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on today's show a Comcast Time Warner merger dennis woodside says goodbye moto a new Nintendo Direct Rovio's newest angry birds game and our most anticipated sci fi movies this year it's about full bulletins time hello internet and welcome to the buffalo bulletin where we recap stories from our site TechnoBuffalo calm every wednesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story on the show you can check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm ashley Esqueda hair your top stories well this was a little unexpected early yesterday morning news broke that media giant comcast intends to purchase cable provider Time Warner 440 5.2 billion dollars that price is seventeen percent more than Time Warner's current stock value which surely makes their investors happy but there's a pretty big obstacle standing in their way US regulators this is a huge merger and it could create service monopolies in markets across the country adding the recent death of net neutrality to the mix makes it unclear if this deal will ever get the thumbs up so I guess all there's left to say is US regulators mount up the recent Lenovo acquisition of Motorola Mobility left a lot of questions to be answered including what would happen to current executives one of those executives has officially announced his plans as motorola CEO dennis woodside posted a farewell letter on modos blog revealing he's taking a new chief operating officer gig at Dropbox Dropbox hoped Woodside can provide high-level experience and oversight for their growing company and Woodside will start his new gig on April first this is an elaborate April Fool's gag rights probably not over in gaming Nintendo held another one of their Nintendo Direct events online yesterday it was one of the longest Nintendo Direct ever and it focused on Wii U and 3ds games coming by the end of spring we saw things like a second installment of nes remix little mac from mike tyson's punch-out joining the Super Smash Brothers fray checked out some new Bayonetta 2 footage and got a solid release date for mario kart 8 which will hit retail shelves on May thirtieth and include seven Koopa Ling racers also in gaming rovio unveiled the newest installment of their angry birds franchise Angry Birds Stella interestingly there's no sign of the infamous pigs in this press release and it seems like all the birds in this game have names and distinct personalities of course rovio mentioned the story will quote live and evolve across physical and digital end quote meaning we'll be seeing all kinds of media platforms carrying Angry Birds Stella and loads of merchandise to go with it our wild card today is a fun one we are playing the movie card this week and Brandon's got our list of the 14 most anticipated science fiction and fantasy movies of 2014 there are a ton of great geeky movies coming to theatres near you this year including the captain america sequel chris nolan's interstellar the wachowski siblings Jupiter sending Godzilla and more you can check out the list for production stills and trailers and let us know what you're looking forward to checking out at the movies this year that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoy the show a thumbs up would be super awesome of you and if you want more great TechnoBuffalo video content you can subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button see you guys next time