Multiple Nerdgasm
Multiple Nerdgasm is a weekly comedy podcast about video games, movies, TV and nerd culture. Every Thursday, Matt, Luke and Dan break down the week's gaming news, film and TV trailers, streaming releases and whatever the internet is furious about this time - from Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox to Star Wars, Marvel and the latest reboot nobody asked for. Expect opinionated reviews, wildly off-topic tangents, and Geek of the Week, our tribute to the nerd-culture icons we've lost. Over 600 episodes and more than a decade in, we're still arguing about the same franchises. Join the conversation on Discord, watch the show on YouTube, and support us at patreon.com/multiplenerdgasm.
Episodes
Luke went to PAX Aus! What did he do there? What does he hate about conventions? And what was Matt playing this week? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
Topics discussed
- PAX Aus recap and Luke's pinball glory
- Board games over video games
- Con pet peeves, long lines and panel etiquette
- Pokémon, Pikmin Bloom and location-based games
- Con food and drink
- Alec Baldwin documentary follow-up
- You Can See Everything (Elizabeth Holmes/Ther...
It’s episode 666, so naturally we spent a chunk of it assigning the Seven Deadly Sins to the gaming industry’s worst offenders. Unity took Greed for trying to charge developers retroactively per install (still unforgivable). AI took Gluttony. Microsoft took… also Gluttony, basically. Luke took Sloth personally and voluntarily. Chris Roberts, who has been making Star Citizen since 2012, has taken over a billion do...
Nathan Fielder moved into Elizabeth Holmes’ house for 10 days before she went to jail, made a documentary about it, and somehow it’s rated R for graphic nudity. We have no idea what’s going on and we cannot wait.
Also: Luke watched all of Silo Season 3 instead of going for a swim (the pool wasn’t warm enough), Matt went to see the Jonas Brothers and actually enjoyed it (being supportive, he insists), and Xbo...
Luke goes full cinema hermit and catches two movies in one day — the 40th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie (verdict: fun but makes absolutely no sense, Hot Rod forever) and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil (verdict: actually good, go see it, the padlock jokes are perfect). Meanwhile Matt is still playing Yoshi and the Mysterious Book with his daughter, who apparently blasted through the new Bluey game in a single week...
Luke’s three VBs in not hungover this week, so prepare for some high energy discussion of the week’s going on!
Topics discussed
- Xbox Cloud Gaming hour-limit exemption emails
- Nintendo's tariff-refund customer appreciation sale
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake revealed
- Metroid Ravenous announced
- IKEA's Kallax Storageborn Skyrim DLC
- Wolverine game review backlash despite solid scores
- Star Wars 50th anniversary theatric...
This week Microsoft quietly kneecaps Xbox Cloud Gaming with new monthly hour limits, and they’re also keeping the tariff refunds. The future of gaming may not be financially viable?
Topics discussed
- Microsoft & Sony keep tariff refunds after court ruling
- Xbox Cloud Gaming new monthly hour limits
- RAM/storage price surge & AI bubble concerns
- The Witcher remake put on hold for Witcher 4
- James Pond AI-generated remake back...
Xbox’s limited-edition green throwback console sold out in under a minute this week, and is now sitting on eBay for $3,300 AUD. Reasonable? You be the judge. Actually no, we’ll be the judge. That’s ridiculous.
Topics discussed
- Green Xbox limited-edition console sells out & scalping
- Xbox price increases due to RAM costs
- Xbox disc-to-digital licensing feature
- IKEA Xbox furniture collection
- Canceled Iron Man game ...
Luke’s back from the actual flu (not the fake flu, the ‘couldn’t get an achievement for 5 days’ flu), and Matt’s walking around post-spinal surgery like a champ, albeit with a physiotherapist who apparently learned her craft from a Bond villain
Topics discussed
- End of Oak Street review
- Silo season 3 review
- Bluey 3D movie announcement backlash
- Dave Bautista officially cast as Kratos
- X-Men cast revealed (...
We’re back, baby! Matt had surgery, Luke got sick, got better, went back to work, and got sick again with something different. Classic Luke. Anyway, we pushed through because we missed you.
Topics discussed
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day reaction & villain reveal
- Spider-Man Brand New Day fart-evacuation incident
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi retrospective tangent
- Ryan Gosling cast as Ghost Rider
- Samara Weaving cast as Emma Frost
- Blad...
This week we wonder how Nolan made a $250 million movie that looks like The Odyssey, while Moana 2 cost the same amount and looks like… Moana 2.
