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Daniel Hardcastle

@dan.nerdcubed.co.uk

6.4K followers 86 following 261 posts

📖 Bestselling Author of 'Fuck Yeah, Video Games' 📝 Writer of 'The Paradox Paradox' 💙 Dr Who writer: bigfinish.com 🩶 Married to my best friend @mrrebecca.co.uk 🎮 He/Him | 🔗 nerdcubed.co.uk

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Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 04/02/2026

It's your LAST CHANCE to buy physical copies of my two books! Once these last few are sold out, they're gone forever! www.mondopost.com

An image of the shop page featuring Nerd³'s two books, Fuck Yeah Video Games, and The Paradox Paradox.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 21/12/2025

Hey, Backers of The Paradox Paradox physical editions! This is a reminder that we've sent out emails with information on how to CLAIM YOUR COPY so check your spam messages! If you were expecting an email but haven't recieved it, please email hello@mondopost.com.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 18/12/2025

My debut novel, The Paradox Paradox, IS FINALLY AVALIABLE! Get the eBook here RIGHT NOW for just £5! www.patreon.com/nerdcubed/shop

The cover of The Paradox Paradox. A minimilist style cover with 8 multicoloured threads decending down the page. At the mid point they begin to break apart and fade away.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 08/09/2025

NEW VIDEO! A Big Borg Bonce! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx2s...

Big Borg Bonce - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 03/09/2025

Hello all. As of today I am officially on a two week break, with videos returning later this month. The reason for this is fourfold.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 01/09/2025

NEW VIDEO! Little Yellow Rats and Little Yellow Men! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOog...

Little Yellow Rats and Little Yellow Men - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 29/08/2025

LIVE NOW with Shadows of Doubt! The Great Detective RETURNS! ...what do you mean Metal Gear Solid 3 is out? 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAtf... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

The Great Detective Returns - Shadows of Doubt | Nerd³ Live

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Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 22/08/2025

LIVE NOW with PROTOTYPE! This game only came out a few years ago... right? 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xugc... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Prototype | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 19/08/2025

LIVE NOW! with Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025! GAME REVEALS! CHAT! SILKSONG? 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT4Z... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 15/08/2025

Livestream is starting early today, specifically... uh... now! Let's play some Battlefield 6! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBd... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Battlefield 6 | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 08/08/2025

NEW ZACHTRONICS ALARM! I'll be playing Kaizen: A Factory Story LIVE in 30 MINUTES TIME! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-c... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Kaizen: A Factory Story | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 01/08/2025

I can confirm that Boundless has collapsed into administration. I'm going to spend the next few hours sifting through the rubble and seeing what's left. I'll keep you posted.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 21/07/2025

Qapla! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-L5...

The Secret in This Klingon's Head - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 18/07/2025

He's hairy, he's stupid, and he's playing Donkey Kong Bananza LIVE IN 1 HOUR FROM NOW! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3g2... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Donkey Kong Bananza | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 14/07/2025

DOG MAN!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiTi...

DOG MAN!!! - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 13/07/2025

NEW VIDEO! Watch Mr. Bean go all John Wick in SUIT FOR HIRE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9O...

Nerd³ Plays... Suit for Hire

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 11/07/2025

LIVE NOW! NEW TONY HAWK'S IS HERE. LIVESTREAM! I AM YELLING BECAUSE I AM VERY EXCITED! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZTz... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 05/07/2025

SHEEP IS BACK! IT’S ON STEAM! I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT COME AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS BLOODTHIRSTY GIT OF A GAME! youtu.be/encX5IWE2pQ

Nerd³ Plays... Sheep

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 03/07/2025

Today in Planet Coaster 2, we send the guests to Valhalla. youtu.be/KNMmXSTKLzs

Planet Coaster 2 | Part 35 | Nerd³ Completes

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 28/06/2025

In today’s video, I try and guess a video game from a single panoramic screenshot. Play along at home as we play, Game Guessr. youtu.be/djXf00Y_H6s

Nerd³ Plays... Game Guessr

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 27/06/2025

LIVE NOW Death Stranding 2 is here! Let's walk for hours, then watch cutscenes for the same amount of hours. Hooray! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgN... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 25/06/2025

We may have hit bedrock on what constitutes breaking news.

