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.

Magic: the Gathering Oath of the Gatewatch Leaks — A “Disproportionate Response”

Scrump follows up on the news of the recent banning of mulitple Magic the Gathering judges after the Gatewatch leaks

Videogames are Amazing and Fun, The Culture War is Miserable and Boring

Videogames are Amazing and Fun, The Culture War is Miserable and Boring

Magic the Gathering Year in Review: Products of 2015

Another year, and another cycle of products from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast has come and gone. It’s been an eventful year both in terms of products and Magic the Gathering news, which we will go over in a […]

Ratchet & Clank Retrospective Part 7: Into the Nexus

John continues his Ratchet & Clank Retrospective with the most dissapointing one yet, Into the Nexus

Ratchet & Clank Retrospective Part 6: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time was a game that passed me by at time of release. It came only two years after the release of its predecessor, Tools of Destruction, and I’m ashamed I didn’t manage to pick this […]

Ratchet & Clank Retrospective Part 5: Tools of Destruction

Tools of Destruction was the first Ratchet & Clank game on the PS3, and the first game in the Ratchet & ClankFuture series. Once again, the EU naming conventions makes this a little confusing; for some unfathomable reason all the […]

Linkle and the Geek Culture War: “I’m touching your stuff!”

With the introduction of Linkle to Hyrule Warriors, the usual culture war pundits came out to say it’s not enough. But what is enough for them?

Ratchet & Clank Retrospective Part 4: Deadlocked

John continues his Ratchet & Clank Retrospective, getting Deadlocked and living like a Gladiator with the fourth game in the main series.

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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 [...]