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/Theranos)
• Tesla's new Roadster demo and electric car competition
• Mike Flanagan and Stephen King remakes
• Strange Horticulture, Resident Evil 4 remake and Outbound
• AI mashups and Xbox

Links

• ‘The Trial of Alec Baldwin’ Review: Rory Kennedy’s Bold but Blinkered Doc Centers the Movie Star in the ‘Rust’ Tragedy, Nearly Erasing Halyna Hutchins
• The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a second
• Carrie Showrunner Reveals Which Stephen King Movie Should Never Get A Remake
• Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports

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 dollars, and still hasn’t released the game, nearly got Sloth but ended up on Pride, which honestly tracks more.

Also in this episode: Luke bought a shirt in Vietnam that might have sea cucumbers on it. Matt went to a fake Warped Tour at a brewery and thinks the Green Day tribute band put in more effort than actual Green Day. The Witcher 3 Remastered looks incredible on an ultrawide with ray tracing. Luke wants Night Trap but can’t get it in Australia. Someone is selling bootleg 4K discs of The Abyss on Amazon. The Minecraft Realm still exists and nobody has logged in.

Oh, and the website has a new topics browser now: you can see that we’ve talked about Red Dead Redemption 2 fifteen times and Rogue One eighteen times. Which is a lot.

Topics discussed

• Matt went to a fake Warped Tour at a brewery
• Luke bought a bright sea-creature shirt in Vietnam
• Matt's been playing Graveyard Keeper
• The Witcher 3 remastered is out and looks incredible
• Xbox now has Mythic achievements
• Developers at The Coalition (Gears of War E-Day) are reportedly worried
• The 7 Deadly Sins of gaming and tech
• Bootleg physical media is apparently a real problem now
• Colin from Accounts season 3 is out on Paramount
• We're watching Ted Lasso season 4
• The Pokémon TCG printed so many cards in their new set that scalpers are stuck holding stock they can't flip for much profit. Extremely satisfying.
• Matt updated the Multiple Nerdgasm website with an AI-powered topics page
• Daylight saving is about to mess with their recording schedule again
• PAX Australia is next week

Links

• Paramount & Warners Become Skydance
• Report: Gears Of War: E-Day Developers Fear For Their Jobs And Bonuses - Kotaku
• The Witcher 3 Remastered Nintendo Switch 2 Can Be Unlocked For Free Even If You Borrow A Switch Physical Copy From A Friend
• Mythic achievements

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 Xbox had another rough week -Ninja Theory is being shut down after Microsoft couldn’t sell them, and Halo is now Activision’s problem.

George Lucas came out of his box this week to say his Star Wars special editions were necessary and justified. The Ewoks blinked their disagreement. Also he claims he had three more Star Wars movies planned… we’re pretty sure he did not.

Plus: the CEO of Nvidia doesn’t know his own address so kids don’t need to learn maths apparently, an AI actress glitched into Chinese mid-interview with Piers Morgan, and someone paid thousands of dollars in API fees to generate a garbage Counter-Strike clone. Good times!

Topics discussed

• Silo Season 3
• Wheel of Games on TrueAchievements
• Jonas Brothers
• Xbox Studio Closures
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
• Tilly Norwood, AI Actress
• Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
• Activision making the next Halo
• Star Wars original theatrical cut returning
• Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Full show notes and links: https://multiplenerdgasm.com/665-no-jonas/