Category: Takes
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2025 Last Call. Featuring Ball x Pit, Constance, Shinobi: Art of Vengance, and The Outer Worlds 2
If you followed the blog last year, you might be aware that we are about to reach PEAK BigNerdGaming season. I am religious about ranking various things all year, and this is when I finally start to release all of that work I have been doing. In the coming weeks, I will have “The Nerdys,”…
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Two Years of Big Nerd Gaming
Two years ago today, I wrote my first blog post for Big Nerd Gaming. In that post, I talked about why I was starting this blog. While I didn’t want to go into massive detail at the time, there’s always been a bit of a hole in my heart when I’m not writing or “producing…
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Fake 2025 Game Awards Betting Odds + My Full Predictions
Welcome to year three of my Game Awards winner predictions and fake betting odds. This idea was born out of a simple and foolish desire. My desire to actually bet on The Game Awards. The betting site “Polymarket” now has odds for “Game of the Year,” but I really wish that I could bet on…
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My 6 Biggest Surprises From The 2025 Game Awards Nominations
We have finally arrived at my favorite time of the year for video games. As much as I love playing games throughout the year, internally debating which are my favorites makes me almost equally happy. It’s a way for me to relive a lot of great memories that I had playing them, and I love…
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My Official 2025 Game Awards Nominee Predictions
If you want to hear me talk about these predictions, check out The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast. As my friend AndresPlays says, we have reached the time of year when I grow the most powerful. All year, I’m cataloguing the games I play, and tracking many games for how good they are in very specific…
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Indie Gaming Roundup: The Séance of Blake Manor, Quartet, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, and Ball x Pit
Welcome to crunch time for gaming in 2025. We only have a few months left in the year, and I feel like I’m nowhere close to playing all the games I want to play before my end of year coverage comes late December. But damn it, I’m sure going to try. I’ll have more coverage…
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Dispatch Is Showing Me The Value Of Waiting
I despise waiting. Whenever I see a line at a store, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to avoid it. I hate sitting in the waiting room at my dentist. I hate being in drive-thrus if there are any cars in front of me. I stopped buying physical video games because the ability to…
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My Thoughts on Hades 2 and Ghost of Yotei
I’ve said this many times, but for anyone who loves video games, we might genuinely be in the best era of all time right now. There are quality games coming out damn near every week these days, and the increasing number of talented indie developers add hundreds of awesome new games to the mix that…
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My Hottest Gaming Takes of 2025 So Far
This may surprise you, given the title of this article, but I don’t like a lot of “hot takes” in the gaming space. I feel like a lot of these takes are given in bad faith, and mostly for attention. Calling a very well regarded game “bad” is an easy way to get attention and…
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Silksong Is Going To Be The First Soulslike I Ever Complete, Even If It Kills Me
Note: If your main thought on this piece is “BUT SILKSONG ISN’T A SOULSLIKE,” I literally do not care. It’s close enough. Touching grass is so important in these trying times. I have a weird relationship with soulslikes. I tend to enjoy them, but only to a certain point. Depending on the game, I usually…
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