Let’s dive in to EA’s Play Live 2020 event!

Greetings adventurers! This week in the news we talk about the PS5 UI, a new V/H/S and Creepshow season 3. Rounding out our news coverage we have a new Stranger Things comic, new Dredd stories, This War Of Mine being taught in schools and the huge Mixer shake up.

Our boss room this week is all about the EA Play Live 2020 event that just aired.

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 week’s action-packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!

How do we separate art from the people who create it?

One of the new propaganda posters for the Nightwing series

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comics where Image is going all out to celebrate pride month! We also have DC creating a new, fantastic sounding Elseworlds title, and we talk about the death of Black Panther and The Crew.

Heading into level two, Square Enix says goodbye to the Hitman franchise. We also break down what’s happening to the Mass Effect franchise as well as what Valve would like to do to make the Steam store accessible for everyone.

Over in the world of entertainment, we finally find out what the Purge TV series is all about and Ridley Scott tells us what made him change the content in Alien: Covenant. Level three comes to an end with some amazing Judge Dredd news, and we give our theories as to what we would like to see in it.

Our epilogue is week is about a discussion about how we separate the beliefs of an artist from the quality of their content. 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!

This week we pay tribute to a legend, and James gets super animated. Please to enjoy episode 83.

(0:17:00) In Comic Book Industry News: DC collectibles and NECA have announced their new toy lines, Archie gets their first gay superhero and Dark Horse gives us more Robocop vs. Terminator.

(0:31:00 ish) In Game Industry News: Bioshock sinks as Irrational Games closes, 2K talks the future of Bioshock from their end, production on the Oculus Rift is halted, Sony announces their VR headset, Fallout goes silent, Cliff Bleszinski is done with disks, Microsoft talks Gears and the director of Final Fantasy 7 talks about a remake.

(1:16:00 ish) In Entertainment News: Harold Ramis has left this world and we mourn, Sony and Seth Rogan are doing a movie about the console wars, how Veronica Mars is finding release, Edward Norton is getting his dream movie made, Gary Oldman and  Benedict Cumberbatch join Star Wars, Karl Urban pushes for Judge Dredd 2 and HEROES gets revived.

This week on The Surly Nerd…

In Game Industry News: The status of Xcom Declassified, who won’t be attending E3, when Microsoft will tell us about the next Xbox, lack of Monster Hunter on the Vita and what’s going on with the World of Darkness MMO

In Entertainment News: The Amazon set top box, the Scream TV series, Hellboy 3 news, who else has joined Days Of Future Past, the rights to Daredevil, Zack Snyder on the JLA and 21 Jump Street vs TMNT

In Comic Industry News: Why a Wonder Woman movie is hard, the newest HALO comic, Dark Horses new upcoming books, the end of Locke and Key, Mars Attacks vs Dredd, Apples new video game to comic technology and Marvel’s newest Disney cruise

We wrap up this weeks show with a pre-E3 discussion during Drinks at the Inn so grab a drink and settle in with us here on…The Surly Nerd