Episode 333 : Halfway To Evil At BlizzCon
Blizzcon is over, but is the hype still there?
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, EA makes their way back to Steam and that means big things for their games. HBO MAX is getting a whole lot of DC properties and that could mean the end of DC Universe and the creators of the Game of Thrones television show are leaving their announced Star Wars projects.
Also this week, Miyamoto is being honored in Japan and it’s about time. Sony is killing it this week by both having the second best console of all time and shutting down their disliked Vue service. The news comes to a close this week with a discussion about Seth MacFarlane’s newest horror show and we let you know what spooky shows killed it in the ratings last month.
Our Boss Room this week is a talk about anything and everything shown at Blizzcon, and if we should really be excited for any of it.
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Episode 332 : The Draw of the World Of Darkness
Why is the World of Darkness making a huge comeback?
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, Spider-Man Noir is back from the dead and getting his own mini series. The fan made sequel to The 7th Guest is finally dropping this week and Death Stranding is finally announced for PC.
Also this week, the creator of Black Lightning speaks out about DC’s focus on Batman as their flagship hero. Steam is beta testing a feature to allow you to play couch co-op games online and Bethesda adds another nail to their coffin by launching a new $100 premium feature. We wrap up the news this week with Disney locking away old Fox movies into their vault and what that means for the future of Cinema.
Our Boss Room this week is a trip down memory lane as we talk about the classic RPG universe: The World of Darkness. We break down its influences on pop culture, why it is so popular and why it seems to be making a huge comeback in the world of video games and more.
If you enjoyed our World of Darkness talk this week, do go check out Outstar! on youtube!
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Episode 330 : The Great Chinese Entertainment Takeover
What’s really going on with Blizzard working with China?
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, we come back from our break swinging as we talk about who ELSE is probably joining this years “Crisis On Infinite Earths” crossover. We get into a huge debate over Scorsese’s comment on the Marvel films not being “true cinema” and DOOM Eternal gets pushed back to 2020. We wrap up the news this week with all the PS5 reveals and what that means for the future for Sony Entertainment.
Our Boss Room this week is broken into two parts: Chinese influence on modern entertainment, and China’s influence on recent Hearthstone/Blizzard events.
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Episode 329 : Microsoft and Sony Digitally Update Us
We’re HYPED for all the Microsoft and Sony announcements
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, we have even more CW crossover goodness on the table. Spider-man comes home and we knew it all along. We also hear rumors about a Madam Spider film, and Ghost Rider is being cancelled before he was even was given a chance to shine on Hulu.
Also this week, John Carpenter comes to the DC Universe in a huge way. Kevin Feige is stepping out of the Marvel world to try and tackle the ever expanding world of Star Wars. The news gets weird as we talk about The House of the Dead making a comeback and Medal of Honor being resurrected from the grave. We close out the news this week with a discussion about Call of Duty Modern Warfare’s microtransactions and how predatory they could be.
Our Boss Room this week is a huge talk covering all the Sony and Microsoft announcements we could fit into one episode.
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Episode 323: The Death of the Modern MMO
The modern MMO is dead, all hail the post-modern MMO
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, we have a ton of Masters of the Universe news from a new comic to a new show on Netflix. We keep down the Netflix train with an announcement of a new Elvis spy cartoon and move to Hulu to discuss their new “Adventure into Fear” series.
Also this week, we have the crew behind “Haunting of Hill House” working on a new “choose your own adventure” horror film. The Magicians is getting a new mini comic series and the head of Dragon Age has left Bioware. Wrapping up the news this week is a new deal that has Sony buying up Spider-man developer Insomniac games.
Our Boss Room this week is all about the possible death of the modern MMO.
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