Show notes
This week's podcast gets off to a spoilerific start. Now that our panelists have seen the Battlestar Galactica series finale, we follow up on last week's predictions with a spoiler-heavy review... you have been warned.

It's been a while since we've done a good gaming news roundup, so we also spent some time on sequel watch, analyzing what we know about Bioshock 2, Modern Warfare 2, and Mass Effect 2. Other gaming-related topics include Valve's "DRM free" claims, Havok and AMD's physics demo at GDC, and the next generation of fancy network cards from Bigfoot Networks.

Also in this episode: Cyril finds another mechanical keyboard to lay his hands on, the Pirate Bay wants to cloak its users for a small fee, and Geoff asks what we'd like to see in an instant-on motherboard OS.

Send in listener mail, and we'll answer on the podcast. - jdrake@techreport.com

Tech discussion:

Post-finale Battlestar Galactica review (0:02:55)

Infinity Ward preps Call of Duty 4 sequel for November (0:14:03)- Read more

Crytek shows console-ready CryEngine 3 (0:18:02)- Read more

BioShock 2 to hit PCs, consoles simultaneously (0:19:38)- Read more

Valve purports to make game DRM obsolete (0:23:32)- Read more

Killer Xeno has PCIe interface, starts at $130 (0:26:46)- Read more

ABS's M1 mechanical keyboard (0:31:52)- Read more

Pirate site preps cheap VPN service to cloak users (0:35:05)- Read more

MotionDSP's vReveal and Nvidia's CUDA (0:37:48)- Read more

Havok, AMD demo OpenCL-based physics at GDC (0:44:13)- Read more

Could Seagate be preparing a merger? (0:47:52)- Read more

The case for a secondary motherboard OS (0:50:29)- Read more