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Nerds Without Pants Episode 9: Cinema Verite

Don't talk, don't text, or we'll take your ass out.

Welcome to NWP at the Movies! This week, the pantsless ones are joined by film critic, actor, artist, and all around good dude, John Gholson. Movies are the topic of the day, but as always we begin with what we’ve been playing and listener mail. This week, we talk about Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, Patrick’s intro to iOS games, XCOM, and Julian’s existential gaming crisis.

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38 Studios, Big Huge Games Lay Off Entire Staff

379 employees are now without work.

Things haven’t been exactly sunshine and roses for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developers 38 Studios and subsidiary Big Huge Games. The Curt Schilling run studio has been making national headlines for all the wrong reasons, initially missing the first payment of a $75 million dollar loan to the state of Rhode Island – the repercussions for which are starting to hit home.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning "The Legend of Dead Kel" DLC Announced

The first story-driven DLC will also include a whole new continent.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is getting more DLC with the announcement of The Legend of Dead Kel, the first DLC for the game to be story-driven. Players will travel to the island of Gallows End, a new continent to explore, and encounter new enemies and side quests, as well as new weapons and items.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Review

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios knocks this one out of the park.

It’s hard not be struck by deja vu while playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, as it’s an amalgamation of every major Western RPG of the last five years. The art style and vibrant color palette are heavily inspired by World of Warcraft, the loot system rivals that of Borderlands, and the character development is an interesting Dragon Age: Origins/Fable hybrid. While Reckoning is quite liberal in its search for muses, it expands beyond many of them to forge a unique identity. Reckoning is to the games it borrows from, as baseball is to itself from 40 years ago; the concepts are basically the same, but everything is on steroids, making it far more enjoyable.

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PixlTalk Episode 53: You Shall Not (Online) Pass!!!!

Are Online Passes enough to protect a convoluted games market?

Angelo Grant joins the heroes this week as we take on another evildoer in the industry of gaming … Online Passes! With the recent controversy revolving around Kingdoms of Amalur’s (which is amazing by the way) day one DLC, people are in an uproar. Are publishers wrong for using these crude tactics to protect their big bucks? Or are we gamers simply idealists who refuse to acknowledge the video game industry as a business? You decide this week on PixlTalk.

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