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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by lynda.com hello internet and welcome back to another episode of ask the buffalo the show where you can ask me Ashley is together any question you might have from the wide world of technology every Tuesday we put up a call for questions on TechnoBuffalo comm and you can leave your question in the post comments otherwise send them to me anytime on Twitter at TechnoBuffalo or at Ashley ask Ewa just use the hashtag ask the bee so I can see it usually I answer between three and five questions every episode so let's get going at a cool dude 19 asks I want to get into reviewing phones how do I get one of the big phone giants to send me a phone to review well cool dude 19 whom I'm assuming is the 19th coolest person on earth it shouldn't be too hard you know seriously a couple of big things number one get a website start reviewing start writing review anything if you have a phone at home review it review any gadget that you get and then be consistent that's another thing another idea is go to events go to different technology events they may be like say HTC throws a public event you can go to that you can talk to people there be legitimate like be honest be legitimate and the other thing is is you can't get any of them to send you a phone to review if you don't ask so do your homework meet people be consistent and be a good writer those are that's my advice to you that's what I think you should do also in case you're really wanting to get into it we have advice for aspiring tech reviewers here on TechnoBuffalo so you can actually check that out if that's something you want to get into at ored Rhys one two three asks what was your fave and what game do you want to play this year there's a couple of things last year I really loved BioShock Infinite that was my game of the year on out of controller but I also loved games like The Last of Us and a couple of other Super Mario 3d World I was totally strewth and still m to a very large extent as for this year I'm really excited about a few games but I would say Mario Kart 8 I'm really still excited for Octodad dadliest catch for ps4 watchdogs is gonna be amazing destiny there's so many great games coming this year so those are the ones that come to mind though when I think about what I'm excited about at Avalos Vincent asks why doesn't Sony make custom controllers like Microsoft do you think we will finally see some with the ps4 I think that this is kind of a this is an interesting question because we don't really see a lot of custom controllers for ps4 or ps3 I should say and we do see all of these really cool like titanfall controllers and things like that for Xbox I have a feeling that if Sony were to do something like this it would be with an exclusive IP so something they are not gonna see on any other console so if there's anything out there that you're hoping for in terms of an exclusive cool custom controller I have a couple of options one you can have somebody make one for you is there's a lot of people who are DIY errs on the internet and they do some really incredible work and the other thing that I would recommend you do is just you know look for the exclusives and that might be something Sony might do in the future but I don't have any inroads at Sony and I'm not friends with Kaz Hirai so I can't say for sure I'm gonna take one second to thank our friends and sponsors at lynda.com you can in fact learn it at lynda.com it's an online learning company with more than 77 thousand video tutorials that teach software creative and business skills membership starts at just $25 a month and you get 24/7 access to high-quality video courses taught by expert instructors with real-world experience videos range from bite-sized tutorials all the way to comprehensive courses and subjects ranging all the way from business to photography to Android app development and everything in between we have a special offer for you if you want to check 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eyes so I don't know that Samsung it would be a step that they would be willing to get into but honestly you never really know because Nintendo started off completely not making consoles and then got into them in the 80s because they kind of ran out of options for the other stuff that they were doing so and now in 2015 they're gonna get into health so who knows you just never can tell I would say never write off Samsung you never know what they're gonna do but generally speaking I personally don't think we will see that happen anytime soon well that's it for us the Buffalo thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed the show give us a thumbs up and you can subscribe the TechnoBuffalo for all of your latest and greatest tech news I'm Ashley sceva see you guys next week hey guys thanks for watching if you are dying to get more of the latest and greatest tech you should definitely subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking on this giant magical subscribe button right beneath me or you 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