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Valve are going to court in the UK for locking gamers in to buying on Steam. Can the saviours of mainstream Linux gaming really be the bad guys? Terry Pratchett's work might hold the key to diagnosing dementia early through breadth of vocabulary. We're yet to see if this research can be applied to your DMs. DC admit that Manga is great and superheroes are rubbish. Enough said there. *** We enjoyed...

Hytale has finally launched just when we thought it might never happen. How did we get here, and is it just Minecraft at Home? A new sugar substitute provides almost as much sweetness, with 60% of the calories. And it's made by bacteria. Yummy. Comic crossover events are hugely popular, but are they actually a bad thing? *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez which you can get a 10% discount when you...

Game devs suck at cybersecurity and we're all paying for it. Not only does it ruin the gaming experience, it puts us at risk of fraud and theft. Leonardo Da Vinci's DNA might have been found on an old drawing. Maybe. Or maybe it's just someone else's. Hard to say. Sword Art Online's director says anime shouldn't try to appeal to the west. That won't stop anime from trying though. *** We enjoyed a...

Computer hardware has increased in price by 300% recently. We talk about why it happened and why it won't improve any time soon. Wombats poo cubes. There's a good reason for that. Boston Dynamics have announced their new robot model. Behind the CGI, what can it do? Indian TV is going to be bigger than China's soon. DJ has some thoughts about that. *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez which you can g...

We're joined by Mr Rant from Lights, Camera Rant for our review of the year that was. *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com *** Resources Mentioned 2025 in video games ( 2025 in video games - Wikipedia ) 2025 in movies ( 2025 in film - Wikipedia ) 2025 in anime ( 2025 in anime - Wikipedia ) 2...

Warhammer is the biggest tabletop war game around. How did they get to the top? Viruses suck. But they can also be modified to collect rare earth elements from mines. Netflix has purchased Warner Bros, giving them the largest share of the streaming market. This can only be good for consumers, right? *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the chec...

A new study found that subconciously perceiving Batman on a train makes people more likely to give up their seat to a pregnant woman. Is it because he's going to break your back? Sega has been publishing definitive editions of games they've released. Could that actually be harming sales of their games? Death games have been around for thousands of years, but Quintin Tarantino has gotten his knicke...

Valve have finally announced the new Steam hardware, including the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and the Steam Controller 2. We're hyped. My Hero Academia is getting a live action adaptation. Live action ALL THE THINGS, while at the same time, anime ALL THE OTHER THINGS. Surely one of the two will work. The Universe is decelerating, according to a new study. That means we're a few billion years close...

A recent survey found that Steam is considered a monopoly by developers. What are the implications? Anime has a long history of adult content. Now it's going mainstream and the world isn't ready. These are the kinds of science experiments vampires might think of. They're intended to last longer than a human lifetime, and they're the only way to study some things. *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez...

Live Service games with an ongoing story have to end sometime, right? Destiny 2 did, and suddenly nobody wants to play anymore. Does this mean future games will drag on forever? Hopefully not. The BBC and Disney have officially split, meaning we won't get Doctor Who for over 12 months. Is it time for another charity single to save the Doctor? Mirror life is a hypothetical form of life which is mol...

The Protoclone is an android based on human muscles. DJ thinks this thing might be too lifelike, and it's time to call Rick Deckard. EA are being bought by a consortium of investment firms. Do they still have a future, or will they be killed off? Tilly Norwood is an AI actress created for the sole purpose of starring in real movies. As any first gen tech, it'll be rubbish, but if you combined Till...

A new study tells us all the statistics about Australian gamers. Turns out we're all getting older and less social. We have some theories why. Dance Dance Revolution can be adapted into a memory trainer for people with dementia, and it actually works to reduce the rate of decline. A fully AI movie will be presented at Cannes soon, and we expect it to be bad. *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez whic...

