This week, Tosin is back from PAX Prime, and he’s got the whole rundown, plus Android Pay, the first human head transplant, repairing our own gadgets… and much more!

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Moen Arbor faucet with Motionsense One-Handle High Arc Pulldown

Headlines

• Google’s Android Pay debuts in the U.S.
• Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine ‘just in case’
• Nintendo Taps 65-Year-Old Human Resources Head as Next President
• First Head Transplant Patient Schedules Surgery for 2017

Audible Book of the Week

• Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline by Simon Parkin
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Music Break: Don’t Lose Your Head by Queen

Hot Topic: PAX Prime 2015

• Just Shapes and Beats
• Tinertia
  • Tinertia is currently available on Steam for PC, Linux, and Mac, and will be available early next year on PS4 and Xbox One.
• Mekazoo
  • PAX Prime 2015 Interview: “˜Mekazoo’ Producer James Hoag
  • Mekazoo will be available in Q1 of 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Wii U.
• Elite Dangerous
  • PAX Prime 2015: Elite Dangerous Horizons & CQC
  • Elite Dangerous is currently available for PC, Mac, and will be releasing on Xbox One this Fall.
• Gigantic
  • Free to play shooter MOBA (Windows 10, Xbox One) – Holiday 2015
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
  • PAX Prime 2015 Interview: “˜Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime’ Jamie Tucker of Asteroid Base
  • Game is now available on Steam for PC, Mac, and Linux, and on Xbox One
• CastAR – Augmented Reality (Updates at CES 2016)
• Armello
  • Available on Steam, Windows, Mac, Linux, PS3, and PS4
• Xing: The Land Beyond
  • PC and Oculus
• Screen Cheat

Music Break: Fixing a Hole by The Beatles

Final Word

• We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.