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Nick's Nerd News
You might not have asked for it, but here is a podcast that will bring you News about nerd culture, raw and unfiltered. Let Nick take you on a magical journey through Video Games, Movies, Comics and other geeky things. Old Theme Song: Science Fiction Movie, Var. 3(instrumental) - Royalty Free Music Maker
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Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 322: Angōs, Meleys.
Well, GamePass is getting a price hike, but are you surprised? Inside Out 2 keeps raking it in, movies are so back! Kevin Feige had to explain a certain act to…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 321: The Patron Saint of Gaming
Well, I did not expect news of a saint who games, but here we are, a kid who loved Halo and Pokémon is going to be a saint. Plus SEGA pulled back the soft top…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 320: Thick Gatorade?
Just sit there and stew a while with that title. Once you get that out of the way, we got a bit to talk about. The Acolyte just dropped a action packed, death…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 319: We have a (2)-319!
Nintendo continues to beat its on drum, as we saw on full display at the newest Direct, and did we get our first footage of a game running on the next switch?…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 318: Xbox has all the games!
The summer of gaming 2024 is here! We got summer games fest, the Xbox Showcase, Sony State of Play(last week), and the Ubisoft Forward! We have news from all…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 317: No longer in 8k
Well the summer game showcase season has begun, and the Sony State of Play kicked it all off! More Video game adaptations are also hitting our screens this…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 316: Make it Epic
What a deal, what a day! Furiosa review coming in hot! Yes Dementus has struck a chord with me. We also learned about the next Knives Out movie, Brad Pitt and…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 315: Streaming Wars: The Wrath of Cable
Here we are yet again, streaming bundles are just cable, and its obvious that big tech just makes things more complicated then they ever needed to be. Also…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 314: A Sixth fit for the gods
Well would you look at that, 6 years in, we are still rambling about nonsense. Ubisoft finally announces and shows off its newest Assassin's Creed, Shadows…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 313: Make it Make Sense!
Two of our biggest stories this week are making the internet collectively ask...Make it make sense. And guess what, I'm joining them. What is Xbox's strategy…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 312: Itz gonna be MAY!
Its gonna be May! Yes its that time again, when our social feeds are filled with JT! Anyway, Starfield is getting a major update in two weeks, Xbox had its…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 311: Whiskey D***k of the Claws
HI Peanut! Boy was that Deadpool and Wolverine trailer just glorious. Just inject it straight into my corneas. Also, Embracer group was apparently not too big…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 310: Okey Dokey
Welcome Vault Dwellers! If you cant tell, this is a Fallout centric episode as we cover all the news of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Fallout! Plus a…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 309: Total Eclipse of the Pod
Don't worry, no need to wear protective eyewear to listen to this weeks episode. This week, EA makes a few announcements, some of them late, some of them…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 308: Now Streaming on Quibi!
April Fools! Hope Everyone enjoyed their joke filled holiday! This Week we have a Kaiju filled review for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, plus more layoffs…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 307: The Juice is Loose
We got a fun one for you today! Recaps from GDC were the future of PlayStation and Xbox are on developers minds. Larian is moving on from DnD, Bethesda says…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 306: The state of the gaming industry is Unreal
You read that correctly, the state of the gaming world is unreal, as in Unreal Engine. As the GDC is fully underway, there was still a lot of news to get…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 305: My Eyes See Barbenheimer
And the Award goes too...boy was that a fun Oscars telecast, I enjoyed it. Full of nonsurprises. Also the world mourns the loss of a great man, we lost the…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 304: Cerveza Cristal!
🎶Cerveza Cristal!🎶 Happy post Leap Day! Did y'all survive 2/29?? cause Not everyone did. Anywho, This week we have a lot of shakeups in the gaming industry…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 303: Rubber goose, green moose, guava juice!
3oh!3! We got a good episode for yall today! Pokémon news? WE got it! Age of Empires news? WE got it! Naked Gun news? We got it! Unfortunately we also have…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 302: Kangless 97: No Cake for you
X-Men 97 is robbing us all of the cake, well, maybe, at least that is what the trailer is telling us. Marvel is also looking to dump Kang and his council…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 301: I am Marvel Jesus!
We have a nerd filled Valentines episode for all of you! Major Marvel mews across the board! The Super Bowl was the most watched telecast in history, and movie…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 300: For Tonight We Dine In Hell!
We made it! 300 episodes! Look at us, who woulda thunk? But hey we still got news to talk about. Top stories include Disney's investment into Epic Games and a…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 299: Rocksteady has lost the plot
Hello All! Another week, another rant, but not as heated. As you can tell by the title its about Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, and boy am I not happy…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 298: Here it is, your moment of Ken!
