DL Gaming: A PC Gamecast

Chad returns to tell us all about his trip to PAX and playing the Warlords of Draenor beta. Emilio continues Mass Effect 3 and The Swapper while Bobby nears the end of the Deponia Trilogy. There’s a new version of the Oculus Rift coming and what happened to The Stomping Land? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Chad away at PAX, it’s up to Bobby and Emilio to hold down the fort. The Walking Dead: Season 2 and Stick It to the Man get checked off Bobby’s list. Emilio finally starts Mass Effect 3 and continues to enjoy Firefall and The Binding of Isaac. Five Nights at Freddy’s is looking good, but we’re not sure about Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, yet. Amazon buys Twitch, World of Darkness crumbles and...

As the Penny Arcade Expo approaches we discuss the good and the bad side of Co-Op games. Chad starts Valiant Hearts: The Great War and Hearthstone. Emilio orders the last parts for his new computer, and Bobby re-visits Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PC gaming highlights from Gamescom and the top RPG games of all time. Bobby finishes Deponia and checks out Raptr software. Emilio plays Sniper Elite V2 and gives Crusader Kings II another shot. Chad gets back into WoW in preparation for Warlords of Draenor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evolve is in it’s alpha stage and we get a chance to play it. Chad and Emilio check out Divinity: Original Sin and the new Hearthstone Wings. Bobby plays Deponia. Valve releases the Source2 engine and we finally play Monaco together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pr1sm, a competitive CS: GO player, joins us for a quick interview. Chad plays The Fall, Stardrive and hates on Firefall. Emilio plays Robocraft and is left out of the Evolve Alpha. We all play Warface and make our decision on the Screenshot Contest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Curse of Naxxramas is finally out, AMD’s Gaming Evolved shows off an impressive suite of software tools. Chad returns from Yellowstone. Bobby follows TI4, plays Unturned, Call of Duty: Ghosts and gets serious about Smite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We look ahead at some upcoming games: Fortnite and Battleborn. Chad continues to play Eve Online. Bobby plays Lucius, the child murderer/horror game and the new Battlefield 4 expansion, Dragon Teeth. Emilio plays the atmospheric puzzle game, The Swapper and TI4 and Quakecon are happening. Also, submit a screenshot in our screenshot contest to win a game on Steam. Learn more about your ad choices....

In this extra-long episode we talk with PC Gamer’s executive editor, Tyler Wilde about PC Gaming journalism and reviews. Chad plays Shovel Knight and Deadlight, Bobby gets addicted to Battlefield 4 and they both take on the expansive space MMO, Eve Online. Emilio plays Injustice: Gods Among Us and Two Worlds II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby upgrades his computer and can finally use Nvidia’s ShadowPlay, as he plays more Full Mojo Rampage and gives Garry’s Mod another shot. Emilio finishes Wolfenstein: The New Order and plays Wasteland 2. Chad starts Shadowrun Returns and finishes Broken Age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Steam Summer sale comes to a close. Steamcollectors.com replaces steamrank.net, showing the highest level Steam accounts. We play Nether, Full Mojo Rampage and Nosgoth.  Emilio tests the Oculus Rift DK1, Bobby plays Shadowrun Returns and Battleblock Theater and Chad plays Game Dev Tycoon. We also discuss Co Op  and controller enabled games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

The Steam Summer sale is upon us. We talk about the games we’re buying and our recommendations for others. Bobby continues to play Tropico 4 and starts Painkiller, Emilio plays Frozen Synapse and Don’t Starve, and we talk about significant games in our history of PC gaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E3 has come and gone with some big announcements. We talk about what we’re looking forward to the most. Chad talks about the games he’s played this week (Murdered: Soul Suspect, Gone Home and Thief) as Bobby explores Strategy games both past and present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As E3 approaches, Chad plays with dinosaurs in The Stomping Land and ORION: Dino Horde while Bobby finishes Wolfenstein: The New Order and survives The Forest. Marvel Heroes and Loadout get updated. Defiance goes Free to Play. Emilio shares his top games for anyone new to PC gaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do us a favor, comment and rate on iTunes! Watch_Dogs is out, but does it live up to the hype? Chad plays through Child of Light, How to Survive and Trials Fusion. Early access games The Forest and The Stomping Land are looking good and selling fast. Is cheating okay under certain circumstances? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wolfenstein: The New Order has the usual pros and cons one would expect from a AAA FPS. Is the point and click adventure genre antiquated? Chad plays through Violett and The Secret of Monkey Island to find out. New classes are announced for Evolve. Transistor might be the best game we’ve seen in a while. Don’t forget to join the DL Gaming Steam Group for weekly game giveaways. Learn more about you...

The streaming continues as we play the new MOBA, Infinite Crisis and try out War of the Roses. Bobby beats The Banner Saga and re-lives past glories in Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight while Emilio discovers The Binding of Isaac. Samsung’s new affordable 4K monitor hits the market and Steam starts the Dota 2 Compendium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The streams are up so check out our channels on Twitch during the week. Without any new titles to discuss we fall back on some old games: Age of Mythology: Extended Edition, South Park: The Stick of Truth and Skyrim. There’s also a little hardware talk about Sony’s new headset and the new DC Universe MOBA, Infinite Crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone’s playing Dark Souls II and we’re talking about it. Bobby’s steam rank rises, Emilio discovers new Skyrim mods and we debate Chad’s list of the best and worst movie-based video games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After taking a minute to discuss future plans for the podcast, we discuss our current computer hardware, upcoming upgrades and shout outs to our favorite software. The WildStar beta continues, Dead Island: Epidemic shows potential and Red Orchestra 2 is free. Despite having zero experience with the original Dark Souls, we’ll be taking on the sequel next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Another beta weekend of WildStar has come and gone, Chad explores Heroes of the Storm (Blizzard’s new MOBA) and Elder Scrolls Online is exploited.  Wolfenstein: The New Order pre-order is on Steam and Emilio shares a gaming story from long, long ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we mention other podcasts we listen to, a few new games on our radar (The Stomping Land, Borderlands: Pre-Sequel and H1Z1) and the games we’ve been playing (Shadow Warrior and Starbound). PAX East brings some exciting news about PC Gaming and Smite gets rated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the podcast we discuss what constitutes a hardcore gamer, the games we’ve been playing (Starbound and Project Zomboid), our frustrations with Forced and our disagreements on Tomb Raider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The trio re-unites and talks about Smite’s official launch, Starbound, Project Zomboid, Tomb Raider and a little more about Payday 2. Steam’s global stats project has revealing statistics and Facebook buys the Oculus Rift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Chad gone this week, the trio is down to a duo. Valve’s new documentary Free to Play is out and looking good. GDC brings game engine subscriptions and more improvements to the Oculus Rift. Steam’s free Payday 2 weekend gets everyone hooked and Zeno Clash is underrated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices