into a hot-air ballooning and flies up and the camera stays with the balloon and it's all done to visual effects so that's something that you wouldn't see years ago so that sounds pretty cool so if they you know if they can if they can bring this kind of light you know new and new sort of generation of filmmaking to it and that's and that's very exciting I'm not sure that Jack Ryan does that I mean like I say if you're into your spy stuff then yeah it's it's it's pretty you know standard issue does the job and it's very slick and cinematic but you know for me it just didn't have any kind of freshness or uniqueness to it unfortunately but yeah so you'll see that on the 31st of August so look out for that if you are a Tom Clancy fan anyway and you said there's something else that you've been watching recently as well that's correct so this is obviously one of Amazon's big rivals in the video fear yeah which is it's a Netflix original that was released last Friday and Netflix when it comes to its originals obviously it has had these big hits like stranger things but they're in in the kind of teens onra they're kind of you know that kind of high school genre which has a kind of I would say a kind of an audience it's teens and sort of people in their twenties as well and it has not been doing so well recently okay so there so earlier the show that it was released season two of thirteen reasons why yep which is kind of being touted as being quite problematic due to the how it handles the subject matter which is mainly centered around this suicide of the protagonist in the first inning of the first season and so and the second season didn't go down that well it it wasn't they didn't think that they still didn't think that in spite of the kind of the these warnings that they post at the beginning of every episode they still didn't think it was handled very well and it also just wasn't reviewed very well right you've got to be very careful at depicting suicide especially teens to an audience our team yes which is an important audience for Netflix oh yeah and then just earlier this month they had the series that they've really really been pushing front and center I've seen it kind of every time I go onto Netflix it's always you know the main featured show they well they'll be because of the algorithm that you'd be interested but yeah and and also every time I search for anything and you know that thing isn't there or I haven't spelt it right that is also sensational yeah yeah yeah so it's the show is I'm insatiable which deals with a really overweight girl who loses loads of weight and it's just been kind of rinsed really for just being problematic in the way that it it's kind of body shaming but also just like being politically correct in like a million different ways that you would not expect in 2018 and so I was really pleased this Friday when they released a really lovely film which is an adaptation of a really popular young adult novel called to all the boys I've loved four and it's this is it's a kind of a teen rom-com it's involves a girl who basically she she has she has this kind of these five letters that she keeps in her bedroom that she's written to the five boys that she's had crushes on okay and her younger sister basically decides that she this that her older sister needs a boyfriend so she mails them out to all of the boys that they are written to gasp yeah and drama ensues and the the protagonist Lara Jean kind of ropes in a fake boyfriend to ward off any trouble right and I I thought this was a great example of a it's really beautifully done I really like cinematically I thought it was gorgeous mm-hm the the acting was was lovely they were convincing teenagers which i think is a really important thing for anything that you're gonna set in a high school no Freddie Prinze jr. in sight and it was just a really sweet kind of film for 2018 very unproblematic and it really kind of appealed to people online it's kind of it's sort of the the main the other main character a guy called Peter karinski and has sort of become a bit of a meme on Twitter I've heard that name yeah and he said because he's he's he's such a sweet fake boyfriend no why would you need a real boyfriend when you can have a really adorable sweet one so it sounds like a dose of positivity than it really is and it feels actually funnily enough it's really PG like it's so kind of you know there is no there are no all the things that you think you need to make a kind of like good popular teen drama there's no drugs there's no sex right there's no like like scary hazing right like kind of darkness to it there's a little bit drinking but you know but apart from that it's just really it's quite innocent and that in itself in this kind of year yeah feels just really lovely and it's really resonated with people okay and so if you ever just it doesn't take you too far on the emotional spectrum either way so it's not a kind of a tearjerker and it's not gonna be like you know it's not it's not gonna be the funniest film you've ever seen but it's just a really lovely what rom-com that will warm your hearts if you ever and then if you ever in the mood for like you know you need to be perked up it's kind of put the perfect thing really and yeah I just think I'm hoping that this is an example of Netflix kind of getting back on track a little bit when it comes to its teen yeah programming yeah definitely that's the thing I mean Netflix has a bit of they produce so much stuff it used to be that when their original stuff was like a mark of you know is guaranteed quality house of cards and stuff right from the start you know an orange is the new black when they were like the only two things they had that was like a hundred percent success rate yeah and as they added new shows and new movies that they were also really you know really high bar but then the more stuff they turned out and the more that it became clear that they weren't really exerting that much editorial control over it they were just kind of like throwing a load of money at some some you know big-name people like Ricky Gervais sand you know all these many many people who've appeared on there and the streaming service and it just became clear that like the quality wasn't the quality control maybe wasn't there and now they're producing so much new stuff week in week out that it's nice to know that yes some of this stuff actually is worth watching I mean I watched recently there was another rom-com with Kristen Bell and Seth Rogen which I forgot the name of it so I'm gonna go on a cruise we can edit this scene later but it's it's it's basically just like an advert for a recruiting company but it's clear they all just went on a cruise for a week what Kelsey Grammer is well-liked father it's called keiko scramble points to that and I just thought this is this is not a rubbish I can't come watch this yeah but yeah so so yeah so it's good to see that you know Netflix is possibly back on track Netflix Amazon trying different strategies and we'll see how how but yeah I mean let us know what you think of the latest Netflix Amazon shows if there's anything in particular that you're enjoying right now then then let us know and moving on from movies and TV we can only want to gaming now so this week is the big gaming event Gamescom in Cologne in Germany and so if you're a gaming fan this is the time to check out the most original innovative fresh groundbreaking titles like battlefield 5 life is strange - Devil May Cry 5 and other innovative brand new groundbreaking titles such as cyberpunk 2077 I can't believe there's been 20 2009 77 fight I mean it only seems like about a thousand and five hundred I actually probably stopped after the first 800 games to be honest but yeah speaking of cyberpunk 2077 they had an event at Gamescom where they had special fake fake beers made specially related to the game and our intrepid reporter with a bit of heroic journalism Andy Hoyle who's normally in this seat he went out to Germany and he tried all of them and recorded it in a great piece of journalism I think that's gonna be the one that's gonna win all the awards yeah and that's the peanuts are right there so he's in the ground in Germany so we're going to go across live not live - Andy in games come Andy what's good what's good you say well it's definitely not my quite disappointing hotel room but I believer it you're probably asking about actual Gamescom launchers the big news of the show has definitely come from Nvidia they have got a whole fleet of new top and graphics cards this time called the GeForce r-tx 2080 now the big thing that you need to know about this is that of course it makes your games look a bit more glossy and the performance is generally better now that is what we pretty much expected but the are in RTX comes from a term called retracing now to be honest I didn't really know what ray tracing is or why it's important but turns out it's a really really big deal and it's been something of the holy grail of video games basically what ray tracing does is really accurately stimulate how light really react to different objects and different services in the real world it allows for much better reflections on things much better shadows and it's something that can really give an extra elements of realism to your games basically a shiny surface can now reflect anything in its environment I previously it would only reflect things that were already on screen but now I you can sort of move around a mirror and it will sort of actually reflect what else is there we saw a great example from the upcoming battlefield 5 where like a tank's muzzle flash when it fired a shot around I don't know what tanks fire the the flare that came off that muzzle you can see reflected in different objects all around even though the muzzle wasn't on-screen so it just means that when you're playing a game things are reacting in the way that they should do so you feel a lot more immersed it might not sound like a big deal maybe I'm not explaining it in quite the best way but really it all adds up to a much more immersive look overall it's the sort of thing that when you're playing even a game of great graphics now you don't realize what can be improved until you see how it can be improved and you see what's happening there so that's pretty cool I say we saw battlefield 5 we saw what else did we see a metro Exodus basically a lot of the big games a shadow of a Tomb Raider cause this all has this and it's not just reflections as well the shadows particularly in shadow of the team right they are softer they interact with other shadows in a more realistic way so as you're walking around the scene everything just looks nicer it is difficult to kind of see so I do as you if we if we aren't already putting on-screen different demos which are hoping we have got some examples do go on YouTube and hunt down different things there are screenshots all over the place of of different before and after versions with this technology switched on and with it not switched on all of which makes it a big deal but it's called Gamescom let's talk about some actual games so first of all the thing I really want to talk about the most is life is strange too because we don't really see a lot of that at e3 we do know a lot more about it now we know that the story is going to follow 16 year old Shawn and his little brother Daniel as they escape from their hometown of Seattle to their dad's old hometown in Mexico I won't say why at this point why they're escaping and just in case you're really trying to avoid any spoilers although the first 20 minutes of gameplay is available officially online so you can go and take a look at that should you want to it doesn't have to be a really great game and much in the same vein as the previous life is strange series in that it's completely story driven and there are loads of choices for you to make throughout and you know even down to how you talk to your little brother