John Sweeney

John Sweeney is a terribly British man with a background in engineering. He writes long-form editorial content with analysis of gaming, games media and internet culture. He also does the occasional video game retrospective with a weekly column about Magic the Gathering thrown in for good measure. He also does most of our interviews for some reason, we have no idea why. A staunch supporter of free speech and consumer rights; skeptical of agenda driven media and suspicious of unaccoutable authority but always hopeful for change.

Tabletop Developer Interview: James ‘Grim’ Desborough

Scrumpmonkey is here with a fantastic interview with tabletop game dev James “Grim” Desborough, talking about tabletop dev and industry aspects.

Don’t Just Stand there Gawking, Do Something! A Guide to Ending Gawker

The past week has been an event filled one for critics of Gawker Media. John is here to assess the damage and offer advice on proper consumer advocacy

Creating Digital Worlds: An Interview With AAA Developer Ethan James Petty

Today we have a great interview with game developer Ethan James Petty talking about creating worlds, industry trends and more!

E3 2015 After Thoughts: The Business of E3

Scrumpmonkey takes a bit of a look at the business end E3, and why this big, dumb, loud, expensive show is good for its own reasons.

Magic The Gathering: Star City Games Capitulating to Outrage Culture is a Blow to Meritocracy

Scrumpmonkey dissects what kind of message Star City Games sends to the community when they capitulate to outrage culture.

Global Gamers, Global Developers: Five Developers off the Beaten Track

Scrumpmonkey touches on five different game development studios from areas you might not think of when it comes to powerhouse game development studios

Magic the Gathering: WTF is Cube?

Scrumpmonkey is here to give you a overview and some tips when building and drafting a Cube.

Global Developers, Global Gamers: A Different Kind of Diversity

Scrumpmonkey begins a series where he looks at the Global Gaming and Development scene, and lays bear the reductive reasoning made by some progressives.

Developer Interview: PixelMetal

Scrumpmonkey proveribally sits down with Nick Robalik AKA PixelMetal to talk about his upcoming game Sombrero, game development and more!

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Letter from the Editor (June 2019)

Hello again internetarinos! It's that time of the month again! Wait, that could have been worded better... Welcome to another issue of SuperNerdLand Magazine! So what is going on around our parts, what's new, and what are we up to? [...]

Console/Handheld

Life Will Change: How Persona 5 Helped Me

Persona is a game series that means a lot to many different people. Originally splitting from the Shin Megami Tensei series, Persona 1, known as Revelations: Persona was released in 1996 and has continued to be a staple JRPG series [...]

Editorial and Opinion

The Gaming Seed of Heroes: Why Video Games Are Loved, Hated, Addicting, and Fought Over

Gaming. A word said with pleasure by some and with disdain by others for decades. There's a lot of imagery attached with the word. Boxy retro consoles and tangled cords in 80s family photographs. Dice, character sheets, and figurines. An [...]

Manga

Gwen Recommends: “It Would Be Great If You Did Not Exist”

(MODERATE SPOILERS AHEAD!) It Would Be Great If You Did Not Exist (in its native language, titled “네가 없었으면 좋겠어”) is a manhwa (Korean comic) by Carbonara. It hasn’t updated in about a year, but the main relationship arc has [...]

MMORPG

From World of Warcraft to Final Fantasy XIV: Making the Transition

(Editor's Note: This is a repost from the wonderful Christian Kaleb, originally posted on https://www.ckaleb.com/. You can find more of his writing there, or help support his upcoming book Sword of The Nation by visiting his Patreon here!) It finally [...]

Movies

Detective Pikachu Review

Is it any surprise, given my handle on this site, that I, along with my partner, made it mandatory for us to see Detective Pikachu in theaters? Detective Pikachu, brought to us by Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures, was received with optimism [...]

Movies

Aladdin (2019) Review

I bet you all have at least one movie that affected you in one way or another in your lifetime. For me, this was the 1992 release of Disney's Aladdin that I first watched when I was about 11 years [...]

Nerd News

Coming Down the Pike – June 2019 Game Releases

So June isn't chock full of amazing releases, but that doesn't mean it isn't without a few highlights. First, that comes to mind is the hype that Switch owners will be having over the upcoming Super Mario Maker 2. I [...]

Odds and Ends

Free Pack-in Game of the Month: Heidelberg 1693

Looking around itch.io is a fun endeavor for me. Previous months I have highlighted a little colorful and fun free game, and a point and click adventure birthed from a game jam that punches well above its weight. But those [...]