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Episode 249: They Really Pulled It Off Aug 03, 2018

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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 Dead Cells.
Alex’s Castlevania of the moment is La-Mulana 2.
Here is Goro Majima’s introduction from Yakuza 0, which Tom done been playing.
Marsh has been losing tapestry men in Six Ages.
Here’s the article that Marsh mentions about redesigning Vampire: The Masquerade.

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Episode 248: The Lonely Splatching Of A Spaceman Jul 27, 2018

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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 teaching valuable lessons in StarCraft II.
Tom’s been revisiting the best of 2016 in DOOM.
Chris is happily surprised by the state of Battlefield 1, two years on.
What did you do in the war, granddad?
Here’s the bit in episode 149 where Chris shames himself in Star Citizen.

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Episode 247: Throwing Pebbles At A Leopard For Fifteen Years Jul 20, 2018

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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 Space.

That’s for my nan! And her house!

Tom F’s further explorations of Prey: Mooncrash reveal a few rough edges.
Alex has been playing Yoku’s Island Express.
Tom S laments the lone X that remains in the grim darkness of the far future of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius.
Everybody likes Vermintide II.
Chris has been pootling around in Objects In Space.
Our indie faves, per Hannah Flynn‘s question: Dicey Dungeons, Ghost Of A Tale, Slay The Spire, Dead Cells, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.
Here’s the brilliant Company of Heroes forum thread that asks: ‘what are the Brits talking about?’
As ever, let’s remember and celebrate Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed.
And finally, Alan Partridge’s World Cup Countdown To ’94.

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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 246: Tough On Rogues, Tough On The Causes Of Rogues Jul 13, 2018

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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 videogames:
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
The Sims 4: Seasons
Cognizer
Dr Frank’s Build A Boyfriend
Ashi: Lake Of Light

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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 245: You’ve Got Bad Skeleton Jul 06, 2018

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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, including videos and facts.
We’ve all be playing Prey: Mooncrash, which we like a lot. The video that Tom mentions isthis one.
Alex has been playing King of Dragon Pass successor Six Ages, which isn’t out on PC yet.
Roblox is the biggest game in the world that you don’t play or think about.

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Episode 244: Impenetrable, Like A Creme Egg Jun 29, 2018

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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 sometimes playing, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-.
Tom S and Alex have been playing Hackmud, which is weird for Chris.
Alex has been enjoying the return of Lumines.
Tom F has been spilling some bolognese in Sword With Sauce.
Chris has spent the last couple of weeks in Jurassic World: Evolution and Vampyr, neither of which he particularly recommends.

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Episode 243: Frogs Find A Way Jun 22, 2018

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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 on the wordy side of hackmud 2.0, which is going live next week and will be 25% off when you read this.
Steam now lets you follow developers, but there’s no general link for that, so gosh we’ll just have to pick a developer at random and link their page.
How much have you spent on Steam in your life? No, wrong, it’s this much.
Here are the secret (public) codes you can type into Slay the Spire to trigger special modes. DRAFT is good.
Buy Far: Lone Sails and play it all the way through. You will be glad you did.
Pip’s pretty pic of Fortnite’s loot lake.
Jurassic World Evolution: a game you could play if you want to deal with a security department that are almost certainly dinosaurs wearing human uniforms.
Cryptark‘s a good idea but much too hard but full of promise but so frustrating but dammit I’m playing it again.
Budget Cuts is finally out and, appropriately, 10% off. It’s that VR game that’s good.
Assassin’s Oranges is drawing Tom S back in.
The accurate tweet about E3 Tom F was thinking of was not by the person he was about to attribute it to, so it’s good he didn’t. It was Chris Person.

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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 242: I Am The Stringman With The Staring Eyes Jun 15, 2018

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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 soundtrack to this year’s E3, and indeed every year’s E3.
From Bethesda: Fallout 76 (don’t forget to look up the Mothman!), Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and The Elder Scrolls VI: Todd’s High Rocks.
FROM Software’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Maneater, the game where you wanna be where the people are so you can eat all of them.
Odd Ass, the latest entry in the storied ‘Assassin’s Creed’ computer game franchise.
Also Skull & Bones, the other nice Ubisoft water game.
Ooh, would you just look at Sable.
Rousing on-again, off-again romance sim Halo: Infinite.
Destiny 2’s trailer was a bit spoilery, if you care about that, so you can Google it yourself.
Apologies to Unravel Two.
Funko Gears, Tactics Gears, Regular Gears. In that order.
Good job, Command & Conquer fans! We found its body.
Behold The Quiet Man, E3’s worst trailer.
More like Phwoarza. Horizon Four.
It’s Devil May Cry Five, isn’t it.
Neo Cab: or, reverse Uber.
The Cyberpunk 77 trailer that made the people go ‘this is the computer game’.
The Death Stranding trailer that made the people go ‘this is the computer game?’
Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami are coming to PC.
Remedy’s un-Googleable Control.
Life is Strange spinoff Captain Spirit: a father too far?
Finally, lovely Ooblets.

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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 241: Tactless Beach Wizards Jun 08, 2018

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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 brood-sergeant, top chuffin’, the Haddaway collab we’ve been waiting for, our hottest takes of 2013, an endless sense of Bluth, the Ferris Bueller Escalation Protocol, and Christina Aguilera’s ult.

Hitman 2 has actually been announced with a trailer, now, rendering our speculation a bit pointless. Sorry!
John and Tom have been enjoying the lovely FAR: Lone Sails.
Tom’s been playing Terry Cavanagh’s work-in-progress, roguelike, Dicey Dungeons.
Chris is happily squatting and beatboxing his way through Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.

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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 240: Far Cries To Candlekeep Jun 01, 2018

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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: tragedy as volcanic death comes to Emmerdale.

Here’s the trailer for Fallout 76, and Kotaku’s article about what it actually is, maybe.
Here’s the Battlefield V trailer.
Chris and Alex revisit City of Brass, the charming game-where-you-start-over-if-you-die with very wangable hoops.
Pip’s been flipping houses in House Flipper.
Behold as Chris’ best intentions lead him to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.
Here’s Chris and Becky T’s analysis of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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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.

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