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Episode 222: PRAISE MY BUM Jan 12, 2018

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Dark Souls. Is it news? Chris and Pip ponder this and other subjects, including Subnautica’s imminent release, Paladins’ imminent Battlegrounds mode, and Bennett Foddy’s imminent Getting Over It.

Here’s info about Dark Souls Remastered.
Also, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, which is a thing.
As is Total War: Three Kingdoms.
And Subnautica.
Pip reports back from Atlanta about Paladins: Battlegrounds.
Chris has been having a surprisingly relaxed time with Getting Over It.
Finally, Dark Souls gets a Funky New Mode.

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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 221: Horses Don’t Roll Jan 04, 2018

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Both Toms join Chris to discuss Recursed, Bridge Constructor Portal, Gorogoa, GTA Online, PUBG, and the games we’re looking forward to in 2018.

Plus: a games-from-books jam idea that actually works, things horses don’t do, a bit of Mad Max, a whole lot of boats, and more. Boats.

Here’s the IGF shortlist! Congrats, Tom!
Baba Is You has a good trailer.
Tom F has been playing the mind-bending Recursed.
Chris has been playing Bridge Constructor Portal. He calls it ‘Bridge Simulator Portal’ for the duration of this episode, because he’s an idiot.
Awesome Games Done Quick starts this weekend!
Tom F and Chris have played Gorogoa.
Tom S has been enjoying Mad Max, which is inexplicably a fiver.
He’s also been working through GTA Online‘s excellent new heist.
Chris has, like apparently everybody, been spending time in now-actually-out Plunkbag.
Here are the games we discuss in our look forward to 2018:
- Into The Breach
- Spelunky 2
- Death Stranding (maybe)
- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
- BattleTech
- Frozen Synapse 2
- Wandersong
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
- Nimbatus
- Untitled Goose Game
- Sea of Thieves
- HK (Untitled Cyberpunk Cat Game)
- Ooblets
- Skull & Bones
- Abandon Ship
- Pillars of Eternity II: D(r)eadfire
- Sunless Skies
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Project Tingler
- Museum of Simulation Technology
- #Wargames
- Far Cry 5 (and the associated owning of James Davenport)
- A Place for the Unwilling
- A Way Out
- No Truce With The Furies
- Hunt: Showdown

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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.

C&C D&D: The Miracle At Grey Home, Part 4 Dec 25, 2017

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All things must end. Or must they? Yes. But sometimes: no. That’s right: it’s the final part of THE MIRACLE AT GREY HOME!

You can listen this episode on YouTube here. If you’ve taken the time to listen to the entirety of this nonsense, thank you: we hope you enjoyed it. We’ll be back in the new year with the medium to hot takes you’re used to, along with more Miniatures Monthly, Little Grey Cells, Bloodborne, and so on. Merry Christmas!

Many thanks to Mike Debenham for his fabulous contribution to this series. Our music is based on Clambake by The Mandibles. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

C&C D&D: The Miracle At Grey Home, Part 3 Dec 24, 2017

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Confrontation leads to new adventure as Chris attempts to write… a spoiler-free description of part three of C&C D&D!

You can listen this episode on YouTube here. Tune in tomorrow for the FINALE of THE MIRACLE AT GREY HOME. I mean, it’s only Christmas. You don’t have anything else to do, right?

Many thanks to Mike Debenham for his fabulous contribution to this series. Our music is based on Clambake by The Mandibles. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

C&C D&D: The Miracle At Grey Home, Part 2 Dec 23, 2017

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Our Dungeons & Dragons roleplay adventure continues as our heroes take their quest to the streets of Grey Home.

If you prefer, you can listen this episode on YouTube here. Come back tomorrow for part three of THE MIRACLE AT GREY HOME.

Many thanks to Mike Debenham for his fabulous contribution to this series. Our music is based on Clambake by The Mandibles. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Episode 220: Between Space And Space Space Dec 22, 2017

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Chris, Tom and Pip came here to round up our games of the year and eat praline chocolates… and we’ve got a whole lot of praline chocolates. Also, Pip hates pralines.

This is the last regular C&C episode of 2017! As such, you might want to check out the YouTube version: it’s that time again when we do a video of our faces and mouth parts doing the podcast! Look at them flap!

Discussed in this episode:

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Tom Francis
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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 219: Everybody’s Gone To A Party Dec 15, 2017

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Get ready for a visceral Christmas experience as Chris, by himself, talks about Hello Neighbour and Hellblade. By himself.

This is, needless to say, a bit of a stopgap episode before we gather for this year’s annual roundup special. As such, Patreon backers will not be charged for it.

There’s a lot more C&C coming over the course of the next week. Hold on for our D&D special, Miniatures Monthly, Bloodborne, a video podcast special, and so on.

If nothing else, I hope you find some use for this episode as a kind of bearded man videogames ASMR experience. Or something.

Chris has been playing Hello Neighbour.
Chris has also been playing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.
You can find the C&C community GOTY vote right here.

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. We’re sorry that Patreon’s recently-announced changes may result in you being charged more: as we say in this episode, we’re going to see what happens over the next few days and then start considering alternatives, and we completely understand if the extra processing fee means you’re unable to continue your support.

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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 218: In The Aftermath Of The Asset Wars Dec 08, 2017

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Chris, Tom F and John Roberts discuss indie news, Seven: The Days Long Gone, Destiny 2’s first expansion, Sorcery!, Shadowhand, and more.

‘More’ in this case includes the opportunity horse, the verb ‘to suchet’, a bit of Warhammer, the changes to Patreon, our upcoming Christmas specials, and so on.

Joakim Sandberg’s Iconoclasts has a release date!
As does Gorogoa!
Davy Wreden is hiring programmers.
Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It is out.
Bridge Constructor Portal is a thing.
HUMANITY(tm). A videogame.
Here’s Patreon’s blog post about the changes, which we unpack a bit in this episode.
John’s been playing Seven: The Days Long Gone.
Here’s Shacknews’ Quake making-of, shamefully not called ‘The quaking of’.
Chris has been having an okay time with Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris.
Tom fell down a big hill in Sorcery!.
Ponder the opportunity horse in Shadowhand.
How many jokes can we wring out of Deus Ex and the City? The answer: less than you’d think.
Finally, Chris’ terrible case of generic videogame man face strikes again, this time in XCOM 2

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Tom Francis
John Roberts

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 217: Sean Bean’s Luxury Resources Dec 01, 2017

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Chris and Tom S discuss Destiny 2 changes, Civ VI’s new expansion, the horizontal lifestyle enabled by the Steam Link, and all of the things that Chris likes about Battlefront II.

Plus: the cultural benefits of expending one (1) Sean Bean, why you probably should try to fight a crocodile, games-as-toys, C&C D&D, returning to the early noughties, and why we’re all Bossk sometimes.

Here’s that update on the future of Destiny 2.
In Civilizaiton VI: Rise and Fall, it’s not looking good for Sean Bean.
Despite everything, Battlefront II has meaningfully improved Chris’ life over the last few weeks.
Here’s a gif of dramatic spaceship fun.
Steam Link! Be the sideways you that you’ve always wanted to be.