IC 33: Blizzard’s Diablo Fiasco

Remember that short bit of drama over Justin Bieber eating a burrito incorrectly? Turns out, it was a hoax, but what exactly happened? Plus, Blizzard is in trouble with its fans over the Diablo series, and Red Dead 2 is on everyone’s game consoles. Plus some GIBI with English rural life, Bohemian Rhapsody, and more. … Continue reading IC 33: Blizzard’s Diablo Fiasco

Remember that short bit of drama over Justin Bieber eating a burrito incorrectly? Turns out, it was a hoax, but what exactly happened? Plus, Blizzard is in trouble with its fans over the Diablo series, and Red Dead 2 is on everyone’s game consoles. Plus some GIBI with English rural life, Bohemian Rhapsody, and more.

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Show Notes

Video documentary on YouTube by the creators of the viral “Justin Bieber eating a burrito” photo (BuzzFeed)

Alternate Reality Game (ARG) (Wikipedia)

Overwatch’s Sombra ARG (Overwatch Wiki)

Halo 3 ARG marketing campaign “Iris” (Wikipedia)

Randolf’s ARG circa 2008

Gaming

BlizzCon announces Diablo mobile game (PCGamer)

Videos of questions from BlizzCon audience: “Do you guys not have phones?” and “Is this an April Fools’ joke?”

Red Dead 2 reviews on Metacritic

Red Dead 2 advertising photos

Red Dead 2 game is 99-107GB big (GameSpot)

Red Dead 2 makes $700m in opening weekend (Fortune)

The Witcher 3 (Wikipedia)

Red Dead Redemption (2010) (Wikipedia)

Good Internet, Best Internet (GIBI)

Randolf’s Good 1: Some guys watch the Disney film Sky High for 24 hours straight and it goes how you might expect.

Michael’s Good 1: r/reddeadredemption has some great, ridiculous gameplay posts (horse tracking GIF, “intimidation” GIF)

Randolf’s Good 2: Scottish girl singing Bohemian Rhapsody (and other Scottish girl doing a “singing” video of Cher Lloyd) 

Michael’s Good 2:The Museum of Rural English Life does it again on Twitter, this time with Star Wars, and Mark Hamill joins in.

Sounds

“2.wav” by steveygos93 is licensed under CC BY 3.0