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Dan is the founder, owner, and lead editor of Nerdburglars. With over three decades of gaming experience tracing back to the 8-bit era and an enduring love for franchises like The Legend of Zelda, they have spent a lifetime analyzing the evolution of interactive entertainment. Today, they oversee the site’s editorial direction, specializing in deep-dive franchise retrospectives, industry news analysis, and hardware reviews, ensuring Nerdburglars delivers authoritative, high-quality content for core gamers.

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HDR And How It Impacts Gaming

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HDR is the latest buzzword that came along with the latest generation of game consoles. It has of course been a thing for much longer than that. The mysterious acronym is something that very few people really understand. What is...
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Importance of FPS In Video Games

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FPS is an acronym that stands for Frames per Second. As you are probably aware, it can often be the cause of many arguments and debates within the gaming community. For those wanting to know what it is, I will...
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Draw Distance In Video Games

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Back in the early 2000s, the term draw distance was used a lot more than it is today. Not because it doesn’t exist anymore, but because it was a bigger technical hurdle for game developers. In the early 2000s 3D...
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Game System Power Consumption

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In a world of ever growing concern over our carbon footprint, we need to ensure that everything we do is energy efficient. Gaming is no exception to this. Knowing how much power your gaming systems produce is key in helping...
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What About A Resistance Fall of Man Trilogy?

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The PS3 didn't launch with a fantastic set of games. For most who bought it, Resistance: Fall of Man was about the only game worth buying at the time and even at that, it probably wasn't much of a system...
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Why has there not been a Blood Dragon 2?

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After the dust began to settle following the release of Far Cry 5, Ubisoft have launched a new game. Far Cry New Dawn is the latest entry in the Far Cry franchise. Like many other big game franchises, this is...
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Is It Wrong To Fake AMIIBOs using a Smartphone?

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Amiibos have been a fantastic addition to Nintendo's merchandising business. Collectors and gamers get to buy high quality figures of the gaming characters they love without having to pay crazy money. The added bonus comes from the NFC tags in...
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Is Ratalaika Games Hurting Trophy hunting?

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Within the trophy hunting community, Ratalaika games has become quite well known. Not because they release fantastic games but because all the games they release have piss easy platinum trophies. Generally they are cross platform with separate lists which let...
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How To Prevent VR Motion Sickness

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Motion sickness can make or break a VR game for you. I recently wrote an article that explained what VR motion sickness is. For those who are all too familiar and just want the solution there may be some things...
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What the soldiers in Wolfenstein are saying

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Back in the early days of 3D gaming, voice acting was a very rare occurrence. When you had to fit a game on a 1.44mb floppy disk, you didn't have much room for high quality audio recordings. When non MIDI...

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