Category: The Nerd Off (Page 1 of 22)

Rod and Karen discuss listener feedback, entertainment, game out after 22 year delay, Arkham Asylum live action series no longer moving forward, Xbox Game Pass price increase with new tiers, Truck-kun anime trope, Men in Black 5, Russo Brothers in talks to return to Marvel, Halo TV series cancelled, Mr. and Mrs. Smith update, Nintendo releases joy-con charging station, some Phase 4 characters getting left out of MCU, Morbius director says he wasn’t a good fit, Kevin Feige getting Walk of Fame star, new basketball game announced, Nintendo revoke Splatoon 3 championship win, Hello Kitty is not a cat, Disney World slashes prices, Ike Perlmutter out, voice actors strike over AI in video games, GTA 6 gets exemption from actor strike, Bioshock film still coming to Netflix, Xbox 360 store ending soon, Whoopi Goldberg gets key to hell from Diablo 4, Marvel teases Fantastic 4, Japanese man jailed over bomb threats to Nintendo, The Boys prequel coming to Amazon, Cartoon Network crossover, no Superman at SDCC, new streaming bundle, Inside Out 2 officially highest grossing animated movie of all time, Ubisoft addresses historical authenticity in newest game, Activision used AI-generated cosmetic in MW3, Concord looking like a dud for Sony and Invincible season 4 announced.

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Rod, Karen and Jack discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Zack Snyder’s Justice League headed back to theaters, Uncharted sequel movie coming, Marvel Vs Capcom collection, Spaceballs sequel coming, Marvel returning to Hall H, Assassin Creed remakes coming, Nickmercs banned from Twitch, Demon Slayer’s final season will be a film trilogy, Switch 2 scalper prevention, Crazy Taxi reboot is ambitious, Fire TV getting Xbox Cloud gaming, Street Fighter movie coming in 2026, Steam players prefer Xbox Controllers, NBA 2K League fires everybody, Andrew Lincoln talks Glenn’s death, Iron Fist actor wants back in, Nintendo cautions against generative AI, Horizon Zero Dawn TV show stalls, Watch Dog movie going forward, Nintendo suing Switch modding company, Jujutsu Kaisen nugget sauce, the gamer saint and Umbrella Academy spinoff stalls.

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Rod, Justin, Bacon and Karen discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Black Superman movie, Sony removes 8K tag, Avengers 5 casting rumor, Pixar reboots and live action movies, Mad Max spinoff movies in jeopardy, Zack Snyder 300 prequel, AI streaming service, Like a Dragon live action series, Evangeline Lilly announces acting retirement, WB thought Suicide Squad game would be a big, Xbox Showcase, Doom: The Dark Ages coming to PS5, The Acolyte sets viewing record for Disney, The Boys ending with season 5, Arcane ending with season 2, Regular Show getting new series, Marvel loses another Blade director, Jordan Peele meets with Marvel, PS5 users can chat on Discord soon, House of the Dragon renewed, Transformers / GI Joe crossover movie, Valve being sued in UK, new updates to PS5 and Xbox, Mr. And Mrs. Smith stars may return, Russsell Crowe on comicbook movie roles, Tesla Cybertruck police vehicle, Assassin’s Creed Shadows producer responds to Yasuke backlash, new Dora movie, Dog from Walking Dead dies, Delicious in Dungeon getting second season,  Creature Commandos coming in December, FromSoftware talks game design, Power Rangers series on Netflix running into issues, Rebel Moon director’s cuts coming in August, Blue Beetle animated series, new Xbox consoles, Enemy Mine remake in the works, woman caught smuggling Nintendo Switch games and Pokemon convention scam.

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Rod, Karen and Sterling discuss listener feedback, entertainment, a new Riddick movie, Gina Carano wants that old thang back, Marvel will reduce output, Bethesda studio layoffs, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, there might be 9 Planet of the Apes movies, Ryan Coogler to direct Black Panther 3 and maybe X-Men, Chris Pratt not fumbling the bag, Square Enix going multiplatform, Phoebe Waller Bridge Tomb Raider series, John Wick: Caine spinoff, Silk: Spider Society shut down, Egyptologists discover pyramid collection, Daisy Ridley wants John Boyega back in Star Wars, why Kraven was moved to December, Pixar hit with layoff, Vision series coming in 2026, Deadpool & Wolverine sets sales record, George Lucas tries to defend Star Wars, Jeffrey Wright cast in Last of Us season 2, Nintendo opening second physical store, gamers are less interested in strategy, Playstation London closes, Hellblade 2 studio working on a new game for Microsoft, Scar Jo vs OpenAI and the fear of a Black samurai.

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Rod and Karen discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Funimation closure messing anime up, Keanu will voice Shadow, female-led Iron First rumor, One Punch Man movie update, Invincible video game crowdfunded, Take-Two layoffs, Helldivers 2 CEO speaks on realities of running a live service game, LittleBigPlanet server shutdown, Witcher Spin-Off canceled, Kraven the Hunter pushed back, Fallout 4 update blindsides mod creator, Fallout TV show is second most watched in Amazon history, Stellar Blade censorship controversy, Mario Kart toy recall, Xbox gaming financial report, Net Neutrality restored, BlizzCon canceled, flamethrower robo dog, Fallout TV show increases Fallout game players, Kingdom Hearts movie, Hasbro betting on in-house game development, Batman Arkham VR game, Kevin Feige told Hugh Jackman not to come back and play Wolverine, X-Men 97 mansion, Michelle Yeo receiving presidential medal, Redfall anniversary passes with no DLC, gator that inspired Loki gator kidnapped, Horizon: Zero Dawn pulled from PS store, Starfield update, Crunchyroll raising prices, My Adventures with Superman season 2, Chris Hemsworth wants another Thor movie and the Candy Crush priest.

