This week</a>  in comic book News: The voice of Mr. Freeze passes away, Orson Scott Card’s Superman adventure and the unexpected popularity of DC Villan’s comic month.

In Game Industry News: What’s new with Xbox One, John Carmack’s opinion on the new console war, Microsoft’s new community program, Sony and Nintendo’s financial reports and Nintendo’s claims that they make games and not art.

In Entertainment News: What Spider-man villain the producers of the Amazing Spider-Man love, what hero Jamie Foxx wants to play, the contenders for the new Batman on film, what DC can do to make the Flash TV series better and the spinoff’s to Dexter and Supernatural.

And this week we experiment with Drinks at the Inn in video form! Head over to http://youtu.be/K8zvRQYtLE4

Earl Alexander – Louis from Left 4 Dead ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1591093/ )

Earl Alexander – Louis from Left 4 Dead ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1591093/ )

Ty Root  of Edge of Reality Games who are working on the game Loadout ( http://www.loadout.com/ )

Darkforge games, Creators of Nekro ( >http://darkforgegames.com/ )

Nick Brewer of Makerbot – ( http://www.makerbot.com/ )

The Behemoth Studios, the minds behind Castle Crashers and Battle Block Theater ( http://www.battleblocktheater.com/ )

Night Light Interactive, creators of Whispering Willows ( http://nightlightinteractive.com/whisperingwillows/ )

We hope you enjoy this packed season 2 opener!

This week on The Surly Nerd…

In level 1, Comic Industry News: Mark Miller and the end of Kick-Ass, James Robinson leaving not only Earth 2 but also DC Comics, we discuss Merida becoming a Disney princess, Rob Liefeild’s new Kickstarter, and a Nebraska library being asked to pull “The Killing Joke” from their shelves.

In level 2, Entertainment News: The Gremlins remake, who is joining the set of Star Wars now, Syfy calling it quits on Warehouse 13, the end of Zombieland, the Wonder Woman series, Assassin’s Creed the movie, Red 3 and the end of How I Met Your Mother

In level 3, Game Industry News: The price of Nvidias new handheld, layoffs at Trion studios, new Xbox controller rumors, speech recognition in the PS4, the Ouya at E3, Nintendo cracking down on youtube posters as well as their E3 strategy, EA’s new studio for Star Wars and their desire to get rid of online passes as well as what they think about the Wii U

We close out this week as always with our Drinks at the Inn segment where we talk about EA pulling away from Nintendo and what that means to the future of the Wii U. Sit back and grab a drink as we get a bit rant-y on this week’s episode of…The Surly Nerd

This week on…The Surly Nerd:

In level 1, Comic Industry News: Masters of the Universe vs DC, Deadpool giving away money, Angela as part of the Marvel U, Code Monkey Save World and Spider-man’s new costume.

In level 2, Entertainment News: Thief of Always, Community renewed, the plot of The Crow, Simon Pegg’s opinion of the new Star Wars movies, where Episode VII will be filmed, Paramount selling off their Marvel licenses, the fate of the Avengers cast, and Kevin Feige’s advice for DC’s JLA movie.

In level 3, Game Industry News: The new Xbox’s name, Xbox’s opinions about being “always online”, how Sony feels about being “always online” with their new console, new Star Wars domains registered, the head of EA sports selling his stock, dealing with multiplayer in the new Wolfenstein, WOW subscription losses, Half Life 2’s newest update, and how Microsoft and Sony will be approaching the next generation of gaming.

We wrap up the week with a discussion about television viewer entitlement in our Drinks at the Inn segment, so grab a seat and settle in with all of here on…The Surly Nerd

This week on The Surly Nerd…

In Game Industry News: The status of Xcom Declassified, who won’t be attending E3, when Microsoft will tell us about the next Xbox, lack of Monster Hunter on the Vita and what’s going on with the World of Darkness MMO

In Entertainment News: The Amazon set top box, the Scream TV series, Hellboy 3 news, who else has joined Days Of Future Past, the rights to Daredevil, Zack Snyder on the JLA and 21 Jump Street vs TMNT

In Comic Industry News: Why a Wonder Woman movie is hard, the newest HALO comic, Dark Horses new upcoming books, the end of Locke and Key, Mars Attacks vs Dredd, Apples new video game to comic technology and Marvel’s newest Disney cruise

We wrap up this weeks show with a pre-E3 discussion during Drinks at the Inn so grab a drink and settle in with us here on…The Surly Nerd