Tag Archive: Metroid

Mar 19

Nerd Madness Round 2: Day 3 Competition

There’s an expression I like to use when deal with the content of this site, life happens. You can’t always plan for it, but always manages to get into the way. Due to some circumstances that I don’t need to get into, and being away most of this weekend, going to condense the final 4 …

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Mar 15

Nerds on the Rocks 126: Trilogy Time!

This week with the release of God of War Ascension fresh in our minds, and Gears of War Judgment looming in the not-so-distant future, we thought it would be a fine time to tackle the idea of long-form narratives in gaming. We look at franchises in which it worked, didn’t work and just went right …

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Mar 10

Nerd Madness Round 1: Day 4

Sorry for the delay, been feeling under the weather. This shall be a day and a half to keep on schedule! As noted this past Friday, Nerd Madness will be running wild all throughout the month of March here on the site. To kick it off, Round 1 competitions will run for about a week …

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Mar 07

Flashback: Metroid: Other M

Metroid: Other M… now here is a game that really infuses gamers with a passion. Love, hate, disdain, joy, there’s a lot of emotions that come into play when discussing this game, but never indifference. Since its release, I’ve always wanted to write something about Metroid: Other M for the site, but as time passed, …

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Mar 01

Nerds on the Rocks 124: Nerd Madness, Baby!

In the spirit of the Nerd Bowl from 2012, we present Nerd Madness in honor of March Madness. This year, Nicholas, Earl and Anthony picked from a roster of over 170 characters, 32 characters we felt would be most qualified for the tournament. In this episode, you will get to hear our selection and why. …

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Aug 24

Bar Banter: Being a True Gamer

Growing up, the playground and cafeteria fights in school always went the same for us nerds. Which was better the Genesis or the Super Nintendo? When word of the PlayStation, Saturn and Nintendo 64 started hitting, we moved on to that, and talked about how awesome 64 bits would be, even though to this day, …

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Aug 19

Nerds on the Rocks 57: Super Prime Fusion

The Metroid series celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, and we’ve whipped out the party hats once again. Very special guest Darren joins Earl, Nick and Dylan as they discuss the storied franchise from NES to Wii. We talk about the franchise, what it has bought to the table and how it has evolved over …

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Aug 01

Dual Wielding 41: My Little 3DS

Nintendo has announced a drastic price cut for the 3DS after 4 months on the market so of course it is the talk of the podcast. And as always, it delves into a discussion on the health of the industry as a whole. Then we move over to whatcha been playing where Adriaan can’t discuss …

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Apr 10

Nerds on the Rocks 38 Team Polls

As many of our avid listener already know, this week’s Nerds on the Rocks focused on each host picking their own unique team for “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. Under the requirements of 6 core team members ranging from the token female to our master stealth expert. Below, you will find each of the teams …

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Feb 02

NoTR 30 Countdown Day 3

We continue to rock and roll as we reach Friday’s big event, Nerds on the Rocks 30. Our very first, Versus podcast, pits fictional icons against each other fitting whatever criteria you want in a battle of epic scale… hmm epic is becoming passe so how about grand event! Today, we bring you two fresh …

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