and how you give these responses to those things and those choices that you make will completely determine the how the game goes and how you interact with characters as you talk to your little brother for example you're given options that I saw to you tease him about things and you know basically plays a slightly jerky bigbrother but that will then impact your relationship with him down the line and how he responds to you in certain ways I think that's really interesting I actually haven't played life is strange one but I know a lot of people who are absolutely obsessed with it they love it it's this apparently cinematic masterpiece and can really it's very emotional really brings you in to the storyline this looks like it could be a lot more of that but because it's not set in just one area it's spread out you're gonna see more things you're gonna do more things you're gonna meet more people I think it's gonna be really interesting it's coming out again in episodes like the previous one did and the first one launches I think September 27th sometime in September and the other ones will follow sort of six to eight weeks after that so that's looking quite interesting I have seen bit more of cyberpunk 27 27 T 7 that was like the big big thing at e3 but knowingly 83 they didn't let any press or just capture any game footage or do anything like that so all we could really deal with sort of talked vaguely about what we've seen annoyingly that's been exactly the same thing here we haven't be able to capture any footage you have meals taking screenshots of our own and we haven't been able to actually play it we I sat in a dark cinema and I watched about 50 minutes of different bits of gameplay all I can say is that it does look fantastic the graphics look gorgeous the actual gameplay itself looks great you will have to take my word on all of this it's a first-person RPG not a first-person shooter and a kind of like life is strange it's very story driven and as you go through different missions and quests and things you will have different ways of approaching them different outcomes from each mission that will your choices that you make again will determine how the game plays later on it's a dystopian future it's full of cool-looking guns and swords and biomechanical implants that you can upgrade your own vision and it looks really good it definitely it's it is very dystopian it's a bit it's very gritty with lots of bad language but it looks like a lot of fun it looks like it's gonna be really interesting to play bro some really cool game mechanics things like different boosts you can give yourself as you're going into certain areas that look like they are administered by and like an aspirin halo the character when you need to do something just puts this thing goes and brings it in and suddenly they're more powerful I don't think that's how aspirin healers work as far as I've ever been know if they do work like that then do let me know because I'd like to try some but more importantly in the game perhaps are their promotional beers that they had on their media stand and they had four different ones and I thought it's important to try every single one because journalism so do go take a look at that if you are interested to know why I was quite drunk I had a conference at about 1:00 in the afternoon some of the things I've played which I think we're pretty fun I had to go on elderscrolls blades that is the Elder Scrolls mobile game which is pretty much the nearest you're going to get to Skyrim on a phone at the moment it does look really nice almost console level graphics on an iPhone that I saw her playing on again it's an RPG as oppa is not as open as Skyrim or Elder Scrolls online you as you move around the world there are pretty set pathways for you to follow but then you'll find enemies enemies along the way and you tap in certain ways in order to take them take them down what's pretty cool about this game is that you can play in horizontal mode or you can turn the screen and play in vertical orientation we've just one hand which is really nice if you just want to casually play a little bit on the bus or it's you're walking somewhere so you know don't play games when you're walking pay attention to where you're going that's how accidents happen people come on but yeah it looks really it looks it looks fun I only played a short demo it's all we've seen so far we haven't seen anything new about it since e3 but I did always want to highlight because I am a bit of an Elder Scrolls nerd to an extent I'm constantly playing the other scrolls online so the idea of having something which looks really nice on a phone is pretty exciting for those times when I can't take Skyrim on my switch also things I thought really fun Nintendo showed me a bit of Super Smash Brothers ultimate again no big updates from e3 they have lots of new characters since then but three others none that I particularly know or really care about but the game itself looks like a lot of fun I think what the what the switch does really really well is that multiplayer fun game I loved Mario Kart 8 because I can have four people again in my house all playing games together whereas I've really found that and I know it moaned about this on the podcast before so I won't go into detail but most games consoles focus on online play so yeah you can have your Xbox one and you can be playing racing games and so if what you're playing against other people on other consoles in probably other parts of the world like we've really sort of lost that social local gaming where you can have your mates around crack open a few drinks and and game together but I really kind of got that back of marikar tonight I had people around all the time and we're playing and we had a really really good time and I really enjoyed that so I like the fact that we've got more local multiplayer games like Smash Brothers that you can fire up and you can play short but intense and just have a lot of fun together