Topics discussed
- The Odyssey (Nolan) review
- Elliot Page casting backlash addressed
- The Odyssey vs Moana 2 budget comparison
- Obsession rewatch & press tour
- Obsession actress's Call of Duty fandom
- Avengers: Doomsday trailer breaks view record
- Channing Tatum cast as Gambit
- New Spider-M...
Luke is back from hospital where he apparently has built up a full tolerance to ketamine (‘I have no idea what people are going on about’) and Matt is falling apart at the spine. It’s fine. Everyone’s fine. Somehow they still watched a bunch of movies and have opinions.
Topics discussed
- Luke's ketamine hospital treatment update
- Evil Dead Rise review
- Obsession review
- Hokum review
- World Cup final & FIFA cor...
So Taylor Swift got married, Adam Sandler officiated (yes, really, no one knows why either), and you could buy ‘wedding memorabilia’ off a New York street artist - including a used ovulation test - for $25. We live in a society.
Then there’s the Xbox stuff, which is a lot. Like, a LOT. Thousands of jobs gone, Double Fine just… set free, id Software’s programmers shown the door (great for the legendary...
Luke went to see Supergirl and came back mostly flat. His verdict: he laughed once.
Topics discussed
- Supergirl movie review
- DC movie slate (Man of Tomorrow, Clayface, Batman Part II)
- Clarkson's Farm season 5
- Prostate cancer screening discussion
- World War Z sequel announced
- Zombie movie lore (Return of the Living Dead)
- Xbox price increases
- AI and automation job concerns
- Steam Machine pricing & review
- GTA 6 physical copy is a code in a...
Matt beat an innocent stranger to death with a rock this week. Listen to find out what the hell that’s about.
We get into the Xbox chaos (Ninja Theory gone, Elder Scrolls 6 still apparently coming in 2028 or possibly never, Tim Schafer potentially going indie), the Commodore flip phone that blocks social media and may or may not be purchased by Luke on the spot, why Ridley Scott doing Treasure Island feels weird, and the very...
Luke spent many hours at the cinema this week, drinking his way through five movies, then got on a kick scooter and came straight to record a podcast.
Topics discussed
- Scary Movie reboot review
- Masters of the Universe review
- Masters of the Universe box office flop
- Disclosure Day (Spielberg) review
- Spielberg filmography ranking
- Back Rooms (A24 horror) review
- Obsession movie review
- Spielberg James Bond pitch
- George Miller's Mad Max plans
- C...
Luke’s heroics at a pub meat raffle set the tone for this week’s episode. When a man grabs a woman’s arm on the dance floor he’ll be there, like a red bearded Batman.
An 83-year-old man’s retirement fund - a warehouse’s worth of vintage Star Wars LEGO he’s been sitting on since the ’90s - is stuck in the middle of one of the strangest internet dramas going right now. Bricks and Minifi...
Luke Skywalker blowing up Jabba’s sail barge is the greatest war crime in Star Wars history. Not the Death Star - a military target, the sail barge full of slaves and service workers. Luke knew exactly what he was doing and he chose evil. This is the kind of analysis you get here.
Topics discussed
- Neighbours vs Zombies Halloween special
- The Mandalorian and Grogu review
- Mandalorian and Grogu box office performance
- Golden Trail...
Somehow a conversation about the Grogu movie leads to the discovery that Neighbours made a zombie spin-off in 2014 and it’s available on YouTube. That’s the kind of episode this is.
Along the way: William Shatner publicly calling his own Magic: The Gathering card AI-generated garbage, Matt’s genuine distress over not being able to enjoy Stardew Valley, Luke owning 12 boxes of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 board game...
Luke slept 18 hours before this episode because he was up until 3 AM playing Forza Horizon 6. That’s the kind of dedication that costs nearly $200 when you factor in the premium upgrade. Meanwhile Matt was over here still playing Conan Exiles Enhanced on GeForce Now and trying to figure out mod management on a streaming service (spoiler: it’s a nightmare).
We also talked about:
- Mixtape on Game Pass — Luke rea...
Nicolas Cage is playing Spider-Man in a black-and-white 1950s noir series that’s out at the end of this month, and somehow that’s not even the wildest thing discussed this week.
Asha Sharma quietly killed Xbox’s Copilot integration, an AI assistant that was officially announced as recently as March. Luke is so relieved he can barely contain it. Between that, the price cuts, and the achievement system overhaul, we ...
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