Episode 308 : Games as a Service
As the term “Games as a Service” becomes more popular, it’s time to explore what it means and why so many people are talking about it
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, Saints Row is finally making it to the movies in a huge way. We have an update on what’s going on in the world of Anthem and Dragon Age 4 and Psyonix has been acquired by Epic Games…but that might not be such a good thing.
Also this week we have a fantastic update on the upcoming Hellraiser reboot. Ron Howard wants to get a Willow television series up on Disney+ and Ghost Rider is going to be making his way back on to Hulu. We close out the news this week with a discussion about Gearbox and all the problems that came out this week when they should have been talking about Borderlands 3.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is a discussion over Games as a Service: What it means, and the pros and cons of creating games using that model.
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Episode 307 : The Importance of Community Managers
What is a community manager, and why are they so important?
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, Bloodborne has entered the world of tabletop gaming in a HUGE way. We also have an update from Respawn on the status of Titanfall 3, and Detective comics took over the world of comics in a huge way last month.
Also this week, the new Persona game was announced for the Switch, but it’s unlike anything anyone really expected. We get into the world of fandom with threats made against several comics writers and Image does the unthinkable at this years Eisner awards. We close out our weekly raid this week with a talk about what gaming can do to help Alzheimer’s patients and Epic Games tells Steam what they need to do to stop getting exclusives taken from them.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is a love letter to the underappreciated job of the gaming world – The Community Manager.
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Episode 306 : Celebrating 11 Years of the MCU
We’re Finally in the MCU Endgame!
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, Capcom is going big with a new “mini” console that might be…a little too much. Konami has a new Castlevania collection that’s looking pretty good and SAGA is hitting its halfway point in a big way.
Also this week, we have the Russo brothers working on a documentary about Stan Lee, and Glenn Danzig is getting into the world of directing in a weird way. Our news wraps up this week with a big talk about the Playstation 5 announcements and if the console sounds like it could be a winner out of the gate.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is all about 11 years of the MCU and us just being huge fans of it.
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Episode 305 : The Rebirth of Cyberpunk
From Shadowrun to Neuromancer, why are we drawn back into the world of Cyberpunk again and again?
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, was the Star Wars Celebration. We got to hear about the upcoming game Jedi: Fallen Order, what’s Disney+ is and is all about, and even got the lowdown on new Star Wars one-shot comics that will be coming around the corner. Marvel keeps the hype train rolling with an announcement about Sue Storm (finally) getting her own solo series.
We get critical about Robert Englunds new Travel Channel mini-series, and Poltergeist is back in a hell of a big way. Rounding out our news this week is a discussion on the Google Stadia and what the higher ups over at Microsoft’s Xbox division think about it.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is all about the genre of Cyberpunk, why it’s had a resurgence and why we just keep coming back to it time after time.
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Episode 304 : The Straczynski Theory
Has J. Michael Straczynski found the reason that DC heroes work so well on the small screen?
Does Straczynski know the secret of super heroes in film?
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).
New this week, Archie is coming back in a big way as he heads into Archie vs. Predator 2. Tim Burton finally puts Beetlejuice to rest, and John Cho is taking over space once again.
Bioware is front and center in the headlines again as they respond to articles that criticize (rightfully so) the way they treat their workers. Rounding out our weekly raid is a slew of new Borderlands news that shows us that there will be no rest for the wicked once BL3 is released.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is all about J. Michael Straczynski’s theories on why Marvel heroes work better in the movies, and DC just works better on television.
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