Tag: gaming
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One Post, Three Reviews: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Sword of the Sea, and Is This Seat Taken?
I seem to complete something like 40 games a year on average. That seems like a crazy number, especially considering that I am a working father. But the key to reaching that lofty number of completions oftentimes just boils down to the fact that I play a lot of shorter games. A good chunk of…
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The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast: Episode 0
Welcome to my new monthly podcast! This episode is just my way to introduce the show. Episode 1 is coming this week! Currently, I post a blog twice a week. My hope is the podcast will not disrupt that schedule, but obviously, as a working parent, there may be some months where the podcast ends…
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Everyone Wants To Make A Difference, And No One Knows How
Despite loving video games for my entire life, I have spent long chunks of time completely disconnected from the broader gaming community. I play a lot of single-player games. Few of my friends play anything besides the biggest releases. Outside of when I was on GameFAQs a lot in my younger years, I generally had…
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Mafia: The Old Country Review- A Journey Worth Ignoring The Ending
I have a moderately hot take. People obsess about endings too much, for just about everything. Don’t get me wrong, a powerful ending hits like little else. Many of my favorite moments in a year come when a game absolutely nails an ending. But if a game takes me on an awesome journey, and then…
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Donkey Kong Bananza Review- The Nintendo Rage Room
It seems like rage rooms are becoming more and more popular these days. These are rooms that allow people to destroy a bunch of fragile objects in a safe way. It’s a funny concept to me because when I see clips of people destroying all of the glass objects and other things in these rooms,…
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My Top 11 Winners of Gamescom Week
I’ve always loved a good video game showcase. Back in the heyday of E3, I would build my entire week around watching all of the showcases. It’s a little tougher to do that now, but whenever I can, I am seated for things like The Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and all of the various…
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Gaming Roundup: The Games I Recently Abandoned
I used to be really bad about completing games. I’d abandon at least 50% of the games I played for most of my life. There were a few reasons for this. Part of it is how often I used to have to emulate back in the day. It’s just so easy to turn away from…
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Discounty Review- A Supermarket Sweep
A review code was provided by Keymailer and PQube Games. One of the most famous pictures of the 1980s has to be of Boris Yeltsin’s trip to a random American grocery store in Houston, Texas, back in 1989 (picture at the bottom of the review). Yeltsin was a Russian politician, which was a communist country…
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Wheel World Review: Tour de Chill
Back during the peak of Lance Armstrong mania, I spent one summer absolutely obsessed with the Tour de France. Some kids have a yoyo phase. Some kids have a scooter phase. I had a “wake up at 6am and watching competitive cycling” phase. The Tour de France is an incredible race. It might be the…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games Of The 2020s
When people talk about gaming in the 2020s, there’s a lot of doom and gloom these days. Development takes longer than ever, so it takes 4-5 years to get games in the same franchise. Developers are facing a level of layoffs that probably hasn’t been seen since the 1983 gaming crash. The increased costs have…
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