On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active I catch a bad break in the New Year as I recover from a broken ankle. All that free time sitting on the couch while my ankle healed did wonders for my gaming life[…]
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Category: Nuketown Radio Active
Nuketown Radio Active is a 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 was first published in 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.
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Radio Active #90: Outdoor Geek
On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active I celebrate Nuketown’s re-ignition, meet Bob the Seeing Eye Puppy and talk about my evolution into a geek who loves the outdoors. I also ruminate on three games I’m playing now: Destiny 2: A massively multiplayer[…]
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Radio Active #89: Run, Geek, Run
On this episode of Nuketown Radio Active I revisit the button-smashing happiness of Diablo III, soak in the nostalgia of Sonic Mania, and catch up listeners on a few of my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. After that I delve into[…]
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Radio Active #88: Summertime
On this episode of Radio Active I catch up on the Nuketown redesign, talk about summer vacations … and summer reading lists. I also finally complete my quest for a bean bag chair and offer a review of the Amazon Dot, Amazon’s[…]
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Radio Active #87: The Show Awakens
After slumbering for four years, Nuketown Radio Active returns to find a world transformed. In this show I’ll get up to speed on what’s changed around the ol’thermonuclear burg, and what you can expect to see in the future. I[…]
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Radio Active #86: Return of the Return
On this edition of Nuketown Radio Active I return from a far-too-long hiatus to talk about the year that was and the year that will be. Topping that list is a look at the redesigned, Drupal-7 powered Nuketown and a[…]
Read moreRadio Active #85: War of the Pod People
Spring is looming larger, but just incase it gets waylaid by a late-winter storm, I decided to have a spring-themed surprise party for my wife. In geekier news, I started up a “Gamer Working Group” at my dayjob and re-launched my gaming group’s GriffCrier.com web site. There are no netheads in this show, but don’t worry — you’ll still be able to feed that net addiction with a round up of the podcasts I’m listening to.
Read moreRadio Active #84: Not Dead Yet
Good news everyone! Nuketown Radio Active isn’t dead … and neither is Futurama.
On this episode of Radio Active I catch up on a year’s worth of happenings, talk about my new Picture a Day project, and take a look at some of the computer games that I’ve been playing during the hiatus.
In Netheads I uncover the Race for the Galaxy AI card game and Mutant Future, a science fiction RPG inspired by Gamma World.
Read moreRadio Active #83: The Game Room Rebooted
Good news — Nuketown Radio Active did not see its shadow! The podcast emerged from its winter hiatus with an episode that looks at my new gaming room, runs down the video games I’ve been playing, and talks about the[…]
Read moreRadio Active #82: Invasion of the Mario Brothers
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
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