Far Cringe 3 - Forced Cutscenes are AWESOME

Man, you can take quite a beating in Far Cry 3... because you have to.

Promurphy VS Dark Souls: Capra Demon

Keith takes on a capybara... or is it a chupacabra?

Promurphy: Let's Play Dark Souls! Volume 1: Intro

Keith's gone crazy and cast his mind (and patience) into the abyss! It's Dark Souls, Part 1!

 See more at Keith's YouTube channel!

D-Sub9 Presents: Beergaming - Pilotwings (Practice/Pilot Episode)

Oh hey, we posted something! A culmination of a few months of trial, error, frustration, tears, and alcohol!

This is Beergaming, a new monthly (ha ha) feature we're going to try out here on D-Sub9 and the D-Sub9 Youtube Channel. Hopefully this will take off as well as Mike (holding SNES controller) can't!

Blizzard: Most people play Diablo 3 solo. Still doesn't reconsider offline play.

Maybe I'm just being touchy, but it truly irks me when a gaming company admits it was wrong all along about a particular decision, yet doesn't recant its proud proclamations that it'll keep doing that wrong thing as if everything was OK in the world. I believe that may be called hubris... or bullshit... or some other term directing my nerd rage directly at the heart of Blizzard-Activision.

Dan Stapleton over at GameSpy has a fantastic digest of the latest Diablo 3 blog post over at Blizzard. Specifically, Senior Technical Game Designer Wyatt Cheng drops a little info-bomb on the fanbase:

"At the moment though playing solo is the clear choice, even for those who would prefer co-op with some of their friends."

OK, so all you gamers who proclaimed your love for single-player hacking 'n' slashing have been officially validated by the powers-that-be. That should mean that gameplay (and connectivity, dammit) should be re-addressed to cater to your needs. Say... offline play allowing on-demand soloing whether or not your Internet (or Blizzard's for that matter) is working properly? Well, Cheng mentions nothing about taking care of the demand of the fans, but Stapleton reminds us all of Blizzard's stance that online-only is the way the game is designed to play and you should go play something else if you don't like it... or can't play at all.

Well, at least this squelches the Blizzard apologists who shout that Diablo 3 is purely a multiplayer game and that's how the majority of gamers will play, right? Fat lot of good that will do.

Come on, Blizzard. You've clearly slain the piracy boogeyman while simultaneously invalidating your "Online-only is the most secure method" claims, reducing online-only to just another way to keep gamers from owning the games they bought. How about giving gamers a little latitude in playing your games the way they want to?

I guess not. That money isn't going to print itself, you know.

The Byte Cellar is the Coolest Retro PC Room in History

That's an incredible amount of radiation flowing through that tiny room.

Blake Patterson clearly has a taste for the old-school, as his museum of PC technology clearly shows. The man is a curator of everything from the Apple IIc to the Tandy 1000TL to the Compaq iPaq! There's so much nostalgia going on in that basement I'm not sure which game I want to spin up first. Rise of the Triad? No, Tandy Lemmings! No, wait... Castle Wolfenstein!

• The Byte Cellar
• As covered on Lifehacker

D-Sub9 Podcast #3

Download Podcast (34 minutes, MP3)

Oh hey it's another (late) episode of the D-Sub9 Podcast! Blame Ryan. That slacker.

The redoubtable trio of Bob, Keith and Ryan return to sing the tales of indie developer woe and hope with Microsoft's $40,000 bill on everything and the OUYA's marvelous escape plan. Also, robots... and zombies... and abortions. BE OFFENDED.

The D-Sub9 Podcast features adults using adult language.

Intro/Outro Music: Sonic Mayhem - Quad Machine 

Podcast index:

• Keith dooms himself to death by dysentery. (0:04)
• Fez and how Microsoft hates indie developers. (0:47)
• The OUYA (OH YEAH) makes Ryan all tingly (8:30)
• We're making our own Kickstarter! We know nothing about fraud law. (12:50)
• Heck, why not beat up on CERTAIN BASEBALL STARS while we're at it? (13:15)
• Bob on Alan Wake's American Nightmare (16:22)
• Keith bailed on Amnesia. Ryan accuses Keith of hereticism (18:15)
• ... and Keith calls Ryan out on being a gaming leper. (18:38)
• Keith is on the letter "A" in his Steam collection (20:15)
• Nobody likes Braid. Just throwing that out there. (24:10)
• Never trust Ryan in a survival situation. (26:28)
• But RETRO 16-BIT ROBOTS. Yeah, you're in Ryan's wheelhouse. (31:26)