Sony Bought EVO, but what does it mean?

Greetings adventurers!

This week on the show, after the news, we discuss the implications of Sony buying the EVO fighting game tournament – with a very special guest.

Join us, for an all-new episode!

The end is nigh for Greenlight, but what does that mean for us Steam users?

Goodbye, Greenlight. We hardly liked ye

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comics where Steve Rogers is ramping up to take over the Marvel universe. We also celebrate the 100th birthday of Will Eisner and get way too hyped about Netflix expanding their brand into comics and toys.

Heading into level two, we break down what is new in the world of Call of Duty, which might mean going back to something older. Nintendo had a huge announcement this week for SWITCH users and E3 is finally opening its doors to the public for the first time in a very long time.

Over in the world of entertainment, heated words get exchanged as Netflix has announced a new animated Castlevania series and claims it will be the best western game adaptation ever. We also find about the resurrection of the Halloween franchise and get into what makes Marvel movie villains so horrible (and how they are planing to fix that).

Our epilogue this week is about the end of the Steam Greenlight program and what that means for us gamers. 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!)

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Are we, as nerds, giant hypocrites when it comes to the things we love? Find out on this weeks episode of…The Surly Nerd!

With Kojima leaving, what will happen to Silent Hills?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! We kick things off in comics where Rat Queens has (finally) won an award and Marvel makes even more strides towards diversity and accessibility with their newest Avengers title. We close out level one covering the newest Secret Wars announcement, Hail Hydra!

In video game industry news, we talk about the newest Mortal Kombat announcements and what that could mean to the overall quality of Mortal Kombat X. In Konami’s world we hear rumors of Kojima getting ready to leave the company he has been with for so long. Will this move kill Konami or is this just a power play by the man behind Metal Gear? Over in level 3, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is getting balls deep in Henson with his new Fraggle Rock project, Romeo and Juliet is going to get the “300” remake treatment and Crash Ryan steps out of the pages of Marvel comics to come to the big screen.

We mix things up this week and merge our prelude and epilogue segments into one action packed discussion about nerd hypocrisy you won’t want to miss. As always, we appreciate all our adventurers who listen to our 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

Episode 131: The Hypocritical Nerd

In Comic Industry News – Rat Queens, A-Force, Hail Hydra

In Game Industry News – Mortal Kombat, Hideo Kojima

In Entertainment News –  Fraggle Rock, Romeo and Juliet, Crash Ryan

Epilogue – Are we, as nerds, hypocrites?

 You should be reading Rat Queens

Read about the things we love to talk about!

The man, the legend, Hideo Kojima: https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en

Learn about Jim Henson Studios: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jim_Henson_Company

Bork Bork!: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Swedish_Chef

This week marks the beginning of James celebrating his birthday for a month by taking over the music selections from Tony. (He is so not sorry for this)

(0:14:00) This week in Comic Industry News – The Humble Bundle goes Image, She-Ra grows up and we want Nailbiter!

(0:27:50) In Game Industry News – Eve moves to Unreal, UNREAL TOURNAMENT IS BACK, Activision put a boatload of cash behind Destiny, Kickstarter lawsuits happen and MK says the hell with Wii U.

(1:01:00) In Entertainment News – Bob Hoskins has moved on to that Toontown in the sky, CW gives us more Veronica online, Showtime wants HALO, we get more news on Dredd 2, Baz Luhrmann wants Elvis and Peter Parker will always be under the movie mask.

Fruitier than a Fruit Roll up but not nearly as sticky, we are…The Surly Nerd

Greetings adventurers and welcome to episode 21 of the show. This week we open up with Technology news where we talk about Steam for Linux, NASA’s upcoming plans, the president going back to Reddit and the Microsoft gaming tablet. From there we head over to Level 2: Entertainment News where Mortal Kombat and Star Wars take center stage followed by news about the new Twilight Zone movie and Del Toro wanting to do a Justice League of monster movies.

We wrap up the show this week in Level 3: Gaming news where we cover what Capcom is up to, the financial state of several gaming companies, more video gaming prints dying and what’s going on over at Blizzard. A little talk about Seal Team Six, the Microsoft rewards program and what we think about video games that are movie tie-ins close out our broadcast.

Grab a seat, grab a drink and curl up with all of us here at…The Surly Nerd