OfficialNerdCubed

Daniel Hardcastle (born: ), better known online as OfficialNerdCubed or Nerd³, is an English gamer well known for his rapid editing style and one-episode Let's Plays on his main channel, OfficialNerdCubed. He often streams on his Twitch channel. He is also the author of F*ck, Yeah Video Games
Instead of doing a typical Let's Play, he examines the game in a 15-30 minute video, reminiscent of TotalBiscuit's "WTF Is?" series, but maintaining a humorous twist throughout. NerdCubed's editing style is inspired by a popular Hannah Hart video series called "My Drunk Kitchen."
==About==
===Channel Series:===
Nerdcubed currently uploads two monthly series onto his YouTube channel:
*Nerd³ Plays - Videos in which Dan will simply play games in his traditional style. (Each of these are uploaded one day early onto his Patreon)
*The Podcats - A podcast-style series, with the vague topic of video game news. Co-hosted by Many A True Nerd and Mattophobia.
===Retired:===
* Nerd3 Vlogs – The first series on the channel, it consisted of several short-form vlogs consisting of discussions, sketches, Q&As and other unfocused content. Was moved to the second channel after the Plays videos began to gain traction.
* Minecraft Buildy Thingy – The first gaming series on the channel, it involved Dan building a variety of ludicrous creations using a modded version of Minecraft, including a pirate ship, a giant turtle and a massive TARDIS. 
* Three Free Games Friday – In this series, Dan picked 3 games that were free which he enjoyed. The games consisted mainly of web/flash games and varied in genres. Dan would spend some time in each game showing what you can do. Occasionally the episodes would be aired on a Saturday which eventually started to annoy Dan once people made a big deal about it. The series was stopped multiple times and took some breaks due to the YouTube content ID system. In November 2014, Dan released a special edition of the series, called 901 Free Games Friday, featuring 901 free games.
* Nerd³ The Alpha Detective – In this series, Dan would play games that are currently in Alpha/Beta stage. The series was ended when Dan changed up his channel and the concept was merged in Nerd³ FW. 23 episodes were produced between September 2013 to May 2014.
* Nerd3 Challenges – A series where Dan attempts to complete challenges either set by himself or the community.
* Little vs. Cubed – A series where he and InTheLittleWood play multiplayer games to beat each other.
* Little and Cubed - An equivalent of Little vs. Cubed, but also includes cooperative games and missions.
* Nerd³ 101 - A series where Dan would give his first impressions of the game with no prior knowledge of it. The predecessor series to FW.
* Nerd³ FW - A series where he "chats" with the viewers whilst "fucking around" in a game, as the title "Fucks With" suggests. He began to start reviewing games he played in this series by cancelling Nerd3 Reviews before starting it.
* Nerd³ Hell - A series where he plays the worst of the worst games. At the end of each episode he determines if the game is worth its place in hell.
* Nerd³ Completes - A series of series, where he would play a game either from the start to the end, or as far as he could. Initially called Nerd³'s Month Of, it is one of the longest-running series on the channel. Featured games such as Bully, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, The Sims 3 and 4 and Outer Wilds. For a while, Completes series went by subtitles, such as Nerd3 and MATN's Ultimate Road Trip or Nerd3 Builds a Jurassic World.
* Nerd3 Extra - A series where he posts things that could go onto the IRL channel if they weren't about gaming, such as glitches, game breaking bugs and rants.
* Nerd³ Mods - A series identical in format to the Plays series, but focusing on modded versions of games. 
* Nerd3 Heists- A series where Dan completes heists on GTA V with a group of friends.
* Nerd³ Permadeath - Several series in the style of the Completes series where he tries to go as far as possible in a game without dying. Included games such as Space Engineers, FTL, GTA IV, Far Cry 3 and Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.
* Father and Son-days – A series in which Dan and his Dad, Dad³, play a variety of co-op or versus games together. The series eventually moved to the Dad³ channel, before being discontinued on October 11, 2015. The episodes were released on a Sunday although some extra episodes were aired throughout the week. This series was revived for a 5-episode run in early 2022.
