Episode 148: Upgrade Malaise
Tom F, Tom S and Alex Wiltshire gather to discuss the latest goings-on in the world of CS:GO gun skin gambling, before turning their attention to many wonderful videogames, including Concrete Jungle,...
View ArticleEpisode 150: Wanted: “Dogger”
Pip, Chris and Tom enter the world’s hottest podcast studio to deliver even hotter takes on Firewatch, Grand Theft Auto V’s online mode, and VR takes on Star Wars and cyberpunk. Also: Pip’s...
View ArticleEpisode 151: Captain Buffalo
It’s just Pip and Chris this week, discussing everything from Botanicula to Total War: Warhammer stopping at Jalopy, Poly Bridge, Grow Home, Street Fighter V and more along the way. Plus: skull rain,...
View ArticleEpisode 152: Learn To Octopus
This week Chris, Tom and Pip gather to immerse themselves in the soothing and faintly irritating waters of Abzu, before toweling off with Quadrilateral Cowboy and magical Dota 2 VR spectator...
View ArticleEpisode 153: No Moon For Superman
Chris, Tom S and Pip return to discuss Gamescom news (such as it is) and the topic of the hour: the successes and failures of No Man’s Sky. Is it nice, or not nice at all? Who has been wronged, and how...
View ArticleEpisode 154: Just Go Over There And Be A Cyborg, You Bastard!
Chris and Pip join Tom for a deep dive into Deus Ex: Mankind Divided as well as brief returns to No Man’s Sky and Star Citizen. It’s a very sci-fi sort of week. Also featuring: fantasy whiffle, dance...
View ArticleEpisode 155: The Fourth Dimension Is Water
Tom F returns from the forests of Sweden and joins Pip, Alex and John to discuss: what Tom was doing in the forests of Sweden, Obduction, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Tricky Towers, Fallout 4: Nuka World,...
View ArticleEpisode 156: Subjective Butter
Chris, Pip and Tom S climb into the hot takes hot rod to deliver searingly mild opinions on the ARK controversy, Seasons After Fall, Battlefield 1 and more. Plus: Pip’s rom-com MMO, things that are or...
View ArticleEpisode 157: Programmer Art, Artist’s Code
This week Tom F, Tom S and Chris T are joined by special guest Zack Johnson for a mega-pod. We talk about recent Steam review changes, before moving on to discuss Chris Metzen’s departure from Blizzard...
View ArticleEpisode 158: I Swear It’s Just The Stapler Aura
Tom F, Chris and Pip discuss Fractured Space, Wheels of Aurelia and Virginia while checking in on Star Wars: Battlefront and Hitman. Plus: mum-approved VR experiences, visible indiscretions, and cakes...
View ArticleEpisode 159: Death of a Naked Roboticist
Tom S tells a tale of his ill-fated Rimworld colony, Tom F decisively orders his crew to continue drowning in Sunless Sea, and Chris finds Battlerite gets battles surprisingly right. Show notes: The...
View ArticleEpisode 160: Guns Don’t Kill People, The Robots Attached To My Body Do
Pip, Chris and Tom Francis discuss Amazon’s trio of recent game announcements, Burly Men at Sea, Battlerite, Hitman, various 4X space games, and Thumper. Also: Adam Jensen’s detachable arms and legs,...
View ArticleEpisode 161: The Canterbury Singularity
Pip and Chris convene to discuss Riot’s new board game, Sunless Sea’s new expansion, Dishonored’s old successes, and more. Plus: your many questions, our many questions, and more tangents than both of...
View ArticleEpisode 162: Sweeney’s Metaverse
Chris, Tom F and Tom S gather to talk about Tom F’s adventures at Valve dev days, before moving onto VR RPG Vanishing Realms, Thumper and Battlefield 1. Plus! Your questions, of course, including an...
View ArticleEpisode 163: Jane Austen In The Amphitheatre
Tom F, Tom S and John R word their thoughts on Civilization VI, The Final Station, and Abzu. Not on our usual mics for this one, apologies for the uneven recording. Everyone loves Civilization VI...
View ArticleEpisode 164: The Real Blizzard Lizard Was The Friends We Made Along The Way
Pip, Chris, Tom F and crowscrowscrows’ Jack de Quidt spend three silly hours indulging in SPOOKY HALLOWEEN CHAT about BlizzCon reveals we don’t know about yet, this year in social media managers,...
View ArticleEpisode 165: Perfectly Symmetra Violence Never Solved Anything
Pip, Chris, Tom and Tom talk Mass Effect Andromeda, Dishonored 2, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and snakes vs baby iguanas. Diablo 3’s Necromancer is a ‘pack’ but not an expansion pack, shrug emojii....
View ArticleEpisode 166: A Bit Of A Clusterpickle
Chris and Pip sit down for a long chat about Dishonored 2, ProcJam, and increasingly diverse tangents loosely inspired by your questions. The Overwatch update is live. Hooray. Lovely Dishonored 2. Will...
View ArticleDishonored 2: A Lock-In at The Crate and Crowbar
We’ve finally done it! After years of talking about doing one-off special episodes on particular topics, we’ve actually recorded one. In this three-hour-long mega-episode, Chris and Tom talk their way...
View ArticleEpisode 167: Badgers Can’t Strafe
Pip, Chris and Tom F gather on the eve of another Steam Sale to discuss awards, the badgers of Meadow, a slew of IGF entries and Stellaris. Plus: strange leveling systems part two, stealth essentials,...
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