“It doesn’t matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.” Oft-requested, once delayed, here at last is our podcast devoted to Naughty Dog‘s critically acclaimed The Last of Us. Leon, Jay, Josh […]

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“Oh disciple of the dark sun, thou hast journeyed far.” From Software switched personnel around for Dark Souls II, the first straight sequel in their Souls oeuvre. New directors brought new ideas that split fan […]

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“Is this what you want?” In the third of our four podcasts on CD Projekt Red‘s celebrated RPG series, we arrive at 2015’s legitimately epic The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. Leon, Jay, Josh, Leah – […]

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“Old age is no jest!” The first of four podcasts covering CD Projekt Red’s celebrated series of RPGs. Leon, Josh and Sean each complete the 2007 original (or the 2008 Enhanced Edition anyway) and report […]

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“We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood.” We conclude our fifth year of the podcast with our fourth FromSoftware show. Leon, Josh, Sean and – making his […]

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“Listen!” In which a panel of Leon, Darren, Karl and Leah Haydu consider what the fifth The Legend of Zelda title brought to both the series and videogaming in general. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina […]

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“Our descendants will decide who we were when they see what we’ve left behind.” In the second of four podcasts on CD Projekt Red’s fantasy RPG series, Leon, Jay, Josh and Sean turn their attentions […]

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“You’ll cry, you’re gonna cry, you always cry. See? You’re crying.” Final Fantasy X heralded the series’ much anticipated debut on the the ‘next gen’ PlayStation 2. A large development team and budget afforded the […]

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“There ain’t no gettin’ offa this train we’re on, till we get to the end of the line.” Appropriately – for the earth-shattering conclusion to our seventh year – we celebrate the coming of age […]

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“Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.” Two years on from its release – and from the conclusion of our original epic run of Legend of Zelda podcasts – we return to […]

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“May the way of the hero lead to the Triforce.” Released on the one year anniversary of the Super Famicom in Japan, The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods arrived in the USA and […]

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“What’s next, Arkham County, Arkham Country, or even Arkham World?” We conclude our brief Caped Crusader series with in-depth analysis of Rocksteady‘s highly rated 2011 sequel, Batman: Arkham City. Leon, Jay, James and Darren Forman […]

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“You don’t seriously think a conservative mind can chart a new course for the world, do you?” For the first time ever – as we continue our run through the mainline Resident Evil games – […]

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“Goddess of Time, help us please! We need more time!” In our sixth podcast covering Nintendo’s fantasy series, we come to 2000’s The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Leon, Ryan, Michiel Kroder (as well as […]

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“This news has just filled my heart with rainbows!” In our 14th of 15 podcasts covering The Legend of Zelda, we arrive at the most recent ‘big console’ game in the series (before 2017’s Breath […]

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“Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!” In the first of a six podcast series dedicated to the core games of the Super Mario canon Leon, Darren Gargette, James and Karl recollect […]

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“A famous explorer once said, that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are.” In this podcast Leon, Tony, James and guest GameBurst‘s Neil Taylor examine Tomb Raider 2013’s successes and shortcomings, […]

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“Ah spaghetti… Ah ravioli… Ah mamma mia…” In the third of our ‘core’ Super Mario series podcasts we arrive at the dawn of the 64-bit era and perhaps one of the most esteemed launch titles […]

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“Why are we still here? Just to suffer?” In very probably our last ever podcast on the venerable series, we finally give Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain the once-over. Leon, Charlotte, Rich and […]

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“Come here!” Kane and Rinse kovers the early years of one of videogames’ more kontroversial koncepts, Midway’s Mortal Kombat. From the ropy blue-skreen of the 1992 original to the konklusion of the truly 2D years […]

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“Through recondite arts, the Alchemists had created Shardbinders.” The fruits of substantial crowdfunding and the labour of a supergroup of game devs were harvested in 2019 with the release of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. […]

