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  • PAX East 2023 Review, B Side

    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 Read more

  • PAX East 2023 Review

    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 Read more

  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Four Decades Later

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Four Decades Later

    Written by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most famous science fiction works out there, and one I had heard about for years without ever experiencing myself. This past Christmas, I mentioned I would like to read it, and wound up with the whole 42nd anniversary box set, and Read more

  • Signs of Change in the Gaming Industry

    Signs of Change in the Gaming Industry

    On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced that it planned on purchasing video game publisher and developer juggernaut, Activision-Blizzard. Activision-Blizzard is known for making franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Diablo. The deal involved an all-cash buyout of Activision’s stock, totaling to around $68.7 billion. When this deal was first announced, Read more

  • Dystopian Fiction and the Generational Gap

    Spoiler Warning: This article indiscriminate spoilers for the following books/series: 1984, Brave New World, The Giver, The Hunger Games, Red Rising, Divergent, The Maze Runner                 Among the various subgenres of science fiction is dystopian fiction. This narrow field deals in stories specifically focused on futuristic, but still possible, settings where some form of authoritarian Read more

  • Pentiment Review

    Pentiment Review

    Released in late 2022, Pentiment is a point and click narrative game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios. Pentiment is a breath of fresh air in the point and click genre with its rich story and unique art direction. Pentiment’s art style takes inspiration from hand drawn manuscripts and stained glass Read more