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Bar Banter: Game Release Calender

Bar Banter: Game Release Calender

Conventional wisdom in video games tells us the best time to release a game is the “Fall rush” that tends to take place between the start of October and the 3rd week of November....

Bar Banter: Being a True Gamer

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...

State of Gaming ’11: The Xbox Brand

State of Gaming ’11: The Xbox Brand

I originally wrote a piece on the State of Microsoft Gaming just under a year ago. A year later, I felt it was time to re-evaluate Microsoft’s position. What has changed in the past 12 months?...

Dual Wielding 23: GDC 11 Edition

The Game Developer’s Conference anchors this special sized Dual Wielding, but Pac-Man Championship Edition DX gets us on the ball early.  In addition to Pac-man, we discuss Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2 and Batman: The...

NoTR 30 Countdown Day 3

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...

Dual Wielding 9: 3DS-Mon

Things get started with a bang as we spend 10 minutes randomly discussing the Pokemon cartoon and the discovery that Brock really does open his eyes, and what you see will scar you! We...