“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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“Oceans… Oceans… Oceans… Oceans… Oceans as far as the eye can see.” Or Zelda IX. Or is it VIII? Seven-and-a-half? That’s why no-one calls it that. Anyway, this is definitely the eighth of our 18 […]

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“It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge.” Comstock’s corrupt Columbia is the Cane and Rinse collective’s destination in this, our long-awaited and much-requested BioShock Infinite podcast. Five years […]

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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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“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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“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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“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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“There’s so much to discover before the world ends.” An uncommonly recent (at the time of recording) ‘AAA’ title gets the Cane and Rinse treatment, as just over a year and a half after its […]

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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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“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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“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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“There is no hope. Not for l’Cie.” We’re closing in on the final entries in our Final Fantasy series, and as the first game released on the seventh generation of consoles, Final Fantasy XIII is […]

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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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“Did you guys just come out of the closet? Get out of here!” In 1995 a Square Soft development ‘Dream Team’ launched an epochal RPG for the Super Famicom/SNES. Chrono Trigger has since time-travelled its […]

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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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“None could stand before the horde but the Doom Slayer.”  Three years on from the release of id Software’s sequel-cum-soft-reboot we ask just how DOOM is DOOM (2016)? Leon, Jacob, Jon and Karl kite and […]

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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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“Nothing looks more suspicious in America than someone who’s actually prepared to make something.” Leon, James, Jay and Sean take on Rockstar Games‘ critical and commercial behemoth, Grand Theft Auto V. The panel dissect the […]

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“I guess I really don’t care if it’s dangerous or not. I’m going to town either way.” Can we already reached the peak of the Silent Hill series after only two of our eight planned […]

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“If you only knew how satisfying that look on your face is.” Shinji Mikami brought back some of the survival and all of the horror with 2014’s The Evil Within. Leon, Jacob, Leah and Michiel […]

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“Fear… radiates from you. It’s beautiful, but not yet finished.” Having sunken into a drunken stupor since the previous Tango Gameworks title, the lure of jacking back into the STEM for The Evil Within 2 […]

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“Hey, Been a long time, Donkey-Dude!” After the rousing success of Diddy Kong Racing and Banjo-Kazooie, it was time for Rare to step up to the plate and turn (almost) the rest of the Kong […]

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“Eight long years to bounce back here, I’ll win this time and make you cheer!” Eekum Bokum! It’s another Banjo-Kazooie adventure but this time almost everything is different. The famous Bear and Bird duo are […]

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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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“There’s no such thing as a Bat Man.” Join us as we go back before City, before Asylum, before the Joker, to when Batman was but a wee pup, learning the vigilante ropes. Whilst Black […]

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“If you only knew how satisfying that look on your face is.” Shinji Mikami brought back some of the survival and all of the horror with 2014’s The Evil Within. Leon, Jacob, Leah and Michiel […]

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“There is no hope. Not for l’Cie.” We’re closing in on the final entries in our Final Fantasy series, and as the first game released on the seventh generation of consoles, Final Fantasy XIII is […]

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“You big ape! I could hear you coming from miles away!” There’s a rumble in the jungle as Ryan, Darren, Michiel, and Brian barrel their way through a trilogy consisting of 13 game releases and […]

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“MISSION: DESTROY ALIENS”  October 1979 saw Namco’s brash, dynamic and eye-scorchingly colourful Space Invaders spiritual successor landed with a loud bang in arcades. Leon, Michiel and guest Dan Clark recall the thrill of swooping alien […]

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“Only Amiga makes it possible” For the first time in our series of single format special podcasts, we reminisce about a computer, the 16, later 32-bit Commodore Amiga. Leon, Chris, Jesse and One Credit Classics‘ […]

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Cane and Rinse embody their inner Daft Punk as we review 2009’s DJ Hero and 2010’s DJ Hero 2. Karl, Rich and returning guest Gary Blower discuss FreeStyle Games’ foray into the world of plastic […]

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From 30th August 2019 through to 2nd September 2019 at the Washington State Convention Centre and Cane and Rinse hosts Ryan Hamann and Chris O’Regan attended the event, both of whom are veterans of it. […]

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“In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!” Back aboard Ubisoft’s titanic franchise for a return journey to the heady times when the new generation was on the horizon. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black […]

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“They want to live inside us, like a disease.” Trapped on a 1960s space station in 2035, surrounded by homicidal crockery and are victims of a really bad case of sibling rivalry, Karl, Jon and […]

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Leon speaks to David L. Craddock about his new book Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and Other Coin-Op Classics Invaded the Living Room. David is the bestselling author of Stay Awhile and Listen: How […]

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“Promise you won’t launch superhot.exe again.” Time moves when you move. That might explain why James spent the first 20 minutes of this podcast recording refusing to talk or move. Thankfully, Jacob and Jon were […]

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In this Interview Extra episode, Charlotte chats to Benn Powell about the ins and outs of designing randomisers for REmake Remastered and the remake of Resident Evil 2. Is your heart’s desire a dozen Lisa […]

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“Kept you waiting, huh?” Almost seven years on from our last Metal Gear Solid podcast, Leon, Jay, Karl and new member Richard Davison pick up the slack with 2014’s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. […]

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“At least we thought to bring entertainment.”  The eleventh show in our 13 podcast series about the mainline (and non-MMO) Final Fantasy series is all about 12. Final Fantasy XII spent a (then) world record […]

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“Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer.” First person cyberpunk noir police procedural stealth survival horror walking simulator Observer (‘>observer_’)  Daniel Lazarsky as he enters the minds of […]

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