Episode 340 : Our 2020 Vision

It’s time to get hyped for 2020!

Greetings adventurers! This week we are talking all things nerdy that we are excited for in 2020. Join us for a very special episode of The Surly Nerd!
Episode 311 : The Final Word On Avengers Endgame

Spoiler Warning – We’re Talking Avengers Endgame!

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, Twisted Metal is getting a television series and Uncharted has a movie already well into development. There’s also a Knights of the Old Republic movie being written right now but are we hyped for it?
Also this week, we dive into the new handheld console with a crank and DC is helping fans out by decreasing their number of double-shipped books to zero. We round out the news with a talk about the Overwatch League commissioner leaving to join Fortnite and there’s an “anti-lootbox” bill in the Senate that could very well be a game changer.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is a spoiler-filled talk about Avengers: Endgame
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Episode 306 : Celebrating 11 Years of the MCU

We’re Finally in the MCU Endgame!

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, Capcom is going big with a new “mini” console that might be…a little too much. Konami has a new Castlevania collection that’s looking pretty good and SAGA is hitting its halfway point in a big way.
Also this week, we have the Russo brothers working on a documentary about Stan Lee, and Glenn Danzig is getting into the world of directing in a weird way. Our news wraps up this week with a big talk about the Playstation 5 announcements and if the console sounds like it could be a winner out of the gate.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is all about 11 years of the MCU and us just being huge fans of it.
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Episode 304 : The Straczynski Theory

Has J. Michael Straczynski found the reason that DC heroes work so well on the small screen?

Does Straczynski know the secret of super heroes in film?
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).
New this week, Archie is coming back in a big way as he heads into Archie vs. Predator 2. Tim Burton finally puts Beetlejuice to rest, and John Cho is taking over space once again.
Bioware is front and center in the headlines again as they respond to articles that criticize (rightfully so) the way they treat their workers. Rounding out our weekly raid is a slew of new Borderlands news that shows us that there will be no rest for the wicked once BL3 is released.
This weeks BOSS ROOM is all about J. Michael Straczynski’s theories on why Marvel heroes work better in the movies, and DC just works better on television.
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Episode 299 : Saving The Games Industry From Itself

What can the industry do to prevent another video game crash?

What do we need to learn from Anthem?
Greetings adventurers, and welcome to this weeks installment of The Surly Nerd! After our prelude, we head into comics where Marvel is bringing some of their biggest heroes to e-books and audio formats across the world. We also find out this week where the origin of the Spider-Verse comes from, and DC is taking their GIANTS comics and bringing them into more stores worldwide.
Kicking off video game news this week, Overkill has finally put their Walking Dead game to rest, just before its release. Anthem is hitting some huge snags with their console launches, and Dead or Alive’s price tag has everyone worried about the future of the game.
Over in the world of entertainment, all hell breaks loose as Steven Spielberg campaigns to keep Netflix titles out of the Oscars. Rotten Tomatoes is finally making some huge changes in how their ratings system is handled thanks to Captain Marvel, and The Sandlot is getting an all-new series on a streaming service.
Our epilogue this week is all about what game developers can do to keep the medium of video games moving towards the future.
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