Screenshot of a breaking news article on The Independent which reads "Three phones just broke".

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 21/06/2025

In today’s video I play a Game of the Year candidate. Seriously, this game is incredible. youtu.be/q_R1Olf00Oo

Nerd³ Plays... The Alters

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 20/06/2025

Bums. Internet down for today We shall reschedule it for another day!

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 20/06/2025

Stream is late because the bloody internet is down.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 17/06/2025

It's launch day for Mike Bithell's new game and I'm streaming it RIGHT NOW! Come watch me play a cool game/endanger a friendship. :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ly...

NEW BITHELL GAME! Tron: Catalyst is HERE! | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 13/06/2025

No Livestream today!

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 11/06/2025

A new update! Glass! Floaty paths! Something about the police that I forgot about in a few seconds! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n394...

Planet Coaster 2 | Part 32 | Nerd³ Completes

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 10/06/2025

LOOK AT MY GLOWING HEDGEHOGS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeIr...

Super Sonic Racing - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 07/06/2025

In today video, I get beaten up a lot AND have no friends. It's Elden Ring Nightreign. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxp...

Nerd³ Plays... Elden Ring Nightreign

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 05/06/2025

Live, tomorrow at 6pm UK Time, it's a BUMPER STREAM! A new console + TWO massive gaming shows. 6pm - 10pm: Mario Kart World/Switch 2 10pm - Midnight: Summer Games Fest 2025 Midnight - 1am: Day of the Devs 2025 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKLf... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Mario Kart World and Summer Game Fest 2025 | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 31/05/2025

Gonna burn some bridges and talk about Unbound, since it's unlikely that they'll sue me at this point. They seem to have spent money that was supposed to go towards royalty payments, expecting money to come in, which then didn't bsky.app/profile/laur... (thread) #unboundless

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 31/05/2025

They owe me about £75,000 and never made a single one of their scheduled repayments. My US books are all a sublicense of my Unbound deal, so all US royalties went to them, for them to take a cut and then deliver the rest to me. They collected 18 months from Penguin Random House and gave me $0.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 31/05/2025

In happier news, I bloody love Doctor Who. What an episode!!!

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Oh wait, no: got a lengthy, whiny e-mail at 3am explaining that this poor widdle company can't pay us authors what we're owed like it said it would because it still isn't financially viable and btw the selfless executives have all been heroically working unpaid so please don't be mean uwu.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Oh, to hell with it. Who wants my Unbound incompetence story! Yay!

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 31/05/2025

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 30/05/2025

LIVE NOW, it's time to play some Elden Ring Nightreign, a game I know basically nothing about! Then, on Saturday, I take to the track in some of the fastest cars... in the world... 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDR... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Elden Ring Nightreign | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 26/05/2025

NEW VIDEO! Little F1 Lego! Nigel Mansell's moustache would be it's own set. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z60N...

Little F1 Lego - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 24/05/2025

NEW FINGER! ...wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1B...

Nerd³ Plays... Promise Mascot Agency

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 23/05/2025

LIVE NOW! Today chat picks the game we play, and not entirely because I was ill-prepared for this stream... 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsr... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Chat Picks The Game | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 21/05/2025

NEW VIDEO! Yeah, that's what this wood and thatch restaurant needed. Open flames. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGQ...

Planet Coaster 2 | Part 29 | Nerd³ Completes

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 19/05/2025

I'm a goo man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqj...

The invisible Goo that you need in your life - Nerd³ Toys

YouTube video by OfficiallyNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 17/05/2025

How long do you think a plane can be and STILL fly? Find out in todays video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvE3...

Nerd³ Plays... Aviassembly

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 17/05/2025

LIVE NOW with a Patreon Print signing livestream! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruX3... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Signing Patreon Art Prints LIVE | March 2024 | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 16/05/2025

LIVE NOW!

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 16/05/2025

Live in an hour!

Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid · 15/05/2025

LIVE, tomorrow at 6pm UK time, let's all go on a hike and take some photos! It's Lushfoil Photography Sim! Then, on Saturday, I build some aircraft... Uh oh. I'll see you then! 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Cr... 💜 www.twitch.tv/nerdcubed

Lushfoil Photography Sim | Nerd³ Live

YouTube video by OfficialNerdCubed