Episode 336 : Why Gaming Tech Fails

What can past gaming failures tell us about the future of gaming?

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, Half Life is finally coming back but not in a way that has everyone hyped. Cyberpunk is opening up about their upcoming multiplayer and we dive into horror with a new James Wan film and Renfield getting his own movie for the very first time.
Also this week, Elric has finally been picked up for the small screen and The Maxx is making a comeback in a huge way. We wrap up this news this week talking about the upcoming Master of the Universe crossover and why the nominations for this years Game Awards are so controversial.
Our Boss Room this week is about failed gaming technology and what it can tell us about the Stadia and various VR devices.
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!
Episode 174: What Are You Doing Sony?

Sony’s PlayStation press conference has come and gone, but why is everyone so angry about it? We delve into that and the week in geeky news on an all new…The Surly Nerd!

We’re ready Toxie!
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where we explore what’s going behind the scenes of Civil War II. We also have a HUGE announcement by comic book wizard, Alan Moore and news on Geoff Johns taking over as DC movie lead that might excite some people.
In game industry news, we break down the CD Projekt Red game “Cyberpunk 2077” and go into the legal battle over “No Mario’s Sky”. We also get into Nintendo’s announcements during the Apple press conference and what it means for the future of the game developer.
Over in the world of entertainment, we get excited by the news of a Toxic Avenger remake and get way too sidetracked talking about the blu-ray release of the Evil Dead remake. We wrap up level 3 with a discussion about the impact of Star Trek and why now is the right time for it to come back.
In our epilogue this week we discuss the Sony press conference and what exactly went wrong in it. 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
Read about the things we love to talk about!
All about The Toxic Avenger!: http://www.toxicavenger.com/
Check out the PS4 Neo!: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/ps4-pro/
Halloween cupcakes!: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/recipe-collections-favorites/desserts/halloween-cupcakes

Where did it go wrong, Sony?
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Episode 154: Living In The Future, Thinking In The Past

Greetings adventurers and welcome to an all new, all exciting episode of The Surly Nerd!
Typically this is where James would tell you all the cool things we have going on in this weeks show like:
DC Comic’s reboot
The future of modern gaming
Who won awards at DICE
and what Hollywood thinks they can do to improve video game movies
…as it turns out, James is swamped with work this week and didn’t have time to list ALL of the amazing things talked about on this weeks episode. So you will just have to take it from us that every minute of this weeks show is super awesome!
Don’t forget to drop us a line, and thank you all for listening!
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