Many people are anticipating Dark Souls III coming out this April 12th on PS4, XBox One and PC. Today Bandai Namco released this absolutely crazy violent Dark Souls III animated short by the great shock horror director Eli Roth. Roth directed Cabin Fever, Hostel I & II, the Grindhouse trailer for Thanksgiving, Nation's Pride film within Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds(as well as starring in it), The Green Inferno and Knock, Knock. This Dark Souls short titled The Witches is pure eye popping Roth and it was so hilariously grotesque I offer a commentary for all of the major beats.

Strong Warning: This Video Is Very Dark But My Commentary Isn't

Feel free to read along to my commentary as the video progresses through time.

0:09 - Apparently in Dark Souls III the people making all the money are flag makers.

0:13 - Seriously a between the eye headshot with a crossbow? Someone's been practicing! I bet the person that got shot was impressed for a few seconds before the end.

0:16 - The first step that Protagonist Man takes splatters blood everywhere. The tone of this short has been set and There Will Be Blood.

0:21 - I wonder if people designing castles pick the decorations knowing that the inevitable undead horde will eventually come to occupy them for a thousand years? They look so good with adorned with web and corpse!

0:30 - Smash open a door and SURPRISE SKELETONS! You know, just another day at the office for Protagonist Man.

0:33 - Protagonist Man just earned everything that's coming next. Seriously, that rat was just taking a nap and then you happened.

0:37 - Usually I avoid heading to bright flaming doors and visions of hell flame but to each their own.

0:51 - Yeah... this is where Protagonist Man again sort of loses me. So... you you don't drink Witch oatmeal that glows yellow?

1:03 - Clearly there is very little business for these Witches running their golden oatmeal selling stand and they simply want Protagonist Man to try a sample. #appreciatethehustle

1:08 - I love how after Protagonist Man clearly needs to solve this problem with violence he immediately falls into a hole in the ground. #derptagonistman

1:14 - Apparently Hell in Dark Souls is a couple feet under the ground so how do trees exist? ARE THEY MAGIC TREES THAT HAVE NO ROOTS? #rootgate2016 #therearenowellsindarksouls

1:30 - I wonder if this guy took a bath in honey before going exploring to get the birds to do that?

1:32 - I applaud Protagonist Man's dentist. Clearly his benefits plan is quite good.

1:42 - Tip over the cauldron of golden oatmeal and it all heads straight for Protagonist Mans mouth. Think of the possibilities? A beer glass that when accidentally spilled contents go to the right place? A sippy cup that never lets a drop hit the floor? #witchesmakingriches #appreciatethehustle

1:58 - Golden Witch oatmeal turns you into Diablo? I am sure for 99% of Blizzard cosplayers this video isn't a nightmare, it's wish fulfillment.

2:05 - I wonder where those three Deer things that got vaporized were headed? I have a strong feeling it's back to the North Pole.

Curious what your take on this video is? I actually had fun watching it and the best part is that it's both disturbing and quite a bit of fun.

After a successful launch in Japan, Miitomo will be headed stateside this Thursday March 31st. Miitomo is a smartphone app that allows you to build your Nintendo/Mii profile and connect with your friends. The power of the app is in your ability to customize your online persona and Nintendo lets you do a bit of it for free and a lot more if you pay. I hope this is part of a big Nintendo push to harmonize all our devices together, but for now it's just a new way to create Mii's.

I'll be grabbing the app on Thursday and if there is a way we can friend each other let's discuss digits in the comments.

https://miitomo.com/en/

EA will apparently give away each of it's classic games from it's On The House program as there seems no sign that it is stopping. Recently they started giving away Medal of Honor Pacific Assault and if you have an Origin account, I recommend you pick it up.

"Survive the Pacific Theater. Experience the attack on Pearl Harbor, battles at Guadalcanal, and much more, all from the eyes of a U.S. Marine trying to survive World War II."

https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/free-games/on-the-house

2016 is the year of VR and we talk about what's out there and what we think about the future of VR. Is this going to be a real thing or is it just fluff? Along the way we also talk about Stardew Valley the Indie farming mega hit as well as what we've all been playing and watching.

What are your thoughts on VR? Is this something you are going to get and if you've experienced it what are your thoughts?

Show notes:

http://stardewvalley.net/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/exp...
https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/
http://www.htcvive.com/us/

Flicker user Cecilie Fritzvoid has some photos of some created StarCraft themed lego sets and after checking them out, I am ready for the official Blizzard sanctioned set. Sometimes you never know you want something until you see just how cool it could be, so yeah, can this happen? Plz blizz, blizz plz.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cecilihf/with/25332480763/

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is out today on Steam, GOG and Playstation. Day of the Tentacle was a game my friends and I played quite a bit of and traded secrets about how to complete. One of my friends actually beat it back in the 90's but I always found these adventure games to contain some part I could never figure out. A couple years ago I found an original CD copy of the game and played a bit of it using a SCUMM VM emulator but now with the remastered version, you don't need to do that.

Double Fine released a great behind the scenes documentary about the Day of the Tentacle remastered process and how they wen't about updating the game for modern systems.

Hyper Light Drifter is a Indie game that came to Kickstarter asking for $27,000 and ended up raising an impressive $650,000. I bought in after the Kickstarter and was allowed access to an early Steam build. The game is beautiful but I wasn't as impressed with the initial builds as i'd have liked. I imagine they haven't been sitting on their hands and the game has advanced in terms of gameplay, story and setting such that from this trailer it looks just as great as i'd hoped.

Hyper Light Drifter will finally launch on PC and Mac March 31st.

Overwatch is Blizzards upcoming team arena shooter and even though it looks fun, it's not really something I was into. Overwatch will launch on PC, Mac, PS4 and Xbox One on May 24th and to help keep the hype alive Blizzard is releasing some longer form videos that slice out a bit from the Overwatch world. The first video short titled "Recall" is linked above and showcases just how amazing Blizzard is at making videos. The typical triple A video production is present but the video really branches out into territory I haven't seen much from Blizzard. The video has a real heart to it and does a great job of investing you in the Winston character. Sure it edges a bit to the cheesy side at times but this is a side to Blizzard we haven't seen much and the video foregoes a grand apocalypse for something a bit more simple.

Are you going to pickup Overwatch? If you pre-order it now you will be in the upcoming open beta. Pre-ordering it secures you into the open beta but I imagine they will let people in that just want to try things out which I would prefer. I'd like to try it out before I decide to pick it up. From Hearthstone I know Blizzard is very capable of making multiplayer games I love, so hopefully the open beta is open to everyone.

YouTuber Yangyugi cut up a video comparing the original 1994 Doom to the 2016 remake and it's pretty fun. Most of the same stuff can happen in both games but it's fairly obvious the new game is a remake of the old one. Which isn't a bad thing at all.

Greetings lovers of the Irish and all things green! If Warwick Davis’s Leprechaun taught us anything is that you don’t get between the little green people and a pot of gold or gamers and great gaming deal. So keeping in Saint Patrick's Day Holiday season we are marking Starship Rubicon to 60% off! WHAT? THAT’S SO CRAZY! The luck of the Irish won’t be with you forever as this sale packs up and walks back over the Rainbow Monday March 21st.

And really, what were you going to spend your money on anyway? You can only buy so much beer dyed color green anyway. We're not saying don’t buy a ton of green beer but buy a ton of green beer AND Starship Rubicon too!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/372030/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpiKHC7NVco