Month: April 2023
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The Problem with Elden Ring
On February 25th, 2022, Elden Ring was released. Elden Ring is an open world RPG developed by From Software, the developer of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. The style of game that this developer has created is coined now as ‘Souls like’. Souls like games throw the player at near impossible hard bosses where dodging,…
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Why do we tell stories? And who needs heroes? Gilgamesh, Snow White, and Superman
It’s not uncommon to hear about moviegoers experiencing superhero fatigue right now. That makes sense, given the constant deluge of Marvel content and DC’s varying attempts to replicate that success. So why the hell do we make so many of these movies anyway? Maybe it’s the spectacle of it and the insane backlog of adaptable…
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Sonic Series Retrospective, Part Four: An Era of Spinoffs
Just as with any other mascot, success leads to one inevitability: merchandising. With recognizability, a character gains the ability to sell anything their face can reasonably appear on, and the snide blue hedgehog would quickly join Mario in the quest to do just that. it was at about this point in the series that Sonic…
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The Esports Report: March 2023
Welcome to the Esports Report; a new monthly article series where I’ll be going over the biggest tournaments, events and leagues from the major esports titles each month. In our first report of the series here are the titles that’ll be covered this month: PUBG, Rainbow 6 Siege and DOTA 2. Followed by a list…
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A Multiverse of Betas and Patches
The Warner Brothers crossover platform fighter that won an award at last year’s Game Awards? Great. While I had a few issues with the gameplay, I generally found it to be a fun enough game with a mostly good roster (picking Taz instead of Wile E. Coyote was a waste though). After the game went…
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PAX East 2023 Review, B Side
As you may have seen from the other article published this week, we here at NerdCrash were in attendance at PAX East this year. While the gaming convention is something we like to attend each year, this one was looking a bit different, due to the lack of support from the big three. I can’t…
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PAX East 2023 Review
Last week, I spent the weekend in Boston for PAX East 2023. This annual gaming convention that takes place in the Hub of the Universe offers gamers a chance to try out and discover games from indie developers and smaller publishers. In previous years, the Big 3 companies (Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony) would make an…
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