The modern MMO is dead, all hail the post-modern MMO

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).

Kicking things off this week, we have a ton of Masters of the Universe news from a new comic to a new show on Netflix. We keep down the Netflix train with an announcement of a new Elvis spy cartoon and move to Hulu to discuss their new “Adventure into Fear” series.

Also this week, we have the crew behind “Haunting of Hill House” working on a new “choose your own adventure” horror film. The Magicians is getting a new mini comic series and the head of Dragon Age has left Bioware. Wrapping up the news this week is a new deal that has Sony buying up Spider-man developer Insomniac games.

Our Boss Room this week is all about the possible death of the modern MMO.

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It’s time for our 2019 console state of the union!

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).

Kicking things off this week, we re-visit our game violence discussion as ESPN cancels an Apex Legends tournament due to the recent shootings. Venom 2 already has a writer and director attached to it that we are here for. Crisis On Infinite Earths gets even bigger with the addition of Smallville.

Also this week, DC has a lot going on with struggling digital sales, their Walmart line of comics expanding and Disney + looming on the horizon. We wrap up the news this week with a talk about 2k games and them threatening a popular youtuber and Phil Spencer giving us his thoughts on modern day consoles.

Our Boss Room this week is our yearly gaming console state of the union!

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Sadly, it’s time to talk about violence in video games

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).

Kicking things off this week, the book “The Console Wars” is being turned into both a documentary AND a television show and we could not be more excited. We have a huge news roundup for CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover and Cloak and Dagger is finally getting the crossover it deserves.

Also this week, Stephen King is working on a new ending for “The Stand” for the new series, and E3 had a huge privacy leak that has affected thousands. Closing out our news this week is an update on what the FTC is going to do about loot boxes in America and Crash Team Racing makes headlines again as they add microtransactions retroactively to their game.

Our Boss Room this week is a discussion on video game violence and how it’s affecting people around the world.

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Welcome everyone to our SDCC 2019 Roundup!

Greetings adventurers! It’s time for our SDCC 2019 blowout show. Join us for a very special episode of The Surly Nerd!

When are game developers not your friends?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head right into the weekly raid (our news roundup).

Kicking things off this week, Nintendo has released a new version of the Switch that has some people scratching their heads. Amazon is getting into the MMO game by launching a free to play Lord of the Rings MMO and Cuphead is coming to Netflix in a big way.

Sam Rami is talking about more Evil Dead content – but do we really need it? SDCC is right around the corner and DC takes center stage as they announce the Dark Muliverse one-shot series and we break down several upcoming titles surrounding it. Finally, Constantine is finally being moved from Vertigo to join the ever expanding Sandman Universe.

Our Boss Room this week is about the Ubisoft Assassins Creed controversy and why some game developers are not your friends.

As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to the show every week and we look forward to your feedback on what we discuss! (info@thesurlynerd.com!)

Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!