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“Well, would you look at that?” Wrapping up our Uncharted coverage, for now at least, we end up at standalone adjunct, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Leon, Brian, Jay and Josh find themselves in an India […]

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“Shoot The Core!” The venerable side-scrolling space shoot ’em up series Gradius celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2020. Leon, Michiel, Ben Cartlidge and Dan Clark run the treacherous caverns of 1981’s Scramble through to the interstellar […]

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“All that matters now is what we do next” What does it take to truly be a person? Is it how you were created? What makes up your physical form? How you react to the […]

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Chris O’Regan chats to  Alex Kanaris-Sotureou and Tom Jones of Polygon Treehouse about the design and development of their adventure game, Röki Adventure games can be very difficult to develop as they are often stymied […]

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“We’re playin’… We’re playin’… We’re playin’…” Whether it’s Guitar Hero by way of Fruit Ninja or a chance to live out the Star Wars Kid fantasy, there’s no denying the wild success of Beat Saber […]

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“Nice entrance. Solid eight out of ten… Nine out of ten.” Welcome to “Just the Facts” with J. Jonah Jameson. Alerting you to the threats you don’t even know about. I’ve heard reports of Spider-Man […]

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“The invading Snowmads have locked Donkey Kong Island in a deep freeze, and it’s up to the Kongs to thaw things out!” Our run of podcasts on the games of Donkey Kong and his kin […]

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“We make the world what it is by what we do. All of us.” Bikers vs Zombies may sound like a late night made-for-TV movie, but when it’s a premise that gets paired with a […]

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“Life. Afterlife. Real. Virtual. Dream. Nightmare. It’s a thin line.” Before the deluge of Metroidvania type games came Axiom Verge. Thomas Happ’s intriguing alternate reality began development in 2010, eventually surfacing in 2015 to acclaim […]

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“Yeah, I know.” After his work on Monument Valley, Ken Wong scaled the heights of creating his own studio, Mountains. With the publishing expertise of Annapurna Interactive behind them, this new Melbourne studio brought to […]

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“You come to us, like a snake in the grass, here… in a city of lies, you… are the biggest liar of all”  Techland’s five million selling spiritual successor to Dead Island merges Mirror’s Edge […]

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“Come out and play” In our latest single format special, Leon, Chris, James and Leah review “The Walkman of the 21st Century”, Sony’s PlayStation Portable. Even if the PSP didn’t quite reach the iconic status […]

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“Hesitate and you lose, that is the way of war.” Can shadows die? Can they die twice? And what is a Loaded Spear actually useful for? James, Jacob, Jon and Josh try to answer these […]

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“Let’s give DK our biggest Kong-gratulations!” In our latest show on Nintendo’s necktied primate, we swing back to the mid-2000s to go ape with Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. Leon, Brian, Darren, Michiel and community contributors […]

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“He’s a… whatchacallit. A fisting artist.” As recommended by fans of the series, we begin our Japanese organised crime odyssey at its chronological beginning – Ry? ga Gotoku 0: Chikai no Basho aka Yakuza 0. […]

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“I have the shiniest meat bicycle.” For this week’s podcast, Jesse Fuchs makes his Cane and Rinse hosting debut with a discussion focused on Telltale Games’ episodic point-and-click adventure title, Tales from the Borderlands. Joining […]

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“A stranger you are… and strange looking at that!” Just before Square got into bed with Sony, their relationship with Nintendo seemed to be firing on all cylinders. The two Japanese giants teamed up in […]

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“Raise thy sword by the light, and head to the place where the sword’s light gathers.” The Cane and Rinse podcast returns to The Forbidden Lands with a thorough examination of Bluepoint’s 2018 Shadow of […]

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“Jungle Boogie!” Nintendo wanted in on the ‘BeMani’ action in the early-mid 2000s, and so roped in Taiko no Tatsujin producers Namco to reskin their drumming rhythm games with a Donkey Kong flavour. Three Donkey […]

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