that's really really cool overall though the show hasn't been full of news it really does play second fiddle to e3 e3 back in June is where we saw all the big announcements that's where all these games were first shown off and really ether air Gamescom has pretty much teamed just like an opportunity for some of the European press who didn't get to e3 to have hands-on with games we've had some tiny little incremental announcements on on some things but no major news no major launches the big thing really has been the Nvidia graphics card and that is a big deal so that's exciting that they did that here because I think they were supposed to announce it at e3 but decided for whatever reason to not do the show itself is open to the public at the moment I went in yesterday and it was a seething mass of people in particular around the booth for fortnight now fortnight obviously is a global phenomena at that moment they didn't really have any big news at the show but they did have a huge huge stand which had its own assault course built around it though as if lines you can go on walls to climb over there was like a bucking bronco one of those ride on things but it was a missile from the game rather than a bull there were live live acts on stages including I think I saw one that was I had to craft a weapon and I saw yesterday when I was there there were people in costumes dancing to AK was barbegal and throwing t-shirts out into an audience of literally thousands of people it was a crush of people all around the booth huge Keys people came to ours to have a go on these things really as it did highlight for me how much of a phenomenon for 90s because yes I'm aware everyone talks about it and stuff and it's a really popular game but until you kind of go to somewhere and you see all these people lining up to get any kind of interaction with the game it really drives home how big a deal it is and that was kind of surprising so yeah it's been good fun and there's plenty to read about games if you do head cnn.com forward slash Gamescom you will be able to see all of our coverage from there and but there's nothing yet more to come but we are expecting some more hands-on with some games and the plenty of new games launching over the next few months before before the end of the year including shadow of a Tomb Raider and other big titles which I've seen nothing of a games calm like Red Dead Redemption - so obviously there's plenty more gaming used to come so do keep your eyes on CNET otherwise that is it from me from the show I am going to probably tidy up my hotel room and check out but not before having a little bit more of those nice German beer so I'll see you guys back in the studio soon we miss him anyway so for more information on on those latest games and watch the trailers all that kind of carry-on then just search see Netcom for the word Gamescom or one word that's games and then calm without a dot or anything it's just like one you'll figure it out we've got a one stop article listing all the the coolest new stuff so if you--if it games got 28 the gamescom 2018 biggest news and games you'll find that there or if you really want to go in-depth you can check out our console-based friends over at GameSpot comm they're not console based I don't know why I said they were like console based but they are people they're human beings and don't anyone tell you differently some of them are pcs exactly and yes at Gamescom and yeah that's it also speaking of going off to Germany to look at smorgasbord of cool new stuff next week we're not gonna be here at the podcast because we're gonna be over in Berlin in Germany for yes we'll be going to Aoife which is biggest tech show and not Europe's biggest phone show that's Mobile World Congress which we've already had this is the tech show so that means that there will be more smart home stuff on display and we are hoping to see some big smart home announcements particularly from Samsung and LG but you know lots of other kind of white goods companies as well so people that make fridges freezers cookers other things that you have in a kitchen and hopefully some cool I'm gonna personally be looking out for a lot of home robots that's gonna be my thing I hope for the show next week and there's a whole other bunch of press conferences as well including Sony hawawa and honor and I think we might see some phones from them hopefully at the new huar way mate which is one of their kind of big phones of the year so definitely look out flex we'll have all of the news live from Aoife mm-hm and if by the way if you're kind of listening to that and going are white goods that's not very interesting this is the one time of year when white goods are interesting because what these guys do is they take their fridges and their microwaves and their kettles and their toasters and then they put other stuff in them yeah so you'll get like fridges with with tablets in the screens in the door cameras inside yeah exactly dishwashers with like a washing machine in the lid and and a toaster with a like a Home Hub Rooter in the in one of the slots and just yeah it's just fascinating it's crazy coffee machines and speakers like Wi-Fi connected everything you don't need your you don't need your pasta maker to be Wi-Fi connected but no apparently you do and Alexa as well yes yes Alexa everything hey Alexa make me some fettuccine hey Alexa I want some bread and hey Alexa I'll see you in ether next week absolutely yeah great well that's it for this week we hope you enjoyed the show leave a comment below on youtube to tell us how much you enjoyed it or how much you hated it and don't forget to tell us what you thought the poetry because that was a big deal we make that a regular spot should that be its own separate podcast you know you can leave a comment down there or just a big thumbs up that's all we really need you too big thumbs up people please do you feel free to leave us a review on 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