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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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Resistance Fall of Man Was An Underrated Franchise

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Resistance Fall of Man was the first game I owned for the PS3. It was a launch title, so I'd imagine a huge percentage of early adopters had this as their first game too. It was a pretty good game...
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Developers Are Not Creating Enough DLC For Games

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DLC has been an incredibly touchy subject for gamers over the years. I was someone who was very slow to embrace DLC. I was of the mindset that the DLC content should be part of the main game, particularly when...
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Games With Multiple Main Characters Don't Work For Me

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Over the past few years, I have played a lot of large open world games. Some of which I pumped a huge amount of hours into. I really enjoy games that have detailed character options, but sometimes it goes wrong.  When...
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Replaying Old Call of Duty Games On Veteran

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Today I was thinking back on some of the games that I played over the years. It is weird how time distorts things a bit, but for some reason, I have fond memories of getting the platinum trophy in Call...
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A Pokemon MMO Should Be Released For The Switch

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It has been a while since I finished my obsessive run with Pokemon games on the 3DS and I am starting to miss the games a bit. I still feel the same about the games as I did when I...
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Is Digital A Future Proof Medium For Consoles?

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Digital has started a major change to how people purchase video games. It took a while to kick off, but it definitely seems like physical copies are slowly being overtaken by digital releases. In the here and now, digital seems...
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Power Consumption of The Nintendo Switch

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I was recently wondering how the Nintendo Switch can manage to play games so well on the go. How is the battery even able to last as long as it does. Since my last post on measuring the power consumption...
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Could We Get An Ocarina Of Time HD Remake In 2018

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When it comes to HD remakes, Nintendo has a bit an unpredictable pattern to how they approach them. There have been a few remakes made for Zelda games, but it is hard to tell whether Nintendo is really down with...
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Is It Possible To Play Warcraft Without Getting Addicted

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I was once incredibly addicted to World of Warcraft. It wasn't just a thing I did to pass the time, I went out of my way to find more time to play the game. I was genuinely addicted to the...
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Wolfenstein Multiplayer Should Be Revived

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Wolfenstein is one of the longest running first person shooter franchises there is. It first released in a time when actually getting a first person camera position to work in a video game was a marvel of technology and programming....

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