Tag: Hellblade 2
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 40 Moments of 2024: #25-11
Welcome to part 2 of my top 40 moments of 2024! If you want part 1, I have it linked with all of my other content for the end of the year below. Let’s get to it! My Other Year-End Content So Far BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Indie Games Of 2024 AndresPlays Top 10 Games of…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games of 2024
One of my favorite parts about this time of year is that for a brief moment, almost everyone seems to take on my love of ranking things. I will see top 10 lists from all sorts of people on my social media feeds, even those who don’t appear to be ranking aficionados. Video games are…
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The Five Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards Nominations + My Thoughts on DLC As Game Of The Year
It’s here! We have finally reached Game of the Year season. As great as it is playing all of these awesome video games all year, debating and ranking them is almost as much fun. This is part one of my Game Awards content this week. Tune in later in the week for my famous (in…
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My Ten Biggest Disagreements With Game Critics This Year (So Far)
One of my biggest “hot takes” is that game critics do a pretty good job overall. If you look at games that don’t have stupid, made-up controversies around them, the critic and consumer consensus is relatively in line for a lot of games. But of course, even for a game critic defender like me, disagreements…
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My Hottest Gaming Takes of 2024 (So Far)
I have a complicated relationship with “hot takes.” The internet is inundated with hot takes for pretty much any entertainment medium, as it is a very easy way to get attention. In a crowded media landscape, pissing people off or being extremely contrarian is a quick way to stand out. Sports talk, in particular, is…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Games From The First Half of 2024
After 2023 was one of the deepest years in video game history, it was natural to expect a bit of a drop off in 2024. That has not been the case. 2024 has been off to an incredibly hot start, with every month so far having at least a few incredible games released, and that…
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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Review: We’re Going To The Movies
One of the most amazing things about being in my mid-30s is that I have been able to watch almost every step in how video games have evolved over the years. There was a time when I’d watch cutscenes from a game in the PS/N64 era and wonder what it might be like when actual…
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Gaming Round up: Stellar Blade, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, and Unicorn Overlord
It has been about a month since my last gaming round up. I continue to game hop maybe a bit too much, but there are just so many cool games to enjoy right now that it’s hard not to. Outside of shorter indie games and the upcoming Hellblade 2, there aren’t many big releases that…
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Microsoft Didn’t Just Shut Down Tango Gameworks. It May Have Ended AAA Risk Taking.
I wrote last week about how shocked I am that Death Stranding was ever made. In an era where development times and costs have ballooned, publishers seem more risk averse than ever when it comes to their biggest budget titles. While we have been lucky to have a lot of fantastic games in the last…
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