Episode 456: I Can’t Hold All These Shivs
Chris and Jamie are joined by Mike Cook to talk about his uneventful recent life as an academic specialising in AI. Then, Slay the Spire 2 s...
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The Crate and Crowbar
A group of friends who work in the games industry meet up once a week to talk about PC games over a drink. “Off-the-cuff” is a polite way to say “unprofessional”, right?
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20 of 300 episodesEpisode 455: Only Beefman
Jamie and Chris convene from the palatial purple of Quincy Jones’ recording studio to tell tales of indentational trauma, BP garage ps...
Episode 454: Meaty and Juicy
Marsh is joined by Graham to chat about Jank, a hot new website for cool people, the best games of the decade so far, deduction game TR-49,...
Episode 453: A Formula One Car with Fists
Jamie and Marsh throw themselves into the depths of Ball X Pit, launch themselves into toilets in Bloodlines 2, and dive cinematically from...
Episode 452: Bog-Muppet Territory
Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce R...
Episode 451: Weston-super-Nightmare
Marsh and Jamie dishonour their families in the oddly quaint Mafia: The Old Country, soak sands in Sword of the Sea, and synergise to the ma...
Episode 450: A Certain Number Of Flaps
Jamie and Marsh join together to talk sad boys, roguelike birds and frenzied bananas. Birdigo Donkey Kong: BananzaMarsh is making Gold Teeth...
Episode 449: The Helicopter in Your Trousers
Chris and Marsh are joined by Paul Canavan to talk about draining men (halleluja), the not-so-shy huluds and space-nun zoomies of Dune: Awak...
Episode 448: Découpage That Worm!
Jamie and Marsh get pumped, pepped and revved up for the summer games marketing onslaught, and then enjoy the more tangible pleasures of dem...
Episode 447: Snoop Dogg’s Degenerate Bush
Jamie and Marsh whoosh blueily through Doom: The Dark Ages, find real big fish in South of Midnight, experience the fraying bonds of marriag...
Episode 446: Baby’s First Cosmic Horror
Click ‘Use’, then click ‘Pod’. Success! You have unlocked access to an episode of adventure game discussion from the...
Episode 445: 2 King 2 Come
Jamie, Tom and Marsh head out into the wild blue yonder (without headphones on like some kind of smug Japanese writer) and talk about 3 open...
Episode 444: Sneers for Tears
The distant troglodyte descendants of Jamie and Marsh relive memories of the before-times and the joyous videogames that were once played, n...
Episode 443: It’s Totally OK to Kill a Lizardman
Tom S joins Marsh to be baffled by BAFTA noms, enjoy the chaotic departure from military fiction in Black Ops 6, put on a purple frenzied bo...
Episode 442: Universe of Pots
Jamie and Marsh wallop their way through a sea of fascists in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and enjoy the peaches, pots and permadeath...
Episode 441: Spaff Doubly With A Vengeance
Chris, Jamie, and friend of pod Paul Canavan squat doon in a cundie with a bottle of buckie and some (probably vegan) haggis tae blether abo...
Episode 440: Arcane Mark Versus Evil Greg
Chris, Senior Tom and Marsh convene to talk Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Diablo 4, Rise Of The Golden Idol, Xenotilt, Destiny 2 and then C...
Episode 439: Druckmannocene Mythmulch
In which Tom Senior, Marsh Davies and Jamie Brittain convene on a perfectly normal and entirely non-epoch defining night in early November 2...
Episode 438: The Sludge of Frome
Tom S, Jamie and Marsh gather, like a drift of dead leaves, to discuss some seasonally spooky games: Alan Wake 2 and Mouthwashing. Also ment...
Episode 437: Orb, Orb Never Changes
Marsh, Jamie and Chris convene to navigate the bouncy balls of Peglin, the less bouncy but surprisingly solid shooty-bangs of Warhammer 40K...