At 8:00am on Saturday, October 15th, the Midwest Nerds crew will be participating in Extra-Life, a fundraising event to support local hospitals in the Children’s Miracle Network. Below is our live stream, schedule, and online handles for future stalking opportunities. See you all bright and early!

There’s something special about a game that includes a place to hang out with your friends between quests or missions. Some of the most fun I’ve had in World of Warcraft has been in Orgrimmar, where the most random and hysterical things can come up. A big part of making that successful is having an [...]

I’ve been gaming my whole life. Seriously, if you went to my first grade journal, all it would contain are entries like “Today was good, I hope I can rent Willow on Friday. I like the Willow game.” Child-Steve really liked Willow. Adult-Steve loves it. In these young days, one of the first franchises I ever [...]

We all grew up with some exposure to construction toys such as Legos, Erector Set, Lincoln Logs, Blok, or the cheap store branded kind that really never fit together well (like me). These toys were great. Your imagination, and sometimes the number of 2×1 blocks you owned, was the limit to the creativity and fun [...]

“You’re not tasting it right.” When I was in high school I distinctly remember watching some awful anime on some awful Tuesday night in which one character explained that if you do not like sake (pronounced sock-eh) it is due to your inability to taste it correctly. I mocked the notion that there was a correct [...]

Can’t we all just get along? That seems to be the question I ask myself every time I fire up a multiplayer game. Verbally assaulting someone over the internet has never been appealing to me.  Despite how little I understand it, there are plenty of people on the internet that will say anything just to [...]