Roguelikes: A Lock-in at the Crate and Crowbar
Graham, Jamie and Alex delight in being terrible at traditional roguelikes. Recklessly quaff an unidentified potion, dodge the snapping maw of an ASCII eel, and join us as we plunge into the unknown,...
View ArticleEpisode 398: A Serpentine Poo in the Theatre of the Mind
Chris and Marsh mull over videogame fictions on TV, reject the inhumanity of space capitalism in Citizen Sleeper, embrace the inhumanity of space capitalism in Dune: Spice Wars, bounce off Dracula’s...
View ArticleEverything Everywhere All at Once: A Lock-In at the Crate and Crowbar
Jamie, Chris and Marsh dive into the kaleidoscopic weirdness of Everything Everywhere All at Once. Join us as we discuss it in the context of such cultural touchstones as Christopher Nolan’s Fart...
View ArticleEpisode 399: No Gribblies in the Slick Future
Jamie and Marsh discuss the highlights, or rather the extensive mid-range tones, of the E3 week that wasn’t, delight in Next Fest’s demos for Old Skies and Agent 64: Spies Never Die, and usher in the...
View ArticleMad God: A Lock-in at the Crate and Crowbar
Jamie and Marsh climb into their effluent splattered diving-bell and plunge into the bowels, literal and metaphorical, of Mad God, the wildly deranged, deeply harrowing stop-motion masterpiece from...
View ArticleEpisode 400: Tina Turner’s Tuna Turtles
Pip, Tom F, Chris and Marsh gather to discuss the oldest recipe, what windows are and whether objects are real. Also! Videogames: The Wild at Heart, Citizen Sleeper, Norco and Hellsinger. Also also:...
View ArticleTabletop Roleplaying Games: A Lock-in at the Crate and Crowbar
Storied dungeon master Jim Rossignol joins Marsh to talk about the joy of pretending to be scoundrels, goblins and doomed spacemen, and why you should venture beyond the vast borders of Dungeons &...
View ArticleEpisode 401: Urgent Things To Motorbikes
Join Jamie Brittain and Alex Wiltshire on the muggy spectrum, where we discuss the shrinking spaces of Elden Ring, the very Xbox 360 thrills of Geometry Wars and Halo 3, and briefly touch on the...
View ArticleEpisode 402: Can a Game Give You Toxoplasmosis?
In this Accidental Annapurna Special, Alex and Chris discuss the joy of driving big boats in FAR: Changing Tides, and the wanton nature of animal games, as reflected by the latest big animal game,...
View ArticleTrue Crime: A Lock-in at the Crate and Crowbar
Marsh, Tom F and Graham study the evidence for and against true crime dramas and documentaries. Join us in the accusing parlour as we interrogate The Staircase (both documentary and drama), Sophie: A...
View ArticleEpisode 403: Too-Tight Ouroboros
Marsh and Chris bestow their tepid devotions upon Last Call BBS, Cult of the Lamb, and Hard West 2. Plus: the momentary return of questions, emanating – as they ever have – from questions. Quiverin’...
View ArticleEpisode 404: Sticky Goop, the Safest Fireball
In which Tom Senior and Jamie Brittain convene to report back on their recent exploits in Multiversus, chat in an entirely spoiler free way about Immortality, jabber about, and then speculate on what...
View ArticleEpisode 405: A Morning Constitutional on Fart Planet
Jamie and Marsh strike from the shadows in retro stealth game Gloomwood, mount horrible dogs in No Man’s Sky, flip pixel puzzles in Taiji, enjoy courtly nudity in Crusader Kings 3 and question creepy...
View ArticleEpisode 406: Nutsy Bolt’s Armageddon Machine
Jamie and Marsh summon nightmarish first person arena shmup Hyper Demon, wreck noobs in hellish children’s maths game Numbots, rip and tear demons in throwback shooter Prodeus and discover exactly as...
View ArticleEpisode 407: Yes! I Am The Dog-Popper!
Chris and Marsh galavant gleefully through the ponds of low-key collect-em-up Paradise Marsh, plunge their wounded hands into the sticky holes of firstperson horror-puzzler Scorn, and pop poxwalkers in...
View ArticleEpisode 408: Detective Bird-Thing and the Murder in Hell
Tom F and Marsh rescue a marriage with magnets in It Takes Two, accurately identify horrible verbs in The Case of the Golden Idol, fail to impress girls with our animal handling in I Was a Teenage...
View ArticleThe State of Marvel 2022: A Lock-in at the Crate and Crowbar
Would-be body-doubles for Rocket Raccoon, Chris and Marsh talk through the MCU thus far, where it’s going, pop music that is also a building, multiversal eels and erotically-charged neck injuries....
View ArticleEp 409: Licking Praxis From The Walls Of Frome
Jamie and Tom Senior convene to talk Marvel Snap, God Of War, and assorted other nonsense. Listen as two increasingly old men get misty eyed about Ataris and Amigas for the very first time on the...
View ArticleEpisode 410: Wagner’s Jankwonk Cycle
Jamie and Marsh drive a jeep through the questionable exoticism of Uncharted: Lost Legacy and peevishly waddle about in the ambiguous middle distance of Somerville. Tom F’s great post on chess. Matinee...
View ArticleEpisode 411: Geo-Specific Chicken Experience
Chris and Marsh wash away their Mayonnaise Sins only to commit the far worse crime of liking parts of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Also: the pokable pencils of A Little to the Left and suspicious...
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