Happy Tuesday Nerds! Come hang for this week's episode of The NerdyBits Show. Catch up with us as we run you through what we've been doing for the last few months. Family vacations, sick kids, lots of games, and Deadpool and Wolverine! There is a lot to talk about. Topics: Dungeons of Laysara Summit Kingdom, Ereban Shadow Legacy, Destiny 2 You can …

Happy Wednesday! I lied! We have another episode in our Lamplighter's League series of interviews. This time Caleb sits down and talks to Sean Rohani the actor responsible for the voice of none other than Lateef, the Gentleman Djinn. Sean and Caleb kinda talk about everything. From acting and video games to Persian food and dad jokes. Come hang wit…

Happy Monday! This is it! The final episode of our Harebrained Schemes, Lamplighter's League interviews. Today we wrap it all up with Creative Director and Studio Lead Chris Rogers! Chris is Career developer who knows what it means to step into roles because the studio needs it. Caleb and Chris talk about picking up responsibilities in indie projec…

Happy Friday! Another new episode of Bounty Board is here! Third in our series of interviews with the team at Harebrained Schemes, we have Senior Director of Operations Brian Poel (pool). Caleb and Brian dig into his winding path to the role he is in now, how it has changed in the last six moths, what it looks like to oversee a game's production cy…

Happy Wednesday! Come check out another new episode of Bounty Board. Next in our series of interviews with the team at Harebrained Schemes, we have Senior AI Programmer and all-around badass, Allie McNulty. Caleb and Allie chat about good boss design, what it was like to build the AI for Lamplighter's League, working with teams you love, and the ga…

Happy Monday! It's been a crazy month for games and were only to the 10th! Keep the good times rolling with a new episode of Bounty Board. This is the first in a series of interviews with the team at Harebrained Schemes, developers of the Shadowrun Trilogy, Battletech, and last year's Lamplighter's League. Join Caleb on this episode as he sits to c…

Happy Wednesday Nerds! Come hang for this week's episode of The NerdyBits Show. Ryan and Caleb detail their deep dive into Remnant II, a game that Caleb is deeply happy that the group clung to this time around. We talk about the Helldivers Sony nonsense, Microsoft closing studios for (tax) reasons, and then Caleb chats about No Rest for the Wicked,…

Happy Monday Nerds! Come hang for this week's episode of The NerdyBits Show. This time we dive into a bunch of game updates that have come out in the last few weeks, including Helldivers 2 and The Finals. We talk about what it means to balance a PvE game, we lament the drought of RTS games, and then by extension Star Wars games. Ryan and Caleb also…

Happy Monday! Start your week off with some good podcast audio! This Episode of Bounty Board sees the return of Joe Erskine, Lead Publishing Producer over at Private Division. Joe makes it back for his third recording just in time to talk about the impending MLB season, the enduring success of MLB The Show, devs reusing assets and animations in gam…

What is up everyone! Got a bit of a special one this week! And a LONG one! Ryan's brother Patrick has been in the center of the TNBS crew's minds for the last few months. Pat is a constant gaming companion and damn good one at that, but one morning he and Ryan wondered what it would be like if he joined the show. Well now he won't have to wonder. J…

Happy February! Catch up with the TNBS crew this week as Ryan recounts his trip to Europe, just before Caleb goes on his own. The two also dig into Jusant, God of War: Ragnarok's Valhalla DLC, Lamplighter's League, and a bunch more. Come hang with the NerdyBits crew as they get punchy and have a blast. You can listen to us below, or on iTunes and S…

Happy Friday! Enjoy the last day of the workweek with Caleb and returning guest Jon Everist. Jon composed the score for last year's Lamplighter's League by Harebrained Schemes, a pulpy, noir-infused mix of Indiana Jones and XCOM. Come hang while Caleb asks about the jazz influence on the score, what it is like composing music for games and they're …

Episode three of the "On Playing With" miniseries is focused on playing video games with kids, and for Caleb it is specifically about playing games with his oldest kid, Charlee. The two of them have played games before, but in the last few months Charlee took ownership of her first game, taking the time to learn how to play it and beat it herself, …

What's up folks! Happy New Year! Come hang with Caleb and Ryan as they start to think about their games of the year. We also dig into THE FINALS, the new pvp shooter from Embark Studios, the ins and outs of strategy, the interesting choices they've made for cosmetics, how much the Vegas map sucks, and lots more. Ryan also gets into Farming Simulato…

On episode two of the "On Playing With" series I focus in on my family's long running family game night. But not before digging into some of the history that brought us to being capable of having family game nights. There is overlap in some ways between this conversation and the last episode. Including how, sometimes, I am just glad to log off afte…

Here it is. The first episode of my "On Playing With" series. This episode is focused, as the title suggests, on the ever-evolving social structure of playing games with my group of friends, how that group changes (for good and bad), how the games constantly change, and how balance is a dish best served carefully. There are good times and bad times…

Well. Here we go! It's 2024. And while that is, on its own, a wild statement, it is a true one. With the new year I wanted to push forward in several different ways for NerdyBits and myself. So, I am starting a new mini podcast series titled "On Playing With" starting tomorrow. The series will focus on the dynamics of playing games with different g…

