Gamestop is making major changes, but is it enough?

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Kicking things off this week, huge casting news comes to us about the upcoming remake of "The Stand". We continue our King talk with his newest book getting an adaptation and Kojima open up about what real life events influenced the making of Death Stranding.

Also this week, we have Wonder Woman making her black label debut. Dragon Quest 1-3 are coming to the Switch and Project Resistance is a new Resident Evil game that you should keep an eye on. We close out the news with a discussion about Fallout 76's new microtransactions and what they mean for the future of the game.

Our Boss Room this week is about Gamestop's plans to change their stores to hopefully save them.

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It's nice when everyone plays together

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, Thirteen Ghosts is coming back in a small way and we could not be happier. We also have Margot Robbie working on a new Tank Girl project and Earthsea is finally getting the series that it deserves.

Also this week, we break down what happened over a 2010 Avengers book in Rio recently and Shuri is teaming up with Scholastic. EA won a huge award this week that they probably don't want and Deaths Stranding gets an all new mode for people who just like a good story. We close out the news this week talking about a new mode in Cyberpunk and how it will play out.

Our Boss Room this week is about Nintendo's last direct and what it means to Microsoft.

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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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Welcome everyone Gamescom and D23 Roundup!

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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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It's time for our 2019 console state of the union!

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Kicking things off this week, we re-visit our game violence discussion as ESPN cancels an Apex Legends tournament due to the recent shootings. Venom 2 already has a writer and director attached to it that we are here for. Crisis On Infinite Earths gets even bigger with the addition of Smallville.

Also this week, DC has a lot going on with struggling digital sales, their Walmart line of comics expanding and Disney + looming on the horizon. We wrap up the news this week with a talk about 2k games and them threatening a popular youtuber and Phil Spencer giving us his thoughts on modern day consoles.

Our Boss Room this week is our yearly gaming console state of the union!

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Sadly, it's time to talk about violence in video games

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Kicking things off this week, the book "The Console Wars" is being turned into both a documentary AND a television show and we could not be more excited. We have a huge news roundup for CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover and Cloak and Dagger is finally getting the crossover it deserves.

Also this week, Stephen King is working on a new ending for "The Stand" for the new series, and E3 had a huge privacy leak that has affected thousands. Closing out our news this week is an update on what the FTC is going to do about loot boxes in America and Crash Team Racing makes headlines again as they add microtransactions retroactively to their game.

Our Boss Room this week is a discussion on video game violence and how it's affecting people around the world.

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Welcome everyone to our SDCC 2019 Roundup!

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When are game developers not your friends?

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, Nintendo has released a new version of the Switch that has some people scratching their heads. Amazon is getting into the MMO game by launching a free to play Lord of the Rings MMO and Cuphead is coming to Netflix in a big way.

Sam Rami is talking about more Evil Dead content - but do we really need it? SDCC is right around the corner and DC takes center stage as they announce the Dark Muliverse one-shot series and we break down several upcoming titles surrounding it. Finally, Constantine is finally being moved from Vertigo to join the ever expanding Sandman Universe.

Our Boss Room this week is about the Ubisoft Assassins Creed controversy and why some game developers are not your friends.

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What is G2A and why is it such a problem?

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, The Walking Dead has (suddenly) come to an end. Cobra Kai is getting an all-new story told in comic form and the Arkham series of games is finally going to have a collection of its very own.

We also find out what the final rating for Scary Stories to tell in the dark is as well as what's next for the crew behind The Haunting of Hill House. Our news wraps up this week with a talk about the new Gremlins TV show, and EA seems to be having issues with the fact that everyone thinks that they are the bad guys.

Our Boss Room this week is about G2A. What it is and why as a platform, it hurts game developers.

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