Welcome everyone to our news roundup for all of 2018!

Happy Holidays!

Greetings adventurers! This week we will be breaking down all the big topics of 2018! Join us for a very special episode of The Surly Nerd!

With 2018 before us, we are breaking in the new year happy and hopeful for the pop culture to come!

Hello 2018

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! This is a very special “one off” bonus episode, all about what’s got us HYPED for being nerds in 2018.

Join us for our our first episode of the year and GET HYPED!

Disney might buy parts of Fox, but what does that mean for the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

What does this potential purchase mean for the MCU?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where New York is about to honor Bill Finger. We also have IMAGE pulling together an anthology to support the survivors of the Las Vegas shooting and James gets super excited about an all-new Bloodborne comic.

Heading into level two, we give the deets on what Super Mario Odyssey sold and cover all the big news that came out of Blizzcon. There’s also a (strangely) cool announcement from GameStop and microtransactions take center stage again as we talk about Monster Hunter World.

Over in the world of entertainment, we debate if we want/need a prequel movie to “Night of the Living Dead”. Fans finally get the Friday the 13th/Evil Dead crossover they have always wanted and arguments have to be made for and against wanting a new Twilight Zone reboot.

Our epilogue is week is all about the possible acquisition of Fox properties by Disney.

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!

Thanks to Activision, it’s time for part 2 on our debate over microtransactions!

Is this really the future?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where we have even more awesome Pacific Rim news! Also this week, we break down what is wrong with Free Comic Book Day, and we discuss if Marvel should host their own convention, like D23.

Heading into level two, Sony is working with Nintendo – and we’re pretty excited about it. We also mourn the loss of Visceral (and their upcoming Star Wars game) and Phil Spencer wins our hearts again as he discusses platform-exclusive DLC.

Over in the world of entertainment, we break down what we could be seeing for the New Mutants movies going forward. Also this week, John Carpenter opens up on his philosophy on remaking his movies and Robert Englund tells us if he is willing to step into Freddy’s shoes again.

Our epilogue is week is a part-two of our ongoing debate about the ethics of microtransactions.

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!

Are Microsoft’s backwards compatibility announcements really about JUST backwards compatibility?

Is this the future of Xbox?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comics, where the year of weird comics continues with Wonder Woman crossing over with Conan. We also have a breakdown of what Marvel’s Generations and Legends series are as well as the award winners for the 2017 Disney Legacy Award.

Heading into level two, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has decided to get into the business of video games! We also toss out ideas as to what Atari’s new console is going to be and tell you what mess Konami has gotten themselves into…again.

Over in the world of entertainment, we find out what kind of (horror) movie Jurassic World 2 is going to be, and we have a couple of awesome sounding horror documentaries right around the corner!

Our epilogue is week is all about how backwards compatibility isn’t really about backwards compatibility. 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!