What's up folks! This one is a backlogger. Sorry. Caleb and Ryan got together and recorded back in December. We complain a bit about how bad the Xbox mobile app is, dig into the GTA VI trailer, Caleb gushes for a bit about Spider-Man 2, and then we go through the Game Awards and our thoughts, including how sad we are that E3 is officially dead. You…

What is up folks! Caleb and Ryan got together and made a real long one for ya! Ben is out this episode, scheduling and such, but come hang with us as we walk through all the things we have been playing in the last month. We go in order from least time to most, starting with the new Forza Motorsport and our limited time with it so far. We follow tha…

Hey Folks! We're back after a long assignment playing hours and hours of Starfield. With more than 300 hours between the three of us, come have a seat and hear our thoughts on one of this year's (honestly this generation's) biggest games. Mild caution ahead of listening, it is a little spoilery about broader events, nothing very specific though. If…

Yup. We know. We're playing it too. Come hang with the NerdyBits crew as they dig into allllllll sorts of stuff. From cars and spirits (the boozy kind), to Starfield. And then we just kinda stay on Starfield, but also make a short diversion to throw some shade at the 4k/60fps dorks on the internet bitching about ultra high fidelity gaming. It's a b…

Hey folks! This one is a backlogger from August. We recorded inside, because it was hot as hell, so we talk more softly. Making all of us kinda sound high. Sorry about that! Come hang as we dig into some Gamescom stuff, slip back into lamenting the absence of our "career game", and we talk a bit about Diablo 4 and Caleb's falling off of it. You can…

Yo! Welcome back! This week Ryan and Caleb hold down the show while Ben goes and has a dinner party or whatever. Come hang as we have a chill chat about movies and upcoming games and parenting. It's a chill hang. So come hang and chill! You can listen to us below, or on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify! So whether you have an Apple or Android device, …

What's up folks! Long time! Couple of vacations in the books and things are getting back to normal finally! With that, come hang out with us as we catch you up on what we have been playing! Ben has beaten Lana, Ryan has beaten Dredge, Caleb ahs been playing Showgunners, we chat a bit about Phantom Brigade. There's a bunch in here, so come hang out!…

We did it! We survived until another Mission Impossible movie came out! Are we going to make it until the next one? It really does feel like there is no end to the Ethan Hunt escapades and you know what, I don't mind! Come listen to Caleb's thoughts on this globetrotting, death-defying, acrobatic, action-packed thrill ride. You can listen to us bel…

Sorry for the delay of game everyone. Crazy few weeks of stuff at the house and all around, really. Come hang with the crew as they discuss all the stuff that happened at E3. We talk about our favorites, we express our disappointment with Keighley's somewhat lackluster SGF showcase. All in all though, we enjoyed all the game news and can't wait for…

Indiana Jones is back! IS it good? Is it weird? Is it the end? Find the answer to all of those questions here. TL:DR Action movies are silly fun and this is one of those movies. Harrison Ford looks like he's having a blast, the surrounding cast do a tremendous job, it's written well and, you know what, it feels like Indiana Jones. What more could y…

So this is a weird one! I'm switching up the way I do movie reviews! I find it so much more gratifying and have received far more feedback spending a few weeks on a piece, ruminating, than when I slap together a 1300 word movie review the day after. It all just ends up feeling like hunting for the best tagline rather than the best thought. So, in t…

What is good, friends!? It has been a minute! Lots of life changes and a move and a new baby on the way and all sorts of stuff just kept rolling in. But I’m back! And hopefully without a ton more interruption! Join me this week as I connect and reset the clock with Zara Varin, a wonderful human I met with my grandmother in 2019 at Halo: Outpost Dis…

Whoa…do you hear that? It’s the sound of your favorite videogame podcast, back from the depths! We’ve returned. Caleb moved, Ben went to the Ripper doc, then Caleb found out his wife was creating another baby in her tum tum. It’s been a hell of a few months. But we’re back, and just in time for Keigh-3 to start. So as you get settled for the shows …

Happy Friday folks! So we dropped the ball a bit on finalizing our Game of the Year lists. It's tricky organizing the time to make sure you play as much as possible and put together a cohesive plan. Anyway, that day is coming. It is not this day. Today you can join the crew as they dig into more Hi-Fi Rush, which Ben and Caleb have finished, we als…

Happy Wednesday folks! It has once again been a while since you heard from us. We've been busy! For the first time in ages we are actually going through our backlogs! Also, we were surprised by the release of Hi-Fi Rush, an amazing rhythm-based action game from Tango Gameworks. Ben has been trying to crack the surface of the Like a Dragon series an…

Happy Monday folks! Hope everyone had a great holiday! We know we did! Join the crew as they go through 2022 and some of the games they played. It's about time for us to start putting together Game of the Year lists too! The number of games we talk about is a bit too long to list, so you'll just have to listen in! Also! Ryan and Tech got to go scre…

Happy Monday folks! Come hang out with the NerdyBits Show crew once again as we talk about nerdy, pop culture stuff! There was a big Comic Con in Sao Paolo that landed us a ton of trailers, so of course we dig into Indiana Jones, Transformers, and Guardians trailers. Ben shares a bit of beef about AC: Odyssey and its unfortunate DLC teasing, we all…

