<p>With Shamus out for the week, I host and Jarenth guest stars on this exciting installment of the Diecast!</p>
<p>And now for the show notes, complete with the oft-requested timestamps!</p>
<p>00:15 – We talk about what we’ve been doing for the past week. Shamus is a zombie, Chris is a Tomb Raider, Rutskarn is Homestuck, Jarenth’s lost in Echo Bazaar, and I’ve been set on the Path of Exile.</p>
<p>15:55 – Everything and more about the Playstation 4 announcement, and in particular, the implication that “more polygons = stronger emotional connection.” And if you don’t want to watch the whole thing, VideoGamerTV made a helpful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJDn0jRnUQ">abridged version of the conference</a> that has basically everything that’s important in it.</p>
<p>33:00 – We discuss the closure of Civilization World and what it can tell us about the state of Social Games, and how it compares to a similar collapse of the MMO space.</p>
<p>48:00 – Crytek jumps on the free-to-play bandwagon and is also very bad at naming things. We also talk about Cevat Yerli’s <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/28/crytek-reveals-the-many-faces-of-free-to-play?">statement</a> that “…the notion of a single-player experience has to go away.”</p>
<p>1:02:15 – Round Table Discussion: Are the Elder Scrolls games getting better or worse?</p>
<p>1:18:00 – We round out the podcast with the Assassin’s Creed 4 announcement. I hope you like pirates, because… uh… well I’m not really sure where the hell they’re going with this. Assassins and pirates? Are we going to finally see a video game about pirates versus ninjas? I don’t know, but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3jKH5peHt8">here’s the announcement trailer.</a></p>
