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Holiday! Oh! Holiday!

We at PandaManga.com have been kicking ass and making content for a while now! We’re all so proud of everything we’ve accomplished and shared with the PM community! However, in our furious whirlwind of content creation, making podcasts, comics, covering events and writing reviews and articles… we totally forgot to give our poor contributors a moment to catch their breath and stay fresh!

So we’ve decided to do just that. We’re giving our content creators a holiday for the month of March. We will still release podcasts each week, so don’t worry about that! However our comic releases will go on a short hiatus and return on Monday April 1st. I know this isn’t exactly what you wanted hear, but trust me when I say that we don’t want to take our contributors for granted and burn them out!

We love you all and will return on the 1st of April with Artistic Monk and Dinner & Dragons….and hopefully something new and exciting! (^_^)

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034– Geek Life – Games

On this week’s Geek Life we spotlight the excellent web-comic “Happle Tea” by Scott Maynard. Happle is about a kid named Lil K and his adventures with God, Sasquatch and an array of mythological creatures, gods and cryptids! Check out “Happle Tea” at Happletea.com and be sure to follow Scott on twitter @happletea.

We then review “Organ Trail: Directors Cut” by The Men Who Wear Many Hats. This hilarious and difficult game is a love letter to the original “Oregon Trail” many of us played as children, only with zombies…and zombie bears. Totally worth a play and available on iOS and Andriod!

Finally we get into our Indie Comic Review! We gab about Jared Manninen and Joe Daley’s “Gruesome Tales Vol.1” available from MakotoPress.com! Jared and Joe’s “Gruesome Tales” is a trade paperback collection of several short stories meant “To Tickle Your Terror Bone”, and it does just that. This collection presents some genuinely creepy tales!

Music is provided by AirPlus Recordings+. This week’s song is “Come On” by Dfsa90 available on “Airplus Recordings – Singles Vol. 3“. If you like this song, be sure to support Dfsa90 and AirPlus Recordings!

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OOh baby, big changes coming to the Geek Life Podcast! This episode marks the beginning of our weekly episodes. We've finally switched over and will now have a fresh Geek Life episode for you every week! We're also now sponsored by Audible! Visit AudibleTrial.com/GeekLife for your free audiobook download!

First up is the Indie Spotlight segment. This week's Indie Spotlight focuses on the web-comic "Little Guardians" available at LittleGuardiansComic.com! Guardians is written by Ed Cho and illustrated by Lee Cherolis. This is a great comic taking place in a swords and shields fantasy world of magic, monsters and destiny. You can like Little Guardians on facebook at facebook.com/littleguardianscomic and follow them on twitter @LGuardiansComic!

Next we talk about the exciting announcement of Sony's new Playstation 4 or PS4 as the cool kids say. On Feb 20th Sony held an epic 2 hour livestream'd event in New York to announce the PS4 and talk about its exciting hardware, operating system and software! We gab about this and more in the exciting PS4 Announcement segment.

Music is provided by AirPlus Recordings+. This week’s song is “Trading Numbers" by Gattica Kid from his "Seconds Away" EP. If you this song, be sure to support Gattica Kid and AirPlus Recordings!

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Come get your Zombie Survival goodness… Grade Z 100% pure! Geek Life gets back to it’s roots with this weeks Zombie episode! We forgo our usual comic review in favor of a robust and complete zombie episode!

A little while back, we had a listener reach out to us with a request for “more zombie sections”! We heard your cry for more robust zombie survival episodes and that’s exactly what ep 31 is all about! We talk Z-traps, survival tips and even look at the top 5 best an worst pets to keep after Z-Day!

Music is provided by AirPlus Recordings+. This week’s songs in order of play are “The Parting (of ways)” by Blindstate, and “Vague Illusions” by Vague Illusion. “The Parting (of ways)” can be found on Blindstate’s amazing new EP “These Lovely Bones“. “Vague Illusions” is off of Vague’s awesome album “Binary“. If you like these songs, be sure to support their artists and AirPlus Recordings!

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030 – Geek Life – Comics

It’s all about comics this time. In our indie-review we look at issue 4 of Eben07′s “Operation 3 Ring Bound”. We have enjoyed our Eben-athon! Sadly we’re at the last printed issue, but fear not, we can all continue to enjoy Eben07 and Ninja-Dan’s adventures on Eben07.com as E. Burgoon and D. Bethel continue their work on issue 5 of “Operation 3 Ring Bound”.

Next we talk web-comics. As we dig into the Geek Life staff’s personal favorite web-comics, we find some crazy, obscure and awesome ones to enjoy. Hopefully we mention something you’ve never heard of! It’s always good to have ANOTHER one to read… Right? (^_^)

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Holy Moly PS Vita!

Hey all, JP here. I just picked up a PlayStation Vita in a fit of GameStop trade-ins and post Christmas insanity… and it’s AMAZING! Seriously, why don’t more people have this thing?! I’ll tell you why! Sony has made some unfortunate missteps in marketing the Vita which has led to a very small install base. This created a chain reaction which makes for poor 3rd party support. Game developers seem to be wary of putting the time and money into creating a quality title for the Vita. It’s as if they’re waiting to see how it does before they decide to support the system. The problem is of course, if nobody puts out good games for a system, nobody buys it. This vicious cycle defined the early days of the Vita. Luckily now, there’s more great games than you can shake a memory-stick at!

As I’m a huge PlayStation fan (and also cheap), I subscribe to PlayStation Plus on the PSN. This is an amazing service that hooks you up with discounts, betas and FREE GAMES! Recently, PS+ started giving out free Vita games as well as PS3 titles. Needles to say, this was the final straw, I had to have a Vita!

It is a beautiful thing when you can purchase a system and have an “Instant Game Collection”. I’ve been playing Gravity Rush from SCE Japan Studio and it’s truly incredible. I plan to post a review of this excellent game as soon as I complete it. I guess what I’m trying to say is, go get a Vita! I’m so very excited about this system and can’t wait to dig into its ever growing library of cool games. The Vita is easily the handheld I’ve always wanted! If you’re on PSN add me as a friend! My PSN tag is ShakkaPanda. See you online! Now, back to Gravity Rush…

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029 – Geek Life – A Year of Geek Life

THE Brian and JP put together a years worth of gag-reels and look back over the first year of PandaManga.com’s Geek Life Podcast! That’s right!! We made it through our first year. There were ups, downs, good, bad and lots of FUN! Thanks for coming with us on this journey. As we continue into the new year, we are thankful for surviving this long as many podcasts don’t make it past their first few months. A full year is a huge accomplishment and a big milestone in our efforts to bring you all the geeky goodness we can muster! Thanks again and don’t forget to tell your friends!

We will resume our normally scheduled subjects and such next time on Ep 30 of Geek Life. Next up is comics!

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THE Brian is back to doing Jaded and Biased reviews over at PandaManga.com! Check out his latest review, Panda Days by Jason Dube