The Disconnected Gamers Podcast
Disconnected Gamers, Where We Reconnect with Gaming and Life
Armello is a unique game, to put it simply. It’s a game of chance, battles, prestige, and glory. And also death. If you are into strategy, magic and lore, then you should probably check out this game. Now let’s get started. The simplest way to tell you about Armello: There’s a king. You’re the leader […]
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. 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 > POLLEN (Oculus […]
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Clapfoot Games is working on a new game that mixes gameplay elements from “castle defense” style games with a 3rd person shooter mentality. Taking place in the 1950s, you can play as several characters, each with their own special abilities. Fortified takes the modern shooter, adds in strategy and real-time base defense mechanics in a […]
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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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 […]
Steam has recently changed their return policy on steam games. Taken from the Steam program on Windows, “You can request a refund for nearly any purchase on Steam—for any reason. Maybe your PC doesn’t meet the hardware requirements; maybe you bought a game by mistake; maybe you played the title for an hour and just […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Harold is a lovely side-scroller/platformer that will be sure to keep you entertained for hours on end. No, seriously it’s got like a billion* levels. *Okay maybe not a billion, but man, it really does have a lot of levels to play. Let’s get into it. Harold’s got a pretty interesting story revolving around high-schooler angels […]
Jackbox Games, the studio known for the You Don’t Know Jack series has announced it’s newest party game, Quiplash. Quiplash is another fun party game with up to eight players all trying to create witty responses to open ended questions. Each player competes against each other and then a group vote decides best/funniest answers. It also […]
I know I haven’t written much about PAX East for the DGCast, but fear not; I wrote a whole bunch of “First Look” pieces over at RadioPlayStation. I figured I’d give you a small write up about the games I saw at PAX and a small quip about what I think of them. Let’s go! […]
The Escapists is an awesome 8-bit styled game about breaking out of prison. You could call it Prison Escape Simulator 2015, but that would unfairly classify it in that “genre” of games when it’s much more fun than that. You start the game in a mini tutorial where you get introduced to many of the […]
As you’d heard on our podcast a few episodes ago, Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball is an awesome game. Flat out. It’s tons of fun, high paced action that demands quick reflexes and the best arm to chuck dodgeballs at your friends. Right in their robot faces. Boom. Well now you can slam your friends on Steam […]