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Episode 1 – Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
Welcome to Nerdhole! In this inaugural episode, Paul schools Mary and Rob on the latest chapter in PopCap’s fun, weird world of garden-menacing undead. It’s a first-person cuter! At one point, Rob...
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Episode 2 – World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
Mary comes this close to convincing Paul and Rob to check out World of Warcraft. The new expansion drops in November and she’ll be playing the hell out of it. Grinders gotta grind!
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Episode 3 – Dr. Who: Legacy/Tile-Matching Games
Yeah, well, not everything we play has subtext. Rob, Paul, and Mary goob out over our favorite match-three games—including, primarily, new favorite Dr. Who: Legacy. Why the hell do we keep coming back...
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Episode 4 – Interview with Rob Heinsoo of 13th Age in Glorantha
Rob and Paul interview game designer (and old friend) Rob Heinsoo about his delightful tabletop RPG 13th Age and his Kickstarter drive to create a Glorantha expansion (that’s RuneQuest’s setting for...
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Episode 5 – Sleepy Hollow
One of the monsters of the week on Sleepy Hollow, the Sandman.In this episode, Mary and Rob continue trying to convince Paul (apparently mostly successfully!) that he needs to be watching Sleepy Hollow...
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Episode 6 – Constantine
We dig into the newest genre show of the year, based on the legendary Hellblazer comics from Vertigo. Rob, a huge fan of the comics, tries with some success to accept the show for what it is. Mary,...
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Episode 7 – Civilization: Beyond Earth
Rob goobs out on the latest in the Civilization series. He quite likes it, but isn’t sure whether it has legs. Tentacles, maybe? If you’re Civ-curious, Beyond Earth may not be the best gateway, but if...
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Episode 8 – Tabletop games for Thanksgiving
We get timely and talk about the time-honored tradition of playing family-friendly* tabletop games while immobilized by overconsumption. We look at a few golden classics and a few that could interest...
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Episode 9 – World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
Now that the new World of Warcraft expansion is out, Mary expands on her excitement from episode 2 while Rob and Paul ask ignorant questions. You can start playing WoW for free right now, if you...
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Episode 10 – Gotham
The nerds enthuse over Gotham, the gritty, pre-Batman cops-and-gangsters show featuring a badass Alfred and some unfortunate Bechdel problems. Regular listeners know that Rob always has to get...
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Episode 11 – Pets in Video Games
From Mary’s giant crab friend McBiteypants to all of our little power-up pals in Castle Crashers to the many, many dogs of the Fallout series, we’ve spent a lot of time cavorting with digital critters....
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Episode 12 – The Wolf Among Us and Telltale Games
Two Wolf Nom (Taral Jansen via Wikimedia Commons) This week, the nerds goob out on The Wolf Among Us and the rest of the nerdy, gamified interactive fiction of Telltale Games. If you’re so inclined,...
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Episode 13 –“I love all shitty vampire things!”
We are back from our long holiday break / sick leave, with a hilariously delayed episode we recorded just before Xmas, in which we reveal a bunch of gift-related spoilers. The episode is now extremely...
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Episode 14 – Star Wars
In the Shadow of YavinJoin us for a rather optimistic discussion of the too-big-to-fail Star Wars franchise in some of its many iterations. For once, Rob’s ignorance is addressed explicitly instead of...
View ArticleEpisode 15 – All Roads Lead to Azeroth
This episode is a nerd trope buffet, featuring: Mini-reviews of a couple of lovely mobile apps A hopeless stab at defining the word “game” Social justice worriers Gratuitous WoW references 1d4+1 kobold...
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Episode 16 – Spouses in Video Games
If you like it then you should have put a Ring of Regeneration on it. Marriage in video games adds humor, pathos, and practical support — just like IRL. Different games incorporate spouses in different...
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Episode 17 – Slash: Fanfic Meets Apples to Apples
Slash: Romance without Boundaries Mary had the great good fortune to play Slash: Romance without Boundaries, a new card game that applies the glorious tradition of fanfic to a play format reminiscent...
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Episode 18 – Old Man’s War
Old Man’s War It’s the first-ever Nerdhole Book Club! Mary and Rob, ever in sync, found out they were each reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s Way series at the same time (though Mary was and still is far...
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Episode 19 – Agent Carter
Marvel’s Agent Carter on ABC just wrapped up its 8-episode engagement—tucked in between the two halves of Season 2 of Agents of SHIELD—and we took some time to explore its many virtues. Rob and Mary...
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Episode 20 – Spoiler Alert: You’re the Chosen One
All this and he wants aiming, too. It’s Two-Topic Tuesday! First, Paul somewhat reluctantly shares his initial findings from Dragon Age: Inquisition after only 20 hours of play. Thanks, ridiculous...
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