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Nerds Amalgamated

Zane C Weber

A podcast brought to you by those goofballs from Nerds Amalgamated, for Nerds by nerds about Nerd pop-culture news.

Episodes

20 of 300 episodes

An Interview with Jonathan Geffner, creator of The Dummy Detective

This week we're back with an interview with Ventriloquist Noir creator Jonathan Geffner about his new feature film The Dummy Detective, a no...

43:15Oct 21, 2026

Real Gamers Don't Play Games, Mixing Poo Into Concrete and The End of Card Shops

Apparently, the market for gamers who don't actually play games is now bigger than the market for gamers who play them. That's probably not...

47:28Sep 16, 2026

The Coming Games Industry Crash, the Ig Nobel prizes, and Talking Chinese Cows.

Tim Sweeney thinks the games industry is crashing like it's 1980 again. Which game will we bury in the desert this time? The Ig Nobel prizes...

51:01Sep 9, 2026

GTA6 Leaks, Why People Love Monsters, and Australia is The Safest Place In the Apocalypse

GTA6 has been leaking like a sieve. Why are people even excited for this? People love monsters. Is it because they provide an outsider view...

01:09:13Sep 2, 2026

SKG Saga Continues, Eat Your Veges & Comics Going Online

Stop killing games is going from strength to strength, and now has joined the fight against Sony in a fresh new lawsuit We then started flex...

59:17Aug 19, 2026

Finding Great Games is Hard, Feces Boost Evolution, and The Death of Ongoing Comics

Finding the needle in a haystack of a good game is getting more difficult as more releases come out. A workgroup has come up with a plan to...

54:39Aug 12, 2026

Cut Xbox Into Pieces, Dinosaur BBQ and Never Get Your Book Adapted

Xbox doesn't have much left to offer after the recent cuts. So can their tentpole franchises support the entire business? New research sugge...

48:38Aug 5, 2026

Nobody Works at Xbox, Sleeping to Mars and George Lucas is a Hack

Xbox has fired massive numbers of devs. Who's actually left to make games? Can you sleep through a trip to Mars? Probably not, but it won't...

57:56Jul 29, 2026

Everything About Games is Awful Super Episode; also Artificial Life

The end of physical media, the loss of Stop Killing Games and Minecraft servers are illegal. Things are bad. When will they start to get bet...

43:07Jul 8, 2026

Steam Machine and GTA6, Mice with ADHD, and is Anime a commodity?

The Steam Machine has finally been released, and if it wasn't for the price of RAM it would probably sound a lot better. But make sure you s...

50:37Jul 1, 2026

Blizzard Sues Their Fans, What Killed The Whales? and The Hollywood Exodus

Blizzard are suing another World of Warcraft fan server. This doesn't set good standards for game preservation, but where is the line betwee...

48:29Jun 24, 2026

Nintendo Loses in Europe, Growing Medicine Plants in Space, and Doctor In Distress Again

Nintendo have been ordered to pay a fine for joycon drift, and also create Switch 2 models with user serviceable batteries. Let's hope that...

01:06:37Jun 17, 2026

Nobody's Going To Play COD; Be Above Average, Not Amazing; Youtuber Movies

The next release of Call of Duty will have the lowest potential player base of any COD in nearly a decade. Where are they all going? Aiming...

45:02Jun 10, 2026

An Interview with Ned Kelly Comic Creator Lucas Scheffel from Angry Fred Comics

Lucas Scheffel's latest project is Ned Kelly: Blood and Thunder, a comic about bushranger Ned Kelly fighting aliens. We spoke to him about h...

01:04:50Jun 3, 2026

The Epic Exodus, The Munchies Keep You Thin, and Anime Keeps You Sane

Developers are dropping Epic Games Store in favor of releasing on multiple platforms. Can Epic keep throwing money at the problem, or will t...

56:06May 27, 2026

Sega's SuperGame Is Dead, Crickets Feel Pain & Dark Shonen vs Violence Free Anime

Sega are pivoting away from free to play games after poor performance. They're also pivoting away from AAA games after unrelated poor perfor...

46:59May 20, 2026

Chaos at Build a Rocket Boy, Sit Near a Window & Sag-Aftra Deal

If you've heard anything about Build a Rocket Boy, you know that things aren't going well. Here's why. Sitting near a window makes you smart...

46:07May 13, 2026

Bringing Video Game Movies to Success, The "Benefits" of Beer and Crunchyroll's Unethical Hack

Hollywood have been trying to make video game movies a thing for decades. Finally, they're actually good. Why? Beer has some nutritional val...

58:01May 5, 2026

Action in Stop Killing Games, Artemis II and Crunchyroll Anime Awards

The Stop Killing Games movement is heading to EU parliament and the UFS-Que Choisir is suing Ubisoft over the delisting of The Crew. It's be...

49:15Apr 7, 2026

Ancient Roman Board Games, Dangers of Cloning, and Colbert's Tolkien Movie

Flinders University have worked with a team of researchers to model an ancient Roman board game and find out how it would have been played....

01:05:40Mar 31, 2026