Month: January 2023
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What is an Adaptation?
If a work is beloved enough, it will eventually be made into some sort of adaptation. This most commonly means that a movie or TV series based on a book, or more recently, based on a game, will be made. There’s also many instances where direction will be taken, such as a novelization of a…
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You Know What Grinds my Joysticks? Live Service Games!
Welcome to the first iteration of the series, You Know What Grinds my Joysticks? In this series, I go on long and sometimes explicit rants discussing the biggest problems in the gaming industry. In this first article of the series, I’ll be talking about live service games and the impact they have on the industry.…
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DnD Begone: The Story of the OGL Crisis
I have played Dungeons & Dragons since I was kid. I started out playing on 3rd Edition with my dad as my Dungeon Master, and as I got older played with his college friends. Playing with them exposed me to my interests in worldbuilding, which I use to this day in my own creative works.…
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Sonic Series Retrospective, Part 1: Sonic, Sega, and the 90s Environment
The Series Retrospective is a running series of articles I plan to write for this blog. Over time, we’ll be iterating on it by going over multiple series, examining the major entries and the development of a franchise. But to start us off, we’re going to take a deep dive into the history of the…
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Doom Eternal Review
Released in 2020, Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. Doom Eternal is a descendant of the original FPS, making it a ‘boomer shooter’, and with that definition it brings with it high octane and fast-paced action with an arcade-like feel. A Game of the Year nominee…
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Bayonetta 3 Review
It’s no secret that Bayonetta’s fanbase has been literally starving for this game for a while now (the 3 years between the announcement and the second piece of news didn’t help). After finally getting my hands on the game, and having a month to digest what I played, I can now put some thoughts together…
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Dual Opinions: Open Worlds
Open world games in the gaming community are considered by many as blockbuster hits where players sink countless hours in a large expansive world, but is the genre worthy of its popularity? In this first iteration of Dual/Opinion, we’ll be discussing two sides in this debate. Tristan, as the open world fan, will be defending…
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Introduction to Nick
Hey there, I’m Nick, one of the two heads here at Nerdcrash. I’m a long time gamer, avid reader, and amateur writer from the US. If you find this blog worth reading, and I hope that you will, then you should have some idea of who’s actually writing these articles, because it gives you…
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Introduction to Tristan
Hello! My name is Tristan Dunn, and I am one of the writers here on NerdCrash. Our goal here on NerdCrash is to provide thought provoking articles and reviews to engage you, our readers. Let me introduce myself further by informing you what I’ll be bringing to the table for our little platform here. Overall,…
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