Well the Oscars just went out and proved the Barbie movie right, are we surprised, yes, should we be? No... Also, Jon Stewart returns to the daily show, and…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 297: 30 Rock Live
Will Tina Fey take over Saturday Night Live? I think Lorne Michaels hopes she does. Plus the Halo Battle Royale was almost real, despite 343 always saying they…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 296: The Bear's Beef, and his successor too
Well the Golden Globes happened, and CES is still underway, hopefully you wont confuse the two. Lucasfilm dropped a thermal detonator's worth of news, a new…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 295: Nick's Nerd New Year: If it ain't broke don't six it
Its Nick's Nerd New Year once again! So we have Top 10's in gaming, TV and Film! And I don't think you can guess any of them. Plus we know that two major…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 294: Yuletide Prognostication
The Holidays are nearing their end, so lets not continue a trend. Instead of a top 10 again and again, we will look into the future and pretend to be wise men…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 293: ParamountBros:ShowMAX
Are two of Hollywood's oldest studios about to merge? It might be a more plausible outcome then you think as Warner and Paramount have talks. A24 and Kojima…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 292: The Game Awards Minus Two
We have a review of Godzilla Minus One, which im gonna say now, my favorite movie of 2023, hands down. We also got the game awards last week, over 20 new games…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 291: Return of the VICE
We waited and we received, the trailer for GTA VI is here and it is glorious! Rockstar did not disappoint. We also have news about the turmoil at Bungie…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 290: The Courage to podcast
We should all have courage like David Zaslav (；￣Д￣）. Lord Gaben has been required to return to the US for court, more layoffs hit the game development world…
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Episode 289: This Podcast is out of clay
Happy Thanksgiving eve! So it looks like we are getting a Wonder Woman game with the nemesis system which makes me instantly excited. Mario Kart falls out of…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 288: Snubfield Legacy
The Game awards nominees have been announced, and boy are there some major snubs. Nintendo had its indieworld showcase, Rocksteady shows off more of Suicide…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 287: Oh what a Glorious Day!
Today brought us such wonderful news! The SAG-AFTRA Strike is over! and the GTA 6 trailer was announced for early December! I could not be more happy! Also in…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 286: Spared Every Expense
Happy Halloween everyone! Sony shakeups Bungie, Xbox shakes up its leadership, and Cliff Bleszinski wants to shake up Gears again. Ubisoft is prepping to dump…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 285: Your Friendly Neighborhood Podcast
If you cant tell by the title, we have a review of Marvel's Spider-Man 2! Which is probably one of the best games of the year, and that's a fact. We also have…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 284: I'm Just Pete
NYCC 2023 came and went with a whimper, im not kidding. But hey the Xbox finally completed their purchase of ActivisionBlizzard ending the 2 year nightmare…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 283: NNN: Slim Edition
Well the PS5 Slim is real, and its hideous, yes its hideous, but its modular. Marvel Studios has also announced a complete overhaul of how it will approach its…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 282: It's October 3rd(4th)...
Its not October 3rd, but thats ok. Got a bit of a doozy this week, Sony scrubs all mention of the KotoR Remake from their socails, and acts like its perfectly…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 281: When One Strike Ends, another finds a way
You read that title correctly, the second longest WGA strike is officially over! But as that ends, the SAG strike continues, and a SAG strike against the video…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 280: The architects of their own destruction
And just like that, Thrawn is alive, and in person in Ahsoka. Would I have believed you if you told me five years ago Thrawn would appear in person, probably…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 279: Unity or Unionization
unity decided to just drop a nuke on the game development world and the both backtracked and doubled down, but so far it has cause among us to be pulled from…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 278: Only shooting stars break the mold
Another summer ends, that means its new game season, and to start it off we have my early thoughts on Starfield, which is definitely going to be one of my…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 277: Have your pets spayed or neutered
Pour one out for the Homie Bob Barker, keeping all millennials and Gen Xers company on sick days. So more news out of Gamescom, including Baldur's Gate finally…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 276: It'sa Not-a-me, Mario! Woo-Hoo!
If the title wasn't a giveaway, we have learned that Charles Martinet will not longer be the voice of Mario in future Mario games, tis a sad day in gaming. Yet…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 275: Puck Man Returns
Well Friends we are back for another week! And this time we have some Pokémon News, CoD news, and the identity of the Embracer Groups mystery almost investor…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 274: Pokémon Presents: Tekken 8
We had some big gaming news over the last week between EVO 2023 and Pokémon Presents, thus giving us something to feast on before Gamescon. Meanwhile there has…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 273: Be sure and tell ’em Large Marge sent you
Pour one out for the realest, PeeWee Herman, we lost a real one this week. PlayStation 5 continues to match its predecessors, and outsells its competition, and…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 272: A movieless Comic Con
What happens when all the major studios pull out of comic con? nothing really, it keeps going because comic con is more then movies and television. We also…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 271: Your Mission If you choose to accept it....
In solidarity with the WGA & SAG-AFTRA Strike this will be our last week reporting on new and newly released TV and Movie content, so we will go out with a…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 270: Comic-Accurate Suit
If the title doesn't give it away, Wolverine is finally wearing his comics accurate suit. THIS IS NOT A DRILL! 24 years later and its finally happening…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 269: I drank a Grimace shake and recorded this episode
Happy Fourth of July! Well the FTC v Xbox case ended, and yeah, the FTC doesn't know what they are doing. The Sims could be the next game to go F2P, and Stray…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 268: This Podcast is just a social construct
This week was a doozy, how about that FTC v. Xbox case, that is a bonafied shit show. Sony and Microsoft say some wild things in their emails, thats for sure…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 267: I would like the Podcast to start now
This week we have a review of DC's The Flash, and after a long wait, it did not disappoint. Nintendo held a long and fruitful direct. Netflix held their annual…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 266: Two Discs: Escaping in the same direction!
E3 might be cancelled, but what happened over the last few days sure feels like E3. We had an Xbox Games Showcase, Ubisoft Forward, Summer Games Fest, Capcom…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 265: Across the Pod-Verse
This week we have a review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse, which you wont want to miss. We also have all the news out of both Meta and Apples new…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 264: It's Tom Wambsgans, were just living in it.
How about that succession ending, it stuck the landing and that's all that matters, meanwhile the Arrowverse left us, no whimper no bang, just and end…
Nick's Nerd NewsEpisode 263: New Game Δ: Remake Reloaded
PlayStation had theird first state of play in a while, and boy was it a banger. Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake, Spider-Man 2, and a lot of other sequels…