Happy Monday folks! If you can endure a little ASMR food-chewing noises (sorry about that) come hang out with us as we talk about a ton of cool stuff. From Black Panther to Call of Duty to Somerville! First we dig into the troubling news from Mick Gordon and the disagreeable circumstances of the Doom: Eternal score, then we talk about the downfall(…

Happy Friday folks! How ‘bout a little late Halloween talk? Ben is insistent that St. Louis has weird Halloween traditions, we define puddles for a minute, and then we get into game talk. Of course, what is an episode of The NerdyBits Show without a little complaining that there isn’t enough co-op games? Ben and Caleb dig into their experience with…

Happy Wednesday folks! We’re baaaack, with a ton of content. This is the first of three backlogged episodes that are gonna come out this holiday week due to technological and situational kerfuffles. Sorry about that! Come hang out with us as we chat about Overwatch and its “relaunch(?)”, Marauders and Ben’s first foray into hardcore Extraction shoo…

Happy Friday everyone! Joe is back! It has been a few months, and Joe Erskine, Producer at Private Division, has returned to Bounty Board, making him our first returning guest! Join us as we bemoan the end of baseball season, talk about the games we have been getting into, and take a lengthy detour into why people should feel less inclined to share…

Happy Tuesday everyone! When Caleb sets out to write a review on a game, it rarely takes him months. Well…5 months after completing Citizen Sleeper, a slick and meaningful TTRPG inspired game by solo developer Gareth Damian Martin (Jump Over the Age), Caleb finished his piece on the game and then had the opportunity to talk to Gareth about what he …

Happy Friday folks! Bit of a catch all episode this time as the crew talks across a bunch of topics. First a debate about Remakes and Remasters, then we dig into the meat of the episode, "Broken Games." There is a lot of conversation in the wild about the state of AAA game releases and their bugginess. The crew shares their opinions on the matter. …

Happy Monday folks! There was a big Call of Duty event last month and the crew took the time to sit down and talk about the worlds biggest franchise and their feelings about the upcoming title. Caleb debates whether or not the gun-porn is bad for our brains, Ryan runs through the announcements at Call of Duty NEXT, and Ben debates getting back into…

Happy Tuesday everyone! Come hang with the crew as they talk about their ongoing love affair with Hunt: Showdown, the PvPvE title developed by Crytek, and we deep dive all the things announced at Gamescom. Caleb has also played and finished South of the Circle, a beautiful narrative adventure with a wobbly ending. We also take a deep dive on the im…

Happy Friday! Come hang out with the team as they discuss why this year feels a little light. Could this fall be the result of the lockdowns in 2020? The last few years have been marred by fractured releases and inconsistent support as teams restructure. But it feels like nothing got started in 2020, perhaps even things in early dev stages got dela…

Happy Wednesday folks! Ben is back! so we spend time catching up with him and his experiences at Comic-Con. Then Caleb has to defend himself from the aggressive questioning of Ryan and Ben about why he "doesn't like Hunt Showdown (read: he actually does). Apologies for the late upload, look forward to another eppy later this week! You can listen to…

Happy Monday folks! Ben was busy living it up in San Diego for Comic-Con so Caleb and Ryan sat down to chat about what they have been up to. Caleb has dipped his toes in Dodgeball Academia and continues to adore Guardians of the Galaxy. Ryan is living his best life in The Hunt and together the two jumped into Ground Branch, an early access tactical…

Happy Monday folks! This episode got lost in a poor scheduling incident. You see, Caleb thought he posted it, but it never went up. Also the written info on the episode didn’t save. So were in the weird space where the eppy is late, and Caleb doesn’t remember what the crew talked about fully. We definitely talk about getting back into The Hunt, a d…

Happy Monday folks! The crew has a TON to talk about on this week's episode of The NerdyBits Show! We got to see Summer Game Fest 2022, Day of the Devs, and Devolver's shows. Ryan and Caleb talk Jurassic World Dominion, which was...fine. We all chat about Obi-Wan. And finally we get into Roller Champions, Citizen Sleeper, and a few other games. Lot…

Happy Friday everyone! Last week I got the chance to sit and talk with Tomas Sala, creator of the Falcon dogfighting game Falconeer. Tomas has been making games for more than two decades, in some fashion, and is now working on a follow up to Falconeer called Falconeer: Bulwark. Together we dive into what it is like becoming familiar with a universe…

Happy Thursday folks! Caleb is in Florida this week (and currently posting this from the pool) so come hang with the gang in this week’s episode The NerdyBits Show! We talk about the convention circuit and how to have fun in overcrowded nerd spaces, Game Pass’s incredible month of May, and then start the wheels of the hype train running as we get c…

Happy Friday everyone! I had the opportunity to sit down with Joe Erskine this week. Joe is a Producer at Privat Division and formerly worked at V1 Interactive (Disintegration) and Vicarious Visions (Diablo 4), and we sat down to talk everything from games, to pizza, to sushi, to baseball. A traveling man, Joe is from Kansas originally but has live…