So I came to a realization today of something about society and people that has been brooding my subconscious for some time.  I was studying in what is known as the "HUB" at my school, I was slightly away from one of the wall plugs at the table I was at so I was forced to stretch my power cord for my laptop a bit on the floor to reach it.  About every 5 minutes someone would walk down the row between the study tables and trip over my cord.  So I experimented a little, every other person I would …  More

Episode #4:

Drama ensues on Episode #4 of The Best Damn Nerd Show as Hosts James Kincaid, Jonathan Craig, Jeff Budd, and Chris Ceglia admit to a handful of unforgivable social networking exploits and recent backstabbing and double crossing within the infamous J-Team. The various ends of the nerd universe covered in this week's episode: Jeff's terrible idea to sacrifice Video Games for lent, Freddie Prinze Jr. being let go as a WWE writer, Jeff's over-the-phone Magic The Gathering games (and how …  More

These are the video games that have defined their genre.  They are the standard by which all other games in their category are judged.

Best Flight Combat Game of All Time
Wing Commander 3 (1994)Platform: PC
Developer: Origin Systems
Publisher: Origin Systems

 

The popular vote here is of course Tie Fighter.  While great, Tie Fighter did not measure up to Wing Commander 3.  Keep reading because I am going to convince you why.

Wing Commander 3's impact on games is still felt very clearly even today…  More

Girls & video games
Most of us guys take this truth to be self-evident. Let's delve in this universe where Tide flows like wine and free time is spent washing dishes. I should say that this article was inspired by Ming's post about Hafu and the recent CGS Draft in TX. This past week was in a sense sad for the eSports community.. and on another hand it was simply hillarious. This article is misogynistic, sexist, satirical, rude, blunt, offensive, not politically correct, and probably illegal. …  More