* Nerd3 Tests – A series in which Dan goes blindly into an indie game for 15–30 minutes and give his impressions on it.
* Nerd3 Hates - A short-lived sequel to the Hell series.
* Nerd3 Loves - The opposite of the Hates series, featuring games Dan loves.
* Nerd3 Makes - A 2-part series where Dan talked about two games he has made: How To Snooker and Systems Nominal.
* Nerd3 Switched - Like Plays, but for Nintendo Switch games.
* Nerd3 Retro - Interesting, nostalgic or technically impressive retro games.
* Nerd3 C.A.T.S. - Nerdcubed and ManyATrueNerd play Fallout 76.
* Nerd3 Builds - A short series where Dan built microfig-scale buildings in Bricklink Studio.
* RTX Buildy Thing - A sequel to the Buildy Thing series, where he built a small village in intricate detail using Minecraft with RTX activated.
* The Nerd³ Show - A weekly news series, voicing his opinions on recent events in the gaming world, sometimes drifting into other topics of interest.
Other videos often either do not fit into a series (including anniversary, subscriber count or view count specials), exist as sparse infrequent series updated only on special occasions (Nerd³ The Road Trip!), or are yearly (Nerd3 on Patreon, Nerd3 Awards). A series of scripted videos, very distinct from the Plays videos, was released from around 2017-2019, without an overall title.
==TOYS Channel==
This channel was created in 2012 as a place to host the Vlogs series, which was becoming increasingly out of place on the main channel. As of February 2023 it has 403k subscribers. The channel has been consistently inconsistent, hosting a wide variety of miscellaneous content over the years. However, it has had a few semi-consistent series as well.
===Retired Series===
* Nerd³'s Toys – A series where he reviews various toys, ranging from WWE action figures to a full-sized Dalek.
* Nerd³'s Knee-jerk - "Daily" news straight from the gaming industry. In October 2014 Dan announced the Knee-Jerks would be weekly due to a long absence. Dan ended this series after several months of absence. This series was been replaced by Soup with Nerd3.
* Nerd³ Tubecast – The video podcast that consisted of 6.5 episodes each being an hour long with the .5 episode being half an hour. There was two 2012 awards tube-casts.
* Soup with Nerd3 - This news series replaced the Knee Jerk. Originally planned to be daily/semi-daily but eventually became a weekly/semi-weekly schedule. Dan talked about game news or news relating to the channels or other things he wanted to talk about. Each (when he remembers) video he'd eat soup out of a cup as opposed to coffee.
* The Nerd³ Podcast – A revival of the Nerd³ Tubecast. This series is an audio podcast as opposed to the Tubecast being a video podcast.
* Nerd³ Unboxing – When Dan or Wot had something interesting to unbox such as a console or computer, They would make an unboxing video with a comedy twist. Dan usually mistreated what he was unboxing in order to annoy people. The unboxing videos started to have a "monthly" schedule once Dan started getting Loot Crates.
* Nerd3's Bricking It – This series began on 2/2/2015. Dan shows and talks about his various Lego sets and Lego figures.
* Dan's Vlog - A continuation of the original vlog series.
* Wot's Vlog - Self explanatory.
* Nerd³ IRL Plays – In this series Dan, Wot, and other guests would play board games or table top games. Initially planned for a new video to come out each week but only two were released.
==Games==
Dan has started to produce small games which he intends to release to the public for free. Most games will feature references to his videos and content. (Note: As of September 2020, we are aware the something is happening in relation to game making, though we have no idea what)
* How To Snooker – Whilst messing around and practicing making games, Dan accidentally created a snooker game. He then turned it into a full game and released it on his site.
* Systems Nominal – Dan's second game. This was scheduled to be released in November 2014, but was delayed to December 2014. It is available as a free download. The concept is something Dan has wanted to do for a while and has "Experimental Gameplay".
