Tag Archive: Uncharted

Mar 13

Top 7 Box Art Styles This Generation

Irrational Games lit quite a spark when it revealed the official box art for BioShock Infinite back in December. The cover was rightfully maligned for boiling a beautiful, unique, and multi-layered adventure down to a generic shot of the protagonist holding a gun in a passive-aggressive stance. The prevalence of this uninspired box art tactic …

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Nov 26

Dual Wielding 90: All Star Hitman Get Amnesia

This week’s show starts off with impressions on PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale, Hitman Absolution, DmC demo, Amnesia and the latest Borderlands 2 DLC (with a cameo of a faux Hulk Hogan!). News starts off (as becoming habit) with news of another game company downsizing. This breaks into a conversation on the power of marketing and …

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Oct 14

Name That Tune Vol 1 Answer Key and Explanation

I know most of you want to get to the answers, and if you want you can skip down to find the 50 musical selections. But if you will indulge me for just a few minutes, I wanted to explain how the idea came about and ultimately what I wanted to accomplish. To get a …

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Nov 21

Dual Wielding 52: Super Uncharted Sword

This week Earl and Daniel are joined by Adam Shear to talk about the latest releases including Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary and Uncharted 3. Along the way, we lost track and start to break down the difference between a game having a compelling narrative and …

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Nov 14

Dual Wielding 51: Modern Skyrim 3D Land

A jam-packed show awaits all who listens as Chad, Daniel and Earl are joined by Martin and Yazeed. We break down the week’s biggest releases with discussion on Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim and Super Mario 3D Land. After the gang gets fired up, move on to news which is dominated by sales as Oct NPD …

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Oct 24

Dual Wielding 48: Night of the Living Bat

After a 2 week hiatus, the global alliance of gamers is back! And with a fury, in whatcha been playing there is discussion of Batman: Arkham City, RAGE, Dead Island, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Super Mario 3D Land and Sonic Generations. In addition to that, share experiences from the Uncharted 3 AMC event this …

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Sep 19

Dual Wielding 45: Tokyo Game Show 2011

TGS 2011 has come and gone, and we use up the first half of the show discussing the show. While announcements were sparse on the console front, both handhelds got needed attention. We dissect the 3DS and PlayStation Vita after TGS. Does the future look bleak for both consoles? Then after some technical difficulties, we …

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Sep 05

Nerds with Words: Top 5 Games of All-Time

Let’s just say this upfront, this isn’t a Top 5 Games of All-Time list. If we did something like that, feel it would be a bit more formal, but who knows. What this is, was preparation for an upcoming episode of Nerds on the Rocks. When said episode will record/air, I honestly can’t tell you, …

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Aug 30

The Problem with Kevin Butler

Sony announced this morning that Kevin Butler is back, baby! After taking a job as a VP of Carpet sales over the weekend, Kevin Butler was lured back to the Sony HQ with the prospect of project LLP launching. An idea he claims he came up with! With this announcement, Sony has begun their roll-out …

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Aug 29

Dual Wielding 44: Boss Battle Rush!

This week Dual Wielding tries a segment swap as we start off with the news of the week covering the PS3 price cut, Sonic CD coming to most digital platforms, and Skyrim having exclusive DLC for 30 days on the Xbox. Then we try out a question of the week as we ponder if boss …

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