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Little Grey Cells Season 1, Episode 10: The Dream

Pip and Chris reach the end of season one! When questionably Victorian pie magnate Farley is troubled by dreams of his own suicide, Poirot and Hastings are summoned to Pork Knox. Little Grey Cells will...

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Episode 228: Don’t Eat Time Pods

Tom, Tom and Chris discuss a range of ways in which one might fail upwards, from Into The Breach to Phoenix Point to the spooky bayou of Hunt: Showdown. Plus: my dog ate Hunt The Freeman, accent...

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Miniatures Monthly 013: The God of What You Got

Tom and Chris dig into new Shadespire warbands, lots of new Age of Sigmar lore, and begin a new era of Tzeentch-Stormcast hostilities in the age of Malign Portents. Here’s Kieron Gillen‘s take on...

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Episode 229: A Tantalising Omelette Recedes Before Us

Tom S, Chris and Alex check in on VR, consider the gorgeous eggs of Final Fantasy XV, and ponder the literary aspirations of Beckett. Oculus’ critical Rift whoopsie has now been resolved. Here’s The...

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Episode 230: Good Co-op, Bad Co-op

Pip, Chris and Alex discuss Artifact, Deep Rock Galactic, Vermintide II, and the inevitable end of everything. Plus: π bake it, Garfield’s first name, co-op FOMO, the dings of Catchphrase, Dota Plus,...

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Episode 231: Spite Horn

Chris and Pip gather in GDC week to discuss basically no news from GDC, many short games you should play, and space mistakes you shouldn’t make in Scavenger SV-4. Plus: a showcase of Pip’s ability to...

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Little Grey Cells Season 1, Episode 11: Your Questions!

Pip and Chris round out season one of their Poirot appreciation podcast with a raft of listener questions. Little Grey Cells season two will begin… soon!

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Episode 232: Don’t Hate The Flayer

Chris, Pip reunite with Tom Francis to discuss GDC highlights, Sunless Skies, Far Cry 5, and first impressions of All Walls Must Fall. You can find the full IGF results here. Everybody love a bit of...

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Episode 233: Low-Hanging Flute

Tom F, Chris and Alex discuss Far Cry 5 (again), Superhot VR, and Minit. Then, a chat about Into The Breach is followed by questions from questions calamity. Plus: the mystery of the third Tom, the...

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Miniatures Monthly 014: Fresh Shades

Tom and Chris discuss a huge pile of Warhammer news and then detail their own busy hobby months. Then, we take a sharp left turn to get Tom’s first impressions of Star Wars: Legion. A disclaimer from...

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Episode 234: Handspeed

Chris, Alex and Tom S consider the end of SteamSpy, Radical Heights, Jalopy, All Walls Must Fall, and Tom’s daily Slay The Spire tendency. Plus: too much rum, wonky grammar lessons, and the low hop of...

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Chats at Rezzed: Julian Gollop and David Kaye on Phoenix Point

Surprise! While we were at Rezzed we recorded a series of short, informal chats with interesting gamespeople. In this first episode, Chris and Alex sit down with X-COM creator Julian Gollop and...

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Chats at Rezzed: Robert Kurvitz on Disco Elysium

At Rezzed we sat down with Disco Elysium design and writing lead Robert Kurvitz to discuss entering the games industry as an artist, the complexities of RPG design, politics, and disco. Find out more...

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Chats at Rezzed: Lottie Bevan and Alexis Kennedy on Cultist Simulator

Chris talks to Lottie Bevan and Alexis Kennedy from Weather Factory about Cultist Simulator, creating atmosphere through a card game interface, effective game writing, and more. You can find Cultist...

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Chats at Rezzed: Hannah Flynn on Sunless Skies

Chris talks to Hannah Flynn from Failbetter about Sunless Skies, life in game development, reaching broader audiences, the myriad flaws of Zoolander 2, and more. This is the last in our series of chats...

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Episode 235: Ready For A Mono-Log?

Live from Rezzed! Chris, Tom F, Graham and Alex discuss their games of the show, and also Crusader Kings II. Plus: real live questions! Note: we’re still waiting to get the footage of this episode back...

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Episode 236: Doggard Cain and the Time Terrier

Tom, Chris and Tom discuss Campo Santo’s move to Valve, the latest Ludum Dare, things what dogs do, Battletech, and Frostpunk. Plus: who you actually play as in The Sims, playing games rightly wrong,...

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Miniatures Monthly 015: It’s Starting To Look A Lot Like Doot-Mas

Chris and Tom dig into the Idoneth Deepkin, play an awful lot of Age of Sigmar, discuss the process by which anybody can be transformed into Mark Strong, and catch up on #stardrakewatch2018. Chris’...

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Episode 237: Thank You For The Hats, Lore Horse

Chris and Tom S discuss Red Dead Redemption 2, new Tomb Raider, the state of triple-A development in general, dogs again, and videogame Millibands. The Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer – a splash? Of...

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Episode 238: Lionel Falconboobs

Chris, Pip, Tom F and – for one night only – Marsh (!) discuss Atomic Heart, more Far Cryin’, more Spire Slayin’, SpyParty, Murderous Pursuits, and City of Brass. Also: feeling nothing about sunsets,...

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