Things get wild when Professor and DJ talk about stopping children from accessing in appropriate games. Warner Bros are suing Midjourney for ripping off their art. With the recent case against OpenAI for pirating books, the precedent might not be on their side. Science is hard to do objectively. There's always a bias, and good scientists find ways to minimise that. The Nerds talk through creating...

Mojang are being sued for breaking the laws of the European Union by changing their terms of service to ban gun mods. Spearheaded by a mod developer, this lawsuit is adjacent to Stop Killing Games but not quite part of it. Google has announced a plan to block indie developers from publishing apps for Android without giving away their personal details. Professor is mad as hell and he's not going to...

This week we interviewed Isaac Fox, creator of popular comics like SuccuBUSTED and Cremisi about his new project, The Manti-Corps. We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com    Astral Tickets Comics Website - https://www.foxxycomics.com/   Youtube - Astral Ticket Comics - YouTube Facebo...

This week we interviewed Savas Savidis about his game Tales of Grimace and what it takes to be a an indie game developer in high school. We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com    Tales of Grimace The Game Website - https://www.talesofgrimace.com/ Steam Page - https://store.steampowered.c...

The famous modder behind the Special K mod has deleted their steam account and written a manifesto about why Steam is evil. We disagree. The resurrected Direwolves are doing well, and Peter Jackson is promising to bring back the Moa next. Let's just skip straight to the dinosaurs. Movies used to be based on comics. But now movies are bigger than comics, and people think comics are worse for it. We...

Stop Killing Games has reached 1 million signatures on the European Citizens Initiative. But the battle isn't won yet. Due to invalid signatures, the petition could use as many extra signatures as it can get. Microsoft have laid off 9000 people from their gaming division, while also planning for a third party Xbox handheld. Could this be the end of the Xbox hardware? Killer Whales are not whales,...

Stop Killing Games has nearly reached its conclusion, unless hundreds of thousands of European gamers come out of the woodwork. Aaaand here they come. You will soon be able to buy lab grown meat in Australia. Will you eat it? Duke Nukem is coming to TV. Maybe this icon of the 90s should have been left there though. We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS...

This week we're interviewing Neural Forge, creator of the board game Nimbus. Neural Forge official website – Neural Forge   Neural Froge Etsy Store  – NeuralForge - Etsy Australia   Neural Forge Facebook page – Neural Forge   Neural Forge Instagram – Neural Forge (@neural_forge) • Instagram photos and videos   Neural Forge Nimbus Kickstarter  – Nimbus by Neural Forge...

The Switch 2 is not without controversy. The big issues center around hardware ownership. So why are Nintendo getting this wrong? Happiness is tricky to pin down, but the latest research gives some hints on how to get there. Years ago, Captain America was revealed to be a Hydra agent. This led to no end of problems for the writers, mostly caused by the fans. Let's hope their next big plot twist go...

Crunchyroll have published a report on anime revealing that a majority of people under 50 watch it. Yet the company still wants growth. What are the implications? Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take Two has some thoughts on the games industry, and they're... interesting. Is he completely out of touch, or is it the kids who are wrong? A supervolcano might wipe all of us out. The good news is scientists ar...

Wow 250 episodes and we are still going…what an achievement...We would like to thank each and every one of you for being part of this magical journey Finally, Valve are releasing SteamOS onto third party devices. Is this finally the year of the Linux gaming PC? The Large Hadron Collider has turned lead into gold through shooting two lead atoms at each other and missing. Europe has achieved a victo...

There's a variety of reasons consoles are getting more expensive instead of cheaper, and they aren't all because of greed. Chips just aren't improving like they used to. Marvel has a new strategy. Will they finally start making good content? A new technique from MIT allows scientists to photograph atoms with a microscope. Finally, we can see what they're up to. Why are consoles getting expensive -...

A new analysis indicates that subscription gaming has no room to grow. Of course, that won't stop them trying to take away our game ownership. Humans have been using fire for hundreds of thousand of years. But during the Ice Age, there's a gap in the evidence. What were humans doing with fire during that time? Netflix's CEO claims that Netflix is saving the movie industry. Of course he would say t...