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on today's show Nach codes the next HTC flagship irrational games will shudder their doors take two stamps on an annual cash grab four games and Power laces Buffalo bulletin time hello internet and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin we recap stories from our site technobuffalo calm every wednesday and friday if you're interested in reading more about any story mentioned on the show go ahead and check the description below for links or click on the graphics if you have annotations available and toggled on I'm Ashley sceva here your top stories Mobile World Congress is almost upon us and we're starting to get glimpses of phones and features will see in full at the show yesterday LG dropped the teaser video with some new devices and a new nut code feature that will be present on the LG G Pro to knock on already exists and lets you unlock a device with two simple taps and knock code expands that feature by letting you unlock your phone by tapping four spots on the screen in a pattern of your choosing it might be added to existing LG devices but a quick word of advice tapping shave and a haircut is totally the 1234 of passwords HTC dropped some future happenings on us sending out a save the date for an event on Tuesday March 25th obviously this is the event that will introduce us all to the HTC one's flagship successor but the invitation is pretty sparse and doesn't really give any hints as to what the devices official name might be we're obviously expecting things like processor improvements android 4.4 kitkat onboard more boom sound and sent six the leaks also suggests we might see surprising features like dual rear facing cameras on the device will be covering that event live so don't miss it over in gaming some big news dropped yesterday when ken Levine mastermind the Bioshock franchise announced his studio irrational games would be shutting down after the final BioShock Infinite downloadable content was released unfortunately ninety percent of the staff will be let go meaning a lot of talented people will be out there looking for new development gigs the remaining staff will be working with Lavine to start something much smaller than irrational with a clearer focus anna rationals parent company take two is allowing him to actually do that in house instead of making him launch his own startup so good luck to everybody involved we all like to think we would like annual releases big-ticket games like Grand Theft Auto but so we're up to Strauss Zelnick the take to CEO oh that will not happen any time soon basically he says there's so much quality in their game releases they would rather make you wait a few years between major franchise sequels for a good solid game with a lot of expansion potential this is a great way to encourage risk-taking and creativity at take two studios and honestly as a gamer it's nice to see a studio not go for an annual cash grab at the expense of their franchise madam call of duty sorry just allergies the wild-card story for today will hit you right in the nostalgia if you're a Back to the Future fan Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield said that those self-tightening Power laces Marty McFly marbles at and back to the future two may become a reality by 2015 for those of you not playing at home that's the very same year Marty travels to in the film of course there are a ton of logistical questions as to how Nike could even make Power laces a real thing but since we're not getting a hoverboard anytime soon this might be the best we can hope for that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed 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