We zip, grind, jump and bounce about this episode's game: Sunset Overdrive from Insomniac Games. We battle hoards of OD, Scabs, and murderous robots while trying to save Sunset City - and the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/notot/message

In this episode, the Nerds talk about Campo Santo's game Firewatch, a mystery action-adventure game set in the Shoshone National Forest. We discuss who's stalking Henry, grand conspiracies, and why it's important to keep your door locked in your fire watchtower. Seriously, there are some wackos out there.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcast…

For our latest episode of the podcast, we played Half-Life 2, a 2004 first-person shooter developed by Valve. Although considered a masterpiece of its time, the nerds didn't exactly have much good to say about it. Damn millennials. Enjoying their Halos and Call of Dutys.We do spend an inordinate amount of time talking about The Game Awards, though,…

This month(s) we played the narrative adventure game Tell Me Why from Dontnot Entertainment. The story features the twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan, who are working to come to terms with and uncover truths and secrets behind the tragic loss of their mother.Tell Me Why is also one of the first AAA title games to feature a trans character among it's mai…

Jake and Adrian discuss Night in the Woods and its take on mental illness, returning home after dropping out of college, and small town life while George sits there and listens. These are things each of us relate to in some way or another - either with mental health such as depression, bipolar disorder, and dissociative disorders and Night in the W…

For the month of April, we played Need for Speed: The Run, a game in which you drive from Golden Gate to Empire State. In our arduous journey across the United States, we make our way from 200th place to first place and claim our prize of getting our lives back after playing such a dreary and boring and repetitive game. Sorry, George.Also, we're so…

Our tenth episode of the podcast! For the month of February we discuss the themes of American exceptionalism and the racist overtones that make up the floating city of Columbia in Bioshock Infinite.Join our Extra Life team and donate #ForTheKids! https://www.extra-life.org/participant/arcade-time-2021We have started a Patreon! Help us make more con…

What does it mean to be human? Our consciousness? Our physical bodies? Our desire to live? This month we talk about SOMA, a game from Frictional Games that attempts to answer it for us. Listen to find out our thoughts on this episode of Nerds of the Orange Table!Join our Extra Life team and donate #ForTheKids! https://www.extra-life.org/participant…

Our spidey senses tingle in this action-packed episode of Nerds of the Orange Table. For the month of December 2020, we played Insomniac Games' Spider-Man from 2018 and Spider-Man: Miles Morales from 2020.We tackle issues such as our own personal relationships, fighting the forces of evil, and pizza while swinging through the streets of New York Ci…

For the month of November, the guys played Oxenfree - a creepy game about crazy teenage island adventures, ghost-like things, World War II, and everything in between. Does Alex ever reconnect with her brother? Will Nona and Ran ever start dating? And can Clarissa be nice, just for once? Find out all this and more in this eery episode.Polygon articl…

For spooky month, we play the thriller Observation. What happens when an AI program controls a spaceship in near earth orbit? What's the worst that can happen? We find out in this spooky version of Nerds of the Orange Table when we play Observation. Give us your thoughts by sending a message to us at https://anchor.fm/notot/message. We might even p…

The guys talk about the underappreciated game of Titanfall 2 and the story of one Jack Cooper and his robot BT-7274. Follow us through time and space as we talk about exciting missions, interesting characters, and the greatest killing mechs and their sharp wits. Seriously though, you all slept on Titanfall 2. Go pick it up on Steam or consoles. It'…

It's a twofer! We got lazy so we waited a while between games and releasing episodes, but we're back! This time we play Ryse: Son of Rome and Minecraft Dungeons. Follow along epic storylines as we save Rome and the world!Join our Extra Life team and donate #ForTheKids! https://www.extra-life.org/participant/arcade-time-2021--- Send in a voice messa…

The Nerds turn into androids while we play Detroit: Become Human. Follow the stories of Connor, Markus, and Kara as they discover how much it sucks to be human. Find out which paths we take, which moves we make, which ways we will be watching you. Each path can lead to the death of our characters, or can lead them to salvation - Canada. I hear it's…

Join us in our monthly series. NOTOT plays Halo 5: Guardians - sort of - for our second podcast. Our book club but for video games, the Nerds talk about Halo 5: Guardians and the epic story following Master Chief and Blue Team, along with Spartan Locke and Fireteam Osiris.Link to the Halo storyline video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6DtLNPet0k…

Join us in our monthly series. NOTOT plays Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for our first podcast. Our book club but for video games, the Nerds talk about Call of Duty's latest game in the series and discuss the campaign.Join our Extra Life team and donate #ForTheKids! https://www.extra-life.org/participant/arcade-time-2021--- Send in a voice message: …

This is our unofficial first episode - an introduction, if you will. We like playing video games and we want to know what you like about them, too. So every month we play a different game and come back to talk about it. Join our Extra Life team and donate #ForTheKids! https://www.extra-life.org/participant/arcade-time-2021--- Send in a voice messag…