The Disconnected Gamers Podcast
Disconnected Gamers, Where We Reconnect with Gaming and Life
Party Hard……or Die Trying! Just kidding, in Party Hard you actually play the “good” bad guy. Well, if you consider quieting down that noisy party that’s been going on next door for hours and it’s 3 in the morning and you want to sleep by killing everyone there…then yes, you are very much the good […]
20XX, the Roguelike Mega-Man co-op game is officially out of Alpha! Heading into the Beta, a number of changes and upgrades to the game have been made. Since my experience with in in Early Access on steam, I’ve been able to play through several variations of the levels as both characters, with varying rates of […]
Episode 36. Part 2. September 7th, 2015. Andrew chats with Mike about his Pax Prime experience, and basically gives you the run down on all the games and things he saw. In (to the best of his ability) the order things were discussed: ID@Xbox Event > Razer Booth (PC Gear) > Riptide GP: Renegade > […]
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This new Homefront game is definitely going to turn heads with its new open-roam style game play. Homefront: The Revolution takes players through an occupied Philadelphia as a resistance fighter. There are main story missions, but in your “off time” you can free roam the area, destroy Korean patrols for ammo and supplies, or side objectives. Similar to […]
Rocket League is the successor to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, which is a mouthful of a name. SARPBC (for short) originally released by Psyonix Studios on PS3 back in 2008, and I’d never heard of it. When Rocket League recently was announced for PS4, I was able to get into the beta for the game, […]
Pots, pans and ingredients in hand Pixel Junk’s new game, NomNomGalaxy, makes for a Soup-er good time. We’ll be cutting away all the Soup-erfluous information and give you a great creamy, but pixelated, recipe for a delicious bowl! Background: In a galaxy where Soup is the number one product in the market, everyone is hopping […]
Team 17 LTD, known for The Escapists and other games, just recently partnered with Playtonic Games, the team behind the fan favorite Yooka-Laylee. Yooka-Laylee recently came into the spotlight as it’s the spiritual successor to the beloved Banjo-Kazooie series. What’s even better about it is that the team at Playtonic is the same team from […]
Episode 25. June 14th, 2015. Mike and Andrew catch up on what they’ve been playing, and how Andrew is still alive after repairing the A/C. Andrew got an Alienware Alpha, so he chats about how it’s made his gaming set up even more fun. Discussion leads to E3 and games that we’re hoping to see, […]
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Chiptunes are pretty awesome, so why not incorporate them into a game? That’s exactly what Spectra does, and it’s heading towards Xbox One and PC for July. The long and short about the dev company, Gateway Interactive, and working with independent publishing studio Mastertronic worked together with ID@Xbox self-publishing program and to PC, Mac, and Linux this […]
Chip’s Challenge 2 is the successor to the famed Chip’s Challenge that was available in the way back machine known as Atari Lynx, MS-Dos and also Windows 95, among other devices. My first experience with Chip’s Challenge was on a Packard Bell Windows 95 machine, that had the Microsoft Entertainment Pack. The Entertainment Pack #4 […]
Launching earlier today on Steam, Chariot Wars, a story-driven racing game puts you behind the wheel…*ahem* reins of a chariot, racing from Rome to Helvetia. It’s 128A.D. and the Emperor Hadrian is holding a festival of sorts, to celebrate his reign as Roman emperor. The chariot racing portion of the game is merely the tip […]
BE A CAT! Swipe stuff on shelves! Destroy expensive pottery! Meow! Catlateral Damage, the super fun and exciting new game from Fire Hose Games and Chris Chung now allows you to be a cat. Think of it as Cat Simulator, except it’s not about sleeping on a windowsill all day. Catlateral Damage focuses on the […]
Windward is a fun-filled action game that turns you into a pirate! Er…okay, well you can become a pirate, but ideally you should be a noble sailor. It’s a sandbox game by Tasharen Entertainment that puts you behind the helm of a ship, sailing around a procedurally generated world. You can sail around completing quests […]
Episode 22. May 17th, 2015. Interview with Alex from PixelNAUTS Games, a developer in Canada that just released the awesome game Lost Orbit. As Andrew and Mike call it, “an awesome game where you die alot,” but more aptly a “dodge’m up” where it’s like a schmup (Shoot’em up) but with no guns. You’ll be […]
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Windward is a procedurally generated, open world sandbox game that lets you take the helm of a ship! Sail the high seas and collect resources to use on your ship, discover new towns and areas, and also pirates…but you’ll want to fight them cause they unfortunately aren’t the bartering type. Visiting the towns allows you […]
*Updated 8/18/2015* Our more formal review of Rocket League can be found here. *Updated 7/9/2015* Rocket League has officially launched for PS4 and PC, and it’s facing some major issues on PS4. Servers were non-functional apparently before the launch of the game on North American PSN servers. The single player season and exhibition modes do work, […]
For those not aware of the joys of the windows 3.1 (or Win95-98), you’re in for a treat. Chip’s Challenge, a fantastic little puzzle game with a ton of levels is finally coming back. My first experience with Chip’s Challenge was back on Windows 95 on an old Hewlett-Packard desktop, long before the HP/Compaq Merger. […]
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has recently been announced by CD Project Red’s creators that it’s gone gold! After over 200 awards received before it launches (May 19th by the way), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt takes open world to new and astonishing heights. You take the reins of bounty hunter/monster slayer Geralt of Rivia. […]
Product Review GO! So the Red Dragon / Reddragon / Redragon, however they prefer to be called, gaming keyboard and mouse combo package is a pretty good deal for a decent price. I’m not going to wow you on the stats of a keyboard, as I think they’re pretty standard, but I’ll point out what […]
I posted the teaser earlier this month about Compulsion Games newest project, We Happy Few. There was a trailer and not a whole lot was known about the game aside from aesthetics and a heavy handed trailer with a very ominous tone. Well, I was able to get some hands on time with We Happy Few […]