* Pi Fight – Dan's third game. It is a mobile competitive free-to-play game with no micro-transactions where the players have to 'chase' the other player around a circle during their turn to win but must run on the other player's turn.
==Patreon==
Daniel runs a Patreon page in which for a price of your choosing you can get access to weekly (Well he tries) podcasts and early access to videos. He has also put scrapped videos and bonus extras onto Patreon too.
==Books==
Daniel always mentioned his love for writing and has written countless scripts which he is yet to publish. He did publish a book though.
F*ck Yeah, Video Games: The life and extra lives of a Professional nerd: In September of 2019 Daniel released his first book F*ck Yeah, Video Games, which contained gaming related stories from throughout his own life. It was published through Unbound, and also broke many of there records becoming the fastest book on the site to reach 100% funding (About 14 minutes). It was also illustrated by his lovely wife Rebecca Maughan. It made it to the number 5 slot on the Sunday Times Bestsellers List.
The Paradox Paradox (Unreleased): Daniel is currently in the process of writing his second book, promised to be a sci-fi epic. You can back the book on unbound
==Acting==
Daniel appeared as a side character, a hacker alias the Cube, in the film, Ashens and the Polybius Heist.
==Quotes==
* "Hello Procrastinators!"
* "Turrah!" (Retired Ending)
* "SASHPARILLA!"
* "Death for breakfast!"
* "10 points to Griffindor for you."
* "Death in your general direction!"
* "See this thing it actually shoots laser beams (fires gun) see laser beams. OH SH*T THAT WAS A POLICEMAN. ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE."
* SHITTING TITNIPPLES!!
* "Ok you may feel a small prick. Hitting you with a very large hammer nnyyaah"
* "SHIT SHIT SHIT WHERE DID THAT COME FROM OH MY GOD HAHAHA!"
* "And FLAP! uuuhauy (Chokes)."
* "The problem with this jump my friend is that this game was made by a gibbon!"
* "Alright lets cross the runway. NYAAAAA (Squeals)"
* "We're all the same colour. When we're invisible."
* "GO. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!"
* "Don't ruin my shot! Don't ruin my shot!"
* "Found his face, with my gun, I am the best, (And that's how it's done)!"
* "WOOOAAAAAHOHO!"
* "Oh that is not (flies upside down in a Boeing). That is not what I wanted to do."
* "Oi. Yellow line you dick!"
* "So this one's going about as well as usual (pile up of F1 cars)"
* "(cleverbot) My name is cleverbert. HAHAHAHAHA Cleverbert."
* "Sasha let's ride out. and do what we always do, MURDER OLD LADIES!"
* (explosion)"Pssh tank cant hit sh-(explodes)
* "Before then, the usual Train Simulator Challenge: trying not to die of old age before the game loads up (waiting) Didn't, make it. *thud* (still waiting) Oh my god, a snail could load an AK47 faster than this game could load ITSELF! (still waiting) *snoring* Uh, we're here, we're in! We're embedded in the wall."
* "That's a thing, apparently."
* "All you need is love. And a machine gun. And something to eat, probably drink. That’s all you need. And probably something to entertain you, like the internet or a game of Kerplunk or some pornography. All together now!"
* "ARSE TRUMPETS!"
* "Christ on a bike!"
* "Shit the (bloody) bed!"
* "This gay kiss!"
* "Death to all the ducks!"
* "SASHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
* "I am sensible!"
* "I LIED!!!!!!"
* "I watch you while you sleep..."
* "Silly Canada, this is game, not sweeties!"
* "FLUSH THE TOILET!"
* "Oh good grief, I've crashed! MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MOTHER'S DAY! BIRTHDAY! TUESDAY! WEDNESDAY!"
* "BRADDDDD"
* "Interesting"
* "Oh arse"
* "True story. Lies"
* "CARKOUR!"
* "Go! AHAHHAHAHA IT JUST LEFT HIM BEHIND! OH.."
