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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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Why The Dualshock 4 Is The Best Controller Ever

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Nintendo can be credited for a lot for setting the mould for modern controller design. The n64 brought analogue thumb sticks to the mainstream gaming market and since then almost every game controller has included this hardware. Ever since then...
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Are HD Remakes An Acceptable Substitute For Backwards Compatibility?

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Ever since the PS3/Xbox360 generation of games consoles gamers have been unable to play games from the previous generation on their shiny new consoles. This trend has also continued on to the current PS4/XboxOne generation of consoles. While I personally...
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Raiden Vs Ryu Hayabusa - Ultimate Ninja Fight

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Physical Strength Raiden Raiden may appear to be relatively small in build considering his body is built with a cybernetic exoskeleton made from artificial muscle and steel. While it may not be large and powerful looking the exoskeleton provides him...
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Irrational Games Make King Kong - Fantasy Games

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This article is my dream game from the perfect game developer. Unfortunately as most of us know Irrational Game are no more so this will always be nothing more than a dream. For this Fantasy game I look into the idea...
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Why It's Tough Being Addicted To Trophies

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Like a lot of other gamers this gen I love trophies and achievements I'm a total trophy whore I cant even remember how I put so many hours into games on the PS2 when the games didn't have them. While...
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History of South Park Video Games

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After a lengthy wait gamers have finally got their hands on The Stick Of Truth and it is generally very well received by fans of the TV series. The latest South Park game has given gamers hope that video games...
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What is Screen Tearing?

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We heard the words screen tearing thrown around quite a lot during the PS3 / Xbox 360 generation of games consoles. Not everyone knew what it was but we knew that it was a negative attribute if a game had...
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Has The Failure of The Wii U Made It Cool?

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Whether you are a fan of Nintendo or not it's is obvious from sales figures that the first year of the Wii U was a major failure. Nintendo themselves have accepted the Wii U has not performed as well as...
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Samus Aran Vs Master Chief - Who Would Win?

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Samus Aran is the leading character of Nintendos popular Metroid series and Master Chief is the leading character from Microsofts Halo series. Both are relatively similar in appearance and reside in a similar game universe. The big question is who...
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Real Life Gaming Gadgets Wishlist

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Video game gadgets are often complex and will likely never be remotely possible to exist in the real world, which sucks because there are some seriously cool gadgets in video games. Here's our real life gaming gadgets wishlist. Maybe some...

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