SmashPad Talkies – No Man’s Sky
We start No Man’s Sky to see how it all begins and how it all works.
Read moreWe start No Man’s Sky to see how it all begins and how it all works.
Read moreI can still remember it like it was yesterday. There I was, running away from some pretty nasty ogres. My HP was really low and I was all out of healing items. I make a last stand in a room…
Read moreE3 2015, to Square Enix, will undoubtedly go down as the show where the real Final Fantasy XV stood up, and the company’s decade-long AAA investment finally entered the home stretch. It will go down as the show that saw…
Read more2008’s Street Fighter IV was less a new fighting game than it was a transformative event for the genre’s entire landscape. Seemingly overnight, the fighting game community exploded to near early 90s proportions, and the game itself heralded in a…
Read moreOver the last several years, the gaming community has been graced with a string of quality Batman games. Whether you were actually a Batman fan or not didn’t matter. There was no denying that the Batman Arkham series was chock…
Read moreSega celebrated Sonic the Hedgehog‘s 25th anniversary on Friday night with a paid party at the House of Blues in San Diego amidst all the Comic-Con craziness, so we decided to celebrate with them.
Read moreReCore was one of many games Microsoft featured at The Nerd Machine’s Nerd HQ SDCC offsite event, and while it was rough around the edges, there’s potential for a really fun game here.
Read moreIf you’re a gamer of the 80’s, chances are you remember playing an isometric puzzle platformer. For me, it was Knight Lore, a game that perplexed me, but also rewarded my patience. Making my way through the numerous rooms of…
Read moreOriginally scheduled for Thursday afternoon, San Diego Comic-Con’s Pokémon GO panel was moved to Sunday afternoon in Hall H, which definitely made its rumblings throughout the convention.
Read moreAmong Xbox’s major presence at Nerd HQ was the upcoming Gears of War 4, a return to the franchise that really boosted sales of chainsaw-based guns among the bro crowd (we assume).
Read moreDead Rising 4 was in playable form at Nerd HQ during San Diego Comic-Con, and it was an absolute blast to play despite it lasting only five minutes.
Read moreHot on the heels of the highly contested Ghostbusters reboot from Paul Feig comes Activision’s latest arcade style offering to expand what is becoming an entire Ghostbusters universe. While I’d love to get into various reasons why the movie is…
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