Nerds Amalgamated

The Microsoft AI and Gaming summit is about to begin. How long until I get strap on a VR headset and go into a game perfectly designed to keep me interested forever and ever?

Strange creatures living …

Last week we had some terrible ideas. And we are sorry, because we've had more. There's a reason none of us are allowed to work at CSIRO anymore.

The Australian games industry grew last year, followin…

The infamous Gearbox, creator of many mediocre licensed games, has now been bought by the former THQ Nordic, now Embracer Group, owned by Deep Silver, the publisher owned by the Koch Brothers. Yeah, …

What does thousands of dollars of VR tracking gear get you? A way to compete in fully virtual breakdancing battles. South Koreans are still at home, and are working hard on creating Ready Player One’…

If you're old enough, you might remember NBA Jam. This old basketball game has enough of a following that modders add new characters based on yearly rosters, and now there's going to be a documentary…

We have another long one for you, but that's ok because LucasFilm is back to making games. EA's tyranny is over! Rejoice!

2020 was an interesting year for the games industry. It turns out people reall…

This week we bring you the terrifying story of an AI that knows too much. It taught itself to count, which is pretty cool.

Flash is dead, long live Flash. Now it's all gone, it's time to find out more…

This week we offered remembrance to all the victims of COVID-19. Rather than the 500 000 we quoted, there are more than 1.8 million COVID deaths.

It's early days for 2021, and things seem to be going …

Is it that time again, Mr Freeman? We hope you've all recovered from feasting, but if you haven't, sit back and relax for another episode of Nerds Amalgamated.

First Nerds were uncool. Then they had t…

It's episode 150! DJ thinks that's an important number for some reason.

EA bought a Christmas present for itself. Now they own Codemasters. RIP racing games.

If you stream copyrighted content you might…

Christopher Nolan is upset again. Not because we can't hear him, but because all Warner Brothers movies are going direct to streaming.

DJ keeps trying to make a terrible nursery rhyme happen and we wo…

THERE IS ONLY METRO. Dev-i and Professor are very excited for Metro 4, the movie, and 4A's continued projects. There's a lot of ground to cover, so hopefully Dimitry keeps writing.

China now has the s…

Christopher Nolan, we need to talk. A group of fellow film workers have sent a letter to Christopher Nolan telling him nobody can understand his movies because of the poor audio mixing. He completely…

It's time to vote for the 2020 Game Awards. There's a lot of categories and nominations and we'd probably stay here all night talking about them, but we picked some of our favourites including Best M…

Our recurring guest Dev-i-Boy has returned from witness protection.

It's time for the new consoles to be released, and on paper, they sound pretty powerful. The Nerds discuss the weaknesses of the har…

Old games never die. They just get removed from storefronts and put on abandonware sites. But if you want to know the latest news on which games are staying and which are going, it would be helpful i…

Bringing a fungus eating plant back from near extinction sounds like a bad idea. But it's actually pretty cool. The Bussells Spider Orchids has a special relationship with a fungus that it allows to …

ALERT - THIS IS A DRILL. Tatiana Maslany is not She-Hulk. Or at least that's what she tells us.

Wallenius Marine is building a sail ship to carry cars. The Oceanbird is predicted to produce less than …

The Osirix Rex mission is about to reach Bennu where it will pull samples from the surface to return to Earth in a few years. Nothing happens quickly in space, but landing on an asteroid, even moment…

Kids these days aren't having a punt on the horses, they're betting on esports. The problem is, they're literally kids. Shady gambling companies are preying on underage children.

A scarily close super…