The Preferred Nerd – MiniCast 4

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G4 is no more

Plants vs. Zombies iOS update

The League Season 4 air date announced

Harmontown Podcast

The Preferred Nerd – MiniCast 3

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Half Life 3 at Gamescom???

Plants vs. Zombies 2 and fake YouTube video

Final Fantasy VII for PC

Aaron Paul on The Price Is Right

The Mental Illness Happy Hour

Intro Music: Han Solo by mc chris

Preferred Nerd MiniCast 2 – Ummmm…

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Grid 2 Release Date

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve Adding Non-Game Software to Steam

SWTOR Going Free To Play

Futurama Pedia Podcast

Music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton

Preferred Nerd Giveaway!!! If you’re interested in getting a free Starcraft 2 T-shirt (pictured below), listen to this episode to find out how.

Cooking Mama: Breaking Bad

Ever wanted to know what it’s like to make meth?

Love Breaking Bad?

Love gaming?

Then check out the newest version of Cooking Mama, the Breaking Bad edition. Hopefully it won’t be “temporarily unavailable” like it was last time I tried to play.

The Preferred Nerd – MiniCast 1

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The Humble Music Bundle

Worms Revolution Release Date

Caustic Soda – The Podcast

Movie Spotlight: Chronicle (2012)

Warning: This post contains content some people may consider a “spoiler”.

This weekend I did something I don’t normally do, I went to the cinema to see a movie. Something that is so uncommon, the last movie I saw at one was Horrible Bosses, which I thought was really funny, but pretty shallow beyond that. Yesterday I saw Chronicle, a Sci-Fi/Thriller about three high school students who develop super powers through mysterious circumstances.

The movie takes place through cameras that are already present in the world. In other words, the actors are aware they are being filmed. The main character, Andrew, is chronicling his life (no lie, I just figured out how they got the title of the movie), carrying his camera with him everywhere he goes. This works well because his telekinesis allows him to make the camera float around when all three boys are onscreen. At other times cell phone cameras, security cameras and police helicopter cameras are also used. It’s a technique that isn’t used very often is movies, as a matter of fact I never seen another movie that did it, but I’m sure there have been some.

I only have two problems with the movie. The first is that they don’t really explain where the powers came from. It shows the boys going through a cave underground and finding this glowing boulder, then later going back and being unable to access it again. However they never said what the boulder was, where it came from or how they got their powers from it.

My second issue was with the ending. They don’t say what happens with Andrew’s cousin, Matt. They kinda wrap up the movie with him at the end but don’t show any aftermath from the movie’s climax or what he does moving forward with his powers. I’d like to know if he returned to face the consequences of the climax or went into seclusion.

It takes a little while to get going, but once it does, it’s good. I enjoyed it enough to recommend as a solid Sci-Fi/Thriller. I’d probably go see it again for the matinee price.

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News:
Next Gen Xbox chipset being produced, likely release in late 2013
Resident Evil 6 announced
ESA drops SOPA support
Zynga’s paid $300 per new user in the past nine months
Rumor: Microsoft phasing out MS points
No BlizzCon this year
Blizzard investigating product placement in next MMO
Dane Cook’s triumphant return to stand-up comedy

New releases:
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Soul Calibur V

Tomb Raider Reboot Skipping Wii U

According to Crystal Dynamics global brand director Karl Stewart, Tomb Raider fans looking to play this fall’s heavily hyped reboot of the series will have to do it on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or PC.  He stated there are currently no plans to port the game for the Wii U launch or any other Nintendo platform.

The reason given for no port was that if they did make one, Crystal Dynamics would want to approach it differently and build it to take advantage of the unique functionality of the Wii U.  Whether that’s polite PR-speak to keep from burning bridges or a sign that the generational tradition of third party developers abandoning Nintendo consoles has already started before the Wii U could even launch, we’ll have to wait and see.  At any rate, it’s tough news for Nintendo fans that like Tomb Raider.

No word yet on an exact release date for the new Tomb Raider aside from the general “holiday season” but we should learn more about that as well as the games that will be on Wii U as we approach this year’s E3.

Helicopters in Minecraft!?

I’ve been known to dally in Minecraft from time to time and one of the things I’ve enjoyed is the number of mods the community has created.  This little mod here lets you create a helicopter in your cubist world and explore your randomly generated world.  What I find impressive, since one of my hobbies in Minecraft is training to be a demolitions expert with TNT, is it includes weaponry.  I for one look forward to being able to blast holes in mountain sides without having to spend the time of littering the whole thing with TNT and running like hell after I set it off.

On a somewhat related note, I love how at the end of the video the helicopter crashes into a building in his city and sets fire to it.  As someone who thought a quick way to clear out leaves would be to set them on fire, only to see the whole mountain side become a constantly burning Hell for the forest creatures, I like seeing people inadvertently set their creations ablaze.

Resident Evil 6 Trailer and Preview

We knew Resident Evil 6 was coming but now we have a trailer and release date.

Seemingly out of nowhere, Capcom unveiled a new trailer for Resident Evil 6 and announced a release date of November 20th of this year.  The release coming so soon was a bit of a surprise considering we’re already getting Resident Evil:  Operation Raccoon City on March 20th.  While RE:ORC is a mutiplayer tactical shooter made by former SOCOM developer Slant Six featuring a non-canon “what if” style story set between Resident Evil 2 and 3, RE6 is a full fledged sequel working from and building upon 15 years of story from the last five games.