France wants you to be able to resell games on Steam, but will it work?

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 announcements about the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover and Marvel throws down the first list of 2099 one-shot titles coming out in November. We also have Fede Alvarez taking up the next installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Sam Rami is coming back to horror in a big way.

Also this week, we discuss what’s in store for HBO’s Watchmen series and Anthem makes some huge changes to their roadmap and we debate if it’s going to be enough to keep the game alive. Closing out the news this week we talk about a new Netflix horror show coming to us thanks to a Danish Podcast and we close out discussing the new Peacock network and the reboot of Battlestar Galactica and sequel to Saved by the Bell that’s right around the corner.

Our Boss Room this week is a discussion about France’s ruling on reselling digital titles on Steam and if it will actually work.

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James is back this week, and it’s time to get serious

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, Rod Serling is finally getting the film he so rightly deserves and Telltale is being resurrected but at what cost? Our panel gets hyped for Adult Swim bringing Uzumaki to American television and Disney and Netflix are in a war for week to week viewership.

Also this week, we have John Carmack opening up about his thoughts on the current state of the video game industry, and we wrap things up with Hector going over ALL the Cyberpunk announcements from this last week.

Our Boss Room this episode is about all the horrible things going on to women in the world of game development.

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As the term “Games as a Service” becomes more popular, it’s time to explore what it means and why so many people are talking about it

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, Saints Row is finally making it to the movies in a huge way. We have an update on what’s going on in the world of Anthem and Dragon Age 4 and Psyonix has been acquired by Epic Games…but that might not be such a good thing.

Also this week we have a fantastic update on the upcoming Hellraiser reboot. Ron Howard wants to get a Willow television series up on Disney+ and Ghost Rider is going to be making his way back on to Hulu. We close out the news this week with a discussion about Gearbox and all the problems that came out this week when they should have been talking about Borderlands 3.

This weeks BOSS ROOM is a discussion over Games as a Service: What it means, and the pros and cons of creating games using that model.

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What is a community manager, and why are they so important?

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, Bloodborne has entered the world of tabletop gaming in a HUGE way. We also have an update from Respawn on the status of Titanfall 3, and Detective comics took over the world of comics in a huge way last month.

Also this week, the new Persona game was announced for the Switch, but it’s unlike anything anyone really expected. We get into the world of fandom with threats made against several comics writers and Image does the unthinkable at this years Eisner awards. We close out our weekly raid this week with a talk about what gaming can do to help Alzheimer’s patients and Epic Games tells Steam what they need to do to stop getting exclusives taken from them.

This weeks BOSS ROOM is a love letter to the underappreciated job of the gaming world – The Community Manager.

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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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