Sorg, Katie Dudas, and Dave Podnar are back for AwesomeCast 798 with a wonderfully strange collection of tech, gaming, nostalgia and Pittsburgh stories.

Sorg discovers Solitaire Alone Together, a browser experience that recreates Windows 98-era Solitaire while letting you watch people around the world play alongside you. Katie unboxes an adorable Optimus Prime from Symbiote Studios and gets excited about an upcoming Grimlock puppet. Dave recaps completing both the 5K and 10K at Pittsburgh’s Great Race and celebrates the runners who have participated since the event began.

Plus: Castlevania celebrates 40 years, Call of Duty experiments with turning off goofy skins, Microsoft continues reshaping Xbox, Wendy’s releases an actual emo album, Pizza Hut teams with Little Free Library, the crew talks about the future of U.S. astronaut transportation, and a viral Minions Wi-Fi 6E router turns out to have surprisingly serious hardware.

It’s nostalgia, gadgets, gaming, Pittsburgh and the wonderfully weird side of technology on AwesomeCast 798.

We’re back on schedule after last week’s brief interruption. Katie is in Studio A with Sorg and pizza, while Chilla joins us from Studio C to talk this week in technology, including:

Katie is finding Waldo as her Awesome Thing of the Week!
Chilla is sharing some DNS alterations as his Awesome Thing of the Week this week.
Sorg’s streaming video addiction is causing him to Twitch.
Twitter tells Pittsburgh not to be Silicon Valley.
Brian apparently got an Echo Show and shares it with the show this week.
What started as a joke post turned into something really cool with Alexa and Portal.
Alex shared his Awesome Thing of the Week as a continuation from our last episode talking about the Elgato StreamDeck.
Katie is using Snapchat to keep up on news stories.
360 photos are now a thing on Facebook Messenger.
Pizza Hut has a smart shoe that will order your pizza and control your DVR.
Chilla is sharing some iPad news.
Firefox is diving into AR and VR options.
Sorg saw Ready Player One and has a bit of chat about it (NO SPOILERS) and AR.
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