It’s time we look to the future…of gaming!

Where is gaming headed?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Masters of the Universe is headed into an AWESOME crossover with the Injustice comics. We also have Marvel launching their new True Believers line of Fantastic Four comics and Ohio is getting an exhibit dedicated to MAD Magazine.

Heading into level two, EA takes center stage as A Way Out is a breakout hit. We also dive into what to expect from Anthem’s DLC and the gang gets introspective as they discuss the possibility of a new Bioshock game.

Over in the world of entertainment, NOS4A2 is in the works over at AMC (and we could not be more excited). Apple is developing Issac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” for television and Neill Blomkamp is looking to crowdfund an entire dang company!

Our epilogue this week is about the future of gaming.

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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Is your favorite console performing well? Let’s find out in this years State of the (console) Union!

It’s time for the console state of the union

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Brian Michael Bendis is taking the DC landscape by (Superman) storm. We also find out what’s going with DC’s new YA line of books and finally get a glimpse into the Planet of the Apes story that Rod Serling once wrote for Hollywood.

Heading into level two, Nintendo tells the world how they plan to keep player retention rates up in their games while EA seems to be doing the complete opposite. Capcom brings level two to a close with their plans to double-down on their investment into e-sport…but how?

Over in the world of entertainment, our panel gets hyped for all the new promotional material coming out about the new Purge film. Jordan Peele opens up about the scene in “Get Out” that had him in tears and James Mangold (of Logan fame) explains his stance on Easter eggs and post-credits scenes in cinema.

Our epilogue is week is our console State of the Union address.

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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You’ve been waiting for it, and it’s finally here: Our coverage of E3 2017!

It’s E3 time!

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! This is a very special “one off” bonus episode, all about the goings on at E3 2017.

We cover almost all of the big conferences, and tell you what we saw, loved and hated – on an all new episode!

Thanks to the Xbox game pass, we have to ask: Is game streaming the future of how we play?

Is Microsoft showing us a game streaming future?

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 CLUE getting a release from IDW. We also have huge announcements from Emerald City Comic Con with MAGE finally coming to an end and the Marvel Universe getting taken over by the big bad symbiote himself…VENOM!

Heading into level two, GDC is all wrapped up and Nintendo really wants UNREAL developers to make games for the Switch. We also have the Oculus Rift getting a big price drop, and we close out level two with a discussion about the GDC awards.

Over in the world of entertainment, Ridley Scott is coming back to ALIENS for what feels like the foreseeable future. TRON gets a few big announcements this week and we break down what Stephen King thinks about the newest adaptation of his work: IT

Our epilogue this week is about the Xbox game pass and if the future of gaming lies in streaming them. 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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This week, we remember 2016 and say a not fond farewell to the mess it was

Goodbye 2016

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd!

This week, the show format goes out the window as we hunker down and yell about what a crappy year in pop culture it was in 2016.

While it wasen’t all bad, just talking about ONLY the fun stuff would not make for a very surly episode. From comics, to movies and gaming – enjoy our 2016 retrospective!

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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