Tag: video-games
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Dispatch Review: The Best TV Show I Watched In 2025*
*I don’t watch TV. As you get older and continue to gain responsibilities in life, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. Especially as a parent, it’s common to end up in a routine where every single day is the exact same thing, and you go through life working, parenting, eating, and sleeping. Getting…
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The Seance of Blake Manor Review: Death Detective
Like most people, I have many concerns about the seemingly rapid advances of AI into our society. One use of AI that has disturbed me the most is when I see people use it to try and essentially bring back the dead. People now have the ability to easily insert a deceased friend or family…
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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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The 10 Worst Game Awards Winner Selections Ever (IMO)
I am sorry for the clickbait-y headline. Saying “The Top 10 Game Awards Winners That I Personally Disagreed With The Most” just didn’t have much of a ring to it. We are coming up very quickly on Game Awards season. Big Nerd Gaming will be one of the most devoted websites in the world to…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Xbox 360 Games
Welcome to the latest edition of my top 10 lists for various consoles! This series is a way for me to segment off my rankings a little bit in preparation for a “top 25 games of all time” list down the road. Today’s list is my top 10 Xbox 360 games. This was a very…
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My Top 10 Games I Abandoned And Need To Play Again
Yes, video games are expensive these days. But I think we still underestimate just how much value a video game can have in terms of the amount of time they can entertain you compared to the amount of money spent on it. If I spend 40 hours with a video game that I spent $70…
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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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Episode 2: Our Top 5 Final Fantasy Games
WARNING: This episode contains major Final Fantasy spoilers across the series (blame Paul). On episode 2, Westen and Paul from Boss Fights discuss what they are playing right now, and then rank their top 5 Final Fantasy games. 0:00- Introduction To Paul3:00- Thoughts on “Trails in the Sky First Chapter”, “Hollow Knight: Silksong”, and “Hades…
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