January 19, 2015 Returning fresh in 2015, Nels and Jesse are going to be discussing the major deck archetypes of all seven the game's factions. First up is the Teutonic titan of efficiency Haas-Bioroid and slick, surveilling NBN. Both corporations has strong fast advance tools that can close out a game in the blink of an eye. But the eponymous bioroids of H-B and some recent new developments at NBN provide both factions some interesting options to secure their agendas and ensure victory is always just out of the runner's grasp.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

December 22, 2014 We gave gone upstalk, into orbit and all the way to the moon. There, we found The Source and have brought it back to earth. Nels & Jesse discuss the concluding, but no less thrilling, data pack in The Lunar Cycle. Plus, with the holidays coming up, tips are provided on how to give the mostly kingly gift anyone could ever hope to receive- the gift of (learning how to play) Netrunner.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

November 26, 2014 With the Netrunner World Championships finished, All That Remains is for Nels & Jesse to talk to top 16 player Brody Lodmell about his time at Worlds, his decks and what makes Minnesota grocery stores so special. Oh, and something about the newest data pack.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

November 12, 2014 Netrunner is characterized by its diverse and friendly communities, all with their own quirks, tales and personalities. To celebrate this - and the Netrunner World championships this past weekend - Nels & Jesse talk to friends around the world about their local metas, why they are interesting and what makes them excited to play the game.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

October 23, 2014 Nels and Jesse go Up & Over to see what the fourth data pack in the Lunar Cycle has in store. From the unlimited energy at reasonable prices of Blue Sun to the vicious precision of Switchblade to the interesting - yet baffling - Angel Arena, Up & Over is clear that the moon has not given up all of its secrets quite yet.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

September 22, 2014 First Contact is made with the latest data pack in the Lunar Cycle. Nels & Jesse meet a new Anarch with beautiful plumage, touch a fragment of Hades itself and discuss how the world as a cyperpunk dystopia has become one step closer to reality.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

August 21, 2014 People like data because it's simple, honest, specific. It's either 0 or it's 1 and there's nothing in between. While that might be true for individual bits, the best runners knows that in aggregate, data isn't static. It flows and changes, depending on where it lives. Like a raging river, data too has eddies, undertow and currents. Nels and Jesse explore The Spaces Between this data, looking at the latest data pack in the Lunar Cycle and its introduction of a new type of event- currents. Also discussed is the Overdrive draft set, which includes a number of as-yet unreleased Lunar Cycle cards and how they hint at things yet to come.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

July 31, 2014 Upstalk's release has opened the doors of the Great Glass (Space) Elevator and now Nels and Jesse see what lies at Midway. Will the Near-Earth Broadcast Hub allow NBN to further extend their reach and ability to blitz out agendas? Will Nasir Meidan and his profoundly bizarre but fascinating approach to ICE encourage new styles of play? Head upstalk and find out!

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

June 23, 2014 Nels & Jesse are joined by a very special guest this week- Android: Netrunner co-designer Damon Stone. We discuss design process, how theme and mechanics get wedded together in Netrunner and Damon moonlighting as a jet-setting dance instructor.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

June 9, 2014 In two days, Nels & Jesse played 40 games of Netrunner between them ... and they were still hungry for more! In one weekend, Terminal7 hosted their first draft tournament as well as their first post-Honour & Profit standard tournament. These tournaments are examine post-mortem with thoughts on the draft format and what it looks like seeing Jinteki's new hazards and the Criminals new tricks in practice.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

May 12, 2014 The buzzing conversation was halted by a chorus of knives tapping on champagne glasses. "Chairman Hiro-sama is pleased to announced a revolutionary new treatment for Toxic Allergy Syndrome, developed by the Jinteki corporation's Harmony division. But of course, this breakthrough would not be possible without your extremely gracious support, without which Jinteki's charitable works would not be possible."

Tori Hanzō glanced at the live feed, and noticed the tall blond woman in a red dress give a slightly too familiar glance to a silver-haired waiter. The exotic and glamorous locations for these fundraisers - never held in same place twice- made their connections notorious difficult to secure. Tori expected an intrusion to be detected within three minutes, but her calm was that of an unbroken pond. Resembling the shīsā that stood sentry on rooftops in her Okinawan hometown, Tori knew the newly developed ICE she had just activated would be more than adequate to ward off bad spirits, whatever form they may take.

Honour & Profit has arrived! And Quintin Smith of Shut Up & Sit Down joins Nels and Jesse to gingerly scamper across this new digital minefield. Is Jinteki deadlier than ever? Are the Criminals more replete with tricks and unorthodox tactics than ever before? Lucky episode 13 discovers the answers to these questions ... unless that was just another bluff?

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner, Arctic Scavengers

April 28, 2014 Corporate reputations are in tatters, runners' brains have seen countless neurons dissolved and questionable off-shore drilling platforms remain under digital assault. Nels & Jesse are joined by Lantz the Younger (James, to be specific) to recap the Spin Cycle, discuss how the game has changed between Opening Moves and Double Time and what we have to look forward to in the near future.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

April 7, 2014 The release of Double Time sees the Spin Cycle come to a close. Filled with powerful but time-consuming double events, will these prove to be a lucky find for the runner or much needed corporate shuffle for the faceless bureaucracies? Nels & Jesse find out and you should come along!

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

March 31, 2014 Nels & Jesse traveled to the Game Developer's Conference and talked to a ton of our favourite Netrunner players. First, Anthony Burch of Hey Ash Watcha Playin' and lead writer of Borderlands 2 and Paul Dean of Shut Up & Sit Down discuss their recent arrival to the game. Next Charlene Putney and Theresa Duringer discuss their strategies and perspectives. NYU's professor arrives next to Frank Lantz talk about The Local Meta and his thoughts on the game. Penultimately, Jorge Albor, Mathew Kumar and Emily Flynn-Jones get together after a GDC Netrunner meetup. And finally, we are joined again by Leigh Alexander, who runs us through the myth of Enby-chan.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner

March 10, 2014 Fear & Loathing finds Nels & Jesse standing at the door of the Geostrategic Research & Neothermal Development Laboratories. The newest data pack in the Spin Cycle is discussed, along with some of our favourite but less commonly seen Neutral cards. And an exciting announcement about a new event happening at the end of May in Terminal City (literally and figuratively) awaits in the twilight of this episode.

Games Discussed: Android: Netrunner