Monthly Archive: November 2010

Nov 30

Game of the Year Countdown: April 2010

After the Q1 onslaught was over, the gaming releases started to dry up, I guess game companies never heard the expression April showers. Anyhow, there were a handful of key releases in April so let’s check those out. To the game-o-tron! Lead and Gold (PC) 7.4 A solid PC release, it was a class-based, team …

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Nov 30

The Walking Dead: Episode 5 – “Wildfire”

Tonight I sat down with some friends, altered my mind and prepared myself for the second-to-last episode. The Walking Dead: Episode 5 – “Wildfire” aired on Sunday November 28th, 2010. The Gist: There are some heartwarming moments while people brutally destroy the brains of their former friends – and someone almost gets shotgunned in the …

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Nov 29

For Your Consideration: Marmaduke

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As we head into Dec in just a few short hours, the world is alive with Oscar buzz, which films will get nominated for best picture, what can we expect for best actor and actress, and we are no different here at Nerds on the Rocks. However, we would like to give recognition to those …

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Nov 29

Dual Wielding 13: The Stacking of Gran Turismo

Dual Wielding is back and boy do we have a loaded weapon this week. We kick things off with a discussion about Steam sales over the week, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Bayonetta and Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. Then we head down to the newsroom, where we discuss Crytek’s new Korean only FPS, Warface (and sadly …

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Nov 28

Awards of the Year Categories

We set up the Red Phone so that our listeners/readers/fan would be able to voice their opinion on the podcast, but also their favorite Movie and Game of the Year. Today, we present to you a full rundown of awards we plan on giving out (so far, subject to change) if you wanted to chime …

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Nov 27

Nerds with Words: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Themes

Its been a while since we did one of these, actually, I believe we’ve only done one, but who’s counting. Anyhow, the premise is pretty simple just sharing Turtles theme songs past and present and you comment on your favorite. This kind of spins out of just randomly listening to my MP3 player, but also …

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Nov 27

Gran Turismo 5: Review

On November 24th, 2010, Gran Turismo 5 was finally released after 5 long years (Yes, it really was 5 years) of development. So like most other lemmings I picked this game up on the day it came out. (I can’t wait for the day companies send us games to review. If only.) My very first …

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Nov 26

Nerds on the Rocks 22: Writer Block

Thanksgiving is over, but the Nerds are here to share what they are thankful for and what they aren’t as we discuss our favorite and least favorite comic book writers this week. We’ll tackle such writers as Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, Mark Millar and Robert Kirkman. We also briefly touch on Avatar, and sadly not …

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Nov 24

The Red Phone!

If you are a big enough nerd, I don’t think you need any explanation for the above picture, but for those who don’t know, the red phone is the phone used in the classic Adam West’s Batman whenever the Police station needed to get in contact with Batman. It was the Batsignal before the Batsignal. …

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Nov 24

Game of the Year Countdown: March 2010

We are coming to an end of the jam-packed Q1 and March was perhaps the most packed month of them all with several HUGE releases. Should have kept most normal people busy through the drought the summer would bring, but let’s get to March! MegaMan 10 (WiiWare/PSN/XBLA) 8.2 This is the first downloadable entry on …

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