The Grinding Gear Podcast
Burnout-free video game coverage from podcast veterans. Join Garrett and Kyle every week as they get lost in games, pop culture, and everything they’re personally playing.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 292
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#338 - Into the Nexus: “Arting with Kinabrew”
In this Episode of Into the Nexus: Garrett and Kyle are joined by Andrew “TheBrew” Kinabrew, Senior II Artist for Heroes of the Storm. The gang gets to talking about how the art works over at Blizzar…
Thu 10 Sep 2020
#337 - Into the Nexus: “Everyone Gets Unstoppable!”
The event Garrett and Kyle have been waiting for. The crossover Warcraft and StarCraft event is coming with the new season. The guys couldn’t be more excited for it. Get ready for the Gladiator's Med…
Thu 03 Sep 2020
#336 - Into the Nexus: “Holy My Chromie”
Into the Nexus is supported by our wonderful patrons via Patreon! If you would like to help support the show go to http://Patreon.com/ITN. The ITN Patrons are responsible for many improvements to the…
Thu 27 Aug 2020
#335 - Into the Nexus: “Bringing Home the Beetles”
Patch time! No surprise here, Garrett and Kyle like talking tanks and there is another massive patch of tankery goodness. Of course we all have our pet projects. Garrett is stoked about the Tyrande b…
Thu 20 Aug 2020
#334 - Into the Nexus: “つ _ ༽つ SUMMON PATCH NOTES”
Heroes Esports is coming back! Or did it ever leave? Garrett and Kyle break down all Heroes of the Storm happenings. The expected 3 week balance patch has been delayed to next week, but devs converm …
Thu 13 Aug 2020
#333 - Into the Nexus: “A Tale of Two Tiers”
Tier List Mayhem! Garrett and Kyle are back, but it’s all quiet on the developer front. While Mei might be suffering from some RNG power, the game, the meta, is in a solid place. Time to enjoy the se…
Fri 07 Aug 2020
#332 - Into the Nexus: “D Value”
Garrett is back and it’s time to get caught up on all the Heroes happenings with Kyle. Garrett is back on an old favorite, Tychus. Kyle is tanking up the tanking biz. We have a big check in with the …
Thu 30 Jul 2020
#331 - Into the Nexus: “Renaissance Beam” with Bahamut
Kyle and Bahamut break down the recent July 15th patch with some coordinated play in mind. With a recent shotcaller take over of the team, Kyle has a lot of questions, and who better to answer them t…
Thu 23 Jul 2020
#330 - Into the Nexus: “Noodling” with AZ Jackson
Game and Balance Designer AZJackson returns to the show, following his most recent balance patch. We catch up since his last episode 311: Xul, Tassadar, Cassia, Tracer, Call for Help, Mei and the Wea…
Thu 16 Jul 2020
#329 - Into the Nexus: “Where we’re going we don’t need angles.”
Garrett and Kyle are here with the big patch rundown! The movers and shakers of 2.51. Some make perfect sense with the weather anomaly, others are complete mysteries. We’ll have to ask AZJackson how …
Thu 09 Jul 2020
#328 - Into the Nexus: “Project Picks”
With a solid number of games to draw stats from Garrett and Kyle take a good look at the current state of Heroes of the Storm following Mei’s release. If you’re looking to update your roster to get t…
Fri 03 Jul 2020
#327 - Into the Nexus: “What Kind of Icing?” w/ NotParadox
NotParadox joins the episode to give us his impressions on Mei, Weather and more. Garrett and Kyle guide you through many other topics as well such as game information and game education. What can be…
Thu 25 Jun 2020
#326 - Into the Nexus: “Whether the Weather”
An Overwatch Tank? Called it! Mei joins Heroes of the Storm, but it’s hardly the most scandalous happening of the week. Weather is on its way, and it’s looking to change up your gameplay! Rain, Snow,…
Thu 18 Jun 2020
#325 - Into the Nexus: “The Same Snowflake Theory”
Mysteries on the horizon! On this week's Into the Nexus, Garrett and Kyle try to solve the snowflake puzzle, knowing full well they may be wrong come tomorrow's reveal. Mei? Baal? Map rework? D.va Re…
Thu 11 Jun 2020
#324 - Into the Nexus: “Kicking it with Cassia”
A mysterious missing patch? Tracer is still running amuck and Cassia still undertuned but it seems they might be holding back for a big big Call for Help update. As fans await the balance patch, thei…
Thu 04 Jun 2020
#323 - Into the Nexus: “Think Tank”
A mysterious missing patch? Tracer is still running amuck and Cassia still undertuned but it seems they might be holding back for a big big Call for Help update. As fans await the balance patch, thei…
Thu 28 May 2020
#322 - Into the Nexus: “Building a Better Anomaly”
With a very recent forum post asking for feedback on possible ways to reign the Call for Help Anomaly, Garrett and Kyle talk for almost two hours about the very interesting possibilities on the horiz…
Thu 21 May 2020
#321 - Into the Nexus: “JHow Returns”
JHow is back and this time Garrett is here! It’s been a busy year full of reworks and Anomalies and our wonderful guest is here to give you full rundown. Towers, Cassia, Tracer, Xul, Tassadar and Dea…
Thu 14 May 2020
#320 - Into the Nexus: “Summertime and the living is inting”
Big patch! Garrett and Kyle give you the speedy rundown of all the Heroes happenings. Anomaly tower charges are here and they are slightly less deadly but overall cleaned up in some of their poison o…
Thu 07 May 2020
#319 - Into the Nexus: “Fight Beef with Chicken”
The Heroes of the Storm developers have taken to Reddit in their most recent Ask Me Anything. All your favorites are here: KaeoMilker, BlizzAZJackson, Blizz_Daybringer, Blizz_DWarner and more! Garret…
Thu 30 Apr 2020
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