Nerdy Yule Log November 26, 2015

Happy Holidays, everyone.

Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon Unboxing November 20, 2015

Earlier today, Nintendo released the only major Pokémon game coming to retail this year, Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon for the Nintendo 3DS.

During this unboxing, Maniac gives his thoughts about Nintendo’s recent announcements for the Pokémon franchise and speculates about what is coming next for Pokémon Trainers everywhere.

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon is out now exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS platform.

Top Five Halo Skulls November 5, 2015

Maniac is coming at you with another site video powered entirely with the help of the Xbox One and the Kinect.  Starting with Halo 2, Bungie decided to sprinkle special Skulls across the single player levels of their game, which would enable certain special abilities during gameplay.  Some of these abilities would make the game harder, others would make the game hilarious.  When Halo 3 launched in 2007, it not only included Skulls, Skull features practically became interwoven into the gameplay, menus and achievements, giving me a huge incentive to find them!

Today, in light of the recent release of Halo 5: Guardians, we’ll be counting down the Top 5 Skulls in Halo games.  They are scored based upon their difficulty to get versus how useful they are in gameplay.  All Halo games which feature Skulls, including the Halo: Combat Evolved remake, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo 5: Guardians, are eligible.  Let’s take a look and see what made the list!

Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector’s Edition Disc Replacement Review October 29, 2015

Microsoft erroneously assumed that players who purchased a Limited COLLECTOR’s Edition of a game would prefer to get a digital download code which would only work once and retain no value at all instead of a disc which could be used on any Xbox One console.  After receiving a huge negative backlash for this decision, Microsoft announced they would offer replacement discs to anyone who did not want to download their game online.

Maniac decided to contact Xbox Support to get his code replaced for a disc.  How did it turn out?  Just watch.

Legend of Zelda Tri-Force Heroes Unboxing October 23, 2015

Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Tri-Force Heroes on the Nintendo 3DS earlier today.  The game is a spiritual sequel to Four Swords Adventures, but takes place after the events of A Link Between Worlds. Fans of the site might remember we previewed this game during Nintendo’s E3 2015 Super Mario Maker preview event, and so we picked up a copy of it this afternoon at our local Best Buy.

Let’s see what’s inside the box while Maniac describes one of the most frustrating shopping experiences he’s had in quite some time.

The Legend of Zelda Tri-Force Heroes is out now exclusively on Nintendo 3DS systems.

Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector’s Edition Unboxing October 21, 2015

We’re a week away from the official worldwide release of Halo 5: Guardians, but Microsoft decided to do something really special for anyone who picked up the game’s Limited Collector’s Edition and released that version of the game a week early.  They could get away with doing this and not breaking the game’s official street date because they decided that they would include a prepaid digital download code for the full version of the game inside the LCE’s box instead of an actual game disc.  This code, while nowhere near as easy to deal with as a game disc is, would allow players to preload the game and any day one patches to their Xbox One console a week early, saving them from having to install and download the game at midnight and allowing them to play the game the second it unlocks at midnight on the 27th.

Today, Maniac and his girlfriend Princess Angel decided to take a look at what’s actually included inside of the Limited Collector’s Edition box and see if it is indeed worth the $249 US price tag, disc or no disc.

Note:  Anyone who picked up this version of the game and would prefer to receive a disc instead of a download code SHOULD NOT REDEEM THE CODE INCLUDED INSIDE THE GAME BOX.  Instead, follow these instructions on how to get their code replaced with a disc.

Halo 5: Guardians is coming out October 27th, 2015 exclusively on the Xbox One.

Halo Week 2015 Bonus Video 2 – Halo Wars 2 Discussion September 30, 2015

Our final video for Halo Week 2015 details one of the biggest surprise announcements that I have heard in quite a long time.  I have a very soft spot in my heart for Halo Wars, the 2009 console RTS which proved that the Halo franchise could work in a medium other than a first person shooter.  While the game’s developers had massive plans for the franchise they helped create, Microsoft chose to close the studio that created it instead.

It seemed unlikely that we would ever see a sequel to Halo Wars.  Then, in a move we never saw coming, Halo Wars 2 was announced at GamesCom 2015!  Join Maniac and diskreader117 as we talk about this announcement, and speculate on what we would like to see in the next game of the Halo Wars series.

And with this, Halo Week 2015 comes to a close.  I hope you all enjoyed the time we spent talking about this beloved franchise, and speculate on its future.

Halo Wars 2 is coming to Xbox One and Windows 10.

Halo Week 2015 Bonus Video 1 – The Halo TV Series September 30, 2015

Halo Week 2015 is drawing to a close today but we’ve got two very special videos left to wrap this incredible week up.  First off, Maniac and diskreader117 talk about the Halo TV series, a series first announced at the Xbox One reveal two years ago.

The Halo TV series was intended to be the crowning achievement of Microsoft’s Xbox Live  programming lineup, but Microsoft decided to cancel those plans prematurely.  While the Halo series is still officially in production, we have not heard a single update about it since it was announced.  Join us as we try to figure out why.

Stay tuned, we have one more Halo Week bonus video on its way, a discussion about Halo Wars 2.

Halo Week 2015 Day 7 – Halo Reach Remake Rumors September 29, 2015

Ever since 343 Industries ported Halo 3: ODST into Halo: The Master Chief Collection earlier this year, there has been an enormous demand for Microsoft to rerelease Bungie’s final Halo game, 2010’s Halo Reach.

While there has not been any official announcement of a Halo Reach remake being in development, Microsoft has announced their plans to bring backwards compatibility to the Xbox One at E3 this year, and while Halo Reach has not been made playable on the Xbox One yet, Halo Reach‘s box cover was included in the official backwards compatibility promotional image.

So what would a Halo Reach remake look like and why do we want one so bad?  Give the video a watch and find out for yourselves.

You would think that after releasing a new video a day for the past week, Halo Week would be over.  Well, I’m happy to announce we’re going into overtime.  Two bonus videos are currently in production. Next time we’ll be talking about the Steven Spielberg produced Halo TV series, a project that no one has heard a peep about since it was announced at the Xbox One reveal back in 2013.