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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What is Nintendo secretly doing to make the Switch so successful?

The Nintendo Switch has a secret to success

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where the Superior Spider-man is coming back to comics! Lois Lane is about to take center stage in Superman’s newest comic and Inkypen is the newest comic app to break on to the Nintendo Switch.

Heading into level two, Kingdom Hearts gets a cool VR game ahead of the release of Kingdom Hearts 3. Kingdoms of Amalur is being given a second life thanks to THQ Nordic and the head of Xbox has some choice words for Sony’s stance on cross-platform play.

Over in the world of entertainment, we finally know who is playing Geralt in The Witcher Netflix adaptation. James gets super hyped about a documentary on ALIEN, and the news about New Mutants has us all very excited again.

Our epilogue this week is about what Nintendo’s secret weapon for the Switch is.

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How far would you go to make the perfect video game?

Is crunch time important?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where The Predator is getting ready for his grand comics come back! DC also breaks the news that the Young Animal imprint is going away. Level one comes to a close with Marvel making an awesome post-free comic book day announcement.

Heading into level two, after all our E3 pre-coverage last week, Square Enix has a couple huge announcements hidden for all of us. Sony lets everyone know what games are going to take center stage at their E3 show and the NES classic is coming back in stock!

Over in the world of entertainment, Guillermo del Toro has teamed up with Netflix for a series that we are way too excited for. We also hear what the new Harley Quinn movie is going to be like and there’s a new Stephen King adaptation right around the corner that shows that this might just be the year of Stephen King.

Our epilogue this week is about gaming crunch time.

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Have we finally reached the end of shared universes?

Are shared universes coming to an end?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Archie has lost the rights to a comic we were excited for. We also talk about DC’s dominance in the comic book world and get into something that few have explored: superhero PTSD.

Heading into level two, Nintendo is getting crazy with their newest creation: The Labo. There’s also news on the horizon that Fable is coming back to the X-box and we talk about Epic Games as they pull resources from Paragon to Fortnite.

Over in the world of entertainment, the era of the horror host might be back with Shutter looking to bring Monstervision back. We get our geek on with the news of Black Widow coming to film (finally) and discuss what makes The Shawshank Redemption so damn great.

Our epilogue is week is all about shared film universes and if they are finally going away.

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Thanks to Activision, it’s time for part 2 on our debate over microtransactions!

Is this really the future?

Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where we have even more awesome Pacific Rim news! Also this week, we break down what is wrong with Free Comic Book Day, and we discuss if Marvel should host their own convention, like D23.

Heading into level two, Sony is working with Nintendo – and we’re pretty excited about it. We also mourn the loss of Visceral (and their upcoming Star Wars game) and Phil Spencer wins our hearts again as he discusses platform-exclusive DLC.

Over in the world of entertainment, we break down what we could be seeing for the New Mutants movies going forward. Also this week, John Carpenter opens up on his philosophy on remaking his movies and Robert Englund tells us if he is willing to step into Freddy’s shoes again.

Our epilogue is week is a part-two of our ongoing debate about the ethics of microtransactions.

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