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Rod, Karen and Joe discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Xmen97 show runner fired, Watch Dogs live action movie, Akira Toriyama dies, Dakota Johnson vs Sony, Playstation exclusives hurting the bottom line, WB delists Adult Swim video games, The Batman 2 sequel pushed back, Peacemaker season 1 isn’t cannon, Live action Teen Titans movie in the works, Apple sued by the DOJ, live action Popeye movie, Larian Studios not making Baldur’s Gate 3, GTA 6 production moving back to the office, police using Lego heads on suspects, Scar Jo in talks to star in Jurassic World movie, Kristen Stewart, Gearbox sold from Embracer to Take-Two, Isekai in the Oxford dictionary, Solo Leveling director went too hard, new Matrix movie announced, ESRB face scanning proprosal rejected, Crunchyroll announces profiles, Kirsten Dunst wasn’t asked to be in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Brightburn 2 not happening, Life is Strange toxic workplace, Gears 6 announced, old games taking up all gaming time, Jon Snow spinoff no longer happening, Star Wars Outlaws early access, Dead Space 2 Remake not happening, Nia DaCosta in talks to direct 28 Years Later, Heroes Eclipsed series returning, The Last Ronin R-Rated Live Action movie, Transformers / GI Joe movie announced, Star Trek streaming shows coming to an end, Fallout 4 update coming soon, Slay the Spire 2 won’t be on Unity engine, Thunderbolts*, GAME laying off staff and Japanese man arrested for Pokemon cheating.

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Rod, Karen, Shanna and Jack discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Xbox games coming to PS5 and Switch, PS5 entering latter stage of life, Nintendo Switch 2 pushed to 2025, Embracer canceled nearly 30, Gearbox wants out of Embracer, Stardew Valley Update, Game of Thrones shot vertically, Xmen gone Woke, Vibrator malware, Rockstar makes people return to office, Star Citizen layoffs, Liam Neeson “Naked Gun,” Dave Bautista wants to play a comic book villain, Apple no longer working on self driving car, AI Game Scent device, Playstation Portal selling well, Tekken 8 sells well, live-action Naruto, Fairly Odd Parents reboot, WWE 2K24, Police Call of Duty ad, Baldur’s Gate may be 4 physical discs, Superman find its Perry White and Crash Team Rumble no longer getting support after 9 months.

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Rod, Karen, Sterling and Bacon discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Steven Yeun leaves Thunderbolts, Ahsoka season 2 talks haven’t started yet, Netflix  Marvel shows are canon now, Margot Robbie wants to pass of Harley Quinn mantle, MJ Face model dealing with stalking and harassment, the Mandalorian movie, Echo ratings, SAG-AFTRA makes deal that allows AI voice work, Discord laying off people, Ubisoft says gamers need to get used to not owning games, She-Hulk not getting season 2, RDJ says some of his best acting in Marvel movie, Japan lands on moon, Christopher Reeve’s children didn’t see Flash, Halo season 2, a third of gaming devs had layoffs last year, Hogwarts legacy best selling game of 2023, GameStop out of the NFT game, Book of Eli prequel, Microsoft cuts 2000 jobs, Nintendo Switch 2, Live-Action Avatar cut Sokka’s sexism, Pokimane leaves Twitch, Last of Us 3, Xbox may put exclusives on other consoles, Gina Carano sues Disney, Spider-Man 2 free trial, Funimation / Crunchyroll, MCU Slowdown, Predator spinoff, Jurassic World movie loses director, Moana sequel, Disney invests 1.5 billion in Epic Games for Disney Fortnite experience, Kumail Nanjiana needed therapy after Eternals backlash, Florida Joker drops suit against RockStar, Sega issue warning after sluggish Sonic sales, Spike Lee and Denzel making new movie and Stephen A Smith’s favorite X-Men.

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Rod and Karen discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Warner Bros merging with Paramount, the Game Awards criticism, The Day Before shutting down, Killer Klowns from Outer Space video game, Tubi getting DC content, E3 officially dead, Star Wars will no longer cast young versions of classic characters, Insomiac hacked, Sony wants studios to cut staff, Eyes of Wakanda animated series, Blue Eye Samurai getting season 2, James Gunn talks about “cameo porn”, Kylo Rens redemption wasn’t planned, Last of Us Multiplayer canceled, Warrior canceled, George Clooney won’t return as Batman, Andor pushed out of 2024, Sony patent for adjusting game difficulty, Jet Set Radio will be open world, GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life, China cracking down on games again, Xbox slammed for using AI generated art, Playstation not deleting Discovery shows, Bobby Kotick leaving Activision, Avatar live action series, Jonathan Majors done at Marvel, Activision QA workers forced to return to work, the most pirated TV shows and Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is blurry on purpose.

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Rod, Karen, LaShonda and Aaron discuss listener feedback, entertainment, Last of Us Part 2 remaster, more lay-offs, Dave Filoni taking over Star Wars, Bethesda responding to bad Steam reviews, Robert Pattinson’s Batman suit coming to Arkham, Playstation deleting tons of TV shows, Halo TV show, Kevin Feige say RDJ not returning, Maleficent 3 confirmed, Bungie Devs sad, Dr. Quinn not coming back, Toonami crosses major milestone, Natalie Portman open to Star Wars return, GTA 6 on PC, Playstation permanently suspends accounts for unknown reasons, Twitch shutting down in Korea, Pixar releasing movies in theaters, DC Games don’t have to align with movie universe, Stardew Valley update,  Starfield has over 12 million players, Mahershala feeling better about Blade, Loki 2 finale tops charts, Skull and Bones release date, Sega rebooting games, Last of Us Season 2, The Walking Dead Betrayal scrapped and Nintendo cancels Esports event over threats.

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