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Episode 239: Bad Men And Their Funfairs

Chris, Pip, Tom S and Alex dig deep to yield icy cold takes on Call of Duty: Blops Four, ‘Bio-Shock’, A Quiet Sleep, and assorted nonsense. Plus: the importance of Little Boots on the ground, the...

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Miniatures Monthly 016: The Wink That Makes The Horse Ass Shine

Chris and Tom yank back the curtain on X-Wing 2.0, Adeptus Titanicus, Age of Sigmar 2nd Edition, our month in horses, LondonGT, and more. See below for discussion timestamps! 00:01:35 X-Wing 2.0...

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Solo: A Lock-In at The Crate and Crowbar

As they did with The Last Jedi back in December, Chris and his sister Rebecca decided to record a free-ranging chat about their responses to Solo: A Star Wars Story: from the movie itself to its...

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Episode 240: Far Cries To Candlekeep

Pip, Chris and Alex consider the pre-E3 videogame news wasteland, revisit City of Brass, clean up House Flipper, and consider Idle Champions and the specific anxieties of the clicker genre. Plus:...

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Episode 241: Tactless Beach Wizards

Chris, Tom F and John R chat Far: Lone Sails, Dicey Dungeons, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds and a bit of Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. Plus: the secret handshakes shared by the kin of the...

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Episode 242: I Am The Stringman With The Staring Eyes

In which Chris, Alex and Pip promise to avoid overanalysing E3, and to focus on the things we’re excited about, and then do exactly the opposite. John Shuttleworth’s I Can’t Back To Savoury Now, the...

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Episode 243: Frogs Find A Way

Pip and the Toms discuss a surprising amount of news, most of it Steamy, then share thoughts on Jurassic World Evolution, Cryptark, Fortnite, and Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Chris has been hard at work...

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Miniatures Monthly 017: Grand Alliance Hmm vs. Grand Alliance Bleeerrg

Chris and Tom discuss a month’s worth of Age of Sigmar reveals, their own plans for second edition, batch painting, non metallic metals, and more. Since we recorded this episode last weekend, Games...

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Episode 244: Impenetrable, Like A Creme Egg

Chris, Tom, Tom and Alex contend with Guilty Gear Xrd, Lumines Remastered, Sword With Sauce, Jurassic World: Evolution, a bit of Vamypr, and get in deep with Big Scorsese. Tom S has been watching, and...

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Episode 245: You’ve Got Bad Skeleton

Chris, Tom F and Alex consider the lovely Prey: Mooncrash, big Fortnite murders, a bit of Six Ages and why late capitalism is cool, actually. Here’s a Polygon article about the Fortite murder story,...

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Episode 246: Tough On Rogues, Tough On The Causes Of Rogues

Chris and Pip discuss The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, The Sims 4: Seasons, and lots more. This is definitely episode 246, and not, as Chris says, episode 247. Pip’s been playing these...

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Miniatures Monthly Special: Age of Sigmar Second Edition

Chris and Tom dig deep into Age of Sigmar’s Second Edition and begin a new narrative campaign as our Stormcast and Tzeentch forces clash over an erratic magical ball. Note: we recorded the bulk of...

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Episode 247: Throwing Pebbles At A Leopard For Fifteen Years

Chris, Alex and both Toms celebrate the 5th anniversary of the podcast with gin and a digression to The David Cage. Plus: more Mooncrash, Yoku’s Island Express, Warhammer 40K: Gladius, and Objects In...

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Episode 248: The Lonely Splatching Of A Spaceman

Chris, Tom S and Alex take several trips back to 2016, including but not limited to No Man’s Sky, StarCraft II, DOOM and Battlefield 1. We’ve all been playing No Man’s Sky‘s NEXT update. Alex has been...

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Episode 249: They Really Pulled It Off

Alex, Tom S, Chris and Marsh (!) convene to discuss many Metroidvanias, Yakuza 0, console games (!), when to move on, Six Ages, and so on. Marsh! Has been playing Chasm. Chris has been catching up with...

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Episode 250: Close Your Eyes And Grind For Boltor

It all goes a bit wrong as Chris, Tom, Tom and Alex return from a week off to talk Red Dead and Doom news, EXAPUNKS, Warframe, Disavowed and Monster Hunter. Plus: Horse Up Displays, 90s FPS ASMR,...

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Episode 251: Shrimp Gun

Chris, Tom F and Pip catch up on a bit of Gamescom news before delivering sizzingly fresh takes on recent hits ‘Spore’ and ‘FTL’. Here’s the trailer for Man of Medan, part of the Dark Pictures...

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Little Grey Cells Season 2, Episode 1: Peril at End House

Little Grey Cells returns! Pip and Chris introduce a new recap format as they dig into Peril at End House, Poirot and Hastings’ most passive-aggressive holiday yet. Many thanks to Mike Debenham for our...

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Episode 252: Püpsok

Chris and Tom S sit down for a chat about Spelunky 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 news, Tom’s highlights from Gamescom, and assorted nonsense. Here’s that Spelunky 2 footage and PlayStation Blog Q&A. We...

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Miniatures Monthly: Intermission

Oh no! Another set of delays has pushed the already-late episode 18 deeper into September. In the meantime here’s Chris, by himself, with information about our upcoming real-life event and some...

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