* "KEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYAHHILOVEKEYSSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYSKEYS"(LINK)
* "OH MY GOD A LEARJET!"
* "WUB A LUB DUB DUB, WE'RE BACK MOTHAFUCKAS!"
* "Oh cock monkeys"
* "I am so racist" - Dan Hardcastle
* lovelyjubbly
* PLANE FROM A TRAIN!
* YEEEEEEEEEEP!!
* Why must everything I love spiral to its death!?
* Oh Cockaliki
* if you want to destroy a religion, kill the god that's involved with it.
* "TO THE WIKI!"
* "IT'S A TREE! AHH-"
==Trivia==
* He had a Tumblr called Nerd³ Actually, though this has recently been deleted.
* He has a website on which he worked "every day for two years." His website now hosts his videos and games in an easy-to-use format.
* Nerd³'s dad has his own channel, Dad³, after he became popular with Nerd³'s father-and-son-day videos (See Above). The channel mainly consisted of console games with videos being released every few days. Dan assisted his Dad with the channel for a while by editing and organizing his videos. Though, those videos were replaced with vlog style videos that Steven now does.
* His main account OfficialNerdCubed reached one million subscribers on July 27, 2013.
* He mostly keeps his personal life private, although he has confirmed in a Tumblr post that the reason he moved to Canada to live with his girlfriend.
* Dan is no longer in Canada, however.
* Dan is dating Rebecca, as revealed in a picture released on New Years Eve. They have since announced their engagement. He revealed in November 2016 that they have since married.
* It has been referenced many times before that Dan is a fan of the show, Rick and Morty
* It is a well known fact that Dan hates ducks. (As of May 5, 2021, in the opening of RTX Minecraft Buildy Thing - 14 - The Secret in the Mountain, Dan has declared "I'm indifferent to duck now" ending his decade long feud toward ducks)
* Dan has chronic fatigue syndrome.
* Dan Bull wrote both of Dan's outro songs, the first which was used from 2011 until the channel reboot in 2015 and the second which was used after the reboot until it was axed completely in 2016.
** Music used in outros now comes from the games that Dan is playing.
* Dan also used to run a web comic, which he now no longer writes, however these are downloadable from the 'help' section on his website.
* Dan's apartment building was once broken into by a fan who apparently "tracked him down by a mat on the floor outside the door of his apartment which were once glimpsed in a video". All the guy wanted was a photo, The situation was apparently handled by Wot, Dan then made a video about it.
* Dan considers 3 games to be perfect. These are, Portal, Shadow of the Colossus and Papers, Please.
* Dan's favorite games include Portal, Just Cause 3 (Replacing Just Cause 2), and Shadow of the Colossus.
* Dan is currently making games and intends to make more in future. These range from basic Indie titles which he will release for free, to larger games which he will make with developers.
* Due to YouTube's constant changes, Dan said he would eventually stop releasing videos on YouTube if it got worse and start uploading purely on his website and Twitch. He has also said he might stop making videos completely to focus on game development.
* Dan deleted his Reddit account due to obsessively checking it and letting his community manager, Matt, handle his subreddit . However, he has created another account.
* Dan is also an Arachnophobe (which is a fear of spiders) which he has confirmed on multiple occasions and has even modded the Frostbite spiders in his Skyrim episode to look like bears so he didn't have to deal with the Spider models.
* Dan started a degree in Astrophysics at the University of Leicester, which he never finished. He refers to one of the buildings on the Uni Campus as the "Optiumus Prime building".
==Gallery==
Dan.jpg|Dan in his most mysterious moments.
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Tardis.jpg|Dan in the Tardis
DanTumblr.jpg|Dan's avatar on Tumblr
Nerdcubed 3830.png|Nerd³'s old logo.
DanTwitter.png|Dan's old Twitter avatar.
Nerdcubed's New Twitter profile picture.png|Dan's second old Twitter Avatar
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