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Episode 259: Yelp At The Moon Oct 27, 2018

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Pip, Chris and Alex discuss the return of Hellgate: London, ponder Return of the Obra Dinn, and go for a wander around Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Hellgate: London! It’s back! But why!
Pip’s been playing that Return of the Obra Dinn.
Alex has looked at some things and slid down some things in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 258: The Tragedy Of Protagonistus The Extreme Oct 19, 2018

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Both Toms and Chris dig into this week’s developing Rockstar story and then share stories from Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, because all we’ve done for two weeks is kick people off boats.

Here’s that story about the Red Dead 2 working conditions, and subsequent coverage of Rockstar‘s reaction. We recorded this podcast on Tuesday, for reference.
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. We’ve been playing it! Sorry that we didn’t play anything else.
Tom F’s edit: I am wrong when I say Droqen made Midas – it was by Harry Lee and Jarrel Seah. Thanks to Alan Hazelden for the heads up.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 257: Kick Left, Kick Right Oct 05, 2018

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Tom S, Tom F and Chris talk Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Race for the Galaxy and Distance, and then get distracted by literary theory and swearing.

Tom Senior has been kicking his way to friendship in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.
Here is Alice Bell’s excellent article about the same.
Tom Francis has been playing Race for the Galaxy. The GDC talk he mentions is by Theresa Duringer, but it’s not currently publically available.
Chris likes Distance a lot.
We demand to be taken seriously.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 256: The Fate of Kale Sep 28, 2018

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Chris and Pip embark on another Friday morning podcast, covering the Telltale layoffs and highlights from EGX.

Here’s Wesley Yin-Poole’s article for Eurogamer about remembering that people, not companies, create games.
Pip’s been enjoying Parkasaurus.
Chris’ picks of EGX are Total War: Three Kingdoms, Kine, Yellow Rock Road and Valfaris.
Pip’s picks include Small Talk, Beyond Blue, Willowbrooke Post and The Bradwell Conspiracy.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 255: Kelp Evasion Sep 21, 2018

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Pip, Chris, Tom F and guest John R discuss EGX, Frozen Synapse 2, Megaquarium, Streets of Rogue, advanced noodle techniques, and more.

Here’s the Heat Signature Twitter, so you can find out about them sweet updatez.
John and Chris have been playing Frozen Synapse 2.
Pip’s been playing Megaquarium.
Tom’s been playing Streets of Rogue.
On that note, the joke that soured Tom on Streets of Rogue is going to be removed.
The Flashback-like game that Tom can’t remember the name of is Lunark.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 254: Multi Gazebo! Mega Gazebo! SHOPPING CENTRE Sep 14, 2018

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Alex, Chris and Tom F discuss game dev authenticity, Industries of Titan, Destiny 2, Dragon Quest XI, and Concrete Jungle.

Plus: automatic toilet theory, figuring out how much we actually know about each other, and winning the trust of the shotgun people.

Here’s Lindsay Ellis’ video essay about manufactured authenticity on YouTube (and elsewhere.)
…and a contemporary Wired article about the Redshell tracking software.
Chris and Alex are both doing stuff at EGX. Alex is talking to the Disco Elysium chaps on the main stage at 1pm on Friday. Chris is doing UNANNOUNCED OTHER STUFF on Friday and Saturday.
Here’s Alex’s interview with Zach Barth for RPS.
Chris has done a Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop video series for PlayStation Access. First one’s up today!
Megaquarium is out now! So is Frozen Synapse 2!
Tom’s been playing Industries of Titan (at PAX. It’s not out yet.)
Alex has been playing Dragon Quest XI.
Chris won’t stop banging on about Destiny 2: Forsaken‘s Gambit mode.
You can find Angel Mapper’s excellent Phase Shift map for UT2004 here.
Tom’s returned to Concrete Jungle for its competitive mode.
The good Shadow of the Tomb Raider review that Chris mentions is this one, by Dia Lacina for Waypoint.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 253: If Malfoy Could Ice Skate Sep 07, 2018

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Pip and Chris discuss MMO woes, Destiny 2’s new expansion, Two Point Hospital and a bit of Graveyard Keeper.

Find out more about the V&A’s videogames exhibit right here.
Carbine Studios – and their MMO, Wildstar – are shutting down.
CCP has been bought by Black Desert Online devs Pearl Abyss.
Chris is very much enjoying Destiny 2: Forsaken.
We’ve both come down with a case of Two Point Hospital.
Pip’s been tinkering with Graveyard Keeper.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 252: Püpsok Aug 31, 2018

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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 spend a bunch of time with the Cyberpunk 2077 footage.
Tom S had a strong first impression of Life is Strange 2.
Battlefield V is finally delivering on the timeless promise of levolution.
Destiny 2: Forsaken is close to enough to worry Tom’s Warframe character.
Here’s Chris Bratt’s People Make Games video about Time Commanders.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 251: Shrimp Gun Aug 24, 2018

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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 anthology.
Also, the Life is Strange 2 trailer.
Here’s Burrito Tim’s Good Tweet.
Pip has returned to Spore, ten years on.
Tom’s been playing something called ‘Eff Tee Ell’.
Chris is still on that Monster Hunter: World, but he promises he’s not going to bang on about it.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 250: Close Your Eyes And Grind For Boltor Aug 17, 2018

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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, Unavowed and Monster Hunter.

Plus: Horse Up Displays, 90s FPS ASMR, Resident Evil 2 by The B-52s, why it’s good when the spaceships do it, sensible missiles, the Mamma Mia cinematic universe, and Kerbal Space Program Royale.

Here’s that Red Dead Redemption 2 footage. Nice horse!
Also, DOOM ETERNAL.
Flotilla 2 is out soon!
So is 7 Billion Humans!
Alex has been jacking in to EXAPUNKS.
Tom S is into Warframe now.
Tom F is an avowed fan of Unavowed.
Chris flippin’ loves Monster Hunter: World.

The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.

You can follow us on Twitter thusly:

Tom Francis
Tom Senior
Alex Wiltshire
Chris Thursten

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

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