Episode 346 : Press X To Jump : What Makes A Good Tutorial?

How Important Are Game Tutorials?

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 delve deep into the world of Batman – as we give everyone a huge Bat-News roundup. We also have EA coming out and talking about their plan for Anthem and it might not be as good as they hope.
Also this week, we get into E3 prep mode as we talk about Geoff Keighley bowing out from the signature tradeshow. Nintendo does confirm they will have an E3 presence even if it’s not like most people would like. We close down the news this week talking about the huge cast reveal for the upcoming Masters of the Universe Netflix show.
Our Boss Room this week is a deep dive discussion into video game tutorials and what makes for a good or bad one.
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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Episode 228 : How Did Harley Win Our Hearts?

It’s Harley’s 25th birthday, and we’re ready to celebrate!

It’s time to celebrate the clown princess of crime!
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Batman and the Ninja Turtles are getting back together! We also have a great Rocko’s Modern Life announcement and it’s time to find out who’s taking the lead on the newest Spider-Man comics.
Heading into level two, James’ gets way too excited for a Zone of the Enders announcement, and Square Enix tells us how they plan on making games going forward. Level two winds down with a breakdown of how Steam is going to change their rating system post having issues with “review bombing”.
Over in the world of entertainment, Sabrina is coming back in a HUGE way. Our team argues about the latest Terminator news and we try and decide if we love the New Mutants announcements while arguing about Legion.
Our epilogue is week is all about the clown princess of crime – HARLEY QUINN!
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!)
Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!
Read about the things we love to talk about!
All about Harley Quinn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn
Check out Zone of the Enders: http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/zoe/english/index.html
Batman cupcakes!: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/batman-cupcakes
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Episode 216 : The Art Of The Steal

“I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don’t like that, then tough tills, don’t go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don’t do homages.” -Quentin Tarantino

When is it stealing art, and when is it an homage?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we kick things off in comics, where IDW is bring both Star Wars and a new young reader line out that has us excited. Also in comics we have all things Harley Quinn as she’s about to turn 25 and we break down what the hell is still going wrong with Wizard World.
Heading into level two, Blizzard continues killing it with what their plans are for Starcraft Remastered and we tell you what the gaming division of Marvel is planning to do to make their games like the MCU going forward.
Over in the world of entertainment, we finally have more information about the remake of American Werewolf in London and we continue our discussion about practical effects as we tell you what’s new with the brand new Hellboy movie. Entertainment wraps up with a talk about what’s new with the Batman film franchise and how it could very well be a game changer for the DCEU.
Our epilogue is week is all about how pop culture influences all modern works, and why that’s ok.
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!)
Grab a drink and settle on in for this weeks action packed episode of…The Surly Nerd!
Read about the things we love to talk about!
All about Quentin Tarantino: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/
Check out George Lucas: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/
Batman cupcakes!: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/batman-cupcakes
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