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Nuketown Radio Active

Welcome to Nuketown Radio Active!

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 3:16pm

Nuketown Radio ActiveNuketown Radio Active is a twice-a-month podcast dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of geekdom. The show features geek, technology and gaming links from around the Web as well as book, movie, game and podcast reviews.

The podcast has been published since March 2005 and is hosted by Ken Newquist, Nuketown's editor and founder. A web developer by day, he's also a freelance staff writer for Knights of the Dinner Table and SCI-FI.com.

Radio Active #82: Invasion of the Mario Brothers

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 11:20am

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On this episode of Radio Active, StarGirl takes up soccer, NeutronLad becomes a preschooler, and I stop by The Tome podcast to geek out about the Eberron Campaign Guide.

Back at Nuketown, I talk about my new Nintendo DS Lite and some of the games I've picked up for it, learn how to make my own Star Wars crawl and surf through thousands of government regulations at OpenRegs.com

Radio Active #81: That New Mac Smell

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Sun, 09/13/2009 - 7:37pm

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On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, the site gets updated to Drupa 6, I get a new MacBook Pro, return to Castle Wolfenstein and try out some new tricks from the Jedi Academy Training Manual.

In Netheads I make plans for MEPACon 2009 and check out the northeast Pennsylvania convention's web presence, and get my final frontier fix from The Space Review

Radio Active #80: Summer Vacation

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 2:28pm

On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, I talk about my summer vacations, first to Origins 2009 in Columbus, Ohio, then to an island on Lake Champlain in Vermont.

I run down the new role-playing game books and supplies I bought at Origins, geek out about my family's new "Blue Dolphin" netbook, and offer a progress report on my summer reading list, which includes Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds, The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton, Dauntless by Jack Campbell and The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brien.

Radio Active #79: On the Edge of Summer

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 8:18pm

On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active I start building my summer reading list (and yes, inspite of all this dreary rain and 60 degree weather, I do believe summer is coming), recruit players for my weekly Star Wars campaign, geek out about Origins 2009, and take a look at the games that have been consuming my free time this spring.

Meanwhile in Netheads I come across a treasure trove of modules, campaign settings and other resources for D&D and contemplate a Savage Worlds-powered Star Trek campaign.

Radio Active #78: Wii Have a Winner

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 4:32am

On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active colds stalk the Newquist household, I geek out about some computer upgrades, and I return to the World of Warcraft.

In Netheads I look at the Bard of Valiant, an RPG blog and Saga-Edition, a fan web site dedicated to Star Wars: Saga Edition RPG. Finally, I round out the podcast with a look at four cool games for the Nintendo Wii.

Radio Active #77: Footsteps in the Night

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 7:42am

On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, Neutron Lad gives up diapers for good, StarGirl and I get in a game of Settlers of Catan, I head back to the gym (again) and set some goals and I share my reviews of a bunch of new games, including Resident Evil 5, Star Ocean and Ticket to Ride.

In Netheads, I take a look at the Launchy fast-application launcher for Windows and Linux, and share some Tor.com-inspired thoughts about the future of comic books.

Radio Active #76: The Stars, Like Books

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 10:25pm

My Christmas-turned-Winter Reading List is front and center on this episode of Radio Active as I run down the books I've been reading recently, including Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds, The Last Colony by John Scalzi and Star Wars: Omnipedia: Tales of the Jedi, Volume 1.

I also talk about my new writing gig at GameCryer.com and try out Cute PDF, a free PDF writer for Windows.

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Radio Active #75: Under the Geek Tree

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 2:05am

In Radio Active #75 I look back on the holidays and talk about the presents I found under the Geek Tree this year, geek out with some gaming on the Xbox 360 and Wii, check out a tool for porting Unix utilities to the Mac, contemplate some retro-future t-shirts.

Finally, I review the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's most excellent A Very Scary Solstice Christmas album, which is filled with 25 seasonal songs dedicated to the horror of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Radio Active #74: The Sound of Distant Crashing Xboxes

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 4:38pm

On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active, I dream of a good night’s sleep, remember  the adventure that is potty training my son, recount my Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" woes and talk about the boatload of games I’ve been reviewing.

In Netheads, I try out the “Is Gd” url shortner, test drive the Obsidian Portal gaming wiki, and round out the show by geeking out over the Star Wars RPG game master’s screen.

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