Nerd Culture Podcast

Podcast – Episode #68

Posted by David On December 1, 2013 ADD COMMENTS

Episode #68 features:

Popcorn Junkies: Ender’s Game & The Lone Ranger

Contest of Champions: The Astonishing X-Men vs Justice League Dark

Azerothian Times: Garrisons, Leveling in Draenor & Make A Wish charity Pet & Mount

| Open Player in New Window

Download
(right click and select Save Link As)

Shopping List

The Lone Ranger blu-ray

Astonishing X-Men: Gifted trade

Justice League Dark vol 1 trade

Podcast – Episode #66

Posted by David On November 17, 2013 ADD COMMENTS

Episode #66 features:

5 minute Popcorn Junkies: Shaun of the Dead, The Shining, The Wolverine & We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

Contest of Champions: The Fantastic Four vs The Incredibles

Azerothian Times: BlizzCon 2013

| Open Player in New Window

Download
(right click and select Save Link As)

I’m You, Dickhead on Kickstarter

Shopping List

Shaun of the Dead

The Shining

The Wolverine

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

A Week of Hearthstone

Posted by Brian On November 9, 2013 ADD COMMENTS

Day 1

I have just completed my first Full day of Hearthstone, and I love it!

Just to give some background to my TCG playing, I have enjoyed about 10+ years of Magic: The Gathering, about 2-3 years of Pokémon, and 1-2 years of the WoW TCG. I have also played the Battletech card game and tried Yu-Gi-Oh (no I didn’t like it). This brings me up to Hearthstone. In simple terms, I love it. It’s true that it doesn’t have the feel for the instant spells, which Pokémon didn’t have either (making it more simplistic and easier to follow), however Hearthstone adds in the secrets which activate on the enemies turn, giving a little bit more strategy for you and your foe to think around.

Also, automatically gaining 1 mana crystal per turn up to 10 alleviates the problems of having resource ‘clumps’ or ‘droughts’ during your game and is a huge plus. The fact that the game also adds in ‘the coin’ to allow the 2nd player 1 turn of being ahead of the 1st player resource wise is also an interesting concept to balance who goes 1st and 2nd.

The 9 different characters all have their own unique spells, abilities and even creatures makes them all very appealing, provided you know what type of deck you want to make. This gives a lot of interesting choices for what may even be the same theme behind a deck, but can be executed in up to 9 different ways, based on the innate hero ability, as well as the extra cards they bring to the table.

I look forward to playing against more opponents, live and npc, and getting a much better feel for this game.

Click More to see how the rest of my week went! (more…)